The core of this build is Threaded Specter, an Aspect that creates a Strand copy of your Hunter when you dodge. It has a similar silhouette to your character, displays a nameplate, pings enemy radar, draws controller reticle friction, and can be detonated to create two Threadlings. You can quickly blow them up with your Threaded Spike melee and a Wave-Frame Grenade Launcher.

But sometimes two Threadlings aren't enough. That's why we use The Sixth Coyote. This lets you dodge twice in a row. We then use Widow's Silk to give our Hunter a second grenade charge. Threadling Grenades are an ideal choice, spawning three Threadlings per grenade. If you use all of your abilities, you can create ten Threadlings in a couple of seconds.

You'll want to use your clones and Threadlings for area control. Dodge backward to use your clones as cover, and throw your Threadling Grenades just shy of a corner to flush targets out of cover. To ensure we can use these abilities frequently, we spec for 100 Mobility, Discipline, and use the Thread of Generation Fragment. We also highly recommend running Thread of Evolution since it buffs your Threadlings.

While this build doesn't get much stronger through this season's Artifact, there are a few perks you'll want to grab. Flame, Fiber, and Freeze is a perk that grants access to hybrid Siphon mods on your helmet, allowing you to run Strand and Solar Siphon mods in a single mod slot. Flint Striker is also an S-tier pick, allowing you to proc Radiant by landing rapid precision hits with Solar weapons. The Wave-Frame GL isn't a hard requirement, so feel free to swap to a Solar Primary if you want to proc this perk.

Unraveling Rounds is great if you use a Strand Primary, granting Unraveling Rounds for a few seconds after you pick up an Orb of Power. This pairs nicely with Horde Shuttle, allowing you to spawn Threadlings by damaging unraveled targets. This virtually never happens in PvP, but it is a fantastic perk for PvE play.

Arcstrider's neutral game comes from the Flow State Aspect, greatly buffing your reload speed and dodge cooldown while Amplified. There's no way to become Amplified without killing someone as an Arcstrider, so we'll need to kill a Jolted target. Thankfully, Lethal Current and Spark of Instinct make this quite easy. Lethal Current infuses your melee with Jolt after you dodge, while Instinct inflicts Jolt on nearby foes when your shields break.

Once you are Amplified, the build starts to shine. Spark of Beacons will make your Arc Special— preferably Matador 64 or a similar Arc Shotgun—release Blinding explosions with each kill, disorienting nearby targets. Spark of Feedback also pairs nicely with Combination Blow and Lethal Current, ensuring that you'll win most melee fights. Since the build doesn't lean into Ionic Traces, we opt to use Spark of Recharge and class item mods to reduce our ability cooldowns.

No Artifact perks directly affect this build, so feel free to spec your Artifact towards other builds you use. If you decide to use a Solar Primary weapon, equip the Flint Striker perk to gain Radiant for landing rapid precision hits.

This build uses the Mask of Bakris Exotic to turn your dodge ability into a short-range teleport, granting a 6% damage buff to your Arc and Stasis weapons for a short duration. We mostly care about the teleport itself. Rat King is an amazing weapon to pair with the helmet, as when you dodge with Marksman's Dodge equipped, you will automatically reload your weapon mid-teleport. If you kill an enemy before dodging, you will immediately heal yourself and turn invisible. This is absurdly strong for 6v6 and even 3v3 modes.

Getting into close range with a Sidearm can be tricky, so we use Duskfield Grenades and the Touch of Winter Aspect to slow targets when we need it. Touch of Winter will also inflict slow to nearby targets whenever you dodge, further disorienting your opponents. Throw on some healing mods like Recuperation and Better Already, and you can play quite aggressively.

If you don't like Rat King and want to take advantage of Mask of Bakris' x4 Surge bonus, use Trespasser instead. After using your dodge, Trespasser's can one-burst opponents if its Exotic perk is active. Get a kill, dodge to automatically reload, and enjoy one-bursting enemy Guardians for the next few seconds.

