*Kind of a long one, but I really wanted to dive into the best oppressive build in each class. Time stamps below though:* Oppressive Duration/Debuff overview - 00:46 Titan Oppressive Build - 3:43 Hunter Oppressive Build - 8:06 Warlock Oppressive Build - 13:10 I forgot to include damage values from chaos accelerant, but it does greatly increase damage and radius of our vortex grenade.
You could probably rock a double enhanced bomber if you got boots for the hunter as well, just saying. Don't really care, I was here for the Titan stuff lol
Distribution cost 4 energy as well and while it might not give you quite as much as enhanced bomber, it recharges your melee, grenade, dodge and your super if you are close to an enemy like Dynamo. Also you can throw your invis smoke at an enemy to proc Impact Induction and then dodge into the enemy you'll grab the invis off the smoke as well in one move. More efficient and should get you that grenade back faster.
@@jamesjordan139 Na, as a Titan main aztecross told me to wrap my lady of the night in bacon and I love my lady of the night. (Reference to the video being a Titan main in case you haven't watched it so you don't I have a weird obsession with bacon)
Code of the Commander is so much fun this season. Literally this build is constantly lagging out my PS4 on a Vex incursion. I can hear Shaxx "TITAN YOUR SO POWERFUL THE WORLD CANNOT CONTAIN YOU, I LOVE IT!" Thanks for the great content 💯👍
Forcer It would be dark side! Now the vortex is to good to pass up. Larger enemies just sit there in the vortex and take damage while charging the nade. The exotic gloves are insanely good and what make it what it is.
the timer on grenades from what I've found starts at the first instance of damage dealt to that individual mob, so you can have one mob debuffed on the first tick and another on the last.
YOOOOOO that edit where you popped your rally barricade and then switched the scene was dope. I see the sick edits on top of the great gameplay and knowledge
Was gonna message ya about the build a la Titan but decided not to bother. Now that ya made a vid, I gotta add in the build I've been using. As you stated, Mid tree Sentinel synergizes amazingly with Heart of Inmost light. The detonators are key in the build to keep going. I know that Voidwall nades are strongest, but also situational depending on enemy/nade placement. MAGNETIC GRENADES 4DAYZ. You get an initial hit that sets the detonator and as the grenade explodes , it sets them off. It has homing capabilities and STICKS to the target. Very underrated in midtree Sentinel. MONTE EFFING CARLO THROTTLES THIS BUILD. Oh my god. Constantly settling detonators off with Melee procs Markov Chainx5, which in turn, basically gives you back yer melee. Not only are you constantly dishing out high damage with yer gun and overusing your melee, but you are constantly EMPOWERED at this point making grenade recharge rates that much faster+additional damage on melee strikes. Being around those detonations is healing yourself and teammates on top of everything. Mods you've touched on well, but the gamechanger involves the Carlo+Magnetic nades. Overall synergy is just constant with high tier damage for days.
I use a similar Warlock build. Switched out the gauntlets for Nezarecs. Breach Refractor, Every Waking Moment with Demolitionist and Anti-barrier, followed by Ashes to Assets + Momentum Control. Quick super, quick grenade, quick melee; synergistic as all get out.
Bottom tree Nightstalker gives you more grenade energy if you make teammates invisible, so in things like strikes, raids, or gambit, you should try to smoke your teammates instead of the enemy and you get even more grenade energy.
My current solo nova warlock build consists of: Bottom tree voidwalker Breach refractor & Ballistic combo Recluse w/ anti-barrier rounds Nezarec's Sin Oppressive darkness This allows for constant grenades that apply the debuff and kills w/ devour active and w/ anti-barrier recluse proc both the breach refractor, ballistic combo, AND abyssal extractors as long as you can chew through adds. Devour also keeps you alive through all of this making it a super powerful solo build for activities such as vex invasions, gambit, vex offensive, strikes, and anyother activity that throws trash mobs at you. This build also provides hella damage because abyssal extractors allows you to have increased super regen giving you (in my experience) 2-3 nova bombs throughout an activity like vex invasions. Combining frequent nova bombs and constant debuff grenades makes handling bosses SO easy. The best part is that this build will still work with any void energy weapon that can have anti-barrier rounds applied to it or you can use weapons such as Fighting Lion or Graviton Lance and have your primary be anti-barrier. Y'all should try it out sometime!
Sunbracers on top tree dawnblade with Monte Carlo could be a pretty good build. You'll pretty much always have your melee up to be able to proc sunbracers perk.
OOOH, I was avoiding Controverse Hold because I thought the recharge effect only worked with Handheld supernova and I didn’t want to use Nova Warp. Thank you for making me read the darn description. 😅
For the warlock build, not sure if already mentioned but you can do the same build and use nezaric sin with your choice of void weapon! Its perfect for solo players getting all their abilities back + quicker super recharge as you get more kills with a void weapon.
For Hunter grenades, the vortex are probably the most used mostly because of the ease of use. The spike do more damage and so do the voidwalls. But, the spike always hits some random piece of geography and manages to be pointing 45 on a flat wall. When D2 started, the voidwall tracking was weird in terms of which way the line goes. The voidwall don't detonate on impact and are only on the ground so you had to be really precise where it landed.
