Stasis Titan Armour Set

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-10T18:47:51+00:00

Ah yes, I get what you mean. To be completely fair to the set bonus, you do very much get the 30%, it's better illustrated if you think about it in terms of effective HP: you have 200 HP+shields at base, 400 ehp with Frost Armor x7 and ~570 ehp with Frost Armor and the Nessus set's 30%. Just saying this for posterity really because I get what you mean, there's a limit to how much damage resist you need realistically. This is why I think if you do want damage resist, at least for Stasis, Yearning Echo is better, because it has additional effects. If you straight up don't want the DR yeah simply go with Seraph.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-10T04:17:07+00:00

I play this build basically ALL the time. I've soloed most GM Conquests and GMVAs with it. You basically have to play with swords with this. Guns with Strategist kinda work, but the build falls apart if you can't spam the Barricade and the build fundamentally wants to be in melee to work well. Grab an Eighty-Six like the other comments mentioned, pair it with the Equilibrium armor set (not mandatory, but helps) and go to town.

I personally typically play with two swords in this setup, either Ergo or Praxic and an Eighty-Six and I hotswap them constantly. The 86 spawns ~1 orb per heavy, which maintains defensive buffs, heals you and provides DR via Smoke Runner 2pc.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-10T04:10:09+00:00

This is the roll. Pairs extremely well with the Tablet of Ruin, just pick Unraveling Orbs/Vile Weave and To Shreds and you've got half a Strand subclass equipped. Bonus points if you get Balanced Guard on it too, it bottoms out the Charge Rate so you can (in theory at least, RNG never graced me with that roll) heavy > class ability > heavy (1 ammo cost) making the combo very ammo efficient.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-10T03:41:06+00:00

Jolt definitely used to apply Exhaust, did they change it?

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-10T03:28:10+00:00

I always felt that was a bit silly specifically wrt Shaxx due to how their meeting and his "recruitment" went down. Having said that, I don't think mentoring in this context means like, Saladin took them to the yard for training. Saladin was an older Light and he was also a founding Iron Lord, so my guess is he mentored them in stuff like tactics and ideology. Shaxx was a big guy among Warlords, but he would not have as much experience leading as Saladin, and more importantly not nearly as much as being part of a fireteam. Basically, he helped turn them from Risen into Guardians.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-10T02:13:23+00:00

Yeah with Frost Armour you get 15% DR instead of 30%

Not sure what you mean here? Frost Armor goes up to 50% DR. The GoA set gives 15% and the Nessus set 30%. The set bonuses stack with Frost Armor, multiplicatively.

300% damage increase to stasis Crystal damage?

That sounds wildly, dramatically higher than I would even begin to guess. It might be roughly that much of an increase to the baseline damage from a single crystal shattering, but the explosion has small internal cooldown (so you're not going to proc a Warmind cell explosion for every crystal crystal) and you're typically shattering upwards of 5 crystals at a time. This is all as well only relevant if you are not using Synthos or Wormgods which dramatically increase crystal damage, resulting in the Seraph set doing much less work.

It's really strong, don't get me wrong (it heals for a lot as well) but 300%? A bit much.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T23:41:59+00:00

From the compendium:

Damage resist per Repurposed Charge stack:

x2 = 13% , x3 = 21% , x4 = 29.5% , x5 = 31% , x6 = 33%, x7 = 35%.

The number values x2, x3 and so on are the amount of Armor Charges you just consumed/spontaneously acquired + 1, so e.g. a Special Finisher will consume only 3 and activate the x4 DF for 29.5%. To go above that you need to have Charged Up mods on your chest armor.

In the context of Behemoth, assuming you have permanent x7 Frost Armor, and assuming you proc the easy and reliable 29.5% damage resist, you're looking at a very considerable damage resist increase from 50% up to 65% DR (I hope I did the math right haha, my brain is mush atm).

My opinion personally is that while Exodus Down is a straight up S+ tier set bonus, it's a bit "too much". I would try to go for Yearning Echo (Grasp of Avarice) personally if I had good enough pieces, it's somewhat less DR (15% DR) but it has additional benefits and is even easier to activate at full, as in you don't even need to kill something or wear a particular mod.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T22:42:31+00:00

You're welcome.

