This INSANE Strand Hunter Build Destroys EVERYTHING (Raids, GMs, & More) 

To clarify what was said in the video: When reaper is re-enabled, if it DOES activate on the dive, you'll want to remove 1 copy of time dilation on the class item in favor of reaper. Additionally, the gloves mods on this build are flexible to a certain degree. The ones I recommended is my personal favorite ability energy regeneration combo for this build, however if you feel a different setup on the gloves would prove more effective for you, or perhaps even swapping some out for a loader mod, please do so!

I call this build "The Principle" cause everybody getting suspended! 🤣 🤣

I too went right for sixth coyote after getting full access to Strand, and I’ve been loving a suspend-focused build. Thus far, I’ve stuck with grapple in most content (strikes, seasonal playlist, etc), as the combination of woven mail and high resil makes it feasible to get in close in moderately-difficult content - and being able to grapple into a group of adds, grapple-melee to do big AOE damage to kill red bars outright and momentarily stun any bigger targets (grapple melee is crazy powerful) and then air dive to suspend those bigger targets is just too fun. A bonus of this playstyle/build is that kills with the grapple melee apparently count as both a melee kill AND a grenade kill, which means that if you slot both heavy handed and firepower on your gloves, you’re making two orbs of power on a grapple melee kill. Combine that with one charged up mod, one stacks on stacks mod, and one time dilation mod, and a single grapple melee kill gives you a full minute of armor charge for whatever you want, not to mention ten seconds of woven mail. That said, I think swapping grapple for shackle grenade absolutely looks to be the play in higher-end content. As strong as high resil plus woven mail can be, you are definitely NOT invincible, even in strikes or seasonal content - it’s easy to grapple into a group of adds, take a couple hits, and then get picked off by a sniper if you’re not super careful, and that would only be worse in harder content. So I’ll definitely be switch up and trying this build for more challenging stuff. Thanks!

The thing I like about this build is that it's an "evergreen" build. Meaning, it's not reliant on Artifact mods to help the build function, they simply enhance existing aspects. Admittedly, I'm very fond of the Grapple Grenade (and I'd have to check to see if I have a good rolled Sixth Coyote), but I can see where this build is more useable in pinnacle content because you don't risk getting too close. I feel like either Recuperate or Better Already should find it's way into this build though, as extra survival always helps.

I love your builds.before lightfall I went beast mode with the arc strider build for about 4 weeks, then they changed everything.Keep them coming and I'll keep trying them.

The Sixth Coyote is THE Hunter exotic for me. Void build lets you stay invisible (3x if you time the refresh right), Solar gets infinite exploding knives, Arc has infinite blind/melee, and Stasis has damage reduction/freeze grenade loops. So I'm glad to see it also works great with Strand. I rarely use any other Hunter exotic, even Gyrfalcon's.

Beautiful build and presentation as always! Your videos always make me proud to be a Hunter main.

The format of how you display what mods you need for builds is what got me to subscribe. I have not seen anyone do that, goated🤝🔥

Using grapple instead of the grenade, you can grapple in, slam down to suspend and then endlessly grapple to the grapple point you placed and melee the suspended mobs repeatedly as using the grapple point fully refunds your grapple. Its amazing.

these are by far the absolute best destiny videos on youtube. Brilliant editing

The difference between RDM and 6th coyote is that RDM isnt a suspend build. Its a grappling melee build with the suspend as a way to retreat out safely if needed. 6th coyote is suspend focused and gun damage

What shader did you use to make Sixth Coyote so white?

Thank you for taking the time and explaining the mod set up and how you present it.

I like how all the strand builds posted on RU-vid revolve around either Coyote or Assassins Cowl with the same fragments and interchangeable grenade. Watch one, watched them all type of thing.

Agree 100% on your views about the Radiance Dance Machines. I used it for more than an hour and it's kinda meh. I prefer Assassin's Cowl for Grapple builds and now I have your build for suspending. Thank you for the god tier videos, Mactics! Keep 'em coming. Edit: Could you take a look at Felwinter's Helm, Eye of Another World for Strand Warlock and Khepri's Horn for Strand Titan?

I made nearly this exact build the other day, and have been running it for the past few days. So much fun!

Always love your builds. Thanks for the clear detailed explanations. Truly one of the best. Appreciate you.

Started this build today. Sooooo much fun. Took a while to stop using my grenades first. Last so much longer with the dives. Thanks.

I’ve found 2 main routes to build strand hunter, one being the restrain spam shown in the video and the other being either using assassin’s cowl or star eaters while making use of grapple melee kills making both empowered melee and grenade orbs every melee kill while constantly reusing grapple points and tangles for tons of free grapples giving a constant supply of ability energy, healing from orbs, woven mail, and super energy

You earned a new sub. I LOVE hunter subclass from D1, this looks op as hell! I never took to understanding class mods and so on, but you made it simple to digest. Respect for that

Thanks for the build mats.

