Destiny 2 Final Hunter Build Guide: Monument of Triumph

Fine. Sit down. Three builds, zero hand-holding beyond this paragraph, and if you still get downed in a DPS phase after reading this, that's a you problem, not a build problem.

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1. Blade Barrage DPS Build

Blade Barrage used to be the super you picked when you wanted your fireteam to quietly reconsider inviting you next time. Not anymore. This blade barrage build got dragged out of the garbage bin by the Monument of Triumph sandbox pass, and it now hits harder than a Titan's ego. The engine behind it is shards of galanor, the exotic gauntlets that turn "throw some knives and hope" into "throw some knives and refund the entire super." Land enough knives in one volley and you get delayed Solar detonations plus energy back after the super ends, which means yes, you can go again.

• Neutral game: squishy, held together by Ember of Mercy healing grenades and the Recoup leg mod. Don't get cocky.
• DPS swap: full Shards of Galanor, weapon stat maxed, super stat pushed to 160 so armor charge tips it to 200.
• Heavy weapon: Truth, because rocket launchers that track are funnier than ones that don't.
• Artifact: Fever and Chill for free radiant on solar precision hits, then Torch and Rays of Precision to milk that radiant window.

Sequence: pop Blade Barrage, dump Truth into whatever's left standing, repeat if you were greedy enough with your knife placement.

2. Prismatic Celestial Nighthawk Build

If the previous build made you nervous because your survivability instincts are, charitably, underdeveloped, here's the fix. This prismatic hunter build leans on Gifted Conviction for free damage resistance and Ascension for jolt and amplify in the neutral game, so you can actually tank a hit without immediately texting your therapist. Then DPS rolls around and you switch to the classic one-two punch everyone already knows how to spell but somehow still fumbles.

The still hunt hunter build combo here is simple: pop Still Hunt for a precision goldie shot, then pop Celestial Nighthawk for another goldie shot, then finish with whatever heavy you brought. If you're new to this, do it slowly and shoot each gun the moment you pop it. If you've done this before and want the extra damage window, delay the shots slightly and stack them tighter. Either way, don't overthink it more than the game already forces you to.

1. Activate Transcendence.
2. Pop Still Hunt, shoot it (or hold, if you're fancy).
3. Pop Celestial Nighthawk, shoot it.
4. Continue with a heavy sniper, ideally something that benefits from Prismatic Transfer buffing your teammates.

Artifact of choice is Hunter's Journal, with Radiant Orbs making every orb pickup grant free radiant, and Void Hegemony giving you a small overshield off weakened grenade kills. It's a lot of free stuff for very little effort, which is the entire pitch of this build.

For the Hunters who consider opening the character menu mid-encounter to be a personal failure, welcome to your build. The lazy void hunter build runs on invisibility from On the Prowl and Vanishing Step, plus devour from Echo of Starvation, meaning you're either invisible, healing, or both, most of the time, without trying. Fortune's Favor gives you an overshield and a free 15% weapon damage buff while it's up, so your neutral game is basically a participation trophy that also deals damage.

DPS is where this build gets insulting to everyone who spent hours optimizing a rotation. Fire Moebius Quiver at the boss to tether it, then equip the leviathan's breath build essential, Leviathan's Breath itself, and hold the trigger. That's the whole rotation. Artifact mods Semi-Auto Striker and Argent Quiver make the bow's damage genuinely embarrassing for how little skill it requires.

Which Exotic Actually Wins

Everyone wants a one-line answer for the best hunter exotic right now, so here's one, with the caveat that "best" depends on whether you value burst damage or not dying: Shards of Galanor for raw DPS ceiling, Celestial Nighthawk plus Still Hunt for consistent precision burst with a real neutral game, and Fortune's Favor if your aim is good enough that Leviathan's Breath doesn't need babysitting.

None of this matters if your armor is still whatever random drops you've been hoarding since forever. Vault of Glass armor grants Collective Power, which spawns orbs of power while you're sustaining damage under a subclass buff, feeding your super loop directly. Spire of the Watcher armor grants High Noon, boosting precision damage on freshly drawn weapons, which is exactly what a Still Hunt or Leviathan's Breath rotation wants.

That's the full rundown for destiny 2 monument of triumph hunter buildcrafting this cycle. Pick whichever one matches your personality: reckless glass cannon, cautiously tanky sniper, or someone who has given up trying and just wants a bow that wins arguments.