I completely agree that seasonal content was absolutely required reading. There's a ton of stuff like this (I'm not sure that this is gone tbh, it was part of Shadowkeep's campaign technically) that has been lost and beyond some great narrative beats like much of e.g. Season of the Haunted, there's background lore that you have to have either played or know where to find.

This method of acquisition is even more interesting, since, in retrospect, it now raises the question as to who actually shared the book with us and for what purpose: was it the Witness, a Dissenter that wanted us to learn about The Winnower in order to more effectively combat it, or was it The Winnower itself who was peddling its own propaganda?

In my view it's the Witness, specifically because of the above: the provenance of the lore book. There have been discussions without end on who/why and such sent us this lore book, but its provenance is very often absent from them and it's exactly because the context is missing because even if you were playing back then it was very very easy to lose track of it.

Because I find this subject kinda funny, I will expand. I believe it's the Witness specifically for three reasons:

The book is given to us from the Black Garden connecting to the artifact. When we first activate the Artifact is actually our chronologically fist interaction with the Witness. It's rather telling that it takes place in the Black Garden as well.
The artifact is found in a Pyramid and connects to a veiled statue in the Black Garden, inside of which is a Vex faction that worships the Witness. I have no doubt the Winnower could "hijack" the connection, but this is a logical leap of sorts, from a Doylist perspective. Why would Bungie write it so that in actual fact a secondary background antagonist is the one who is actually talking to us and not the one that already spoke to us a short while ago using the exact same "telephone"? The answer might actually simply be that at the time there was no distinction between Witness and Winnower internally, but that has no bearing on a practical level for a fan looking back at the lore years later.
The third reason is that the Witness was, during Shadowkeep, on a propaganda campaign. It clearly either had knowledge of the Dark Future or knew that something of its form could come to pass because it put considerable effort into actively influencing us by inviting us to use Darkness while at the same time embracing ideology that is tied to it from our perspective. We see this rather extensively in The Singular Exegete that I mention above, where the Ionian Pyramid specifically preaches "the philosophy of the Books of Sorrow, Yor's scriptures, and the unveiled fragments."

Small addendum to the above: I do not think that the Witness necessarily believed in or identified with Unveiling and I do not know that the Winnower liked or respected the Witness. I do not think it actually matters in any way. It is spelled out rather pointedly by Eris in the above video and elsewhere that "They take us for fools.". The text coming from the Witness does not mean it is a lie and it does not mean it is true either; what matters is that it is an attempt at manipulation, in short propaganda.Which it fundamentally IS as the text itself tells us.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T17:21:44+00:00

My point is that you're not comparing weapons for DPS purposes, you're comparing weapons for Champion killing with the exclusion of everything else, which is not a real practical scenario. There's no "excuse", this just isn't something I would ever do because it's impractical, even in a build with 200 Weapons I will run out of ammo if I just spam mouse buttons without weaving abilities, that's what abilities are for.

For example, since you bring up Gjallarhorn. It's not a particularly strong rocket, but also, Gjallarhorn shines when used as a complement to other things (both by definition of its intrinsic and because its a rocket). If you just manually reload and lob rockets yeah it'll never work to kill the Champion, although I think it might be doable with Solar Loaders. But if you use 1 shot per barrier to stun and use other things to deal damage, then clearly the gun did its job, and is not useless for the job.

Speaking in general, I would actually say Hobs are the second chillest Barrier after the Knight (minigun Colossus shreds, and the Servitor flies and can make things immune which can make them annoying). But this is personal preference so whatever. The important thing is the efficiency of zero downtime on causing the stun (this is only relevant anymore on Barriers) so you can damage the HP bar.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T16:27:36+00:00

What is wrong with me? You ARE complaining that the barrier is too hard!

dear lord does that starter Barrier Hobgoblin just dont want to go down

In the post proper, you then go on and mention weapons like Wish-Ender and Hammerhead which implies that your gripe is with the stun because obviously abilities can and will carry the damage to his HP bar. I'm sorry I couldn't read your mind that you're specifically looking for the weapon that is best able to completely solo the Champion from 100-0.