This season's Artifact has some powerful Stasis perks up for grabs, notably Hail the Storm. Shattering a Stasis crystal or a frozen target will spawn four shard projectiles that behave identically to Withering Blade, dealing 51 damage on hit. This technically means Shatterdive can kill Guardians again, but doing so is quite inconsistent. That's why this build focuses on inflicting slow instead.

Despite that, you'll still want to grab Hail the Storm since Duskfield Grenades do spawn a Stasis crystal that benefits from this perk. You'll also want to grab Pillar of Ice. Freezing an enemy will spawn some Stasis crystals near the target. Whisper of Rending allows you to quickly destroy them, giving you some free AoE damage.

Acrobat's Dodge is the core ability to this build. Whenever you dodge, you gain Radiant, x3 On Your Mark, and activate Reaper. Getting a kill with your weapon will then spawn an Orb of Power, buffing you with Font of Wisdom and Solar Weapon Surge for 15 seconds on pickup. If you have a damage perk on your weapon, you will pump out some serious damage.

To ensure that you constantly have Radiant, we use Ember of Solace and Ember of Empyrean to greatly extend the duration of Radiant and Restoration—a keyword we get from Healing Grenades. Keep killing enemies with your Solar weapons, and you can maintain Radiant and Restoration for far longer than usual.

But what makes this build truly shine is its short ability cooldowns. Fr0st-EE5 reduce your ability cooldowns while sprinting, something you'll be doing a lot. More importantly, Ember of Benevolence stacks with Fr0st-EE5, giving your abilities cooldowns reminiscent of most PvE builds. You can trigger Benevolence by buffing your team with Radiant through Acrobat's Dodge or a melee attack via Ember of Torches.

Alternatively, Heal Clip can proc Ember of Benevolence. Any weapon that can get Heal Clip—notably Abyss Defiant and Adhortative—can reliably activate Ember of Benevolence to skyrocket your recharge rate. Paired with Empyrean extending your Radiant and Restoration uptime, this build becomes absurdly powerful if you maintain your killing spree.

Solar is the poster child of this season's Artifact. Flint Striker gives you a third way to activate Radiant by landing rapid headshots. While Radiant, Kindling Trigger will inflict Scorch to targets that aren't already Scorched, preventing their HP from regenerating. You'll also want to grab Rays of Precision for free Ignitions on precision kills.

This build uses Gyrfalcon's Hauberk to gain Volatile Rounds upon breaking invisibility. Killing a Volatile target will trigger Stylish Executioner, an Aspect that makes us invisible. This will trigger Gyrfalcon's Hauberk again, although Stylish Executioner will enter a short cooldown period.

To take advantage of Volatile Rounds, use a Void weapon with the Repulsor Brace perk. Killing a Void-debuffed target (including Volatile) will grant a 45-point Void Overshield, the same as the Sentinel Titan's Bastion Aspect. For moments where Stylish Executioner is on cooldown, you can either dodge to trigger Vanishing Step or eliminate a target while at critical health to activate a Void Overshield via Echo of Vigilance.

Grabbing those Orbs will make this build even stronger, granting Devour, x2 Void Surge, and a flat chunk of health. Dodge, kill an enemy, grab the Orb of Power they drop, and repeat. Paired with a Repulsor Brace weapon, you become incredibly hard to kill.

This season's Artifact has no Void perks, so you can safely ignore most of the perk options for this build. Spec your Artifact for other builds you frequently play.

The centerpiece of this build is Renewal Grasps. These gloves buff your Duskfield Grenades to act like miniature Ward of Dawn bubbles, providing 25% DR to allies inside. Enemies caught in the Duskfield will deal 50% less damage, making your grenades a powerful survivability tool for Master and GM content. You can gain an additional 40% DR through Whisper of Chains since every Duskfield you create will spawn a Stasis crystal.