I watched two of your videos in the last two days for builds and you earned a subscriber. For context, I have only actually ever subscribed to maybe less than 5 or 6 channels in all my 53 years. (I loathe notifications and anything bothersome on my phone, unless I want to search for it). Great detailed explanation and content.

Congrats on 100k Subs ! Been using pretty much this same build the last couple days and it made me like Strand. The champions are absolutely helpless with this and you can use the weapons you want !

What shada have you got on I need it in my life lol

very well crafted argument on sixth coyote vs radiant dance machines. editing is very clean as always :)

This is what I’ve been looking for. I had most of it but I put it together wrong. This shows me where I went wrong. Thanks

Since you cant use bomber etc. another good use for these slots would be the infinite special ammo combo(finishers), with this you could run double special weapons in this setup.

After watching a few of your guides, I subscribed, you really deserve it. Thank you for making such clear, helpful guides that explain the intricacies

I like the builds content creators post for all the people that can’t figure how to make it themselves helps the community out especially for the people that have no time to play

I recently discovered your account about 3 weeks ago. And it's absolutely amazing I have to say. You're my go to guy now for builds,thank you. Also the radiant dance machines are indeed underwhelming, I've played around with the build and it's not exceptional at anything.

Dude your music makes me groove so hard sometimes I have to rewatch.

I like both exotics personally, and use both. I agree that overall 6th is better for most general situations in end game, but it is so nice to finally have a use for dance machines.

Bro what shader are you using??

I went from HATING Strand to loving it after this build. It is so much fun and I always have dodges and grenades, it's insane. Thank you

Might want to try the build with osteo - the AOE poison burst is quite handy at grenade energy generation. (my warlock eats the grenades, but poison tics get them back surprisingly fast) Might also want to try to add a source of the unravel debuff, the little homing needles from that also help speed up the grenade regen. (I'd favor unraveling over osteo, since that's anti-barier) As for RDM Vs 6th Coyote - the former lets you abuse the dodge for instant melee as you slip through a group suspending and severing everything in sight, while the latter really doesn't care if your timing's a bit.....off. (I'm camp Coyote, that crazy RDM crap ties my fingers in knots BEFORE adding in the melee attacks)

It still amazes me how many people dismiss Sixth Coyote. People clearly have no idea just how powerful a tool the dodge is if you learn to use it.

This is super similar to the build i ended up with for lost sectors that helped me get flawless solo master runs. My other build I use is Strand+Star Eater Scales

It's interesting to see you and Dorvarich interpret the same gear set into builds with wholly different playstyles just with a couple of mod changes. That's crazy! The mod system is deeper than I think most people realize.

Definitely using this build. Thanks Mactics for the great content and guides.

Just wanted to add something to the sixth coyote vs rdm argument, you can use an eager edge sword to boost yourself to another group of enemies so in theory, you could get 3 slams off on 3 different groups, though i still think sixth coyote is the better choice because its more consistent.

What a great guide! What stats are the priority? Res>Mob>Str?

Thank you so much for posting such fantastic content! It's the reason why I tune into your streams when I can and watch every single build video you publish because you teach me so much This one knocked it out of the park and is my FAVORITE hunter build by leaps and bounds And I can't wait to see what you do with Titan 😁👍

any update on this build since dynamo and reaper are available again?

Stacks on stacks and charged up. 1 of each and you go from an 18 second buff for 1 prb pickup to essentially a 30 sec buff. Take off 1 time dilation and 1 resist to make room and instant free extra 12 seconds.

Sixth coyote has been my main hunter exotic forever now, you are behind the curve just putting it to use

Continuity and Generation are locked on my Hunter but I got them on my Warlock...is this true for everyone?

I have some doubts this might work on GMs. Especially the ones with a lot of enemies that are spaced out.

Best build videos on the market, all for free. This is high class videos. Love your stuff man

"I thought strand sucked." Last Video ABSOLUTELY BROKEN OP WARLOCK BUILD Lol

Putting the grapple with ascent down is hard man

Many people asking... But WHAT IS THAT SHADER?! I neeeeeeeeeeeed it! 😂🙏

Thank you for this! As a filthy casual, I don't have anything unlocked on Strand yet, so I have things to chase now!

Just subscribed man I love your builds just found your videos about 2 weeks ago tried your builds and I end up basically destroying everything I love it 🤣🤣

I used a similar build for Day 1 Legendary campaign. But I'll be using your build to perfect my build. Love the content!

Dude, Going to test this out tonight. Looks like loads of fun!

Will you revisit pre-lightfall builds like the solar Hunter that uses ability spam? I can't quite seem to get the same DPS after lightfall with the new mods.

mac just letting you know you were the first video in the search for a hunter strand build

Great production quality on this video

What shader are you using?

You should name this build Puppet Master.

I use this with agers scepter and unforgiven. You can dive frozen enemies to death and suspend the rest who didn’t got frozen

Awesome build! Thank you!

You're exactly right. Radiant Dance Machine build isn't as good as Sixth Coyote. RDM requires all the focus on not missing one of my quick succession dives within time that it took all the focus (and all the fun out). Much prefer to proc the 2nd dive when I want it rather than 'got to spend it, like right now'. And this build uses the shackle grenade so uptime is much better than grapple build with RDM that Ive been using until now. Thank you!