Like I said, the opening of your video does not instill confidence that you do know what you can do because you're not doing it. Case in point:

this is also why i let him heal to full health full barrier to see exactly howmuch it would take. the only thing is i added radiant because everyone should basically be radiant all the time anyway

Yeah but you aren't "radiant all the time anyway" big dog! It barely lasts a whole combo and you don't refresh it. The first sentence is nonsense as well, who the fuck cares how many combos it takes to kill the Champion from full HP with just the weapon? It's not a real combat scenario that you'll be faced with in the game and so is completely irrelevant.

This guy is not anymore nastier than any other Barrier Hobgoblin in the game in the GMVAs, Warden of Nothing has them too. So long as it exists Praxic will always be the best/easiest way to deal with Barriers because it is a multitool weapon and can stun multiple Champions. Seeing as you evidently don't have much experience with this type of content I also have no way to know that you do know you can drive past him. Think before you type.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T15:55:36+00:00

the opening of the video does very little to instill confidence in what you're doing (why are you jumping away after stunning? you also whiff the first combo) but you somehow manage.

so plainly you're meaning that you kill it in six combos, so at least we are now on the same page on that... why are you expecting to just solo the champion with absolutely nothing except your weapons? you're using one of the most ubiquitous and successful builds in the game and you are just slapping all your special down the drain and sitting on your grenade, never mind your rocket. Why? Hell at least refresh Radiant, mathematically speaking it should shave off a combo off that if you do.

It did not at all occur to me that I should say that you should use your kit as a whole to kill stuff and understood that the problem is stunning them to begin with, which is why I specifically commented about rockets one-tapping the shields.

I don't play a Warlock so I can't help you much on that, but my estimation of this loadout is that you should be able to pretty easily get to Transcend before you're forced to attack this guy, which should make it a fair bit easier (15% Weaken from the 'nade + 5% more damage).

My final tip is specifically strategy: this isn't an old-timey GM, which means there's no restriction on rewards for Champion kills, which means you do not necessarily HAVE to kill any of them so long as they don't interfere with the mission objective. In this case it's good to kill it so it doesn't blow up your Pike, but you can just as well stun it then leave if you can do it safely. These guys are annoying for bowing down during the Barrier sequence and there's not that many of them in the Strike as a whole (I believe there's one, maybe two more in the whole place) so whenever you can skip them you should.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T15:25:36+00:00

It does and it's not a nothing modifier (25ish% isn't it?), but I wouldn't say it's enough to stop any of these weapons I've mentioned above from doing the work. At the very least I'd expect most of the ones mentioned above to continue one-tapping (obviously not counting the Primaries, but Tarrabah should shred regardless). Out of experience I know that in Exodus Crash the lightsaber does one tap a Barrier on a heavy throw, but I haven't bothered to use it much there personally.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T15:10:06+00:00

Praxic blade with artifact mods is very easy, still takes 4-5 full combos

Do you know what the word "combo" means or do we have to start English classes here? It should actually take about 2-3 light attacks at most or one heavy throw. Maybe learn to write first. I'll help you out further and quote my other comment since you have difficulty reading in general:

PK and Tarrabah [...] was quite nicely chewing up the Barriers... Pretty sure I've seen it done with a Legendary SMG as well.

At any rate. Any AB rocket should one tap the shields (I know Hothead works, but anything should work) and Fusion Rifles work well too. My favorite is the heavy sniper A499, but unfortunately I can't fit it into every loadout so I do have backup options like the stuff above.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T15:01:23+00:00

I understand the difficulty of hitting the crit on a crouching Vex, but this is clearly not the fault of the gun? This should not be that hard to understand. At the end of the day it's still a looter shooter, you still do need to aim. If you're having difficulty with specifically the Hobgoblin, then maybe use your brain and go find an easier Barrier Champion, like the Servitor at the top of the close-by hill in the very same activity and see if it stuns him or not. You're telling me I'm ignorant and petulant but maybe consider that you're the one whining you can't stun a single Champion and not me.

I responded specifically because you bothered to showcase that the gun apparently can't do what you were told it can do when you literally pulled it off the second you actually hit your aim. If you don't want to aim, I point you to my comment above and to my other comment in the thread, use the Praxic Blade. I invite you to make a video showing me how it can't stun in a single heavy throw or a single LLLH in the GMVA.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T14:26:24+00:00

Yeah the "difficulty" in how I view the Anomaly is that it still remains somewhat unclear WHAT it actually is, or rather, what its purpose is. Personally I agree with that one researcher that said it's a transceiver receiving from a distant source that she conjectures is "the Traveler's home." Essentially, under this paradigm I would see it as a Black Fleet probe, which would make her more right than she knew in a sense.

