28 Mar 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

Solar Hunter DPS Build - Celestial

Solar Hunter

28 Mar 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

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Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Cure
Radiant
Firesprite
Restoration
Ignition
Scorch
Exotic
  • Celestial Nighthawk
    Helmet
    Hawkeye Hack – Precision final blows reduce the cooldown of your Super. Modifies Golden Gun to fire a single, high-damage shot. Targets defeated by that shot give you Super energy and explode.
Weapons
  • Still Hunt
    Sniper Rifle
    Cayde's Retribution – Pick up Orbs of Power or land precision hits to charge this weapon's Super bar. Once full, [Alternate Weapon Action] to fire Golden Gun shots.
  • Khvostov 7G-02
    Auto Rifle
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
  • Eyes Unveiled
    Linear Fusion Rifle
    Precision Frame – Fires a long-range precision energy bolt. This weapon's recoil pattern is more predictably vertical.
Abilities
  • Golden Gun: Marksman
    Super Ability
    Radiant
    Summon a precision flaming pistol that disintegrates targets with Solar Light. Your Golden Gun deals massively increased precision damage, overpenetrates targets, and creates Orbs of Power on precision hits. Benefits from being radiant.
  • Healing Grenade
    Solar Grenade
    Restoration
    Cure
    A grenade that cures allies on impact and creates an Orb of benevolent Solar Light, granting restoration to allies when picked up.
  • Weighted Throwing Knife
    Solar Melee
    Scorch
    Ignition
    Throw a knife that deals extra precision damage and causes scorched targets to ignite. Precision final blows with this knife immediately recharge your class ability.
  • Gambler's Dodge
    Class Ability
    Dodge to perform a deft tumble, avoiding enemy attacks. Dodging near enemies fully recharges your Melee Ability.
  • Triple Jump
    Movement Ability
    While airborne, sustain your air control with a second or third jump.
Aspects
  • Gunpowder Gamble
    Scorch
    Ignition
    Defeat targets with Solar abilities, Solar debuffs, or Solar weapons to charge up an improvised Solar explosive. : Throw a Solar explosive that can be shot in mid-air to cause an ignition.
  • Knock 'Em Down
    Radiant
    Your Solar Supers are enhanced. Deadshot Golden Gun has damage resistance, Marksman Golden Gun has increased duration, and Blade Barrage launches more projectiles. While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.
Fragments
  • Ember of Wonder
    Ignition
    +10 Resilience ▲ Rapidly defeating multiple targets with Solar ignitions generates an Orb of Power.
  • Ember of Searing
    Firesprite
    Scorch
    Ignition
    +10 Recovery ▲ Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.
  • Ember of Torches
    Radiant
    -10 Discipline ▼ Powered melee attacks against combatants make you and nearby allies radiant.
  • Ember of Mercy
    Restoration
    Firesprite
    When you revive an ally, you and other nearby allies gain restoration. Picking up a Firesprite grants restoration. +10 Resilience ▲
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Kinetic Siphon
    Rapid Kinetic weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
  • Special Ammo Scout
    When one of your ammo finder perks creates a brick of Special ammo for you, it also creates bricks of Special ammo for your allies.
  • Special Ammo Finder
    Increases the drop chance of Special ammo upon defeat of an opponent.

Arms armor mods

  • Heavy Handed
    Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
  • Impact Induction (x2)
    Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.

Chest armor mods

  • Harmonic Resistance
    Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants
  • Melee Damage Resistance
    Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at point-blank range.
  • Arc Resistance
    Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Solar Weapon Surge (x2)
    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

  • Time Dilation
    Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration.
  • Reaper
    Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
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.
  • Particle Reconstruction
    Dealing sustained damage with Fusion Rifles or Linear Fusion Rifles partially refills the magazine from reserves and grants them bonus damage for a short duration against that target.
  • 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 Glaive
    Glaives you wield fire a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Glaives are always overcharged when the modifier is active.
  • Flashover
    When you gain maximum Bolt Charge, you also become amplified. Lightning bolts deal more damage.
  • No Bell
    Rapid Glaive melee final blows grant Special ammo Glaives additional ammo. Blocking damage with Glaives increases their melee damage to targets.
  • Photonic Flare
    Defeating an exhausted or severed target with Arc damage releases a blinding burst. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • Hold the Line
    While surrounded, Machine Guns and Glaives gain increased reload speed and stability; final blows heal you.
  • Dielectric
    Defeating Arc debuffed targets grants Bolt Charge. BOOST: Rapidly defeating Arc debuffed targets spawns an Orb of Power and heals a small portion of health.
  • Beam Medic
    Rapid Trace Rifle final blows heal you and nearby allies. Powerful combatants increase the amount.
  • Unraveling Orbs
    Picking up an Orb of Power or a Tangle grants Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds. BOOST: Strand weapons deal increased damage to Strand debuffed targets.