Another build I've been running is... get this.... Kehpri's Sting!!! HA, with bottom tree Nightstalker, to gain true sight in crucible. Dodge that gives melee back. Most armor with strength mods to get smokes back quickly. Monte carlo for same reason, though i've used rat king, and other weapons to see what they would do. Build thanks to Ms5000Watts. Build is just helpful to gain the advantage of playing field. Thanks for the content Aztecross
Been doing this lock build since day 1. I would reccomend having a high strength stat and not discipline, as contraverse + enhanced vortex usually always gets it back. Melee does the very few times it doesnt, and sometimes with both up you can grenade>melee>grenade. If someone gets ahold of a solar contraverse: put double enhanced momentum transfer. Its amazing.
I'm loving the Unstoppable bullets artifact mod for hand cannons. A brief moment of ADS staggers unshielded enemies and some bosses. I've been using that to reliably let my enemies cook in my grenades.
I always love you content brother. My fav content creator to watch for builds, guns, God rolls, etc. But bro I promise the suppresser grenade on this build is where it's at. I've been using this build for a couple of seasons now that I one day randomly stumbled upon. And in Gambit it's my go to. Maybe not for a boss, but for crowd control. And this with armamentarium with this just helps significantly. So between code of the commander, two grenades, oppressive darkness, overload grenades, ashes to assets, and maybe one gun with demolitionist. I found it easy to always have grenades. Plus in PvP I use it and when someone uses there super or I'll throwing it around the corner before heading into a room, it helps. Idk try it and tell me watcha think. Can't wait for more content, keep up the great work brother
For the nightstalker part, you can jump at an enemy while throwing smoke to proc enhanced momentum transfer as well as going invisible, thus getting even MORE grenade energy
Hey Aztecross, for us peeps that rock the dress (warlock main) you are forgetting an even better piece of exotic gear that helps with grenade regeneration. Veritys Brow dropped in Warmind and that's probably one that was forgotten. This grants grenade energy in a three tier system and the only thing you need to do to gain it is energy weapon kills. If someone can get this out there to him that'd be cool. Thanks for your videos man!
I like these for pure grenade builds, but I've been running an Anti-Barrier Arc Logic with the grenade energy on kill perk, with 1 Breach Refractor + Overload Grenade or 2 Breach Refractor and an Overload SMG. I have not been doing the high nightfalls yet, but in the content I've been doing, I like it a lot.
My titan build (what is the (or)deal?): Primary: HC/SMG with demolitionist and anti-barrier mod Chest: Overload grenades and breach refractor Class item: Oppresive darkness Leviathan's breath Armamentarium Code of the commander Magnetic grenades
Since I watched this video I only use bottom tree night stalker Oppressive darkness and Finisher to get grenades back Assassin Cowl finisher heal and invisible With demolitionist + Breach refractor So amazing to use all around in PVE
You can do a similar variant of the Warlock build by using Nezarec's sin, the Devour tree, and a void secondary for solo play. Requires that you spec as close to 100 Discipline as possible, but honestly 80ish is fine from what I've seen, which certainly makes it user friendly. It'll recharge everything at a decently fast rate, super included, and you'll hve more grenades than you know what to do with to keep that Oppressive Darkness Debuff going. Super great for add clear.
I like all three of these, but...well. I don't have Contraverse Hold. Also, I've always been a big fan of Devour, so when I saw an excuse to use that build again, you can bet I jumped at the chance, and..I'm not entirely sure if mine is worse than the Contraverse Hold build you shared. Now granted, if there are no trash mobs to kill or you aren't reliably getting last hits on them, Contraverse Hold probably wins hands down. But for the sake of realism, I'm going to assume this isn't a relevant factor most of the time. My build uses Vortex Grenades, obviously, because you were 100% right about everything you said. My exotic is Nezarec's Sin, and in my chest armor I have two Breach Refractor. If you don't feel like using that particular glitch, or when they patch it, it's really not needed, because it's 100% overkill. My primary weapon is a Recluse with Anti-Barrier Rounds, but if you don't have that..well, first off, now's the time to farm it. But second off, Every Waking Moment is a perfectly viable alternative, or probably some kind of energy auto rifle. Reckless Oracle is probably good. I don't know - I use my Recluse. All that, combined with the Insatiable perk, which chunks you back ~20% of your grenade energy with every kill, as well as healing you to full. Now, I'm not sure how many of those things are actually needed, but I will say that with tier 10 discipline, my grenade cooldown was shorter than the duration of the Vortex Grenade. If it ever actually ended up on cooldown, no more than three kills with my Recluse would bring it back online. And I can't reiterate too much that Devour also fully heals you when you get a kill. Using this build optimally is like having Sunbracers active all the time, but you're also immortal. I'm not gonna say that it's definitively the best build in the history of time or anything, but it's DEFINITELY the most fun I've had. Right up until my clan is like "Alright, pop your Well." Edit: and yes, I know that the point here is how to make the grenades hit as hard as possible, and obviously Contraverse Hold + Chaos will beat Devour + anything else every time, but..I think a grenade every 2.5 seconds is probably gonna win the DPS race, even if it loses out on damage per tick.
You've gotta check out an alternate on that Warlock build: Bottom tree Voidwalker for Devour Recluse Nezarec's Sin Double Breach Refractor Oppressive darkness Unlimited grenades, melee's, and rifts. Every kill heals you and helps recharge abilities. You're immortal and everything is debuffed.
