03 Apr 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

Barrow Dyad High Damage Build

Strand Hunter

03 Apr 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

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Quick Look

Details

Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Woven mail
Tangle
Threadling
Unravel
Sever
Suspend
Exotic
  • Foetracer
    Helmet
    Relentless Tracker – Damaging a powerful combatant or Guardian with an ability temporarily increases weapon damage of the same type. Defeating that marked target with damage that matches the element creates an elemental pickup.
Weapons
  • Barrow-Dyad
    Submachine Gun
    Panic Response – This weapon generates blight as it deals damage. While not firing, blight depletes, and the magazine is gradually refilled. Reload the weapon to convert stored blight into Blighted Seekers.
  • Scintillation (Adept)
    Linear Fusion Rifle
    Adaptive Burst – Fires a three-round burst.
  • Psychopomp
    Grenade Launcher
    Area Denial Frame – Burst fire Grenade Launcher. Each projectile creates a lingering pool on impact that deals damage over time.
Abilities
  • Silkstrike
    Super Ability
    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.
  • 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.
  • Threaded Spike
    Strand Melee
    Sever
    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 [Melee] just as the dart gets back to you to catch it and increase the amount of energy returned.
  • 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
  • Whirling Maelstrom
    Tangle
    Unravel
    Destroying a Tangle will weave a violent, writhing mass of Strand fibers. The Strand mass seeks out and damages targets, emitting Unraveling projectiles when it defeats them.
  • Widow's Silk
    You have an additional grenade charge. Your Grappling Hook creates a Grapple Tangle at the grapple point.
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 Evolution
    Threadling
    Threadlings travel farther and deal additional damage. +10 Intellect ▲
  • Thread of Warding
    Woven Mail
    -10 Resilience ▼ Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

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

Arms armor mods

  • Heavy Handed
    Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
  • Impact Induction
    Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.
  • Strand Loader
    Increases reload speed of Strand weapons.

Chest armor mods

  • Solar Resistance
    Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.
  • Void Resistance
    Reduces incoming Void damage from combatants.
  • Arc Resistance
    Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • 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.
  • Recuperation
    Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • Harmonic Scavenger
    Strand 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • To Shreds
    Dealing sustained damage to severed targets unravels them. Defeating a severed target creates a hotspot of Strand energy, granting Woven Mail to nearby allies for a short duration. BOOST: Unravelling projectiles deal increased damage. These deal further increased damage to severed targets.
  • 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.
  • Overload Trace Rifles
    Uninterrupted fire from your equipped Trace Rifle causes the beam to stun combatants, delaying ability energy regeneration and exhausting them. Strong against Overload Champions. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • 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.
  • Horde Shuttle
    Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. BOOST: Threadlings sever targets that they damage.
  • Gold from Lead
    Picking up Special ammo has the chance to grant Heavy ammo.
  • 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.
  • King's Vestige
    Defeating powerful Taken loads your weapon with Taken energy. The next time you fire, launch 3 Taken seeker rounds that disrupt and exhaust targets. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • 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.

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

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power

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

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

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.

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.
Grenade cooldown

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

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

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

Arc Siphon
Rapid Arc 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. ...

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power

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

To Shreds
... Defeating a severed target creates a hotspot of Strand energy, granting Woven Mail to nearby allies for a short duration. ...

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

King's Vestige
Defeating powerful Taken loads your weapon with Taken energy. ...

Whirling Maelstrom
... The Strand mass seeks out and damages targets, emitting Unraveling projectiles when it defeats them.

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

Foetracer
... Defeating that marked target with damage that matches the element creates an elemental pickup.

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

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

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.

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.
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.
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.

Whirling Maelstrom
Destroying a Tangle will weave a violent, writhing mass of Strand fibers. ...
Threadling

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

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

Whirling Maelstrom
... The Strand mass seeks out and damages targets, emitting Unraveling projectiles when it defeats them.

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