How To Unlock And Use Prismatic

Swarm Grenades detonate into nine projectiles on impact, covering a spherical area for their duration. Enemies that get near the Swarm Grenade will cause the nanites to track them aggressively, dealing a small amount of damage. Enemies hit by a nanite receive x5 Scorch stacks. This cannot be increased with Prismatic since this subclass doesn’t have Ember of Ashes or anything similar.

Arcbolt grenades sweep a 360-degree area, zapping tagged enemies with a strike of lightning. The damage is mediocre on its own, but it can easily apply Jolt onto targets through Facet of Dominance.

Throw a grenade with intense magnetism that explodes twice in short succession. Magnetic Grenades can be enhanced through Facet of Dominance, allowing your grenade to inflict Weaken. If you want even stronger tracking, equip Fastball on your gloves.

This grenade morphs into a frozen sphere on impact, immediately inflicting Slow on anything within the blast radius. Enemies within the dome will continuously receive Slow stacks until they are either Frozen or exit the dome. The Duskfield lasts for roughly six seconds.

You can enhance your Duskfield Grenades through the Renewal Grasps

Exotic. This will increase the radius of your Duskfield Grenade, grant allies Frost Armor each second while inside the dome, and debuff affected enemies with 50% reduced damage output (reduced to 10% in PvP).

Create a grappling point on your cursor and pull yourself forward, greatly increasing your Guardian’s momentum. You can strafe to the side to redirect your momentum, or you can cancel the grapple by pressing your grenade key or by jumping.

After grappling for roughly one second, you will be able to use a Grapple Melee. This is a melee attack that deals substantially more damage than a typical melee attack, capable of one-hitting red bars in most content. Using the melee kills all grapple momentum, so it can double as an air brake. Grapple melee is buffed by melee bonuses like One-Two Punch and Synthoceps

, but it does not benefit from Combination Blow.

Create a pool of explosive energy that continuously pulses every 0.75 seconds, pulsing a total of five times before it expires. If you have Facet of Dominance equipped, each pulse can inflict Jolt onto targets, making this an excellent source of Light Transcendence energy.

After the grenade makes contact with a flat surface, the Thermite Grenade will create a fissure of flame that pulses four times, dealing heavy damage with each wave. Enemies are lightly Scorched as well. It’s not enough to trigger an Ignition, but this is useful for building Light Transcendence energy.

Throw a bouncing grenade that detonates in a small radius, debuffing all hit targets with Suppression. You can Suppress yourself with the explosion, so be careful. Suppressed targets cannot use abilities, and PvE enemies struggle to aim. With Echo of Dominance, the explosion will also inflict Weaken.

Throw a grenade that forms five Stasis crystals in a line perpendicular to your character. These crystals are physical objects, so you can stand on them or use them as makeshift cover. If the crystals receive enough damage, they’ll explode and deal moderate damage over a wide area, increased with Facet of Ruin.

This grenade is a Strand-infused bola that Suspends enemies caught in the blast radius. This is great for stunning Champions, locking down a tight group of adds in PvE, or shutting down a PvP Super.

Shortly after impact, the grenade will release a series of lightning bolts that deal moderate damage. With Echo of Dominance, each lightning strike inflicts Jolt.

This grenade manifests a healing orb that grants x2 Cure on impact. Allies who grab the orb will gain x1 Restoration for a short duration. You and all nearby allies can pick up the Healing Grenade, similar to how Orbs of Power work. The grenade itself deals no damage, although it can build Light Transcendence energy if you buff allies.

Shortly after impact, the grenade will pull in all nearby targets and form a vortex, constantly dealing damage to enemies caught within. Enemy Guardians can easily strafe out of the grenade, but PvE enemies will typically stay inside the AoE for the grenade’s duration. With Echo of Dominance, the Vortex Grenade can also inflict Weaken with each hit.

Coldsnap Grenades stick to the floor on contact, rapidly moving towards grounded targets. This grenade chains up to three times before it disappears. Alternatively, the grenade can expire if it fails to find an enemy.

Threadling Grenades create three Threadlings on impact or shortly after traveling midair. Each Threadling will aggressively track targets and detonate, dealing moderate damage in a small area. If you have Needlestorm equipped as your Super, any spare Threadlings will perch onto your character. You can have up to six perched Threadlings at a time.

Infuse your fist with Arc energy and punch the target. Your melee charge is only consumed if you land a final blow, at which point you’ll earn a stack of Combination Blow, lasting 20 seconds. Each stack of Combination Blow increases your melee damage by 60%, stacking up to three times. This stacks multiplicatively on itself, so you actually deal up to 410% more damage at max stacks.

