Destiny 2 Titan BuildHrímþurs [Frost Giant] (Wormgod / Cold Consecration)

Single option or preference except:

• Glacier Grenade - Ultimately preference but I like this one for even more crystals.

• Howl of the Storm - Gives 2 melee charges and makes crystals.

• Tectonic Harvest - shattering crystals or frozen foes makes shards. Shards heal and give frost armor.

• Conduction - shards track to you

• Rime - more armor stacks

• Rending - primary ammo shots do 100% dmg v crystals and 50% v frozen enemies. This lets you one shot them. This may seem a less obvious choice and it was not in my first version. The issue in harder content was that sometimes I would die before I'd get shots off for rimestealer and shards to track to me. Rending lets you shoot crystals faster with your primary, which gives you that double dip into frost armor (initial rimestealer pop and the shard).

I consider those three key fragments.

Then you should choose between these:

Fissures - for more damage and radius. My top choice for fragment four.

• Hunger - but there is something to be said for hunger. This gives more melee energy from shards. If you want the maximum melee spam, this is the one to take. However, you get about 75% of your melee back by destroying all the crystals your melee makes without it. You mix in getting a couple shots of Ex Diris off, and your melee is almost recharged.

A Primary with Rimestealer - While this might seem redundant with us being able to get frost armor from stasis shards, for high level content, getting damage resistance immediately while you wait those few seconds it can take for the crystals to track to you can be a game changer. This also lets you do things in challenging situations like toss your grenade and peak from cover to get damage resistance.

We need a weapon option for Barrier Champions so take a hand cannon for your primary if facing them.

Ex Diris - May seem like an odd choice at first glance. However, I like it for multiple reasons:

• It gives Amplified which helps with speed boost to rapidly get into melee range

• Another two survivability layers with the damage reduction from amplified and Stormtrooperitis debuff to enemies

• It is a relatively ammo efficient AoE option to burst crystals

• While it isn’t in the top of the DPS for specials, it is well above average per the Quantum Damage listing

• It takes care of a champion type

• Blind

*Now you might also say, but I can also get amplified with the also ammo efficient Praxic Blade. I tried it. I think it works on paper, but I just don't like the flow of using it to bust crystals, which this build really needs.

An Arc Heavy - Situational and preference.

Armor Archetypes

• 2x Smoke Jumper - piling on the damage resist. While Aion Adapter might seem useful since we’re using a grenade launcher, we are too often getting kills with crystal explosions, not Ex Diris itself for that to work.

And

• 2x Bushido - we switch weapons a lot anyway for ammo economy and to use rimestealer, so this basically provides free heals.

OR

• 2x Ferropotent- Will be up all the time.

Stats As much melee as you can.

Decent weapon since we are stacking weapon damage buffs multiplicatively (35% from Wormgod x 17% from surges x 15% from weapon stat is a potent 82% weapon damage buff)

Alternatively, if you want high super up time, you can go with super over weapons.

You don’t need much of any of the other stats. Evenish spread is fine.

I would also note that the health stat does NOT affect the heals from stasis shards.

Mods

Mostly self-explanatory but..

If you have some choice tier 5 armor, you can skip the melee font. Also note that the crystal kills from your melee count as melee damage, so if you were to equip triple heavy handed, you can make a ton of orbs. Also on that note, the melee crystals also work with hands-on if you want to lean into super more.

The combination of elemental charge, charged up, and the fact that you’re making so many shards, lets us abuse a mix of blue mods with special ammo finisher.

3x Damage Resist

• Easy access to constant frost armor

• Amplified for damage resist and stormtrooperitis debuff

• More damage resist on orbs from Smoke Jumper

3x healing - small but they add up

• Healing after switching weapons from Bushido

• Small heals on stasis shards, but we make a ton of them

• a little extra healing from any points you have in Health

Blind

Champions

• Barrier - use a hand cannon.

• Overload - your melee or grenade freeze/slow

• Unstoppables - Blind from Ex Diris

Artifact Mods Damn we didn't get much for this build. Though, with the artifact this season, you might well want to take a sword for your heavy. Something oriented to dps.

We get substantial benefits without a sword from:

• Dielectric - adds in bolt charge, not a ton, but free damage

• Elemental Orbs

I wanted to evoke the theme of a frost giant, but not too on-the-nose with ice themed or old medieval armor.

While hrímþursar are not described visually in the Norse sagas, more just by their size and magical powers, a lot of modern depictions lean into the horned helmet Viking trope with blue skin.

Starting with that idea, but wanting it to seem like a Destiny 2 era tech homage to the old lore, I came up with:

• Tangled Web Helm

• Wormgod prophet

• Tangled Web Plate

• Parade Greaves

• Apostate’s Blade Mark

I also grabbed the Fatebinder ornament from the Seasonal Archive for Ex Diris as it is more cold color themed.

And then, to match that, all the armor was shadered in Welded Brass. The mark in Ultra Plasmic, which just provided some extra color variation and consistency across the fit.