Destiny 2 Hunter BuildBecome the Wyvern (Foetracer + Cyrt)

Foetracer is the main offensive centerpiece of this build. "Upon dealing Ability Damage to an Elite, Miniboss, Champion, Boss, or Guardian: Grants x4 Ability Element-Matching Weapon Surge for 16 seconds".

This build can trigger this effect in 3 ways. The first being our melee, Snare Bomb. Secondly with our Super, Shadowshot: Deadfall (Tether). And thirdly, with Volatile Rounds counting as an ability when it deals damage. Destabilizing rounds on both Choir of One, and Corrective Measure is capable of activating this perk passively whenever they splash a Major.

Cyrtarachne is a major defensive tool for this build. "On Grenade Ability Usage: Grants Woven Mail for 10 seconds."

This exotic is the reason we are using Gunpowder Gamble. With it, we pretty much always have access to Woven Mail Damage Reduction. You can also leverage Prismatic Form grenade spam to maintain the DR when in single target/boss situations.

1. Facet of Dawn - The simplest way for us to activate Foetracer is by throwing our melee, Snare Bomb, at a Major/Boss/Champion. So it only makes sense to get Radiant from our melee to leverage even more weapon damage.

2. Facet of Purpose - Essential survival tool. With a Void super equipped, this will provide us with Void Overshields everytime we pick up an orb. Void Overshields actively protect health recovery from being interrupted. So when paired with Better Already in the Leg mods, we get an immense amount of healing, and damage reduction from every orb pickup.

3. Facet of Ruin - This setup makes a lot of Ignitions with Gunpowder Gamble and Prismatic Grenades, and does a decent amount of Shatters between Darkfield Grenade/Prismatic Grenade, and the slow on dodge provided by Winter's Shroud. It also provides a +10 bump to weapon stat, the main focus of the build.

4. Facet of Protection - Mostly a redundancy for Damage Reduction when surrounded. 15% DR when surrounded, upped to 25% when Prismatic Form is active. A comfortable fall back layer for a setup that wants to be up close and personal to leverage Choir of One Hipfire (BECOME THE WYVERN). It also provides +10 to Melee, and we need ~68-70 Melee stat in order to get our melee fully refunded from Gambler's Dodge.

5. Facet of Hope - This helps our ability loop stay active providing us with more Class ability cooldown reduction whenever we have elemental buffs (Woven mail, Radiant, Void Overshield).

1. Gunpowder Gamble - Not only does this help our add clear and damage output, but it provides us with an alternative grenade to use to activate Cyrtarachne, as well as generate an orb on kill via Firepower in our Arm slot. It has been updated to not require elemental debuffs, or kills with solar weapons to activate. Bonus synergy is it stacks very quickly on Ability kills, and Volatile Rounds provided by Destabilizing Rounds will build these charges very quickly.

2. Winter's Shroud - This provides us with survival via 50% damage reduction on dodge for 4 seconds. When our class ability is used, we will slow enemies nearby. You also gain a bonus to your Class Ability regeneration when you slow enemies with the dodge, or hit them with either Duskfield Grenade, or our Prismatic Grenade slow. It also has great synergy with Powerful Attraction in our Cloak slot, whenever we dodge not only will we get the 50% DR from Shroud, but we will also scoop up nearby orbs to activate Facet of Purpose / Better Already (Leg Mod).

1. Lost Signal - This weapon has one sole purpose, and its to build Darkness bar for transcendence. You will want to make sure to swap to this weapon when you throw your grenades to refill it. Generally, whenever you are out of Darkness/Prismatic form, you'll want to be charging this. Be sparing with the ammo, as we don't want to take away from Choir of Ones reserves. Make sure you're rotating in your heavy weapon, so it has ammo to pickup. If you can't pickup bricks, Lead from Gold doesn't help us here. My recommended setup for the weapon is as follows.

Quick Launch - This is mostly for handling speed. We want our swap times quick for grenade uses.

High Velocity Rounds - Really the only option for breach launchers

Lead From Gold - This is to help our ammo economy. We make absurd bricks, so now we can get extra ammo for this weapon on every heavy ammo pickup.

