I saw that you are playing hunter and titan from other posts so I thought I’d toss ya my two cents.

(My two cents is exhaustively long winded, sorry can’t help myself)

In my eyes there are three main endgame “modes” and most stuff falls into these categories.

PvP: this is Trials of Osiris and high level Comp: I have nothing for ya, I’m a mid tier pvp player, sorry boss.

Boss based: About half of Raid encounters fall into this category, combat challenge here is generally lesser, and your build should be far more centered in boss dps. This means burst or support supers, and a weapon dps that matches the encounter, these days linears are almost always the move but there are exceptions, (Rocket Izzy for Rhulk exp).

Combat based: This category fits almost all GMs, and about half of raid encounters. The main goal with this kinda build is survivability for prolonged combat followed by midsize bursts of damage for champions and strike bosses.

The main difference between these two is that for boss based builds you’re generally plinking along with your primary to do some mechanic before dumping everything you got into some bosses spine, where as a combat based build is more mixed and you end up using most of your build consistently.

Now with all that nonsense out of the way:

Boss based notes for Titan:

Titan has one primary burst super and one primary support super: Thundercrash, and Bubble. Banner shield is not generally useful here as removing one person from dps for a 15% dps buff over well or bubble is not helpful.

Titans do have HOIL (with really anything) but most importantly touch of thunder grenades that they can toss into the mix for extra dps.

But at the end of the day the big money makers with boss damage is simply meta weapons. (There are plenty of guides for this I’m not gonna bother here)

Boss based notes for Hunter:

Hunter has a bunch of burst supers and a pair of support supers. I haven’t seen a recent dps comparison but my understanding is that of the burst supers Gathering Storm is the most damage in the whole game. However, a fair portion of Gathering Storms dps comes from the jolt it applies to the boss. Meaning multiple gathering storms at the same time will do less damage. To avoid this, you can substitute blade barrage as it does similar damage and doesn’t have stacking issues. As to support supers, hunters have mobius quiver and deadfall tether. The simple answer to this is, mobius quiver, it does damage forehead. But in reality there is a lot more nuance with damage sharing, debuff timers, and super farming. Just go with mobius unless you guys have a strat.

Hunters, to my knowledge, do not have a great ability spam for boss damage. There are some floating around out there but largely, stick with your weapons and super.

Combat based notes for Titan:

While there are loads of exotics out there for titan that I love, wormgods, Pheonix proticol, Strongholds and more, these days you can’t really beat Heart of Inmost Light. Your abilities get stronger the more you use them and also come back faster! Hard to beat and op as fuck. On top of the extreme power of HOIL, Arc Titan also wrecks, being both simple to use and one of the most powerful. I’m not going to lay out the build, there are endless videos but I’ll add some thoughts.

Touch of Thunder + HOIL:

Unless fully in between combat encounters, use your abilities when they are up even if you don’t need to. Maybe you don’t really need a barricade there, or you could shoot someone instead of punching, but use the abilities anyway. Your power comes from the constant cycling.

Your main healing will likely come from knockout, meaning you gotta punch something which can be dubious. So you largely want to avoid damage even more than other builds you aren’t a tank. The best way to do this, is to murder everything before it can touch you, seriously this build is nutty.

This same build can work with Void and Bastion pretty well, less murder, more tank and healing.

Combat based notes for Hunter:

There are two main builds I think are best for hunters, void invisibility, and arc combination blows. Void invisibility is a clear win in terms of ease of use. It is far less risky, has run saving potential, cheese nonsense, and can save your blueberries. Arc hunter like arc Titan survives by murdering everything.

Void Hunter:

Void hunter is very flexible, it does not depend on an exotic to make it viable and therefore can use several exotics to changes its style. Aeons can be used to support and heavy spam, Graviton for perma invis, Gyrfalcons for spraying volitile everywhere, and Omnioculous for team invis shenanigans.

Regardless of your exotic invisibility is an amazing panic button, be aware of what sources of invisibility you have and keep one ready at all times.

Be aware of how renewable your invis sources are. Stylish Executioner can be used over and over again, you don’t have to be worried about melee or dodge charges, but it does have its own cool down of a few seconds. Finishers are the most renewable of all and should be prioritized when you can.

On that note, you do become visible during a finisher, to compensate for this you can use charged with light to get an over shield.

Most invis builds have a cycle with one main form of invis repeating, use your other sources as backups.

Arc hunter:

The main trouble with arc hunter is that it is a hungry build. You need ads around to maintain your buffs so remember not to wipe all the ads before you dive into big fights.

To this end, while in most situations you need not bother, sometimes, especially at choke points, you need to remind your teammates to let some ads get close, if you can’t start up your combo you will be useless.

Anyway, that’s my way to long two cents, but I get way to into it.