I've got a tier 10 discipline build on my warlock and can say I rarely have to wait on a grenade with Contraverse Hold. Now to just pair it up with Demolitionist weapons and that build is complete.
You should make a video telling people that they should farm prism's ascendent shards from nightfalls and how easy it can be to farm a 950. It's worth it. For example, resilience and recovery both make a massive difference. One piece adds an extra +10 across the board, which alone isn't much, but for everything, it's enough to make enough of a difference.
Been using the warlock vortex build since shadowkeep dropped, I used to use disruptor spike, gone back to using breach refractor instead... Never wait for grenade
It's good to see the Titan class getting some love on boss dps for once. As a hunter main, I'm glad to see my Titans actually doing some big numbers without having to use supers, which are just not as good as the other classes for boss dps as it stands
Run Breach refractor on your chest piece. Grenade energy of shield piercing weapons. Gamblers dodge. And go invis Enhanced impact induction aaaaand if you can enhanced bomber. You can free up the exotic slot to orpheus rigs at that point. For extra arrows. I run 52 disapline. Which is about 59 second cool down, but I'm getting grenades roughly every 20 seconds.
The one thing I wish bungie would add is a little debuff icon or something under enemy health bars.. I know that we would not be able to see what that debuff was because it would be too small but we all know what our abilities do. So it would be nice to see an icon to know for sure when the debuffs are applied and when they go away. That would be a great add on.
I have an Austringer with demolicionist perk and I put anti barrier rounds with that artifact perk that reduces grenade cooldown when killing enemies with anti barrier, plus my 90 discipline I got nades every 15 secs give or take
I was wondering when you were going to do the oppressive grenadier build. Running arc contraverse holds, with enhanced impact induction myself, maxed discipline and enchanced ashes to assets on a fire warlock bond. Literally the strongest grenades in the game for sheer territory control in PvP. Allows you to set up loads of nutty stuff like empowering rift one hit kills and stuff.
Why are you not a 1 mill subs. I get more out of your videos than anybody on youtube. great vids tyvm for your help. (& im stuck at 949, can't get helm)
The area denial for the warlock build in Crucible is fantastic as well. I've commonly gotten triple kills from one well placed grenade. It's AoE is pretty damn big, especially considering how long it lasts. I love tossing it a Titan barricade and watching it melt everyone hiding behind it. Also, run enhanced Ashes to assets with this build. Not only will you be wrecking shit with non-stop grenades, you'll be getting supers at a much faster rate. It's honestly kind of broken.
My hunter build is top tree high disc and smg dropped an entire team in survival in 1 sec. But that was when they were bunched up in a doorway. Depending on the map leviathans breath with my build can lock down a team and win it.
Love the build guides as always. My question for you is revolving around the oppressive darkness mod. Is that mod still obtainable in the current sandbox or is there something that replaced this mod? I took a two year long hiatus from the game to focus on other things in life and decided to start playing again last month which is why I ask.
Idont know but ikind feel this dude voice is really cool for builds videos😁🤗 and funny also spicaily for how to become a titan video the way he talk really made me feel a true titan♥️♥️✌
Try Heart of Inmost Light with top Tree striker (which gives you double pulse Grenades) With 2 stacks of empowerment, it does quite a bit of damage, which can be done simultaneously with weapon DPS. It's NASTY.
Aztecross baby if you think bomber is good pull out distribution on the class item and then pair that with distribution armor 1.0 boots. You'll have super energy, insane grenade energy, dodge energy back, etc. every time you dodge. This was the very first build I did when shadowkeep launched and used it to do the 950 week one.
so the main 2 ways I run my titan are both with Heart of inmost light. Code of the commander, or as I like to call it "Commander of light" and code of the seige-breaker or as I like to call it "Heart of the seige". If you like grenades and massive aoe chain reactions I cannot recommend them enough
Awesome to run it with divinity since divinity stacks with debuffs, use those two plus ward of dawn and you have some crazy high DPS which can all be done on just 1 titan as a support, though I play Warlock mostly for Divinity + vortex grenade
I have been running Monte Carlo on hunter build, this would give melee, pretty quickly killing smth like ads, and i could get like 3 melee, in like 3-5 consecutive kills. And hence increase the Grenande recharge
Another build that I would recommend is having the same thing on here except have Nezarec's Sin cuz as long as you have Abyssal extractors pretty high oh, it's almost like you have "insert mod here" where it looks like you're pretty much on Mayhem all the time, especially with a charged Axion Bolt to keep it going for at least 20 seconds before it wears out
Ended up getting a triple kill as a nightstalking hunter just using this class mod and the vortex grenade The critical hits you gain from it makes it hit like a truck
Hey Cross, I absolutely love your videos and watch every single one. I have to ask though, are there any Warlock builds coming? I feel like we have been very very heavily screwed with the new sandbox changes, I honestly can't see how we're useful in any possible way
Titans have the strongest melees, hunters the best class ability and warlocks have.... the lowest damage grenades! yay Well, Top Tree Contraverse still feels really good to play. The randomness of Contraverse Hold is just a little bit annoying sometimes.
