13 May 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

LIGHTNING INFERNO BUILD

Prismatic Warlock
PvE

13 May 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

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Details

Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Bolt charge
Light buffs
Transcendence
Cure
Radiant
Devour
Jolted
Ignition
Scorch
Unravel
Weaken
Exotic
  • Solipsism
    Warlock Bond
    This item drops with random intrinsic perks.
Weapons
  • Lord of Wolves
    Shotgun
    Shrapnel Launcher – Fires a powerful short-range burst of Solar damage.
  • Fixed Odds
    Machine Gun
    High-Impact Frame – Slow firing and high damage. This weapon is more accurate when stationary, moving slowly, and aiming down sights.
  • Tinasha's Mastery
    Sidearm
    Rocket-Assisted Frame – Sidearm fires self-propelled rocket ammunition. Projectiles explode on impact for high damage.
Abilities
  • Song of Flame
    Solar Super | Light Ability
    Radiant
    Scorch
    Ignition
    Unleash your inner fire, making your equipped weapons radiant and enhancing your abilities. [Melee] : Release a supercharged melee attack that launches additional projectiles. : Create a sentient flame wisp that seeks out targets and detonates in a scorching explosion, then seeks out other nearby targets. While Song of Flame is active, you and nearby allies regenerate abilities more quickly, are more resistant to incoming damage, and your Solar and Kinetic weapons scorch targets.
  • Phoenix Dive
    Class Ability
    Cure
    Dive to the ground and create a burst of Solar Light that cures nearby allies.
  • Vortex Grenade
    Void Grenade | Light Ability
    A grenade that creates a Vortex that pulls targets inward and continually damages those trapped inside.
  • Arcane Needle
    Strand Melee | Darkness Ability
    Unravel
    Sling a woven needle that will embed in your target, unraveling them. Activate your melee ability again to chain up to two additional attacks.
  • Burst Glide
    Movement Ability
    Jump while airborne to activate Glide and start an airborne drift with a strong initial boost of speed.
Aspects
  • Lightning Surge
    Bolt Charge
    Jolted
    While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to blink forward, calling down lightning strikes that jolt targets as you rematerialize. Targets that are hit by your lightning strikes grant you stacks of Bolt Charge.
  • Feed the Void
    Devour
    Defeat a target with any ability to activate Devour. Your Devour effects are improved, restoring additional health and grenade energy.
Fragments
  • Facet of Sacrifice
    Transcendence
    Light Buffs
    While you have an Arc, Solar, or Void buff, ability final blows grant bonus Darkness Transcendence energy. +10 Discipline ▲
  • Facet of Dominance
    Jolted
    Weaken
    -10 Discipline ▼ Your Void grenades weaken targets, and your Arc grenades jolt targets.
  • Facet of Balance
    Rapidly defeating targets with Light damage grants melee energy. Rapidly defeating targets with Darkness damage grants grenade energy.
  • Facet of Protection
    Transcendence
    +10 Strength ▲ While surrounded by combatants, you are more resistant to incoming damage. While transcendent, the effect is increased.
  • Facet of Dawn
    Radiant
    Powered melee hits against targets makes you radiant. Powered melee final blows make you and nearby allies radiant. -10 Strength ▼
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Font of Wisdom
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. You gain a bonus to intellect while you have any Armor Charge. Armor Charges decay over time.
  • Special Ammo Finder
    Increases the drop chance of Special ammo upon defeat of an opponent.
  • Solar Siphon
    Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

Arms armor mods

  • Heavy Handed (x3)
    Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.

