Mask of Fealty Stasis Hunter Build

Gameplay Loop

Mask of Fealty creates an excessive amount of Stasis Crystals by throwing out an excessive amount of shurikens. Let's put these Abilities to good use.

Ability Breakdown

Super

• Silence and Squall: throw Stasis Kamas, Silence and then Squall. This Super is useful in any occasion!
  • Silence creates a massive Freezing blast on impact.
  • Squall creates a Stasis Tornado that follows enemies, dealing massive damage over time while rapidly Slowing, Freezing, and then Shattering enemies caught in the storm.

Abilities

• Gambler's Dodge - Instantly refills 1 of your Melee Ability Charges if used while near an enemy.
• Triple Jump - Jump of your choice.
• Withering Blade (2 Ability Charges) - Throw a shuriken that Slows targets it hits. Shurikens ricochet on impact, tracking nearby enemies. Enemies hit by two shurikens Freeze.
  • Thanks to Mask of Fealty Withering Blade hits also refund a small amount of Melee Ability Energy and create Stasis Crystal that Freeze nearby enemies as they form.
  • Shuriken hits against Frozen enemies and Stasis Crystals create an explosive spread of shurikens, leading to Ad-Clearing chain reactions.

Aspects

• Grim Harvest - Killing Stasis Debuffed targets spawns a Stasis Shard for yourself and your team, these partially replenish Melee Ability energy when collected. Additionally, collecting a Stasis Shard partially heals you and grants stacks of Frost Armor.

• Winter's Shroud - Your Gambler's Dodge now emits a non-damaging Slowing blast, and Slowing enemies briefly massively increases Class Ability cooldown speed. Using your Class Ability gives you 50% damage resistance for 4 seconds.

Fragments

• Whisper of Rime - Increases the duration of Frost Armor and raises its stack limit to 8. This Buff is your primary layer of defense!
• Whisper of Impetus - Damaging an enemy with Withering Blade instantly reloads all of your Weapons and gives you a large Weapon handling bonus. Has a short cooldown.
• Whisper of Conduction - Stasis Shards now automatically home in on you if you are nearby. Also includes nice Stat bonuses!
• Whisper of Shards - Shattering Stasis Crystals massively increases Grenade Ability regeneration speed for a brief time.
• Whisper of Hunger - massively increases the Melee Ability recharging capabilities of Stasis Shards.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

• Exotic Armor: Mask of Fealty grants many bonuses to your shurikens, most of which are integral for this Build's gameplay loop. This build is not possible without this Exotic Helmet.

How to unlock:

• Focus it with an Exotic Engram at Rahool in the Tower using Tier 3 Focusing (unlocked after resetting his reputation).

Energy Weapon: Tessellation - this Fusion Rifle matches the Element of your Grenade, in this case Stasis. It revolves around Property: Irreducible, allowing you to feed this Weapon your Grenade Ability, making its next shot a Rocket-like projectile that deals devastating damage - kills with this cause an explosion. It also has Demolitionist-like Grenade Ability generation built into it.

How to unlock:

• Obtain it from the Monument to Lost Lights in the Tower.

Recommended Weapons

• Kinetic Weapon:Peacebond - with Headstone and Rimestealer makes a handy close range Primary Ammo Weapon to make use of Piercing Sidearms. This Weapon drops from Iron Banner.
  • If you don't need an Anti Barrier Weapon, you may use any Stasis Primary Ammo Weapon of your choice.

• Heavy Weapon: Suspectum-4fr - with Backup Plan and Fourth Time's the Charm allow this Stasis Linear Fusion Rifle to deal reasonable damage over an extended period of time. This is an easily obtainable World Drop Weapon.
  • Swap this out as needed with Stasis alternatives if Linear Fusion Rifles are not suitable for your activity. VS Chill Inhibitor, Ill Omen, Cold Comfort, or Heretic's Fervor - are your best options.

Stat Priorities

• Resilience > Strength > Mobility > Discipline
• Resilience massively increases your overall survivability through increasing your maximum total health and giving you damage resistance.
• Strength reduces your Melee Ability's cooldown.
• Mobility reduces your Dodge's cooldown.
• Discipline reduces your Grenade's cooldown.

Armor Mods

Artifact Perks

• Unstoppable Fusion
  • Gives your Fusion and Linear Fusion Rifles the ability to Stun Unstoppable Champions.
• Piercing Sidearms
  • Gives your Primary and Special Ammo Sidearms Anti Barrier capabilities, allowing them to break the invulnerable shields of Barrier Champions.
• Disruptor Spike
  • Increases the potency of your Sever and Exhaustion debuffs, further lowering enemy damage (Overloading effects Exhaust enemies, lowering their damage).
• Dreadful Finisher
  • Finishing powerful combatants creates Special Ammo for you and your fireteam. More Ammo is generated when Finishing Subjugators, Tormentors, and Champions.
• Particle Reconstruction
  • Dealing sustained damage to an enemy with Fusion or Linear Fusion Rifles partially reloads them and causes them to deal bonus damage to that enemy.
• Elemental Supercharger
  • Defeating Severed and Exhausted enemies with an Elemental Weapon with the same affinity as your equipped Super Ability grants you additional Super Energy (Overloading effects Exhaust enemies, lowering their damage).

Summary

This Mask of Fealty Build massively influences the battlefield, littering it with Stasis Crystals and the corpses of Frozen foes. High Ability uptime makes it versatile, especially when you shove your otherwise-useless Grenade into Tessellation which lets you fire a devastating Rocket. Don't be frugal with your shurikens, Guardian - you have too many to throw!

Credits

Written by: Xtra37

Reviewed by: Tenkiei