Ballidorse Wrathweavers were introduced in Lightfall, although likely overshadowed by the Strand release at the time. Today I’m going to put together a Stasis Warlock build with Ballidorse Wrathweavers, so you can unleash Winter’s Wrath on your enemies; freezing, slowing and putting them permanently on ice in Destiny 2.
This build is all about maximising your super, causing as much damage as possible with it, and getting your super as often as you can. It also has support elements, giving your teammates an overshield and buffing their stasis weapons, so some coordination around the stasis subclass can be helpful.
Stasis Subclass Setup
Super: Winter’s Wrath
Grenade: Coldsnap Grenade
Melee: Penumbral Blast
Class Ability: Healing Rift
Aspects
Iceflare Bolts – Shattering a frozen target spawns seekers that track and freeze other nearby targets.
Frostpulse – Casting your Rift generates a shockwave that freezes nearby combatants.
Fragments
Whisper of Chains – While you are near frozen targets or a friendly Stasis crystal, you take reduced damage from targets. +10 Recovery.
Whisper of Shards – Shattering a Stasis crystal temporarily boosts your grenade recharge rate. Shattering additional Stasis crystals increases the duration of this benefit. +10 Resilience.
Whisper of Bonds – Defeating frozen targets grants you Super Energy. -10 Discipline and Intellect.
Whisper of Fissures – Increases the damage and size of the burst of Stasis when you destroy a Stasis crystal or defeat a frozen target.
Exotic Armor – Ballidorse Wrathweavers
Hearts of Ice – Your Winter’s Wrath Shockwave deals increased shatter damage. Allies in range of your Shockwave gain an overshield and increased damage with Stasis weapons.
During Winter’s Wrath Super – Shockwave (Heavy Attack) deals 100% increased Shatter Damage.
Allies within range of the Shockwave (30 meters) are granted the following for 15 seconds:
50 HP Stasis Shard Overshield
15% [PVP: 5%] Increased Stasis Weapon Damage
Buff is non-refreshable and can proc on self once Super runs out. Damage Buff stacks with everything.
You can get these from Legend or Master Lost Sectors on arms day, or from the Vex Incursion public event on Neomuna.
Weapons
Kinetic – Wikid Implement
This one is an exotic scout rifle from season of the deep.
Creeping Attrition – Rapidly landing precision hits causes targets to become slowed.
Tithing Harvest – Destroyed Stasis crystals or precision final blows while Creeping Attrition is active create a Stasis shard that returns to you. Collecting Stasis shards refills the magazine.
You can get this from the exotic mission in the Deep Dive activity.
Energy – Pre Astyanax
Pre Astyanax IV is a Legendary Energy Combat Bow with a Precision Frame. It’s a Compound Bow meaning longer draw time optimized for damage.
We have a selection of Origin Traits for this one:
Stunning Recovery – Stunning a Champion partially refills your magazine, triggers health regeneration, and improves recovery for a short duration.
Vanguard’s Vindication – Final blows with this weapon grant a small amount of health.
Wild Card – Final blows with this weapon have a chance to create experimental submunitions at the target’s location.
Power – Fire and Forget
Fire and Forget is a Legendary Power Linear Fusion Rifle with an Aggressive Frame meaning this fires a three-round burst. Looking at the stats we have Impact 41, Range 35, Stability 44, Handling 27, Reload Speed 22, Airborne Effectiveness 7, Charge Time 533, and Magazine 5.
This is only the second aggressive frame Linear Fusion, since we got Stormchaser in the Duality Dungeon back in Season of the Haunted. Fire and Forget is going to become a go to weapon for Guardians who like to build with Stasis weapons, given the relativelty uniqueness of the gun, plus it’s stasis damage output.
Mods
Harmonic Siphon
Stasis Weapon Surge
Dynamo
Radiant Light
Gameplay
This build is focused around Ballidorse Wrathweavers, which have a couple of effects on our Warlock. They double the damage of the shockwave effect of our super, which means good burst damage against tougher enemies. Plus it grants an overshield to allies within range and gives them a 15% damage buff to their stasis weapons, therefore if you can coordinate with your team to run a stasis set of builds, thats going to be beneficial for the fireteam.
Stasis weapons are going to compliment the build nicely and I’m using the relatively new Wikid Implement Exotic Scout Rifle, which has stasis build benefits because of the exotic perks. You’re going to slow enemies with precision hit, which are much easier given this is a scout rifle. Tithing Harvest is great here because destroyed Stasis crystals or precision final blows while Creeping Attrition is active create a Stasis shard that returns to you. Collecting Stasis shards refills the magazine. Therefore, any aspects or fragments that help you create more stasis crystals are going to be useful here.
For the mods Harmonic Siphon and Stasis Weapon surge are going to be useful for generating orbs of power, plus increasing the damage output of the stasis weapons. Dynamo is great for getting more super energy, and given our exotic armor is all about our super, then we want to have our super as often as possible. Any mods for armor or sesonal mods for super regeneration are going to be great, so keep an eye out there and modify the build to suit whatever mod are available at the time.
Let me know in the comments what you think of the build, and share any improvements you may have.