03 Apr 2025 (Episode: Heresy - S26)

Strand Hunter GOD TIER Build

Strand Hunter
PvE

03 Apr 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
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
  • Quicksilver Storm
    Auto Rifle
    Rocket Tracers – Landing multiple hits turns your next shot into a homing micro-rocket.
  • Lotus-Eater (Adept)
    Sidearm
    Rocket-Assisted Frame – Sidearm fires self-propelled rocket ammunition. Projectiles explode on impact for high damage.
  • Crowning Duologue
    Rocket Launcher
    Precision Frame – This weapon fires a small auto-tracking missile. Missiles lock onto targets when aimed.
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.
  • Widow's Silk
    You have an additional grenade charge. Your Grappling Hook creates a Grapple Tangle at the grapple point.
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 Ascent
    +10 Mobility ▲ Activating your grenade ability reloads your equipped weapon and grants bonus airborne effectiveness and handling for a short duration.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Harmonic Siphon (x2)
    Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power
  • Heavy Ammo Finder
    Increases the drop chance of Heavy ammo upon defeat of an opponent.

Arms armor mods

  • Momentum Transfer
    Causing damage with a grenade reduces your melee cooldown.
  • Impact Induction
    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

  • Harmonic Reserves
    Increases the amount of ammo you can carry for Strand weapons
  • Solar Resistance
    Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.
  • Concussive Dampener
    Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.

Leg armor mods

  • Innervation
    Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick 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

  • Reaper
    Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
  • Outreach
    Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
  • Bomber
    Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
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.
  • Piercing Sidearms
    Your equipped Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sidearms 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.
  • Maligned Harvest
    Rapidly applying Volatile causes your next instance of Void weapon damage to create a weakening burst. BOOST: Applying Weaken provides a small Void overshield.
  • Horde Shuttle
    Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. BOOST: Threadlings sever targets that they damage.
  • Disruptor Spike
    Improves the effects of Exhaust and Sever, lowering a target's damage output even further. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
  • 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.
  • Volatile Marksman
    Rapid Void weapon precision hits and rapid Void weapon final blows grant Volatile Rounds. BOOST: Volatile detonations grant class ability energy.

Breakdown

Orb generation

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

Innervation
Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick 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.

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

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.
Ability cooldown

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

Volatile Marksman
... BOOST: Volatile detonations grant class ability energy.
Grenade cooldown

Innervation
Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

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.

Bomber
Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Melee cooldown

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

Momentum Transfer
Causing damage with a grenade reduces your melee cooldown.

Outreach
Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
Final blows

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.

Volatile Marksman
Rapid Void weapon precision hits and rapid Void weapon final blows grant Volatile Rounds. ...
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. ...

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

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

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.

Keywords

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 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.
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.
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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