Transcendence Every 10 Seconds - The #1 Warlock Ability SPAM Build!

[@eratheoracle]

A few things: First, if you're running an arc energy or heavy weapon, such as indebted kindness, you should run Storm Grenade, instead of Vortex. Having any arc ability or aspect equipped enables Arc Multikills to grant you amplified, which can feed into galvanic armour for a nice 30% passive dr this season. Second, another great fragment for this build can be facet of dominance over facet of hope if you don't feel like you need the faster class regen. Dominance enables your Storm grenade to Jolt, but far more importantly it enables your freezing singularity to weaken on impact and final detonation. With a build that has *this* much transcendence uptime and is built for ability spam, this will essentially always be up and will make your damage even higher on chunkier targets

[@sleepyboy__]

facet of hope is currently bugged in a sense that if the first buff you gain is amplified you wont gain any class ability energy regen, it has to be any other buff first then its fine to gain amplified doesn't really changed much of the build but you do have to potentially spend another charge of arcane needle first to confirm getting devour before amplified

[@maxismine9896]

@@sleepyboy__what are you even replying for, this comment said not to run the facet your are talking about like wtf just shut up sometimes

[@EzGamerx]

@@maxismine9896 you just go on the internet to be a rude ass?

[@flyingwhale7176]

Your prismatic grenade already has a suppress, you don't need the weaken fragment for that effect, it's only buffing your normal vortex grenade.

[@sleepyboy__]

@@maxismine9896 damn tell it to me more aggressively next time? literally speaking normally isnt hard dude. OP also said "if you dont feel like you need the regen" the comment I typed is also useful information since Llama only glossed over it saying that it plainly just doesnt work.

[@VinylAutomata]

"I have my transendance literally all the time" Tormenters: no

[@holopaste]

Just get on top of something

[@jardeshna]

​@@holopasteThis. I try to keep changing elevations because they'll keep animating / jumping up and down.

[@CrocZzZz]

😂😂😂

[@michaelknight1458]

Very good lol 😅

[@ItsInigma]

I left a comment a few videos back about putting gameplay clips in the background when you’re going over the build and not only did you do it but you also go back and forth with clips relating to specifically what you’re mentioning seamlessly. Very impressive and improves the watching experience I think, kudos to you man

[@ItsInigma]

Would be nice to see some GM runs with these builds now that they’re out too

[@j8000]

5:20 "if you have an ability, use it" If you pretend like you don't have 3 charges of needle and only use your "top" charge, you'll be throwing more needles in sum. The final one charges faster. Transcendence refueling charges fully throws some chaos into this, but the principle is sound.

[@bumponalog5001]

FYI, Facet of Hope is bugged currently, anytime you pick up another buff after it procs, it will cancel out. Not worth running at the moment.

[@kaedenrussell2921]

What do you mean by another buff. I tested Facet of Hope today on warlock with devour and i saw significant differences in time. From 38 to 28 seconds at 8 recovery and 62.5 to 38 seconds on 2 recovery

[@ryanschlecht6087]

I think the interaction is specifically bugged with amplified. If you get amplified first it gets really buggy

[@burtsbees3690]

It also doesn’t stack with any inmost light builds I think

[@eir3831]

​@@kaedenrussell2921if you get amplified first then get any other buffs, fragment won't work. But if you get any other buff then get amplified it still works

[@boogerwood]

Another great build. But no matter what I run, I go back to my double buddy build. Getaway artists and you have an arc soul and with hellion your fire soul. You don’t even need to bring a gun into the fight. And with the right equipment set up, you get your energies back in under 10 seconds.

[@hondo2356]

Mataidoxia suspend can also be procced by teammates which is insanely nice for QOL. Everyone sees the mark and killing the enemy will do the suspending burst.

[@Barewell]

Ya I made an aggressive warlocks build in still using it for witness dps, the entire raid, GMs. Osmy star eater bond just always moving and attacking. Did 3m dps per phase on witness with it. For anyone wondering, you can throw nova bomb at witness and it will track to his head and do good damage especially with star eater bond. The nova won’t block your teammates shots

[@ianelliott8720]

What weapons did you use?

[@heretomars]

wow i love the zoom ins to the gameplay sections

[@LlamaD2]

I do too!

[@marceletta]

very skilled editor..

