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Destiny 2’s Season of the Haunted brought the second of the updates to the Light subclasses. Solar saw an absoluteoverhaulto the hierarchy of subclass power in classes, and Warlock is no exception. Dawnblade is arguably thestrongestsubclass in the game in PvE andone of the top picks in PvP. This article will provide two top-tier builds for Warlock that can beat every piece of content in the game.
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All Solar Aspects, Fragments, and Abilities can be bought atIkora Rey in the Tower. They are rather pricey, so make sure you are stocked up on Glimmer before you visit, as these unlocks arecrucialfor our builds here.
Crafting Your Dawnblade Build
Every build in Destiny 2 has a number of core elements that make them function. Ensuring that your Aspects, Fragments, and Mods are all up to scratch isessentialfor a working build.Certain weapons will also be better than others, as well as specific Exotic Armor being necessary for your builds.
Dawnblade Aspects
These Aspects are remarkable and arekeyto the success of our builds. They provide a myriad of powerful effects that shouldn’t be ignored. You canonly use two at a time, so you’ll want to customize your choice based on the build you’re crafting.
Icarus Dash
Dodge quickly while airborne. While Heat Rises is active, you have an additional dodge. While airborne, rapidly defeating targets with your Super or weapon grants Cure to you.
Heat Rises
you’re able to fire your weapons, melee, and throw grenades while gliding. Hold your grenade button to consume your grenade to activate Heat Rises. Final blows while airborne increase the duration of Heat Rises and grant melee energy.
Touch of Flame
Your Healing, Solar, Firebolt, and Fusion Grenades have enhanced functionality. Healing Grenade: Improves the strength of Cure and Restoration effects applied. Solar Grenade: Increases linger duration and periodically emits blobs of lava around its perimeter. Firebolt Grenade: Increases target search radius and maximum target count. Fusion Grenade: Explodes twice.
Solar Fragments
Fragments are the real driving force behind our two builds here and arevitalto the build’s functionality.
These are some of the best picks:
Ember of Ashes
You apply morescorchstacks to targets.
Ember of Searing
Defeatingscorchedtargets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite. +10 Recovery
Ember of Torches
Poweredmelee attacks against combatants make you and nearby allies Radiant. - 10 Discipline
Ember of Mercy
When you revive an ally, you and other nearby allies gainrestoration. Picking up a Firesprite grants restoration. +10 Resilience
Ember of Empyrean
Solar weapon or ability final blowsextendthe duration of Restoration and Radiant effects applied to you. -10 Resilience
Ember of Resolve
Solar grenade final blowscureyou.
These Fragments play into the buildsperfectlyand can be experimented with as only a couple are necessary for the builds.
Exotic Armor
Dawnblade has twometa-definingexotics that are some of thebest Exotics for Warlockright now. Starfire Protocol and Sunbracers both utilize the potency of theTouch of FlameAspect and its grenade-enhancing abilities. With these exotics, the builds become incredible for clearing out enemies and dealing insane boss damage.
Armor Mods
With the overhaul of how the Mod system works inLightfall, a number of builds got changed, but these builds stayed relatively unchanged.
Here are some of the best mods for these builds:
These mods are very important to these builds, so include them when recommended.
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Dawnblade Build: Starfire Fusion Grenades
This first build uses Starfire Protocol’sincredible damage potentialto deal as much damage to bosses as possible.Witherhoardhas excellent synergy, as the damage over time refunds your Fusion Grenade, andDemolitionist Rocket Launchersallow for even higher DPS combos, as firing a rocket and then a Fusion Grenade will allow you to fire another rocket shot.
This build has thehighest potential damage outputin the entire game, so much so that players have gotten close to beating Nezarec, the new Raid boss inRoot of Nightmares, solo.
The damage rotation of this build can take a bit of practice to get down, but once you do, you will always be top of the damage charts.
Armor Piece
Ashes to Assets, Heavy Ammo Finder and Heavy Ammo Scout
2x Firepower and Bolstering Detonation
Resistance mods matching your enemy’s damage type
Surge mods matching your weapon’s damage type
2x Time Dilation and Reaper
Make sure toinclude stat modswherever possible to make your Resilience, Recovery, and Discipline as high as possible, in that order of priority.
This mod setup, combined with the Fragment picks, will make for a build thatgenerates heavy ammo for your teamwhile also dealing outrageous damage. When this build comes together, it is one of the most powerful builds in the game.
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Dawnblade Build: Sunbracers Solar Grenades
Stats: Resilience, Recovery, Strength
Aspects: Touch of Flame and Heat Rises
Fragments: Ember of Empyrean, Ember of Ashes, Ember of Resolve, and Ember of Searing
Weapon Choice: Demolitionist Weapons
Abilities: Solar Grenade, Phoenix Dive, and Incinerator Snap
Sunbracers is a relic of an exotic. It has always been a bit of a sleeper pick, but with the release of Lightfall, it gained much more traction. Sunbracers is not only fun but devastatingly powerful too, leveling entire battlefields with just your Solar grenades.
Ashes to Assets, Heavy Ammo Finder, and Heavy Ammo Scout
Firepower, Bolstering Detonation, and Momentum Transfer
Damage resistance mods matching your enemy’s damage type
Orbs of Restoration, Invigoration, and Bomber
2x Distribution
Once again, try to fit as many stat mods in as possible, focusing on Resilience, Recovery, and Strength in that order.
These mods will turn you into an Orb of Power and Heavy Ammo generator for yourself and your team and will have you clearing out rooms with this build with ease.
These two builds arearguably the best builds in the entire game. Solar Warlock is remarkably powerful right now, and caneasily destroy the hardest pieces of content in the game. The raw damage from Starfire Protocol, or the incredible enemy control with Sunbracers, make for two potent builds for you to choose from.
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