Fallen Sunstar Arc Warlock Build

Gameplay Loop

Fallen Sunstar enhances the effectiveness of Ionic Traces, causing them to move significantly faster towards you and grant you additional ability energy upon collection. While the primary benefits go to you, your fireteam also gains 10% ability regeneration when you collect an Ionic Trace. This Exotic helmet enables an aggressive, ability-focused playstyle, letting you frequently use your abilities without worrying about downtime.

Ability Breakdown

Super

• Chaos Reach
  • Charge up and channel a long-range beam of concentrated Arc energy. When damage is sustained on a single target, this Super ability applies Jolt. You can cancel the cast and receive a partial refund of Super energy. The amount of energy you get back depends on how early you cancel your Super. Expend the entire duration on a Boss, or use partial charge to stun and defeat Champions.

Abilities

• Healing Rift - When inside of the rift, you and allies are healed for 40hp per second. When you are at full health, it converts the healing into an over shield.
• Burst Glide - Your jump ability is up to you.
• Chain Lightning - A short range melee ability that applies Jolt and chains lightning to nearby targets. Being Amplified creates an additional set of chains.
• Pulse Grenade - This grenade periodically damages targets within its radius and damaged enemies are Jolted with the Spark of Shock fragment.

Aspects

• Arc Soul - Modifies your Healing Rift to summon a ball of Arc energy that fires projectiles at nearby targets. Allies can pass through your Rift to gain an Arc Soul. While Amplified, these turrets are supercharged and gain an increased rate of fire.
• Electrostatic Mind - Defeating targets with Arc abilities or defeating Jolted targets, creates an Ionic Trace. Collecting an Ionic Trace makes you Amplified.

Fragments

• Spark of Shock - Pulse Grenade applies Jolt to damaged targets.
• Spark of Ions - Create an Ion Trace when defeating a Jolted enemy.
• Spark of Resistance - Receive damage resistance when surrounded by enemies.
• Spark of Discharge - Arc weapon final blows have a chance to create an Ionic Trace, which are enhanced with Fallen Sunstar.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

Fallen Sunstar - Ionic Traces move faster and grant additional ability energy. Nearby allies also gain ability energy when you collect an Ionic Trace.

How to acquire:

• Farm the expert lost sector on Helmet armor days.
• Complete the Vex Strike Force Public Event on Neomuna.

Stat Priorities

• Resilience > Discipline > Recovery.
• Resilience is the most crucial stat to focus on. Aim for 100 Resilience to maximize your damage resistance and shield capacity, ensuring better survivability in challenging encounters.
• Discipline decreases the cooldown on your grenade ability, allowing it to charge faster.
• Recovery governs the cooldown on the Warlocks class ability and decreases the time it takes to regenerate your health and shields.

Armor Mods

• Optional Mods:
  • On your Chest, replace Harmonic Resistance with the appropriate resistance for the activity.

Artifact Perks

• Unstoppable Pulse Rifle - Stun Unstoppable Champions with this Artifact Perk.
• Killing Breeze - Weapon Final blows giving bonus Mobility helps you meet Stat recommendations.
• Fell the Revenant - Deal increased weapon damage to Scorn which are plentiful in Episode: Revenant.
• Rapid Impacts - Dealing damage with a Grenade Launcher temporarily increases the reload speed of Grenade Launchers.
• Total Carnage - Finishing enemies grants damage resistance!
• Trace Evidence - Rapid precision hits or rapid final blows on Jolted or Blinded will generate Ionic Traces. BOOST: Picking up an Ionic Trace grants an Armor Charge.
• Debilitating Wave - Finish an enemy to emit a damaging Arc wave. Work towards unlocking the BOOST for this Artifact Perk to apply Blind with this wave.
• Concussive Reload - Using a Grenade Launcher to damage a boss, damage a Champion, or break a combatant's shield weakens them.
• Retinal Burn - Rapid Arc weapon precision hits consume an Armor Charge to Blind the target. BOOST: Blinding a target this way instead emits a Blinding burst.
• Conductive Cosmic Crystal - Your Arc abilities do bonus damage to targets that are affected by a Stasis debuff.
• Kinetic Impacts - Sustained damage with a Power Grenade Launcher causes the combatant to emit a shockwave that damages nearby combatants. This shockwave can stun Unstoppable Champions.

Recommend Weapons

Kinetic Weapon: Battle Scar - This Pulse Rifle can drop with Shoot to Loot and Kinetic Tremors which work perfectly together to fill your ammo reserves and pick up Orbs of Power on the battlefield.

Energy Weapon: Delicate Tomb - An Exotic Fusion Rifle that fires a horizontal spread when shot from the hip. Final blows generate Ionic Traces and collecting Ionic Traces overcharges this weapon's next shot. Delicate Tomb requires access to the Witch Queen DLC to unlock.

Power Weapon: Hullabaloo - A Grenade Launcher from Guardian Games 2024 that rolls with perks Auto-Loading Holster and Chain Reaction. This Power weapon synergizes with many of the Artifact Perks from Episode: Revenant.

Variants

Summary

This Fallen Sunstar Arc Warlock Build turns you into a high-speed powerhouse, capable of clearing enemies with quick charging Arc abilities. At the core of this build is the Exotic helmet, Fallen Sunstar, which boosts Arc ability regeneration for you and your allies when collecting Ionic Traces. Apply Jolt and Blind frequently to maintain control of the battlefield.

Credits

Written by: AbbyHour

Reviewed by: Tenkiei