the warlock melee meta

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  Karnstein Armlets

  Gauntlets

  Vampire's Caress – Melee and finisher final blows instantly grant cure and provide restoration for a short duration.

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  D2Foundry ->

  Polaris Lance

  Scout Rifle

  The Perfect Fifth – Precision hits return ammo to the mag. Landing 4 precision hits loads a delayed Solar explosive round that scorches targets for your next shot.

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  D2Foundry ->

  Qullim's Terminus (Harrowed)

  Machine Gun

  High-Impact Frame – Slow firing and high damage. This weapon is more accurate when stationary, moving slowly, and aiming down sights.

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  D2Foundry ->

  Rake Angle (Adept)

  Glaive

  Aggressive Glaive – Hard-hitting, slow melee/ranged polearm with a frontal shield. Generates energy on dealing ranged damage. [Aim Down Sights] : Raise shield, depleting energy over time [Melee] : Kinetic melee combo

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  Nova Bomb: Cataclysm

  Void Super | Light Ability

  Hurl an explosive bolt of Void Light at a target, disintegrating those caught within its blast. Nova Bomb travels slowly and seeks targets. Detonations shatter into smaller seeker projectiles.

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  Healing Rift

  Class Ability

  Conjure a well of power that continuously heals those inside it.

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  Arcane Needle

  Strand Melee | Darkness Ability

  

  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.

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  Coldsnap Grenade

  Stasis Grenade | Darkness Ability

  

  Freeze

  A grenade that freezes on impact and sends another seeker to find and freeze targets.

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  Burst Glide

  Movement Ability

  Jump while airborne to activate Glide and start an airborne drift with a strong initial boost of speed.

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  Lightning Surge

  

  Bolt Charge

  

  Jolted

  While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to blink forward, calling down lightning strikes that jolt targets as you rematerialize. Targets that are hit by your lightning strikes grant you stacks of Bolt Charge.

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  Bleak Watcher

  

  Slow

  : Hold to convert your grenade into a Stasis turret that fires slowing projectiles at nearby targets.

Helmet armor mods

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  Solar Siphon

  Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

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  Stasis Siphon

  Rapid Stasis weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

Arms armor mods

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  Heavy Handed

  Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.

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  Fastball

  Increases grenade throw distance.

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  Impact Induction

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

Chest armor mods

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  Solar Resistance (x3)

  Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

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  Better Already

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

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  Absolution

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

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  Recuperation

  Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Class item armor mods

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  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.

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  Reaper

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

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  Outreach

  Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.

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  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.

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  Defibrillating Blast

  Stunning a Champion grants maximum stacks of Bolt Charge. Triggers an Arc bolt that heals you and jolts combatants that it damages.

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  Piercing Sidearms

  Your equipped Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sidearms are always overcharged when that modifier is active.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Flashover

  When you gain maximum Bolt Charge, you also become amplified. Lightning bolts deal more damage.

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  Horde Shuttle

  Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. BOOST: Threadlings sever targets that they damage.

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  Harsh Refraction

  Trace Rifles do more damage to targets afflicted by elemental debuffs matching their element type.

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  Disruptor Spike

  Improves the effects of Exhaust and Sever, lowering a target's damage output even further. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.

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  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.

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  Vile Weave

  Targets hit by your Tangles are severed. Reduce Tangle cooldown by picking one up.

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  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.