Destiny 2 Strand Titan PvE Build

This guide gives weapons, exotics, and armor mods for a Destiny 2 Strand Titan PvE Build, intended for end-game PvE players!

Updated June 19, 2024: Destiny 2: The Final Shape and Update 8.0.0.1 has many crucial changes. The new expansion brings a new subclass, Salvation’s Edge raid, with new weapons and gear, a power level increase, new exotic gear, and – never seen before – exotic class items. Also, the new base game update includes many class and weapon balance changes that influenced the Destiny 2 builds and meta.

Why Should You Play Strand Titan in PvE?

This Strand Titan build combines power and survivability into an awesome combo. It is easy to use and, quite frankly, is one of the most powerful builds in the game. Banner of War increases damage and survivability at the same time which makes this a great choice for players who are just getting started on end-game content. Find out all the details on how to craft, create, and optimize our Strand Titan PvE Build.

Destiny 2 Strand Titan PvE Build

The following list presents all the essential Strand Titan PvE Mechanics and Features in Destiny 2:

• Subclass: Berserker
• Primary Stat: Strength
• Super: Bladefury
• Class Ability: Rally Barricade
• Jump: Catapult Lift
• Grenade: Grapple
• Melee: Frenzied Blade
• Aspects: Banner of War, Into the Fray
• Fragments: Thread of Generation, Thread of Continuity, Thread of Warding, Thread of Transmutation

Abilities

The best abilities for the Synthoceps Strand Titan PvE Build are Rally Barricade, Grapple, and Frenzied Blade. The Bladefury Super is the best and only super this build has. Just because it is the only super though doesn’t make it a bad one. Rally Barricade is the better option because of its lower cool down, but it is not super important to this build so feel free to flex it out. Frenzied Blade is the only melee option, but when paired with the Banner of War Aspect it can do amazing damage. The Grapple gives us a decent mobility option and grants us another melee attack.

Bladefury – [Super] : Create two woven blades and roam the battlefield. While active: [Light Attack] : Perform a leaping slash towards nearby targets, severing them on hit and dealing bonus damage to suspended targets. Each successful hit briefly increases your attack speed and grants energy for your heavy attack. [Heavy Attack] : Unleash a heavy upward slash, creating two suspending projectiles that seek out targets.

Rally Barricade – 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.

Catapult Lift – Jump while airborne to activate Lift and launch into the air with a strong initial burst of momentum.

Grapple – Weave a grappling hook, and quickly pull yourself forward. Grappling to a Tangle immediately recharges your grenade energy. During and shortly after grappling, your melee attack deals area damage and unravels targets.

Frenzied Blade – Activate your charged melee ability to dash forward, slashing at targets in front of you and severing them.

Make sure you are using your melee abilities as often as possible as they are what activate your Banner of War initially. Your barricade is mostly just to activate the Outreach mod and isn’t very important to the overall execution of this build.

Some abilities, aspects and fragments need to be unlocked before use. In order to do that for Strand subclasses, Destiny 2 players must own the Ligthfall expansion and complete the entire main campaign to get access to the subclass. Additionally, to unlock Strand grenades, aspects, and fragments, players must buy them from the special vendor, the Pouka Pond, with Strand meditations. The full guide can be FOUND HERE for step-by-step details.

Aspects

The best aspects to use with our Strand Titan build are Banner of War and Into the Fray. The build is built around the Banner of War, and Into the Fray grants us and our allies even more survivability through the use of Woven Mail.

Banner of War – Defeat a target with a melee attack, finisher, or Sword to raise a Banner of War that pulses with energy, periodically healing nearby allies and increasing melee and Sword damage. Targets defeated by you and nearby allies charge the banner, increasing the speed of its pulses. A tattered banner, every tear and faded stitch a lesson you will not forget. As long as it still waves, you rise to meet any challenge.

Into the Fray – Destroying a Tangle or casting your Super grants Woven Mail for nearby allies. While you have Woven Mail, your melee regeneration rate is increased. An aged pauldron, dented and scarred. Be the front line.

