The Warlock Build that TANKS Everything

warlocks got some insane options with their Prismatic kit and I figured out an ability Loop that's some of the most fun I've ever had while also giving you insane damage resistance to practically never die after a ton of testing to really nail down the specifics I've genuinely fallen in love with this build and because you unlock what's necessary soon after the campaign anyone can pretty much jump right on it now if you're familiar with my videos I'm a visual learner so I like to teach builds in a bit of a cycle at the heart of it is your objective which in this case is three fold you're going to have some glorious ability spam you're going to be getting Prismatic extremely often and then you're going to have some reliable survivability first we'll cover some core items that feed into that like some fragments and aspect the Exotic and then the second part of the cycle we'll go through your subass like what choices fit perfectly around that objective but I'll also explain some cool Transcendent stuff and then we'll move on to some leftovers like what mods you're going to use to close some of the cooldown loops and some remaining fragments we'll talk about some weapons that really slap on this build and then we'll finish the cycle talking about some artifact choices to sweeten it even more plus I've got this whole thing summarized in a Destiny 2 builder website that I'm going to show you as well starting with number one let's talk about feeling invincible and getting Prismatic really fast first off is running the feed the void aspect simply getting an ability kill will activate a buff called devour it's a 10-second timer where literally every kill you get gives you instant full health and refreshes the timer you feel Invincible because of it and when and there's a lot of ads it never goes away if that wasn't enough it gives you a ton of Grenade energy on each of those kills as well and when I say a ton I'm talking like 15% from a single little thw but then for larger enemies it can give you nearly half of that little box back because it scales by enemy type it's a very strong Loop and since you get it back so easily I often recommend starting your activation with a grenade you just throw one out there which is going to be threadings by the way you'll see why in a bit and then it'll proc devour when it kills something and then you just jump into action now that alone can make you feel like you'll never die and then later on you're going to see it get even better but let's talk about how you're going to get your Prismatic so fast on this build for a quick refresher getting Prismatic happens from filling up the light and dark bars under your super right and then it goes bright pink once you're ready to activate Transcendence to do that though you need to deal light damage so void solar or Arc and then also deal dark damage like stasis or strand to equally fill them up kinetic damage can fill both but what I've learned from people in my community is that a lot of build struggle to fill both sides equally for example if I kill Carl here with strand damage I only fill my darkness bar and a lot of people get tunnel vision only filling one bar but we are going to fix this problem with the facet of devotion fragment this thing makes it so that killing any Darkness debuffed Target will give you light energy as well Darkness debuffs are things like slow and freeze or Sever and unravel which I'm going to explain more in a moment if we go back to that example and look at Carl now he has a darkness debuff and then when I kill him with that same strand damage of course the dark bar fills up because it was a Darkness damage but then I also get some light progress thanks to this fragment this becomes integral to everything we select on the build so I wanted to open with that now the primary debuff you're going to be applying is what I just showed you unravel you'll be using that Arcane needle for your melee and that's one way of applying it but if we go back to that other footage for a sec you'll see these flying green things when you kill something that was debuffed it sends out unraveling Seekers to go debuff others because of this almost everything you kill during your regular gam play is debuffed meaning regardless of weapon Choice you're filling both Prismatic bars the issue though is that people end up relying on their melee for that and I wanted to do it with my grenade because of how fast that thing recharges thanks to the devour stuff that I showed you earlier this is where the Exotic leg armor comes in called the swarmers they're a lot of fun and they do two things number one is making thread Lings apply on rvel normally if you throw a grenade it would just deal damage but now those will also spawn those green flying things which go and seek out enemies and apply unravel to others the beauty around this is that now both of your abilities can readily apply unravel to groups of enemies your melee or your threading grenade the second thing these do is make Tangles spit out two threadlines to those threadings when they hit enemies they also send out the unravel debuff this exotic was kind kind of slept on before but now that you have three methods of applying unraveling to crowds of enemies and since your devour fills up your grenades so fast it can feel infinite you can throw out a grenade get devour from it it'll apply the unraveled debuff to enemies and then killing those unraveled enemies not only