Not going to lie I just found this Titan build like two days ago and if you pair it with recluse with shield piercing rounds and on the chest have the mods that work with weapons that kill with shield piercing rounds then it's a build built for the gods it's crazy
12:17 Why don't you use kepriis sting and melee the Greg with inhanced melee induction, that way you get your melee grenade back from going invis and damaging Greg with the melee and the smoke. Then Dodge and repeat, obviously while the grenade is down so it can tick for for the smoke.
I love this build for the Warlock I use the controverse hold exotic gauntlets for my warlock with the oppressive Darkness mod oh my God it's disgusting I love it
I've been running disruption grenades, disruption spike, opressive darkness, Contraverse holds (handheld supernova), wizened rebuke with demolitionist (and the enhanced reload on my arms), and my pluperfect with disruption rounds (enhanced reload on my arms). Next step is to masterwork a fire element warlock's bond and throw enhanced ashes to assets on there with oppressive darkness (which would fully charge it). I'm fwippin , fwoppin and fwoomin left and right boys.
Did something similar on my Titan but with Armamentarium and Code of the Commander plus the same artifact mods. Void detonators are pretty good with Voidwall grenade.
I'm using the same set up for my warlock. Oppresive and a breach refractor(soon) mod with an anti-barrier weapon, Monte Carlo, and Contraverse. Love being able to just cycle through my abilities easily with a helping debuff along for the ride
Every Waking Moment with Demolitionist and anti-berrier works nicely, too, with ballistic combo and breach refractor. It... actually just replaced Recluse for my Warlock. Haha And, I think I actually prefer Monte Carlo on my Titan, since that's my melee build.
@@mahverick829 i use a gnawing hunger or a orewing's maul for those moments when you're in a pinch and you don't want to spend your cherged meele to recover 10 seconds of nade that you don't have. Also, i use enhanced ashes with opressive darkness, even with 30 intellect you can still use your nova bomb 2 to 3 times per boss if soloing a vex invasion.
I’ve thought of a build using thunder coil and arc bolt grenades with lucky raspberry making it so I throw the grenade it chains increasing the damage on top of thunder coil increasing damage and then getting h the grenade back making it so you can dish out damage on multiple targets at once and if there is a stronger target it will surely get killed or hurt an substantial amount from the grenade I don’t have many mods yet so I can’t max out discipline and stuff like that for grenade time.
It took me months of grind, but I just got the recluse today after slaying out on blueberries. In survival, as I was a Xbox player that migrated to pc. I think I’m just a better player on pc than I am on console.
Pc is def easier to aim, which in turn makes for harder competition also. I am better at m+k but i perform better in terms of results on console bc i find alot of console players' aim suck
Batmin Yeah! The oppressive mod you’re looking for in the last column of the artifact, far left side at the bottom when viewing your character. Are you a bit confused on how to get exotics? If so, unfortunately it’s totally random or you can get specific random ones from Xur, download the app ”where is xur”. What exactly are you a bit lost on?
I use the warlock one in crucible and you would be surprised how many people try to rush through a grenade to cap a point or get a shotgun kill and they just can't tank the damage. I was playing with friends and they banned me from using it (against them) cause it was almost an instant kill.
Heart of inmost light, you can also proc the x2 empowered on ANY subclass! Also regardless if your shoulder charge ability is charged or not, just simply getting a melee procs empowered!
*Kind of a long one, but I really wanted to dive into the best oppressive build in each class. Time stamps below though:*
Oppressive Duration/Debuff overview - 00:46
Titan Oppressive Build - 3:43
Hunter Oppressive Build - 8:06
Warlock Oppressive Build - 13:10
I forgot to include damage values from chaos accelerant, but it does greatly increase damage and radius of our vortex grenade.
finally, something for my warlock
I like when you make it go long
You could probably rock a double enhanced bomber if you got boots for the hunter as well, just saying. Don't really care, I was here for the Titan stuff lol
Holy cow what a recovery in that opening clip. I thought you were dead for sure.
Distribution cost 4 energy as well and while it might not give you quite as much as enhanced bomber, it recharges your melee, grenade, dodge and your super if you are close to an enemy like Dynamo. Also you can throw your invis smoke at an enemy to proc Impact Induction and then dodge into the enemy you'll grab the invis off the smoke as well in one move. More efficient and should get you that grenade back faster.
Why would I need timestamps? I'm watching the whole thing to listen to that smoother than butter voice.
In-er-esting
Whoa , nice to see your inner gay ‘loud and proud ‘ in the comments
@@jamesjordan139 Na, as a Titan main aztecross told me to wrap my lady of the night in bacon and I love my lady of the night. (Reference to the video being a Titan main in case you haven't watched it so you don't I have a weird obsession with bacon)
James Jordan Big oof my dude
@@ezzedineitani8934 that Southern twang tho...
0:13 look at that synchronized tethering!
That save at the beginning of the vid was godly
So nobody’s gonna talk about that sexy transition at 2:46 huh?😱
Came here to say the exact same thing!
That was pretty great.
He does the good transitions a lot so it's nothing special any more
For the hunter build you could use Monte Carlo since it gives back smoke energy
Code of the Commander is so much fun this season. Literally this build is constantly lagging out my PS4 on a Vex incursion. I can hear Shaxx "TITAN YOUR SO POWERFUL THE WORLD CANNOT CONTAIN YOU, I LOVE IT!"
Thanks for the great content 💯👍
Once again, I’m scared to see what this build could’ve been with nothing manicles
If only. Never took them off in D1.
