Day One Prep: Building Your Warlock | Crota's End 

Bae I'm up

Indeed :)

Sunshot definitely slaps

Aeons are a swap exotic yeah

Too free tbh

Good tips!

Sunbracers has been a staple build for years. People never cared cause it didn't chunk bosses.

Strength is an option (or just get airborne kills) and Retraced is mentioned :P

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You can, but on day 1 if that melee kill isn't 100% certain I personally wouldn't go for that move

You can do this with two verity’s instead not as fast spam but the increased damage makes storm grenades do a lot of damage or whatever you wanna run

Any of the four traces released so far are fine

Could be Worth but the void Hunter must mess Up bigtime If He can't even regain a smokebomb

I mention Strafe instead of Burst :)

Probably 6 or so

@@therafaelalvarez He stood around doing jack shit in D1, and he barely moved in AoT. The trailer depicts him moving the entire time, hence the comment.

btw, if you need a tracking rocket, Apex gets Tracking Module in the third column, so you can run that with a Thread of Ascent situation and be better than something like Palmyra

@@life-destiny1196 This is true, but I'm not wasting time crafting another Apex, spending materials, and then possibly not even using it if I'm wrong. I'd rather just pull out my Ascendancy and call it a day. Especially when Reconstruction is way too good to give up on Apex.

Reconstruction Heritage is basically always the play for the Kinetic slot but the Vanguard one can work too. If crit spots are especially hard to hit, Conditional Finality, Vorpal Riptide, or the new strand fusion with Controlled Burst are solid substitutes.

@@WhatLake which strand fusion? Not the Iron Banner one, no?

@@ringomandingo1015 Actually that one isn't bad with Vorpal/Autoloading, but I meant the new High Impact released with this season. I've only gotten like three so I don't blame you for not knowing about it.

You really don't lose much ammo swapping between GLs and traces etc.

​@Kool__Katbetter useage of abilities for killing groups is a big big thing for double special. Can you spend that ammo on 2 enemies or can you just melee them both

Probably not

Crota is definitely being reworked to not have the swordbearer do all the damage, that kind of mechanic doesn't fly in the D2 sandbox

KT is also an effective +~60% reserves bump if used correctly, and I find it to fill a niche on snipers that no other sniper does. Mag dumping an FTTC sniper with no perk is relatively low DPS and I don't think it's a good idea in general in a day 1 environment (you're never finding a boss where that sort of thing is worth it for the time you have to do damage).

As long as you have 2 warlocks and the adds are dying some of the members in a team have some liberty to run more damage oriented-options

Throw nades (if possible) > place well > swap to RoF damage loadout with new aspects > damage ends > swap back to normal encounter loadout Aeons are useful for orange bars as well as finishing targets that another teammate has marked / no one is nearby Yeah I cover the only three real heavy options in another video but it's pretty much sword or Apex

I don't think it's a good idea even with post-buff Benevolence

If you care about ability-based total damage options there are way better options (incl. Verity's Brow fusions)

Yeah pretty much

Depends on your team's confidence and the boss itself, but it's something to consider

@@TheAegisRelic what would be a good strand build

I explicitly talk about why KT is better in the weapons video

Verity's + ToF healing grenades are a good idea too, but to be honest if you subbed Searing in you'd be 100% fine on Sunbracers (I'm planning on using them for day 1 Abyss)

I would be willing to say that as long as you proc restoration prior to weight of darkness x2 and you have a solar smg then you should be able to keep the restoration rolling as the thralls will be plentiful down there. Then for the bridge encounter forward you won't have this issue..... Seems like a minor thing in the overall picture but great point nonetheless

⁠@@zigzag2370I’m not so sure. Phoenix dive might get you restoration x2 before you’re totally slowed, but you’ll be giving up the opportunity to cast rifts the whole team can use as you move from lamp to lamp. You’ll also need to guarantee kills to keep the restoration going. There were tons of adds in the maze for sure, but this is highly dependent on you getting the kills. Everyone will be spamming grenades and fighting for kills to proc their own builds. This, like many “infinite ability and healing” builds for sunbracers seems geared more towards solo play than running through a maze with 5 other guardians. Not saying it won’t be viable, but I’m very skeptical.