Since Prismatic doesn’t have access to Arcstrider’s Lethal Current Aspect, you’ll need to get creative if you want to give your punches some form of AoE damage. One good strategy is to use Winter’s Shroud to freeze enemies with two dodges, allowing you to shatter them for massive damage. You can also use Aspect of Caliban on the Exotic class item to make each Combination Blow kill trigger an Ignition.

Release three burning knives in a horizontal spread, each dealing 20 Scorch damage. Each knife deals solid damage and can deal precision damage, making it a great option for killing red bar enemies in PvE. Since Prismatic lacks Knock ‘Em Down, you’ll need to rely on Gambler’s Dodge or raw ability regeneration to spam Knife Trick.

Snare Bomb is a small device that will detonate if any enemies approach. The device constantly pings the enemy’s radar in PvP, ideal for flanking strategies. Once an enemy gets near the device, it will detonate and release a large plume of smoke. Anything caught inside takes an escalating amount of damage-over-time and is debuffed with Weaken for five seconds. Enemy players also have their HUD scrambled temporarily.

Throw an ice shuriken at your foe, chaining between four targets before it disappears. The shuriken doesn’t have much initial tracking, but once it hits an enemy, it will aggressively track nearby enemies. Each hit from Withering Blade inflicts x60 Slow (reduced to 40 in PvP). This allows you to freeze an enemy with two Withering Blades, which is convenient since Withering Blade has two charges.

Threaded Spike is a rope dart that will seek out nearby enemies, damaging every enemy it can find in its path. Similar to Withering Blade, Threaded Spike has aggressive tracking once it makes contact with an enemy, so make the first hit count. Each enemy struck is also Severed, reducing their damage output for a brief duration.

Once the rope dart is finished damaging enemies, it’ll return to your location and make a loud whistling sound. If you press melee right as your Threaded Spike returns, it’ll restore a massive amount of melee energy based on how many foes were hit. Failing to catch the dart will still return melee energy, just not as much. It’s possible to fully refund your Threaded Spike charge if it hits enough targets, so don’t be afraid to use it.

Plant your feet and begin to charge your fist, increasing Thunderclap’s damage the longer you hold the melee button. When you let go of your melee key, you will release a violent lightning strike at all targets in front of you, dealing massive damage to anyone caught in the blast radius. This can be further empowered with the Point Contact Brace Exotic.

After sprinting for a short duration, pressing the melee key will lunge your character forward and strike any target in your path with the Hammer of Sol, dealing massive damage while inflicting x40 Scorch. If the target dies from this ability, they’ll Ignite instead, creating a massive explosion at their corpse. You can further enhance the Ignition with Facet of Ruin.

Throw your Sentinel Shield at the enemy, ricocheting off hard surfaces and between foes. Each target struck restores a small amount of Void Overshields, making this a great way to gain Overshields in an add-dense situation.

Encase your fist in ice and lunge forward, launching anything that’s unfortunate enough to get in your way. Shiver Stirke has far more momentum than a traditional shoulder charge, making this a solid movement tool. It inflicts major knockback and x50 Slow on hit.

Frenzied Blade is a close-range attack that slashes at the closest target, inflicting major damage and Sever. This attack covers a wide cone in front of your Titan, making it a great option for killing a small group of adds. Subsequent casts of the skill will occur near instantly. Try to debuff a boss with Weaken or Jolt before casting all Frenzied Blade stacks to maximize your damage.

Chain Lightning is a close-range melee attack that Jolts the target and releases chain lightning to nearby foes. If you’re Amplified, Chain Lightning will release another set of chain lightning. Only the initial target you hit will be Jolted.

Snap your fingers and create five flaming projectiles, each with aggressive tracking. This ability has limited range and should be used like a punch ability. However, each projectile inflicts 20 Scorch if the target is hit by either the projectile or the subsequent explosion. If all five projectiles hit the target, they’ll Ignite. You can improve the Ignition with Facet of Ruin.

Hurl a Void orb at the target that detonates on impact, launching the target in the air with major knockback. Stuck targets are also Volatile, exploding if you deal additional damage to them. Pocket Singularity will curve around corners and other objects to strike targets, making this a great tool for flushing Guardians out of cover in PvP.

Manifest a Stasis staff and fire a single ice projectile, instantly Freezing anything it comes in contact with. You can follow this up with a melee attack for an easy shatter. The projectile is fairly slow and has minimal tracking, so aim this projectile carefully.

