25 May 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

WINTERBITE DPS BUILD

Strand Titan

25 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
Woven mail
Tangle
Unravel
Sever
Suspend
Exotic
  • Synthoceps
    Gauntlets
    Biotic Enhancements – When you're surrounded, gain increased melee and Super damage, as well as improved weapon handling and reload speed.
Weapons
  • Winterbite
    Glaive
    Big Frigid Glaive – Fires a large ball of energy that locks onto nearby targets and freezes them.
  • Scatter Signal
    Fusion Rifle
    Rapid-Fire Frame – Deeper ammo reserves. Slightly faster reload when magazine is empty.
  • Lotus-Eater (Adept)
    Sidearm
    Rocket-Assisted Frame – Sidearm fires self-propelled rocket ammunition. Projectiles explode on impact for high damage.
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.
  • Grapple
    Strand Grenade
    Unravel
    Weave a grappling hook, and quickly pull yourself forward. Grappling to a Tangle immediately recharges your grenade energy. During and shortly after grappling, your melee attack deals area damage and unravels targets.
  • Frenzied Blade
    Strand Melee
    Sever
    Activate your charged melee ability to dash forward, slashing at targets in front of you and severing them.
  • Rally Barricade
    Class Ability
    Creates a small barrier that you can peek over while aiming down sights; increases weapon reload speed, stability, and range. Draws hostile fire when you stand behind it.
  • Strafe Lift
    Movement Ability
    Jump while airborne to activate Lift and launch into the air with strong directional control.
Aspects
  • Into the Fray
    Woven Mail
    Tangle
    Destroying a Tangle or casting your Super grants Woven Mail for nearby allies. While you have Woven Mail, your melee regeneration rate is increased.
  • Banner of War
    Defeat a target with a melee attack, finisher, or Sword to raise a Banner of War that pulses with energy, periodically healing nearby allies and increasing melee and Sword damage. Targets defeated by you and nearby allies charge the banner, increasing the speed of its pulses.
Fragments
  • Thread of Isolation
    Sever
    Landing rapid precision hits emits a severing burst from the target.
  • Thread of Continuity
    Suspend
    Sever
    Unravel
    Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.
  • Thread of Transmutation
    Woven Mail
    Tangle
    +10 Strength ▲ While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.
  • Thread of Warding
    Woven Mail
    -10 Resilience ▼ Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Special Ammo Finder
    Increases the drop chance of Special ammo upon defeat of an opponent.
  • Void Siphon
    Rapid Void weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
  • Hands-On
    Gain bonus Super energy on melee kills.

Arms armor mods

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

Chest armor mods

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

Leg armor mods

  • Better Already
    Your health begins to regenerate immediately after picking up an Orb of Power.
  • Absolution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • Recuperation
    Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Class item armor mods

  • Special Finisher
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. Finishers generate Special ammo for the whole fireteam. Consumes 3 stacks of Armor Charge.
  • Distribution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability near targets.
  • Outreach
    Reduces melee 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.
  • Defibrillating Blast
    Stunning a Champion grants maximum stacks of Bolt Charge. Triggers an Arc bolt that heals you and jolts combatants that it damages.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • No Bell
    Rapid Glaive melee final blows grant Special ammo Glaives additional ammo. Blocking damage with Glaives increases their melee damage to targets.
  • 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.
  • Vile Weave
    Targets hit by your Tangles are severed. Reduce Tangle cooldown by picking one up.
  • 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

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

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

Better Already
Your health begins to regenerate immediately after picking up an Orb of Power.

Absolution
Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Special Finisher
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.

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

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

Special Finisher
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge consume

Special Finisher
... Consumes 3 stacks of Armor Charge.
Ability cooldown

Absolution
Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

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

Grapple
... Grappling to a Tangle immediately recharges your grenade energy. ...
Melee cooldown

Outreach
Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
Final blows

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

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

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

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. ...

Thread of Transmutation
... While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.
Defeating an enemy

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.

Banner of War
Defeat a target with a melee attack, finisher, or Sword to raise a Banner of War that pulses with energy, periodically healing nearby allies and increasing melee and Sword damag... Targets defeated by you and nearby allies charge the banner, increasing the speed of its pulses.

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

Tangle
... Defeating targets afflicted by any Strand debuff will unwind them and create a Tangle.

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

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.

Special Finisher
... Finishers generate Special ammo for the whole fireteam. ...

Banner of War
Defeat a target with a melee attack, finisher, or Sword to raise a Banner of War that pulses with energy, periodically healing nearby allies and increasing melee and Sword damage. ...

Keywords

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 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.

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.
Woven mail

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

Thread of Transmutation
... While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.

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

Into the Fray
Destroying a Tangle or casting your Super grants Woven Mail for nearby allie... While you have Woven Mail, your melee regeneration rate is increased.
Tangle

A knot of Strand matter, swirling with potential. Tangles can be shot and destroyed, or picked up and thrown, dealing damage. Defeating targets afflicted by any Strand debuff will unwind them and create a Tangle.

Thread of Transmutation
... While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.

Into the Fray
Destroying a Tangle or casting your Super grants Woven Mail for nearby allies. ...
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.

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.
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.

Grapple
... During and shortly after grappling, your melee attack deals area damage and unravels targets.

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

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