You're Using Golden Gun & Still Hunt Wrong

not exactly a well-kept secret but if you didn't know Prismatic Hunters are really good right now especially in the DPS department in combination with the definitely not broken at all still hunt exotic sniper and while many Hunters are very familiar with the simple strategy of celestial Nighthawk plus still hunt equals ggz which is fine I can't help but notice that there are additional ways to squeeze extra milk out of that thick DPS tee that some folks aren't taking advantage of so today let's go over the a Goldie spam DPS build that has risen to power in the final shape and then play a fun little game of make number get bigger as we do some tweaks here in there to optimize your damage output by just a little bit more than normal quick FYI today's build and every other build I make going forward this month will be featured on mobile. sponsor of today's video I'll have a link in the pin comment go check him out tons of builds and info thank you mobile itics okay we'll start at the very top just in case you're a brand new Hunter player or if you've been living under a rock and have no idea what the hell I'm talking about Celestial Nighthawk condenses your Marksman golden gun from three shots into one shot and it also does the same thing with your still hunt exotic sniper when activating Golden Gun mode tldr with still hunt and Celestial Nighthawk together you can basically hit a boss with two Celestial shots back to back however despite the fact that they're both golden gun shots they behave differently and their damage can be affected by different Buffs and different fragments here's probably the most notable example facet of Courage a really good fragment by the way way your Arc solar and void abilities deal increased damage to targets Afflicted with a Darkness debuff but facet of Courage will only buff the damage on your regular Hunter Golden Gun not your still hunt golden gun that would be because at their core the Hunter's golden gun is ability damage while the still hunt golden gun is technically weapon damage keeping that in mind solar weapon searches on your leg armor will have zero effect on your Hunter's Golden Gun damage output but will bump up the damage on your still hunt Goldie shot again weapon damage versus ability damage one thing that both still hunt Goldie and Hunter Goldie benefit from together is being radiant meaning that being radiant throughout the vast majority of your DPS phase is going to be a big priority here's something extremely annoying that you have to be aware of while being radiant will buff your Hunter Golden Gun damage by 25% being in a warlock well will neutralize that damage buff this is a known issue and again an extremely annoying one see here in my friends warlock well my Nighthawk damage remains at its original damage number 564 233 however with the new warlock radiant well rework you'll now get radiant after leaving a warlock well if you become radiant by stepping out of the Warlock well and then shooting your golden gun you'll get the 25% damage buff applied to your goalie for example if you're fighting the witness you do not want your warlock player dropping their well in the dead center of the DPS plate if your team's damage strategy is to stack golden guns on the big smokem man you could either have your warlock drop their well further back on the DPS plate to allow players to go in and out and reapply radiant as needed or you could have your well in the dead center and just remember to leave the Warlock well before firing your first golden gun shot you can then rejoin the well and fire your still hunt from the well it only affects regular Hunter Golden Gun anyway you should have your own way of becoming radiant just in case behold the still hunt Hunter Trifecta facet of dawn facet of courage and withering blade these three options have quality Synergy first facet of dawn will make you radiant if you hit a target with a melee attack again the local warlock should be taking care of that anyway but good to have just in case second facet of Courage our regular golden gun will deal more damage to a Target Afflicted with a darkness debuff which our withering blade melee takes care of in short at the beginning of a damage phase before tagging the big bad with your Goldie shot be sure to first hit them with a withering blade to both both make yourself radiant and make the target take more Golden Gun damage thanks to facet of Courage continuing to play the game of make number get bigger we can add in Transcendence which if you remember UPS your weapon damage as you can probably guess this won't improve your golden gun damage because again that is an ability but it will improve your still hunt Golden Gun damage because that is coded as a weapon with that in mind I'm going to add facet of Grace into the mix in order to hopefully build Transcendence energy faster this is one of those things where if you make it to DPS phase and you don't yet have Transcendence that's okay not the end of the world but if you do have it it's basically a free extra 5% to all your still hunt goalie shots the final tactic we're going to add onto the damage pile believe it or not is to remove a solar weapon surge mod and replace it with both a solar holster mod and a crafted Apex rocket launcher here's why still hunt currently takes six crit shots to fully charge up the Golden Gun meter and it has six than the mag by default unfortunately when you activate Goldie mode and fire off your still hunt Goldie shot that takes up one bullet out of the mag meaning to fully recharge your still hunt Goldie meter in the heat of combat you got to land five crit shots manually reload your still hunt then land the sixth and final shot adding the solar holster mod and an apex launcher lets you do the following pop your still hunt Goldie hit the target now swap to your Apex and fire off two rockets then swap back to your still hunt which should now be autoloaded up to six in the mag land all six in the mag to charge your golden gun meter rinse and repeat normally crafted Apex launchers Rock bait and switch but because Apex isn't the star of the show here just an intermission it makes more sense to rock explosive light for this particular strategy the downside of the strategy again is that we're willingly cutting out a third weapon surge mod this will lower the damage output of our still hunt but only by 5% total because remember surge mods give diminishing returns even though we're losing 5% we're gaining more total damage than we lose by adding in two free Apex Rockets into the mix which also benefit from radiant Transcendence time two solar weapon Surge and explosive light the final two fragments I'm going to add in fall under the umbrella of nice to have facet of solitude and facet of purpose Solitude because you're shooting the boss repeatedly with a sniper doesn't hurt to sever them in the process and purpose because hey who would say no to free Restoration in short the DPS rotation should look like this this if you have Transcendence pop it if not that's okay pop your still hunt Golden Gun don't fire it yet pop your regular Hunter Golden Gun don't fire it yet throw one withering blade melee to proc both radiant and facet of courage now fire your regular golden gunshot and then fire your still hunt golden gunshot fire five regular still hunt shots swap to your Apex rocket launcher fire off two rockets swap back to your still hunt hit a sixth shot pop your now ful charged still hunt and fire that shot and now return to the fire five still hunt shots and repeat until damage phase is officially over I want to be clear I'm not saying this is hands down the best DPS tactic you could possibly do as a hunter but rather a way to take an already popular Strat and give it more oomph in a way you might not have been doing before just running it with some friends for fun we were able to land just shy of 5 million solo damage on the witness in just one damage phase and keep in mind that was with no debuff I.E no one there had a Divinity or anything like that again check the pinned comment for the build up on mobalytics in case you want to fiddle around with it and enjoy still hunt while you can can't imagine that Bungie never touches that thing because wow it is really good thank you very much for watching peace [Music] oh [Music]

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Id: lSC95TNSr8g

Length: 8min 6sec (486 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2024