Cenotaph Solar Warlock Build

Gameplay Loop

Ability Breakdown

Super

• Well of Radiance
  • This Solar super has been a staple for essentially ever Warlock since it's inception. Players become nearly invulnerable within the circle of the well while getting Radiantand Restoration effects. Now if you're using this for a damage phase with teammates remember to not move around within the Well as you're likely to down your teammates.

Abilities

• Phoenix Dive, This is a great option for those Warlocks looking to not just stand in a circle and instead continue to glide around the battlefield.
• Strafe Jump, Jump of your choice!
• Incinerator Snap, This is just a simple melee that has a close but wide attack range. Also the Scorch applied by this can affect multiple targets at once.
• Fusion Grenade, This is a phenomenal options combined with Touch of Flame. You're grenade will explode twice so it's a great option for champs.

Aspects

• Touch of Flame, Your grenades have enhanced abilities (Fusion for this build) Fusion Grenades explode twice.
• Heat Rises, This is just a great option to consistently keep up healing and melee energy. Consume your grenade to cure yourself and teammates. The ability to shoot, melee, and throw grenades while gliding is fun while helping your melee energy.

Fragments

• Ember of Torches, Powered melee attacks against combatants make you and nearby allies radiant. This is perfect for consistent activation of more weapon damage and intrinsic Barrier stuns.
• Ember of Empyrean, Solar weapon or ability final blows extend the duration of restoration and radiant effects applied to you. You should consistently have both these buffs if you use your Solar trace rifle.
• Ember of Searing, Defeating scorched targets grants melee energy and creates a Firesprite. With Incandescent on your trace rifle you'll consistently scorch targets.
• Ember of Singeing, Your class ability recharges faster when you scorch targets. You want to have that Phoenix Dive back instantly after scorching targets with your trace rifle.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

• Purchase from Xur (his loot rotates weekly).
• Decrypting exotic engrams at Rahool (it will be a random exotic drop, but will prioritize exotics you currently do not have, known as the knockout system).
• Farm the expert lost sector on helmet Armor days.
• This assumes you've purchased Lightfall and it's season pass that includes Season of the Deep.
• Available as drop from Vex Strike Force.

Stat Priorities

• Resilience > Discipline > Recovery.
• Resilience is the amount of damage you can take before dying, as well as your shield capacity.
• Discipline is what reduces your grenade cooldown.
• Recovery is how long it takes for your health to regenerate after you take damage.

Armor Mods

• Helmet
  • Heavy Ammo Finder - Increases the drop chance of Heavy ammo on kill.
  • Hands-On - Gain bonus Super energy on melee kills.
  • Harmonic Siphon - Rapid solar final blows create an Orb of Power.
• Gauntlets
  • Focusing Strike - Grant class ability energy when you cause damage with a powered melee attack.
  • Impact Induction - Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.
  • Heavy Handed - Your powered melee final blows create Orb of Power.
• Chest
  • Resist mods, your choice - choose for the activity you are going into!
    • Recommend Arc, Void, and Solar resistance mods for general combat.
• Leg
  • Solar Weapon Surge - Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge.
    • Having 1 of these results in a 10% strand weapon damage boost.
  • Recuperation - Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
  • Innervation - Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
• Bond
  • Reaper - Use class ability, then get a kill with a weapon to spawn an orb of power.
  • Time Dilation - Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration.
  • Bomber - Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.

Artifact Mods

Recommend Weapons

• Kinetic Weapon: Midnight Coup - We love this Into the Light variant for it’s origin trait that reduces our cooldown on our grenade.
• Energy Weapon: Acasia's Dejection - This Trace Rifle has a book of amazing perks to combine like Reconstruction and Incandescent.
• Power Weapon: Gjallarhorn - This classic Rocket Launcher does massive damage on it’s own while buffing your team’s non-exotic rockets. 

Variants

• Non-exotic Trace Rifle - For this setup you’ll equip a legendary Trace Rifle instead of an exotic variant. The main reason for this is because currently we have no Solar exotics available for Trace so we can use that spot for our Heavy instead. I personally love Acasia's Dejection from the Root of Nightmares raid. It can roll Incandescent so it’s perfect for spreading scorch.
• Exotic Trace Rifle - Obviously equipping an Exotic Trace means we get those enhanced effects. One Trace Rifle we recommend is Ager's Scepter. This Stasis weapon slows targets and has a firing mode that drains your super for massive damage. This is an excellent option if you’re looking to have those slow effects to help your team. Divinity is another option since it creates debuff cage giving your team more damage and it stuns Overload Champs.

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