Destiny 2: Try the strong build for the endgame – According to the professional, “too good for PvE”

In Destiny 2 Warlocks can now dominate the heavy Nightfall with a powerful Stasis build. What makes the combo strong and which mods are trending in Season 14? MeinMMO explains why a pro raves about the Shadebinder and an old Exotic.

Here’s the pro’s build: Here you can read everything about a Warlock build that is primarily designed for the endgame PvE. For most activities outside of Nightfall or Grandmaster sectors, the nasty combination of freezing everything, stopping champions, and the automatic ice turret is complete overkill – but hey, have fun!

• According to Destiny expert Aztecross, the build suddenly makes you a Warlock main – just like him.
• Aztecross didn’t invent the build – but he now prominently explains it in a video and demonstrates its power.
• Especially in heavy missions like “Mirror Corridor” or “Test Grounds,” the build shows its power. These two strikes are harder than some raid sections with the numerous champions and hordes of enemies.
• You can theoretically use the build in any season, but some nuances make the combination extremely powerful in the current season of the Splicer.
• We show you in detail on MeinMMO all the mods, which old exotic you should definitely dig out again, and which configuration for the Shadebinder allows you to use the turret nonstop.

If you need help perfecting your Stasis classes in Season 14, you’ll find it here:

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Warlock Loadout for Heavy Content

Pack this exotic: Eye of Another World – exotic helmet.

With the helmet, your grenades, melee abilities, and Rift charge significantly faster – and that completely automatically, totally passively. This old Exotic is experiencing a revival through the Shadebinder Warlock.

• Because the Stasis Warlock is ability-hungry, but naturally charges its skills very slowly. With the Eye of Another World, you bypass this negative aspect of the subclass and you can spam your nasty Stasis skills whenever you need them.
• The fewer stats you distribute into the skills, the stronger the bonuses from the exotic are. So you barely need investment and enjoy fast cooldowns. You can invest the points in faster super charge or recovery and resilience to survive longer.

• The effects of the Eye of Another World also work in PvP. Here the second effect of the exotic is useful: marking targets. This shows you, for example, when an enemy has charged their super (glows yellow) or can outline invisible foes in red.
• Eye of Another World works with every Warlock class in PvE and PvP. You will see the most benefit, as mentioned, with the slowly charging Shadebinder.
• The advantage over other Warlock exotics that charge abilities is that with Eye of Another World, you don’t have to defeat enemies. This is often difficult and dangerous in the endgame, like the Nightfall difficulty.

So, enough about the core exotic. What about weapons, the powerful mods, and your subclass?

Configuring the Shadebinder

Choose Stasis Warlock as your class, the Shadebinder. This frosty class offers the best crowd control in Destiny 2. To get the maximum out of your ice abilities and really freeze everything and everyone permanently, you should configure the class as follows:

• 1. Stasis Aspect: Dusk Warden – Hold down the grenade button to summon a Stasis turret. The turret seeks enemies on its own to slow and freeze them. You can also have more than one turret active.
• 2. Stasis Aspect: Iceflare Bolts – If you shatter frozen targets, Stasis Seekers spawn that automatically freeze other enemies.
• 1. Fragment: Whisper of Torment – If you take damage, your grenade charges up.
• 2. Fragment: Whisper of Chains – Extends the duration of slow effects and how long your turret stays on the field (about 30 seconds).
• 3. Fragment: Whisper of Conduction – Defeating frozen targets grants super energy.
• 4. Fragment: Here you can choose freely, but according to professionals, Whisper of the Hedron is also viable after the nerf (freezing grants you bonuses to resilience, mobility, recovery, and weapon stability as well as aim assistance – about +20/30). Alternatively, you can use Whisper of Chains (near frozen enemies and Stasis crystals, you take less damage – about 15 meters radius).

• Withering Watcher: The exotic grenade launcher blocks entire areas and inflicts ongoing damage once fired, even when you are already in cover. You can shoot a load on and under the enemy to deal double damage. In Season 14, grenade launchers are extra strong as they can debuff bosses and champions by 30%.
• For the primary weapon, it depends on the situation. Ask yourself: Do you want to create Warmind cells, which champions are in the mission, or which elemental shield needs to be broken?
• As a power weapon, a grenade launcher or rocket launcher is recommended. Ideally, you have Demolisher on the weapon. If you’re not playing Nightfall, a sword could also be a good choice.

6 Strong Mods That Make the Build Perfect

Equip your armor like this: The build primarily relies on the “Charged with Light” mechanic. Choose the mods as specified, even if it looks complicated, you only need to play since most effects passively improve your playstyle.

• Firepower: Gives you grenade energy back when you’re charged with light and deploy a grenade (4 Solar energy).
• Stacks: You gain a free second stack for each “Charged with Light” stack (4 Void energy).
• Overload: You can gain 2 additional “Charged with Light” stacks (5 Solar energy).
• Charge Acquisition: Collect orbs of power to charge with light (3 energy – each element).
• Explosion Radius: Quick kills with grenade launchers and rocket launchers charge you with light (1 energy – each element). This mod is in the seasonal artifact.
• Breach and Clear: Debuffs bosses and champions for the whole team when you hit them with grenade launchers – and reload your stowed weapons (9 energy – each element, only in class item). This powerful mod is in the seasonal artifact – Destiny 2: Strong for endgame – New artifact mod makes you boss killers

You still have enough space in your armor for ammo finders or other mods that you personally don’t want to miss.

Check out this video to see how Aztecross plays the Shadebinder with the featured build:

Dominating Endgame of Destiny 2 with Stasis

This is how you play the Warlock: You always hold back – since everything knocks you down in Nightfall with just a few shots anyway. But you throw your Stasis turret right into the action.

Gradually, every enemy, including champions, gets frozen. By freezing you passively receive tons of bonuses that make you a better Guardian. Thanks to the equipped mods and the exotic, you’ll have your next grenade (i.e., the turret) ready in just a few seconds.

You ensure that no enemy comes too close to the entire team. Even the strongest enemies, once frozen, become easy prey; let them shatter or give the nasty enemies a taste of Withering Watcher … they can’t run away. If it gets tough, you have the super ready and can clear an entire room if necessary.

Especially when you know a mission well and are aware of enemy spawns, the enemies have no chance.

What do you think of the Stasis build? Will you also become a Warlock main or do you have your own combinations to tackle the tough endgame content of Destiny 2? Let us know in the comments.