Chest armor mods

  • Solar Resistance
    Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.
  • Void Resistance
    Reduces incoming Void damage from combatants.
  • Arc Resistance
    Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Invigoration
    Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • Solar Weapon Surge
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
  • Recuperation
    Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Class item armor mods

  • Distribution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability near targets.
  • Outreach
    Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
  • Bomber
    Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Artifact perks
  • Limit Break
    Casting a Super while you are critically wounded or have a elemental buff matching your Super element grants a period of increased Super damage.
  • Elemental Supercharger
    Defeating exhausted or severed targets with weapons that match your Super element grants Super energy. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • Overload Machine Guns
    Shots from Machine Guns you are wielding disrupt combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration and exhausting them. Strong against Overload Champions. Additionally, Machine Guns are always overcharged when that modifier is active. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • Piercing Sidearms
    Your equipped Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sidearms are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • Unstoppable Fusion
    Aiming down sights for a brief period with any Fusion Rifle you are wielding loads a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Fusion Rifles are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • Overload Trace Rifles
    Uninterrupted fire from your equipped Trace Rifle causes the beam to stun combatants, delaying ability energy regeneration and exhausting them. Strong against Overload Champions. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • Dreadful Finisher
    Defeating powerful combatants with your finisher spawns Special ammo for you and your allies; defeated Subjugators, Tormentors, or Champions spawn more ammo.
  • Flashover
    When you gain maximum Bolt Charge, you also become amplified. Lightning bolts deal more damage.
  • Gold from Lead
    Picking up Special ammo has the chance to grant Heavy ammo.
  • Disruptor Spike
    Improves the effects of Exhaust and Sever, lowering a target's damage output even further. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • Elemental Siphon
    Rapid final blows with a Kinetic weapon or a weapon matching your equipped Super create an elemental pickup that matches your equipped Super. BOOST: Elemental pickups grant matching Super energy when they are collected.
  • Beam Medic
    Rapid Trace Rifle final blows heal you and nearby allies. Powerful combatants increase the amount.

Breakdown

Orb generation

Heavy Handed
Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.

Solar Siphon
Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
Orb pickup

Font of Wisdom
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...

Invigoration
Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Solar Weapon Surge
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...

Recuperation
Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
Armor Charge create

Font of Wisdom
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...

Solar Weapon Surge
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge effect

Font of Wisdom
... You gain a bonus to intellect while you have any Armor Charge. ...

Solar Weapon Surge
... Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. ...
Ability cooldown

Distribution
Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability near targets.
Grenade cooldown

Facet of Balance
... Rapidly defeating targets with Darkness damage grants grenade energy.

Bomber
Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.

Feed the Void
... Your Devour effects are improved, restoring additional health and grenade energy.

Devour
... Final blows restore health, grant grenade energy, and extend Devour.
Melee cooldown

Invigoration
Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Facet of Balance
Rapidly defeating targets with Light damage grants melee energy. ...

Outreach
Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.

Bolt Charge
... Receiving a stack of Bolt Charge grants you melee energy.
Final blows

Facet of Sacrifice
While you have an Arc, Solar, or Void buff, ability final blows grant bonus Darkness Transcendence energy. ...

Heavy Handed
Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.

Facet of Dawn
... Powered melee final blows make you and nearby allies radiant. ...

Elemental Siphon
Rapid final blows with a Kinetic weapon or a weapon matching your equipped Super create an elemental pickup that matches your equipped Super. ...

Solar Siphon
Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

Beam Medic
Rapid Trace Rifle final blows heal you and nearby allies. ...

Devour
... Final blows restore health, grant grenade energy, and extend Devour.
Defeating an enemy

Elemental Supercharger
Defeating exhausted or severed targets with weapons that match your Super element grants Super energy. ...

Special Ammo Finder
Increases the drop chance of Special ammo upon defeat of an opponent.

Dreadful Finisher
Defeating powerful combatants with your finisher spawns Special ammo for you and your allies; defeated Subjugators, Tormentors, or Champions spawn more ammo.

Facet of Balance
Rapidly defeating targets with Light damage grants melee energy. Rapidly defeating targets with Darkness damage grants grenade energy.

Feed the Void
Defeat a target with any ability to activate Devour. ...

Transcendence
...Defeating targets while Transcendent extends its duration.

Devour
Feast on the energy of your defeated foes. ...