[@saladgaming4339]

I should try mataiodoxia ngl, haven't messed with it yet

[@andrew1250]

little tip for this build….i found using facet of balance and using a light energy primary makes this build more effective as your light kills from any source refund melee energy. Use other fragments to boost dark energy and you will be fine boosting both metres. Also you want to be running a void/strand/stasis super to go along with the artifact perk shield crush which recharges your melee quick when you have the associated buffs aka overshield, woven mail or frost armour.

[@FBlitz97]

Mataidoxia is so underrated atm, been using it for all of TFS and it not only pairs well with Strand but is very synergistic with Prismatic.

[@GeminiTM]

This is great! Swapped Khvostov to Monte Carlo and I have the needles up all the time

[@CrimsonReaper2501]

True, monte is king of needles, but when it comes to bosses or harder stuff I always return to my outbreak.

[@kaganatorplays9205]

I love monte. I still don't have khavostov and it's stupid the amount of shit u have to do to get it

[@AuriMeansWind]

Love this! definitely gonna give it a try!

[@phasedthrough3647]

10:20 you’re gonna do WHAT to that vandal?🤨

[@timcoots]

I'm glad the title did not include "busted" or "broken". GG's on video.

[@BIayde]

Thanks for this build. Truly top tier priz build! 😎

[@mefcalols4446]

I wasn't super convinced until you did the lost sector. That's gross man. Definitely going to check it out.

[@moodalum1293]

I was using a build like this for the Legend campaign (I saved up tonnes of engrams time get Mata early) and it slapped so hard. Glad matadoxia is getting some recognition

[@bishop912]

I've been using an extremely similiar build to this. Instead of Khovostov I've been using osteo striga instead. Mataoidoxia is amazing. people complained you couldn't suspend with prismatic and im like they gave a whole exotic for it. I spent so much time farming exotic class items just to never take mataoidoxia off.

[@imcookinsumramen]

Me when llama calls me his dear viewer

[@artes9222]

Personally I don't run Facet of Purpose and instead just use a 1 energy health on orb pickup mod, imo it does the job well enough to save that 1 fragment slot and use it on Facet of Dominance which is amazing.

[@jumbie29]

great build! I can't take it off right now. And that says a lot given how broken Getaway Artist builds are.

[@jomo9883]

Thanks for this. Just given it a go - it is as you say ability spam heaven. Love it. ❤❤❤

[@LlamaD2]

Glad you're enjoying it!

[@KayronTho]

Don’t mind me, im still addicted to your arc hunter build.

[@nickgangemi1787]

Since everyone has to put their 2 sence in, ill just say that this bulld is phenomenal and i will ne trying it out. A little tweak here and there isnt a big deal. Fantastic!

[@mrartezi2667]

The plunder build 🔥

[@Savage-Destiny]

I raise you my Titan Ergo Sum + Hoarfrost build for possibly even better Transcendence uptime

[@CrissyRonaldo]

Could you share?

[@wethepeople8280]

@@CrissyRonaldohis most recent video and in the description it’s explained

[@PapaG-cg4os]

Love the content Llama, but I do have to ask, why do you use AI upscale for images? Just curious

[@LlamaD2]

It's the only way to actually make the icons look high quality, by default the resolution isn't high enough and I quite like having high quality assets.

[@alexcantu6550]

Hey Llama, what do you recommend for armor farming this season, most of my 3x100 builds are for Resilience, Recovery and Discipline. Need to grind melee armor now that prismatic opened some melee build options for warlock.

[@LlamaD2]

Right now I'm not sure but farming either Master Avarokk or Master Caiatl is always a good method of getting good Artifice armor whenever they roll around

[@kaedenrussell2921]

I really reccomend just focusing seasonal armor. The amount of armor you can get outpaces the artifice slot bonus imo. You can get tons of 67+ stat armor pieces by just focusing at the seasonal vendor

[@siriusa5298]

@@kaedenrussell2921especially if you have an artifice class item already, being able to artifice your exotic now has made the grind for artifice armour really feel redundant

[@brendanlandine8824]

Do you think the 100 in discipline and strength is important?? I’m currently in the process of making this build and wondering if I can get away with less strength to get more recovery??

[@CrimsonReaper2501]

It's, not, I do have tier 10str, but killing suspended enemies returns melee partially, and I thin I have tier 5, maybe 6 discipline, I basically have grenade always up because of devour and firesprites, that's why id go for str, but you can also melle spam with monte carlo.

[@kaedenrussell2921]

Hey Llama, I dont known if you have tested the fragments but I have. Facet of devotion and the other fragment that generates dark energy from ability kills both give very minimal transcendence energy. From my basic testing it seems like its close to 1% per kill. I think they are completely useless as fragments go.

