Speaker’s Sight Solar Warlock Build
Last Updated:October 10, 2024|Change Log
Welcome to the Speaker's Sight Solar Warlock build guide! This build is perfect for players who want to take on the Healer role, offering exceptional support in Dungeons, Raids, and Grandmaster Nightfalls. Transform your Healing Grenade into an automated turret with the Exotic helmet Speaker's Sight, providing Cure and Restoration to your fireteam.
This Solar Warlock build takes advantage of a new support frame auto rifle No Hesitation. Heal your fireteam and gain a 25% weapon damage boost thanks to Circle of Life. The heavy weapon, Gjallarhorn, empowers your fireteam's rocket launchers with Wolfpack Rounds, making it essential for certain boss encounters.
Ember of Benevolence is the true hero of this build, and the primary reason for choosing Solar over Prismatic. Applying Cure, Restoration, and Radiant to your fireteam greatly increases grenade and class ability regeneration, ensuring permanent healing uptime.
WARNING: The Speaker's Sight Exotic helmet, The Call sidearm, and No Hesitation auto rifle require The Final Shape DLC to unlock. Gjallarhorn requires the 30th Anniversary DLC to unlock.
- Unique playstyle.
- Excels in hard content.
- Very strong self healing.
- Less optimal in solo play.
- Relies on weapons for damage.
Gameplay Loop
The combination of Song of Flame's damage resistance and Speaker's Sight restorative turrets have replaced Well of Radiance as the go-to Warlock Healer build. Maintain a constant flow of Healing Grenades, restorative turrets, and Phoenix Dives to provide your fireteam with enough Cure and Restoration to keep them alive in any activity.
- Throw a Healing Grenade at your feet or an ally to apply Cure. This grenade is transformed into a healing turret, continuously healing nearby Guardians, thanks toSpeaker's Sight.
- Cast Phoenix Dive to apply Cure and activate your Hellion aspect. This sentient Solar turret attacks nearby targets to apply Scorch.
- Cast Celestial Fire to apply additional Scorch and grant Radiant to yourself and allies.
- Damaging enemies with No Hesitation charges its healing ability. Hip fire this weapon towards your allies to heal them.
- Cast Song of Flame during damage phases on bosses or during ad dense encounters to gain 90% damage resistance for yourself and 30% for your fireteam.
Ability Breakdown
Super
- Song of Flame
- This Super makes you Radiant, providing 90% damage resistance for you and 30% for your fireteam, while allowing Solar and Kinetic weapons to Scorch targets—benefiting your teammates as well. When activated, Song of Flame replaces your grenade and melee with supercharged Solar versions of these abilities. Use it to clear enemies, deal boss damage, or keep your fireteam alive!
Abilities
- Phoenix Dive - Jump in the air and activate your class ability. You and allies within 9 meters of the dive gain 2 stacks of Cure.
- Burst Glide - Your choice of jump ability is up to you, but the example setup uses Burst Glide.
- Celestial Fire - This explosive Solar melee applies Scorch on hit. Thanks to Ember of Torches, you and your fireteam become Radiant, which provides 25% increase weapon damage.
- Healing Grenade - Applies Cure on impact Speaker's Sight turns your grenade into a restorative turret that releases healing seekers every three second towards you and allies within 30 meters.
Aspects
- Touch of Flame - Doubles the Cure and Restoration effects of your Healing Grenade. You're fully leaning into support with this build, so Touch of Flame is an obvious choice.
- Hellion - Casting Phoenix Dive summons a Solar turret that stays with you. This turret fires mortars at nearby enemy targets that apply Scorch on hit.
Fragments
- Ember of Benevolence - As a Solar Warlock with Speaker's Sight, you continuously apply Cure and Restoration to your allies. Ember of Benevolence boosts your ability recharge rate after applying these effects, allowing you to maintain multiple restorative turrets on the battlefield simultaneously.
- Ember of Torches - Celestial Fire attacks make you and nearby allies Radiant, providing a 25% bonus to weapon damage.
- Ember of Searing - To further support your ability regen, defeating Scorched targets grants melee energy.
- Ember of Ashes - This Warlock build incorporates a significant amount of Scorch through Hellion and Celestial Fire. Accumulating enough stacks triggers an Ignition.
Gearing
Required Gear
Speaker's Sight
- This helmet turns your Healing Grenade into a restorative turret that Cures on impact and sends out healing Orbs to you and your allies every few seconds. Healing allies occasionally spawn an Orb of Power. Speaker's Sight is your primary mode of support while on Solar Warlock.