Man, I haven’t heard that name in a minute. As much as I like D2, it still can’t match D1. I would play it again from scratch, if it came to PC!
Forcer
It would be dark side! Now the vortex is to good to pass up. Larger enemies just sit there in the vortex and take damage while charging the nade.
The exotic gloves are insanely good and what make it what it is.
"OPPRESSIVE"
this build better steal a mf wages and gaslight them for being poor
the timer on grenades from what I've found starts at the first instance of damage dealt to that individual mob, so you can have one mob debuffed on the first tick and another on the last.
YOOOOOO that edit where you popped your rally barricade and then switched the scene was dope. I see the sick edits on top of the great gameplay and knowledge
That Ross Capichioni instrumental remix near the end hit me like a truck. Damn I gotta listen to that song again.
I truly appreciate you starting with the time stamp options. I’m on break at work. Have a sub.
Finally someone showing off these builds! I’ve been praising them for ages but people always look over this
Was gonna message ya about the build a la Titan but decided not to bother. Now that ya made a vid, I gotta add in the build I've been using.
As you stated, Mid tree Sentinel synergizes amazingly with Heart of Inmost light. The detonators are key in the build to keep going. I know that Voidwall nades are strongest, but also situational depending on enemy/nade placement. MAGNETIC GRENADES 4DAYZ. You get an initial hit that sets the detonator and as the grenade explodes , it sets them off. It has homing capabilities and STICKS to the target. Very underrated in midtree Sentinel.
MONTE EFFING CARLO THROTTLES THIS BUILD.
Oh my god. Constantly settling detonators off with Melee procs Markov Chainx5, which in turn, basically gives you back yer melee. Not only are you constantly dishing out high damage with yer gun and overusing your melee, but you are constantly EMPOWERED at this point making grenade recharge rates that much faster+additional damage on melee strikes. Being around those detonations is healing yourself and teammates on top of everything.
Mods you've touched on well, but the gamechanger involves the Carlo+Magnetic nades. Overall synergy is just constant with high tier damage for days.
7:53 I see what you did there. nice transitions. It’s the little things you got to appreciate.
Shoutout to the editor 2:45 transition was slick.
I’ve been running these two since I got them and it makes so much easier for me, I’m glad you shed some light on these mods
Anyone else just coming back because oppressive darkness is back in season 11
I use a similar Warlock build. Switched out the gauntlets for Nezarecs. Breach Refractor, Every Waking Moment with Demolitionist and Anti-barrier, followed by Ashes to Assets + Momentum Control. Quick super, quick grenade, quick melee; synergistic as all get out.
That save at the beginning was smooth! I thought you were falling to your death.
Bottom tree Nightstalker gives you more grenade energy if you make teammates invisible, so in things like strikes, raids, or gambit, you should try to smoke your teammates instead of the enemy and you get even more grenade energy.
THAT TRANSITION AT 2:45 THOOO
My current solo nova warlock build consists of:
Bottom tree voidwalker
Breach refractor & Ballistic combo
Recluse w/ anti-barrier rounds
Nezarec's Sin
Oppressive darkness
This allows for constant grenades that apply the debuff and kills w/ devour active and w/ anti-barrier recluse proc both the breach refractor, ballistic combo, AND abyssal extractors as long as you can chew through adds. Devour also keeps you alive through all of this making it a super powerful solo build for activities such as vex invasions, gambit, vex offensive, strikes, and anyother activity that throws trash mobs at you. This build also provides hella damage because abyssal extractors allows you to have increased super regen giving you (in my experience) 2-3 nova bombs throughout an activity like vex invasions. Combining frequent nova bombs and constant debuff grenades makes handling bosses SO easy. The best part is that this build will still work with any void energy weapon that can have anti-barrier rounds applied to it or you can use weapons such as Fighting Lion or Graviton Lance and have your primary be anti-barrier. Y'all should try it out sometime!
Sunbracers on top tree dawnblade with Monte Carlo could be a pretty good build. You'll pretty much always have your melee up to be able to proc sunbracers perk.
Thanks for this video, man. I consider myself a hard core player, but I hadn't tried some of this out.
OOOH, I was avoiding Controverse Hold because I thought the recharge effect only worked with Handheld supernova and I didn’t want to use Nova Warp. Thank you for making me read the darn description. 😅
I've been watching you for months and just now realized I wasn't subbed...my momma is ashamed :-(
Good news, now subbed, love your stuff
That Joyner Lucas - Ross Capicchioni beat though 🔥🔥🔥
For the warlock build, not sure if already mentioned but you can do the same build and use nezaric sin with your choice of void weapon! Its perfect for solo players getting all their abilities back + quicker super recharge as you get more kills with a void weapon.
For Hunter grenades, the vortex are probably the most used mostly because of the ease of use. The spike do more damage and so do the voidwalls. But, the spike always hits some random piece of geography and manages to be pointing 45 on a flat wall. When D2 started, the voidwall tracking was weird in terms of which way the line goes. The voidwall don't detonate on impact and are only on the ground so you had to be really precise where it landed.
AZ the mad scientist if D2. Love it and thanks.
I’ve been using Nezarec’s Sin + Recluse + bottom tree Voidwalker (Devour) + high Discipline armor with Discipline mods.