fills both your Prismatic bars because of that fragment we talked about before but it also spawns a tangle destroying that tangle will spawn more threadings which then create more unraveling Seekers and it's just endless fun the last thing I'll mention for section one is how you can fill up those Prismatic bars even faster combining facet of Awakening and honor is something special I swear these two fragments were made for each other starting up with Awakening getting multi-kills of a specific Elemental type will drop a matching Elemental pickup for example if I get some Arc kills here I'll make some ionic traces that come back to me but then if I do it with strand damage it'll drop a tangle those are examples of Elemental pickups and each one does something something specific ionic traces are sweet because when they come back to you you get a chunk of your Rift energy back Tangles are sweet because when you destroy them you can enjoy everything I just explained then this is where the harmony comes in with bcet of Honor anytime you pick up an elemental you get a huge matching Chunk on your Transcendence meter those ionic traces are Arc so they fill your light bar but then even the tangles count when I destroy that it fills the darkness bar and it's way more than I would have expected words honestly can't really do it justice like the combination of the ability spam with all the debuffs going around while you're getting your kills and then the Synergy around these two fragments get you Prismatic so fast moving on to the second section though let's talk about your subass and by the way if you're someone who really enjoys this stuff like making builds and getting down to the detail join my Discord maybe I can teach one of your builds to folks on here cuz I personally love doing this either way starting with the grenade I've kind of made that obvious you're going to be using the threading grenade the Synergy with the swarmers exotic and having devour is just too good to pass up but I wanted to mention that if you've never used these before they can take a little time getting used to at immediate first glance they can feel weak but they're not they're actually quite strong the key is knowing that when you throw it out there it takes a bit of time to break off into the actual thread Lings sometimes hitting enemies right at their feet will work but you can also just throw them in the air and let the threadings kind of drop down and do the rest for you they even climb around walls and the other thing is that say you throw a grenade and there's no enemies for them to hit they actually come back to you and collect charges on the leftand side those will sit there and wait for the next time you shoot someone and then they'll jump out and seek after them it's really cool for your melee you're using the Arcane needle that I showed you but funny enough it's not just for those unravel debuffs it's because you get three charges you see you're going to have the lightning search aspect that combines very well with this whenever you're in the middle of a slide it changes that strand Arcane symbol to an arc lightning symbol this allows you to thrust out this Arc Mega melee which clears entire waves of ads and even applies jolt to them which can stun an overload by the way and simply because Arcane needle has a base of three melees from the subass screen it translates over to the aspect giving you three of these Mega melees it's so much fun and because that's Arc it'll also fill up your light bar obviously for prismatic so even just having an option of both a light and dark melee is really awesome a final reminder on the melee is that this will also proc devour because remember that just needs an ability kill and this one's potent so it's kind of like a full health button too now another thing I want to talk about within the subass section is a cool Prismatic feature having anything arc on your subass screen in this case the arc aspect gives you access to becoming Amplified all you got to do is get Arc kills that can be your melee or an arc weapon it's that easy and we love this because being Amplified provides many benefits it's plus 50 Mobility a way quicker Sprint a higher jump longer slide it even Buffs all of your weapons like the handling skyrockets and it's just a very runand gun style of gameplay it also makes you live a lot easier through an artifact that I'm going to cover in section five but now let's break down the Prismatic Transcendence because we've talked a lot about how to get it really fast but why do we care about that well first of all right out the gate you're going to get a blanket 20% damage resistance straight up it's just easier to live now it also immediately refills your grenade charge and two full melee charges as soon as you pop in this clip I know I'm about to pop Transcendence so I burn my nade and melees and then when I do activate it I get it right back the Prismatic Grenade on warlock is called freezing Singularity it's basically a mix of Vortex and dusk field when you throw it it'll pull enemies in applies a slowing debuff to them and then implodes for big damage after 5 Seconds Prismatic is also sweet because you've likely noticed that your abilities just charge really fast but then using one juices the other like throwing a grenade will buff your melee and vice versa it's kind of like button smashing in a fighter game Prismatic is just fun what's cool too is that when your Transcendence ends you get your normal grenade