Umm once you proc restoration you can keep it up with solar weapons kills. Don't really need to be in the air for that. Honestly depending on how you build it out you can stay grounded very easily while using sunbracers and the restoration loop. Use a mods and fragments for melee regen off of your grenades. All you have to do is use pheonix dive one time to get the restoration and everything else will run off ability and weapons kills. You can easily get a melee back from the insane amount of grenades so you don't really need to get in the air for geat rises to give melee energy on kills anyway

If you do a lot of hops and get kills while in the air they count as kills towards increased mele energy. But a bit annoying to do tho....

Yeah if you have like a 6 warlock team there's no reason not to have maybe a few people on strand, this is just for core, safe builds

Thanks Aegis fantastic work

Situational dependent on encounter but yeah it is an option

@@TheAegisRelic Agree, but if you have multiple locks, might as well have it ready. I have a feeling those knights on the other side of the bridge will be really beefy, not to mention the Wizards inside. I hope they add rally banners to the raid, but I still think Ammo could be an issue so having a top tier ability damage build in your back pocket will be needed. Now, if solar grenades stacked, you could use them, but fusions have that double punch which is hard to beat.

It's fine, just my least favorite out of the 4 for a day 1, you'd be on Recon/Frenzy or Incan depending on if you're using it for Singeing procs

When the meta settles more I will

What weapons in particular are you missing?

Someone in your fireteam probably has Gjally, so don't panic about that one. IIRC Apex Predator requires Forsaken, but Cold Comfort is very comparable and drops from last season's dungeon. Failing both of those, Hothead and Blowout were the previous two best rockets and I'm pretty sure both are F2P (nightfall legacy focusing and crucible focusing respectively). You could also do Tractor Cannon, which iirc is a world drop exotic? For the trace rifles: Acasia's Dejection drops from RON and I believe you can get the Hollow Denial pattern by farming Presage. Path of Least Resistance won't be farmable until Seraph Shield comes around in the exotic rotator if I'm not mistaken, which won't be until after day 1. Retraced Path is behind Dares of Eternity. Beyond that, I would say just substitute the next closest thing you have for whatever you're missing. Any random wave frame GL for Forbearance, any aggressive shotgun for CF/Mindbender's if you didn't get those to drop, etc

Pre-rework had Shoot to Loot

If your team has the coordination to do it it's not a horrible idea

Next time it shouldn't get nerfed then :)

the fortnite collab one

what shader? @@artur3306

I explicitly mention how Discipline doesn't really matter, but how Heat Rises negates the need for Strength as well, so I just threw on Discipline as a kind of whatever stat

@@TheAegisRelic yeah I asked about 10 seconds before you said it. My bad. Great video. Subscribed. Cheers.

Not what I'm referring to, talking about super energy gains to charge your super not stay in it

Perhaps

@@TheAegisRelic just wanted to come back to acknowledge just how right I may have been here

Good option if you have teammates on Verity's

​@@TheAegisRelic Exactly what I'm planning on doing for day one

No unfortunately

Done

Vanguard Unity

Fluted / Light / Shoot / Volt / Reload

@@TheAegisRelic Thanks

I have a RoF Icarus loadout for finals and stuff after I place my well yeah haha

I mention that that's an option, but it doesn't really matter, because on Heat you get your melee back fairly quickly regardless of Strength

Fluted / Tac or Flared / FTTC / Fury / Handling

I have a lot of videos but generally Izi IKELOS_SR and Apex

Fluted/Light/Shoot/Volt/Reload

@@TheAegisRelic thanks

This is true he can hold me to it

Fine but I'll make new stuff soon