After the first weeks of leveling, the Guardians in Destiny 2 have started to create the first meta builds of Season 19. They have access to some new perks and weapons for this, such as the glaive “Judgment of Kelgorath.” With this powerful tool and a new perk, a Guardian has now created a mega build that probably makes every boss tremble.
What kind of build is this? The newly discovered build is a solar setup for Titans. The YouTuber Plunderthabooty developed it and combined his burning abilities, which provide him with high damage resistance, with the Season 19 glaive “Judgment of Kelgorath.”
The solar glaive “Judgment of Kelgorath” is new in Season 19 and can drop with the also new perk “Close to Melee.”
- Close to Melee: Glaive projectile melee kills improve glaive melee damage. Glaive projectiles or melee damage extend the duration.
Especially with glaives, the option for quick melee attacks has already proven to be very effective at the start of “The Witch Queen.” You could slice through small and mighty enemies in seconds. However, the new glaive from Season 19 perfects this with a few additional ability buffs many times over and now lets bosses melt away as well.
MeinMMO shows you what else you need besides the glaive with the new perk so that you can also get an indestructible Titan that takes down every opponent easily.
What do I need for the build? First of all, you need a solar Titan. You then equip this Titan with the new glaive of Season 19 “Judgment of Kelgorath” with the perk “Close to Melee.”
– You can target a projectile from a distance to fire at your enemies.
– Quick melee attacks can slice through small and mighty enemies in seconds.
– With the shield, you can block almost everything, even annoying shots from snipers.
– The combination of blocking and melee attack feels particularly strong.
Normally, Guardians would have to rely on luck for the perfect roll. But since the introduction of weapon crafting in Destiny 2, that’s different. Now you only need luck to get the plan for this weapon 5 times – no longer the right perks. After that, you can build the glaive in the Enclave weaponsmith on Mars as you need it.
- Exotic Armor
- Synthoceps – Solar arm guards. The “Biotic Enhancement” increases melee jump distance as well as super and melee damage while surrounded.
- Location: Xur or legendary Lost Sectors
To further increase damage output, Plunderthabooty uses not only the new glaive but also the exotic heavy void shotgun “Tractor Cannon.”
- Exotic Weapon/ Legendary Weapon
- Legendary Solar Glaive from Season 19: “Judgment of Kelgorath”
- Exotic Weapon: “Tractor Cannon”
- The exotic weapon Tractor Cannon gives you a damage buff of 30% for 10 seconds. It knocks enemies back, suppresses their abilities, and makes them more vulnerable to all damage.
The rest is taken care of by your Titan solar abilities. These provide necessary healing when you are close to the enemies.
- Focus: Solar Challenger
- Hammer of Sol
- Abilities:
- Towering Barricade
- Guided Float
- Throwing Hammer
- Healing Grenade
- Aspects
- Sol Invictus
- Roaring Flames
- Fragments
- Ember of the Empyrean
- Ember of Torches
- Ember of Benevolence
- Ember of Comfort
How do you play the build? When playing, you need to be somewhat routine and try to maintain the “Radiant” buff of your Titan while you get kills with the glaive’s melee and projectiles.
In the first step, you need to deal a projectile melee kill with your legendary solar glaive. With the perk “Close to Melee,” the glaive melee damage is directly increased by 30%.
By glaive projectiles or glaive melee damage, you now extend the duration of this damage buff. In combination with the Titan’s solar abilities, namely his aspects and fragments, you can then also increase the total damage with the solar glaive to an incredible level. This works through “Radiant” as this further increases the damage. So you have between 8 and 12 seconds time after a kill to remain “Radiant.”
If you then also use the Tractor Cannon, you stack another 30%. However, there is also the option for another player to equip this weapon if you are in a team.
This is your life insurance in the build: “Restoration” serves as solid life insurance for you. It is triggered by solar spots and can also be extended by solar weapons or ability kills. If it gets tight, the healing grenade will ultimately save you, which you just need to throw at your feet.
If you manage to stack the buffs to the optimum, it is then no longer a problem to deal a whopping 82,000 damage per glaive hit. With this damage output, almost every boss is completely destroyed with 3 to 4 hits.
Our recommendation: Definitely give it a try. Such a high damage output could quickly end up on Bungie’s balancing list.
What do you think about the build? Does it sound interesting for a try? Or are you not a glaive player and prefer to rely on other weapons? Feel free to let us know in the comments what your top build of Season 19 is right now.
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