Solar Strongholds+Praxic Blade Before you jump to "well you're late to the party".....yeah, I know. Praxic Blade was a massive turn off to myself when it dropped and for the better part of Renegades. Seeing it in literally EVERY loadout in EVERY queue was exhausting. And seeing it make absolute light work of everything on the screen was also offputting. I was generally putting in 2-3 times the effort to yield half the results of those crutching it. So forgive my obstinance regarding utilizing it for the previous 9 months. Having my clanmates drop out the game has left me with limited content to chase solo, as I'm not too fond of LFG Raiding or solo Dungeoning. So I've just been cleaning up incomplete missions, mostly Renegades content. I managed to snag the Impact Core the other weekend and this had me wanting to try the Praxic Blade more. I am simply amazed Bungie has left something so broken in the game. It puts the game on EZ mode and it's quite disgusting they ever thought to create this weapon, let alone leave it so broken "forever". That said, it made absolute LIGHT WORK of Ultimate Conquest Seraph Shield yesterday. First time in there this season. Ran with a friend who is incredible at the game, but didn't change the fact I never fell below half health and managed to nuke most of the Champs we encountered on my own while he carried mechanics and the other fella handled ad clear. Anyhow, this is definitely the build for me for Ultimate Conquests. Stasis is too boring to play. Prismatic Consecration is super lame. Little else actually works on Titan. This gets the job done in spectacular fashion, even if it is wildly overpowered. . My iteration of the build is as follows- [b]Super-[/b] [i]Burning Maul[/i] [b]Aspects- [/b] [i]Sol Invictus; Consecration[/i] [b][u]Fragments[/u][/b]- [i]Torches Char Searing Empyrean Ashes[/i] . [b]Artifact[/b]- [i]Hunter's Journal[/i] [b]C1[/b]- [i]Elemental Siphon; Energy Diffusion Substrate[/i] [b]C2[/b]- [i]Solar Fulmination; Radiant Orbs; Blade Stamina[/i] [b]C3[/b]- [i]Shield Crush; Argent Blade[/i] . [b][u]Stats[/u][/b] [i]200 Weapons 100 Strength +70 Grenade +70 Super[/i] . [b]Armor[/b]- [i]x4 Swordmasters[/i] [b]Head[/b]- [i]Siphon; Finder; Flex[/i] [b]Arms[/b]- [i]Heavy Handed x2; Impact Induction[/i] [b]Chest[/b]- [i]Lucent Blades; Resist; Charged Up[/i] [b]Legs[/b]- [i]Invigoration; Orbs of Restoration; Stacks on Stacks[/i] [b]Mark[/b]- [i]Reaper; Bulwark Finisher; Special Finisher[/i] . [b][u]Weapons[/u][/b] [b]Kinetic[/b]- [i]Praxic Blade[/i] (Impact Core) [b]Energy[/b]- [i]Parabellum[/i] (Heal Clip+Attrition Orbs); [i]Bug Out Bag[/i] (Attrition Orbs+Target Lock) [b]Heavy[/b]- [i]False Idols[/i] (Eager Edge+Burning Ambition) . [b][u]Gameplay Theory[/u][/b] Really this is all about Solar Fulmination. Ember of Ashes and Ember of Char serve to drive quick and huge Ignitions via Praxic Blade. The build is best utilized for single target DPS vs Bosses and Champs, allowing the Ignitions procced off of them them clean up fodder ads. Consecration also benefits from all of those too and is great ad clear for large spawns. The key is to just get Orbs via Attrition Orbs or Melee kills. Then get your ammo and start slaying out with Praxic Blade. Should ammo with Praxic Blade get tight, then there's always False Idols for single target DPS. Burning Ambition also benefits from Fulmination, Ashes and Char, so the downtime with Ignitions never stops. Burning Maul is excellent for stunlocking bosses during DPS so allies can dump Supers/Heavy without an issue. In terms of survivability, the list here is endless. For starters, Strongholds+Praxic/False Idols is endless Restoration. Then there's Sol Invictus and Healing Grenade, enabling Resto x 2 with the build. Solace is unnecessary given the uptime of Radiance and Restoration with this setup. You just endlessly chain both with organic gameplay. And it's beyond easy to reprocc all of them after a transition where you lose them. Swordmaster's Armor allows for constant DR when block is down for highly aggressive swordplay so one can nuke champions and bosses. If you die on this build, you should really rethink your Guardianship...... Regarding ability cycling, there are two major components at play. First is Ember of Searing. There is virtually no downtime with Consecration, given the near infinite Ignitions and Scorch flying out of this build. For Grenade uptime there's Shield Crush, which directly ties to Radiance, which has no downtime thanks to Radiant Orbs and Ember of Torches. Super builds at a solid rate thanks to the endless Ignitions and Dealer's Choice Origin on False Idols. False Idols is the supplement to Praxic Blade. Aside from the generalized benefits of Eager Edge, Burning Ambition ensures you never have downtime with Ignitions when swording should Praxic Blade run low. Additionally it is a source of infinite blocking should a run go sideways. Guaranteed to aid revives and facetank damage at any cost without worry. I have NEVER touched a build this strong! Not even Prismatic Consecration at the start of TFS can hold up to this builds insane DPS output and survivability. And it's only boring if you make it boring. This is NOT an infinity blocking build. This is high speed aggression that allows you to stand in the face of quite literally any enemy and beat the daylights out them! Let me know your experiences with Praxic Strongholds or users on it! I'd like to think the pace and playstyle I've been refining would be widely welcomed by any FT without fear. But I understand the apprehension given the infinity blockers out there!