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KARNSTEIN ARC BUILD S23 (id: qg44uii)

Arc Warlock

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Added
11 Jan 2024 (Season of the Wish - S23)

Build Information

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Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Ionic trace
Blind
Amplified
Jolted
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Exotic
  • Karnstein Armlets
    Gauntlets
    Vampire's Caress – Melee and finisher final blows instantly grant cure and provide restoration for a short duration.
Weapons
  • Verglas Curve
    Combat Bow
    Hail Barrage – Final blows with this weapon grant Stasis arrows. Your next hip-fire shot will fire all of them in a single volley.
  • Nezarec's Whisper
    Glaive
    Adaptive Glaive – Hybrid melee/ranged polearm with a frontal shield. Generates energy on dealing ranged damage. : Raise shield, depleting energy over time : Kinetic melee combo
  • Cold Comfort
    Rocket Launcher
    Aggressive Frame – High damage, high recoil.
Abilities
  • Chaos Reach
    Super Ability
    Unleash a long-range channeled beam of concentrated Arc energy. Sustained damage on a single target creates a jolting lightning strike at their position. while active to deactivate your Super early, saving Super energy.
  • Chain Lightning
    Arc Melee
    An extended range melee that jolts your target and chains lightning to nearby targets. While amplified, it creates an additional set of chains.
  • Healing Rift
    Class Ability
    Conjure a well of power that continuously heals those inside it.
  • Flashbang Grenade
    Arc Grenade
    An explosive grenade that damages and blinds nearby targets.
Aspects
  • Electrostatic Mind
    Defeating targets with Arc abilities or defeating jolted or blinded targets creates an Ionic Trace. Collecting an Ionic Trace makes you amplified.
  • Lightning Surge
    While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to blink forward, calling down lightning strikes that jolt targets as you rematerialize.
Fragments
  • Spark of Ions
    Defeating a jolted target creates an Ionic Trace.
  • Spark of Resistance
    +10 Strength ▲ While surrounded by combatants, you are more resistant to incoming damage.
  • Spark of Recharge
    While critically wounded, your melee and grenade energy regenerates more quickly.
  • Spark of Feedback
    Taking melee damage briefly increases your outgoing melee damage. +10 Resilience ▲
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Harmonic Siphon (x2)
    Rapid Arc weapon final blows create an Orb of Power
  • Heavy Ammo Finder
    Increases the drop chance of Heavy ammo on kill.

Arms armor mods

  • Melee Kickstart
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. When your melee energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain melee energy for each Armor Charge used.
  • Heavy Handed (x2)
    Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.

Chest armor mods

  • Emergency Reinforcement
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. When your shields become broken, you gain temporary damage reduction. Consumes 3 or more stacks of Armor Charge, granting a longer duration to the damage reduction for each charge consumed.
  • Harmonic Resistance
    Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants
  • Void Resistance
    Reduces incoming Void damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Invigoration
    Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • Stacks on Stacks
    Picking up an Orb of Power grants you 1 additional stack of Armor Charge.
  • Recuperation
    Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Class item armor mods

  • 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.
  • Proximity Ward
    Gain a powerful overshield while performing your finisher.
Artifact perks
  • Hail The Storm
    Shattering frozen targets and Stasis crystals deals increased damage. Shattering Stasis crystals releases shards of ice that damage and slow targets.
  • 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.
  • Blast Radius
    Rapid final blows with Rocket Launchers and Grenade Launchers grant Armor Charge.
  • Wished into Being
    While your Super is nearly fully-charged, ability final blows spawn Orbs of Power.   Wearing Season of the Wish armor decreases Super amount threshold.
  • Origin Perk Specialization II
    Improves the benefits provided by the Noble Deeds, Unsated Hunger, Head Rush, and Dragon's Vengeance Origin Traits. Additionally, weapons with these traits are always overcharged.
  • 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.
  • Piercing Sidearms
    Your equipped Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sidearms 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.
  • Overload Rocket Launchers
    Rocket Launchers are especially affective against Overload Champions.
  • Dragon's Bite
    Breaking a combatant's shield with a Strand or Stasis weapon has a chance to suspend or freeze that combatant. Wearing Season of the Wish armor increases this chance.
  • Pillar of Ice
    Defeating a frozen target spawns Stasis crystals.

Breakdown

Orb generation

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

Wished into Being
While your Super is nearly fully-charged, ability final blows spawn Orbs of Power. ...

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Arc 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

Emergency Reinforcement
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...

Melee Kickstart
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...

Invigoration
Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Stacks on Stacks
Picking up an Orb of Power grants you 1 additional stack of Armor Charge.

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.
Armor Charge create

Emergency Reinforcement
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...

Melee Kickstart
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.

Special Finisher
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge consume

Emergency Reinforcement
... Consumes 3 or more stacks of Armor Charge, granting a longer duration to the damage reduction for each charge consumed.

Melee Kickstart
... When your melee energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain melee energy for each Armor Charge used.

Special Finisher
... Consumes 3 stacks of Armor Charge.
Ability cooldown

Ionic Trace
... When picked up, Ionic Traces grant ability energy.
Grenade cooldown

Spark of Recharge
While critically wounded, your melee and grenade energy regenerates more quickly.
Melee cooldown

Melee Kickstart
... When your melee energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain melee energy for each Armor Charge used.

Invigoration
Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
Final blows

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.

Wished into Being
While your Super is nearly fully-charged, ability final blows spawn Orbs of Power. ...

Verglas Curve
Hail Barrage – Final blows with this weapon grant Stasis arrows. ...

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

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

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

Electrostatic Mind
Defeating targets with Arc abilities or defeating jolted or blinded targets creates an Ionic Trace. ...

Spark of Ions
Defeating a jolted target creates an Ionic Trace.

Pillar of Ice
Defeating a frozen target spawns Stasis crystals.

Amplified
... Rapidly defeating targets with Arc damage makes you amplified.
Finishers

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

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

Proximity Ward
Gain a powerful overshield while performing your finisher.

Keywords

Ionic trace

A bolt of pure Arc energy that travels along the ground, seeking toward its creator. When picked up, Ionic Traces grant ability energy.

Electrostatic Mind
Defeating targets with Arc abilities or defeating jolted or blinded targets creates an Ionic Trac... Collecting an Ionic Trace makes you amplified.

Spark of Ions
Defeating a jolted target creates an Ionic Trace.
Blind

Combatants are disoriented and cannot fire their weapons. Opposing Guardians' HUD is removed and their vision is obscured. When blinded, Unstoppable Champions are stunned.

Electrostatic Mind
Defeating targets with Arc abilities or defeating jolted or blinded targets creates an Ionic Trace. ...

Flashbang Grenade
An explosive grenade that damages and blinds nearby targets.
Amplified

Your movement speed and weapon handling are greatly increased. After sprinting for a short time, your movement speed is further increased. Rapidly defeating targets with Arc damage makes you amplified.

Chain Lightning
... While amplified, it creates an additional set of chains.

Electrostatic Mind
... Collecting an Ionic Trace makes you amplified.
Jolted

The target is energized with destructive Arc Light. They take additional damage while jolted and chain lightning to nearby targets. Jolt damage causes Overload Champions to be stunned.

Chaos Reach
... Sustained damage on a single target creates a jolting lightning strike at their position. ...

Electrostatic Mind
Defeating targets with Arc abilities or defeating jolted or blinded targets creates an Ionic Trace. ...

Lightning Surge
While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to blink forward, calling down lightning strikes that jolt targets as you rematerialize.

Spark of Ions
Defeating a jolted target creates an Ionic Trace.
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