The 10 BEST Warlock Exotics In Destiny 2 

Not mentioning Karensteins is criminal lol. I get why it might not make the top 10 but it deserves an honorable mention at least. Did my solo Warlord's with it ez. And yes, Sunbracers can provide very comparable survivability but if you mess up your sunbracers loop at all then you're kinda screwed until your melee comes off cooldown.

Karnstein armlet underrated. Allows you to gain restoration x1 and x2 on any subclass plus with max timer from 1 kill it also makes glaive gameplay fun going around poking extended the timer with each glaive kill

Bog standard “phoenix protocol well” should probably get an honorable mention though, ya? It’s so good for chaining wells

Quite a few of my favorites are mentioned here (briar binds, necrotic, osiomancy, cenotaph, swarmers.) But one of my favs is karnstien armlets. It gives you a ton of sustain, and on elements with no base sustain like arc or stasis it helps a ton. I used to pair it with winterbite and i was unkillable and constantly doing a lot of damage with melees. Im honestly keeping an eye out for the stasis changes to see if i go back to that, or keep winterbite on my wormgod caress strand titan.

I think Vesper is much better than Geomags and it doesn't require special playstyle

No karenstein even in the honorable mentions is devious work😭 great vid tho

Pro tip for everyone doing the "fell off" comments: stop, it's not funny. We've all seen these comments too much.

I can't believe that Vesper of Radius didn't make the list. It is such an underrated exotic and one that should be shown more love....especially over Geomags.

pretty good list other than swarmers. this would be my list #1 Cenotaph #2 Sunbracers #3 Phoenix Protocol #4 Karnstein Armlets #5 Rain of Fire #6 Vesper of Radius #7 Briarbinds #8 Necrotic Grip #9 Mantle of Battle Harmony #10 Transversive Steps

Alright now time for Top 5 worst exotics, #1 promethium spur

Mantle of battle harmony is really good Gives super energy really fast if you use another source of getting super energy like the pale heart weapons or thresh, it also has weapon surge built in For whatever weapon is may hunt your super allowing you to put surges on a different element or run other mods

My personal favourites are briarbinds, osmiomancy and the stag. That last one may seem a little weird, but trust me: the DR would be pretty useful by itself, but the insane amount of rift regen will give you nearly constant rift uptime in any content where you’d need a rift to be up consistently, with the added bonus of being able to spam the hell out of effects which trigger off your rift. Also, hot tip for osmiomancy: it isn’t just a second bleak watcher. If you know your combatant tiers, it won’t be hard to predict whether throwing a cold snap into a group will give you more than 100% return to your grenade charge, so if you can familiarise yourself with that aspect of the exotic you’ll have significantly more turrets out than someone just relying on other forms of grenade regen.

Fel winter is my favourite. Finishers are custom animations that i like to see. Chaining finishers also saves on ammo and provides a ton of other benefits if on void subclass and with a couple mods building into finishers. People think this exotic (and aeverance) are about the melee but finishers are where its at. And it looks cool with cool lore. Ty for vid didnt know geomags had thst buff to gain more super energy. Arc and void are my fave warlock subclasses

Glad to see my wrist rockets at the top. I've been saying for over a year now that they were the best 'lock exotics, even when everyone was nuts over the Starfire. I still love Nez's Sin and Crown of Tempests too.

really good list tbh i would just take geomags off and put rain of fire in number 3 or 4 but I am very happy to see someone else appreciates verity's, its my favorite exotic and people just don't get how good it is

Nezarec’s sin goes hard, constant super and grenades is ridiculous

My favorite WAS Getaway Artist before it was made practically obsolete.

Crossing my fingers for Wrathweavers to get reworked in Final Shape to give yourself and your team Frost Armor instead of overshields

As. hunter main my favorite warlock exotic is Phoenix protocol so i can give my warlock buddies a break when we already have another tether.

I like rain of fire and cenotaph so much that i forget to reload on other builds

As a hunter main, i love sunfires. They are 90% of the reason i play space wizard... which is 6% of the time. And 4% for titans.

Damn, glad to see a D1 warlock exotic still reigning supreme during Season of the Wish.