Demolitionist - This mostly acts as a reload perk. Swap to this weapon, fire it off, throw grenade. If it happens to build some grenade bar with kills, win-win.

MW - Handling, We don't plan to reload this weapon at all.

Gear - Quick Access Sling, more speed.

2. Choir of One - This weapon is just absurd. Precision damage and raw explosive damage packed into the same bundle, it can tackle any opponent with ease. With every buff active + Tether, the hip fire is doing over 3500 burst DPS, with a total damage of 5850 against Karl in the Shooting Range. With this setup behind it, it offers unrivaled DPS potential for its slot. My recommended setup for the weapon is as follows.

Fluted Barrel - Swapping firing modes is ADS time, more handling = better swap time between firing modes.

Alloy Magazine - The best reload modifier for any weapon that's meant to mag dump. This gives us the best DPS possible for dumping our reserves into somethings face.

Fanatical Lance - Default exotic perk, cannot be changed

Destabilizing Rounds - Major add clear perk, enables Foetracer, and improves our single target damage. Innate synergy with Fanatical Lance making Radiolarium Pools when you rapidly kill enemies.

Fitted Stock - Personally, I always want 100 recoil on precision weapons. This was the most efficient way to do so. Arrowhead Break barrel provides more than we need to cap, so this config ensures we have 100 recoil Direction while being efficient with our stat spread.

3. Corrective Measure - Anybody whose used this LMG extensively will tell you it feels like an exotic. The combination of Killing Tally + Destabilizing Rounds yields immense Add Clearing potential, while not slouching on its single target potential. It's origin trait is basically a whole other perk column on its own. Doubles the magazine size after you use your ultimate (and reloads it from reserves), on top of it providing chunks of super energy on every kill. Mind you, chunk gains are very powerful right now with the stat changes, as they benefit from the full % bonuses of the super stat. The config of my weapon is as follows.

Fluted Barrel - I know I said I favor 100 recoil, but after testing recoil patterns on this weapon between Fluted and Arrowhead break, I found the recoil was better with more stability. The extra handling is welcomed on a cumbersome LMG.

Alloy Mag - Alloy is a % reduction to reload times, .90x base, and .80x when below 50% mag. This is the largest possible reduction to reload speed possible for a magazine perk.

Destabilizing Rounds - Same story as Choir, synergy with Foetracer + more AoE/Damage.

Killing Tally - 3 stacks, one per kill = 30% additional damage on top of our already stacked weapon damage gains can make this thing do some very surprising DPS. Try and stack up kills with it before you lay into a single target.

MW - Reload. You will have to manually reload this weapon from time to time. But between Reload MW, Alloy Magazine, and a Void Loader in the Arm slot, its reload time comes down very drastically. They also updated LMG reloads to be a progress bar, so any time spent reloading is counted even if you swap weapons.

Gear Slot - Adept Mag, or normal Extended Mag if you don't have timelost.

Head - x1 Harmonic Siphon, x1 Special Ammo Finder, x1 Heavy Ammo Finder - Orb generation from weapons, and additional ammo generation for bricks.

Arms - x1 Firepower, x1 Harmonic Loader, x1 Impact Induction - Orb generation on grenade kills, faster reloads to our Void Weapons, and chunks of grenade cooldown whenever we damage with our melee, to improve our ability loop.

Chest - Concussive Dampener x1, Melee Damage Resistance x1, Harmonic Ammo Generation x1 - AoE and Melee damage reduction will save you more than any other chest mods in the game. Its 15% to both, and they stack against things like screeb explosions, then more ammo generation for our void weapons.

Legs - Better Already x1, Weapons Font x1, Harmonic Scavenger - Better Already starts health regeneration when we pick up an orb, paired with Facet of Purpose you also gain a Void Overshield. The Void Shield protects your health recovery until broken, so it nearly always provides more healing than Recuperation, especially because they nerfed it from 50 health, to 30 with the Health stat changes. Harmonic Scavenger is to ensure we're getting as much Void Ammo on pickups as possible.

Cloak - Reaper x1, Powerful Attraction x1, Bomber x1 = Reaper to generate additional orbs for survival. Powerful attraction scoops up nearby orbs when you use your class dodge to heal you, and bomber gives us grenade energy back for our ability loop.