Unravel
... Unraveled targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.
Finishers

Dreadful Finisher
Defeating powerful combatants with your finisher spawns Special ammo for you and your allies; defeated Subjugators, Tormentors, or Champions spawn more ammo.

Keywords

Light buffs

Light buffs include Amplified, Bolt Charge, Cure, Radiant, Restoration, Devour, Invisibility, and Overshield.

Facet of Sacrifice
While you have an Arc, Solar, or Void buff, ability final blows grant bonus Darkness Transcendence energy. +10 Discipline ▲
Transcendence

You resonate in perfect harmony with Light and Darkness. You gain increased ability regeneration, increased weapon damage, and damage resistance against combatants. Your grenade is replaced with a unique Prismatic grenade that combines multiple damage types. Defeating targets while Transcendent extends its duration.

Facet of Sacrifice
While you have an Arc, Solar, or Void buff, ability final blows grant bonus Darkness Transcendence energy. ...

Facet of Protection
...While transcendent, the effect is increased.
Jolted

The target is energized with destructive Arc Light. They take additional damage while jolted and chain lightning to nearby targets. Jolt damage causes Overload Champions to be stunned.

Facet of Dominance
... Your Void grenades weaken targets, and your Arc grenades jolt targets.

Lightning Surge
While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to blink forward, calling down lightning strikes that jolt targets as you rematerialize. ...
Cure

You are healed in a burst of mending Solar Light.

Phoenix Dive
Dive to the ground and create a burst of Solar Light that cures nearby allies.
Devour

Feast on the energy of your defeated foes. Final blows restore health, grant grenade energy, and extend Devour.

Feed the Void
Defeat a target with any ability to activate Devou... Your Devour effects are improved, restoring additional health and grenade energy.
Weaken

The target takes increased damage and has their movement speed slowed.

Facet of Dominance
... Your Void grenades weaken targets, and your Arc grenades jolt targets.
Ignition

A large Solar explosion which deals damage in an area around the target and stuns Unstoppable Champions.

Song of Flame
Unleash your inner fire, making your equipped weapons radiant and enhancing your abilities. [Melee] : Release a supercharged melee attack that launches additional projectiles. : Create a sentient flame wisp that seeks out targets and detonates in a scorching explosion, then seeks out other nearby targets. While Song of Flame is active, you and nearby allies regenerate abilities more quickly, are more resistant to incoming damage, and your Solar and Kinetic weapons scorch targets.
Bolt charge

Accumulate stacks of Arc Bolt Charge. While you have Bolt Charge, sustained weapon damage generates stacks of Bolt Charge. At maximum stacks, any ability damage generates a powerful bolt of Arc lightning at the target's location. Receiving a stack of Bolt Charge grants you melee energy.

Lightning Surge
... Targets that are hit by your lightning strikes grant you stacks of Bolt Charge.
Scorch

The target is singed by destructive Solar Light, taking damage over time. Scorch damage increases as the target accumulates more Scorch stacks. After enough Scorch stacks are applied to the target, they ignite.

Song of Flame
... : Create a sentient flame wisp that seeks out targets and detonates in a scorching explosion, then seeks out other nearby target... While Song of Flame is active, you and nearby allies regenerate abilities more quickly, are more resistant to incoming damage, and your Solar and Kinetic weapons scorch targets.
Radiant

Your weapons are enhanced by the power of the Traveler and deal increased damage to combatants. While you are radiant, your weapons pierce the shields of Barrier Champions and stun them.

Song of Flame
Unleash your inner fire, making your equipped weapons radiant and enhancing your abilities. ...

Facet of Dawn
Powered melee hits against targets makes you radiant. Powered melee final blows make you and nearby allies radiant. ...
Unravel

The target is permeated with destructive Strand matter. As they take additional damage, they create unraveled projectiles that seek out nearby targets. Unraveling Rounds from your Strand weapons pierce the shields of Barrier Champions and stun them. Unraveled targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.

Arcane Needle
Sling a woven needle that will embed in your target, unraveling them. ...

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