17 Mar 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

Strand 96% Trace Build

Strand Hunter

17 Mar 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

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Details

Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Woven mail
Tangle
Unravel
Sever
Suspend
Exotic
  • Foetracer
    Helmet
    Relentless Tracker – Damaging a powerful combatant or Guardian with an ability temporarily increases weapon damage of the same type. Defeating that marked target with damage that matches the element creates an elemental pickup.
Weapons
  • Finality's Auger
    Linear Fusion Rifle
    Ruinscribe's Forge – [Alternate Weapon Action] to fire a special projectile that deploys a Ruinscribe Turret. This projectile costs 3 ammo to fire. Aim the projectile skyward to provide the clearest sight lines for the turret which will automatically shoot at nearby targets.
  • Unsworn
    Trace Rifle
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
  • Division (Adept)
    Sidearm
    Heavy Burst – Fires a hard-hitting, two-round burst. Slightly reduces flinching from incoming fire while aiming.
Abilities
  • Silkstrike
    Super Ability
    Weave a vicious rope dart and tear through your targets. [Light Attack] : Swing the rope dart in front of you to deal damage. The tip of the dart deals bonus damage, and defeating targets with the tip causes them to explode. [Heavy Attack] : Swing the rope dart in a circular motion to deal heavy damage all around you. : Use the grapple to move forward quickly.
  • Shackle Grenade
    Strand Grenade
    Suspend
    A thrown weapon of weighted Strand matter that detonates on impact, suspending targets and creating additional suspending subprojectiles.
  • Threaded Spike
    Strand Melee
    Sever
    Throw a rope dart that bounces between targets, damaging and severing them. The dart will return to you once it's done, returning melee energy to you for each target hit. Press [Melee] just as the dart gets back to you to catch it and increase the amount of energy returned.
  • 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
  • Whirling Maelstrom
    Tangle
    Unravel
    Destroying a Tangle will weave a violent, writhing mass of Strand fibers. The Strand mass seeks out and damages targets, emitting Unraveling projectiles when it defeats them.
  • Ensnaring Slam
    Suspend
    Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, suspending all nearby targets on impact. Using this ability extends class ability cooldown time.
Fragments
  • Thread of Continuity
    Suspend
    Sever
    Unravel
    Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.
  • Thread of Generation
    -10 Discipline ▼ Dealing damage generates grenade energy.
  • Thread of Warding
    Woven Mail
    -10 Resilience ▼ Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
  • Thread of Wisdom
    Suspend
    Defeating suspended targets creates an Orb of Power.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Special Ammo Scout
    When one of your ammo finder perks creates a brick of Special ammo for you, it also creates bricks of Special ammo for your allies.
  • Special Ammo Finder
    Increases the drop chance of Special ammo upon defeat of an opponent.
  • Harmonic Siphon
    Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power

Arms armor mods

  • Impact Induction (x2)
    Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.
  • Grenade Kickstart
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. When your grenade energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain grenade energy for each Armor Charge used.

Chest armor mods

  • Solar Resistance
    Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.
  • Arc Resistance (x2)
    Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Better Already
    Your health begins to regenerate immediately after picking up an Orb of Power.
  • Recuperation
    Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • Harmonic Scavenger
    Strand weapons get bonus reserves when picking up ammo used by that weapon

Class item armor mods

  • Powerful Attraction (x2)
    Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.
  • Proximity Ward
    Gain a powerful overshield while performing your finisher.
Artifact perks
  • Elemental Supercharger
    Defeating exhausted or severed targets with weapons that match your Super element grants Super energy. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • Particle Reconstruction
    Dealing sustained damage with Fusion Rifles or Linear Fusion Rifles partially refills the magazine from reserves and grants them bonus damage for a short duration against that target.
  • Piercing Sidearms
    Your equipped Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sidearms are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Horde Shuttle
    Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. BOOST: Threadlings sever targets that they damage.
  • Harsh Refraction
    Trace Rifles do more damage to targets afflicted by elemental debuffs matching their element type.
  • Disruptor Spike
    Improves the effects of Exhaust and Sever, lowering a target's damage output even further. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • 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.
  • Beam Medic
    Rapid Trace Rifle final blows heal you and nearby allies. Powerful combatants increase the amount.
  • 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.
  • Deep Alchemy
    Weapons with the Subjugation Origin Trait gain stability and reload speed for a short duration when hitting any target. These weapons are also overcharged when that modifier is active.

Breakdown

Orb generation

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power

Thread of Wisdom
Defeating suspended targets creates an Orb of Power.
Orb pickup

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

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

Grenade Kickstart
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.

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

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

Grenade Kickstart
... When your grenade energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain grenade energy for each Armor Charge used.
Class Ability cooldown

Ensnaring Slam
Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, suspending all nearby targets on impact. Using this ability extends class ability cooldown time.
Grenade cooldown

Thread of Generation
... Dealing damage generates grenade energy.

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

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

Threaded Spike
... The dart will return to you once it's done, returning melee energy to you for each target hit. ...
Final blows

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. ...

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power

Beam Medic
Rapid Trace Rifle final blows heal you and nearby allies. ...
Defeating an enemy

Elemental Supercharger
Defeating exhausted or severed targets with weapons that match your Super element grants Super energy. ...

Silkstrike
...The tip of the dart deals bonus damage, and defeating targets with the tip causes them to explode. ...

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

Thread of Wisdom
Defeating suspended targets creates an Orb of Power.

Whirling Maelstrom
... The Strand mass seeks out and damages targets, emitting Unraveling projectiles when it defeats them.

Foetracer
... Defeating that marked target with damage that matches the element creates an elemental pickup.

Tangle
... Defeating targets afflicted by any Strand debuff will unwind them and create a Tangle.

Sever
... Severed targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.

Suspend
... Suspended targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.

Unravel
... Unraveled targets unwind into a Tangle when defeated.
Finishers

Proximity Ward
Gain a powerful overshield while performing your finisher.

Keywords

Woven mail

Your body is encased in a protective mesh of tightly woven Strand matter, greatly reducing any incoming non-precision damage.

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.

Whirling Maelstrom
Destroying a Tangle will weave a violent, writhing mass of Strand fibers. ...
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.

Threaded Spike
Throw a rope dart that bounces between targets, damaging and severing them. ...

Thread of Continuity
Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.
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.

Shackle Grenade
A thrown weapon of weighted Strand matter that detonates on impact, suspending targets and creating additional suspending subprojectiles.

Thread of Continuity
Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.

Thread of Wisdom
Defeating suspended targets creates an Orb of Power.

Ensnaring Slam
Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, suspending all nearby targets on impact. ...
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.

Thread of Continuity
Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.

Whirling Maelstrom
... The Strand mass seeks out and damages targets, emitting Unraveling projectiles when it defeats them.

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