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Season 18 of Destiny 2 has supercharged Stormcallers with Arc 3.0. If you’re looking for the best way to harness the thunder in the Crucible, this guide is here to help.
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Below you may find the best Crucible builds for all four Warlock subclasses, as well as the weapons and exotics to complement them. Following these build suggestions can help you dominate your enemies and make Lord Shaxx proud.
Arc - Stormcaller
Stormcaller’s rework gave it a powerful new way to play an aggressive close-range style, and this build supplements that with the additional damage of Arc Souls as roaming turrets.
Stat Priorities: Recovery, Discipline, Strength
Aspects: Arc Soul and Lightning Surge.Lightning Surge is the star of this build. It turns your charged melee into a short range teleport that canpass through enemies, damaging and jolting them as you reappear. This is a great mobility and damage tool that you’re able to combo with melee and close-range weapons to get almost guaranteed kills. Arc Soul is a great general utility aspect that helps both you and your teammates do more damage and recharges your rift more quickly.
Fragments: Feedback, Magnitude, Recharge, Resistance. These fragmentsboost two of your key stats, as well as enhancing your grenades, and your damage and resistance in melee situations.
Weapons and Exotics: This build plays very strongly with all kinds of shotguns in combination with Lightning Surge. Sidearms and SMG’s also complement this well.Ophidians Aspectis a great neutral armor piece that synergizes well with many aspects of this build’s playstyle. Another isKarnstein Armlets, which give you instant health recovery and then regen after melee kills. If you prefer to lean into the Arc Soul, you can use theGetaway Artistgloves.
Solar - Dawnblade
Dawnblade has long been one of the top Crucible subclasses for Warlock because ofIcarus Dash, which gives it instant mobility that the class traditionally lacks. After Solar 3.0, Warlock gained some other interesting tools, particularly in its potential to provide powerful heals and buffs, and this build leans into this aspect.
Stat Priorities: Recovery, Discipline, Resilience
Aspects: Icarus Dash, Touch of Flame
Fragments: Benevolence, Solace, Torches, +1 other of your choice.
Benevolencewill grant you grenade, melee, and class ability energy whenever you apply Radiant or Restoration to teammates; which you will do frequently.
Weapons and Exotics: This build is not really gear or weapon dependent, so strong neutral options likeOphidian AspectsandTransversive Stepsare great choices. You can also tryClaws of Ahamkarafor double Celestial Fire, which is both very fun and powerful.
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Stasis - Shadebinder
Shadebinder is considered by many to be the best Crucible Subclass. It has many control and damage resistance abilities.
Aspects: Iceflare Bolts and Frostpulse.Frostpulseis yet another freeze ability and great atshutting down rushers. Iceflare Bolts will let your freeze kills generate even more freeze.
Fragments: Chains, Fissures, Impetus, Refraction
Weapons and Exotics:Osmiomancy Glovesare an extremely powerful choice for this build. Not only do they give you anextra Coldsnap grenadecharge, but they also increase tracking on the throw, grant energy on hits, and increase the range of the spawned seekers.
There are a fewweaponsthat synergize strongly with this build. The sidearmsCrysothesia 77K, which provides even more freeze, andTraveler’s Chosen, which can return you ability energy after kills, are both great options. A sniper rifle can also enable easy kills against frozen opponents.
Void - Voidwalker
Voidwalker currently has many possible builds and lots of abilities with interesting properties. This build focuses on its very powerful grenades and gives you many other damage and area control options.
Aspects: Chaos Accelerant and Child Of The Old Gods.Chaos Accelerantgives your grenades devastating power.Child of the Old Godsis a very powerful and versatile ability that can weaken enemies, chip damage off them, and give you energy.
Fragments: Echo of Remnants +2 others. There are no other real must-have Fragments for this build, so focus on picking those that boost your key stats.
Weapons and Exotics: For this build, theContraverse Holdgloves will give you the best return from your powerful grenade abilities. If you like to use Blink as your jump of choice, thenAstrocyte Verseis a must-take. Alternatively, neutral exotics likeOphidian AspectorTransversiveStepswill be as useful as always.