It is amazing.
You could also use Monte Carlo's perk with Hunter to get Melee energy back too
Another build I've been running is... get this.... Kehpri's Sting!!! HA, with bottom tree Nightstalker, to gain true sight in crucible. Dodge that gives melee back. Most armor with strength mods to get smokes back quickly. Monte carlo for same reason, though i've used rat king, and other weapons to see what they would do. Build thanks to Ms5000Watts. Build is just helpful to gain the advantage of playing field. Thanks for the content Aztecross
The hunter build sounds super fun, kind of like a reverse tripmine build. Which is my favorite, so I'll for sure try it!
Been doing this lock build since day 1. I would reccomend having a high strength stat and not discipline, as contraverse + enhanced vortex usually always gets it back. Melee does the very few times it doesnt, and sometimes with both up you can grenade>melee>grenade.
If someone gets ahold of a solar contraverse: put double enhanced momentum transfer. Its amazing.
I'm loving the Unstoppable bullets artifact mod for hand cannons. A brief moment of ADS staggers unshielded enemies and some bosses. I've been using that to reliably let my enemies cook in my grenades.
I always love you content brother. My fav content creator to watch for builds, guns, God rolls, etc. But bro I promise the suppresser grenade on this build is where it's at. I've been using this build for a couple of seasons now that I one day randomly stumbled upon. And in Gambit it's my go to. Maybe not for a boss, but for crowd control. And this with armamentarium with this just helps significantly. So between code of the commander, two grenades, oppressive darkness, overload grenades, ashes to assets, and maybe one gun with demolitionist. I found it easy to always have grenades. Plus in PvP I use it and when someone uses there super or I'll throwing it around the corner before heading into a room, it helps. Idk try it and tell me watcha think. Can't wait for more content, keep up the great work brother
For the nightstalker part, you can jump at an enemy while throwing smoke to proc enhanced momentum transfer as well as going invisible, thus getting even MORE grenade energy
Hey Aztecross, for us peeps that rock the dress (warlock main) you are forgetting an even better piece of exotic gear that helps with grenade regeneration. Veritys Brow dropped in Warmind and that's probably one that was forgotten. This grants grenade energy in a three tier system and the only thing you need to do to gain it is energy weapon kills. If someone can get this out there to him that'd be cool. Thanks for your videos man!
5:28
Nice.
the transition at 2:46 ... woah
One of the only tubers I watch on a regular basis. Stay strong Tec.
0:11 we really not going to talk about that save then those two hunters watching your back in sync?
I like these for pure grenade builds, but I've been running an Anti-Barrier Arc Logic with the grenade energy on kill perk, with 1 Breach Refractor + Overload Grenade or 2 Breach Refractor and an Overload SMG. I have not been doing the high nightfalls yet, but in the content I've been doing, I like it a lot.
My titan build (what is the (or)deal?):
Primary: HC/SMG with demolitionist and anti-barrier mod
Chest: Overload grenades and breach refractor
Class item: Oppresive darkness
Leviathan's breath
Armamentarium
Code of the commander
Magnetic grenades
swap out for heart of inmost light for infinite grenades.
Since I watched this video I only use bottom tree night stalker
Oppressive darkness and
Finisher to get grenades back
Assassin Cowl finisher heal and invisible
With demolitionist + Breach refractor
So amazing to use all around in PVE
You can do a similar variant of the Warlock build by using Nezarec's sin, the Devour tree, and a void secondary for solo play. Requires that you spec as close to 100 Discipline as possible, but honestly 80ish is fine from what I've seen, which certainly makes it user friendly. It'll recharge everything at a decently fast rate, super included, and you'll hve more grenades than you know what to do with to keep that Oppressive Darkness Debuff going. Super great for add clear.
Thanks again brother informative as always... I appreciate you!
I like all three of these, but...well. I don't have Contraverse Hold. Also, I've always been a big fan of Devour, so when I saw an excuse to use that build again, you can bet I jumped at the chance, and..I'm not entirely sure if mine is worse than the Contraverse Hold build you shared.
Now granted, if there are no trash mobs to kill or you aren't reliably getting last hits on them, Contraverse Hold probably wins hands down. But for the sake of realism, I'm going to assume this isn't a relevant factor most of the time.
My build uses Vortex Grenades, obviously, because you were 100% right about everything you said. My exotic is Nezarec's Sin, and in my chest armor I have two Breach Refractor. If you don't feel like using that particular glitch, or when they patch it, it's really not needed, because it's 100% overkill.
My primary weapon is a Recluse with Anti-Barrier Rounds, but if you don't have that..well, first off, now's the time to farm it. But second off, Every Waking Moment is a perfectly viable alternative, or probably some kind of energy auto rifle. Reckless Oracle is probably good. I don't know - I use my Recluse.
All that, combined with the Insatiable perk, which chunks you back ~20% of your grenade energy with every kill, as well as healing you to full.
Now, I'm not sure how many of those things are actually needed, but I will say that with tier 10 discipline, my grenade cooldown was shorter than the duration of the Vortex Grenade. If it ever actually ended up on cooldown, no more than three kills with my Recluse would bring it back online. And I can't reiterate too much that Devour also fully heals you when you get a kill.
