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Assassin's Cowl Strand Build (id: z5fv4ha)

Strand Hunter

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Added
15 Apr 2024 (Season of the Wish - S23)

Build Information

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Exotic
Weapons
Abilities
Aspects
Fragments

Armor mods

Helmets
Arms
Chests
Legs
Class items
Keywords
Suspend
Woven mail
Sever
Tangle
Unravel
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Exotic
  • Assassin's Cowl
    Helmet
    Vanishing Execution – Powered melee final blows grant invisibility and restore a portion of health and shields. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the duration of the invisibility and the amount of health and shields restored.
Weapons
  • Quicksilver Storm
    Auto Rifle
    Rocket Tracers – Landing multiple hits turns your next shot into a homing micro-rocket.
  • Harsh Language
    Grenade Launcher
    Wave Frame – One-shot handheld Grenade Launcher. Projectiles release a wave of energy when they contact the ground.
  • Retrofit Escapade
    Machine Gun
    Rapid-Fire Frame – Deeper ammo reserves. Slightly faster reload when magazine is empty.
Abilities
  • Gambler's Dodge
    Class Ability
    Dodge to perform a deft tumble, avoiding enemy attacks. Dodging near enemies fully recharges your Melee Ability.
  • Threaded Spike
    Strand Melee
    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 just as the dart gets back to you to catch it and increase the amount of energy returned.
  • Silkstrike
    Super Ability
    Weave a vicious rope dart and tear through your targets. : 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. : 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
    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.
  • Triple Jump
    Movement Ability
    While airborne, sustain your air control with a second or third jump.
Aspects
  • 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.
  • Widow's Silk
    You have an additional grenade charge. Your Grappling Hook creates a Grapple Tangle at the grapple point.
Fragments
  • 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.
  • Thread of Fury
    Damaging targets with a Tangle grants melee energy. -10 Strength ▼
  • Thread of Warding
    -10 Resilience ▼ Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.
Armor mods

Helmet armor mods

  • Void/Strand Dual Siphon
    Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power. Rapid Void weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
  • Ashes to Assets
    Gain bonus Super energy on grenade kills.
  • Hands-On
    Gain bonus Super energy on melee kills.

Arms armor mods

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

Chest armor mods

  • Melee Damage Resistance
    Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at point-blank range.
  • Void Resistance
    Reduces incoming Void damage from combatants.
  • Font of Endurance
    Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. You gain a bonus to resilience while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.

Leg armor mods

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

Class item armor mods

  • Time Dilation (x2)
    Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration.
  • Outreach
    Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.

Breakdown

Orb generation

Void/Strand Dual Siphon
Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Powe... Rapid Void weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

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

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.

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.

Font of Endurance
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge create

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

Font of Endurance
Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge effect

Font of Endurance
... You gain a bonus to resilience while you have any Armor Charge. ...
Armor Charge consume

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

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

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

Grapple
... Grappling to a Tangle immediately recharges your grenade energy. ...

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

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

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.

Outreach
Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.

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

Void/Strand Dual Siphon
Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Powe... Rapid Void weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.

Assassin's Cowl
Vanishing Execution – Powered melee final blows grant invisibility and restore a portion of health and shields. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the duration of the invisibility and the amount of health and shields restored.

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

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

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

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.
Finishers

Assassin's Cowl
... Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the duration of the invisibility and the amount of health and shields restored.

Keywords

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.

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