Breakdown

Orb generation

Ember of Wonder
... Rapidly defeating multiple targets with Solar ignitions generates an Orb of Power.

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

Gunslinger
... Your Golden Gun deals massively increased precision damage, overpenetrates targets, and creates Orbs of Power on precision hits. ...

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

Dielectric
... BOOST: Rapidly defeating Arc debuffed targets spawns an Orb of Power and heals a small portion of health.

Golden Gun: Marksman
... Your Golden Gun deals massively increased precision damage, overpenetrates targets, and creates Orbs of Power on precision hits. ...

Reaper
Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
Orb pickup

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.

Unraveling Orbs
Picking up an Orb of Power or a Tangle grants Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds. ...
Armor Charge create

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

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

Impact Induction
Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.

Firesprite
... When picked up, Firesprites grant grenade energy.
Melee cooldown

Ember of Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

Knock 'Em Down
... While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.
Final blows

Celestial Nighthawk
Hawkeye Hack – Precision final blows reduce the cooldown of your Super. ...

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

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

No Bell
Rapid Glaive melee final blows grant Special ammo Glaives additional ammo. ...

Knock 'Em Down
... While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.

Hold the Line
While surrounded, Machine Guns and Glaives gain increased reload speed and stability; final blows heal you.

Weighted Throwing Knife
... Precision final blows with this knife immediately recharge your class ability.

Reaper
Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.

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

Ember of Wonder
... Rapidly defeating multiple targets with Solar ignitions generates an Orb of Power.

Ember of Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

Celestial Nighthawk
...Targets defeated by that shot give you Super energy and explode.

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

Gunpowder Gamble
Defeat targets with Solar abilities, Solar debuffs, or Solar weapons to charge up an improvised Solar explosive. ...

Photonic Flare
Defeating an exhausted or severed target with Arc damage releases a blinding burst. ...

Dielectric
Defeating Arc debuffed targets grants Bolt Charg... BOOST: Rapidly defeating Arc debuffed targets spawns an Orb of Power and heals a small portion of health.

Keywords

Restoration

You regenerate health and shields over time. Cannot be interrupted by taking damage.

Healing Grenade
A grenade that cures allies on impact and creates an Orb of benevolent Solar Light, granting restoration to allies when picked up.

Ember of Mercy
When you revive an ally, you and other nearby allies gain restoratio... Picking up a Firesprite grants restoration. ...
Firesprite

A luminous concentration of Solar energy. When picked up, Firesprites grant grenade energy.

Ember of Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

Ember of Mercy
... Picking up a Firesprite grants restoration. ...
Cure

You are healed in a burst of mending Solar Light.

Healing Grenade
A grenade that cures allies on impact and creates an Orb of benevolent Solar Light, granting restoration to allies when picked up.
Ignition

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

Ember of Wonder
... Rapidly defeating multiple targets with Solar ignitions generates an Orb of Power.

Ember of Searing
+10 Recovery ▲ Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

Gunpowder Gamble
... : Throw a Solar explosive that can be shot in mid-air to cause an ignition.

Weighted Throwing Knife
Throw a knife that deals extra precision damage and causes scorched targets to ignite. ...
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.

Ember of Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

Gunpowder Gamble
Defeat targets with Solar abilities, Solar debuffs, or Solar weapons to charge up an improvised Solar explosive. : Throw a Solar explosive that can be shot in mid-air to cause an ignition.

Weighted Throwing Knife
Throw a knife that deals extra precision damage and causes scorched targets to ignite. ...
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.

Knock 'Em Down
... While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.

Ember of Torches
... Powered melee attacks against combatants make you and nearby allies radiant.

Golden Gun: Marksman
... Benefits from being radiant.

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