Arcane Needle aggressively tracks a target near your crosshair and infects them with Unravel projectiles. Damaging the target further will cause the Unravel projectiles to spread, infecting new targets while refreshing the debuff’s duration. You get three charges of Arcane Needle, making it an excellent choice for building Dark Transcendence energy or spamming Lightning Surge.

Throw out an electrified knife and teleport to its location, slashing nearby foes in a 360-degree arc. You can cast this Super up to three times, similar to how Moebius Quiver works on Nightstalker. Your Super bar does drain the second you cast your Super, so you’ll need to use the remaining charges as quickly as possible.

Wield a flaming version of Hawkmoon with three shots. Each round from Marksman Golden Gun can deal precision damage, increasing the damage of your next Golden Gun shot per headshot. Each headshot also spawns two Orbs of Power for your allies. This Super lasts ten seconds or until you run out of ammo.

You can further scale Golden Gun’s damage with Star-Eater Scales or Celestial Nighthawk. Star-Eater Scales grants up to a 60% damage boost, while Celestial Nighthawk converts Golden Gun into a Super with a single bullet, dealing drastically more damage.

Shadowshot: Deadfall fires a single Void arrow that creates an anchor point on impact. Once an enemy gets near, the arrow will activate and tether onto every nearby foe. Enemies tethered by Shadowshot receive 30% more damage (50% in PvP), are Suppressed, and share 50% of all incoming damage with other tethered enemies. It lasts for 12 seconds by default, although you can partially extend this by killing tethered enemies.

Create two ice kamas and throw them at your enemies. The first kama freezes enemies in place, while the second one violently shatters into an ice storm. This storm will aggressively track nearby targets over the next 14 seconds, inflicting constant Slow with each damage tick. With the buffs to Shatter damage in Final Shape, this is a great Super for general play and lengthy DPS phases in endgame PvE content.

Silkstrike is a roaming Super that acts as a hybrid between Arc Staff and Storm’s Edge. You gain massively increased agility, the Grapple grenade, and a rope dart weapon during this Super. Silkstrike deals excellent single-target damage for its class, outweighting most roaming Supers for total DPS. With that said, it’s incredibly squishy in PvP and should be used with care. In PvE, you can mitigate this with Echo of Blessing, triggering HP regeneration with every kill.

Your Titan turns into a living missile, crashing into the earth with such force that it creates a major Arc explosion. Despite the impressive visuals, Thundercrash’s damage is lackluster without the Cuirass of the Falling Star Exotic. Even then, it’s still a subpar option compared to most meta DPS Supers. For PvP, it’s a solid option for shutting down enemy players.

Wield a flaming hammer that violently explodes as you throw it towards nearby foes. For Prismatic specifically, since you don’t have access to Sunspots, Hammer of Sol will explode into a shower of shrapnel projectiles when it impacts a surface, dealing immense AoE damage. The further the hammer travels, the more shrapnel the detonation will spawn. Try to stay back when using Hammer of Sol to maximize its damage.

Your Titan will spawn three battle axes and throw them back-to-back at foes, dealing sizable damage (better than Thundercrash) while inflicting a 15% Weaken debuff. Unlike most Supers, the axes linger on the battlefield for 15 seconds. You can pick up these axes and use them as melee weapons.

Each axe has ten ammo, inflicts Weaken on hit, and can be thrown via the heavy attack key, consuming all remaining ammo. The damage of the heavy attack is quite high but does not scale with the ammo lost, so try to use the heavy attack last.

Glacial Quake is a roaming Super that gives you the Shiver Strike attack by default. Using your heavy attack will spawn a cluster of Stasis crystals in a frontal cone, which can easily be shattered by sliding into them. This Super is all about dealing shatter damage, so be sure to equip the Facet of Ruin Fragment if you plan on using it.

Bladefury gives you a spammable version of the Frenzied Blade melee for a short duration. If the target isn’t up close, you can use your heavy attack to launch a suspending wave their way. This Super deals immense damage if you can buff your melee damage through an Exotic like Synthoceps.

Casting this Super will create an Arc shockwave under you, releasing a wave of Arc fissures that run along the ground, dealing massive damage. The Super itself gives you a stronger, channeled version of the Chain Lightning melee ability. You unleash a constant stream of lightning that deals low damage on its own, although it can chain between multiple targets. Your heavy attack allows you to teleport short distances.

Song of Flame empowers your Warlock with Solar energy, granting them a new suite of abilities and an empowering aura. The aura grants you and nearby allies Radiant and drastically reduced ability cooldowns. You and nearby allies also gain Scorching Rounds from this aura, inflicting a small amount of Scorch when you use Kinetic or Solar weapons. This lasts for the Super’s entire duration.

