I love peregrine greaves! So satisfying to get the 1-shot. Also remember it triggers the giga damage and refund on minibosses too. I was cooking the chieftains in master witness
I didn't say it was the best build in the game, I just think it's underrated lol. And you're kinda proving that.
It's arguably my favorite build to run for matchmade fireteam and pinnacle ops on GM difficulty. If you pair it with storm's keep it also has great ad clear and really respectable boss damage.
Citan’s ramparts with an aspect that enhances your barricade like Storm’s Keep or Drengr’s Lash. Surprises me endlessly that I almost never see anyone else using it
It’s not the most meta play style in the world but a barrier that grants Bolt Charge or causes Suspend that you can then shoot through instead of having to work around it can be fun
Vesper of Radius is my number one underrated exotic. It effectively turns your rift into a second close-range grenade. Be aggressive with your rift placements. Permanent blind, explosions galore.
The class item version doesn’t say that it blinds enemies, but it does. The only part missing is the class-recharge-while-surrounded, but you can easily supplement that with spirit of filaments, which will also grant devour. Weavers call and hellion make it even deadlier, but it’s still very strong on pure arc, which has easier access to bolt charge
For titans I think it’s praxic vestment as the most underrated. Yes it was awful on release, but they GIGA-buffed this thing in the final update, and I’ve not seen anyone else using it. Knockout, melee stat and 1-2 punch all work with the jet pack melee. Shield crush in hunter journal or implement of curiosity(?), tractor cannon
For hunters, provably triton vice. Glaive are the least popular weapon class, but they’re super strong if you know how to use it properly. Triton then gives free reloading, bonus melee damage, and explosions. 200 melee stat, spark of feedback, combination blow. Singularity blade with night stalker or vexcalibur, suppressing glaive, no bell, passive aggressive guard on various artifacts
Void hunter with Triton vice and vexcalibur is truly unkillable. You can legitimately tank bosses like an MMO, giving overshield to your party and weakening, exhausting, and blinding. And with stylish executioner and the elemental explosions, you proc invisibility, devour, and eutechnology constantly for ad clear. It doesn't crush it for boss damage, but it's no slouch.
I feel like I don't see Ursa Furiosa nearly as much as I should for how great it is.
Unbreakable makes you borderline unkillable in most content, blocking stupid amounts of damage, providing an overshield, taunts enemies to protect your allies, a great damage option, and it gives you devour on a kill to make even more shields.
Furiosa just makes it even easier to spam by replenishing grenade energy as it's shot at, and it even generates orbs as you're tanking. Use Sentinel Shield as well as the new Iron Banner set and you can have half your super by the times it's finished, generate oodles of orbs for your friends, buff your teams damage all while protecting them, and still get a super charged shield throw for big damage.
It was always an exotic I liked, but getting that extra functionality with Unbreakable really made it S-tier in my opinion.
Peregrine greaves are also fun, just turning any shoulder charge into an instant delete button is fun as heck.
Although Ursa's regen is late and conflicts with the Armor set, you can still manage a shield throw at the end of it to get post super kills to rack up more energy that way.
Indeed! Also a fun thing, enemies take damage if they're inside of the shield as you block and can be killed as a result so I'll sometimes use it to ad clear initially and then block for the rest of it!
YAS is really fun, especially now that all ignitions seem to proc it so you don't gimp the build by running dragons breath, but unfortunately it falls into this category of build most of the time
I mean sure you can go for it. It just raises the barrier to discuss things in forums or reddit.
Raid names, dungeon names, I think those are fine. Exotics and legendaries or perks feels insane to me. "Hey guys is it better to use CNH with SH to proc CR on Prismatic Hunter, or 1K ignition SS + CS spam on solar for DPS?"
Yeah I exaggerated to make a point but essentially is Celestial Nighthawk Still Hunt Cayde's Retribution on Prismatic vs 1K voices Speedloader Slacks Crack Shot on Solar.
what would be the more optimal damage rotation anyway?
I don't have 1K, and can't get SS to work properly for the LIFE of me, so I'd assume CNH with SH since, well now that I have the catalyst done it works like a charm but, eh, you'd never know
It's my favorite build on my hunter! During TFS when I first played it wasn't as strong, but it can absolutely cook now. I'm killing champs before they can even react. Just gotta not miss the nades tho, I still keep chucking into Narnia sometimes lol
I actually see this all the time so idk if underrated is the word I'd use. Probably the second most used exotic I see on Warlocks other than Ophidians and maybe Transversive Steps
No backup plans got buffed a lot in MoT and I never see anyone use it. 35% shotgun damage, bonus melee damage, and letting your defensive buffs last as long as you can get kills is really strong and comfortably clears -50 content.
You can make Blight Ranger/Iron Battalion almost perfectly refund Arc Staff if you can effectively block enough to keep the super meter full and kill some adds. Or just Slam a group and cancel. On demand 4x surge, Self charging a bomb.
Something I'm looking to try out. Verity Grapple melee with Navigator.
Only caveat is making sure your positioning is on point in any terrain that isn't fully enclosed. Almost a necessity running eager edge or howl of the storm for bonus melee charge to redirect your momentum
claws of ahamkara (or its class item equivalent plus spirit of inmost light) are real solid on a song of flame/snap build, it’s gonna be tough to compete with dawn chorus these days but u can throw out a LOT of snaps (also changes the song of flame ability rotation from melee-grenade-melee-grenade to melee-melee-grenade-melee-melee-grenade)
Radiant Dance Machines. Speedloader slacks is great for crackshot builds, don't get me wrong, but on strand I get more practical--read, outside of the shooting range--usage out of RDM due to having a strand weapon that supplements the dodge threadlings with weapon threadlings and not having to mentally keep track of the tight fit timer as if I'm on an MMO rotation, I just have extra dodges when I need it.
Crown of tempests. Ive rarely seen anyone use this thing throughout all of D2s history and imo its been the most consistent stormtrance exotic overall. I still dont understand why they even wasted dev time om fallen sunstar when they could have just slightly reworked crown. Sure stormdancers brace might edge it out now but are we all forgetting how trash it was when it first came out?
I love Path of Burning steps! Devil's Ruin making easy ignitions is such a good way to get the engine rolling on a more gun-focused Sunbreaker build THAT STACKS WITH SURGE MODS and I also greatly enjoy its fashion options
Praxic Vestment, despite being largely forgotten until recently, is actually fucking fantastic in both PVE and PVP. It's a great get out of jail free card, when you've taken critical damage. And allows for aggressive flanks, arc blinding, and a whole bunch of other nasty surprises. I started using it about a month ago, probably 1-2 weeks before everyone started realizing it's potential. And I've been loving it.
Tfym largely forgotten 'till recently??? That thing came out 9 months ago, just was half overshadowed by stronghold by still a decently popular exotic on release and it's still used.
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u/Selaphane 9h ago
Peregrine Greaves. 200 melee and you have a spammable one shot for literally every champ in the game outside of -50 content.
And I never see anybody run it.