10 Jun 2024 (Episode: Echoes - S24)

[E01] Strand Melee DPS Build

Strand Titan
PvE

10 Jun 2024 (Episode: Echoes - S24)

Quick Look

Details

Exotic
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments
Artifact perks

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Woven mail
Tangle
Unravel
Sever
Suspend
Exotic
  • Wishful Ignorance
    Gauntlets
    Wish-Dragon's Talons – Gain an additional Frenzied Blade charge. Frenzied Blade and Flechette Storm briefly increase their damage with each strike. Pulses from your Banner of War return melee energy based on the number of allies healed.
Abilities
  • Bladefury
    Super Ability
    Suspend
    Sever
    [Super] : Create two woven blades and roam the battlefield. While active: [Light Attack] : Perform a leaping slash towards nearby targets, severing them on hit and dealing bonus damage to suspended targets. Each successful hit briefly increases your attack speed and grants energy for your heavy attack. [Heavy Attack] : Unleash a heavy upward slash, creating two suspending projectiles that seek out targets.
  • 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.
  • Frenzied Blade
    Strand Melee
    Sever
    Activate your charged melee ability to dash forward, slashing at targets in front of you and severing them.
  • Rally Barricade
    Class Ability
    Create a small barrier that you can peek over while aiming down sights and that increases weapon reload speed, stability, and range when you stand behind it.
  • Catapult Lift
    Movement Ability
    Jump while airborne to activate Lift and launch into the air with a strong initial burst of momentum.
Aspects
  • Banner of War
    Defeat a target with a melee attack, finisher, or Sword to raise a Banner of War that pulses with energy, periodically healing nearby allies and increasing melee and Sword damage. Targets defeated by you and nearby allies charge the banner, increasing the speed of its pulses.
  • Flechette Storm
    Unravel
    While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to leap into the air, knocking nearby targets away and dealing damage. While airborne, activate your charged melee again to launch a cluster of damaging, Unraveling projectiles. Repeatedly activating melee will chain additional throws.
Fragments
  • Thread of Generation
    -10 Discipline ▼ Dealing damage generates grenade energy.
  • Thread of Fury
    Tangle
    Damaging targets with a Tangle grants melee energy. -10 Strength ▼
  • Thread of Transmutation
    Woven Mail
    Tangle
    +10 Strength ▲ While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.
  • Thread of Warding
    Woven Mail
    -10 Resilience ▼ Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Harmonic Siphon
    Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power
  • Hands-On
    Gain bonus Super energy on melee kills.
  • Solar Siphon
    Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

Arms armor mods

  • Heavy Handed
    Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
  • Impact Induction
    Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.

Chest armor mods

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

Leg armor mods

  • Invigoration (x2)
    Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • Absolution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns each time you pick up an Orb of Power.

Class item armor mods

  • Distribution
    Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability near targets.
  • Outreach (x2)
    Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
Artifact perks
  • Shieldcrush
    While you have Woven Mail, Frost Armor, or a Void Overshield, your melee recharges faster and deals increased damage. While you are amplified or radiant, your grenade recharges faster and deals increased damage.
  • Transference
    Gain increased grenade and melee damage while transcendent. Weapon final blows while transcendent refund Light and Dark energy after Transcendence ends.
  • Authorized Mod: Elemental Charge
    The energy cost of Elemental Charge mods are significantly discounted.
  • Blade Stamina
    Rapidly defeating combatants with a Sword refunds some ammo.
  • Galvanic Armor
    While you have an Arc or Prismatic subclass equipped, incoming damage from combatants is reduced while amplified.
  • Radiant Orbs
    While you have a Solar or Prismatic subclass equipped, picking up an Orb of Power makes you radiant.
  • Overload Sword
    Landing consecutive hits with a Sword you are wielding disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions. Additionally, Swords are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • 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.
  • Overload Hand Cannon
    Landing consecutive hits with any Hand Cannon you are wielding disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions. Additionally, Hand Cannons are always overcharged when the modifier is active.
  • Anti-barrier Submachine Gun
    Submachine Guns you are wielding fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Submachine Guns are always overcharged when the modifier is active.
  • Anti-Barrier Pulse Rifle
    Your equipped Pulse Rifles fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Pulse Rifles are always overcharged when that modifier is active.
  • Unstoppable Scout Rifle
    Aiming down the sights of a Scout Rifle for a short time loads a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Scout Rifles are always overcharged when that modifier is active.

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

Solar Siphon
Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
Orb pickup

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

Radiant Orbs
While you have a Solar or Prismatic subclass equipped, picking up an Orb of Power makes you radiant.

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

Thread of Warding
... Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
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

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

Wishful Ignorance
...Pulses from your Banner of War return melee energy based on the number of allies healed.

Outreach
Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.

Thread of Fury
Damaging targets with a Tangle grants melee energy. ...
Final blows

Transference
... Weapon final blows while transcendent refund Light and Dark energy after Transcendence ends.

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

Thread of Transmutation
... While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.

Solar Siphon
Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
Defeating an enemy

Blade Stamina
Rapidly defeating combatants with a Sword refunds some ammo.

Banner of War
Defeat a target with a melee attack, finisher, or Sword to raise a Banner of War that pulses with energy, periodically healing nearby allies and increasing melee and Sword damag... Targets defeated by you and nearby allies charge the banner, increasing the speed of its pulses.

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

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

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

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

Banner of War
Defeat a target with a melee attack, finisher, or Sword to raise a Banner of War that pulses with energy, periodically healing nearby allies and increasing melee and Sword damage. ...

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 Transmutation
... While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.

Thread of Warding
... Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
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.

Bladefury
... While acti... [Light Attack] : Perform a leaping slash towards nearby targets, severing them on hit and dealing bonus damage to suspended targets. ...

Frenzied Blade
Activate your charged melee ability to dash forward, slashing at targets in front of you and severing them.
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.

Thread of Fury
Damaging targets with a Tangle grants melee energy. ...

Thread of Transmutation
... While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.
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.

Flechette Storm
... While airborne, activate your charged melee again to launch a cluster of damaging, Unraveling projectiles. ...
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.

Bladefury
... While acti... [Light Attack] : Perform a leaping slash towards nearby targets, severing them on hit and dealing bonus damage to suspended targets. ... [Heavy Attack] : Unleash a heavy upward slash, creating two suspending projectiles that seek out targets.

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