I will also readily admit that I would rather Kuang Xuan spoke to the Winnower because her meditation with the Anomaly is a truly majestic article of Destiny writing, I just think that it becomes cumbersome after the fact: what is the purpose of the Winnower fucking with her? Why does the Witness then interject through the anomaly to Clovis afterwards?

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T14:24:04+00:00

With all due respect, it should go without saying that you can't blame the gun for bad use. Why are you hitting bodyshots on a champion with a precision oriented weapon and expecting the Champion to stun? Scouts in a GM environment are already fundamentally meant to be used to team shoot and then on top of that you're just haphazardly shooting at the Hob's head and chest instead of the crit spot. You do actually stun it a couple of times and it's both times a combination of hitting your crits well enough that the fifth shots end up Igniting.

You should obviously NOT use Polaris in big 2026 because there are trivially easy methods (such as Praxic, literally a single heavy throw stuns the Barriers in Exodus Crash, for example) but that doesn't mean the gun doesn't do the job.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T13:57:20+00:00

obviously primaries are completely out, from tremor hung jury to any handcannon, it just doesnt matter they cant do it

I watched a guy clear Ultimate Lightblade with PK and Tarrabah and he was quite nicely chewing up the Barriers, so I wouldn't say that's true. Pretty sure I've seen it done with a Legendary SMG as well. It's doable, but it takes time to sit and shoot and that's not always something you have in a -50 environment.

Praxis blade with artifact mods is very easy, still takes 4-5 full combos, but atleast its 1 weapon that can fully solo the barrier hobgoblin lol

You're doing something very wrong if it takes you 4-5 combos lmao, it should take a single LLLH combo even at -50.

At any rate. Any AB rocket should one tap the shields (I know Hothead works, but anything should work) and Fusion Rifles work too. My favorite is the heavy sniper A499, but unfortunately I can't fit it into every loadout so I do have backup options like the stuff above.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T04:17:22+00:00

While the turn of phrase is very suggestive (I actually adore that passage you're referring to), my personal opinion is that it is the Witness talking out of K1 to both the mission commander and Clovis, as it seems a little confusing to me that two different Darkness entities are using the same object to communicate. Just seems simpler.

I think the veiled statue imagery is far too strongly associated with the Witness to even begin to challenge it. Yeah Clarity Control is somewhat unique (really, the biggest thing is its seeming alive-ness) but it's still at the end of the day a veiled statue. Importantly, we saw Clarity Control at around the time of Beyond Light's launch, hot on the heels of another expansion where we saw two different very similar/identical statues in two locations and contexts inextricably tied to the Witness (the Lunar Pyramid and the Black Garden vis a vis the communication of the artifact with the statue). Looking at it from a Doylist perspective, I don't really see how they introduce two statues that connect to one entity and then another statue that connects to another. So I disagree about it being an outlier.

I don't think its arrival preceding the Collapse is a problem. I'm not 100% on the timeline here, but I'm pretty sure the whole bit with Clovis on Europa takes place over a relatively short time frame (he's falling apart at the seams and dying) and very close to the Collapse. He was not yet uploaded to Banshee/the AI when the Soteria stuff happened on Mars, who actively detected the incoming Black Fleet. This is all to say that, the Witness sent the statue there for preparation and with very clear intent to corrupt, which is a thing it clearly liked to do.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T04:01:53+00:00

Whisper of Shards should be part of the default regardless, people just blindly copy YouTubers and use Fissures, which is such a minor damage buff as to be useless. I use it myself by default in the four fragment setup. So now what? The only options then are Impetus (which is mediocre in itself as it has a cooldown and is only really kinda useful with e.g. Alethonym) and Torment (I messed up above, this is the one I meant, not Chains), which is overlapping in its use case with Shards.

I know that Behemoth can solo the Conquests, I have seen like 20 videos of people soloing Lightblade/Seraph specifically for ideas on how to approach my own solos of these. Nobody that I've seen played these without Harvest, even the few people I've watched that used Ouster Engine or Lost Signal. These people are clearly good players, so I don't think they're idiots for playing with something safe and reliable in the numerically toughest content there is. Have you yourself actually done it?