Using this build optimally is like having Sunbracers active all the time, but you're also immortal. I'm not gonna say that it's definitively the best build in the history of time or anything, but it's DEFINITELY the most fun I've had. Right up until my clan is like "Alright, pop your Well."
Edit: and yes, I know that the point here is how to make the grenades hit as hard as possible, and obviously Contraverse Hold + Chaos will beat Devour + anything else every time, but..I think a grenade every 2.5 seconds is probably gonna win the DPS race, even if it loses out on damage per tick.
You've gotta check out an alternate on that Warlock build:
Bottom tree Voidwalker for Devour
Recluse
Nezarec's Sin
Double Breach Refractor
Oppressive darkness
Unlimited grenades, melee's, and rifts. Every kill heals you and helps recharge abilities. You're immortal and everything is debuffed.
I've got a tier 10 discipline build on my warlock and can say I rarely have to wait on a grenade with Contraverse Hold. Now to just pair it up with Demolitionist weapons and that build is complete.
You should make a video telling people that they should farm prism's ascendent shards from nightfalls and how easy it can be to farm a 950. It's worth it. For example, resilience and recovery both make a massive difference. One piece adds an extra +10 across the board, which alone isn't much, but for everything, it's enough to make enough of a difference.
Been using the warlock vortex build since shadowkeep dropped, I used to use disruptor spike, gone back to using breach refractor instead... Never wait for grenade
It's good to see the Titan class getting some love on boss dps for once. As a hunter main, I'm glad to see my Titans actually doing some big numbers without having to use supers, which are just not as good as the other classes for boss dps as it stands
Run Breach refractor on your chest piece.
Grenade energy of shield piercing weapons.
Gamblers dodge. And go invis
Enhanced impact induction aaaaand if you can enhanced bomber.
You can free up the exotic slot to orpheus rigs at that point. For extra arrows.
I run 52 disapline. Which is about 59 second cool down, but I'm getting grenades roughly every 20 seconds.
The one thing I wish bungie would add is a little debuff icon or something under enemy health bars.. I know that we would not be able to see what that debuff was because it would be too small but we all know what our abilities do. So it would be nice to see an icon to know for sure when the debuffs are applied and when they go away. That would be a great add on.
I have an Austringer with demolicionist perk and I put anti barrier rounds with that artifact perk that reduces grenade cooldown when killing enemies with anti barrier, plus my 90 discipline I got nades every 15 secs give or take
I was wondering when you were going to do the oppressive grenadier build. Running arc contraverse holds, with enhanced impact induction myself, maxed discipline and enchanced ashes to assets on a fire warlock bond. Literally the strongest grenades in the game for sheer territory control in PvP. Allows you to set up loads of nutty stuff like empowering rift one hit kills and stuff.
Why are you not a 1 mill subs. I get more out of your videos than anybody on youtube. great vids tyvm for your help. (& im stuck at 949, can't get helm)
The area denial for the warlock build in Crucible is fantastic as well. I've commonly gotten triple kills from one well placed grenade. It's AoE is pretty damn big, especially considering how long it lasts. I love tossing it a Titan barricade and watching it melt everyone hiding behind it.
Also, run enhanced Ashes to assets with this build. Not only will you be wrecking shit with non-stop grenades, you'll be getting supers at a much faster rate. It's honestly kind of broken.
My hunter build is top tree high disc and smg dropped an entire team in survival in 1 sec. But that was when they were bunched up in a doorway. Depending on the map leviathans breath with my build can lock down a team and win it.
Love the build guides as always. My question for you is revolving around the oppressive darkness mod. Is that mod still obtainable in the current sandbox or is there something that replaced this mod? I took a two year long hiatus from the game to focus on other things in life and decided to start playing again last month which is why I ask.
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Try Heart of Inmost Light with top Tree striker (which gives you double pulse Grenades)
With 2 stacks of empowerment, it does quite a bit of damage, which can be done simultaneously with weapon DPS.
It's NASTY.
This was a great video, as I was trying to figure out what the best dps for PVE was besides weapons.
Been rocking the Warlock build since shadowkeep launch. Gotta say it’s pretty nasty
Aztecross baby if you think bomber is good pull out distribution on the class item and then pair that with distribution armor 1.0 boots. You'll have super energy, insane grenade energy, dodge energy back, etc. every time you dodge. This was the very first build I did when shadowkeep launched and used it to do the 950 week one.
so the main 2 ways I run my titan are both with Heart of inmost light. Code of the commander, or as I like to call it "Commander of light" and code of the seige-breaker or as I like to call it "Heart of the seige". If you like grenades and massive aoe chain reactions I cannot recommend them enough
Awesome to run it with divinity since divinity stacks with debuffs, use those two plus ward of dawn and you have some crazy high DPS which can all be done on just 1 titan as a support, though I play Warlock mostly for Divinity + vortex grenade
I have been running Monte Carlo on hunter build, this would give melee, pretty quickly killing smth like ads, and i could get like 3 melee, in like 3-5 consecutive kills. And hence increase the Grenande recharge
Shield Barrier rounds also grant grendade energy. I use it on my Warlock Arc build.
Here's hoping it comes back in Void 3.0!
Aztecross .. do you think you could elaborate more on your titan oppressive build more. Perhaps detail prefered equipment and mod setups?
