Getaway Artist allows you to consume your grenade to create an Arc Soul and immediately become Amplified, increasing your Arc Soul's fire rate. The Arc Soul will hover next to your character and fire at anyone in your field of view. You won't get your grenade back in time to refresh your Arc Soul, so we use the Arc Soul Aspect to refresh its duration upon casting a Rift.

The general game flow of this build is:

Consume Grenade -> Get Kills -> Spawn Rift (when your current Arc Soul expires) -> Repeat

To make combat even easier, we pair this build with No Time to Explain, an Exotic Pulse Rifle that creates a Time Portal after you land ten precision hits. This behaves identically to Arc Soul, firing at targets in your field of view. You can have an Arc Soul and Time Portal active simultaneously, drastically lowering your TTK with no input required from you.

The mods and Fragments for this build are mostly down to preference. We use Fragments that boost stats and mods that improve weapon performance. None of these mods or Fragments are hard requirements, so feel free to experiment.

Arc doesn't have any Artifact perks this season, so spec your Artifact for different PvP builds instead. The above configuration is a generic Artifact that benefits Stasis and Strand builds.

This build is focused on freezing enemies as often as possible to land some easy multikills. Osmiomancy Gloves buff your Coldsnap Grenade tracking and give you a second grenade charge. When your grenade is on cooldown, Whisper of Torment and 100 Discipline will ensure that it comes back as quickly as possible.

Grenades aren't your only source of freeze on this build. Frostpulse will release a freezing wave of energy when you cast your Rift. Follow up with a melee attack to instantly kill the frozen enemy. This will create even more freezing projectiles through Iceflare Bolts, allowing you to land easy multikills if you can freeze a single target. This even works on Conditional Finality's Stasis shot.

Once you kill a frozen combatant, Whisper of Bonds will spawn an Orb of Power at the target's location. Picking it up will proc Font of Vigor and Endurance, granting +30 Strength and Resilience for a whopping 30 seconds thanks to our mod configuration. The rest of the build focuses on improving your weapon performance and general ability cooldowns.

This season's Artifact has a few Stasis perks that greatly benefit this build. Pillar of Ice doesn't work in PvP, but it is still worth grabbing if you play Shadebinder in PvE content. Hail the Storm is a great perk for this build, increasing your shatter damage against frozen targets. This stacks with Whisper of Fissures. Spec the rest of your Artifact for weapon and origin trait bonuses.

Threadlings are the centerpiece of this build. Mindspun Invocation allows you to consume your Threadling Grenade to generate five perched Threadlings. Weaver's Call will then create three Threadlings whenever you cast your Rift, releasing all perched Threadlings in the process. The sheer number of Threadlings this creates will usually overwhelm the enemy team.

You can take this further with Swarmers, an Exotic that makes your Threadlings inflict Unravel. Any damage they receive will release Strand projectiles that deal minor damage, delaying HP regeneration. Thread of Generation will trigger from all damage dealt and greatly reduce your grenade cooldown, allowing you to cast more Threadlings. Be sure to spec for 100 Discipline.

If you need even more Threadlings, you can use any Strand weapon with Thread of Rebirth. This will spawn a Threadling every two kills. Rebirth also stacks with Hatchling on Strand weapons to generate even more Threadlings. Play the build correctly, and you'll dominate the match with an army of Strand minions.

This season's Artifact has a few Strand perks you can grab. Unraveling Orbs is the most useful one, granting Unraveling Rounds to your Strand weapons upon grabbing an Orb of Power. This gives you a second source of Unravel for this build. Horde Shuttle doesn't seem to work in PvP, but it allows Unraveled targets to spawn Threadlings as you damage them.

The gameplay loop of this build is straightforward. Eliminating an enemy with a Void weapon will trigger Verity's Brow, increasing your grenade damage by 20% for the next ten seconds. Paired with Echo of Undermining, this is enough damage to one-tap a Guardian at any Resilience level. Get a kill, throw a grenade, and repeat.

You'll need a Void weapon for this build to work, preferably one with Repulsor Brace and some sort of damage perk. We can gain Volatile Rounds through Echo of Instability from Magnetic Grenade kills, allowing your Void weapon to proc Repulsor Brace with every kill. If you pair this with Adrenaline Junkie or Golden Tricorn, you can drastically lower the TTK on your weapon.

Getting your grenade back is crucial for this build, so we focus on using as many sources of ability regeneration as possible. Feed the Void grants access to Devour, restoring HP and some grenade energy with every kill. Echo of Harvest and Firepower will spawn two Orbs of Power when your grenade gets a kill, proccing Innervation and Absolution to greatly restore your grenade energy.

