Phoenix Protocol Solar Warlock Build

Gameplay Loop

Ability Breakdown

Super

• Well of Radiance
  • Plunge a Solar sword into the ground that heals on cast and creates a rally point for your team for 30 seconds. Inside of the Well, allies are constantly healed, gain damage resistance and gain the damage buff and shield penetrating benefits of Radiant. This is most commonly used to gather inside of before a damage phase on a boss. Allies gain Radiant for 8 seconds when exiting the Well. You are casting this Solar Warlock ability a lot while using Phoenix Protocol.

Abilities

• Phoenix Dive - Jump in the air and activate your class ability. You and surrounding allies gain 2 stacks of Cure. This class ability works in conjunction with Heat Rises, giving you Restoration.
• Burst Glide - Your jump ability is up to you, but the example setup uses Burst Glide.
• Celestial Fire - Send out a spiral of three explosive Solar bolts, Scorching targets on hit.
• Fusion Grenade - An explosive grenade that sticks to enemies and detonates after a short time. Spreads Scorch on detonation.

Aspects

• Touch of Flame - Causes your Fusion Grenade to explode a second time.
• Heat Rises - Gives the ability to glide without being interrupted by shooting, using your melee ability and throwing grenades. Any kills while airborne feed into your melee energy regeneration and extend the aspect's buff duration.

Fragments

• Ember of Ashes - All forms of Scorch apply more stacks.
• Ember of Benevolence - Restoration, Cure and Radiant applied to a teammate grants increased ability regeneration for a short time.
  • This fragment costs you 10 Discipline.
• Ember of Char - Solar Ignitions spread more Scorch stacks to targets affected by the Ignition.
  • This fragment gives you 10 Discipline.
• Ember of Empyrean - All Solar weapon and ability final blows extend the duration of active Radiant and Restoration buffs.
  • This fragment costs you 10 Resilience.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

• Purchase from Xur if available.
• Decrypt Exotic engrams at Rahool.
• Farm the expert lost sector on Chest armor days.
• Complete the Vex Strike Force Public Event on Neomuna.
• This Exotic armor piece is not locked behind the purchase of any DLC.

Stat Priorities

• Resilience > Discipline > Recovery
• Resilience is always the most coveted stat when in a PVE environment. It increases your damage resistance and shield capacity. The goal is 100 Resilience.
• 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

• Helmet
  • Harmonic Siphon - Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an orb of power.
  • Ashes to Assets - All grenade final blows give bonus Super ability energy.
  • Heavy Ammo Finder - Increases the drop chance of Heavy ammo on kill.
• Gauntlets
  • Fastball - Increases grenade throw distance.
  • Impact Induction - Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.
  • Firepower - Your grenade final blows create an orb of power.
• Chest
  • Charged Up - Increases the maximum number of armor charge stacks you can carry by 1.
  • Resist/Reserve mods of your choice - Choose for the activity you are going into!
• Leg
  • Innervation - Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick up an orb of power.
  • Invigoration - Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an orb of power.
  • Solar Weapon Surge - Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any armor charges. Your armor charges now decay over time.
• Cloak
  • Outreach - Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
  • Powerful Attraction - Using your class ability automatically collects nearby orbs of power.
  • Time Dilation - Your decaying armor charges have a longer duration.

Artifact Mods

• Unstoppable Scout Rifle - Gives an always active way to stun Unstoppable Champions with your scout rifle.
• Press The Advantage - Gain a buff to your weapon stability, handling and reload speed when you break an enemy combatant's shield.
• Elemental Siphon - Create a Firesprite when rapidly defeating targets with a Kinetic or Solar weapon.
• Radiant Orbs - Gain Radiant when picking up an orb of power while you have Well of Radiance equipped.
• Shieldcrush - While you are Radiant, your Fusion Grenade recharges 20% faster and deals 25% more damage.
• Prismatic Transfer - When you cast Well of Radiance, your fireteam members gain a boost to weapon damage when they do not have a Solar Super ability equipped.

Recommend Weapons

• Kinetic Weapon: Riptide - A rapid fire frame fusion rifle capable of stunning both Overload and Unstoppable Champions when rolled with Chill Clip.
• Energy Weapon: Polaris Lance - An amazing long range weapon choice when paired with the Solar subclass. Able to prime Ignitions by spreading Scorch with its intrinsic effect, The Perfect Fifth.
• Power Weapon: Apex Predator - Great for damaging tankier enemies and clearing smaller packs of ads.
  • Apex Predator requires access to the Forsaken DLC pack to unlock from the Last Wish Raid.

Variants

• Swap Polaris Lance for Sunshot or a legendary primary weapon with Incandescent.
  • Sunshot and weapons with Incandescent mimic the Scorch effect from The Perfect Fifth. Use during shorter range engagements and activities.
• Swap Heat Rises and Ember of Empyrean with Icarus Dash and Ember of Eruption.
  • While removing some of the self healing and ability regeneration, this swap offers some movement tech and increases the range of your Ignitions. This makes for an equally offensive but different playstyle.
• Swap out a fragment of your choice for Ember of Torches.
  • This fragment gives you the ability to become Radiant while being outside of your Well of Radiance. With a secondary way to apply Radiant, this build has all three Champion enemy types covered when using Riptide.
• Feel free to utilize other weapons outside of your Energy slot, as they do not make or break this build. Use what works for you!

Summary

Credits