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 - BxR-55 Battler - Demolitionist + Incandescent on a classic weapon. Demolitionist feeds into our Grenade energy, and gets easy reloads from grenade/GPG spamming. Added bonus of having no ADS requirements for accuracy, for more fluid game-play with ability spam.

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, and Scatter Grenade 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.

Primary/Energy Slot Alternatives

1. No Hesitation - This weapon provides unparalleled team utility and survival. 5 seconds of Recovery for you, and nearby allies when you proc Physic and Support Frame. Yet another Legendary weapon that feels better than most Exotics. NOTE This weapon is PURELY for group based game-play. If you are playing solo/Lost Sectors, etc, swap this out for a Heal Clip/Demolitionist + Incandescent weapon.

2. Heliocentric QSc - Heal Clip/Demolitionist +Incandescent option. Quite powerful, but lacks range.

3. Adhoratative - Can roll Attrition orb/Heal Clip + Incandescent, orb generation equates to survival and more cooldown for the build. If I had one, I'd test it out. Sadly I do not.

4. Nullify - Can roll with Heal Clip + Incandescent/Chaos Reshaped. Chaos Reshaped would add a lot of survival to the build, losing Incandescent would hurt GPG stacks and add clear slightly, but overall I think the additional bump in survival might be worth it in GM content.

5. Parabellum - Heal Clip + Frenzy, or Rewind Rounds + Attrition Orbs. If you're lucky enough to have a godroll of this weapon, I'd highly recommend checking it out. With Field Tested stacks, and a good Barrel/Mag combo, this thing is a laser beam, with surprising range for an SMG that plays nicely with this builds play style. It's currently my go-to on the build, but as it's not super accessible being a world drop I opted not to change the build guide out for it.

Special/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.

4. Lost Signal - Auto Loading Holster + Vorpal/Demolitionist would be my recommendation to anybody who lacks access to any of the aforementioned Chill clip weapons. Seasonal GL synergy, good add clear, and builds Darkness bar very quickly.

Exotic Alternatives

1. Parasite - Great synergy with the easy add clear to stack up x20 quickly. Some bosses like to run at you, making Dragon's Breath risky. This makes for a generally safer alternative. Also benefits more heavily from enemies being frozen, as the damage is instant with up to a 3.75x multiplier at x20 stacks.

2. Whisper of The Worm - Mostly here for situations where you need the range, or where explosive based weaponry is bad (Namely against Tormentor heavy content).

1. Head - Heavy Ammo Finder x1, Special Ammo Finder x1, Solar Siphon x1 - Ensures we have ammo for our weapons, Solar siphon provides a LOT of Orbs of Power to fuel our survival, and ability loops. NOTE - These mods recquire 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 - Firepower x1, Heavy Handed x1, Grenade Kickstart x1 - Lots of orb generation from ability spam, and grenade kickstart to make use of otherwise unutilized armor charges. NOTE - Same as above

3. Chest - Concussive Dampener x1, Stasis Reserves x2 - Survival, and more ammo on Riptide for additional chill clip shots.

4. Legs - Absolution x1, Orbs of Restoration x1, Orbs of Restoration x1 - Turns orbs we generate into additional cooldown reduction to feed Inmost light loop. They're the most efficient for the build, as they provide the highest percent reductions to cooldowns. NOTE Orbs of Restoration is generally a worse option than Recuperation, but since we get Void Overshields via fragments on orb pickup, the Overshield protects regeneration until broken. So it ends up being the better recovery option for the build.

5. Cloak - Reaper x1, Powerful Attraction x2 - Orb generation, and 18.5 meter range to pickup orbs of power nearby when you dodge. Not only are orbs survival, but they're a massive contributor to our skill feedback loop, as well as ultimate generation.

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.

11/10/24

1. I've decided that Better Already is really amazing on the setup, and swapped out Innervation for it. One, because its an easy swap in my setup for capacity, and two, because there is enough times that we dodge while having Gunpowder Gamble up, or pickup orbs with GPG up, so the 10% CDR on orb pickup for grenades sometimes fizzles and gets no value. While Absolution and Orbs of Restoration pretty much always get value.

2. Added a few alternate heavy weapon recommendations based on some testing/situations in the Weapon Choices segment.

3. Also swapped out one of the Heavy Ammo Finder in the helmet for a Special Ammo Finder. I've found that I almost never run out of ammo on my Heavy while using Dragon's Breath, as it's really only efficient to fire it off every 5-15 seconds pending ignition counts. I did find myself running low on Riptide Ammo, and would like to use it more liberally, hence the change. I'll continue to update the build as I test more and play more content.

11/14/24

After more playtime with the setup (namely Expert Onslaught, Solo Master Lost Sectors, and GM Nightfalls), I haven't been struggling without heal clip since the addition of Better Already to the build. Timeworn Wayfarer, while very impressive at add clear, spends too much time reloading for my liking. It also lacks the sustained damage of other archetypes of weapons. Very much enjoyed it, and it worked with the playstyle, but it's being outclassed. I swapped the Energy slot/Primary recommendation to BxR-55 Battler.

It has amazing synergy with the build. Since we're spamming abilities very regularly, ADS is broken really frequently. So the fact that we can hip fire the BxR, as well as have the range benefits of the ADS range when needed, its just very fluid. It's also a 180 from Timeworn, in the sense that I'm reloading significantly less, allowing Demolitionist to really put in work on reloads, as well as in cooldown for the Inmost/Cyrtarachne nade/GPG spam. Overall, it feels like the best choice right now. It even has more single target sustained damage than Nullify.

11/15/24

1. Removed Facet of Protection, and replaced it with Facet of Mending. The 15% while surrounded from Protection doesn't actually do all that much lifting in the DR formula, after considering Woven Mail, Void Overshield, Winter's Shroud DR, Resilience, and Chest Mods on top of that. The additional healing provided from Mending however, is very impactful. Especially in higher end content. Considering 30-40% of all of our kills are generally attributed to grenade spam/GPG I think it works very well here. There's inherit synergy between healing on grenade kills, and gaining Woven Mail from grenade casts.