06 Nov 2023 (Season of the Witch - S22)

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Strand Warlock
PvE

06 Nov 2023 (Season of the Witch - S22)

Quick Look

Details

Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Leg
Class items
Keywords
Threadling
Unravel
Sever
Suspend
Exotic
  • Swarmers
    Leg Armor
    Swarmers – Destroying a Tangle spawns a Threadling. Your Threadlings unravel targets that they damage.
Weapons
  • Hierarchy of Needs
    Combat Bow
    Guidance Ring – Precision hits and final blows build Guidance Ring energy. Opposing Guardians grant additional energy. At full charge, hip firing creates a Guidance Ring.
  • Circular Logic
    Machine Gun
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
  • Nox Perennial V
    Fusion Rifle
    High-Impact Frame – Slow firing and high damage. This weapon is more accurate when stationary, moving slowly, and aiming down sights.
Abilities
  • Needlestorm
    Super Ability
    Threadling
    [Super] : Conjure a hail of deadly woven needles. After embedding themselves in the environment, the needles will re-weave into a host of Threadlings. Threadlings you create will return to you and perch if they can't find any nearby targets. Damaging targets with your weapons or melee will send out perched Threadlings to attack.
  • Shackle Grenade
    Strand Grenade
    Suspend
    A thrown weapon of weighted Strand matter that detonates on impact, suspending targets and creating additional suspending subprojectiles.
  • Healing Rift
    Class Ability
    Conjure a well of power that continuously heals those inside it.
  • Arcane Needle
    Melee
    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
  • Weaver's Call
    Threadling
    Activate your class ability to weave three Threadlings and deploy any Threadlings you have perched. Targets defeated by Strand damage have a chance to generate a perched Threadling.
  • Mindspun Invocation
    Threadling
    Suspend
    Your grapple, Shackle Grenade, and Threadling Grenade have enhanced functionality. Your grapple melee spawns three Threadling eggs. : Hold to consume your Shackle Grenade and activate Weaver's Trance. Final blows while Weaver's Trance is active create a suspending detonation. : Hold to consume your Threadling Grenade and immediately generate five perched Threadlings.
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 Evolution
    Threadling
    Threadlings travel farther and deal additional damage. +10 Intellect ▲
  • Thread of Rebirth
    Threadling
    Strand weapon final blows have a chance to create a Threadling.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

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

Arms armor mods

  • Focusing Strike
    Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a powered melee attack.
  • Impact Induction
    Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.
  • Font of Vigor
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. You gain a bonus to strength while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.

Chest armor mods

  • Solar Resistance
    Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.
  • Concussive Dampener
    Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
  • 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.

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.
  • Bomber
    Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Artifact perks
  • 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.
  • Piercing Bowstring
    Bows gain shield-piercing arrows, which bypass combatant defenses. Strong against Barrier Champions. Additionally, Bows are always overcharged when that 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.
  • Diviner's Discount
    All Scavenger mods are discounted.
  • Origin Perk Specialization I
    Greatly improves the benefits provided by the Head Rush, Nanotech Tracer Rockets, Unsated Hunger, and Cursed Thrall Origin Traits.
  • Semi-Auto Striker
    If you have fewer than 2 stacks of Armor Charge, rapid precision shots with Bows, Snipers, and Scout Rifles generate an Armor Charge.
  • Overload Machine Guns
    Uninterrupted fire from your equipped Machine Guns grants bullets that stun combatants, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions.
  • Elemental Fury
    While stunned, Champions take bonus damage from your abilities and Elemental Orb damage.
  • Thanatotic Tangles
    Strand weapon final blows have a chance to generate a Tangle.
  • Elemental Orbs: Solar
    While using a Solar subclass, Solar weapon final blows have a chance to spawn a Solar Elemental Orb. Solar Orbs can be thrown to create a Solar explosion that scorches targets it damages.
  • Rapid-Fire Ranger
    Rapid precision hits against distant combatants weaken them for a short duration.
  • Elemental Munitions
    Combatant final blows with Tangles or Elemental Orbs have a chance to drop Special or Heavy ammo.

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

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

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

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

Font of Vigor
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. ...

Font of Vigor
... You gain a bonus to strength while you have any Armor Charge. ...
Class Ability cooldown

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

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

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

Bomber
Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Final blows

Mindspun Invocation
...Final blows while Weaver's Trance is active create a suspending detonation. ...

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

Hierarchy of Needs
Guidance Ring – Precision hits and final blows build Guidance Ring energy. ...

Thread of Rebirth
Strand weapon final blows have a chance to create a Threadling.

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

Thanatotic Tangles
Strand weapon final blows have a chance to generate a Tangle.

Elemental Orbs: Solar
While using a Solar subclass, Solar weapon final blows have a chance to spawn a Solar Elemental Orb. ...

Elemental Munitions
Combatant final blows with Tangles or Elemental Orbs have a chance to drop Special or Heavy ammo.
Defeating an enemy

Weaver's Call
... Targets defeated by Strand damage have a chance to generate a perched Threadling.

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.

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

A creature woven from pure Strand matter that seeks nearby targets and attacks, dealing damage.

Needlestorm
... After embedding themselves in the environment, the needles will re-weave into a host of Threadling... Threadlings you create will return to you and perch if they can't find any nearby targets. Damaging targets with your weapons or melee will send out perched Threadlings to attack.

Weaver's Call
Activate your class ability to weave three Threadlings and deploy any Threadlings you have perche... Targets defeated by Strand damage have a chance to generate a perched Threadling.

Mindspun Invocation
Your grapple, Shackle Grenade, and Threadling Grenade have enhanced functionalit... Your grapple melee spawns three Threadling eggs. ... : Hold to consume your Threadling Grenade and immediately generate five perched Threadlings.

Thread of Evolution
Threadlings travel farther and deal additional damage. ...

Thread of Rebirth
Strand weapon final blows have a chance to create a Threadling.
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. ...

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

Mindspun Invocation
...Final blows while Weaver's Trance is active create a suspending detonation. ...

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.

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