All based on my opinion:

Void PVE Hunter is either Gyrfalcons or Orpheus Rig depending on the density of enemies. Both work well with prismatic.

Solar PVE Titan is Lorely Splendor or Precious Scars since restoration duration has been severely nerfed, both are a lifesavers. Both work with Prismatic but Lorely only works if you have a solar super.

Arc PVE Warlock has been completely overshadowed by Prismatic which is completely broken with Getaway Artists. Simply consume your arc grenade and you can produce an arc soul AND a bleak watcher turret; this also amplifies you which gives you galvanic armor via the artifact. Also, all ability kills give you devour. Two champ stuns are covered simply by the bleak watcher, and prismatic has nearly 100% uptime on radiant so barrier is covered as well.

https://mobalytics.gg/destiny-2/builds

https://www.blueberries.gg/armor/best-destiny-2-builds/

https://builders.gg/destiny/dim-builds/popular

https://www.light.gg/loadouts/db/

Consecration for Titan is my go to rn. It's so much fun.

Teach me your ways!

It is heavily dependant on what boss you are fighting and what activity.

Many activities within end game have varying modifiers that will boost certain options. Having something to match various surges or overcharged weapons can be the most important thing.

Many bosses you are best off using precision weapons, others prefer explosive weapons, some swords.

For precision, linears are probably top for legendary options mostly. Scintillation would be one of the top picks there.

For explosive, GLs top pick would probably be VS Chill Inhibitor from Vesper’s Host and top rocket would be Hezen’s Vengeance from Vault of Glass.

Swords are a little more open. There are a couple with double damage perks but can’t really go wrong with a good Fallen Guillotine or Slammer. There is a bit less of a gap in swords so you can do fine with a lot of them.

All that being said, you should have some loadouts for legendary primary and special weapons to enable exotic DPS options when suited. There are a lot of times where one or two exotics really stand above and beyond all other options.

Hezen vengeance, but I think the banshee GL from vespers is still really good. Also scintillation this season is very underrated, almost a legendary queen breaker

The easiest ways to get a decent sword are:

1. The Other Half/Half Truths: both of these swords can drop randomly from Dares of Eternity. Both are craftable if you can get the red borders for them.

2. Falling Guillotine: this sword is one of the drops from the OG Onslaught playlist. You can attune to it at Zavala in the tower and that will increase the frequency in which it drops

hezen vengeance with envious arsenal and either bait and switch or elemental honing

It’s just another heavy weapon. Lots of different sources for them including world drops.

Fallen Guillotine that I mentioned before can be obtained from Onslaught launched from the Vanguard tab in the director. You can visit Zavala in the tower and focus it to make it more likely to drop from there as there are a lot of weapons in that loot pool (many of which are very good).

adepts are better lol

3s freeze build Twilight Arsenal Rally barricade Strafe lift Shiver strike Pulse/suppressor nade Knockout Diamond lance Dominance Justice Command Dawn Ruin

With spirit of ophidian and spirit of alpha lupi

My go to build:

Void titan with offensive bulwark and bastion. Bubble for trials and twilight garrison for quickplay/comp. Fragments for weakening grenades with scatter grenades, specced into 6 discipline.

Has been insane. Raised titan KD from 2.05 to 2.23 with this build.

I’m a bit late on this build but I started using behemoth cryosthesia and the prophecy shotgun, although a sniper might help the range issue.

Stasis aspects are diamond lance and cryoclasm. My exotic is dunemarchers but I’m actively looking for a replacement. Tried using the reflect legs but I couldn’t quite get down how to use em.

If I wasn’t using this, I think I’d use grapple strand with lash. Other aspect doesn’t really matter imo, but flechette blade might slap if you use the new strand exotic. Abeyant or khepris work pretty well with lash still.

For solar, Ashen wake + a wave frame is a famously stupid combo.

I myself can’t really make void work, the overshield feels like it does nothing.

I still run void titan+ dunemarchers but instead of bubble twilight arsenal and bubble if I'm really sweating.

I've been bouncing between void and prismatic titan for pvp, both in control and in comp. Prismatic is a lot of fun, with some insane potential, but I think for trials/comp I'm gonna stick to void titan.

Stacking unbreakable with offensive bulwark and echo of vigilance means I can use unbreakable even more often. I just wish my void subclass wasn't bugged, as I can't equip Twilight Arsenal on void, even though I can on prismatic.

As for stat distro, with the super gen changes, I've done my best to swap my 100 int for more disc on my builds. So instead of triple 100s with resil, recov, and int, I now have double 100s with resil/recov, 90/80 disc, and 70/50 int depending on whether its void or prismatic (I get more stats outta void due to the fragments). Once I get some more disc-focused armor, I'm gonna shoot for triple 100s with disc as the third.

