Since Destiny 2: Shadowkeep was released, Guardians can enhance their gear with an artifact: the Eye of the Tor-Lords. This allows for some really crazy builds with strong synergies.
What is this artifact? The “Eye of the Tor-Lords” is the first artifact that you can acquire with Shadowkeep in Destiny 2 and it makes you really strong. The Eye has five different tiers, each with five mods, of which a total of up to twelve can be equipped.
The bonuses range from more Glimmer or materials from defeated enemies to special ammunition (such as shield-piercing) to special effects that you can distribute on enemies or yourself.
Artifacts allow you to improve your Guardian beyond the normally maximum power level. Some of the possible builds are particularly interesting for Warlocks.
Really strong Warlock build with the artifact in Destiny 2
This build is really powerful: A special build is based on one of the last mods that you can equip in the artifact: Oppressive Darkness.
Oppressive Darkness leaves an effect on the enemy after they are hit with a Void grenade.
Due to the effect, the enemy takes about 25% more damage. The damage is displayed in yellow numbers (as “critical”). This way, you can see that the effect is active. This is particularly interesting for Warlocks with Voidwalker specialization and Rift of the Divide:
- “Hand-Supernova” triggers the effect of “Oppressive Darkness”
- With “Dark Matter,” you gain grenade charges through Void kills
- The exotic gloves “Controversial Hold” additionally grant Void grenade charge
- With the legendary weapon perk “Demolisher,” kills with the weapon grant even more charge
You can obtain a Hand Cannon with the “Demolisher” perk, for example, in the new Vex Offensive from Shadowkeep.
What makes the build so strong? The interplay of all these abilities and traits allows you to recharge a grenade approximately every six to eight seconds – depending on how many enemies you can defeat.
This way, you can trigger a Supernova every few seconds, weakening enemies and often also benefiting from the previous weakening debuff. This way, you can maintain the damage effect continually on bosses and really crush them.
More cool builds
Which other builds work? There are several other builds that can be created with the new artifact from Destiny 2, such as:
- A Stormcaller Warlock build, with which you can maintain your Arc Soul from the Elemental tree continuously
- A PvP Titan build, which allows you to “oneshot” other Guardians with double grenades
- A PvE Titan build in the Sentinel specialization, which uses a similar number of grenades with weakening as the Warlock build described above
These builds are only possible through the artifact in this season of Shadowkeep. If you like them or want to create your own builds, you should try them out soon. After that, there will likely be another artifact:
