Void 3.0 Keywords, Aspects, And Fragments Explained – Destiny 2

Devour is a character buff that lasts for ten seconds, granting 7.5% grenade energy and 50% HP/shield recovery upon defeating a target. Defeating a target while Devour is active will extend its duration by a few seconds, with tougher enemies granting additional time. This effect works in PvE and PvP with no differences between each sandbox. It is the Voidwalker Warlock’s specialty.

Arguably the strongest buff tied to Void 3.0, Devour is a staple of just about every PvE build. The Echo of Starvation

Fragment allows every Void class to access Devour, not just Warlocks. Kills grant all of your health and shields back, allowing you to play far more aggressively than what would otherwise be possible. You can also pair Devour’s grenade energy with Demolitionist or Wellspring to quickly recharge your grenades upon defeating targets.

Notable sources of Devour include the Feed the Void

Aspect, Echo of Starvation

Fragment, and the Buried Bloodline

Exotic Sidearm.

Invisibility makes your Guardian harder to see, preventing enemies from shooting you in PvE while hiding you from enemy radar in PvP. Performing any offensive action—shooting, punching a target, throwing grenades, or using your Super—will remove this buff. With that said, there is a short grace period upon becoming invisible where actions won’t decloak you. Most Invisibility sources last for five seconds by default. It is the Nightstalker Hunter’s specialty.

In PvE, becoming invisible will cause enemies to stop shooting you, drawing their attention to your allies instead. It serves as the Nightstalker’s main defensive property and makes recovering your HP mid-gunfight far easier. Bear in mind that Invisibility is not invincibility; you can still take damage while invisible. Some enemies, notably Hive Shriekers, can see through invisibility and shoot you. There also seems to be a slight delay before enemies drop aggro when you become invisible.

In PvP, Invisibility makes you much harder to see and hides you from enemy radar… mostly. While invisible, you will ping the enemy’s radar once every five seconds. You cannot change this through any Aspects of Fragments. This ping lasts for around a second before you vanish from the radar again. As with PvE, offensive actions remove invisibility.

Void Overshield acts as a second health bar, granting up to 45 extra HP while providing a small amount of damage resistance. In PvE, your Void Overshield grants 50% damage resistance against combatants, stacking multiplicatively with other DR sources. PvP overshields grant no damage resistance, only extra HP. It is the Sentinel Titan’s specialty.

As the name suggests, not all overshields count as Void Overshields. Overshields obtained from mods or Stasis’ Whisper of Rime

Fragment are technically different and don’t synergize with any Void keywords or Exotic properties. Gaining another overshield type will override your Void Overshield, removing it entirely.

Common sources of Void Overshields include the Sentinel’s Bastion

Aspect, the Repulsor Brace perk, and the Vexcalibur Exotic Glaive.

Suppression is a debuff that disables ability usage for six seconds. PvE enemies are also blinded while suppressed, preventing them from attacking you. In PvP, Guardians are unable to use their abilities while suppressed—this includes grenades, melee abilities, class abilities, Supers, and even jump abilities like Blink.

Out of the three Void debuffs, Suppression is the rarest of the bunch. Most players will need to use Suppressor Grenades

to apply this debuff, although Shadowshot and Shield Throw

can inflict Suppression as well. Overall, this is an incredibly powerful effect that can swing entire firefights in your favor.

Volatile covers the target in Void particles, causing them to explode if they take enough damage. Enemies in PvE explode with minimal damage required, while Guardians in the Crucible explode after they take around 200 damage. The explosion itself is strong enough to kill most rank-and-file enemies in PvE. All classes can utilize the Volatile debuff, although Sentinel Titans can further specialize by using a certain Aspect.

Sentinel Titans can rapidly inflict Volatile to targets through the Controlled Demolition

Aspect, causing their abilities and Volatile explosions to inflict Volatile. This leads to chain reaction explosions for amazing add clear in easier PvE content.

Beyond that, most classes will need to find Volatile Rounds, a buff that causes all Void weapons to inflict Volatile. You can get this buff through Echo of Instability

and the Gyrfalcon’s Hauberk

Exotic for Hunters.

Weaken increases the damage enemies take by 15% in PvE and 7.5% in PvP. Enemies inflicted with Weaken in PvE are also blinded for the duration, preventing them from attacking you. Similar to weapon buffs, you can only have one damage-increasing debuff on a target at a time—Weaken adhering to this rule. All classes can inflict Weaken, although this debuff is the specialty of the Nightstalker Hunter.

