Osmiomancy Gloves Stasis Warlock Build

Gameplay Loop

6. Defeat enemies with Demolitionist weapons to generate even more grenade energy. Precision kills with Headstone spawn Stasis Crystals. Shattering these increases grenade energy regeneration from Whisper of Shards enabling you to continue throwing out Bleak Watchers and Coldsnap Grenade.
7. Shoot Forthcoming Deviance into a group of enemies. Final blows with Destabilizing Rounds makes the rest of the group Volatile. Further damage from Bleak Watcher turrets cause Volatile targets to explode.
8. While it struggles against bosses, your Super, Winter's Wrath, creates some serious space when you need it. Apply Freeze on contact with its primary attack and Shatter all surrounding Frozen targets with the secondary attack.

Ability Breakdown

Super

• Winter's Wrath
  • Conjure a Stasis staff and fire a barrage of Stasis shards that Freeze enemies on impact. The secondary attack of this Super ability shatters all surrounding enemies afflicted with Freeze. Great for ad control but not for boss damage.

Abilities

• Healing Rift - When inside of the Rift, you and allies are healed for 40hp per second. When you are at full health, this is converted to an over shield. Use your Rift frequently to generate grenade energy with Bomber.
• Burst Glide - Choose any jump ability.
• Penumbral Blast - Sends out a short-range projectile that applies Freeze to targets on impact. Use your melee frequently to generate grenade energy with Impact Induction.
• Coldsnap Grenade - This is the only grenade ability that interacts with Osmiomancy Gloves and is mandatory. These can either be thrown as a grenade or charged up to create a Bleak Watcher turret.

Aspects

• Bleak Watcher - Charge your Coldsnap Grenade to convert it into a Stasis turret, firing projectiles that apply Slow on impact. If enough of these projectiles land, the target is Frozen.
• Glacial Harvest - Freezing targets creates Stasis Shards. Collecting Stasis Shards grants melee energy that in turn generates grenade energy with Impact Induction. Collect Stasis Shards and gain up to five Frost Armor stacks, providing 22.5% damage resistance at max stacks.

Fragments

• Whisper of Fissures - All Frozen targets and Stasis Crystals deal increased Shatter damage.
• Whisper of Shards - Create Stasis Crystals with Headstone. Shattering a Stasis Crystal grants 500% additional base grenade regeneration rate. Additional time is added to this buff for every crystal Shattered, capping at 11 seconds.
• Whisper of Torment - Gain grenade ability energy every time you take damage from enemy targets. The amount is increased when you have Frost Armor which is easy to earn on this build by picking up a Stasis Shard. In endgame content, swap this to Whisper of Rime to increase survivability.
• Whisper of Conduction - Nearby Stasis Shards track to your location. In endgame content, swap this to Whisper of Durance to increase the lifetime of your Bleak Watcher.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

Osmiomancy Gloves - Provides an additional Coldsnap Grenade charge. Direct impact from your grenades increases grenade ability regeneration. Seekers spawned from Coldsnap Grenades travel further and faster.

How to acquire:

• Complete the Witch Queen campaign on Legendary difficulty.
• Focus Exotic Engrams at Rahool in the Tower.
• 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 Warlock's class ability and decreases the time it takes to regenerate your health and shields.

Armor Mods

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

Artifact Perks

• Unstoppable Fusion
  • Gives your Fusion and Linear Fusion Rifles the ability to Stun Unstoppable Champions.
• Unstoppable Glaive
  • Gives your equipped Glaives the ability to Stun Unstoppable Champions.
• Volatile Marksman
  • Scoring rapid precision hits or kills with Void Weapons grants them Volatile Rounds, additionally giving them Anti Barrier capabilities.
• Hold the Line
  • While surrounded, your Machine Guns and Glaives have improved Reload Speed, Stability, and final blows with them partially heals you
• Dreadful Finisher
  • Finishing powerful combatants creates Special Ammo for you and your fireteam. More Ammo is generated when Finishing Subjugators, Tormentors, and Champions.
• Maligned Harvest
  • Rapid Volatile application readies a Weakening burst that procs when damaging enemies with a Void Weapon.
• No Bell
  • Your equipped Glaives are enhanced: Rapid Glaive Melee kills gives ammo to equipped Special Ammo Glaives, and blocking damage with a Glaive's shield increases its Melee damage.
• 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.
• Defibrillating Blast
  • Stunning a Champion immediately grants and readies Bolt Charge while triggering an Arcbolt which Jolts enemies and partially heals you.

Recommend Weapons

Prioritize having a Special Ammo Weapon with Demolitionist. Glaives, Shotguns, Sniper Rifles, and Fusion Rifles grant 20% grenade ability energy on kill while every other weapon with Demolitionist only grants 10%.

Kinetic Weapon: Peacebond - with Headstone and Frenzy 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 Anti Barrier capabilities, use another Stasis Primary Ammo Weapon of your choice.

Energy Weapon: Forthcoming Deviance - In addition to Demolitionist, this Glaive rolls or can be crafted with Destabilizing Rounds, which synergizes perfectly with your Stasis turrets. Kills apply Volatile to surrounding enemies and further damage causes an explosion. Access to the The Final Shape DLC is needed to acquire Forthcoming Deviance from the Salvation's Edge raid. Alternatively, use Judgment of Kelgorath with Demolitionist and another perk of your choosing - this Weapon is easily obtained for free via a Timeline Reflection mission (the top right corner of the directory).

Power Weapon: The Queenbreaker - This Heavy Exotic Linear Fusion Rifle is an easy to use boss damage powerhouse and is able to stun Unstoppable Champions with its Blind. Access to the Forsaken Pack is required to obtain The Queenbreaker,

Variants

Summary

This Osmiomancy Gloves Stasis Warlock Build offers unrivaled crowd control, making it perfect for locking down large groups of enemies. By utilizing the Exotic Osmiomancy Gloves, you gain an extra Coldsnap Grenade and significantly reduced grenade cooldowns. Transform your grenades into turrets with the Bleak Watcher Aspect, which automatically Slow and Freeze enemies in its path. Weave in Coldsnap Grenade to instantly Freeze enemies and lock down spawns. Meanwhile, collecting Stasis Shards from the Glacial Harvest Aspect builds up stacks of Frost Armor, adding survivability to this Stasis Warlock build.

The gameplay loop revolves around freezing and shattering groups of enemies to create devastating chain reactions. Weapons with the Demolitionist trait generate grenade energy on kill, while Shattering Stasis Crystals from Headstone further boosts grenade regeneration. When overwhelmed, use your Coldsnap Grenade for a quick Freeze, or unleash your Super, Winter's Wrath, to create space and wipe out enemies with its powerful freeze-and-shatter combo.

Credits

Written by: AbbyHour

Reviewed by: Tenkiei, Xtra37