Through Stacks on Stacks and Charged Up, this will give you x4 Armor Charge. Throwing a grenade will then proc Grenade Kickstart, consuming all four Armor Charge stacks to refund roughly 20% of your grenade energy. All of these effects drastically cut down on your grenade cooldown.

No Artifact perks benefit Void builds this season. Focus on using your Artifact for other builds instead.

This is a build template that can be adapted to suit your playstyle. Arguably the most versatile subclass for Warlocks is Dawnblade, at least for PvP. This subclass has access to the Heat Rises Aspect, which allows you to shoot and use abilities while gliding. It also allows you to consume your grenade to gain a burst of healing and the Heat Rises buff, greatly increasing your airborne time with glides.

You can pair this with Icarus Dash to fling your character forward with a short dash animation. It has a short cooldown, doesn't consume any ability energy, and gains a second charge if Heat Rises is active. Equip Healing Grenades and Phoenix Dive to heal yourself in a pinch, and you can adopt a fairly aggressive playstyle with this subclass.

For the build itself, we recommend a movement Exotic and your favorite weapons. Most players gravitate towards Transversive Steps or Ophidian Aspects for their neutral game, but we're going to recommend Rain of Fire if you own it. This Exotic automatically reloads all of your weapons when you Icarus Dash, allowing you to more or less forgo reloading entirely.

Mods are also down to preference, but we can give some general recommendations. Targeting and Siphon mods are ideal on your helmet, as they give you improved ADS speed, aim assist, and the ability to generate Orbs of Power. These orbs can then proc mods like Recuperation and Better Already to heal you. Throw on Reaper to give yourself another source of orbs, and consider using two Powerful Attraction mods to grab all nearby Orbs of Power when you Phoenix Dive.

This season's Artifact has some great Solar perks you can use. Flint Striker is arguably the most important, granting you Radiant upon landing rapid precision hits with a Solar weapon. This can then proc Kindling Trigger to inflict Scorch, delaying your opponent's HP regeneration. You can also trigger Rays of Precision while Radiant, causing precision kills to trigger an Ignition (a massive explosion).

The central focus of this build is Sunbracers, a pair of Exotic gauntlets that grant six seconds of infinite Solar Grenade energy whenever you land a powered melee kill. This means you can throw about five grenades every time you kill someone with your melee. That creates the core gameplay loop: melee -> throw five grenades -> repeat.

To achieve this, we use Incinerator Snap to force an Ignition on a target, counting as a melee kill when the explosion goes off. This will proc Sunbracers and let you spam grenades until the buff expires, at which point you'll have your melee back and can loop the process. The build itself focuses on giving you as much melee energy as possible to minimize any bottlenecks.

Fortunately, you can use Heat Rises to recover 20% of your melee energy whenever you kill a target while airborne. This works with both weapons and abilities, including kills from Incinerator Snap while you're floating. We throw on Ember of Searing to gain an additional 10% melee energy from slain Scorched targets. Since all of your abilities Scorch, this procs all the time. Spec for 100 Strength—Discipline isn't needed since Sunbracers floors your cooldown to one second.

Now that you can throw infinite grenades, you'll want to equip Touch of Flame to make your Solar Grenades emit lava blobs. These lava blobs make your Solar Grenades deal far more single-target DPS, melting Champions with ease. Ember of Torches will also give you and nearby allies access to Radiant whenever you snap your fingers, improving your DPS with all weapons.

Finally, we round off the build with Phoenix Dive. This grants x2 Restoration on use while Heat Rises is active. You can extend the duration of this buff with Ember of Empyrean. So long as you keep killing enemies with Solar damage, you are effectively unkillable. Spec for 100 Resilience and use chest DR mods to further improve your survivability.

Season 23's Artifact pushes this build into overpowered territory. Revitalizing Blast gives this build access to Weaken, a debuff that increases your damage by 15%. Since Weaken is a debuff, your allies benefit from it as well. From Whence You Came also increases your ability damage by 5% if the target is Taken or Scorn, the two main factions you'll find in Season 23 content.

The damage buffs don't stop there. Unraveling Rounds gives your Strand weapons the Unraveling Rounds debuff after you pick up an Orb of Power—a resource you generate through grenade kills and the Wished Into Being perk. This allows you to proc Torch, increasing your weapon damage by 5% against targets debuffed by Strand.

