20 Dec 2023 (Season of the Wish - S23)

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Solar Hunter
PvE

20 Dec 2023 (Season of the Wish - S23)

Quick Look

Details

Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Cure
Radiant
Restoration
Ignition
Scorch
Exotic
  • Celestial Nighthawk
    Helmet
    Hawkeye Hack – Precision final blows reduce the cooldown of your Super. Modifies Golden Gun to fire a single, high-damage shot. Targets defeated by that shot give you Super energy and explode.
Weapons
  • Sunshot
    Hand Cannon
    Sunburn – This weapon fires explosive rounds and highlights targets that take damage from Sunshot.
  • Apex Predator
    Rocket Launcher
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
  • The Supremacy
    Sniper Rifle
    Rapid-Fire Frame – Deeper ammo reserves. Slightly faster reload when magazine is empty.
Abilities
  • Golden Gun: Deadshot
    Super Ability
    Radiant
    Ignition
    Summon a rapid-fire flaming pistol that disintegrates targets with Solar Light. Causing Solar ignitions while your Super is active refunds a Golden Gun round. Benefits from being radiant.
  • Healing Grenade
    Solar Grenade
    Restoration
    Cure
    A grenade that cures allies on impact and creates an Orb of benevolent Solar Light, granting restoration to allies when picked up.
  • Knife Trick
    Solar Melee
    Scorch
    Ignition
    Throw a fan of flaming knives that scorch targets on hit.
  • 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
  • Knock 'Em Down
    Radiant
    Your Solar Supers are enhanced. Deadshot Golden Gun has damage resistance, Marksman Golden Gun has increased duration, and Blade Barrage launches more projectiles. While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.
  • On Your Mark
    Precision final blows grant you and nearby allies increased weapon handling and reload speed for a short duration. Stacks 3 times. Activating your class ability immediately grants maximum stacks of On Your Mark.
Fragments
  • Ember of Ashes
    Scorch
    Ignition
    You apply more scorch stacks to targets.
  • Ember of Torches
    Radiant
    -10 Discipline â–¼ Powered melee attacks against combatants make you and nearby allies radiant.
  • Ember of Benevolence
    Restoration
    Cure
    Radiant
    -10 Discipline â–¼ Applying restoration, cure, or radiant to allies grants increased grenade, melee, and class ability regeneration for a short duration.
  • Ember of Singeing
    Scorch
    Ignition
    Your class ability recharges faster when you scorch targets.
  • Ember of Empyrean
    Restoration
    Radiant
    -10 Resilience â–¼ Solar weapon or ability final blows extend the duration of restoration and radiant effects applied to you.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Harmonic Siphon
    Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power
  • Hands-On
    Gain bonus Super energy on melee kills.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.

Leg armor mods

  • Kinetic Weapon Surge
    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.
  • Solar Weapon Surge
    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.
  • Recuperation
    Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Class item armor mods

  • Powerful Attraction
    Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.
  • Time Dilation
    Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration.
  • Bomber
    Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Artifact perks
  • Kindling Trigger
    Radiant causes Solar weapons to apply scorch to unscorched combatants.
  • Blast Radius
    Rapid final blows with Rocket Launchers and Grenade Launchers grant Armor Charge.
  • Heart of the Flame
    Casting your Solar Super grants nearby allies radiant and increases the damage of your Super for each nearby ally.
  • Torch
    While radiant, deal increased weapon damage to combatants affected by Strand and Stasis debuffs.
  • Flint Striker
    Rapid Solar weapon precision hits and rapid Solar weapon final blows grant Radiant.
  • Overload Auto Rifle
    Sustained fire from Auto Rifles disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions. Additionally, Auto Rifles are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • Unstoppable Bow
    Holding a Bow fully drawn for a short time loads powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Bows are always overcharged when that 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.
  • Revitalizing Blast
    Causing damage with a Solar ability weakens Champions and bosses for a short duration.
  • Unravelling Orbs
    Picking up an Orb of Power grants Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds.

Breakdown

Orb generation

Gunslinger
... Your Golden Gun deals massively increased precision damage, overpenetrates targets, and creates Orbs of Power on precision hits. ...

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

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power
Orb pickup

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

Solar Weapon Surge
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.

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

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

Blast Radius
Rapid final blows with Rocket Launchers and Grenade Launchers grant Armor Charge.

Solar Weapon Surge
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. ...

Solar Weapon Surge
... Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage 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

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

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

Knock 'Em Down
... While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.
Final blows

Celestial Nighthawk
Hawkeye Hack – Precision final blows reduce the cooldown of your Super. ...

Blast Radius
Rapid final blows with Rocket Launchers and Grenade Launchers grant Armor Charge.

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

Knock 'Em Down
... While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.

On Your Mark
Precision final blows grant you and nearby allies increased weapon handling and reload speed for a short duration. ...

Flint Striker
Rapid Solar weapon precision hits and rapid Solar weapon final blows grant Radiant.

Ember of Empyrean
... Solar weapon or ability final blows extend the duration of restoration and radiant effects applied to you.

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power
Defeating an enemy

Celestial Nighthawk
...Targets defeated by that shot give you Super energy and explode.

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

Keywords

Restoration

You regenerate health and shields over time. Cannot be interrupted by taking damage.

Healing Grenade
A grenade that cures allies on impact and creates an Orb of benevolent Solar Light, granting restoration to allies when picked up.

Ember of Benevolence
... Applying restoration, cure, or radiant to allies grants increased grenade, melee, and class ability regeneration for a short duration.

Ember of Empyrean
... Solar weapon or ability final blows extend the duration of restoration and radiant effects applied to you.
Cure

You are healed in a burst of mending Solar Light.

Healing Grenade
A grenade that cures allies on impact and creates an Orb of benevolent Solar Light, granting restoration to allies when picked up.

Ember of Benevolence
... Applying restoration, cure, or radiant to allies grants increased grenade, melee, and class ability regeneration for a short duration.
Ignition

A large Solar explosion which deals damage in an area around the target and stuns Unstoppable Champions.

Ember of Ashes
You apply more scorch stacks to targets.

Ember of Singeing
Your class ability recharges faster when you scorch targets.

Golden Gun: Deadshot
... Causing Solar ignitions while your Super is active refunds a Golden Gun round. ...

Knife Trick
Throw a fan of flaming knives that scorch targets on hit.
Scorch

The target is singed by destructive Solar Light, taking damage over time. Scorch damage increases as the target accumulates more Scorch stacks. After enough Scorch stacks are applied to the target, they ignite.

Ember of Ashes
You apply more scorch stacks to targets.

Ember of Singeing
Your class ability recharges faster when you scorch targets.

Knife Trick
Throw a fan of flaming knives that scorch targets on hit.
Radiant

Your weapons are enhanced by the power of the Traveler and deal increased damage to combatants. While you are radiant, your weapons pierce the shields of Barrier Champions and stun them.

Knock 'Em Down
... While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.

Ember of Torches
... Powered melee attacks against combatants make you and nearby allies radiant.

Ember of Benevolence
... Applying restoration, cure, or radiant to allies grants increased grenade, melee, and class ability regeneration for a short duration.

Ember of Empyrean
... Solar weapon or ability final blows extend the duration of restoration and radiant effects applied to you.

Golden Gun: Deadshot
... Benefits from being radiant.

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