Sunbracers 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.

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.
• Incinerator Snap - Send out 5 Solar sparks dealing damage and applying Scorch stacks. This is how you activate the exotic perk on Sunbracers.
• Solar Grenade - This is the only grenade ability that interacts with your exotic armor and is mandatory.

Aspects

• Touch of Flame - Overhauls your Solar Grenade to emit blobs of lava, increasing both it's damage output and it's area of effect.
• 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 Empyrean - All Solar weapon and ability final blows extend the duration of active Radiant and Restoration buffs.
  • This fragment costs you 10 Resilience.
• Ember of Mercy - When reviving an ally, you and all nearby allies gain a stack of Restoration. Picking up a Firesprite grants Restoration.
  • This fragment gives you 10 Resilience
• Ember of Searing - When Scorched targets are defeated, melee ability energy is returned and a Firesprite is dropped.
  • This fragment gives you 10 Recovery.
• Ember of Resolve - Grenade final blows Cure, offering more healing when Restoration isn't enough.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

Sunbracers - Increases the duration of your Warlock's Solar Grenades. Solar melee kills grant unlimited Solar Grenade energy for a brief time. Intrinsically has Fastball.

How to acquire:

• Purchase from Xur if available.
• Decrypting or focusing exotic engrams at Rahool.
• Farm the expert lost sector on Arms 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 > Recovery > Discipline /Strength.
• Resilience is always the most coveted stat when in a PVE environment. Increases your damage resistance and shield capacity. The goal is 100 Resilience.
• Recovery governs the cooldown on the Warlocks class ability and decreases the time it takes to regenerate your health and shields.
• Discipline and Strength are a good third focus, but with the ability uptime on the build won't really matter in the end.

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.
• Gauntlets
  • Firepower - Create orbs of power on grenade final blows.
  • Momentum Transfer - Damage caused by grenades reduces the cooldown of your melee ability.
• Chest
  • Resist/Reserve mods of your choice - Choose for the activity you are going into!
• Leg
  • Invigoration - Reduces melee cooldown when you pick up an orb of power.
  • Insulation - Reduces grenade cooldown when you pick up an orb of power.
  • Solar Weapon Surge - Increases the damage of Solar weapons by 10% when you have Armor Charges.
• Bond
  • Time Dilation - Increases the amount of time that Armor Charges last.
  • Powerful Attraction - Activating your class ability collects nearby orbs of power.
  • Outreach - Activating your class ability reduces melee ability cooldown.

Artifact Mods

• Overload Hand Cannon - Round out your Champion stunning ability with an always active way to disrupt Overload Champions.
• Elemental Siphon - Rapid final blows with your Solar weapon creates a Firesprite when you have a Solar Super ability equipped.
• Radiant Orbs - Gain Radiant when picking up an orb of power while you have a Solar Super ability equipped.
• Shieldcrush - Gain 20% recharge rate and 25% damage buff to your Solar Grenade while you are Radiant.
• Prismatic Transfer - After casting Well of Radiance, each member of your fireteam not using a Solar super gains a bonus to weapon damage for a short time.

Recommend Weapons

• Kinetic Weapon: Scatter Signal - A strong special weapon with high damage output against majors and bosses.
  • Scatter Signal requires access to the Lightfall DLC to unlock.
• Energy Weapon: Sunshot - Unmatched ad clear potential and synergies with the Solar subclass.
• 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 Sunshot with any other primary weapon with Incandescent.
  • This opens up your exotic weapon slot with no changes to the overall build.
• Swap Ember of Resolve for Ember of Torches.
  • Some activities do not need the added healing from Ember of Resolve. Torches gives the ability to activate Radiant without needing to drop your Well.
• Swap Incinerator Snap for Celestial Fire.
  • Celestial fire increases the range of your melee ability.
• Feel free to utilize other weapons, as they do not make or break this Solar Warlock Sunbracers build. Use what works for you!

Summary

With robust ad control, limitless self healing and a potent support super, this Sunbracers Solar Warlock build is more than capable of dealing with almost any solo or fireteam based setting in PVE. With all of its pieces together, ability uptime worries are a thing of the past. Shower your enemies with the power of Solar light and showstopping explosions.

Credits

Written by: SquirrelyDan

Reviewed by: ShieldMaiden, Tenkiei