To finish the Artifact, we take Solo Operative for a 15% damage bonus while playing alone. Your last perk is down to preference. Rays of Precision effectively gives all your Solar weapons Dragonfly, creating an Ignition on precision kills while Radiant. Alternatively, Argent Ordnance grants a 15% damage buff to Rocket Launchers. This stacks with all buffs and debuffs, including every other Artifact perk this build uses.

Fallen Sunstar is the bread and butter of this build, causing your Ionic Traces to grant 25% ability energy and 12.5% to all allies near you. This doesn't have a cooldown, so you can easily recharge your abilities from empty with a single grenade or well-placed melee ability. We can easily spawn Ionic Traces with Electrostatic Mind and Arc Soul.

Electrostatic Mind creates an Ionic Trace when you defeat an Arc-debuffed enemy or land an ability kill. Arc Soul counts as an ability, so any kills it lands will spawn an Ionic Trace. We also use Coldheart to spawn Ionic Traces as we damage enemies. Since Coldheart is a Special weapon, you can run Spark of Beacons to create blinding explosions with every kill. And since Blind is an Arc debuff, it procs Electrostatic Mind, creating even more Ionic Traces.

The only bottleneck to this build is your ammo, but you can easily solve this with armor mods. Special Finisher allows you to spawn a Special ammo brick by performing a finisher with x3 Armor Charge. You can get Armor Charge through, you guessed it, Ionic Traces. We use Elemental Charge to gain x1 Armor Charge for every three traces we grab. Throw on Harominc Scavenger to increase the ammo you receive, and you should have virtually infinite Coldheart ammo.

There are no Arc perks in this season's Artifact. Select Anti-Champion perks or spec your Artifact for a different build.

Chaos Accelerant allows you to overcharge your Void grenades. In Vortex Grenade's case, it makes the ability last longer and deal increased damage. You can pair this with Contraverse Hold to gain grenade energy each time Vortex Grenade deals damage. Thanks to Echo of Remnants extending its duration, your Vortex Grenades will last long enough to fully refund your grenade energy.

You can make your grenades even stronger by using Echo of Undermining, a Fragment that causes your grenades to inflict Weaken. This makes the target take 15% more damage from all sources, including your Vortex Grenade. We also run Echo of Instability to gain Volatile Rounds from grenade kills. This pairs nicely with Le Monarque's poison clouds. Get a grenade kill, fire some explosive arrows, and repeat until the threat is dealt with.

There are no Void perks in this season's Artifact. Use your Artifact to improve a different build, or focus on grabbing Anti-Champion perks instead.

Consuming your Shackle Grenade through Mindspun Invocation will grant the Weaver's Trance buff, causing all weapon final blows to create suspending explosions. You can use Osteo Striga with the Necrotic Grip Exotic gloves to easily trigger this effect. Osteo Striga will eliminate the enemy and spread both its own poison effect and Necrotic Grip's poison.

The end result is a proliferating series of explosions that stun targets and deal solid damage in seasonal content. Thread of Generation will quickly restore your grenade during this process, and Thread of Continuity will keep targets Suspended in the air for a few more seconds. You'll also generate Orbs of Power through Thread of Wisdom, healing you and proccing Thread of Warding's Woven Mail buff for a free 45% damage reduction.

Strand has a few perk options in Season 23's Artifact. Unraveling Orbs gives your Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds after you grab an Orb of Power. This is useful if you're using a Strand Heavy like Cataphract or Semiotician. You can then use Horde Shuttle to spawn Threadlings when you damage Unraveled targets. Solo Operative will also buff your damage by 15% while playing solo.

Osmiomancy Gloves grants a second Coldsnap Grenade charge and restores grenade energy when you freeze targets with your Coldsnaps. You can turn this surplus of grenade energy into Bleak Watcher turrets by holding the grenade input, creating an ice turret that lasts for a few seconds. Create a Bleak Watcher, throw a Coldsnap Grenade, and repeat.

To ensure that you can always throw a grenade, this build uses two Grenade Kickstart mods to convert Armor Charge into grenade energy. Armor Charge is gained through Orbs of Power, which we create through Whisper of Bonds, Siphons, and Reaper. You can grab nearby Orbs of Power by casting your Rift. Frozen targets you kill will also refund Rift energy through Whisper of Refraction, so you always have a source of healing

This build can take advantage of Pillar of Ice, creating Stasis crystals whenever you defeat a frozen combatant. Shattering these crystals will then activate Hail the Storm, another Artifact perk that creates Stasis projectiles whenever you shatter a crystal. Use the crystals to proc Whisper of Chains or as an added source of damage.