This prob this isn't helpful or correct, but I would say there's no such thing as a pure melee build for group PvP. It's too situational, and a lot of those situations require gunfights.

All of the below is entirely my perception and experiences. Grain of salt.
Skill choices depend so much on who you're with, who you fight, where you fight... So I guess figure out your averages / typical / preferred fight situation and build for that? That said, every build should have Shiga or Knee for movement.

If you're often with ranged allies, you might opt for Suspensor Blast and Attractor Field to peel and improve their accuracy/pressure. If you are really mobile you might try Gravity Grenade to help peel and bring down shields.

If you're often against other melee or midrange (or folks that don't keep distance well), Crippling Strike is killer. Gravity Mine can guarantee your team breaks shields. Suspensor Blast can counter (a bit) the other player's Crippling Strike since it's free.

It really depends on the situation, honestly. On my server, there's a LOT of melee-centric pvpers so if you arent somewhat built to defend yourself in close combat (not just get away), you're unlikely to survive long enough to counter. So if they get close at all, you're stuck backpedaling (not getting away) or floating to shoot at close/mid range. My build prioritizes melee but doesn't skimp on shotgun and pistol/smg (depending on if you have Regis Disruptor Pistol or Dart for Every Man).

For skills, I use Suspensor Blast and, believe it or not, Retaliate. I use Cauterizer (burn), Dunewatcher (poison), and Perforator (bleed). Riposte gets me some melee defense (if it connects) while applying bleed as well, so in a pure melee fight, I don't solely rely on slow blades.

(Edit: Corrected name if parry-bleed skill.)

If you wanna PM me your discord I can send you screenshots of my build. It's not pure melee but it's heavily focused on it with a few guns for counterplay/dealing with certain builds

Always use light armor unless you are fully ranged. Rapier with poison. All perks that help stamina. Blade dmg. Crippling strike. Suspensor blast.

i was waiting for someone to post something like this in r/destiny2builds

thanks

Good Job! I think one of the things I'm going to try is pulling off a good Stasis titan as we can get rid of that god-awful melee and replace it with a better melee.

Also wouldn't insurmountable Skullfort work with your Thunder Fist Lancer?

This might not be the post for it, but as a fellow TFS theorycrafter do you know if anyone’s said something about Spirit of Necrotic working with Weapons of Sorrow like Necrotic Grip does?

Been working on what could be an outrageously high uptime Trans build (Sacrifice and Bravery with Devour and Bleak Watcher/Arcane Needle, Generosity with Thorn/Necrochasm and Spirit of Necrotics) but I’m not sure if it works like I’m hoping it will.

Missing the Prismatic Build Image for the Starting Prismatic Gyrfalcon, just fyi :)

Awesome! Thanks for this

Pve - 2h axe. Cleave with lifesteal

Pvp - 1h axe, polesword, dagger, anything with a single press triple swing attack. They have huge dps and usually armor penetration

I can read and play. I love how you turn condescending as if I’m incompetent to understand build crafting.

I’m an exit the chat. I see you’re only interested in confirming your opinion and not being objective to see others.

So cringe a la cringe.

Maybe read the skill discripion for Inmost Light, actually use that perk. Then see how much better constant regen is over a spurt every now and again.

Muted btw.

Edit: you dont even have inmost light tested AT ALL. So no, I will continue using and weaving my 3 abilities to keep Energy regen up. I’m going to laugh now, because you clearly haven’t used that skill at all. You tested what you thought was good and left it at that. Have a great day.

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20 second constant grenade regen seems like the smartest choice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/s/DUBIjkxNgK

Literally just got an Inmost - Star-eater Solipsism, so I’ve been experimenting a little bit. Little on the late side, but just in case.

The parameters were as follows for the tests. No Devour, no killing, stacks of light, no orbs. At 100% discipline, 30 strength, and 40 restoration. Done inside the Conflux Lost Sector. Using Phoenix Dive, Arcane Needle and Needlestorm. Facets beings Blessing, Protection, Dawn, Hope and Purpose. None of these things changed throughout any of the tests.

The rotation of abilities, if available, is to throw my nade, toss 3 needles, dive, super. The abilities were spread out by 4 seconds.

