Synthoceps Strand Titan Build

Gameplay Loop

Obviously this is great for getting those melee charges back fast. Finally Tractor Cannon is perfect since it’s consistent debuff ability only benefits your high melee damage.

Ability Breakdown

Super

• Bladefury
  • When you activate this roaming super your Titan creates two woven blades that allow you to constantly slash targets. Your light attack allows you to Severs targets on hit dealing bonus damage to those affected by Suspend. Each hit briefly increases your attack speed and grants energy to your heavy attack. The heavy attack shoots out two projectiles that Suspend targets while seeking them out. This is a versatile super that only gets stronger using Synthoceps.

Abilities

• Rally Barricade, You likely won't need any use for this, but this is the best option for its shorter cooldown.
• Strafe Lift, Jump of your choice!
• Frenzied Blade, an incredibly strong Melee that Severs. Having three charges of this as well is incredibly powerful!
• Grapple, a great option for mobility that includes a powerful Melee strike that Unravels foes.

Aspects

• Into the Fray, A great aspect for Synthocep Strand Titan to consistently keep up damage reduction with Woven Mail and melee energy for your Frenzied Blade.
• Banner of War, Easily the strongest Titan aspect if not in the entire game. Simply doing melee, finisher, or sword damage increases your damage while healing you. Additionally, your entire team gets to benefit from both the healing and the damage buffs as well if they're nearby!

Fragments

• Thread of Generation, a no-brainer Fragment that gives you Grenade Ability energy for simply doing damage.
• Thread of Fury, Spawning Tangle everywhere helps you gain extra melee energy.
• Thread of Warding, An easy way to ensure that you always have Woven Mail available.
• Thread of Continuity, You should be consistently activating suspend, unravel, and severe effects so this ensures they last longer.

Gearing

Required Gear and Weapons

Required: Synthoceps.

Substitution: Wormgod Caress.

How to acquire:

• Purchase from Xur (his loot rotates weekly).
• Decrypting exotic engrams at Rahool.
• Note: these exotics are not locked behind a DLC.
• Completing the Exalting The Flame New Light quest from Ikora Rey grants Synthoceps.

Recommend Weapons

• Kinetic Weapon: Breachlight - with Pugilist and Desperate Measures pair with this Episode's synergistic Artifact Perks to make an already high-powered Primary Ammo Weapon even stronger. This Weapon drops from Episode Echoes activities, though feel free to use any Strand Primary Ammo Weapon you already have.
• Energy Weapon: Retold Tale - This Shotgun is freely obtainable from the Dreaming City, though all that matters is having a Shotgun with One-Two Punch to increase melee damage.
• Power Weapon: Tractor Cannon - This inflicts a 30% Weaken onto targets, supporting your melee damage and your team. Also it has the ability to stun Overload champions with Suppression. This Exotic is among the first you obtain as a New Light.

Stat Priorities

• Resilience > Discipline > Recovery.
• Resilience is the amount of damage you can take before dying, as well as your shield capacity.
• Discipline is how fast you get your grenade back.
• Recovery is how fast you begin to regenerate health after taking damage.

Armor Mods

• Optional Mods:
  • On your Helmet, add Hands-On for additional Super energy generation.
  • On your Legs, add an additional Invigoration for greater melee energy generation when picking up an Orb of Power.

Artifact Mods

• Piercing Sidearms
  • Gives your Primary and Special Ammo Sidearms Anti Barrier capabilities, allowing them to break the invulnerable shields of Barrier Champions.
• Volatile Marksman
  • Scoring rapid precision hits or kills with Void Weapons grants them Volatile Rounds, additionally giving them Anti Barrier capabilities.
• Unraveling Orbs
  • Picking up an Orb of Power or a Tangle grants your Strand Weapons Unraveling Rounds, additionally giving them Anti Barrier capabilities.
• Dreadful Finisher
  • Finishing powerful combatants creates Special Ammo for you and your fireteam. More Ammo is generated when Finishing Subjugators, Tormentors, and Champions.
• Disruptor Spike
  • Increases the potency of your Sever and Exhaustion debuffs, further lowering enemy damage (Overloading effects Exhaust enemies, lowering their damage).
• Horde Shuttle
  • Unraveled enemies occasionally release Threadlings when they take Weapon damage.
• 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).
• Void Flux
  • Defeating Weakened enemies with a Void Weapon creates an explosion, enemies damaged by it become Volatile. Stronger enemies create a larger explosion.

Summary

If you want the most Titan core build in Destiny 2 this is the perfect option! Synthoceps Strand Titan is a perfect setup for Legend Campaigns and any endgame content in the game. If you want to run around punching everything while staying at high health, Strand is the best option. Bungie's numerous attempts to nerf Banner of War haven’t slowed this build down whatsoever.

Credits

Written by: Byrdman

Reviewed by: Chunky, Dredscythe