[@eclipsingshadows5421]

Must be nice…being a Warlock, having builds

[@artes9222]

Hi, it's great that you are showing gameplay clips, but would it be possible to showcase them in some underlight/master level content too?

[@LlamaD2]

Noted

[@drk-designer9651]

Im using this since the launch of tfs... this build is nuts

[@wolfgangnester6891]

I run this with lightning surge and feed the void i like it because I can use arcane needle to suspend enemies and then run in with surge to finish off everyone and then you have a way to heavily damage bosses

[@EyeZee]

I really like using this build with double or triple firepower to make tons of orbs for teammates by spamming bird grenades in super

[@Okami352]

Thank you I like this build and is on my warlock build.

[@sosguillotine779]

Instead of heavy handed, why not firepower? With devour procced I feel grenades would be better for generating orbs than arcane

[@RevShadow_508]

And this is why Transcendence will 100% be reigned in by next season. There is no way Bungie lets us have Transcendent as often as we are currently able to with how strong it is when used with a half way decent set up. I forsee about a 20 to 25% reduction to all Transcendent energy generation along with ramping diminishing returns for generating energy while Transcendent. They will probably also create some kind of DR if you rapidly generate energy using kenetic tremors or Kavostov.

[@mattevans2050]

For even more suspend use the wish keeper. And threading grenade.

[@okkarlFH]

havent gotten khvostov yet, still working on it. thoughts on outbreak as a temporary replacement? unravel from arcane needle, nanites, we know that combo works fairly well otherwise, ive already been a big fan of mataiodoxia so this has been a great vid thank you

[@LlamaD2]

Yeah Outbreak could work but Khvostov is a different beast entirely lol

[@okkarlFH]

@@LlamaD2 im workin on it slowly but surely! Well aware of just how insane khvostov is, just so many things on the to-do list on all 3 characters. Thank you beast!

[@gavo7911]

I just got Khvostov last night and I love it, but man it hurts to take off Red Death lol. I already have 10k kills on it.

[@LlamaD2]

You won't regret it!

[@rallik_614]

Will you do build for titan?

[@LlamaD2]

Probably!

[@yglvidhughes3721]

Gonna try this on a solo warlords ruin tonight 😬

[@LlamaD2]

Good luck!

[@japowey8958]

has anyone else been using matadoxia and noticed that sometimes the suspending blast just doesn’t proc

[@billyli5477]

No

[@billyli5477]

Its either one needle and kill target to proc or shoot all 3 needles to proc suspend blast

[@Welcome-d2]

Bro finally thx for the tips I made my first build with prismatic though I changed some things to make It like my gameplay style and something I mean every but arcane needle

[@connersmith1172]

Do You Think There’s Anyway to Apply This Build To Hunter (Obviously It’ll Be Quite Different) But I feel Like You Could Kinda Make A Version Of This On Hunter It’s Just Gonna be Very Different For Obvious reasons

[@DatoDestroyerOfVaults]

Toidi in shambles

[@sc5the]

the call/lost signal is so good for damage/building darkness respectively, that i wouldn’t use kstov. this season in pve you want your exotic weapon to be something with an element.

[@eldritchpain]

do we know the rates at which other kinetic weapons charge trensendance? like outbreak, quicksilver or necro

[@LlamaD2]

I don't personally but that sounds like a fun idea to test!

[@ItzSinatraa]

This build is so f-ing fun to use.

[@matthewmcwane9569]

You said you get transcendence back in like 7 ricochets but it’s more like 20+. Also, switching from matadoxia to Swarmers got me better results in nightfalls

[@MrLongshotbob]

Any suggestions of Exotic bonds to go with this build in place of the other exotic?

[@Ronin_Wrath]

more build guides should have gameplay at the end with commentary very nice

[@Hefelante]

Is this build good for GM Nightfalls?

[@LlamaD2]

Yes!

[@KrAceZ-z9r]

Oh shit something different, I was wondering how to use these robes

[@benjaminkorhum5068]

That looks like a lot of fun. Didn't expect that from this exotic... I will definitely try once I get my hand on the Kvostov. Edit: finally got the kvostov, copied the built. It is indeed very fun. Thank you.

[@weelad6393]

Song of Flame go BRRRRRR

[@KnifeHead99]

Any chance of doing a build on the salvation edge raid exotic on warlock and comparing it to the still hunt build on hunter ?