back like it will always be ready which means you can start your whole cycle again with Devour the last thing I'll probably say about this is that you also do get a 5% damage buff to your weapons it may seem small but it's not zero you're literally just better with it now the final thing on your subass is choosing a super and that's going to be song of flame positively busted right off the bat you get an extra 90% Dam damage resist while in the super and to put that in perspective a well of Radiance gives you 20 not only that when you pop your song of flame your teammates get an extra 30% damage resist so it's not just you once you're in it you're basically a grenade and melee throwing machine you throw a heat seeking solar nade and then a souped up incinerator snap one after the other over and over because their abilities they still trigger devour too most people like to just Spam those over and over cuz it's fun but I should remind you that the super also gives you radiant which means if you do use your weapons they're going to deal 25% more and a fun bonus is that your kinetic bullets will also apply Scorch on every hit last but not least is that when your song of flame super ends you get all of your abilities back essentially if you're ever somehow out of all your abilities during your gameplay and then you pop your super it's kind of like a reset button moving on though with all of the ability Hallmarks covered let's go to some mods that close out coold down loops and some extra fragment synergies starting out with the mods let's talk about your helmet you're going to want a siphon mod for whatever weapon that you're using the most these make you orbs on multi-kills and I recommend using Arc since you're going to want to create those ionic traces that we talked about as well for the last two slots I've tested other mods and they aren't worth it for this particular build so the good news is you can use whatever you want maybe that's an ammo finder or a scout mod to help your teammates now moving on to your gauntlets you're going to want to run Firepower to make orbs on grenade kills since devour gives you so many of these it's an or printing machine the second one is going to be momentum transfer to give you melee energy from dealing grenade damage this helps you get that lightning surge back much quicker and because of that you're also going to be running heavy-handed to make orbs whenever you use that we'll talk about what these orbs are going to do for you in a moment but let's move on to your chest piece I have intentionally left this blank like I said in the beginning I've done a lot of testing on which mods give you a good bang for their buck and which ones aren't and honestly it's good where it's at so you can run anything you want here probably some resistance mods depending on the activity moving on to our legs we've got invigor ation for the first mod every time you pick up an orb you're going to get more melee energy the second one is a weapon surge in this case when you pick up an orb it's going to give you an armor charge that's on a 10-second timer this will boost the damage of your weapon matching The Surge that you've selected if I walk over three orbs for example I'll get three armor charges and that's going to be three 10sec timers so a full 30 seconds walking over any other orbs just immediately keeps refreshing it so it can feel like you've got it on all the time and I use ARC here to match my siphon which I'll explain in the weapon section for your third mod you could use another weapon search but I found in my testing that one is all you need based on some weapon recommendations so I actually recommend running recuperation which is just going to give you extra Health on every orb pickup it helps bridge the gap for when you might not have devour with that wrapped up let's move over to your class item powerful attraction is one of my favorites every time you pop your Rift it's going to pick up all nearby orbs so all those benefits I just mentioned are going to proc without having to worry about finding orbs the second one is proximity Ward this gives you an overshield during your finisher animation and I often find if I'm ever weak in a moment there's usually an enemy Within finisher range that can save me thirdly we've got the Outreach mod popping your Rift will give you melee energy if you're noticing a theme here because devour gets you your grenade so fast a lot of these mods are geared towards your melee now if we move over to the subass section there is one final fragment slot and I'm going to give you you two options the first is facet of balance this gives you melee energy whenever dealing light damage and then Grenade energy whenever dealing dark damage it's like the cherry on top for the entire ability Loop strong Contender the second option is fcet of Bravery this one's amazing but it does put some restrictions on your weapon selection so if you want to use any weapon you like and never really have to think about that the other fragment is a great choice if you do want to dive into weapon synergies though this is pretty cool getting a melee kill will give your strand weapons unraveling rounds and then getting grenade kills give your Void weapons volatile rounds to be clear that means the bullets from your strand weapons will apply that debuff I explained earlier but then a void weapon will hit enemies with this purple debuff that basically makes them explode and cause chain reactions it's very