Destiny 2 Hunter BuildWhen Hell Freezes Over

First, we have three Pale Heart weapons with Dealer's Choice origin trait. This perk is magnified the more weapons from the set you have. With three, kills with your primary or heavy give 3% super energy on their own at default level. Of course that is enhanced by a high super stat.^

Precision kills, via Celestial Nighthawk, give 1.5 to 4.5% super energy. And that all adds up with regular super regen to 8 ish super per crit on your primary....again, at base level.

If you get a bunch of adds on top of you, the insane combo of incandescent and chain reaction on the sword rapidly builds super because just a few strategic hits can take out a room.

If you are doing content where a sword just won’t work, you can also run the legendary Khvostov, Still Hunt, and Pro Memoria. Switch up siphons of course and consider swapping Courage for Grace for more Transcendence.

^Still Hunt contributes to the multiplier, but kills with it don't proc it.

We have a very rapid loop of our melee and dodge. Winter's Shroud provides 300% class ability recharge on slow for a few seconds and our dodge refunds melee. We can chain that so much we also have decent grenade recharge from impact induction.

Of course, you can also get weaken after being invisible with your melee, but I just don't feel like it flows well generally to be your only weaken source.

So we have our 15% weaken and 20% radiant damage when we need them.

All your abilities debuff. So any ability plus a kill makes you invisible. Your primary and heavy can debuff foes next to the target.

We are able to get restoration and healing on orbs. And of course we can freeze things left and right.

But as a heavy sniper-oriented build, we are obviously using cover a lot. I even use the stasis crystals as cover sometimes.

We have three easy ways to clear adds.

1. longer range - Bold Endings: Again, for Celestial Nighthawk you must hit crits for max super.

My preference is headstone and desperate measures because it can potentially allow you to one shot crystals, and is easy to maintain without doing anything out of the regular loop. Crucially, it stays through weapon stow, unlike golden tricorn, so you can pop a yellow bar real quick and still have it up.

But there are a few ways you can go for AoE.

Your maximum AoE chaos is both dragonfly and headstone. But it is clunky. Dragonfly doesn’t pop the crystal from the initial target. If you headstone a target and another next to that crystal, it can chain though. So it can get some nice chain explosions going if they are packed up. But, dragonfly explodes before headstone’s freeze applies, so you lose out on being able to go invisible just from your primary add clear and extra dodge recharge. However, that isn’t a big deal since the radius on the freeze is pretty small anyway, so we have more reliable routes for invisibility.

You can also go with headstone and demolitionist. I had this at first, but I found, with the purpose of the grenades in this build being yellow bars and debuffs rather than AoE, it is up enough anyway.

2. closer range - Dodge melee loop: With Winter's Shroud, dodging near enemies and hitting with one melee will freeze and get most of your dodge back.

This is also one of your tougher yellow bar approaches, freeze, and either grenade or take advantage of the frozen sniping.

3. close range - Your sword. Incandescent & chain reaction is just silly.

We get a lot of benefits from the solar and stasis perks in the artifact. They don’t, however, require you to do anything differently. Hit crits as you would normally want to with Celestial Nighthawk and you’ve got added benefit of frost armor, more radiant uptime, extra AoE damage, and extra melee and grenade damage.

You might want to take the stat hit on your helmet and run both a heavy and special ammo finder plus the solar/stasis combo siphon. However, this build gets a lot of benefit from having the 3 Pale Heart Weapons in super energy, we aren’t actually trying to use the sword too often.

Champs

• Barrier - radiant

• Overload - slow/freeze

• Unstoppable - We need the artifact but in Edge of Fate both our sniper and hand cannon get artifact options.