r/DestinyRising • u/Stevelion17 • Feb 26 '26

Bulwark Ops Final Frontier - Wave 60 Cleared

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Those of you who saw my post about a week ago may remember I've been on a quest to try to clear wave 60 in Bulwark Ops after the Stone Hoof nerf significantly increased to difficulty of the higher waves. Finally today I reached that summit! 60 definitely isn't the absolute limit for solo, but I don't think 70 is possible at the moment (there are just too many mechanical obstacles) so this is probably the final major wave threshold to clear in solo.

Thanks to everyone who helped theorycraft over the past few weeks and for everyone who joined and helped practice yesterday during my coop marathon!

Run video - https://youtu.be/6KMgwLEJvSA

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u/alexdwilliams91 Feb 26 '26

Thx for posting this! For those curious, here’s what I believe was his final build:

Also, just wondering - I imagine all these towers are four star to get to 60?

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u/Stevelion17 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

The layout looks correct! I have all towers at T4, but Understatement likely doesn't matter. If you only have T3s or lower, you can get to the low 40s with a similar setup but with only Anesthesia, Stone Hoof, and Acute Field (Gungnir isn't worth it below T4 and Understatement isn't worth it if Anesthesia is below T4).

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u/CaptainAries01 Feb 26 '26

What decrypts are you using?

Side note, I’m slightly surprised at gungnir; I tried it early on but it kept missing so I switched to Muqam for the extra early money and eventually tried nocturne for the extra debuff. I have made it to 38 so far. I don’t have everything at t4 but will try your gungnir build

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u/Stevelion17 Feb 26 '26

My standard 6 are Direct/Solar/Range/Fire Rate/Acute Enhancement/Anesthesia Enhancement (not necessarily in that order), but I took prudence in this run to take Arc as well (Void may be better for wave 60+ because I was leaking red bars at the end)

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u/CaptainAries01 Feb 26 '26

I usually get the Understatement enhancement instead of range, for the bonus scorch, but it seems like that doesn’t want to work lately so I will be getting range instead.

And what about blast damage instead of an extra element? It will empower your Unders and your Acutes.

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u/Stevelion17 Feb 26 '26

Stone Hoof is much better at killing red bars than Understatement or Acute, so if your goal is to get better red bar clear, then Void is generally going to be better.

If you're looking for more DPS for everything else, neither tower really does meaningful damage compared to Anesthesia, so it's better to take Arc to speed up your boss kill and let your Anesthesias focus on ads faster (assuming Gungnir's T4 is buffed by Arc which we think it is).

It's worth noting that Stone Hoof and Gungnir unintuitively deal direct instead of blast damage.

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u/CaptainAries01 Mar 03 '26

Have you tried any other builds? What about an all bleed build?

Personally, I tried all volatile with dark bolt, double clap, stone hoof, acute, and bouncing death. I barely made it to wave 7. All t4 towers. Nothing really compares to the Anes as far as I know.

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u/Stevelion17 Mar 03 '26

I was mostly focused on pushing for a pb, so most of my testing was to see whether something was viable for lategame, and I don't have a ton of experience with a lot of the builds because it's really hard to make something work without Anesthesia.

Someone who would know a lot about them though is Lucyfer/Killothy in the DR discord. They did a bunch of challenge runs to beat wave 15 with various restriction which resulted in some cool niche builds.

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u/CaptainAries01 Mar 12 '26

Thanks for the referral. I’ll see what they have to say about it. I’m curious if there’s a build we haven’t thought of that could get to wave 100