13 Jul 2023 (Season of the Deep - S21)

Stronghold is fair and balanced (id: 7uridxi)

Strand Titan

13 Jul 2023 (Season of the Deep - S21)

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Build Information

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Details

Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chest
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Woven mail
Unravel
Sever
Suspend
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Exotic
  • Stronghold
    Gauntlets
    Clenched Fist – Maximizes guard stats on equipped Swords. You take reduced damage while blocking with a Sword. Rapidly damaging targets after blocking shots with a Sword grants restoration for a duration determined by the number of shots blocked.
Weapons
  • Conditional Finality
    Shotgun
    Split Decision – Dual barrels split into Stasis and Solar damage.
  • Acasia's Dejection
    Trace Rifle
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
  • Throne-Cleaver
    Sword
    Aggressive Frame – [Heavy Attack] : Launch a heavy slam attack. Heavy attacks are stronger with full energy.
Abilities
  • Bladefury
    Super Ability
    Suspend
    Sever
    [Super] : Create two woven blades and roam the battlefield. While active: [Light Attack] : Perform a leaping slash towards nearby targets, severing them on hit and dealing bonus damage to suspended targets. Each successful hit briefly increases your attack speed and grants energy for your heavy attack. [Heavy Attack] : Unleash a heavy upward slash, creating two suspending projectiles that seek out targets.
  • Shackle Grenade
    Strand Grenade
    Suspend
    A thrown weapon of weighted Strand matter that detonates on impact, suspending targets and creating additional suspending subprojectiles.
  • Frenzied Blade
    Strand Melee
    Sever
    Activate your charged melee ability to dash forward, slashing at targets in front of you and severing them.
  • Towering Barricade
    Class Ability
    Create a large barrier that can be used to reinforce a position with cover from enemy fire.
  • Catapult Lift
    Movement Ability
    Jump while airborne to activate Lift and launch into the air with a strong initial burst of momentum.
Aspects
  • Drengr's Lash
    Suspend
    Activate your Barricade ability to create a ripple in reality that travels forward along the ground, suspending and damaging the targets it hits.
  • Flechette Storm
    Unravel
    While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to leap into the air, knocking nearby targets away and dealing damage. While airborne, activate your charged melee again to launch a cluster of damaging, Unraveling projectiles. Repeatedly activating melee will chain additional throws.
Fragments
  • Thread of Continuity
    Suspend
    Sever
    Unravel
    Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.
  • Thread of Generation
    -10 Discipline ▼ Dealing damage generates grenade energy.
  • Thread of Mind
    Suspend
    Defeating suspended targets grants class ability energy.
  • Thread of Warding
    Woven Mail
    -10 Resilience ▼ Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Solar Siphon
    Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
  • Heavy Ammo Finder (x2)
    Increases the drop chance of Heavy ammo upon defeat of an opponent.

Arms armor mods

  • Font of Focus
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. You gain a bonus to discipline while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
  • Solar Dexterity
    Faster ready and stow speed for Solar weapons.
  • Focusing Strike
    Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a powered melee attack.

Chest armor mods

  • Arc Resistance (x3)
    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.
  • Solar Scavenger
    Solar weapons get bonus reserves when picking up ammo used by that weapon.

Class item armor mods

  • Powerful Attraction
    Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.
  • 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
  • Squad Goals
    Performing a finisher while you are amplified grants Amplified to nearby allies when your Arc subclass is equipped. Performing a finisher while you have Woven Mail grants Woven Mail to nearby allies when your Strand subclass is equipped. Performing a finisher while you have Devour grants Devour to nearby allies when your Void subclass is equipped.
  • Improved Unraveling
    Increases the amount of damage dealt by unraveling a target.
  • Deeper Origins
    Greatly improves the benefits provided by the Unsated Hunger, Nanotech Tracer Rockets, Harmonic Resonance, and Noble Deeds traits.
  • Authorized Mods: Strand
    The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your Strand weapons are significantly discounted.
  • Authorized Mods: Arc
    The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your Arc weapons are significantly discounted.
  • Authorized Mods: Melee
    The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your melee are significantly discounted.
  • Strand Soldier
    Your Strand weapons gain Unraveling Rounds whenever you gain Woven Mail while your Strand subclass is equipped.
  • Overcharged Armory
    Weapons with the Unsated Hunger, Nanotech Tracer Rockets, Harmonic Resonance, and Noble Deeds traits are always overcharged weapons for you when that modifier is active.
  • Counter Charge
    Gain a stack of Armor Charge when you stun a Champion.
  • Overload Trace Rifles
    Uninterrupted fire from your equipped Trace Rifles causes the beam to stun combatants, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering their damage output. Strong against [Disruption] Overload Champions. Additionally, Trace Rifles are always overcharged when the modifier is active.
  • Unstoppable Hand Cannon
    Aiming down the sights of a Hand Cannon for a short time loads a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Hand Cannons are always overcharged when the modifier is active.
  • Anti-Barrier Auto Rifle
    Your equipped Auto Rifles fire shield-piercing rounds and stun [Shield-Piercing] Barrier Champions. Additionally, Auto Rifles are always overcharged when the modifier is active.

Breakdown

Orb generation

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

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

Font of Focus
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. ...

Thread of Warding
... Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
Armor Charge create

Font of Focus
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 Focus
... You gain a bonus to discipline while you have any Armor Charge. ...

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

Focusing Strike
Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a powered melee attack.

Thread of Mind
Defeating suspended targets grants class ability energy.
Grenade cooldown

Thread of Generation
... Dealing damage generates grenade energy.
Final blows

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

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

Thread of Mind
Defeating suspended targets grants class ability energy.

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

Sever
... Severed targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.

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

Suspend
... Suspended targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.
Finishers

Squad Goals
Performing a finisher while you are amplified grants Amplified to nearby allies when your Arc subclass is equippe... Performing a finisher while you have Woven Mail grants Woven Mail to nearby allies when your Strand subclass is equippe... Performing a finisher while you have Devour grants Devour to nearby allies when your Void subclass is equipped.

Keywords

Woven mail

Your body is encased in a protective mesh of tightly woven [Strand] Strand matter, greatly reducing any incoming non-precision damage.

Thread of Warding
... Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
Sever

The target's connections to the world around them are cut, and their outgoing damage is significantly reduced. Severed targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.

Thread of Continuity
Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.

Bladefury
... While acti... [Light Attack] : Perform a leaping slash towards nearby targets, severing them on hit and dealing bonus damage to suspended targets. ...

Frenzied Blade
Activate your charged melee ability to dash forward, slashing at targets in front of you and severing them.
Unravel

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

Thread of Continuity
Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.

Flechette Storm
... While airborne, activate your charged melee again to launch a cluster of damaging, Unraveling projectiles. ...
Suspend

The target is immobilized by a web of [Strand] Strand matter, lifting them into the air. While suspended, Guardians are unable to move freely, combatants are unable to move or fire their weapon, and [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions are stunned. Suspended targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.

Shackle Grenade
A thrown weapon of weighted Strand matter that detonates on impact, suspending targets and creating additional suspending subprojectiles.

Thread of Continuity
Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.

Bladefury
... While acti... [Light Attack] : Perform a leaping slash towards nearby targets, severing them on hit and dealing bonus damage to suspended targets. ... [Heavy Attack] : Unleash a heavy upward slash, creating two suspending projectiles that seek out targets.

Thread of Mind
Defeating suspended targets grants class ability energy.

Drengr's Lash
Activate your Barricade ability to create a ripple in reality that travels forward along the ground, suspending and damaging the targets it hits.
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