Favorite exotic for fun: Vesper of Radius (especially if you play it Time Lord style and go hyper aggressive with vesper+glaive) Strongest exotic for team play: Cenotaph Strongest exotic for solo: Sunbracers Favorite exotic not mentioned: idk

My favorite exotic is mantle battle for dawnblade, shadebinder, and voidwalker cause I like to spam strong weapons. Fallen star for Stormcaller.

If felwinters worked with glaives.... Amazing

I use to solo nightfalls with the Vesper of Radius

Top 3: Sunbracers, Verity’s, and…yeah, those are the only two you need lmao.

Sunbracers inevitable at number 1 but it is so strong (wait until next weeks TWID); you say Felwinters is great but Warlocks don’t have great melees. Imagine it with 3 lighting surges and devour, with a one-two finisher and Monte Carlo. Mmmmmm🤔

Xur has a pretty good Sunbracers roll right now.

Felwinter's on Strand is my favorite bs to pull in Onslaught. The Disorient + Suspend/Unravel + 30% Weaken is so invaluable and I love being the rare Grapple fanatic on Warlock

Cool list. Now lets see what gets buffed, nerfed, or reworked next week.

“Honorable mentions: the rest of the warlock exotics” 😂😂(I’m just kidding no flame)

Karnstein is my top. Not for defeating enemies, but for making me not be defeated :) Phoenix Protocol needed to be on here somewhere. It’s boring, but it is clutch.

Nice! I have a sunbracers build and actually just put together a Cenotaph build YESTERDAY. Thanks Tiz!

I just use pheonix for after well and mantle of battle harmony as before well Mobh for regenerate super faster and if super not in use got 4 times subclass specific weapon damage and if gonna use well just switch to pheonix protocol for 50% super regeneration It just easy to switch and pretty viable

It's funny that most of these are my favorite exotics but folks keep telling me they're bad. I'm going to let my confirmation bias tell me that you're correct and that they're wrong. Thank you for improving my self-worth, Destiny RU-vidr.

Not sure if you’ve shown your felwinters build before but I would love to see it, I love that helm but all the builds I have made with it seem lacklustre and even some from other RU-vidrs haven’t really hit the mark Also please can we have a updated Contraverse hold build video 🙌

Yeah, you know I enjoy these videos a lot but with all the nerves over the last couple weeks, I’m afraid you’re gonna have to do some more videos bro keep up the good work

Phoenix is that good it made it on a separate list

Decent list, except for Verities Brow, it’s such a short window unless your team is really on board it’s useless. Briarbinds deserves to be there, they’re INSANE especially if you can keep it rolling for a long time! I love the exotic Ballidorse Wrathweavers on Stasis. I run Frost Pulse and Sunshot for my weapon choice and using the artifact mods it’s such high damage and crowd control. You also get a full overshield when you pop your rift, it’s a perfect close range oh shit button.

The best Warlock exotic is Astrocyte Verse. Not for its utility, but for its representation of roughly 8 years of unwarranted Blink nerfs and Voidlock nerfs in general.

Having dawn chorus and geomags on the list but not lunafaction boots, phoenix protocol, or rain of fire (pretty much the only 3 exotics you should be using on any boss encounter for raids) is criminal ..

I’m sad eye of another world was forgotten when your abilities all just recharge faster which is just underrated, especially when it goes over the t10 of the e.g: t10 discipline would act as if it were some how t13 which is underrated

The comments about the “fell off” comments FELL OFF gg.

Currently my favorite lock exotic, without any doubt, is Karnsteins. In regards to Verity's and Starfire, its also nice to pair these up together, benevolence, heal clip, continously feed each other buffs n chuck away 🙃

I’ve been using sunbracers for better over a year. A lot of people use these wrong there is a reason low man’s use this. For anyone saying it falls off in end game that’s where it thrives tbh. Especially when paired with certain fragments to constantly be applying scorch or ashes to assets the enemies take alittle longer to kill giving back huge returns in abilities. Not to mention a mele combined with a phoenix dive does double ignitions and also counts as a melee after the second ignition from phoenix to say this falls off when I can make a melee hit for almost 60k with aoe included is crazy. The problem is 98 percent of destiny 2 players change builds like there underwear and they never get good or truly learn the skill of the build. It’s funny how many people will say it sucks then how many people say it’s cheap and over powered yet you haven’t solo flawless anything taken it into GMs ect. It’s okay to admit u just simply don’t know how to use this exotic. Same with verity’s. Real end game players know this list is 10/10

Im a hunter but i love watching warlocks in public events.