Damage-enhancing debuffs are incredibly useful in PvE content. Most consider some form of Weaken mandatory for endgame raids and GM Nightfalls. Some sources of Weaken are stronger than others, applying a 30% damage increase to the target. You cannot stack a 30% and 15% Weaken on a target—the game will use the strongest debuff available when calculating damage.

The following sources provide a 30% Weaken effect:

All other sources inflict a 15% Weaken effect.

A Void Breach is a small pillar of energy that grants class ability energy when grabbed. Void Breaches are only generated for yourself. Each Void Breach grants roughly 10% class ability energy and lasts for 12 seconds or until grabbed. All Void subclasses can spawn Void Breaches.

You can spawn Void Breaches in PvE and PvP. The most common sources of Void Breaches are Fragments, notably Echo of Domineering

and Echo of Cessation

.

Your grenade will create a homing Void projectile upon impact. The Axion Bolt

will aggressively seek targets before it vanishes, extended by using Echo of Remnants

. Enemies can destroy the Axion Bolt before it makes contact, and the blast radius on this grenade is quite small.

Magnetic Grenades are sticky projectiles with a great deal of aim assist. Throw the grenade near a target and watch it stick before detonating twice. If you have Echo of Undermining

equipped, the target becomes Weakened when the grenade sticks to them, greatly increasing your damage output. Paired with Verity’s Brow

on Voidwalker, this grenade can one-tap Guardians in PvP.

Scatter Grenade

detonates on impact and spawn submunitions that immediately detonate, dealing high damage to anything caught in the blast radius. While this grenade can’t one-tap Guardians in PvP, it deals heavy damage in PvE if all submunitions hit the target.

The smaller projectiles can collide with each other, preventing them from detonating. This makes Scatter Grenades inconsistent unless you use the Voidwalker’s Chaos Accelerant

Aspect or Nothing Manacles

Exotic gloves, both of which prevent the projectiles from colliding.

Suppressor Grenades

will explode roughly one second after being thrown, bouncing off hard surfaces before it explodes. Anything caught in the blast radius (you included) will be suppressed for six seconds, forcing targets out of their Super and disabling ability usage.

Abilities include grenades, melee abilities, class abilities, Supers, and your second jump. This is currently the only grenade that can trigger Echo of Domineering

, a Fragment that auto-reloads your equipped weapon and grants Mobility upon Suppressing a target.

Void Spikes will stick to a surface and begin emitting a deadly stream of Void energy, damaging anything caught in the cone-shaped stream. Void Spike

deals damage once every 0.25 seconds and lasts for 4 seconds (6 with Echo of Remnants

). We highly recommend you use Fastball with this grenade to ensure your grenade sticks to your intended surface. It’s a fantastic grenade for flushing out targets behind cover in PvP.

This grenade will detonate on contact with a flat surface, expanding into a thin line of horizontal flame. Targets caught in the flames take damage every 0.25 seconds. The wall itself lasts for 6 seconds, extended to 9 seconds with Echo of Remnants

. By default, the Void Wall

will spawn perpendicular to your Guardian (creating flames left and right if thrown in a straight line), although you can alter this by bouncing the grenade off surfaces or enemies.

A Vortex Grenade

will detonate upon making contact with any surface, expanding into a vortex that will pull nearby targets inward. The pull only happens when the vortex is formed, and targets caught in the vortex take damage once every 0.25 seconds.

Vortex Grenades last 4 seconds before they dissipate, extended to 6 seconds if Echo of Remnants

is equipped. If Echo of Undermining

is equipped, every damage tick from the vortex will inflict Weaken.

Your Hunter will throw a small projectile that sticks onto surfaces. Once planted, the Snare Bomb

will persist for 10 seconds, pinging the radar of enemy Guardians while active. Any enemy that gets near the Snare Bomb will set it off, inflicting Weaken on any targets caught in the blast radius. If no targets get near the Snare Bomb for its duration, it’ll automatically detonate after ten seconds are up.

If the Trapper’s Ambush

Aspect is equipped, you may activate this melee through an aerial descent, doubling the duration of Weaken while granting invisibility to you and nearby allies.

After sprinting for a second, activating your melee will lunge your Titan forward, Sentinel Shield

in hand. Any targets you hit will be suppressed and take a massive amount of damage, further boosted by the Offensive Bulwark Aspect. Any targets slain through your melee will fully restore your Void Overshields, lasting 10 seconds (15 with Echo of Persistence

equipped).

Throw your Sentinel Shield like a boomerang, ricocheting off hard surfaces with slight aim assist. It’s the least forgiving out of the chaining melee attacks in Destiny 2, but Shield Throw

makes up for this by granting a small chunk of Void Overshields with every target hit. The damage is insubstantial and should mostly be used for recharging Overshields or inflicting Volatile through the Controlled Demolition

Aspect.

Manifest a chaotic orb of Void energy that will curve toward nearby targets, pushing the target back and inflicting Volatile on impact. Pocket Singularity

disappears after it travels a short distance, so try to use this ability while right next to a target. While it doesn’t deal much damage, the knockback can be useful for pushing targets out of cover.

Fire an anchor of Void energy that latches onto nearby targets, inflicting Suppression and a 30% Weaken debuff. This is much stronger than Weaken from most other sources, making this a staple ability for raid and dungeon bosses. Enemies tethered by your Shadowshot anchor share 50% of incoming damage as well, allowing you to kill an entire wave of enemies with a few well-placed shots.

Moebius Quiver morphs your Shadowshot bow into a hybrid support/DPS Super. Casting your Super will fire a barrage of three Void anchors, tethering enemies in a small radius (shorter than Deadfall). Tethered units are Suppressed, suffer from a 30% Weaken debuff, and share 50% of incoming damage.

This Super may be cast twice before it expires, firing a second barrage of Void anchors on the follow-up cast. Void anchors deal roughly 20% increased damage to tethered targets. To compensate for the increased damage potential, the Anchors only last 6 seconds in this variant and have a shorter tether radius.

Brandish two swords bathed in Void energy and become invisible, granting damage reduction and Truesight on all enemies. Your light attack is a short-range lunge that can be chained multiple times, breaking invisibility when used. Your heavy attack performs a vertical slash attack that turns you invisible. While the damage is insubstantial in PvE, Spectral Blades

is a devastating PvP Super when used properly.

Wield the Sentinel Shield to destroy your foes and protect your allies. Your light attack is a simple Shield Bash

combo that deals moderate damage. Using your Grenade will use an empowered version of Shield Throw which features far more aim assist.

Blocking will project a massive frontal wall that allies can shoot through, blocking all incoming damage while granting allies Weapons of Light. This version of Weapons of Light grants a 40% damage buff, up from Ward of Dawn’s

25% buff provided by Helm of Saint-14

.

Turn your Sentinel Shield into a trio of battle axes before throwing them all at your foes. All three axes are thrown back-to-back when you cast your Super. Enemies hit suffer from 15% Weaken and take moderate damage from the Super itself.

However, unlike most Supers, the axes linger on the battlefield and can be picked up, both by you and your allies. Each axe lasts 15 seconds, has 10 charges, and inflicts Weaken on hit. Using your heavy attack will throw the axe at the opponent, consuming all remaining ammo. The damage is not based on the ammo consumed, so you ideally want to use nine light attacks before finishing with a heavy.

Immediately create a sphere of Void energy around your Titan that blocks all incoming and outgoing projectiles. Ward of Dawn has 8,000 HP and takes 50% more damage from enemy Guardians. Your Resilience value also dictates how durable your Ward of Dawn is against PvE combatants, with 100 Resilience providing maximum damage reduction for your bubble. As with Titan Barricades, you can’t shoot enemies through the bubble.

Additionally, the Ward of Dawn passively generates Void Overshields for nearby allies, similar to a Bastion

Barricade. Staying within the bubble will grant the maximum effect along with bonus damage reduction (60% in PvE, 30% in PvP). Pair this with a Warlock’s Well of Radiance to greatly improve your team’s survivability in raid content.

If you equip the Helm of Saint-14

Exotic, entering Ward of Dawn will also grants Weapons of Light for 15 seconds, a 25% damage buff. This is an empowered buff and does not stack with Radiant or Warlock Rifts.

Throw out a massive projectile that aggressively tracks targets. On impact, the Nova Bomb detonates and creates four cluster bomblets, behaving similarly to Axion Bolts

. Both the Nova Bomb and seeker projectiles one-tap Guardians in PvP and deal massive damage in PvE.

Throw out a massive projectile that’s affected by gravity. On impact, the Nova Bomb detonates and creates a massive vortex, roughly double the radius of a Vortex Grenade

. This vortex pulls in nearby targets on creation, deals massive damage every second, and lasts 6 seconds. Echo of Remnants

does not affect the duration of this vortex.

Infuse yourself with Void energy and become a walking Nova Bomb. Your light attacks charge your character before creating an explosion. Holding down the light attack button charges up this attack for increased damage over a wider area.

Your heavy attack performs a long-range teleport with no cooldown (unaffected by Astrocyte Verse

). You can pair this with Blink as your movement skill to teleport multiple times each second, making this one of Destiny 2’s most maneuverable Supers. The damage isn’t great, but the speed of Nova Warp

makes it a powerhouse in the Crucible when used properly.