How to acquire:
- Complete The Final Shape campaign on Legend difficulty.
- Decrypting exotic engrams at Rahool if unlocked.
- Farm the expert lost sector on helmet Armor days.
- Note: The Speaker's Sight Exotic helmet requires The Final Shape DLC to unlock.
Stat Priorities
- Resilience > Discipline > Recovery.
- In PvE, Resilience is the most crucial stat to focus on. Aim for 100 Resilience to maximize your damage resistance and shield capacity, ensuring better survivability in challenging encounters.
- Discipline decreases the cooldown on your grenade ability, allowing it to charge faster.
- Recovery governs the cooldown on the Warlocks class ability and decreases the time it takes to regenerate your health and shields.
Learn more about the Stats available to you in Destiny 2 with our dedicated guide.
Armor Mods
| Item | Slot | Mandatory Mods | Supporting Mods |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker's Sight | Helmet | Harmonic Siphon | Heavy Ammo Finder Powerful Friends |
| Deep Explorer Gloves | Gloves | Grenade Kickstart Grenade Kickstart | |
| Deep Explorer Vestments | Chest | Charged Up | Harmonic Resistance Harmonic Reserves |
| Deep Explorer Boots | Legs | Solar Weapon Surge Solar Weapon Surge | Recuperation |
| Deep Explorer Bond | Class Item | Powerful Attraction | Time Dilation Time Dilation |
- Optional Mods:
- On your Chest, replace Harmonic Resistance with the appropriate resistance for the activity.
Armor Mods are unlocked by progressing your Guardian Rank. Check out the Guardian Ranks Guide for more information.
Artifact Perks
- Fell the Revenant - Deal increased weapon damage to Scorn which are plentiful in Episode: Revenant.
- Total Carnage - Finishing enemies grants damage resistance!
Recommended Weapons
Kinetic Weapon: The Call - This fresh take on the newly introduced rocket frame sidearm is a powerhouse in the Kinetic slot. With its high damage output and excellent ad clear, this is an easy choice for your special weapon. The Call is locked behind The Final Shape DLC.
Energy Weapon: No Hesitation - This distinctive auto rifle is equipped with an intrinsic healing ability, making it ideal for supporting friendly Guardians. It pairs perfectly with the Speaker's Sight Solar Warlock build, enhancing your role as a healer. No Hesitation is locked behind The Final Shape DLC.
Power Weapon: Gjallarhorn - A rocket launcher with deep ammo reserves that excels in various encounters. Its key perk, Wolfpack Rounds, boosts your allies' Legendary rocket launchers, providing enhanced support for your fireteam. Gjallarhorn is locked behind the 30th Anniversary DLC.
Variants
Gear Swaps
- Equip the recommended Armor Mods you see on the right if you haven't masterworked your armor yet. These only require 4-5 energy and help support your fireteam with Speaker's Sight.
- If you don't have access to Gjallarhorn, included in the 30th Anniversary Pack, consider these Exotic weapon options to support your fireteam:
- Red Death Reformed: Introduced as a Season Pass reward for Episode 1: Echoes in The Final Shape, this Pulse Rifle heals you on final blows and Cures nearby allies when you reload after a kill.
- Lumina: Available in the Forsaken Pack, this weapon leaves behind Remnants upon defeating enemies. Absorbing these Remnants allows you to hipfire ally-seeking Noble Rounds, which restore 90 HP to allies and grant Blessing of the Sky to both you and your ally, increasing damage by 35%.
- For Legendary weapons, aim to get the Heal Clip perk. Top-tier choices for this perk include Aberrant Action, Parabellum, and Heliocentric QSc.
The Speaker's Sight Solar Warlock build is versatile with a wide range of weapons and excels in all endgame activities.
Gear Swaps
- If your fireteam is not using Rocket Launchers, swap Gjallarhorn for a meta boss DPS weapon. Microcosm works best on Raid bosses with an easy crit spot. For DPS phases that require burst damage, equip Edge Transit combined with a high damage special weapon like Izanagi's Burden or Cloudstrike.
Summary
The Speaker's Sight Solar Warlock offers a highly sought-after support playstyle, delivering substantial healing through both weapons and abilities. Ideal for challenging activities, this build channels Solar Light in a unique way, adding versatility to your loadouts. Never hear "Guardian down!" again with this build!
Credits
Written by: AbbyHour
Reviewed by: Chadly, Tenkiei