Destiny 2 Stasis Titan Solo Build

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Destiny 2 Stasis Titan Solo Build

Welcome to the Destiny 2 Stasis Titan Solo Build! While most builds in today’s meta for PvE are all ability based with a smaller emphasis on weapons, solo PvE stasis builds allows us to use our abilities to directly buff our weapon damage. Using certain mods and stasis shards, we can put out some crazy damage numbers with our stasis weapons, creating a build that can be used in almost all content.

Last Updated March 2, 2023, for Lightfall Expansion and Season 20, Season of Defiance. Destiny 2 has gone through a major change with their modding system. Making mods much easier and simpler to understand but taking some of the old metas and either eliminating them or making them relevantly the same. For instance, the “well” mods most players have been accustomed to have been completely eliminated and really the only system and combination are based of orbs of power. The mod loadout you see today will change over time as we become accustomed to new and shifting meta in Destiny 2 Lightfall. This loadout has been tested and works, so check back frequently as we will be updating these builds throughout the season and expansion.

Should you play Stasis Titan Solo?

Destiny 2 Stasis titan — Destiny 2 Stasis Titan

Stasis Titan has a few essential strengths and a unique playstyle, making it incredibly fun to play. If following “Pros” is what you’re looking for, this is the build for you!

Pros	Cons
Highest weapon damage output of any build.	Is dependent on using Stasis weapons
Can be used in almost all content	Very mod dependent, it will not function without the correct mods.
Stasis allows for a lot of map control	Some weapons that make this build shine are no longer available.

What is the Best Titan Build?

Stasis Titan builds in Destiny 2 center on controlling the battlefield with crystals, freezing and slowing enemies. Think massive area damage with high damage and great survivability. Lightfall Expansion also introduced a new exciting exotic that can be used opening even more build possibilities. You wan’t to play a Stasis Titan if you’re looking for huge AoE ad control and damage.

Solo Stasis Titan Build Playstyle

The builds playstyle is simple overall. Create stasis crystals, break them, collect shards, destroy everything around you with Stasis weapons. This has the potential to give you the most DPS in the game if you have a god role Reed’s Regret, and even if you don’t still can give you monster damage.

Abilities

Abilities, aspects and fragments need to be unlocked before use. Once you’ve finished the Beyond Light campaign, the Exo Stranger will offer you a new quest called Born in Darkness. The quest has 4 parts in it that you are going to have to complete to unlock and use 100% of your stasis subclass. Bring Monte Carlo if you have it as some parts require stasis melee final blows and Monte Carlo charges your melee quickly.

Stasis Buffs & Debuffs

Additionally, below we listed the important buffs and debuffs for the Stasis build to help you better understand this playstyle.

Stasis Crystal (Buff) – A crystal of solidified Stasis matter. Upon creation, freezes nearby combatants and slows nearby players. Crystals can be destroyed, dealing damage in an area.
Stasis Shard (Buff) – A small shard of Stasis matter that can be collected to restore melee energy.
Slow (Debuff) – The target has slowed movement, slowed ability regeneration, and reduced weapon performance. Slowed combatants have difficulty firing accurately. After accumulating enough Slow stacks, the target is frozen.
Freeze (Debuff) – The target is trapped in Stasis matter and is unable to move. After taking additional damage while frozen, the target shatters.
Shatter (Debuff) – When a frozen target is shattered, they take damage and deal damage in an area around them.

Glacial Quake
Rally Barricade	Catapult Lift	Glacier Grenade	Shiver Strike

Glacial Quake

Rally Barricade

Catapult Lift

Glacier Grenade

Shiver Strike

Glacial Quake (Super Ability): Summon a [Stasis] Stasis gauntlet. While your Super is active: [Heavy Attack] : Slam your gauntlet down to create a shockwave that freezes targets and sends out [Stasis] Stasis crystals to freeze additional ones. [Light Attack] : Supercharge your Shiver Strike for bonus damage. Sprint through [Stasis] Stasis crystals or frozen targets to shatter them instantly. Its our only choice, but that doesn’t make it a bad one. Great for large ad clears and for generating stasis crystals.

Rally Barricade (Class Ability): Create a small barrier that you can peek over while aiming down sights and that increases weapon reload speed, stability, and range when you stand behind it. Weapons get a buff from this barricade and we like weapon buffs for this build. If you are using the Hoarfrost-Z exotic and have high resilience, this gives us an almost completely always rechargeable weapon buff from Font of Might.

Catapult Lift (Movement Ability): Jump while airborne to activate Lift and launch into the air with a strong initial burst of momentum. This really comes down to personal preference, so feel free to flex another lift if you prefer it.

