Void Hunter Hierarchy of Needs Build Destiny 2

This Hierarchy of Needs build turns a primary ammo bow into a boss killing machine, and yes, that sentence is not a typo. The whole build revolves around stacking Mobius Quiver's damage buff on top of Hierarchy of Needs' Guidance Ring, then multiplying that with Fortune's Favor and a pile of artifact mods until a "primary weapon" starts doing raid boss numbers. Nobody asked a bow to carry a Grandmaster Nightfall, but here we are.

The Bow Doing All The Damage

Hierarchy of Needs is a Solar Exotic combat bow that only drops from the final boss of the Spire of the Watcher dungeon. Precision hits and final blows build Guidance Ring energy, and once fully charged, hip firing deploys a ring that turns every arrow fired through it into a cluster of seeking projectiles that scorch targets and scale damage with distance traveled. Precision hits also guide those seekers toward whatever you were aiming at, so missing is basically optional.

The Catalyst Is Not Optional

The Hierarchy of Needs catalyst drops from a Master difficulty completion of Spire of the Watcher, and a boss checkpoint is enough, so nobody has to suffer through the whole dungeon repeatedly. The catalyst perk, Panoptic Tessellation, improves draw time, hip fire accuracy, and reload speed for a moderate duration whenever a Guidance Ring is deployed or a seeking projectile lands. Skip it and you are just holding a slower, sadder version of this weapon.

Why This Sits On A Hunter

Technically this bow works on any class, and it will still do fine damage on a solar Warlock or a bolt charged Titan. But actual omega DPS needs the Nightstalker's Mobius Quiver Nightstalker super. While Mobius Quiver is active, dealing damage increases the damage of your void arrows and all bow weapons, legendary bows included, and firing an arrow through your Guidance Ring while the super is up boosts the super's own damage in return. One demonstration went from 18000 damage with the bow alone to 42000 once Mobius Quiver got involved, and that was without trying particularly hard.

Do not equip anything else in the super slot. Mobius Quiver is not a suggestion here, it is the entire mechanism the build is built around, and running a different super turns this into a mediocre bow build instead of a boss melting build.

Subclass, Aspects, And Fragments

The rest of the kit exists to keep this loop alive and keep the Hunter breathing between damage windows.

• Gambler's Dodge returns melee energy on demand and keeps the ability economy moving.
• Snare Bomb and Vortex Grenade both apply weaken, which matters more than it sounds like it should.
• Stylish Executioner and On the Prowl both grant invisibility, with On the Prowl also feeding ability regeneration.
• Echo of Starvation grants devour from picking up a void breach or orb of power.
• Echo of Harvest turns defeating a weakened target into an orb of power and a void breach.
• Echo of Undermining lets grenades and Snare Bomb apply weaken, which then triggers the orb and breach economy that feeds devour.
• Echo of Dilation grants ten weapon and ten super stat, which is the entire reason it made the cut.
• Echo of Vigilance grants a temporary overshield after a kill while shields are down, and it can swap for Echo of Expulsion's plus ten super if pure DPS is the only goal.

Fortune's Favor Multiplies Everything

The exotic armor piece here is Fortune's Favor exotic leg armor. Landing a final blow at full health, or spending a moment out of combat, slowly converts your shields into a void overshield, and while that overshield is active your weapons gain increased accuracy, stability, handling, and roughly fifteen percent more damage against combatants. When the overshield finally breaks, you get a short mobility burst instead of standing there defenseless. Devour heals to full easily, which feeds the overshield, which feeds the damage buff, which feeds more devour. It is a closed loop and it works.

None of these count as exotic weapon slot competition since Hierarchy of Needs already owns that slot, which frees up the exotic armor for Fortune's Favor without any awkward tradeoffs among the best Hunter exotic weapons currently available.

Artifact Mods: Implement Of Curiosity

This season's artifact, Implement of Curiosity, was apparently built specifically to make this bow worse for everyone else and better for you.

• Argent Quiver consumes one armor charge on bow reload for increased damage and reload speed on the next three shots.
• Radiant Shrapnel makes sustained weapon damage while radiant, or a scorch kill, release solar projectiles that deal damage and apply more scorch.
• Shoulder to Shoulder grants damage resistance for sustained precision damage near two or more allies, which covers most DPS phases.
• Elemental Coalescence spawns void breaches from kills, feeding the devour loop through Echo of Starvation.
• Cauterized gives debuffed non boss combatants increased solar damage, which pairs nicely with Lionfish's Chill Clip on champions.
• Semi Auto Striker generates armor charge from rapid precision hits when running fewer than two stacks.
• Fervor and Chill grants radiant from rapid precision solar hits, which is exactly what this bow produces constantly.

The DPS Rotation

Build a full Guidance Ring before the damage phase starts and switch off the bow to avoid wasting it early. When the phase opens, hip fire through the ring, then fire Mobius Quiver directly through that same ring for a boosted super. Hip fire as fast as possible while the super winds down, and fire a second Mobius Quiver right before the first one expires for another boost, followed by an extended weaken window. One clean execution of this rotation hit 60000 damage while solo, with no radiant and no armor charge active, which is the actual selling point of this entire Destiny 2 boss melting build.

Stats And Armor Mods

Prioritize 200 weapon stat, or as close to it as possible, and over 100 super stat, since those two carry the build far more than anything else.

The two piece Iron Banner set adds increased handling and reload speed for primary weapons, plus roughly twelve percent bonus damage against non boss combatants based on weapon stat, which matters everywhere except pure boss DPS phases.

Where Else This Works

A Void Hunter build is the ceiling for this bow, but it is not the floor. Solar Warlocks running Dawn Chorus get extra scorch damage out of the same weapon, and Titans running bolt charged builds still get respectable numbers. None of them get the Mobius Quiver damage multiplier though, so treat those as sidegrades, not replacements, if the goal is an actual best DPS Hunter build.

Verdict

This is one of the strongest current uses for a Grandmaster Nightfall build that also happens to double as raid and dungeon DPS, all running through ammo that regenerates from the ground. Get the bow, get the catalyst, slot Fortune's Favor, and stop apologizing for how much damage a bow is not supposed to do.