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Warlock

Destiny 2 Warlock BuildPrincipal Punishment (Mataiodoxia Prismatic Build)

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PvEPvE
Updated on Jan 11, 2025
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subclass
super
Nova Bomb: Cataclysm
abilities
Healing Rift
Burst Glide
Arcane Needle
Vortex Grenade
aspects
Feed the Void
Hellion
fragments
Facet of Bravery
Facet of Courage
Facet of Dawn
Facet of Dominance
Facet of Protection
gear and mods
weapons
Graviton Lance
Graviton LanceExotic Pulse Rifle

Second shot of a burst rips a hole through space-time, doing high damage and recoil with no falloff.

Armor
HeadEmpty
Hands-On
Harmonic Siphon
Heavy Ammo Finder
HandsEmpty
Focusing Strike
Heavy Handed
Impact Induction

Targets damaged by Arcane Needle emit a suspending detonation when defeated. Landing multiple Arcane Needles or Needlestorm on the same target immediately triggers a larger, more powerful detonation. Defeating suspended targets grants melee energy. Your Arcane Needles are strong against [Shield-Piercing]Barrier Champions.

LegsEmpty
Void Weapon Surge
Void Weapon Surge
Class ItemEmpty
Outreach
Powerful Attraction
Reaper
artifact perks
Strengths and Weaknesses

strengths

  • Strong Anti-Champion capabilities
  • Shines in all content
  • Versatile build as far as add clear/DPS (not a dedicated DPS build tho)

weaknesses

  • Heavily dependent on melee charges
  • Selfish build, aka little benefit to the team outside of Strand/Void debuffs

Build Details

How It Works

The build has 2 main uses:

Add clear Champion stunning

For Add Clear: 1. Use Arcane Needle Strand Melee to kill a red bar enemy, causing a suspending explosion around them. The more enemies suspended by this the better as you regain melee energy by killing enemies suspended by this effect. 2. Use Graviton Lance to kill suspended enemies, and charge your Light meter for Transcendence more efficiently

For tankier targets - Use your Vortex Void Grenade to weaken them (thanks to Facet of Dominance) and/or Grav Lance for boss level enemies before killing them with the melee for a larger explosion. Alternatively, hit 3 melees on the larger health target to suspend them and any enemy around them.

For Champions:

Works best against Barrier and Unstoppable champions.

Barriers - The melee becomes Anti-Barrier and gets most, if not all the shields down depending on the tier of content. Unstoppables - Hitting 3 melees on the Unstoppable champions to suspend them, stunning them.

Both can be made quick work of with any of the weapons featured, however you can customize the weapons with this build however you want, so long as they are Void or Strand damage type.

Once you gain Transcendence, both of these functions are elevated because of the increased regeneration rate of your melee, which will boost your Transcendent grenade regeneration as well by getting kills with your melee.

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Weapons Limitations: Must have Strand or Void weapons to make the most use of this build.

I use Graviton Lance because it is the most efficient add clear weapon, particularly Primary Ammo weapon, that works with this build, however other recommendations for this would include:

Velocity Baton Choir of One Travelers Chosen (since it has Osmosis built into it) Quicksilver Storm Wishkeeper (but a bit more niche than the others due to ease of use/access to Wish-Keeper) The Recluse (for closer range content or if you have a good ranged Strand weapon)

Gameplay Loop
  1. Find group of adds
  2. Use your melee to kill a red bar enemy, or find the higher health target and use your 3 melees to suspend all enemies surrounding them.
  3. Kills enemies quickly with Graviton Lance or whichever Void/Strand weapon your prefer.
  4. Repeat.
  5. Once you gain Transcendence, activate and use your melees more freely, suspending more targets and staying in Transcendence for longer.
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