After Lightfall was not able to convince with its campaign in Destiny 2, the new ability “Strong” developed into a real highlight of the DLC. That’s why today we’re introducing you to three powerful strand builds for Titan, Warlock, and Hunter, and listing what you need to recreate them.
The builds can: Strang revealed compelling traits in Destiny 2 that pack a punch. With all aspects available early on, the Guardians were able to become familiar with the ability.
Strang is fun, especially if you know what fragments, aspects, and mods to put in your armor.
MeinMMO has extensively tested three solid and well-functioning strand builds from Season 20 for you for each class and presents them in more detail in this article. So you can easily recreate them.
With the completed strand builds, you can then tie up your enemies, as seen in this trailer, almost completely freezing their defenses. Even those of champions!
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3 strong and solid builds with strand focus
Here we describe in detail the components of the three strand builds. In doing so, we’ll go into more detail on the required exotics, strand options, mods, and how you need to play the build. Also, for these strand builds, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Hunter, Titan, or Warlock – there’s something for every class.
Strand Hunter – Lasso-wielding gunslinger
The hunter gains compelling traits in Destiny 2 with Strand. He’s the only class that can swing a lasso around in his Super and throw it with a bang at his enemies. His lasso is as sharp as a steel cable and can literally cut a huge group of enemies in half in the Super’s heavy attack.
Our first strand build works with the exotic The Sixth Coyote, which grants you two dodge charges.
What makes the build so special? With this build, the hunter can bind any opponent. Thanks to the exotic, he has the freedom to use Bind twice in a row. Fighters can no longer shoot and fight back. This means that even tormentors and champions are helpless. It can also be used to stun Unstoppable Champions.
We have listed everything that we are currently using in our hunter build here. Of course, this can still be adjusted according to your own playstyle, for example by trying a different grenade as well as different aspects, fragments or mods.
Our recommendation for this build:
For the strand fragments for this hunter build, we recommend you:
The build can be complemented with the following weapons and values:
To round out the build, the armor mods are also important. They bring you more benefits. In this table you will find all the mods we use.
However, note: The first row of the mod overview is based on your own armor stats. So if you need more resilience instead of grenades, for example to get to 100, you have to change that accordingly.
How is the build playing? The hunter becomes a lasso-wielding gunslinger with this build. His task: nothing moves and doesn’t shoot back.
In order for you to succeed, you use your grenade first in a fight. It will bind the enemies hit, i.e. hang them in the air. You can now eliminate them without much resistance. It gives you the option to have defeated enemies create a tangle that you can then use again. You can shoot it, causing an explosion, or you can throw it. However, we often find shooting to pieces more effective. In addition, you always have your evasive jump ready to bind other targets.
The reason this build works so well is because of the Thread of Mind fragment, which grants you class ability energy when defeating bound targets. In addition, the aspect “Binding Impact” comes into play, which you can also use to bind enemies. In between you can also use your ult for tougher opponents.
So this build is a no-brainer when it comes to maxing out your enemies’ immobilisation. Hunters can use it to keep their opponents in the air almost indefinitely.
On the next page, it’s the warlock’s turn to unleash the meanest needle in all of Destiny 2 on his opponents.