22 Nov 2023 (Season of the Witch - S22)

Season 23 Pro Strand Thorn Build

Strand Warlock
PvE

22 Nov 2023 (Season of the Witch - S22)

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
  • Necrotic Grip
    Gauntlets
    Grasp of the Devourer – Damaging a target with melee poisons them, dealing increasing damage over time. Defeating a poisoned target spreads the condition. Provides a moderate benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all Weapons of Sorrow.
Weapons
  • Thorn
    Hand Cannon
    Mark of the Devourer – Rounds pierce targets and deal damage over time. Kills with this weapon leave behind Remnants.
  • Loaded Question (Adept)
    Fusion Rifle
    High-Impact Frame – Slow firing and high damage. This weapon is more accurate when stationary, moving slowly, and aiming down sights.
  • Semiotician
    Rocket Launcher
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • The Wanderer
    Tangle
    Threadling
    Suspend
    Tangles you throw attach to targets and detonate into a suspending burst. Destroying a Tangle creates a suspending burst after a short delay. Threadling final blows create a Tangle.
Fragments
  • Thread of Isolation
    Sever
    Landing rapid precision hits emits a severing burst from the target.
  • Thread of Generation
    -10 Discipline ▼ Dealing damage generates grenade energy.
  • 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

  • Kinetic Siphon
    Rapid Kinetic 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

  • Font of Focus
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. You gain a bonus to discipline while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
  • 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

  • Harmonic Reserves
    Increases the amount of ammo you can carry for Strand weapons
  • Charged Up
    Increases the maximum number of stacks of Armor Charge you can carry by 1.
  • Void Resistance
    Reduces incoming Void damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Strand Scavenger
    Strand weapons get bonus reserves when picking up ammo used by that weapon.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Class item armor mods

  • Time Dilation
    Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration.
  • Distribution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability near targets.
  • Bomber
    Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Artifact perks
  • Overload Hand Cannon
    Landing consecutive hits with any Hand Cannon you are wielding disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Arc/Strand Siphon Combo
    Combines the Arc and Strand Siphon mods into one.
  • Diviner's Discount
    All Scavenger mods are discounted.
  • Refreshing Pickups
    Picking up a Tangle or Elemental Orb grants energy to your least-powered ability.
  • Communal Pickups
    When an ally destroys or picks up your Tangle or Elemental Orb, the Tangle cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds and you gain bonus damage with weapons matching your subclass for 10 seconds.
  • 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: Void
    While using a Void subclass, Void weapon final blows have a chance to spawn a Void Elemental Orb. Void Orbs can be thrown to create a Void explosion that makes enemies it damages volatile.
  • Rapid-Fire Ranger
    Rapid precision hits against distant combatants weaken them for a short duration.
  • Monochromatic Maestro
    Dealing elemental ability damage increases matching weapon damage, and elemental weapon damage increases matching ability damage. Bonus granted is 10% for 5 seconds.

Breakdown

Orb generation

Kinetic Siphon
Rapid Kinetic 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. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Font of Vigor
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. ...

Font of Focus
... You gain a bonus to discipline while you have any Armor Charge. ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wanderer
... Threadling final blows create a Tangle.

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

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

Elemental Orbs: Void
While using a Void subclass, Void weapon final blows have a chance to spawn a Void Elemental Orb. ...
Defeating an enemy

Necrotic Grip
... Defeating a poisoned target spreads the condition. ...

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

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.

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.
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.
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.

The Wanderer
Tangles you throw attach to targets and detonate into a suspending burst. Destroying a Tangle creates a suspending burst after a short dela... Threadling final blows create a Tangle.

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

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.

The Wanderer
... Threadling final blows create a Tangle.
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. ...

The Wanderer
Tangles you throw attach to targets and detonate into a suspending burst. Destroying a Tangle creates a suspending burst after a short delay. ...
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. ...

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

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