Your grenade is replaced with a solar wisp, a flaming bird that aggressively tracks targets before exploding. It will chain between enemies, deals heavy damage, and has a two-second cooldown. Your melee is a stronger version of Incinerator Snap, firing seven projectiles with increased damage. Triggering an Ignition with this melee is quite easy. The melee attack has a two-second cooldown.

Hurl a massive Void sphere that detonates on impact, releasing a swarm of seeker projectiles that aggressively track targets. The damage of Nova Bomb is mediocre on its own, but it can be greatly enhanced with the Exotic class item and the Star-Eaters perk. It’s also a great Super for killing Champions and similar miniboss units.

Conjure an ice staff to cast barrages of Penumbral Blast, now featuring much more aggressive tracking. Once you’ve frozen a few enemies, use your heavy attack to unleash a wave of Stasis energy. Any frozen targets caught in the wave will be immediately shattered, capable of one-hit kills in PvP. This Super can also give your fireteam x10 Frost Armor for ten seconds while Ballidorse Wrathweavers are equipped.

Needlestorm creates a small army of Threadlings you launch at the enemy, similar to other one-and-done Supers. Once the projectiles land, they will explode and create a Threadling at each impact point. The Threadlings will then chase nearby enemies and explode.

If no enemies are nearby, your Threadlings will return to you instead and climb on your body, which is called “perching” in-game. You can have up to six perched Threadlings at a time. This behavior is present with all Threadlings while this Super is equipped, not just those spawned by Needlestorm.

Ascension gives you an aerial attack that acts as an extra jump. Activating this Aspect will consume your class ability to increase your Guardian’s altitude, releasing a wave of Arc energy to those beneath. Allies (yourself included) become Amplified for 15 seconds, while enemies are Jolted and take a small amount of damage.

In PvE, the damage is enough to trigger Jolt’s chain lightning effect, making this a surprisingly powerful add-clearing ability in most content. In PvP, the main use of Ascension is to gain Amplified by using your class ability, allowing you to trigger certain Prismatic Fragments like Facet of Sacrifice.

Defeating an enemy afflicted with any debuff (not just Void debuffs) will grant invisibility for seven seconds. For the first two seconds of becoming invisible, you gain truesight and can see enemies through walls. Stylish Executioner has a two-second cooldown between activations, increased to 12 seconds in PvP.

You can use Stylish Executioner to trigger Gyrfalcon’s Hauberk for constant Volatile Rounds uptime, or you can take advantage of its secondary, far more niche benefit: after triggering this Aspect, your next melee attack from invisibility deals 150% more damage and inflicts Weaken. The damage bonus is much lower in PvP (20%), but this effectively gives you constant One-Two Punch in PvE.

Eliminating enemies with any ability (not just Solar) or any elemental debuff will grant stacks of Gunpowder Gamble. Solar weapon kills also build stacks. At six stacks, your next grenade is replaced with a stick of dynamite. You can shoot the dynamite out of the air or wait for the fuse to blow. The explosion counts as an Ignition, which means you can increase its AoE with Facet of Ruin. It also allows Gunpowder Gamble to stun Unstoppable Champions.

Performing any dodge will trigger a slowing explosion around your character, inflicting x60 Slow to anything caught in the blast (reduced to 40 in PvP). This AoE doesn’t deal any damage, but the slow can be stacked by dodging multiple times or following up with another source of Slow. Melee builds using Combination Blow can make great use of shattering frozen targets created by this Aspect.

Additionally, slowing a target will greatly increase your class ability regeneration for a short duration. You also gain a sizable amount of damage resistance for two seconds upon dodging, similar to the Arcstrider’s Flow State Aspect.

Dodging will create a decoy of your Hunter at your previous location. This clone cannot move, draws enemy aggro in PvE, pings enemy radar in PvP, and has a visible health bar to enemy Guardians. Sustained damage to this clone will cause it to explode, spawning two Threadlings in the process. PvE players can pair this with Combination Blow to spawn a ton of Threadlings, while PvP players can use Threaded Specter for deception or on-demand cover.

Holding the grenade key will consume your grenade to project a frontal shield, draining your grenade energy each second it’s active. This shield grants 90% damage mitigation (75% in PvP) against all incoming frontal damage, although you cannot shoot or use abilities while projecting the shield.

Ending the ability will unleash a frontal explosion, similar to Handheld Supernova on Voidwalker. A portion of all stored damage is dealt in this explosion. If you tank enough hits, this explosion can one-tap most enemies.

You can further enhance this Aspect with Ursa Furiosa. Blocking incoming damage will refund Super energy, up to 15%.

