02 Apr 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

BEST STRAND HUNTER

Strand Hunter

02 Apr 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

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
  • Radiant Dance Machines
    Leg Armor
    The Dance – Moderately increases airborne effectiveness and hip fire mobility, range, and accuracy for weapons that use Primary ammo. Final blows with Primary ammo weapons return dodge energy, which can overflow to create additional charges when full.
Weapons
  • Barrow-Dyad
    Submachine Gun
    Panic Response – This weapon generates blight as it deals damage. While not firing, blight depletes, and the magazine is gradually refilled. Reload the weapon to convert stored blight into Blighted Seekers.
  • Lotus-Eater (Adept)
    Sidearm
    Rocket-Assisted Frame – Sidearm fires self-propelled rocket ammunition. Projectiles explode on impact for high damage.
  • Cynosure
    Rocket Launcher
    Adaptive Frame – A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy.
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Threaded Specter
    Threadling
    Activating your class ability leaves behind a decoy woven from Strand matter that draws the attention of nearby combatants. After taking significant damage or when combatants approach, the decoy detonates, dealing damage and releasing Threadlings that seek out and attack nearby foes.
Fragments
  • Thread of Isolation
    Sever
    Landing rapid precision hits emits a severing burst from the target.
  • 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.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Powerful Friends
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes nearby allies to increase their current Armor Charge by 1.
  • Dynamo
    Reduces Super cooldown when using your class ability near targets.
  • Harmonic Siphon
    Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power

Arms armor mods

  • Heavy Handed
    Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
  • Harmonic Loader
    Increases reload speed of Strand weapons
  • Impact Induction
    Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.

Chest armor mods

  • Harmonic Resistance
    Reduces incoming Strand damage from combatants
  • Concussive Dampener
    Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
  • Arc Resistance
    Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Better Already
    Your health begins to regenerate immediately after picking up an Orb of Power.
  • Absolution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • 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.
  • Distribution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability near targets.
  • Reaper
    Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
Artifact perks
  • To Shreds
    Dealing sustained damage to severed targets unravels them. Defeating a severed target creates a hotspot of Strand energy, granting Woven Mail to nearby allies for a short duration. BOOST: Unravelling projectiles deal increased damage. These deal further increased damage to severed targets.
  • Defibrillating Blast
    Stunning a Champion grants maximum stacks of Bolt Charge. Triggers an Arc bolt that heals you and jolts combatants that it damages.
  • 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.
  • Unstoppable Rocket Launcher
    Shortly after you ready or reload a Rocket Launcher, damage from that weapon stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Rocket Launchers are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • Dreadful Finisher
    Defeating powerful combatants with your finisher spawns Special ammo for you and your allies; defeated Subjugators, Tormentors, or Champions spawn more ammo.
  • Horde Shuttle
    Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. BOOST: Threadlings sever targets that they damage.
  • Gold from Lead
    Picking up Special ammo has the chance to grant Heavy ammo.
  • 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.
  • Vile Weave
    Targets hit by your Tangles are severed. Reduce Tangle cooldown by picking one up.
  • 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.

Breakdown

Orb generation

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

Harmonic Siphon
Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power

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

Powerful Friends
Collecting an Orb of Power causes nearby allies to increase their current Armor Charge by 1.

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

Absolution
Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

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

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. ...
Ability cooldown

Absolution
Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

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.
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

Radiant Dance Machines
... Final blows with Primary ammo weapons return dodge energy, which can overflow to create additional charges when full.

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

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

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

To Shreds
... Defeating a severed target creates a hotspot of Strand energy, granting Woven Mail to nearby allies for a short duration. ...

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

Dreadful Finisher
Defeating powerful combatants with your finisher spawns Special ammo for you and your allies; defeated Subjugators, Tormentors, or Champions spawn more ammo.

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

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.
Finishers

Dreadful Finisher
Defeating powerful combatants with your finisher spawns Special ammo for you and your allies; defeated Subjugators, Tormentors, or Champions spawn more ammo.

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.

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

Thread of Isolation
Landing rapid precision hits emits a severing burst from the target.

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

A creature woven from pure Strand matter that seeks nearby targets and attacks, dealing damage.

Threaded Specter
... After taking significant damage or when combatants approach, the decoy detonates, dealing damage and releasing Threadlings that seek out and attack nearby foes.
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.

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

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

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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