Destiny 2 Warlock BuildYou Made Me Orb

Main Note: The key to this build is having Solipsism with Spirit of Filaments and Spirit of Starfire. These are the main engines behind Grenade and Empowering Rift generation.

Spirit of Filaments: Placing an Empowering Rift immediately grants you Devour, which can be easily maintained due to the Rift's damage boost and the powerful nature of both Barrow-Dyad and VS Velocity Baton. Final blows while Devour is active also feeds back into Empowering Rift energy.

Spirit of Starfire: When dealing weapon damage while standing in an Empowering Rift, you gain small amounts of Grenade energy. This is easily obtained due to the nature of VS Velocity Baton's tick damage and the constant barrage of Barrow-Dyad. Combining this with Devour means you can get your Grenade back in mere seconds.

Barrow-Dyad is a very strong Primary weapon, and its Blighted Seekers are very powerful against stronger foes. The reason why you should use One For All Refit is so you can get a free damage boost by tagging three enemies, which is easily accomplished due to its fire-rate and chaotic nature of its Blighted Seekers. The Path of Ambition is mainly for meatier targets such as minibosses/bosses, allowing you to generate Panic Response faster when focus-firing and deal additional damage with the Blighted Seeker explosions. Strand Siphon x3 is also used to generate Orbs of Power with little-to-no cooldown in between.

VS Velocity Baton is going to be your main Orb generator due to its tick damage nature along with Attrition Orbs. Repulsor Brace is also an added bonus when combined with the Volatile Marksman and Maligned Harvest Artifact Mods, but can also achieved when combined with Vortex Grenade and Facet of Dominance's Weaken application.

These two weapons are your main sources for Orb generation, which can feed into your Super, health, Empowering Rift, Arcane Needle, and Cynosure as listed in the sections below.

Almost everything in this build generates Orbs of Power: Barrow-Dyad with Strand Siphon x3, VS Velocity Baton with Attrition Orbs, Vortex Grenade with Firepower, Needlestorm, and Empowering Rift with Reaper. Thus, it will significantly easier to reach Explosive Light x6 on Cynosure, allowing you maximum DPS potential on meatier targets like minibosses/bosses.

Envious Arsenal is also the perfect complement here. VS Velocity Baton's tick damage procs one-half of Envious Arsenal's requirement, and Barrow-Dyad automatically regenerates ammo in the magazine, allowing for quick and easy swaps between two weapons and making quick use of Explosive Light x6. Thus, the rotation here is: 1. Paint miniboss/boss with VS Velocity Baton; 2. Fire Cynosure; 3. Tag with Barrow-Dyad; 4. Repeat steps 2 and 4 until VS Velocity Baton's pools disappear.

Needlestorm: Quick and fast Super that also helps generate Darkness Transcendence energy. I mainly equip this for Woven Mail from Facet of Purpose (stated below), but this can easily be swapped with any other Super you want (Song of Flame being a great second choice for emergency Radiant/Anti-Barrier and a "get-out-of-jail-free* card).

Transcendence: You'll be getting fast and easy Light and Darkness Transcendence energy due to the nature of your equipped weapons and abilities, allowing you to activate Transcendence more frequently.

Empowering Rift: Buffs your (and allies') damage output and feeds into Spirit of Filaments and Spirit of Starfire, allowing you to quickly regain Empowering Rifts.

Burst Glide: Best Glide.

Arcane Needle: Mainly used to Unravel enemies and potentially grant Unraveling Rounds for Barrow-Dyad. Also multiple Melee charges are great.

Vortex Grenade: Straight-up a great Void Grenade option, and is able to Weaken and generate Orbs of Power with both Facet of Dominance and Firepower.

Bleak Watcher: Since you'll be getting your Grenade back quickly with both Devour and Spirit of Starfire, you can toss out a Bleak Watcher to Slow and Freeze enemies for easy targets and additional Shatter damage, and then continue using Vortex Grenades in the meantime.

Feed the Void: This enhances Devour gained from placing an Empowering Rift, and mainly for survivability. If you are feeling bold, you can swap this out for Weaver's Call to generate perched Threadlings from Barrow-Dyad final blows.

Facet of Balance: Barrow-Dyad and VS Velocity Baton are capable of taking out enemies pretty easily, thus feeding back into your Grenade and Melee ability energy.

Facet of Generosity: You'll be able to activate Transcendence easily due to the nature of the equipped weapons and abilities, thus allowing you to generate even more Orbs of Power.

Facet of Dominance: You'll be getting your Vortex Grenade back very often, so Weaken is essentially a free debuff option.

Facet of Bravery: Volatile Rounds and Unraveling Rounds can increase your damage output and act as Anti-Barrier alternatives. Due to Devour and Spirit of Starfire, you'll be getting your grenade back constantly for Volatile Rounds. Arcane Needle can also easily take out red bars for quick Unraveling Rounds.

Facet of Purpose: Every Prismatic build should use this Fragment, which in this case grants Woven Mail when picking up an Orb of Power.

Helmet Mods:

• Strand Siphon x3: Barrow-Dyad will be your main source of damage for this build, and the Blighted Seekers it fires are very powerful - strong enough to easily take down rank-and-file enemies (red bars) and majors (orange bars). This allows for quick and easy Orb generation.

Arm Mods:

• Fastball: Due to the cost of the mods and the 4-cost of a stat mod, Fastball was the only option here. Plus, increased throw distance is actually nice for longer range engagements.
• Bolstering Detonation: Bleak Watcher and Vortex Grenade feed into Rift energy, and works in tandem with Devour and Spirit of Filaments.
• Firepower: Devour and Spirit of Starfire will be granting you constant Grenade energy, allowing you to throw Vortex Grenades more frequently and generate more Orbs.

Chest Mods:

• Pick whatever resistances you'd want depending on the activity.

Leg Mods:

• Recuperation: Due to the potentially high number of Orb generation, they can be used to heal in a pinch.
• Insulation: Same reason above, the Orb generation can help feed into Empowering Rift energy if needed.
• strand Scavenger: Since you'll be using Barrow-Dyad, an Exotic Primary, you'll be generating Heavy Ammo bricks a bit faster than usual. This will help upkeep your Cynosure's reserves.
• Alternatively, you can swap all 3 Leg Mods to Strand Surges (x3) to further boost both Barrow-Dyad and Cynosure's DPS potential. The current mod setup is for additional survivability and sustainability.

Class Item Mods:

• Outreach: Rifts can feed into Melee ability energy.
• Powerful Attraction: Empowering Rift can collect nearby Orbs in a pinch, which also feed into Explosive Light.
• Reaper: Due to Spirit of Filaments and Spirit of Starfire, you'll be getting your Empowering Rift back constantly. This will further aid in Orb generation.