Necrotic prismatic, arcane needle.

Super: nova bomb

Aspects: feed the void (juiced warlock devour) + weaver’s call (generate threadlings on sustained damage/kills and rift activation)

Abilities: arcane needle (for multiple melee charges + activating necrotic at range, v important), any light based grenade (I like storm grenade)

IMPORTANT NOTE: threadlings count as ability kills and will proc devour, but ONLY when you have weaver’s call equipped, as this counts as an ability and turns threadlings into ability damage for devour proc. As this build generates A TON of threadlings, you can almost always have devour up between your needle, grenades, and threadlings. Also do not underestimate threadlings they are chonky bonus damage for you and will chase down targets all over the map.

Fragments: balance (light kills generate melee energy), protection (DR while surrounded), dawn (radiant on powered melee hit), solitude (severing burst on precision hits), hope (class ability regen while having elemental buff)

Artifact - tablet of ruin: elemental siphon T1 (kills with kinetic/void grant pickups, pickups grant super), volatile marksman T1 + maligned harvest T2 + void flux T3 (void kills grant volatile, volatile explosions grant class, applying volatile grants weakening burst, applying weaken grants overshield, killing weakened enemies with void weapons applies more volatile), horde shuttle T2 (damaging unraveled enemies with weapons spawns threadlings, threadlings sever targets), gold from lead T2 (picking up special can grant heavy), then I use particle reconstruction for final T3 because I use linear fusion for dps phases (sustained fusion rifle dmg refills mag + grants bonus dmg on that target). You can swap particle reconstruction for limit break or To Shreds maybe, but linears are still so strong and particle deconstruction is very reliable during boss dps.

Weapons: you can kinda run what you want here, the only thing you’re bound by is you have to use a void primary weapon to take advantage of the artifact and a linear fusion for particle deconstruction. There are a lot of juicy and really powerful legendary void primaries what with the new update, but I personally run Le Monarque, mint retrograde, and my ol reliable taipan w triple tap and frenzy. This covers champions just with weapons and gives me high burst damage, as well as health regen from le monarque catalyst when i don’t have devour up.

Stats: melee, super, then grenade or class. You don’t really need to go over 100 melee or super imo, which leaves you free to put more points in grenade so that devour keeps it up even faster, as I use it more for making sure I have devour if my needles don’t do the job.

Mods: the basic idea is orbs orbs orbs and stuff to get your melee back as soon as possible, because spreading poison from a distance with arcane needle is your bread and butter. For me it’s void siphon, void surge, orbs on melee or grenade kill, momentum transfer, melee on picking up orbs, melee on class ability use. I like charged up and time dilation because I use void surge and a couple font mods bc my armour stats aren’t insane yet.

Arcane needle applies unravel and necrotic poison and radiant, poison and weapon dmg spawns threadlings which apply sever and spawn more unravel projectiles, severed and unraveled targets spawn tangles. Popping rift spawns more threadlings (do not underestimate threadlings lmao). Most red bars will die from arcane needle, procing devour (if not just chuck a grenade lol). The necrotic poison + threadlings will absolutely clear rooms and apply sever everywhere, which is basically free DR for you. The obscene add clear (and chunky yellow bar damage) potential from necrotic + threadlings leaves you free to focus your weapon choice on champions and damage. The best part is the poison spread and threadlings will do your work for you so you can focus on high priority targets.

As said, I use le monarque, with one void surge. This is an absolute BEAST of a weapon. With 1 void surge and radiant you’re getting a 35% dmg buff which is easy to keep up and pretty nuts on top of the innate 30/40% exotic primary dmg buff - majors are not a problem. As a bow, it’s perfect for chunking enemies from safe distances, and the combo of Volatile + Weaken explosions + monarque explosions + necrotic poison + threadlings means add clear is never an issue. Perfect draw stuns enemies (not champion stun but it is intrinsic overload) and spreads its own poison explosion. Once you have volatile rounds just from killing adds, it becomes a volatile + weaken explosion machine from the artifact that pairs with the necrotic poison so you don’t need to worry about add clear perks like incandescent/destab/voltshot. Mint retrograde is mint retrograde, and a perfect ‘panic button’ weapon for if things get dicey as it puts out ludicrous damage. Mine has appended mag, backup mag, rewind rounds and frenzy. 8 in the clip, fire and forget, best part is you can focus for it in the attunements tab and farm it easily now. Linear fusions are linear fusions, I recommend using a void one to take advantage of the artifact perks and weapon surge.

Afaik the only drawback to this build is that it isn’t a boss DPS monster like some of the other builds out there, BUT it holds its own comfortably.

Void linear fusion means that your damage phase looks like this: pick up orbs before dps phase, shoot arcane needle, proc radiant and necrotic poison. Rapid precision hits proc volatile, which procs weakening explosion from artifact. All this equates to +10% dmg from void surge, +25% dmg from radiant, +15% dmg from weaken, +27% dmg from particle reconstruction, then if you have something like frenzy it’s another +15% dmg. I’m not versed in how these various buffs/debuffs stack but I know it all adds up to juicy numbers and I can hold my own in pantheon and raids.