While this build has a copious amount of DR, it lacks a source of healing. That's why we suggest you use Buried Bloodline, the Exotic Sidearm from Warlord's Ruin. This gives you access to Devour as a Revenant, restoring roughly 50% of your HP with every kill. It also pairs nicely with Eyasluna with Headstone and Unrelenting. Land a precision kill, detonate the crystal, and every enemy slain by the explosion will proc Unrelenting's HP regeneration.

To gain Armor Charge, we opt to use Grim Harvest and the Elemental Shards mod. When you kill a slowed target, they will spawn a Stasis Shard for you and nearby allies, restoring 10% melee energy. Picking up multiple shards will grant Armor Charge. Stacks on Stacks will double the Armor Charge received. This makes Grenade Kickstart a reliable source of grenade energy for this build, significantly reducing the cooldown of your Duskfield.

In essence, spawn a Duskfield, break the crystal to activate Whisper of Shards, and kill the slowed targets. Grab the Stasis Shards to gain Armor Charge, then throw another grenade. If played correctly, you should be able to throw a grenade every 6-10 seconds.

This Artifact has given Stasis some powerful new tools. Pillar of Ice is a major standout here, creating medium-sized Stasis crystals when you freeze an enemy. This works with enemies frozen by your Duskfield Grenades or Headstone crystals, giving this build some amazing AoE damage. It also makes it much easier to proc Whisper of Shards and Chains.

Hail the Storm is an S-tier option for every Stasis build. Destroying a Stasis crystal or frozen target will spawn four ice shards that launch in a cross pattern. These ice shards deal moderate damage and inflict slow. They function identically to your Withering Blade melee attack, minus the chaining capabilities.

Beyond those two perks, Champion counters are always worth grabbing since they give your weapons Overcharge in endgame content, increasing their damage output by 25%. Unstoppable Hand Cannon and Overload Rocket Launchers are great perks for this particular build.

Lucky Pants is perfect for giving your Hand Cannons some much-needed damage in endgame content. Equipping a fully loaded Kinetic or Solar Hand Cannon will grant an escalating damage buff with each shot, up to 600% bonus damage. This makes your Hand Cannons have a DPS value that's comparable to most Rocket Launchers for a short time. Once this buff wears off, you must wait ten seconds to trigger it again.

This timing perfectly matches a Heavy weapon with Bait and Switch. Dump your Hand Cannon ammo into an enemy, quickly fire your Special, then swap to your Heavy to proc Bait and Switch. By the time Bait and Switch ends, Lucky Pants can be used again. Play the build properly, and your sustained DPS will exceed virtually every other build in the game.

As for fodder units, you have access to Gunpowder Gamble. Killing six enemies with Solar weapons will give you a stick of dynamite as your grenade. Shoot the dynamite midair to create a massive explosion, eliminating red bars in an instant. You can throw one every six seconds, provided you can keep killing enemies. Throw a Healing Grenade beforehand to proc Restoration; kills will extend its duration via Ember of Empyrean.

Solar has some powerful perks in the Artifact this season, most of which greatly benefit this build. Flint Striker allows you to proc Radiant by landing rapid precision hits with Solar weapons, something you'll be doing quite often. Kindling Trigger will then inflict Scorch when your Solar weapons damage an unscorched target while you're Radiant. This procs Ember of Singeing, effectively removing your dodge cooldown.

Heart of the Flame and From Whence You Came help scale your ability damage in difficult endgame content. Since add clear is one of this build's weak points, you can use Rays of Precision to trigger an Ignition on precision kills. Throw on Argent Ordnance for free Rocket Launcher damage, and you will easily top the DPS charts in your fireteam.

Gyrfalcon's Hauberk is the core of this build. It grants Volatile Rounds to all Void weapons for 10 seconds upon breaking invisibility. This buffs all Void weapons you own, even Exotics. Volatile Rounds pair exceptionally well with Graviton Lance, as this weapon creates enemy-seeking bomblets with each kill.

