Tractor Cannon Debuff

The debuff seat. Your damage is the lowest in the fireteam and that is simply the deal — the job is that the 30% stays on the boss for the whole phase. What follows is how to lose as little damage as possible while doing it.

Put this on a Prismatic Warlock rather than a Solar one. The debuffer is already giving up a weapon slot, and Prismatic hands back a damage Super, Transcendence, and grenades that extend the debuff when the boss is somewhere awkward to shoot at point blank.

Tractor Cannon over Fafnir most of the time: its debuff lasts 10 seconds against Fafnir’s 5. Fafnir’s can be stretched by continuing to fire it, but the ammo runs out long before the phase does.

Written for boss damage phases in a fireteam.

How it plays

Transcendence, grenade and melee, Needlestorm, then Tractor. One shot of Null Composure, trigger the sniper’s Dynamic Heat, and empty the magazine — around thirteen shots. Melee, grenade, Tractor again. Three fusion shots, which is enough for Bait and Switch to expire, then back to the sniper with it live again and dump the reserves. Tractor, melee, grenade, and finish on whatever the energy slot has left.

Around 3.5k DPS and 120k total, of which roughly 93k is the sniper.

If the boss makes a close-range Tractor shot expensive — an Argos, say — shoot it once, get out, and hold the debuff up with grenades from range. That is the same weaken-extension trick the Mataiodoxía Needlestorm seat uses to cover for you, run on yourself.

Same Prismatic subclass as the damage seat, and the DIM link carries it.

Why the gear

Conspiracy Honed, from the Equilibrium dungeon, is the whole damage output. It is a Dynamic Heat weapon, and those hit bosses much harder by default — around 50% more than a standard rapid-fire sniper. The roll to want is Ionized Heatsink, Vorpal Weapon and Bait and Switch. If you take one thing from this Build, take the sniper.

Null Composure is the free slot. Envious Arsenal and Elemental Honing is a good pairing, but a primary, a rocket, a pulse or a trace rifle all work here. Elemental Honing is easy to keep stacked on Prismatic because the kit covers so many elements at once — Void and Stasis off Freezing Singularity, Strand off Needlestorm, Solar off Hellion, and Arc off something like Getaway Artist in the neutral game.

TM Custom four-piece again, for High Noon, though the case for Vault of Glass is real here: its four-piece spawns Orbs under you on direct damage, and generating Orbs suits a support seat better than 7% precision damage does. Those two sets are the only ones worth considering for a damage phase.

The spread

Identical to the Mataiodoxía Needlestorm seat — 185 Weapons, Super to 200 on helmet fonts, Class tertiary. Nothing about holding the debuff changes what the armour should roll.