Performing a slide melee will launch your Titan in the air, unleashing a wave of Scorching energy. If you press the melee key again, you’ll slam the ground and create a second wave of energy. If any Scorched targets are hit by the second wave, they will immediately Ignite. This second slam consumes your melee charge.

Consecration counts as melee damage, so you can drastically scale its Ignition damage through Exotics like Synthoceps and Wormgod Caress. You can potentially spam Consecration by pairing it with Frenzied Blade to gain three melee charges. You can even use Heart of Inmost Light on the Exotic class item to drastically improve its regeneration rate.

Knockout is the Prismatic Titan’s core survivability Aspect. Breaking an enemy’s shield will increase your melee damage by 50% for six seconds. You’ll also gain increased melee lunge range. Killing an enemy with a melee ability while this buff is active will also grant Amplified and restore a portion of your HP, as shown below.

This HP is granted immediately and doesn’t have an internal cooldown.

Defeating enemies with Stasis damage or Stasis abilities will generate a Diamond Lance, a pickup weapon that acts like a spear. While you have a Diamond Lance in hand, you can choose to slam it into the ground or throw it. Both actions will release a wave of Stasis energy on impact, freezing anything in the blast radius. You can then shatter the target for massive damage.

Diamond Lance has a seven-second cooldown between activations, but you can spawn these quite easily with the use of a Stasis weapon or the Cadmus Ridge Lancecap Exotic helmet.

Casting your Barricade will create a wave of suspending energy from your barricade, traveling a short distance before disappearing. Enemies are Suspended for roughly four seconds, so make sure you eliminate them before they break free.

This ability is completely different for Thruster. Casting Thruster will spawn a Strand knot at your location, which will unleash a suspending burst after a short delay. The blast radius is fairly small; staying near targets is recommended.

You can greatly enhance this Aspect with the Abeyant Leap Exotic boots. Barricades fire more projectiles with more aggressive tracking, making it great for stunning a large group of enemies in front of you. Thruster will lob the Strand bomb at the closest target with an aggressive arc, similar to that of a mortar.

Using your class ability will conjure a Solar Orb by your side, lasting for 20 seconds. This Solar Orb fires mortar projectiles that inflict x30 Scorch on hit. Consecutive hits can trigger an Ignition, making Hellion a surprisingly strong PvE Aspect for most content. You can even stack it with Arc Soul and Bleak Watcher turrets.

Feed the Void is a simple yet effective Aspect for virtually all Warlock builds. Ability kills grant Devour, a Void keyword that restores 100 HP and 10% grenade energy with every kill, including weapon kills. Landing a kill while Devour is active will extend its duration, up to a maximum of ten seconds.

With Feed the Void equipped, your Devour buff is twice as powerful. It now fully heals you and restores 15% grenade energy with each kill. Pair this with Bleak Watcher or Osmiomancy Gloves to take advantage of the high grenade uptime.

Performing a slide melee will cause you to teleport a short distance before exploding, releasing a series of lightning bolts that Jolt targets and grant Bolt Charge. The lightning strikes can hit the same target multiple times in PvE but not in PvP. Using this ability will also grant a moderate amount of damage reduction for a short duration.

You can greatly increase the uptime of this ability by pairing it with Arcane Needle a Strand melee with three charges. You can then use Facet of Awakening to spawn Ionic Traces with rapid multikills, refunding a portion of your melee energy. You can even buff its damage output with Necrotic Grips or Synthoceps via the Exotic class item.

Holding the grenade input will convert it into a Bleak Watcher, a Stasis turret that shoots in five-round bursts. Each projectile inflicts x10 Slow, allowing it to outright freeze targets with two bursts. Turrets last for 25 seconds and can be destroyed in PvP. Any grenade can be converted into a Bleak Watcher on Prismatic, not just Coldsnap Grenades.

This ability has some strong synergies with Getaway Artist, an Exotic that creates an Arc Soul upon consuming a grenade. Using an Arc grenade will spawn both an Arc Soul and a Bleak Watcher. You can even use Hellion and No Time to Explain to make additional turrets or ‘buddies.’

Casting your class ability (including Phoenix Dive) will spawn three Threadlings at your location. If these Threadlings cannot find a target, they will return to you and ‘perch’ on your character, saving them for future use. You can launch the perched Threadlings by damaging a target or by casting your class ability. The latter will spawn all perched Threadlings at once, useful for burst DPS rotations.

Additionally, all Strand damage kills will grant progress towards spawning a perched Threadling. Rank and file enemies give 34% progress, Guardians give 50% progress, and bosses give 100% progress. It is not random as the in-game description implies.