Banner of War is absolutely one of the better aspects in Destiny 2. It grants increased damage and healing pulses in an aura around the Titan. It does take a melee, finisher, or sword kill to activate initially but after that, it gets charged by any kill done in its aura. Into the Fray grants us the ability to give ourselves and our allies Woven Mail, which again is one of the better survival options in the game.

Fragments

The best fragments for our Strand Titan PvE build are the Threads of Generation, Continuity, Warding, and Transmutation. These all passively benefit the build via ability generation or debuff application.

Thread of Generation : Dealing damage generates grenade energy.

Thread of Continuity : Suspend, unravel, and sever effects applied to targets have increased duration.

Thread of Warding : Picking up an Orb of Power grants Woven Mail.

Thread of Transmutation : While you have Woven Mail, weapon final blows create a Tangle.

Thread of Generation is a staple in almost any Strand build since it grants grenade energy just by doing damage. Since we will be severing targets with our melee ability, Thread of Continuity will keep that up longer. Thread of Warding helps our survivability by granting us Woven Mail more often. Thread of Transmutation helps us make more tangles which can help us keep up our allies Woven Mail.

Weapons

The best weapons for our Strand Titan PvE build are Monte Carlo, IKELOS_SG_v.1.0.3, and Bequest. Monte Carlo makes it to where we will never run out of our of melee energy. The Ikelos Shotgun is just a great shotgun option for PvE with One-Two Punch. The Bequest sword has the potential to be one of the strongest swords in the game with the Surrounded trait.

Here’s a list of the best weapon loadout for our Strand Titan PvE build:

• Kinetic: Monte Carlo, Exotic Kinetic Auto Rifle
• Energy: IKELOS_SG_v.1.0.3, Rapid-Fire Frame Solar Shotgun
• Heavy: Bequest, Adaptive Frame Arc Sword

Alternatively, you can go with a more high-risk, high-setup. It has a higher damage potential but lacks the ability regeneration of the first setup. We will be using the Swordbreaker Strand Shotgun for this one. Make sure it has the One-Two Punch trait. Utilize a solar primary such as Abyss Defiant or Calus Mini-tool. The Exotic for this setup is the Tractor Cannon, which is used to massively debuff our targets.

Exotic Armor

This build works best with the Synthoceps exotic armor. It increases our melee and super damage by a significant amount when surrounded by enemies. This build put us in the thick of it, so we will almost always be benefitting from this. 

Armor Stats

The best stats to focus on for our Strand Titan PvE build are Resilience, Discipline, and Strength. These provide us with both the offense and defense needed to survive end-game content.

• Mobility: 10
• Resilience: 100
• Recovery: 40
• Discipline: 80
• Intellect: 40
• Strength: 100

Armor Mods

The best armor mods for the Banner of War Strand Titan build are Hands-On, Outreach, Invigoration, and Heavy Handed. These all feed into our super and melee abilities which are our main ways of activating Banner of War.

Slot	Mod	Mod	Mod
Head	Solar Siphon	Hands-On	Harmonic Siphon
Arms	Impact Induction	Momentum Transfer	Heavy Handed
Chest	Resist Mods*	Resist Mods*	Resist Mods*
Legs	Recuperation	Invigoration	Solar Weapon Surge
Class	Distribution	Outreach	Time Dilation

Your chest mods will change depending on the damage types you are facing based on the content you are doing. Remember that using the same mod more than once has diminishing returns. Utilize any stat-boosting mods as you see fit to max out any of your priority stats.

Gameplay Tips

This is one of the single most powerful builds in the game, especially in a group setting. Run in a melee an enemy to get Banner of War activated and after that point, simply get kills to keep it up and make it stronger. Since anyone getting any kill in its aura keeps it going, it is ridiculously easy to keep this buff up at all times. For your larger enemies make sure you are utilizing your One-Two Punch Shotgun to deal as much damage as possible. If you see a tangle, pick it up and throw it at your allies to give them Woven Mail to further increase their survivability. 

The Bladefury super can be used on bosses as well. It does great damage to single targets and can also be used in a bind if you are getting overwhelmed with minor combatants. This build seems one-dimensional but is effective in almost every situation.

Build Summary

Below is a complete summary of stats, weapons, mods, abilities, and fragments for the Strand Warlock PvE build for Destiny 2:

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