Glacier Grenade (Grenade): A grenade that creates walls out of [Stasis] Stasis crystals to block damage and freeze targets; these walls can be shattered for damage. These generate Stasis Crystals, which generate Stasis Shards which give us Font of Might.

Shiver Strike (Melee): Hold input to leap through the air. Releasing unleashes a powerful dash attack that knocks targets back and damages them. gain only one choice here, but we will rarely be using it in its base form as we are using the Howl of the Storm aspect.

Aspects

Tectonic Harvest	Howl of the Storm

Tectonic Harvest

Howl of the Storm

Tectonic Harvest: Shattering a [Stasis] Stasis crystal creates a [Stasis] Stasis shard. This shard grants melee energy when picked up by you or your allies. This is what generates our Stasis shards, which is the cornerstone of this entire build.

Howl of the Storm: While sliding, activate your charged melee ability to launch a wave of [Stasis] Stasis energy forward that freezes targets and creates [Stasis] Stasis crystals. This lets our melee generate Stasis Crystals, which lets us make more Stasis shards. I think you're starting to see the pattern here.

Fragments

Whisper of Chains	Whisper of Conduction	Whisper of Rime	Whisper of Fissures

Whisper of Chains

Whisper of Conduction

Whisper of Rime

Whisper of Fissures

Whisper of Chains: While you are near frozen targets or a friendly [Stasis] Stasis crystal, you take reduced damage from targets. We are going to be making a lot of crystals anyway so we might as well get a damage reduction for doing so. Also bumps our recovery.

Whisper of Conduction: Nearby [Stasis] Stasis shards track to your position. Gets our shards to track to us making them much easier to pick up. Also gets us a nice couple stat buffs.

Whisper of Rime: Collecting a [Stasis] Stasis shard grants a small amount of overshield, which falls off after 10 seconds. Collecting additional shards adds to the overshield and refreshes the timer. We are collecting shards to up our damage anyway so we may as well get an overshield too.

Whisper of Fissures: Increases the damage and size of the burst of [Stasis] Stasis when you destroy a [Stasis] Stasis crystal or defeat a frozen target. Makes our crystals and other stasis breaks do more damage.

Gear

Kinetic Weapons

PvE is always a situational piece in Destiny. What content you are doing always has a significant effect on your loadout. I will list some great options that work in most situations but note that you will most likely have to change things out. This build encourages you to use stasis weapons over anything else to get that sweet damage buff though.

If you have a special weapon here, run a primary in your energy slot or vice versa. You can also run primary weapons in both slots, but double special weapons are typically not the best play except in very certain situations. Remember that these are suggestions and you will definitely have to switch weapons out.

Recommended Kinetic Weapons	Suggested Perk 1	Suggested Perk 2
Witherhoard	Primeval's Torment	Break the Bank
Arbalest	Compounding Force	Disruption Break
Prolonged Engagement	Subsistence	Target Lock

Witherhoard: Obtained Exotic Archive at the Tower. Huge single target and AoE damage over time perfect for trash pulls and boss damage.

Arbalest: Obtained as a random drop through exotic engrams or bought from Xur on random rotation. Arbalest is one of the most used special weapons in PvE and for good reason. Its damage is great, it penetrates Barrier Champion shields, and can break through any elemental shield as well. No one will question you if you have this weapon equipped.

Prolonged Engagement: Obtained by Complete strikes and earn rank-up packages from Commander Zavala. This is a great primary stasis weapon, but don't run two SMG. Krait is another good option here or Riptide Fusion if you need a special weapon.

Energy Weapons

Recommended Energy Weapons	Suggested Perk 1	Suggested Perk 2
CALUS Mini-Tool	Unrelenting	Incandescent
Funnelweb	Subsistence	Frenzy
IKELOS_SMG_v1.0.3	Voltshot	Frenzy

CALUS Mini-Tool: Obtained through Opulent Chest the Derelict Leviathan and the Crown of Sorrow at the Helm. This weapon is one of the best add clear weapons in the game. Fast firing with a great perk pool. It's one worth grinding for. This is a craftable weapon.

Funnelweb: Obtained as a random drop from most activities and can be focused at the Star Chart in the HELM. This is the slightly less powerful little brother to the Mini-Tool. Personal favorite of Deltia.

IKELOS_SMG_v1.0.3: Obtained from Season of the Plunder Activities. This weapon can roll with Joltshot and pairs great with Arc 3.0 builds. This is a craftable weapon.