Rain of Fire is bonkers once adjust your play style to it. Free reloads and constant Radiant is stupid strong.

Not putting felwinters and vesper in the top 10 is diabolical

I'm kind of going on a tangent here, but Contraverse Hold is so underwhelming. Firstly, Chaos Accelerant is borderline useless as the bonuses it gives (a slightly longer grenade) are next to nothing and comparable to a fragment. There's a reason it's only ever used with Contraverse. On the contrary, Child of the Old Gods is absolutely amazing and provides another avenue into the ability loop. Regardless, the boost you get from Contraverse simply isn't that significant and is worth less than a couple of void kills from Nezarec's Sin, in my opinion. Simply put, replacing Child of the Old Gods with a borderline useless aspect that only kind of works, with an exotic offering a negligible boost, isn't worth it. For context, Nezarec's Sin requires only 5 kills to equal the grenade energy boost from Contraverse Hold (10 kills on a double proc). And, using Child of the Old Gods over Chaos Accelerant provides a significant advantage (Chaos Accelerant is just awful).

I must say that sunbracers fail in a lot of content if your fireteam interrupts your melee kills. Yes, they are powerful but they are less reliable than they seem

Phoenix Protocol says WTF?

Wait, did I have a stroke. Where phoenix protocol??

Dudes bias is holding this list back

How do you get the Osman's gloves?

Contraverse is a shadow of its former self since the ability regen nerfs. I’d use Nezzy’s Sin or even Nothing Manacles if you’re looking to spam out weakening nades.

Thanks for the video

starfire protocol is my number one because two fusion grenades that give me a free healing rift is really good for being able to pop down healing rifts for my friends to trigger benevolence.

how is phoenix protocol not on here 😭 this man hates unlimited wells

Crown of Tempest and Nezarec’s Sin????????

No one talking about apotheosis veil is confusing as hell it’s genuinely the best exotic on well

PLEASEEEEEE try out gyrfalcons with Buried Bloodline!!!!

Verity's brow over vespar is absolutely insane!!

For verity brow. Its also ugly as f and only works well with season of the hunt armor. I dont understand how bungie makes ornaments. Had 3 to 4 back to back necrotic grip ornaments because it was being overused. But wont give one to verity brow, even though every warlock says the would use it if it had a ornament. I mean dawn chorus is ugly, but got a awesome ornaments amd now every uses it.

sorry but monte carlo with karnsteins will get you a good amount of damage and a very good amount of survivability

Does anyone know how to get a better stat roll with Sunbracers? Or how to get them again??? I already have them but got them very early at light lvl 1750 and it's shit. I'm at 1820 but struggle to get 100 Resillience and Strength (But with Sunshot it's godly)

Where is my boy mantle of battle harmony bro

Karnstein Armlets are arguably the most busted Exotic in the game. ANY melee kill will grant you resto x1. A finisher will grant resto x2. ANY melee can extend that resto x2 timer. So get a finisher and just melee everything and you’re impossible to kill. Pair it with buried bloodline and Winterbite on stasis lock and it’s hilarious.

So long sunbracers .

How are swamers better then Phoenix protocol 😭

no rain of fire? 😮

Mantle of Battle Harmony with Solar is insane 🌟

Dude forgot that phoenix protocol even exist 😂😂😂😂 what a joke

If Stephen Hawking did destiny vids, this is what they would sound like.

The problem with sunbracers being so far above every other exotic is it means it'll probably get nerfed. Wish the gap wasn't so wide. Buff other stuff bungo not nerf the good stuff

Need to take this videos down. Lol

Dawn chorus is so overrated, I don’t understand why people keep hyping it up

Sometimes I like my own comment to get top comment

how did you not mention nezerans sin? are you living under a rock?

2 views in 30 seconds? Tizzle really fell off