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Endgame strand build

Strand Hunter

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06 Jul 2023 (Season of the Deep - S21)

Build Information

Quick Look
Exotic armor
Exotic weapon
Ability
Aspect
Fragment
Helmet armor mod
Arms armor mod
Chest armor mod
Leg armor mod
Class item armor mod
General armor mod
Artifact perk
Exotic
  • Lucky Pants

    Leg Armor

Weapons
  • Malfeasance

    Hand Cannon

Abilities
  • Marksman's Dodge

    Dodge to perform an evasive maneuver with a steady hand. Dodging automatically reloads your weapon. Dodge to perform an evasive maneuver with a steady hand. Dodging automatically reloads your weapon.

  • Threaded Spike

    Throw a rope dart that bounces between targets, damaging and severing them. The dart will return to you once it's done, returning melee energy to you for each target hit. Press just as the dart gets back to you to catch it and increase the amount of energy returned.

  • Silkstrike

    Weave a vicious rope dart and tear through your targets. [Light Attack] : Swing the rope dart in front of you to deal damage. The tip of the dart deals bonus damage, and defeating targets with the tip causes them to explode. [Heavy Attack] : Swing the rope dart in a circular motion to deal heavy damage all around you. : Use the grapple to move forward quickly.

  • Shackle Grenade

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

Aspects
  • Ensnaring Slam

    Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, suspending all nearby targets on impact. Using this ability extends class ability cooldown time.

  • Widow's Silk

    You have an additional grenade charge. Your Grappling Hook creates a Grapple Tangle at the grapple point.

Fragments
  • Thread of Isolation

    Landing rapid precision hits emits a severing burst from the target.

  • Thread of Continuity

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

  • Thread of Generation

    Dealing damage generates grenade energy. -10 Discipline ▼

  • Thread of Warding

    Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail. -10 Resilience ▼

Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Kinetic Siphon

    Rapid Kinetic weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

  • Dynamo

    Reduces Super cooldown when using your class ability near targets.

Arms armor mods

  • Impact Induction

    Causing damage with a melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.

  • Bolstering Detonation

    Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a grenade.

  • Grenade Kickstart

    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. When your grenade energy is fully expended, you gain grenade energy. Additionally, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain additional grenade energy for each stack.

Chest armor mods

  • Charged Up

    Increases the maximum number of stacks of Armor Charge you can carry by 1.

  • Concussive Dampener

    Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.

  • Arc Resistance

    Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Kinetic Weapon Surge (x2)

    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. Your Kinetic weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.

  • Elemental Charge

    Collecting a Firesprite, Ionic Trace, Stasis shard, or Void Breach, or destroying a Strand Tangle has an escalating chance to give you Armor Charge.

Class item armor mods

  • Reaper

    After using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.

  • Bomber (x2)

    Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.

General armor mods

  • Resilience Mod

    +10 Resilience ▲

  • Discipline Mod

    +10 Discipline ▲

  • Minor Resilience Mod

    +5 Resilience ▲

  • Minor Discipline Mod (x2)

    +5 Discipline ▲

Artifact perks
  • Supernova

    Picking up a Void Breach causes your next source of Void damage to create a large weakening pulse.

  • Amped Up

    Stay amplified longer while your Arc subclass is equipped.

  • Improved Unraveling

    Increases the amount of damage dealt by unraveling a target.

  • 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.

  • Protective Breach

    Picking up a Void Breach gives you an overshield or refreshes your existing overshield.

  • Counter Charge

    Gain a stack of Armor Charge when you stun a Champion.

  • Electric Armor

    Gain damage resistance while amplified.

  • 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 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 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 Barrier Champions. Additionally, Auto Rifles are always overcharged when the modifier is active.

Analysis

Orb generation

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

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

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

Grenade Kickstart
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

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

Elemental Charge
Collecting a Firesprite, Ionic Trace, Stasis shard, or Void Breach, or destroying a Strand Tangle has an escalating chance to give you Armor Charge.

Grenade Kickstart
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge effect

Kinetic Weapon Surge
... Your Kinetic weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge consume

Grenade Kickstart
... Additionally, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain additional grenade energy for each stack.
Ability cooldown

Bolstering Detonation
Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a grenade.

Ensnaring Slam
Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, suspending all nearby targets on impact. Using this ability extends class ability cooldown time.

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. ...
Class Ability cooldown

Bolstering Detonation
Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a grenade.

Ensnaring Slam
Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, suspending all nearby targets on impact. Using this ability extends class ability cooldown time.
Grenade cooldown

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

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

Grenade Kickstart
... When your grenade energy is fully expended, you gain grenade energy. Additionally, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain additional grenade energy for each stack.

Bomber
Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Melee cooldown

Threaded Spike
... The dart will return to you once it's done, returning melee energy to you for each target hit. ...
Final blows

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

Reaper
After using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
Defeating an enemy

Silkstrike
...The tip of the dart deals bonus damage, and defeating targets with the tip causes them to explode. ...

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

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

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

Keywords

Woven mail

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

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

The target is immobilized by a web of 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 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.

Ensnaring Slam
Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, suspending all nearby targets on impact. ...
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.

Threaded Spike
Throw a rope dart that bounces between targets, damaging and severing them. ...

Thread of Isolation
Landing rapid precision hits emits a severing burst from the target.

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

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