Another build that I would recommend is having the same thing on here except have Nezarec's Sin cuz as long as you have Abyssal extractors pretty high oh, it's almost like you have "insert mod here" where it looks like you're pretty much on Mayhem all the time, especially with a charged Axion Bolt to keep it going for at least 20 seconds before it wears out
Ended up getting a triple kill as a nightstalking hunter just using this class mod and the vortex grenade
The critical hits you gain from it makes it hit like a truck
Hey Cross, I absolutely love your videos and watch every single one. I have to ask though, are there any Warlock builds coming? I feel like we have been very very heavily screwed with the new sandbox changes, I honestly can't see how we're useful in any possible way
Titans have the strongest melees, hunters the best class ability and warlocks have.... the lowest damage grenades! yay
Well, Top Tree Contraverse still feels really good to play. The randomness of Contraverse Hold is just a little bit annoying sometimes.
Lol you have handheld nova and charged grenades and healing charged grenades...but yeah go ahead and act like warlocks aren't good with grenades...
I've been using the warlock one since I've been able to
Not going to lie I just found this Titan build like two days ago and if you pair it with recluse with shield piercing rounds and on the chest have the mods that work with weapons that kill with shield piercing rounds then it's a build built for the gods it's crazy
Really wish oppressive darkness could be a permanent perk
I can confirm that these builds are indeed oppressive
Definitely looks like some fun builds to mess with... Can't wait to give them a try 😋🤙
12:17 Why don't you use kepriis sting and melee the Greg with inhanced melee induction, that way you get your melee grenade back from going invis and damaging Greg with the melee and the smoke. Then Dodge and repeat, obviously while the grenade is down so it can tick for for the smoke.
2:46
Can we just get some appreciation for that transition though
I love this build for the Warlock I use the controverse hold exotic gauntlets for my warlock with the oppressive Darkness mod oh my God it's disgusting I love it
I've been running disruption grenades, disruption spike, opressive darkness, Contraverse holds (handheld supernova), wizened rebuke with demolitionist (and the enhanced reload on my arms), and my pluperfect with disruption rounds (enhanced reload on my arms). Next step is to masterwork a fire element warlock's bond and throw enhanced ashes to assets on there with oppressive darkness (which would fully charge it). I'm fwippin , fwoppin and fwoomin left and right boys.
100 discipline warlock with that hands! My main since Shadowkeep launched
Esoterick is a beastly lad.
Did something similar on my Titan but with Armamentarium and Code of the Commander plus the same artifact mods. Void detonators are pretty good with Voidwall grenade.
I tried the hunter build with monte and it’s OP
I’ve been running ashes to assets with the warlock build, so I can spec for discipline and not intellect.
use monte carlo for the warlock, u'll see what i call ability loop
I'm using the same set up for my warlock. Oppresive and a breach refractor(soon) mod with an anti-barrier weapon, Monte Carlo, and Contraverse. Love being able to just cycle through my abilities easily with a helping debuff along for the ride
Every Waking Moment with Demolitionist and anti-berrier works nicely, too, with ballistic combo and breach refractor. It... actually just replaced Recluse for my Warlock. Haha And, I think I actually prefer Monte Carlo on my Titan, since that's my melee build.
@@mahverick829 i use a gnawing hunger or a orewing's maul for those moments when you're in a pinch and you don't want to spend your cherged meele to recover 10 seconds of nade that you don't have. Also, i use enhanced ashes with opressive darkness, even with 30 intellect you can still use your nova bomb 2 to 3 times per boss if soloing a vex invasion.
The warlock build synergizes well with nezeracs sin aswell
Oppressive Darkness is great for debuffing supers in pvp too. Makes it easy to melt them down.
I’ve thought of a build using thunder coil and arc bolt grenades with lucky raspberry making it so I throw the grenade it chains increasing the damage on top of thunder coil increasing damage and then getting h the grenade back making it so you can dish out damage on multiple targets at once and if there is a stronger target it will surely get killed or hurt an substantial amount from the grenade I don’t have many mods yet so I can’t max out discipline and stuff like that for grenade time.
It took me months of grind, but I just got the recluse today after slaying out on blueberries. In survival, as I was a Xbox player that migrated to pc. I think I’m just a better player on pc than I am on console.
Pc is easier to aim on lol
anthony a bet you’re a console player lol
@@liamhood4981 I play on both aiming is easier with mouse keyboard period...
Pc is def easier to aim, which in turn makes for harder competition also. I am better at m+k but i perform better in terms of results on console bc i find alot of console players' aim suck
I use the hunter build already and I am second to no one when it comes to grenade placement so spike grenade is insane!
I didn't get the hunter build quite right as a new light player its hard to understand can you clarify the build?
Batmin Yeah! The oppressive mod you’re looking for in the last column of the artifact, far left side at the bottom when viewing your character.
Are you a bit confused on how to get exotics? If so, unfortunately it’s totally random or you can get specific random ones from Xur, download the app ”where is xur”. What exactly are you a bit lost on?
I use the warlock one in crucible and you would be surprised how many people try to rush through a grenade to cap a point or get a shotgun kill and they just can't tank the damage. I was playing with friends and they banned me from using it (against them) cause it was almost an instant kill.
Heart of inmost light, you can also proc the x2 empowered on ANY subclass! Also regardless if your shoulder charge ability is charged or not, just simply getting a melee procs empowered!
But you need void nades for the build and oppressive light