06 Dec 2023 (Season of the Wish - S23)

Nighthawk DPS Build S23

Solar Hunter
Solo
PvE

06 Dec 2023 (Season of the Wish - S23)

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Details

Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Leg
Class items
Keywords
Cure
Radiant
Firesprite
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
  • Izanagi's Burden
    Sniper Rifle
    Honed Edge – [Alternate Weapon Action] : Consume the magazine and load a round with additional range and damage.
  • Cataphract GL3
    Grenade Launcher
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
  • Zaouli's Bane
    Hand Cannon
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
Abilities
  • Golden Gun: Marksman
    Super Ability
    Radiant
    Summon a precision flaming pistol that disintegrates targets with Solar Light. Your Golden Gun deals massively increased precision damage, overpenetrates targets, and creates Orbs of Power on precision hits. 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 Searing
    Firesprite
    Scorch
    Ignition
    +10 Recovery ▲ Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.
  • Ember of Torches
    Radiant
    -10 Discipline ▼ Powered melee attacks against combatants make you and nearby allies radiant.
  • Ember of Empyrean
    Restoration
    Radiant
    -10 Resilience ▼ Solar weapon or ability final blows extend the duration of restoration and radiant effects applied to you.
  • Ember of Solace
    Restoration
    Radiant
    Radiant and restoration effects applied to you have increased duration.
  • Ember of Mercy
    Restoration
    Firesprite
    When you revive an ally, you and other nearby allies gain restoration. Picking up a Firesprite grants restoration. +10 Resilience ▲
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

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

  • Heavy Handed
    Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
  • Fastball
    Increases grenade throw distance.
  • Focusing Strike
    Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a powered melee attack.

Chest armor mods

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

Leg armor mods

  • Kinetic Weapon Surge (x2)
    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.

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
  • Argent Ordnance
    Firing a Rocket Launcher consumes one stack of Armor Charge, granting increased damage and reload speed until you reload or stow your Rocket Launcher.
  • Solo Operative
    While you are the only member of your fireteam, you deal increased damage to all combatants.
  • From Whence You Came
    Increases ability damage to Taken and Scorn combatants.
  • 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 Pulse Rifle
    Sustained fire from Pulse Rifles disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions. Additionally, Pulse Rifles are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • 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 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.

Breakdown

Orb generation

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

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.

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

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

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

Kinetic Weapon Surge
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. ...

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

Kinetic Weapon Surge
... Your Kinetic 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

Bomber
Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.

Firesprite
... When picked up, Firesprites grant grenade energy.
Melee cooldown

Ember of Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

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. ...

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

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

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

Ember of Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

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

Ember of Solace
Radiant and restoration effects applied to you have increased duration.

Ember of Mercy
When you revive an ally, you and other nearby allies gain restoratio... Picking up a Firesprite grants restoration. ...
Firesprite

A luminous concentration of Solar energy. When picked up, Firesprites grant grenade energy.

Ember of Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

Ember of Mercy
... Picking up a Firesprite grants restoration. ...
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.
Ignition

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

Ember of Searing
+10 Recovery ▲ Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

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 Searing
... Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite.

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

Ember of Solace
Radiant and restoration effects applied to you have increased duration.

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

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