Trapper’s Ambush

gives the Nightstalker subclass an aerial descent tool that’s similar to the Revenant’s Shatterdive

Aspect. Unlike Shatterdive, Quickfall consumes your melee charge and has no interaction with Stasis crystals. Your melee ability grants Invisibility in addition to Weakening targets. Essentially, you can now make your allies invisible and have an easier way of doing so with Quickfall.

Vanishing Step

works just like it did before Void 3.0, turning you Invisible for five seconds upon dodging. The animation for the dodge has changed in The Witch Queen, covering a further distance than your typical Hunter Dodge animation. This animation is the same for both dodge types, making Marksman’s Dodge more appealing for PvP builds.

Echo of Persistence

allows you to stay invisible for seven seconds, from five. Additionally, you can use Vanishing Step to trigger Exotic effects like Gyrfalcon’s Hauberk

and Graviton Forfeit

.

Stylish Executioner

replaces the Flawless Execution passive that Middle Tree Nightstalker had. Instead of needing a crouched headshot kill, you just need to defeat an enemy who’s Volatile, Suppressed, or Weakened. Fortunately, just about everything in the Nightstalker’s kit weakens targets, making this Aspect extremely easy to proc.

The Invisibility buff lasts for seven seconds, and it has a two-second cooldown before it can trigger again—Increased to 12 seconds in PvP. The melee Weaken applies to uncharged melee hits and debuffs the target by 15%.

When you become invisible, a random enemy will become marked on your HUD for a moderate duration. Defeating this opponent will restore a portion of your grenade, melee, and class ability energy. The target will also drop a smoke cloud that you and allies can run through, turning you invisible.

Killing a marked target grants one stack of Successful Hunt, which is effectively a renamed version of Heart of the Pack from Void 2.0. Successful Hunt increases your weapon reload speed and stability, stacking up to three times.

Controlled Demolition

is what made Middle Tree Sentinel so great. Whenever you hit a target with your Void abilities (including Volatile explosions), they’ll become Volatile. This can lead to some powerful chain reactions against tightly packed groups of enemies. Consider using Vortex Grenades with this Aspect to group enemies together into one ball of continuous explosions.

Bastion buffs your Barricades to give Void Overshields while standing behind them. The overshield builds at a steady rate while behind your Barricade and grants 50% damage resistance while active (none in PvP). Bear in mind that this Aspect increases your Towering Barricade’s cooldown to 102 seconds at T3 Resilience, which is longer than a Warlock Rift. Rally Barricades recharge in 82 seconds.

Offensive Bulwark

grants multiple buffs while you have a Void Overshield. Your grenades recharge 400% faster (halved in PvP), melee attacks deal double damage (20% in PvP), and the Sentinel Shield

Super gets a second grenade charge. This is an absurdly powerful Aspect if you can find a way to keep your Void Overshields active, notably through Bastion

or the Repulsor Brace perk on Void weapons.

Unbreakable allows you to channel your Sentinel Shield’s

block functionality without casting your Super. Holding the grenade key will create a frontal shield that mitigates incoming damage. You aren’t completely immune to frontal damage, so be mindful when using this Aspect.

All damage you mitigated is then released in a frontal explosion once the ability ends. PvE enemies hit by this Aspect are also dazed for a few seconds, unable to fire their weapons.

Chaos Accelerant

returns from Top Tree Voidwalker, this time including Handheld Supernova from Middle Tree Voidwalker. Only the grenades listed have an overcharged effect; using any non-listed grenade will now allow you to overcharge the grenade.

Overcharged grenades typically enhance the qualities of their base grenade and deal more damage. Vortex grenades cover a wider area, Axiom and Scatter Grenades

track more aggressively, and Magnetic grenades turn into a Shotgun blast that deals immense damage.

Feed the Void

grants a buff called Devour when your Void abilities kill someone. Devour fully restores your HP, shields, and grants 15% grenade energy with each kill. Tougher foes grant even more grenade energy, making this an excellent Aspect for grenade-focused builds. Chaining kills while Devour is active will extend your Devour timer.

Child of the Old Gods

sounds more complicated than it really is. Casting your Rift spawns a pocket tether that can restore HP or ability energy. The Void Soul lasts for 20 seconds after casting your Rift and will follow you until it attaches to a group of enemies. The orb will tether whichever enemies you’re currently damaging.

Once you damage a target, the Void Soul launches toward the enemy and tethers all nearby foes, inflicting a 15% Weaken debuff. Empowering Rift causes the Void Soul to restore HP, and Healing Rift causes the Void Soul to restore ability energy instead.