Destiny 2 Strand Titan PvE Build

Table of Contents

• Should you play this build?
• Subclass
  • Abilities
  • Aspects
  • Fragments:
• Gear
  • Kinetic Weapons
  • Energy Weapons
  • Heavy Weapons
  • Exotic Armor
  • Armor Stats
  • Important Mods
• Playstyle

Destiny 2 Strand Titan PvE Build

Welcome to our Destiny 2 Strand Titan PvE Build Guide!  Strand Titan’s wields new Darkness power, a subclass that visually appears as green energy. Just like any subclass in Destiny 2, Strand will have skills, super, aspects and fragments to further strengthen the guardian’s power. Each class will use Strand differently.

Last Updated March 3, 2023, for Lightfall Expansion and Season 20, Season of Defiance.  This build is currently work in progress with updates happening daily.  Additionally, 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. 

Pros	Cons
Bladefury is powerful and mobile	Tangle is on a long cooldown
Grapple is fun and offers great mobility	Grapple requires you to sacrifice a grenade ability
Woven mail makes you very tanky	Requires completion of Lightfall campaign
Suspending Targets is very powerful	Abilities locked behind strand meditation resource
Strong AOE with Tangle

How to Unlock Strand Subclass 

To get the Strand subclass, you must own Ligthfall expansion and complete the entire main campaign to get access to all abilities. Additionally, to unlock Strand aspects and fragments, players must buy them from the special vendor, the Pouka Pond, with new currency.

1. Buy Destiny 2 Lightfall expansion on your preferred platform
2. Start the Destiny 2 Lightfall campaign – Go to the directory menu, pick Neptune planet from the side of the screen and hovering over it will display a pop-up about the Lightfall campaign. Proceed and select the difficulty to start the Lightfall campaign.
3. Follow the story and the questline to complete the Lightfall campaign
4. After completing the campaign, go to the Tower to meet with Zavala and Ikora
5. Come back to the Hall of Heroes on Neomuna
6. Meditate to unlock the Strand subclass and your first abilities
7. Go to the Pouka Pond to get additional Strand Grenades, Aspects and Fragments

The full guide can be FOUND HERE for step-by-step details.

Playstyle

With the mod system, Bungie has homogenized a lot of the ways subclasses work with our armor mods. We will in essence be building around the synergy of the element rather than building into a god killer. Survivability and adaptability is the name of the game until we figure out what is best in slot.

The Strand Titan’s strength’s come out with its mobility and speed. We want to be wading into the thick of it. Our melee has three charges letting us take down three minor enemies or one major one. When we do this it will create a tangle, which we can then use take out another group of enemies. If we find our selves not in melee range when we need to be, we can just grapple to an enemy to pull us into it and take it out with an uncharged melee.

If we see an orb of power, we want to pick it up. This will give us armor charge, making our Strand Weapons hit even harder. Killing enemies with our Strand Weapons and Strand Melees generates orbs of power basically creating a nice feedback loop of weapon and melee buffs.

Author’s Note: Both Strand and the new Loadout and Mod system are very new. So it stands to reason, that there are combinations that haven’t been tested yet. These builds are very much a Work in Progress but have been tested and are effective. They will almost certainly be updated as time goes on. Additionally, the new Artifact system is currently not supported on our build templates so I have listed important Artifact mods to take below until we are able to update our build template.

Important Artifact Mods:

• Overload Bow or Overload Auto/SMG: Strand lacks intrinsic way to counter Overload Champions so this will be needed for certain content.
• Authorized Mods: Strand: This makes all of our Strand Mods much cheaper to apply.
• Authorized Mods: Solar or Authorized Mods: Void: We will need to use at least one energy weapon so this will allow us to buff them as well.
• Allied Unraveling: We are going to be killing a lot of enemies with our Strand weapons. Choose this to get a nice passive benefit to them.

Abilities

Bladefury
Rally Barricade	Catapult Lift	Grapple	Frenzied Blade

Aspects

Into the Fray

Drengr's Lash

Fragments

Thread of Mind

Thread of Ascent

Thread of Finality

Thread of Warding

Gear

Kinetic Weapons

Recommended Kinetic Weapons	Suggested Perk 1	Suggested Perk 2
Quicksilver Storm	Grenade Chaser	Rocket Tracers
Perpetualis	Envious Assassin	Hatchling
Witherhoard	Break the Bank	Primeval's Torment

Energy Weapons

Recommended Energy Weapons	Suggested Perk 1	Suggested Perk 2
Explosive Personality	Auto-Loading Holster	Frenzy
CALUS Mini-Tool	Unrelenting	Incandescent
Funnelweb	Subsistence	Frenzy

Heavy Weapons

Recommended Heavy Weapons	Suggested Perk 1	Suggested Perk 2
Circular Logic	Envious Assassin	Target Lock
Gjallarhorn	Pack Hunter	Wolfpack Rounds
Regnant	Auto-Loading Holster	Explosive Light

Exotic Armor

Exotic Armor	Exotic Perk
Abeyant Leap	Puppeteer's Control

Armor Stats

[caption id="attachment_30290" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Destiny 2 Lightfall Class Mods[/caption] 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. If you do not have the energy for the suggested mods, adjust and prioritize your main stat-boosting mod and anything that generates orbs, followed by something that consumes orbs of power and generates armor stacks.

Important Mods

Head	Resilience Mod Remember that stat mods are flexible, so if you have already hit 100 resilience, make sure you put another stat mod in here instead, such as Strength or Discipline.
Head	Heavy Ammo Finder Increases the drop chance of Heavy ammo on kill. More Heavy Ammo is always a good thing.
Head	Strand Siphon Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power. This will have us generating lots of orbs with our strand weapons.
Head	Solar Siphon Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Flex this out with Void Siphon if you are using Void instead of Solar.
Arms	Resilience Mod Remember that stat mods are flexible, so if you have already hit 100 resilience, make sure you put another stat mod in here instead, such as Strength or Discipline.
Arms	Melee Kickstart When your melee energy is fully expended, you gain melee energy. Additionally, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain additional melee energy for each stack. This helps us get our charged melee abilities back faster.
Arms	Heavy Handed Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power. The orbs this generates will help us do more damage by giving us armor charges.
Chest	Resilience Mod Remember that stat mods are flexible, so if you have already hit 100 resilience, make sure you put another stat mod in here instead, such as Strength or Discipline.
Chest	Sniper Damage Resistance Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at long range. We want to be able to survive as many hits as possible and this helps with that.
Chest	Concussive Dampener Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants. We want to be able to survive as many hits as possible and this helps with that.
Legs	Resilience Mod Remember that stat mods are flexible, so if you have already hit 100 resilience, make sure you put another stat mod in here instead, such as Strength or Discipline.
Legs	Better Already Your health begins to regenerate immediately after picking up an Orb of Power. A great survivability option. Remember survivability is key in PvE
Legs	Strand Weapon Surge Collecting an Orb of Power causes you to gain 1 temporary Armor Charge.\nYour Strand weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time. While we have armor charges, our strand weapons do even more damage.
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. Flex this out with Void Weapon Surge if you are using Void Weapons instead.
Class	Resilience Mod Remember that stat mods are flexible, so if you have already hit 100 resilience, make sure you put another stat mod in here instead, such as Strength or Discipline.
Class	Bomber Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability. This will help us get our Grapple back faster.
Class	Time Dilation Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration. This makes our armor charges last longer, allowing us to keep the weapon buffs active for longer.
Class	Time Dilation Your decaying Armor Charge has a longer duration. This makes our armor charges last longer, allowing us to keep the weapon buffs active for longer.

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