From another post regarding Inmost Light being actually tested

• ⁠First test, holding no mods or exotics, I got my grenade back in the listed 1:16 as is promised by the 100% discipline. • ⁠Second test, holding no mods with just the Solipsism exotic, I got my grenade back in 0:58. • ⁠Third test, holding 2 impact deduction, 1 bolstering detonation and 3 bomber mods, without exotics, got me my grenade in 1 minute. The melee’s hit the Lost Sector boss, but didn’t kill. The super was tossed to the other side of the room to not hit anything and the grenade was thrown in front of me as to not hit the boss. • ⁠Fourth test, holding 2 impact deduction, 1 bolstering detonation and 3 bomber mods, with the Slipsism exotic, got me my grenade in 20 seconds. The melee’s hit the Lost Sector boss, but didn’t kill. The super was tossed to the other side of the room to not hit anything and the grenade was thrown in front of me as to not hit the boss.

Edit: I figured u/engineeeeer7 wouldn’t read this because he only has interested in his own beliefs and experiences. He is unable to be objective without being condescending. Then blocks and ignores when corrected.

Imo mataidoxia is made for prismatic not strand. Just an access point for suspend into prismatic warlock. I would pair this with bleak watcher and hellion aspect to get a great mix of crowd control and damage fragments haven’t really seen or thought about but I’m gonna start using bad juju for super energy and because pulse buff segwaying that into song of flame

I saw a hie with cupids bow that thing can infinite combo brutally I would say farm cupids dungeon fir now and look at other people's builds, then learn the meta out of that because the game changed in 2 years with many buffs and nerfs

I don't know if it's the best but I know pika v2 (obtained through ponyglephs found in second sea) is among the best for pvp and pve

So glad to see more longtime PvE players deciding to get into PvP! Welcome to the fray. :)

[TL;DR: Pick a class, range (at range, melee, or mixed), and dominant resource pool (mag or stam) and then go poking around on YouTube and browser searches for a variety of builds using that to see what you like most, and give it a shot. Thanks to the fact that rewards of the worthy crates now drop really good Transmute crystals, PvPers can now theorycraft and playtest lots of builds pretty readily without having to do 5-12 daily dungeons.]

In answer to your quesiton: As a PvP sweat, I go looking for other builds online often for inspiration for my own builds or to try out a new class or playstyle. There are *lots* of builds on YouTube and many other websites, but many of these don't always measure up. (For example: Alcast's builds for PvP are almost all non-viable or perform poorly.) Your best bet is to poke around, find something you think you'd like, and get an honest and trustworthy PvP friend to tell you if it sounds like it would work or not. (Caveats because, sometimes there are ego-driven sweats who insist on using only whatever's most broken/overpowered.)

I would say there's no one singlular place I would reliably point people to go to for PvP builds for many reasons, but if for no other reason than that unlike PvE builds, PvP builds are very personalized to a given player's playstyle.

In PvE, what's most effective is going to remain most effective absent a revolutionary set or a major shift in rebalancing skills. Relequen's, Whorl of the Depths, and Pillar of Nirn are staples and will remain so. Setups are optimized for damage output down to the enchantments, and rotations are largely to be copied and executed as best as possible to the letter while coordinating with your group to deal with mechanics.

In PvP, however, there's no one boss, mechanic, or way to build. In fact, nobody is holding taunt on the big scary Dragonknight coming for your forehead, and there's no guarantee that the healer will be able to save you. That means that you need to build somewhat tanky and with your own heals even as a damage dealer. Likewise, healers are preferred targets to take out, and so they have to build even more into survivability than damage dealers (most often). HOW you do this is up to you, and there are many different setups that can be effective. What's 'meta' in PvP isn't the end-all-be-all, and it frequently shifts based on what most or many other players are doing, what class tweaks have been made to rebalance, etc.

In fact, off-meta builds often perform just as well as meta builds in overland content and battlegrounds because your more experienced and/or skilled opponents don't necessarily know what your build is, how it works, and how to beat it. They likely have seen the meta build and varieties of it for, say, Magsorc or Magden for that patch a bazillion times and can expect and deal with those builds' burst windows more readily. Doesn't make overpowered builds/class setups less broken, but it does make them more predictable.

What kind of build you want will depend on your class and playstyle. It might be worth watching a few streamers to see which playstyle matches your own/looks fun. Or at least look at the section of the build video showcasing in combat usage, the builds are often specialised on how the content creator plays and you might not get the same mileage out of it. That said, Malcolm, Decimus Emanthe chosen, Epicbuttkikr, Sekaar have good builds. The gameroom and gloomfrost have beginner friendly/niche builds

Oops, that would have been good to post 😂 I'm a Stamden at the moment. Based on Hack the Minotaur's Bowserker.

I'm currently working on learning to weave and very hesitantly thinking about using second bar. I'm not a natural at the more complex parts of the game, far more casual, but I'm eager to learn. Just might take time 😄

What class?