Untangler from artefact also compliments this great. With circular logic or quicksilver especially when it's fixed

Its funny how dps in destiny has, in most cases, boiled down to "pick a strong power slot weapon, match your surge mods to it." Its worth noting though that Threadrunner in particular can get some crazy dps out of Rockets by abusing a grapple point the subclass itself creates

fantastic video btw, also please answer asap, what weapons are you using ?

I love your videos man they make me want to play destiny every time I watch them

My man, this was a huge help. I'm not part of that 67% anymore!

The sixth coyote is back on the menu boys! Love this exotic it’s what got me through solo flawless duality (solar infinite throwing knife)

Thank you this build looks awesome and I can’t wait to try it Sad we can’t make more use of the grapple though

Guys! ive got the perfect special weapon for this build. The new lightfall raid shotgun (the legendary) i got rolled with demolitionist, which means kills with it restore grenade energy AND throwing a grenade instantly reloads the shotgun. If you didnt have enough infinite grenades before, ya do now!

these build videos are so consistently good I refuse to use builds from other creators at this point

Really looking forward to you Berserker build. Ive been tinkering with it myself. Ill be interested to hear your take on it. I think it can work, but im still trying to play around certain limitations

Great video. Straight to the point and entertaining. Subscribed.

what's the lmg your using

Honestly I just go with Le Manarque with the new strand sniper or HC. The tick damage plus volatile gets me my grenades back plenty fast and the reason for the sniper is because of the artifacts making it so I can shoot the tangle and suspend enemies in a huge radius. Since Tangle has a 15ish second cooldown taking advantage of it's practically an ability all it's own and gives a 3rd way of getting enemies suspended and it can be done from a safe location. I usually suspend one enemy kill them then destroy the tangle and watch half the room get lifted up since the Tier 5 artifact mod makes the radius insanely huge. If there are champions in the activity then even better since stunning them regenerates the lowest strand ability anyways the you almost always have the class ability up as a sort of panic button incase you are getting overwhelmed. As far as the exotic goes I just go with the Star Eater Scales even without it doing busted damage it's still a strong exotic to pair with this build. My main reason for using it is so I can switch subclasses and an armor piece or two and still be good. Since volatile flow basically makes it so I don't need Gyrfalcons for void and Star Eater for Solar hunter ain't nothing to sneeze at either.

You’re the build king man! 🎉 bravo!

First time I used strand I went with Radiant DM and Ik 6 Coyote it's like safer If we consider but the combo you can do with dancing it's pretty cool too, 1 melee before, suspend, suspend and at last you can throw another mele, sometimes works best on large add scenario's, sometimes it doesn't

Oh wow such an original combination of weapons! Will have tro try this out

Ok, I subscribed, first time seen your content, really like the way you explain things, and your graphics are really nice, allowin me to screenshot n use for reference, top work guardian.

With a fragment the hunter supper can also suspend making it good for larger amounts of enemies to suspend more

I highly recommend you try this with a void shotgun and the void Hunter sword. The amount of orbs of power you can create is absolutely ridiculous. When you collect orb of power gain woven mail fantastic together

Learning something new & I just subscribed ✅🥵

I have all those armor pieces and shaders. I love your videos so much I'm going to steal your look and impersonate you, poorly, at the tower.

Strand is like a mix of stasis and void, amazing survivability from woven mail and how easy it is to suspend enemies compared to freeze along with having amazing dps, its made stasis obsolete sadly

What shader is that full white ?

Liked, and subscribed. Thank you Mactics

Thank you! Been looking for an exotic to use and never considered Sixth Coyote. Let's give this a suspend.

Mactics - you are 1000% correct about Coyote vs Radiant Dance Machines. On paper RDM is great, but after playing with it for a bit - you end up just suspending the same group of enemies (MAYBE a second set). Coyote versatility is a much better option.

Everyone thought strand sucked during the campaign because bungie gave us a super mobile highly aggressive class without any of the supporting features that make it work lmao. As soon as I unlocked it with all aspects and fragmented it up, I flipped immediately yo the "wow this is broken" team

I’m surprised you didn’t go with more of a grenade refresh mod build. We’re there any other sets ups you tested?

Grapple hits pretty hard to I love the build thanks

I’m gonna have do the campaign on my hunter now because I want to try this build thanks Mac 🍿

Are there specific artifact mods to keep into consideration for this build?

When hunters find out raidence dance machines gives you so many dodges you make your opponents want to die

I’ve been pretty much using this but 100 mobility and 100 discipline. Definitely lacking in resil a little but I think relying on woven mail is working out right now

since todays patch, reaper and dynamo are now usable again.

I did a similar build but dropped 6th because I would get enough suspends off with thread of generation and traded it out for star eaters so I could do more damage with super

The priblem with strand is its all utility with no dps buffs, you got to play safe and its quite boring and takes much longer to kill enemy's vs other sub classes

radiant dance machines will be buffed