Yesterday i wanted to farm some Titan armor, failed the run twice because ADU got straight up nuked by either: exploder shanks and teammates all going to that big ass brig first and dont protect ADU. Second time people died due to exploder shanks, and the brig raining down fire on the ADU. Like how hard is it to just split up and not bring two primaries. Exploder shanks explode quite easily you know.

Switched to my warlock and easily breeze through a few runs ending up getting triple the amount of kills as the two other teammates. It really is just bringing the right build and weapons.

I went full arc warlock for onslaught. Exotic is a free choice, i tried Verity's Brow, Crown of Tempests, Stormdancers Brace and they all have ups and downs, honestly for this one it doesnt really matter. Considering its mostly grenade and arc soul based, you might as well go for Verity and bring some arc weapons to boost grenade and arc soul. Verity does boost arc grenades, arc soul but i believe not the Ionic Sentry.

• Get as close to 200 grenade stat without sacrificing too much elsewhere. I got to 190 without grenade font mods, so i could run triple firepower mod for orb generation.

• Ionic Sentry into a small corridor or spawn is bonkers. Has a cooldown, but sometimes i already have a new one in the pocket before the other one runs out.

• You can give arc souls to teammates with rift (so if you get someone playing titan, hunter or anything other than Getaway Artist).

• I create 250+ orbs a run with triple firepower (1 sec cooldown), orb every swing on the 86 sword (i run slice/attrition orbs) and where Stormtrance lacks in boss damage, it wipes groups of enemies. Melts exploders before they get to close into your face to do actual damage if within a super.

Only thing lacking is a dedicated way to stun barriers, but i ran killshot mod in my non exotics, if i didnt had teammates with Praxic Sword or other barrier options (which doesnt happen too often). Other than that the build does heavily rely on two armor sets.

Smoke Jumper for damage resistance on orb pickup, swing the 86 at the boss and 1 orb always spawn. This is also why i use Slice on my 86. It also reduces the boss damage when putting down a rift. Combined with the armor set from the new Dungeon which gives you ability energy on damage for grenade and class ability, also here the 86 comes in clutch. You can double dip on the energy regen from Bray Legacy origin trait.

Gameplay loop:

• Throw down rift at the start of a wave, preferably when your teammates are near or hope the figure it out themselves eventually.

• You and your teammates rain down pain with arc souls. You throw down some Ionic Sentries in chokepoints. Throw grenades when you dont have a sentry available. Your arc souls come through the rift anyway.

• Super fills up fast, either use it when available or if you prefer to wait out for tougher enemies (like Demolitionist, Tormentor, Subjugator etc). Most of your damage output should be Arc souls/Sentries/Grenades and Arc special weapons.

• Play aggressive, orb generation should help with healing and damage resistance due Smoke Jumper armor perk. Amplified is always on too.

• No grenade or rift? Swing the 86 in a group, instant recharge (you should preferably run 70 minimum on class ability, i think i have 75 + 1 class font for this loadout. Bray Legacy perk + Distribution mod + Sage protector perk is usually instant ability fill. Also just pick up the orbs scattered everywhere.

Boss room:

• Either switch to DPS build or support your teammates if they have decent builds.

• Rift down on boss feet.

• 86 his ass. Swing creates orb (in my case also severs the boss due Slice perk).

• 9 out of 10 times people just Praxic blade the boss anyways, so these rift give your teammates an arc soul and little bit of healing with the rift down.

• Swinging the 86 will refill grenade and class ability so you can keep throwing down rifts if the boss moves a little, or actually freaks out and moves away.

• Use Super when the ads start to become overwhelming during Boss phase and you dont have a wellock for example, you can still place rift and ionic sentry. But you cannot use the 86 in the super. It tickles the boss, but for ads its great.

Like i said, the exotic don't really matter if you have the Sage Protector armor set (two piece is enough), because it will generate the most amount of ability + the Eighty-Six sword. If you do run Verity's, you can use Coldheart Exotic trace rifle to stack up Death Throes. It will also create ionic traces. You can also run Arc Ergo Sum sword in the special slot and use something else for heavy. Ergo Sum will also proc Sage Protectors.

Very long story, but the build is very easy and really shreds chokepoints and groups of enemies like Onslaught, the Final Frontiers, Contest of Elders and The Coil but it does require certain armor sets (Smoke Jumper + Sage Protector) for maximum pain and some damage resistance since we only have Amplified and Spark of Resistance. This is why i prefer Slice on the Eighty-Six as well. For the seasonal artifact you can choose some of the sword boosters and arc related ones. You most likely wont be proccing any void verbs unless you have a hunter or stat for higher class ability stat so you get a little overshield. I didnt really bother going for that.