To constantly activate Gyrfalcon's Hauberk, we use Stylish Executioner and Vanishing Step. Dodging will make you invisible, and firing your weapon will then break invisibility to grant Volatile Rounds. Killing a Void-debuffed target will then proc Stylish Executioner, turning you invisible. This creates a feedback loop where you have constant Volatile Rounds and invisibility.

Since this is a weapon-focused build, our mods focus on restoring ammo and generating Orbs of Power on weapon kills. Void Weapon Surges are used to buff your weapon damage, and Font of Focus will grant +30 Discipline while you have Armor Charge—a buff you gain from collecting Orbs of Power. Dodging will vacuum all nearby Orbs of Power via Powerful Attraction.

This season's Artifact has no useful perks for this build. Build your Artifact around other builds instead.

Combination Blow is your main source of damage for this build. Killing an enemy with this melee will grant a stack of Combination Blow for 20 seconds, increasing your melee damage. We can scale this further with Lethal Current, an Aspect that infuses your punches with Jolt lightning after you dodge. Gambler's Dodge will refresh your melee ability whenever you dodge, creating the build's core gameplay loop: punch, dodge, repeat.

While this build focuses solely on your melee, you can use your weapons to drastically increase your Combination Blow damage. One-Two Punch Shotguns increase your melee damage. Shoot your Shotgun, then punch the target to deal some jaw-dropping damage. And if you're fighting a Champion or boss, use Tractor Cannon to apply a 30% Weaken to the target. This should be more than enough damage to one-shot Champions in all but GM-level content.

To ensure that you stay alive, this build uses Assassin's Cowl to gain HP and invisibility from melee kills. The invisibility gives you enough time to reposition, dodge, and reload before punching your next target. Recuperation, Spark of Resistance, and 100 Resilience should help keep you alive. With three Heavy Handed mods, every melee kill will spawn an Orb of Power. Add on Hands-On and Dynamo for even more Super energy, and you can charge your Super in as little as 60 seconds.

This season's Artifact has no useful perks for this build. Build your Artifact around other builds instead.

Cyrtarachne's Facade is an Exotic helmet that grants you Woven Mail whenever you cast the Grapple Grenade. Woven Mail provides a 45% DR buff and activates Thread of Transmutation, allowing any weapon to spawn Tangles. You can then detonate them to activate Whirling Maelstrom, turning the Tangle into a cyclone of Unraveling projectiles. This deals great damage and can clear dozens of enemies by itself.

Your Tangles will also be regenerating your abilities as they deal damage. Thread of Generation will restore Grapple energy whenever you deal damage, and Thread of Fury will provide melee energy as your Whirling Maelstroms damage targets. Throw in Widow's Silk and 100 Discipline for good measure, and you effectively remove your Grapple Grenade's cooldown.

If you want to take this build into endgame content, you'll need some form of healing. Recuperation offers solid health sustain in Master Lost Sectors and raids, but you'll need to play cautiously if you take this build into a GM Nightfall. Alternatively, you can use Buried Bloodline to gain access to Devour, restoring your HP and grenade energy with every kill.

This season has some powerful Artifact perks for Strand Hunters. Flint Striker allows you to gain Radiant by landing precision hits with a Solar weapon. Since this build doesn't need any specific Exotic weapons, you can run Sunshot or Polaris Lance to activate Radiant with ease.

Torch will then increase your weapon damage against Strand-debuffed targets while Radiant. If you don't have an ability charged, you can rely on Unraveling Orbs and a Strand weapon to inflict Unravel. Wished Into Being will give you more Super uptime, and Horde Shuttle will spawn Threadlings while you damage Unraveled targets.

If you play content solo, we highly recommend Solo Operative for all PvE builds. It buffs all damage you deal while playing content solo, including solo dungeons and Lost Sectors. It pairs exceptionally well with this build, scaling the damage of your weapons and Grapple melee attack.