[@LlamaD2]

I already have haha! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sICchoOZZ52WjLM

[@KnifeHead99]

@LlamaD2 lol, my bad bro , keep up the good work 👏

[@tjorgy7854]

I’ve played with this build or something similar and it’s super fun

[@Epicninfa96]

2 questions: Is this GM viable If a substitution for champ stunning is necessary, are there any weapons I should look out for?

[@billyli5477]

This season use rocket sidearm for unstopp transcendence grenade for overload

[@Epicninfa96]

@@billyli5477 this answers nothing for me but thanks for trying. I ask because Khovostov is not in the artifact; sometimes primaries are switched in builds to accommodate champions. I’m looking for those other, GM viable options.

[@koldruler]

Thanks for the video!!

[@zeqqyboi2081]

you did not disappoint me my llama 😍😍😍

[@WarganicGG]

I actually have this build and was using it in a similar way...same loadout and everything lol, not the sword I was using pro memoria like you said in the video though lol feels really good to play I pretty much been running it since I got khovostov

[@slaawm1]

Still don't know what is darkness vs light abilities, subclasses, damage? I thought darkness are the newer straind and stasis, where everything else is light. I wish they would simplify this.

[@Mesmus9]

doesnt it feel annoying to use a kinetic weapon when there are lots of shielded enemies around?

[@LlamaD2]

Not really, the damage of Khvostov is quite potent with the ricochets, try it!

[@billyli5477]

Is khvostov ricochet doesnt so it for u just shoot with rocket sidearm and then switch back I guess

[@Sig-Jiggy]

Wonder if bad juju would be good here?

[@justinbasile647]

9:28- what happened? Also Amazing build!

[@LlamaD2]

Just cut out some boring gameplay haha

[@lona7]

This build made me switch from hunter main (wich I have been for years) to warlock. This space wizard feeling in both pve and pvp ia just to fun. The prismatic hunter was a swing and a miss from bungie. Dodge - punch - block - punch loop get’s booring after a few hours…

[@AstroSpaceBits]

Man I spent 4 hours on this quest and I wasn’t even halfway through bro 😂😂😂 to even get the khvostov 😅

[@matthewmcwane9569]

Since devour already heals you, I prefer using needle storm for the ultimate for the 45% damage reduction

[@billyli5477]

Song of flame is so good though

[@thomascarre]

I'm playing the exact same build but on lower content i use Monte Carlo. I don't have my transcendance as fast but i have a needle every fucking second. And i can use the big strand explosion so much more. But for harder content, where you'll need transcendance for not just having fun with it, Kovostov is better and a better weapon by itself.

[@darth9302]

Wish keeper with this build slaps

[@johnny_mh]

damn i like the synergy i saved it, when i get the chest piece ill do it

[@vanderlin4966]

12 missed calls from Plunder. Holy copy xD

[@Guardianapophis]

wouldn't it be better to run needlestorm as super for woven mail since you have devour up 24/7?

[@Greenfourth]

You could do that but needlestorm is a bit weaker on Prismatic since you can't buff the threading damage. Song does both more add clear and more single-target damage. For this build specifically though it's because with Facet of Honor + Elemental Siphon artifact mod, Khvostov will print firesprites which will fill your light transcendence bar when picked up.

[@Guardianapophis]

@@Greenfourth very true, just because he said use it for radiant which feels a bit much healing if you got devour

[@TheSilvrSeraph]

Ok ok you got me lol now show us how you got trippy hunneds lol

[@Alan-k8p6n]

the lost sector didnt sell me on the importance of mataiodoxia. i just feel like you could take this exact build but use some exotic class item combo to make it significantly better.

[@jayblack9393]

Not really. Matiodoxia provides supreme ad control khvostov has great ad clear and having trance up nearly the whole time gave him great damage output. He never did damage with his heavy weapon. This is an elite build.

[@Smiffy-.-]

This build, i.e., the suspend part, will not work with an exotic class item. Killing the suspended ads is what's bringing his melee back so fast so he's able to suspend constantly, which enables insane ad control. This is because of the perk Stylostixis on Mataiodoxía.

[@Kratos176]

Swap out khovostov for necrocasm in lower content and it’s a blast

[@vrontheweb3749]

Why does this make me feel like Khvostov is bugged when it gives you so much transcendence energy lol. No other kinetic weapon does it this fast.

[@w4yne3d61]

Any chance show gameplay in some hard content?

