Lucky Pants Solar Hunter Build

Gameplay Loop

Ability Breakdown

Super

• Golden Gun - Marksman - This Super synergizes with the Lucky Pants, as it is a very high damage burst Super that is capable of letting you deal damage at range which is something this build can struggle with at times. It also creates many Orbs for your teammates without you needing to kill the target if you hit your precision shots.

Abilities

• Marksman's Dodge - Reloads equipped weapon on use. Use this at the end of your Lucky Pants buff.
• Triple Jump - Jump of your choice.
• Lightweight Knife - Dual charges, provides Radiant on precision hit.
• Healing Grenade - A grenade that cures allies on impact and creates an Orb of benevolent Solar Light, granting restoration to allies when picked up.

Aspects

• On Your Mark - Precision final blows grant you and nearby allies increased weapon handling and reload speed for a short duration. Stacks 3 times. Activating your class ability immediately grants maximum stacks of On Your Mark.

• Knock 'Em Down - Your Solar Supers are enhanced. Deadshot Golden Gun has damage resistance, Marksman Golden Gun has increased duration, and Blade Barrage launches more projectiles. While radiant, final blows with your equipped Throwing Knife fully refund your melee energy.

Fragments

• Ember of Singeing - Class ability recharges faster when Scorching targets. Provides more instant reloads with Marksman's Dodge.
• Ember of Ashes - Increases Scorch stacks applied to enemies by 50%. Provides more consistent Ignition procs from Incandescent.
• Ember of Searing - Killing Scorched enemies spawns a Firesprite and grants Melee Ability Energy based on enemy rank.
• Ember of Empyrean - Solar weapon or ability final blows extend the duration of Restoration and Radiant effects applied to you.
• Ember of Mercy - Firesprite pickups grant Restoration x1 for 2 seconds. Extends Restoration's duration by the same amount if it's already active.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

• Purchase from Xur (his loot rotates weekly).
• Decrypting exotic engrams at Rahool (it is a random exotic drop, but prioritizes exotics you currently do not have, known as the knockout system).
• Farm the expert lost sector on Leg Armor days.
• Note: this exotic is not locked behind a DLC.

Recommended Weapons

• Kinetic Weapon: Warden's Law (Adept) - This weapon with Fourth Time's the Charm and Vorpal Weapon provides the largest damage output from a Lucky Pants damage window, provided you hit criticals to maintain ammo with Fourth Time's the Charm.
• Energy Weapon: BxR-55 Battler - This weapon with Demolitionist and Incandescent provides excellent ad clear while also increasing survivability with more Healing Grenade uptime.
• Power Weapon: Dragon's Breath - Dragon's Breath pairs extremely well with its auto-reloading functionality. Shoot this first before starting a round of Lucky Pants, as it is reloaded by the time the Lucky Pants damage window is over.

Stat Priorities

• Resilience > Discipline > Mobility.
• Resilience is the amount of damage you can take before dying, as well as your shield capacity.
• Discipline is what reduces your grenade cooldown.
• Mobility gives you more movement speed and jump height, also lowers dodge cooldown.

Armor Mods

• Helmet
  • Harmonic Siphon - Rapid final blows create Orbs of Power.
  • Heavy Ammo Finder - Increases drop chance of Heavy Ammo when defeating a target.
  • Font of Wisdom - Provides a bonus of 30 Intellect while Armor Charge is active. Increases uptime of Golden Gun - Marksman.
• Gauntlets
  • Harmonic Loader - Increases your Solar weapon reload speed.
  • Impact Induction - Causing damage with a Powered Melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.
  • Focusing Strike - Grants Class Ability Energy upon dealing Powered Melee Damage. 7 second cooldown between activations.
• Chest
  • Resist mods, your choice - choose for the activity you are going into!
• Leg
  • Kinetic Weapon Surge x2 - Your Kinetic weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time. Collection of an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge.
    • 2 surges adds a 17% bonus to Kinetic weapon damage. Multiplicative with our 600% Lucky Pants and 25% Radiant buffs.
  • Recuperation - Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
• Mark
  • Time Dilation - Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration.
  • Powerful Attraction - Use class ability to collect orbs around you automatically
  • Bomber - Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.

Artifact Mods

• Elemental Siphon - Create Firesprites on rapid Solar weapon kills. This creates the option to drop Ember of Searing for Ember of Char for more ad clear.
• Radiant Orbs - Another source of Radiant without needing to hit a precision hit with a powered melee.
• Shieldcrush - Faster recharge times for Healing Grenade.

Variants

• Weapons can be shifted depending on your preference.
  • Malfeasance - This weapon provides a very consistent damage profile when used with Lucky Pants, while also having intrinsic Unstoppable Champion capabilities. Use this weapon if you are playing in activities full of Taken enemies, as it has a built in damage bonus versus this enemy type. The Malfeasance Catalyst provides the weapon with Vorpal Weapon.
  • Zaouli's Bane or any Incandescent weapon - Zaouli's Bane is one of the best hand cannons currently and works great if you can manage not accidentally wasting your Lucky Pants buff by swapping to it while Lucky Pants are ready to be procced. Otherwise use any Incandescent weapon of your choice.
  • Gjallarhorn and Edge Transit - These are two great options for heavies. Gjallarhorn is great for ad clear while maintaining solid boss damage and buffing teammate's legendary rockets. Edge Transit with Envious Assassin and Bait and Switch is one of the best DPS options with Destiny 2. Make sure to periodically swap to this weapon after kills with your other weapons to refill its magazine.

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