Destiny 2 Warlock BuildGetaway Artist for Endgame PVE

Warlocks, it is time for a deep dive into the Prismatic Getaway Artist build to see which version of this build is truly the strongest. I've literally been bombarded with exactly zero requests from warlock mains on this kind of analysis so obviously it was time to buckle down and see what the data says.

We will use "Solo Grandmaster" as the benchmark, specifically leaderboard quality runs. Example: Solo Liminality GM in under 45 mins. This is an easy filter, and most people will consider a build very strong if it can solo a GM. We will focus primarily on Liminality as the first few GMs this season have not been difficult by endgame standards. Sample size will be the top 14 getaway artist runs by speed according to Grandmaster Report.

Focus your weapon selection based on your current activity, many encounters have specific weapons / archetypes that are optimal for the mechanics / damage phase.

Nothing to discuss here. Feed The Void and Bleak Watcher are the unanimous picks.

Here is the breakdown of the fragments in the builds based on their frequency and percentage of selection.

• Protection: 100%
• Courage: 93%
• Purpose: 50%
• Ruin: 43%
• Dominance: 43%
• Sacrifice: 36%
• Devotion: 36%
• Solitude: 29%
• Dawn: 29%
• Hope: 14%
• Command: 14%
• Awakening: 7%
• Balance: 7%

Could you just run the top 5 fragments and hit the next GM? Sure, but let's have some self-respect.

What we need to know now is why these fragments were selected from a build crafting perspective (utility category), the distribution of these categories across the builds, and what percentage of the builds were dedicated to these categories on average.

We will group the fragments into the following categories:

• Protection: Increased Damage Resistance
• Courage: Increased Ability Damage
• Purpose: Increased Damage Resistance
• Ruin: Increased Ability Damage
• Dominance: Enemy Debuff
• Sacrifice: Increased Transcendence Regeneration
• Devotion: Increased Transcendence Regeneration
• Solitude: Enemy Debuff
• Dawn: Increased Weapon Damage
• Hope: Increased Ability Regeneration
• Command: Increased Ability Regeneration
• Awakening: Increased Ability Regeneration
• Balance: Increased Ability Regeneration

Here is the category summary based on the percentages the builds dedicated fragments to these categories:

• Increased Damage Resistance: 40% Allocation (2 Fragments)
• Increased Ability Damage: 40% Allocation (2 Fragments)
• Enemy Debuff: 20% Allocation (1 Fragment)
• Increased Transcendence Regeneration: 0% or 40% Allocation
• Note: Sacrifice and Devotion were always selected as a pair, but only 35% of builds ran these fragments as the investment would require a 40% allocation.
• Note: If these fragments were selected, the other three were almost always the same. Giving us a consensus build if you are going to invest in increased transcendence regeneration.
• Increased Ability Regeneration: 0% or 20% Allocation
• Increased Weapon Damage: 0% or 20% Allocation

Now that we know the priority of the categories in these builds, we can select our fragments. As we can see from the enemy debuff & transcendence regeneration distributions there are really only two variations of the build:

1. Survival & Ability Spam
2. Increased Transcendence Regeneration

The most commonly used variant is the survival and ability spam shown and linked above.

The core fragments are:

• Protection
• Purpose
• Dawn
• Courage

The final fragment can be swapped out depending on the activity.

Notable options include:

• Ruin
• Solitude
• Dominance

• Balance

• Solitude and Dominance are interchangeable as far as Enemy Debuff Utility, so swap them out based on how much you are using abilities to weaken vs weapon damage.

For those who want to prioritize increased transcendence regeneration, here is the fragment selection results:

• Protection
• Courage
• Ruin
• Sacrifice
• Devotion

• Firepower does not create an orb of power when you consume your grenade and get kills from arc soul or stasis turret.
• Grenade Kickstart works when you consume your grenade.
• Bolstering Detonation works when you consume your grenade.
• Momentum Transfer works when you consume your grenade.
• Ashes to Assets does not work when you consume your grenade.