Destiny 2 Titan BuildEternally Punching Faces

Fists of Havoc - is the super that works with Eternal Warrior. It is...okay...but there are ulterior uses of it. For one, after it ends, you get 30 seconds of 4x arc surge, which can easily be refreshed. So we use it basically off cooldown for that. It is also a great defensive tool, in the arc kit that doesn't have the most of those: 90% damage resist and it can last a long time with this exotic armor. Note also that Ballistic Slam seems to give a huge amount of super if you hit a packed group.

Rally Barricade is the obvious choice for shooting bolt charged shots from behind.

Melee First, you should get used to using the unpowered Knockout melee for heals as needed. Even in harder content, with the damage bonus you still one shot all redbars.

For powered melee, there are pros and cons to either Thunderclap or Ballistic Slam.

• Thunderclap is the sensible choice in many respects, but not the one I use. If you go with Bastion for your exotic, it has similar range, so you can take the simple approach of parking your barricade near a tough target, Thunderclapping them for the Bastion damage bonus, and Bastioning them down. A con is that Thunderclap does not benefit from Bastion's One-Two punch-like perk.

• Ballistic Slam is the yeehaww option. With this, we are running in with a Ballistic Slam to get in position/hitting some adds, then throwing up the barricade and taking out the tough targets. Another two pros, a) Ballistic Slam gives even more bolt charge. b) if going with Bastion, it benefits from Bastion's One-Two punch.

Flashbang is nice for the defensive blind, and has some artifact interactions, but isn't mandatory. (But see champions)

Knockout gives us easy amplified, much needed heals on melee kills, works with recuperation on our boots for extra heals, and buffs melee damage.

Note that bolt charge and Bastion's trench barrel-like perk will work on the knockout melees so you do want to have powered and unpowered melees on separate keys (actually a very good habit for many Titan builds).

Storm's Keep This, in context, does a lot. With weapon(s) having Rolling Storm perks, we rapidly get Bolt Charge stacks when behind the barricade this also rapidly recharges our powered melee for big add clear which then sets us up for focusing on tough targets. Though each bolt charge stack doesn’t give a huge chunk of melee energy, we get it so fast when clearing adds from behind the barricade with Rolling Storm weapons, you’ll often see half your melee come back in seconds.

Frequency The weapon reload etc. perks on melee are nice, but we mainly want this for extra Bolt Charge stacks when amplified. Again, we are getting melee energy from Bolt Charge, so this feeds into our grand loop.

Discharge this isn't actually an rng chance like the in game text implies, it is a counter. Three red bars gets you an ionic trace. I find this has much better uptime than Ions because that has a 10 second cooldown.

Focus gives 150% class ability recharge on sprint.

Resistance for resistance, but is really the least essential. We are usually punching for heals or behind our barricade.

Palindrone Rolling Storm is the key synergy for this build and either explosive payload or recycled energy are good secondary perks.

Unworthy is also nice with firefly, rolling storm…double AoE with the origin trait.

Your other weapons have some options depending on content and preferences. If you are looking for options for content with champions, see Artifact and Champions below.

Notable options for exotic pairings: Bastion is my favorite for this build. It does massive damage for a special provided you prime it with a punch. Note it is any punch, unpowered Knockout charged or even basic unpowered.

Queen Breaker is a monster with 4x surges.

Thunderlord was updated to give extra bolt charges on the lightning.

Notable legendary options:

Watchful Eye is another option for more Bolt Charge, but you get plenty with your primary, so a more burst arc option is good too.

If going with an exotic heavy, Perfect Paradox can roll with trench barrel and pugilist. Pugilist give 20% melee energy on kills on shotguns rather than the normal 10%.

Try for 100 in Resilience and Strength.

Eternal Warrior Does buff your, granted not best damage, super. But it is thus a longer lasting 90% damage resist and benefitted from the roaming super buffs. And it sets up regular stacking arc surge on arc kills and a 30 second 4x arc surge which is easy to refresh. So I use it liberally when it trouble or there are just a bunch if faces to punch.

Most of the mods are self-explanatory but:

Head If going with Bastion, we are not worried about a kinetic surge because Bastion is usually saved for one off targets.

Legs adjust surges for your first slot weapon as applicable. We get arc surges just from using arc weapons and our super. OR if using an arc heavy, you might want to ignore surges and go for a melee kick start or finisher.

Chest v Towel Charged up for a buffer to sometimes use a finisher for an overshield.

Mostly already covered but to connect the dots...

The main reason this build is survivable is that we are generally just alternative between punching stuff that heals us and peaking over our barricade. For any really dangerous targets, we can stay next to cover and at enough range.

Palindrome's origin perk option Vanguard's Vindication, which provides a small heal on kills, I would generally say it isn't that useful. However, with this build using it with some much regular arc surge, it does add up with how fast you can one shot adds.

Orbs heal.

You can take Flashbang grenade for a strong debuff.

Champions

Regardless of weapon and artifact choices, if you are facing unstoppable champs, you can take Flashbang grenade.

For overload champs, you can swap Spark of Resistance for Spark of Shock. OR use a machine gun with the artifact perk. We are often not surrounded anyway.

So barriers are the only one not easily covered.

• Arbalest is any easy swap in here with inherent anti-barrier. Not quite as good a flow as Bastion but it still works well.

• If you opt for Queen Breaker, you can also take The Call and the artifact anti-barrier sidearm. Queen Breaker of course is another way to get anti-unstoppable from the artifact, freeing up grenade choice. Because we are using our class ability so much here, slice is a great perk for The Call. Alternatively, if you happen to have Until Its Return crafted, you can use it and unraveling orbs for anti-barrier. It is one of not many strand shottys with trench barrel. Alt-alternatively, you could take a chill clip Tinasha's Mastery for a 3 types, but I don't see it has a particular synergy.

I think the Artifact Perks are rather self-explanatory, but of course depend on weapon choices.

For this episode, I am serving you a harnessed Taken energy ensemb..

• Helmet default ornament
• Arms Interlaced Gauntlets - have a nice look like extra power for big punches
• Chest NPA Weir-Walker Plate - with the right shader, look like you have a tank of Taken energy on your back.
• Legs Shadestalker Greaves, gives a nice glow
• Towel This one matters less, but I used Wolf-Kissed Mark because it just seems to fit nice.

All with Blueshift Dreams shader except the towel. I used Gamekeeper there because I like the subtle harnessed Taken vibe of Blueshift on the metal parts, but looked off on cloth to me.

Palindrome looks great with Vitrified Chronology. __

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Carson Kressley "Oh wearer mine, my Taken King. Can I be your Taken Queen?"