powerful but I know that a lot of activities already kind of restrict what weapons you can choose so what I'll say is that if you have Strand and void options you love this is incredible but if you don't or if you feel restricted then just use the other one now with weapons on our mind let's move on to that section and talk about them I should also mention that I've partnered up with mobile tic by the way and that's a Destiny 2 builder website that allows me to summarize my entire builds into one page that you can refer to so I'm going to show you that at the end of the video diving into the weapons though let's talk about your middle slot you want to run an arc weapon to help you get those ionic traces just a reminder those are going to give you the rift energy but also huge boosts to your Prismatic light meter I really like the indebted kindness rocket sidearm and since you'll have an arc surge on your boots I found that it gives just enough boost to make this One-Shot most medium level ads earlier I mentioned how you could run a second surge but you really only need one to kind of achieve this in your top slot I recommend a Darkness element so strand or stasis the agar scepter exotic is particularly special in this build because it can apply Darkness debuffs as well I showed how all of your abilities are going to be applying that strand debuff called unraveling right but this thing applies a stasis debuff which can also proc that devotion fragment the one that gives you light energy from killing dark debuffs it's also just a really fun exotic like you can kill one thra and it'll freeze a bunch of others around it they all shatter and it's just a blast but another option is just using a strand weapon to benefit from that bravery fragment that I mentioned yet a melee kill bam your weapon now has unraveling routs for your heavy this can truly be anything that you want but for instance if you do run that bravery fragment in that final slot then avoid machine gun with volatile rounds is pretty special you just start shooting it and things go boom the one overarching thing that I would say about weapon selection in general is that bung's been really leaning into making us hit Precision shots a perfect example are tormentors so having a good crit damage option is often important this can be a linear Fusion a reliable kinetic the new microcosm exotic really anything you want just don't trap yourself running small weapons like scouts or SMGs just to match an element you know moving on to the final part of the cycle artifacts this build works fine without them but it feels wrong not to include it when you have the option right the first is galvanic armor while you're Amplified you're going to get a 30% damage resist and just a reminder that's whenever you get Arc multi-kills with a weapon or ability so the slide melee I also thought this would be a funny moment to demonstrate just how intense damage resist can get let's say you're running 100 resilience that's 30% Dr right there add on this artifact while you're Amplified and that's another 30% since you get Transcendent so often on the build that's 20% with the protection fragment it's another 15% and the way the math works on this is that if an enemy were to send a 200 damage shot at you which would normally kill it'll only hit for 67 say you popped your song of flame super for an additional 90% damage resist well now that 200 damage shot is only going to hit you for seven they literally have to deal 3,000% more damage to you just to try and kill you while you've got these going you're literally stronger than a walking Rel of Radiance moving on though we've got the second artifact mod that juices things which is transference right up the gate that gives you 10% higher grenade and melee damage but then it also tracks how many weapon kills you get during your Transcendence so that when it runs out it refills your light and dark bars based on how many there were it caps out at 20 kills giving you 50% but either way it's sweet the next would be shield crush which gives you an additional 25% boost to your grenade regen and damage while Amplified or radiant which feels like always on this build and then finally we've got threaded blast destroying a tangle with a strand weapon makes the explosion from it even bigger so like why not now I know that was a lot of information but I always want to make sure you know why you're running what you are and how things synergize I also wrote up this entire build summary with notes on mobile itics it's a really cool website that stores Destiny builds and it's incredible for referring back to so I've made sure to add that link for you to use I've started a patreon recently and mentioning it in all of my videos because they take so many hours to make and I've tried doing what others do like ripping through videos much quicker to get more frequent uploads out but honestly this is just who I am I'm kind of coming to terms with the fact that I just feel this need for every detail to be spot on and thoroughly demonstrated which makes things really tough financially I hate talking about it but wanted to mention that if any of my videos have ever helped you consider checking out the patreon linked below other than that this is a Titan build using the brand new rocket exotic which is equally fun so click on that to watch it next

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Length: 19min 1sec (1141 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 22 2024