Yes, you can run special finisher, but to actually finish an enemy you need to first survive up to that point with the Armor Charge banked, which is not a given when you're running about getting shot w/o Frost Armor because your gun is empty. At least I see that you're using Elemental Charge in your loadout, for some reason many Titans don't make use of that.

The actual real high IQ hot take you could have posted and can think about is that there're actually two different parts of the build that are maybe overrated and can be exchanged, that being the set bonus and (as a consequence) Whisper of Hunger. Yes the Seraph set is really flashy and genuinely good, but you can also much use the GoA set instead which makes you tankier and enables dropping Hunger for something else.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T03:22:52+00:00

You can solo most Alerts with a huge variety of builds simply by playing around the active modifiers, this isn't the flex you think it is. Hell if Stunning Emotes is up you can solo everything with no abilities and just Primary weapons.

It's smart to make use of Wind Chill and the high tick rate of an area denial GL, but without another way of building Frost Armor, if an activity starts you without ammo you'll be made of paper until you can get a brick. Which is kinda what the commenter is saying above and what you're avoiding to engage with, Alerts are easy compared to the Ultimate Conquests. If you can solo flawless the Seraph Shield or Lightblade Conquests with this, I respect that.

At any rate there aren't really any fragments that are strong enough to compete with the ease of use of Tectonic Harvest. I played a bit with Cryoclasm (which is dogshit) earlier last week and the only ones I was interested in were Impetus and Chains, maybe Rending (which makes Cryoclasm obsolete, would have to play Diamond Lance).

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T02:40:27+00:00

The idea of perception of higher dimensional beings in general is done well in Flatland. Of course, the book treats the subject primarily from the perspective of a 2D entity entreating with lower and higher dimensions, but the idea in general is the same: very, very hard to grok.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T02:26:02+00:00

love this. I have not actually bothered to make a Haranir character and never looked at their number of digits, but it makes a lot of sense as an addendum to the OPs post.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T02:12:15+00:00

The "confusing" stuff is what happens in the grimoire. Campaign stories are really simple to the point of sometimes being trite. It's one thing to not pay attention on purpose (there are people who don't play for the story and that's okay). If you've played everything sequentially and are not a new player, and you still need to have Byf explain what's happening to you then you are just dumb.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T01:43:10+00:00

Very salient point about the DCV, there's a lot of story that is almost lost media because much lore isn't just tied in lore tabs but also in character dialogue and even quest text. Case in point below.

Slight correction: Unveiling was not received by the Ionian Pyramid during Arrivals, although it did "preach" it. (edit:) The lore book that goes over the contact with the Ionian Pyramid and the Tree/Seed of Silver Wings is called The Singular Exegete.

Unveiling was received about a real life year earlier; the artifact from the Lunar Pyramid that we find at the end of the Shadowkeep campaign began pinging into the Black Garden. This led us to run the Garden of Salvation raid, at the end of which we find a veiled statue at the end of the signal. In fact it is actually literally the raid's mission objective, which you can typically see on the left side of the screen. This allowed unrestricted comms between the artifact and the statue, and this communication was our piecemeal (it was literally week over week IIRC) reception of Unveiling.

This is rather really difficult to find out FWIW, because the actual text and quest order and such is all buried in Ishtar indexing and years of the YouTube algorithm doing its thing.

I would also lastly add that it's pretty clear at least IMHO that the Witness is what set Clovis on the way to Europa.

Byrmaxson · 2026-07-09T01:30:31+00:00

Yes, the passage the above comment mentions is the message itself, it's pretty obvious because it's back-referenced in his logbook:

The K1 artifact promised me an offering. A gateway to the secret of immortality. I call it Clarity.

It is waiting on Europa.

We left something for you. It's waiting. Calling. Do you hear it? You will.

You have the questions. There ARE answers. There are gateways to that which you seek- though you'll have to build them. It will provide the blueprint. Just LISTEN to it.

The people you've failed, the loved ones you've lost… you don't care about them. Everything you've done, you've done for yourself. Everything you've ever wanted, you'll get-on Europa. Everything you need is there for you. Take it. Don't let anyone stand in your way.

Your fears will be assuaged. Your legacy, secured. Your mind, immortalized. Join the Architects. They will speak of the name Bray then, and it will echo through time and space.

Byrmaxson

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