While Destiny 2’s new Star Wars-based expansion, Renegades, comes with all manner of nerfs and buffs, some changes are emerging from the pack early. Thankfully, one of them was for my main class, Warlock, where Bungie seems determined to keep giving them the wildest room-clearing builds in the game.
This is especially necessary for Renegades, where in its Lawless Frontier activities we have easily the most enemy density in the game’s history. The faster you kill everything, the safer you’ll be, and boy, can Warlocks do that now, thanks to one change, and one extremely easy build.
This is yet another void grenade build to blow things up. Most of last season, I was using Contraverse Hold to do that, which was also extremely good, but it pales in comparison to what Nothing Manacles can do now. Another arms armor exotic, another void grenade, another batch of ridiculous explosions.
It’s just so easy. You need literally just four things:
- Nothing Manacles – “You gain an additional Scatter Grenade charge. Enables tracking for Scatter Grenade projectiles. Scatter Grenade final blows create additional Scatter Grenade projectiles.” That last bit was the recent buff, and Scatter Grenades had their damage buffed previously.
- 200 Grenade Stat – Or at least as close as you can get. If you can only do 160 or so, you can fill the rest in with Grenade Fonts on your armor, which will usually be active. This will max your grenade damage.
- Chaos Accelerant – The Void aspect that, when charged, Scatter Grenades track to targets
- Feed the Void – This will give you Devour 100% of the time and give you your grenades back infinitely with how many kills you’re getting.
That’s the core, but for Fragments, I would have:
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- Echo of Persistence – Increased duration for Devour, just in case
- Echo of Instability – Grenade kills give you Volatile Rounds (hilarious with the also-room-clearing Graviton Lance)
- Echo of Expulsion – Void ability final blows cause explosions. You can guess what this is going to do in this build.
The result? A build that is definitely getting nerfed by Bungie, but don’t yell at me, because they’re not stupid and already know this. Use it while you can. Here’s what it looks like in action:
This was so good that in the not-hard-enough Legendary campaign, I actually had to take it off because I was getting bored. Now, on higher difficulties in the post-campaign, sure, I’ll probably throw it back on, but this is a “get it while it’s hot” situation, and this is molten.
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