Spirit of Inmost Light + Spirit of Cyrtarachne is the basis of this build. The combination is quite potent, and it's the cloak I hunted for several months. Spirit of Inmost Light allows for an immense level of ability spam, and Cyrtarachne gives us a massive bump to our survivability.

1. Hope - More Class Ability recovery for having a light buff active (radiance / void overshield). Pretty straightforward, we want our dodge more often to feed our melee, and Inmost Light loop.

2. Dawn - Powered Melee Attacks make you Radiant. Since we have nearly unlimited abilities, we have basically 100% uptime on Radiant. More damage.

3. Purpose - Orb of Power provides elemental buff, in our case, Void Overshield. This is for survival purposes, 70% DR from the Shield is immense, and contributes massively to the DR formula. See Damage Reduction for a detailed explanation.

4. Ruin - Increase the Size and Damage of Ignitions, and Stasis Shatters. The build is based almost entirely around this fragment. I've wanted a Stasis/Solar setup like this for ages.

5. Balance - We're mostly generating Melee energy here to keep up our Radiant, and Inmost Light Feedback loop. On the occasion we clear out adds with our melee, we are also generating grenade energy. Overall great for the Inmost light loop.

6. Mending - We spam a lot of grenades, this helps our survival by healing us whenever we score kills with our grenade/Gunpowder Gamble. Also has great synergy with Cyrtarachne DR on grenade cast.

1. Gunpowder Gamble - Ability Kills and Kills against debuffed targets charge an Ignition Grenade. Massive part of why this build is so potent synergy-wise. Additional Grenade casts to provide uptime of Cyrtarachne and give more Inmost light Stacks.

2. Winter's Shroud - Dodging Slows Nearby Targets, it also provides 50% DR for ~4 seconds according to the Destiny Data Compendium. Since we get our Melee back from dodges, we can basically instantly Freeze anything in close proximity between the Slow on Dodge + the slow on Withering Blade. Additionally, slowing targets provides increased cooldown reduction to your class ability. Triggered by itself, Withering Blade, Duskfield Grenades (if equipped), as well as Chill Clip.

1. Gambler's Dodge - When you dodge near an enemy, we get our melee back. Contributes heavily to Inmost Light loop, and synergizes with "Winter's Shroud".

2. Triple Jump - Personal preference, use what you like.

3. Withering Blade - Has two charges, slows, provides darkness synergies for building prismatic bars, and for slowing/freezing champions or really anything.

4. Swarm Grenade - Stacks up gunpowder gamble more quickly, and is a lot faster at being impactful than Duskfield Grenades. That being said, Duskfields are still very potent, and arguably better in higher end content. I would advise swapping to them in any Champion Heavy content.

5. Shadowshot: Deadfall - Weaken, damage spread, Suppression, and enables Void Overshields via orb pickups.

1. Kinetic Slot - Riptide - I feel like this needs no explanations to those in the know. Chill clip is crazy good. And I spent like 5 days of my life grinding for a godroll in Crucible. Finally a build that really lets it shine. Stasis synergies to freeze and blow up enemies, or deal with 2/3 of the champion types in the game. Talk about Legendary weapons that feel like exotics. Its too good. NOTE Riptide applies 40 slow stacks, Winter's Shroud and Withering Blade gives us 60 slow stacks, so Dodge + Riptide or Melee + Riptide freezes into a shatter.

2. Energy Slot - Aberrant Action - This is one of the few weapons in the game that truly excels with Incandescent. Being a high damage, AoE rocket, its capable of wiping out an entire pack in a single shot, and triggering an Ignition (or two) if placed properly. Heal Clip is a wonderful survival utility in a pinch. Rocket Sidearms have proven to be a force in the meta, and this dual Special Build swap really highlights this weapon.

3. Heavy Weapon - Dragon's Breath - One of the highest per shot damage heavy weapons in the game. Massive synergy with Facet of Ruin via doubling ignition size. Nearby Ignitions via Incandescent, Gunpowder Gamble, Scatter Grenade, and our Prismatic Grenades also boost the rate at which the passive stacks. If its scary, shoot this down its throat when the passive is stacked to x5. Make sure to have Radiant proc'd via Charged Melee attacks before firing this off, and try to save your Grenades/Gunpowder Gambles/Prismatic Grenades for AFTER rocket shots, to ramp the passive and reload the weapon faster.

Energy Slot

Frankly, this build is much more restrictive with weapons compared to its Primary Ammo weapon counterpart. As far as I'm concerned, there is no replacement for the Energy Slot, Aberrant Action at this time as far as Legendary Special weapons go.

An argument could be made for Trace Rifles, such as Retraced Path, I would recommend Subsistence + Incandescent personally if you were to go that route, but Rocket Sidearms are really economic when it comes to damage/ammo. It's also easier to maintain the ammo for me personally.

Kinetic Slot Alternatives

1. Critical Anomaly - Chill Clip + Chaos Reshaped is a very potent roll. Also has the added bonus of giving us a weapon that's better suited into fighting Tormentors.

