Mataiodoxía Needlestorm

The seat you take when somebody else already has the Well. Same weapons as the Assembler Well, same four pieces of TM Custom, different chest — and now you have a damage Super.

Needlestorm under Mataiodoxía is the Warlock’s Thundercrash. Stylostixis makes targets damaged by Arcane Needle detonate on death, but the clause that matters against a boss is the second one: landing multiple Arcane Needles, or a Needlestorm, on the same target immediately triggers a larger, more powerful detonation. Needlestorm is a fistful of needles into one target, so it always fires. The channel’s own Super testing puts it within about a thousand damage of a Cuirass Thundercrash, and sometimes the explosion goes off twice.

Written for boss damage phases in a fireteam.

How it plays

Transcendence, Arcane Needle and grenade, then Needlestorm. From there it is the same High Noon loop as the Solar seat: hone Izanagi’s Burden, fire, re-hone, swap to the Refurbished A499 for two shots while the buff is fresh, and back. Throw a needle in every so often to keep the grenade coming back. Around 4.7k DPS and 220–230k total — the Super and Transcendence’s flat weapon damage bonus are the difference.

The other half of the job is extending someone else’s debuff. A weaken from Tractor Cannon, Fafnir or Felwinter’s Helm has its timer refreshed by any weaker weaken applied on top, and Prismatic Warlock has two grenades that do it: Vortex with Facet of Dominance, or Freezing Singularity. When Transcendence drops you have a Void grenade ready for exactly this. It is insurance for the moment the Tractor player gets teleported, dies, or is stuck too far from the boss.

Aspects are Feed the Void and Weaver’s Call, fragments are Facets of Ruin, Protection, Hope, Dominance and Courage. Dominance is the only one doing real work here.

Why the gear

Nothing changed from the Solar seat except the chest, and Mataiodoxía is what turns the Super from a nice add-clear tool into the second-best burst Super a fireteam can bring. The Refurbished A499 still wants Aggregate Charge and Accelerated Assault, the Artifact is still the Encrypted Data Disk, and Keraunios is still just something to draw so High Noon refreshes.

Losing the legs to TM-Moss Custom Pants instead of the Solar seat’s boots keeps the four-piece intact, so High Noon survives the swap to an Exotic chest.

The spread

185 Weapons, which is where the source’s Prismatic armour lands — better than the Solar seat by an accident of what dropped. Super is 150 from armour and 200 with three Super fonts in the helmet. Class stays tertiary.