[@keo4264]

do you have to do the whole campaign on every character or is there a non paid skip

[@gavo7911]

There isn’t a non paid skip, but Prismatic fragments are unlocked for all characters.

[@keo4264]

@@gavo7911 do i have to do the campaign to unlock the pale heart on other characters then?

[@kingkurasaki4095]

@@keo4264yes

[@ezequieII]

​@@keo4264of course

[@drstrange2822]

how good is this build for grandmaster?

[@damienmedwards43]

Can you use it on glassway gm please

[@shirosatsuma4946]

How do u farm for the new exotics? The lost sectors don't show what u can get

[@victorfrankenstein23]

Lost sectors no longer grant you a specified exotic piece. Instead you will receive a chance to get an exotic engram per run. In order to get the new exotics, you will need to go to Master Rahool and reset his rank. After resetting for the first time, there will be a 3rd page under his exotic decryption. You’ll have to buy them. It cost 1 Exotic Cypher and 1 Exotic Engram.

[@flamingscar5263]

As the other reply said, focus enough engrave ar rhaool and he'll let you grab any exotic you dint have, it's honestly a much better system, I didnt play like at all last expansion other then like for a month after the expansion, so I'm missing a lot of exotics that I can now just grab

[@shirosatsuma4946]

@@victorfrankenstein23 don't you have to unlock them first before buying them?

[@kingkurasaki4095]

@@shirosatsuma4946not anymore, you unlock them by decrypting them with the cipher option now

[@alaskayoung3413]

That’s a title you don’t see next to Any titan build right now

[@rodscomfortblecreations8544]

I am a returning player like haven't played destiny since dreaming city. A lot of these build videos is like use this and this and this. I guess you assuming I have the armor for all those lol. I think before I continue looking at builds I just need to play to have inventory.

[@coltonsmith803]

Is there anything I can replace Kostov with?

[@ExtremeBoyheat]

Any kinetic that deals out heaps of damage. Transcendence energy comes form damage dealt, not kills. Osteo, Necrochasm, Thorn felt pretty good for me so far.

[@caos4260]

Any variant with Final Warning ?

[@spenn2007]

Thank you for making a guide on how to have fun with this item. I struggled to obtain this, and now I'm seeing the PVP influencers talking about nerfs. This is why the franchise is inconsistent and dries up from time to time. Bungie listens to YT influencers whinging for nerfs and buffs negatively altering the game for everyone else, fun items are drowned out and people drop the game. If it's fun, just allow us to have fun with it, most players are NOT PVP gods while using this weapon, I got my ass kicked last night while using it, and the Red Death is more lethal.

[@OthersideSparrow]

To be fair, a lot of the playerbase asks got a nerf in one sandbox and not the other. It's Bungie that decides to nerf it universally so it's average in PvP but ass in PvE (Bungie has nerf things but not touched PvE for certain items, so they can do it, they just chose to make it universal)

[@MrKingsMedia]

Triple 100! what how!

[@Gundmi]

I've acquired 3 of that exotic chest piece. Discipline then Resilience focused. 16 mobility > scrap. 18 mobility > scrap. 22 fucking mobility. Scrap. All in that insulting order. Bungo does not want me to have fun. Can I borrow 60K glimmer?

[@weichi_]

paracausal rizz

[@DerpsterIV]

Damn I was hoping you'd have an easy dps swap loadout here like you did for hunter, but hunters have it too easy right now apparently 😂 Just got euphony as a drop

[@gavo7911]

A Warlock Euphony build could be with the Star-Eater/Apotheosis bond. Launch buffed Needlestorm, get tons of Threadlings, throw Threadling grenade spam from Apotheosis, and fire Euphony at max stacks, then keep going back and forth.

[@DerpsterIV]

@@gavo7911 Prismatic Warlock is missing thread of evolution (also my exotic class item luck is terrible) Too busy to experiment right now, but hopefully theres something there

[@bodacious-hamster]

In gmeiners trace rifle only run he damaged an ogre with a sword. Run invalidated

[@Sl0th150]

Why, Frenzy on the pro memoria? o.o

[@Iskaral1]

Plunder released this 9 days ago.

[@Massivemachine440]

Invigoration only gives 4% possibility energy.

[@MrSkelator]

Monte Carlo is just way better! infinite melee suspends! and then necro, INFINITE EXPLOSIONS!

[@ericleal4259]

Yet another number seven hidden in Khvostov...