Heavy Weapons

Recommended Heavy Weapons	Suggested Perk 1	Suggested Perk 2
Fire and Forget	Field Prep	Frenzy
Palmyra-B	Auto-Loading Holster	Lasting Impression
Thunderlord	Reign Havoc	Feeding Frenzy

Fire and Forget: Obtained from Heist Battlegrounds and can be focused at the Exo Frame in the HELM. This is the only currently obtainable stasis linear in the game. This is a craftable weapon.

Palmyra-B: Random drops and can be focused at Star Chart at the HELM. Paris well with this build due to it being Stasis. This is a craftable weapon.

Thunderlord: Can be obtained from Xur or Random Exotic Engrams. A fantastic choice for most content, but lacks the big deeps of Linears and Rocket Launchers.

Exotic Armor

Exotic Armor	Exotic Perk
Hoarfrost-Z	Glacial Fortification
Heart of Inmost Light	Overflowing Light
Aeon Safe	Sect of Force

Hoarfrost-Z : While not necessary to make this build work, it definitely makes generating stasis crystals much easier by turning your class ability into a Stasis wall. My personal pick but other exotics will work just fine.

Heart of Inmost Light : While this build is not’ built around it like our other builds, Heart of Inmost Light can still work for this build. Not a bad choice overall.

Aeon Safe : ince our weapons are going to be our main source of damage, Aeon’s are a great pick here. Giving us the ability to generate heavy ammo on demand is just an amazing tool, especially for raids.

Armor Stats

Here is the priority of where we want our highest stats for this build. Pump up your resilience and then try to spread everything else out fairly evenly with spikes here and there. In order of importance:

Resilience - Resilience is king is PvE. It has exponential returns and it pays to put as much as you can into it. The difference between 90 and 100 is 8 percent damage mitigation. That's huge!
Recovery - Survival is the most important thing in PvE. The higher your recovery the faster you get back into the fight.
Discipline - We are going to want more discipline and strength for this build as we aren’t depending on Heart of Inmost Light to buff our abilities.
Strength - Strength is less important than discipline as our stasis shards, which we are constantly generating, give us melee energy back anyway. A nice positive feedback loop with Howl of the Storm.
Intellect - We won’t be using our super too often but for those moments when there are lots of ads it still comes in handy.
Mobility - As a Titan, we don’t need a lot of Mobility. It will help with jumping puzzles but that’s really it.

Stat distribution number goals

Mobility - <50 (higher is fine if you’ve hit other markers)
Resilience - 100
Recovery - ~60
Discipline - ~80
Intellect - ~60
Strength - ~60

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Resilience Tier 8 Lightfall Destiny 2[/caption] Resilience Changes: The resilience stat was heavily nerfed in Lightfall expanse and now only receives 30% damage reduction at 100 stat. Outside of Titan builds, your goal is tier 8 (80 stats) to get good damage reduction without wasted stats.

Important Mods

Armor Modification Change: these mods will seem foreign to returning players with Lightfall changing the entire system. The system you build around now is only orbs of power. You also see an armor charge mechanic and some of the previous mechanics for generating orbs of power and previously used mods. This system is evolving, and we will continue to make changes as we gain a better understanding of the new mod system. Here’s a list of all the current armor mods.

Artifice Armor Change: provides an extra +3 to whatever stat you want this should help you reach these stat goals.

Artifact Change: The artifact no longer provides mods instead it reduces the costs of some of the mods and provides passives as you level up and unlock them. Season 20 Artifact.

Head	Resilience Mod
Head	Solar Siphon Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
Head	Solar Siphon Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
Head	Ashes to Assets Gain bonus Super energy on grenade kills.
Arms	Resilience Mod
Arms	Bolstering Detonation Grants class ability energy when you cause damage with a grenade.
Arms	Firepower Your grenade final blows create Orbs of Power.
Arms	Fastball Increases grenade throw distance.
Chest	Resilience Mod
Chest	Charged Up Increases the maximum number of stacks of Armor Charge you can carry by 1.
Chest	Emergency Reinforcement When your shields become broken, you gain temporary damage reduction. Consumes 3 or more stacks of Armor Charge, granting a longer duration to the damage reduction for each charge consumed.
Legs	Minor Resilience Mod
Legs	Stacks on Stacks Picking up an Orb of Power grants you 1 additional stack of Armor Charge.
Legs	Better Already Your health begins to regenerate immediately after picking up an Orb of Power.
Legs	Solar Weapon Surge Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
Class	Discipline Mod
Class	Bomber Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
Class	Distribution Reduces all ability cooldowns when using your class ability near targets.
Class	Discipline Mod

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