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What Sunbracers Are Good For
Recommended Sunbracer Build
Destiny 2’s Sunbracers Exotic Warlock armor is one of the best equipment that Solar Warlocks can use during Lightfall’s Season of Defiance (S20). Despite not being as strong as Void or Strand, Solar builds in Destiny 2: Lightfall are excellent choices for players who want to improve survivability with a decent amount of damage output. By using the Sunbracers Exotic Armor in Destiny 2, players can substantially increase their damage output to incredible levels due to the item’s effect.
Of course, this has to align with a proper build, with the appropriate Aspects, Fragments, and mods. Nonetheless, Destiny 2’s Sunbracers build is an excellent alternative for Solar Warlocks who are uncomfortable running Starfire Protocol for practical purposes or cosmetic reasons. The Exotic gauntlets allow for increased DPS, and, luckily, they are straightforward to obtain in Bungie’s popular space shooter.
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Sunbracers Drop Location
Grinding For Loot
Destiny 2’s Sunbracers have been available in the game since its release in 2017 and can be obtained through any Exotic engram drop. This means that any source of Exotic engrams can generate Sunbracers for the player.
Those can be Nightfall Strikes, Legendary missions, Raids, and many other activities – even normal world activities have a chance of dropping an Exotic. However, the drop rate from engrams is randomized, so it is not guaranteed that the desired item will come.
Another way to get Sunbracers is by buying them directly from Xur whenever the Exotic gauntlets appear in his sales inventory rotation. Of course, if they are not there, players can try logging in with their Warlock character and buying his two weekly Exotic engrams, the first with Legendary Shards and the next with an Exotic Cipher in Destiny 2. Luckily, the item is unrelated to Legend Lost Sectors, which are quite challenging to complete.
If players have already acquired Destiny 2’s Sunbracers in the past, they can buy another copy directly from their Exotic Collection. The only downside is that the stat distribution will be terrible (usually between 48 and 50 total points).
What Sunbracers Are Good For
Explosive Solar Damage
Destiny 2’s Sunbracers are a great Exotic armor piece for Solar Warlocks because of their Exotic Perk, Helium Spirals. With it, the duration of Solar grenades is extended, and on top of that, Solar melee kills grant unlimited Solar grenade energy for five seconds, according to Light.gg. With the proper mods build, retro-feeding melee energy with grenade damage and kills, players can spam Solar grenades almost indefinitely, as demonstrated by Hugo on YouTube (below).
In the video, Hugo solos the Last Wish raid’s boss, Riven, essentially by spamming grenades, getting more energy by making melee kills, and then spamming more Solar grenades. It is important to point out that this activity is intended for six players rather than one, which only shows how much damage they could put out. Of course, this build will not work with every situation, such as in PvP, but using Destiny 2’s Sunbracers with the proper mods is a solid source of damage.
Recommended Sunbracer Build
OP Solar Warlock For Solo Players
NoOasis on YouTube gives a very in-depth breakdown of a Solar Warlock build around the Sunbracer item, which you can view in the video above. However, here is a brief breakdown of what to equip and how to use the class.
For your subclass, equip:
- Well of Radiance Super
- Phoenix Dive Class Ability
- Your Preferred Jump Ability
- Celestial Fire Melee
- Solar Grenade
- Heat Rises and Touch of Flame Aspects
- Embers: Ashes, Torches, Empyrean, Singeing
This build is mainly focused on creating a lot of buffs that trigger around your abilities and the Sunbracers. It also includes the buffs from the newest update to these equipment items. These buffs make survival slightly easier, even when playing solo with all enemies focused on you. Many of the Embers are also there to extend timers on various buffs and recharge rates, making everything faster and you more destructive.
Artifact mods will change every season, but for Season 23, NoOasis recommends Kindling Trigger, Flint Striker, Heart of the Flame, Revitalizing Blast, Rays of Precision, and Solo Operative whenever you are playing solo. These all allow you to use your abilities even more often and give them even more damage.
From this season, he recommends the Scatter Signal for your Kinetic slot, the Adhortative Pulse Rifle in Destiny 2 for your Energy Slot, and the Ascendancy Solar Rocket Launcher in your Heavy Slot that can be purchased outside of the Seasonal items. The Sunshot Hand Canon is the best option for Exotic weapons, as it will synergize with all of the buffs for Solar Damage.
In general, that is what you want to emphasize with this build, as you are trying to buff yourself and increase your Solar Damage by as much as possible to give your Sunbracers a chance to really shine through the significant damage the Solar Grenades will bring.
With it, you can destroy your enemies and perform events solo that you could not have otherwise. Dealing as much damage as quickly as possible is the best use of the Sunbracers in Destiny 2 as you go about your adventures.
Video Credit: Hugo/Youtube, NoOasis/YouTube
Source: Light.gg
Destiny 2
FPS
- Franchise
- Destiny
- Platform(s)
- PS5 , PS4 , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S , Xbox One , PC , Stadia
- Released
- August 28, 2017
- Developer(s)
- Bungie
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