2. Lingering Dread - Chill Clip + Ambitious Assassin can make for a suitable replacement for Riptide, it also benefits from current seasonal grenade mods.

3. Rake Angle - Lead from Gold/Replenishing Aegis + Chill Clip. This weapon is pretty fun to play with, the only downside with this particular setup, is it locks us out of using our Withering Blade for Inmost Light while equipped. But using it just for the projectile freezes can be nice. Something worth trying out if you have a nice roll. I much prefer my Riptide, but not everybody has one.

1. Helmet - Hands-On x1, Ashes to Assets x1, Solar Siphon x1 - Providing us with additional super and orb generation. Ammo Finder mods generally aren't worth using on Special Ammo loadouts. NOTE - These mods require 9 mod space, you need to sacrifice 100 mobility for 80 mobility to fit most of the mods on this setup. Two additional ranks into mobility only provide 2 seconds of additional cooldown. It's not worth the points.

2. Hands - Heavy Handed x1, Firepower x2 - More orb generation. Two firepower to reduce the internal cooldown to 5 seconds, as we often spam grenades/GPG every 5-8 seconds at times.

3. Chest - Solar Reserves x2, Stasis Reserves x1 - Ammo pickups scale off of the maximum reserve ammo of a weapon, so more reserve = more ammo on pickup. Two solar reserves ensures we are picking up enough Special Ammo to fuel our Rocket Sidearm, the additional reserve rockets for Dragon's Breath are quite nice as well. Stasis reserves for more Chill Clip shots. This build has so much damage reduction (upwards of 95% with everything active), that putting more damage reduction here feels very redundant. We can use this as an opportunity to min/max our Dual Special loadout.

4. Legs - Better Already x1, Orbs of Restoration x1, Solar Scavenger x1 - Scavenger is here mostly to double the amount of rockets we get per Heavy Brick, but we also get some additional ammo for our Rocket Sidearm on Special Bricks. Orbs of Restoration grants 10% cooldown to the ability with the highest remaining cooldown, ensuring we always get value. Better Already is normally a worse option than Recuperation, but since Void Overshields protect Health Recovery, it ends up being the better survival option for our setup.

5. Cloak - Powerful Attraction x2, Special Finisher x1 - 18.5 meters of orb pickup range on dodge coupled with our orb generation equates to on demand survival whenever we dodge near orbs. With our abundant orb generation, we will make good use of this. Special finisher is paramount to this builds success, without it we'd run out of ammo.

Resilience > Discipline > Mobility > Strength > Intelligence > Recovery

Stats for my live build is as follows

80 Mobility 100 Resilience 10 Recovery 100 Discipline 30 Intelligence 40 Strength

1. 80 Mobility is ideal, you'll be sacrificing some mobility in order to fit all of the high capacity mods the build calls for. 20 additional points of Mobility only equates to 2 more seconds of cooldown, and its much better spent elsewhere.

2. 100 Resilience is mandatory, and our static DR. Always Maximize.

3. 10 Recovery is our throwaway stat. We don't want to invest into it.

4. 100 Discipline is mandatory to maximize our grenade cooldowns to make best use of our Exotic Cloak perks.

5. 30 Intelligence is the minimum for soft cap returns. We have so much orb generation that investing into this stat past 30 is mostly wasted. Especially past 60.

6. 40 Strength seems like its not worth investing into as we get our melee back via dodge, but since Withering Blade has two charges and you only recover ONE on dodge, the additional cooldown recovery still puts in work towards the second charge at nearly all times. Invest into strength with leftover points, instead of going for 100 Mobility. Its a bait, even though it looks good.

NOTE Prismatic form is a MAJOR part of our boss damage rotations. Try and save Prismatic for damage phases on bosses if/when possible. We have plenty of ability spam to deal with 90% of add clear situations. Prioritize using your Ultimate in situations you feel overwhelmed over Prismatic, if you KNOW you will be fighting a boss soon/moving to its next phase.

1. Fire off Ultimate to tether, suppress, and weaken enemies.

2. Throw Charged Melee to proc Radiant, Fire off a Dragon's Breath rocket, followed by your grenade and/or gunpowder gamble. Since Ignitions cause Dragon's Breath passive to ramp faster, we want to save grenades for AFTER shooting the rocket ideally.

3. Enable Prismatic form, and throw a grenade, followed by two charged melees to activate radiant, and briefly freeze the enemy. Since Prismatic grenades cook a while, the Ignition should be timed for after the next Rocket.

4. Fire your second Dragon's Breath rocket, followed by a grenade, and melee. Make sure to dodge off cooldown to build up Inmost Light stacks to further your Radiant ability spam, even if you aren't in range of Gambler's Dodge/Winter's Shroud.

5. Prioritize fully charged Rockets, followed by prismatic Ability spam, and fill with Auto-Loading/Chill Clip Riptide between rockets to freeze the enemy for the Rocket detonations. Always try and use your grenade/gunpowder gamble AFTER rocket shots to reload your Rocket and build stacks faster. Utilize Aberrant Action for Heal Clip on add clear in a pinch if needed, or fill DPS with this while Riptide Auto Loads.