There's a handful of ways our abilities feedback into one another to give us a surprising amount of ability spam on a non-HOIL build. I'll break it down by what happens on each ability activation.

Duskfield grenade gives us 300% additional class ability cooldown for 3 seconds when we slow an enemy to get our dodge back via Winter's Shroud.

Dodge will also slow enemies, giving itself the same cooldown reduction from Shroud, activate Bomber on our cloak to give us grenade cooldown, activate Gamblers dodge to give us our Melee back, and scoop orbs that will give cooldown reduction to either Dodge, or Grenade pending which is lower from Orbs of Restoration on our legs. (because melee will always be 100% after dodge, it can only go to two places).

Melee will activate Impact Induction in our gloves, and reduce our grenade cooldown even further, allowing us to throw another Duskfield to slow enemies and get our dodge back to start the cycle all over again.

So with that in mind, you generally want to loop Grenade > Dodge > Melee in that order. Its also a great way to setup single target damage, because frozen enemies also take 10% extra damage from Special Ammo weapons (as if we needed more % gains lmao).

My current spread in game is

18 Health 70 Melee 90 Grenade 60 Super 70 Class 180 Weapon (+20 Font)

Health - Can be nuked. Has no importance to the build, go as low as possible.

Melee - Between 68-70 for 100% melee refund on Gamblers Dodge

Grenade - Between 80-100 pending your gear

Super - Between 60-70, maybe upwards of 80 pending gear.

Class - Between 70-80

Weapon - 180 is ideal, 160 is fine as well but will need 2x fonts instead of just the one. If you have lower tier gear, the other stats are just as important. You could probably squeeze by with 120-140 weapon stat, assuming you're running two fonts for a total of 160-180 with armor charges. Fonts > Scavenger mod

We have a lot of things contributing to our damage, so I wanted to breakdown the math for everything involved.

Weapon stat (15% Special, 10% Heavy) Killing Tally (30%) Super Weaken (30%) Foetracer Surges (25%) Radiant (20%) Melee Weaken (15%) Frozen Damage Bonus (10%) Prismatic Bonus (5%)

Lets run some calculations for Chior of One

Simply throwing your melee at a Major and activating Foetracer + Radiant + Weaken

1.25 x 1.20 x 1.15 x 1.15 = 1.98375 Foetracer + Radiant + Weaken + Special Weapon = 98.375% Damage Increase

Now with Duskfield + Winters shroud to freeze them

1.25 x 1.20 x 1.15 x 1.15 x 1.10 = 2.182125 Foetracer + radiant + Weaken + Special Weapon + Frozen = 118.2125% Damage Increase

Full out, Prismatic + Super weaken added

1.3 x 1.25 x 1.20 x 1.15 x 1.10 x 1.05 = 2.5900875 Super Weaken + Foetracer + Radiant + Special Weapon + Frozen + Prismatic = 159.001% Damage Increase

Now for some Corrective Measure Math

Throwing Melee after stacking Killing Tally

1.3 x 1.25 x 1.20 x 1.15 x 1.10 = 2.46675 Killing Tally x3 + Foetracer + Radiant + Weaken + Heavy Weapon = 146.675% Damage Increase

Everything up, prismatic + super + frozen

1.3 x 1.3 x 1.25 x 1.2 x 1.10 x 1.10 x 1.05 = 3.2207175 Super Weaken + Killing Tally x3 + Foetracer + Radiant + Heavy Weapon + Frozen + Radiant = 222.072% Damage Increase

The Frozen window is fairly small before shatter, so this damage will fluctuate based on a lot of factors. Radiant uptime is only 5 seconds, but you can keep that up very easily in prismatic form with its cooldown bonuses. This is mostly just to showcase the potential damage this build is capable of.

TLDR

Choir of One - Upwards of ~159% Increased Damage

Corrective Measure - Upwards of ~222% Increased Damage

8/22/25 - I updated the Primary slot to Lost Signal Lead from gold/Demo, to build darkness meter. I was hesitant to use a special weapon in this slot, but Lead from Gold really puts in work, and if properly managed the weapon doesn't impede ammo economy.