Become the best guardian even while flying solo
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While there is a large portion of the game that you can play alone with no problem in Destiny 2, there’s also a lot of the game that asks you to bring some friends along for the ride. This includes raids, dungeons, and other endgame activities. However, you can also play through these by yourself if you got the right build for it. In this article, I’m going to show you some of the best builds for solo players so that you can blaze through the game even without a team.
Even if you falter in your solo journey, know that you didn’t waste any time. You can always get trials carries Destiny 2 to help you finish some of the tougher content in the game. I’m sure the help will let you reach higher power levels, enabling you to continue your lone adventure!
Why go solo?
Before we dive into builds, it’s worth asking: why would anyone want to play Destiny 2 solo?
- More Control: You set the pace. No waiting for teammates.
- Efficient Farming: Activities like Legend Lost Sectors reward exotic drops and are often faster solo.
- Personal Challenge: Soloing difficult content like Dungeons or Master Nightfalls is a true test of skill.
But to succeed solo, your build needs to do more than just dish out damage. It needs to help you stay alive, regenerate health, manage abilities, and control the battlefield.
Core traits of a good solo build
No matter which class you play, successful solo builds tend to have the same foundational traits:
- Sustainability: Health regeneration or damage resistance.
- Mobility: Tools to reposition or avoid being surrounded.
- Crowd Control: Abilities that stun, freeze, or disorient groups of enemies.
- Ability Regeneration: Ways to get your grenades, melee, and class ability back quickly.
- Survivability Tools: Damage resistance, overshields, invisibility, or healing.
Now let’s break it down by class.
Hunter solo build — Void invisibility assassin
Subclass: Nightstalker (Void)
Exotic: Gyrfalcon’s Hauberk
Weapons: Funnelweb (Void SMG), Unforgiven (Void), or Le Monarque
Why It Works:
Hunters have one of the best solo survival tools in the game: invisibility. With Gyrfalcon’s Hauberk, you not only become invisible using your dodge, but you also get a 15% damage bonus for several seconds after exiting invisibility. Add Volatile Rounds from the exotic, and your Void weapons shred enemies while weakening everything in sight.
Key Fragments/Aspects:
- Vanishing Step: Dodge to go invisible.
- Stylish Executioner: Defeating a debuffed enemy makes you invisible again.
- Echo of Starvation: Picking up a Void Breach or Orb of Power grants Devour.
- Echo of Persistence: Invisibility lasts longer.
How to Play:
Use your dodge to go invisible, attack while Volatile is active, and chain kills to go invisible again. Use grenades and void breaches to activate Devour and heal on kills.
Ideal For: Legend Lost Sectors, seasonal activities, high-end patrol zones
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Titan solo build — Solar restoration brawler
Subclass: Solar (Sunbreaker)
Exotic: Loreley Splendor Helm
Weapons: Any Solar primary (like CALUS Mini-Tool) + Incandescent synergy
Why It Works:
Loreley turns your class ability into a healing sunspot that also buffs your weapon damage. Combined with high Resilience and constant healing, this Titan becomes incredibly hard to kill.
Key Fragments/Aspects:
- Sol Invictus: Defeating enemies with Solar abilities creates sunspots.
- Roaring Flames: Buffs ability damage after ability kills.
- Ember of Solace: Buffs like Restoration last longer.
- Ember of Empyrean: Solar weapon kills extend Restoration and Radiant.
How to Play:
Stay in your sunspots, heal constantly, and keep Radiant up for weapon damage. Use your throwing hammer for consistent sunspot generation and ability uptime. You’re basically immortal in mid-tier solo content.
Ideal For: Solo activities with wave-based encounters, Patrol farming, Seasonal Story missions.
Warlock solo build — Stasis turret control
Subclass: Stasis (Shadebinder)
Exotic: Osmiomancy Gloves
Weapons: Riptide (Stasis Fusion), or Agers Scepter
Why It Works:
Stasis turrets are one of the best crowd-control tools for solo play. Osmiomancy Gloves give you two Coldsnap grenades, fast recharge, and improved tracking, meaning you can deploy Stasis turrets more often and keep enemies frozen and slowed.
Key Fragments/Aspects:
- Bleak Watcher: Converts grenade into a turret.
- Glacial Harvest: Freezing enemies creates Stasis shards.
- Whisper of Rime: Collecting shards grants an overshield.
- Whisper of Conduction: Shards track to you for passive healing and shielding.
How to Play:
Place a turret to control the room, use Coldsnap to freeze enemies rushing you, and keep yourself safe while dealing passive damage. Perfect for players who want to keep enemies locked down rather than go toe-to-toe.
Ideal For: Master Lost Sectors, solo dungeons, difficult seasonal content.
Recommended mods for solo builds
No matter your class, mods can significantly improve your solo survival:
- Font of Restoration / Might / Endurance: Buff abilities and survivability when picking up elemental wells.
- Well of Tenacity: Reduce damage after picking up a Void elemental well.
- Explosive Finisher / Utility Kickstart: Help regenerate grenades or class ability.
- Reaper + Elemental Armaments: Generate elemental wells passively through weapon kills.
For Artifice Armor, prioritize Resilience (for damage resistance) and Recovery (for healing rate).
Best weapons for solo players
- Le Monarque: Applies poison damage over time and works great with Void builds.
- Witherhoard: Great for area denial and passive damage while repositioning.
- Funnelweb / CALUS Mini-Tool: Fast-firing primaries that synergize with subclass perks.
- Riptide with Chill Clip perk: it freezes enemies and staggers champions.
Try to carry at least one weapon with Champion-stunning capabilities (Unstoppable, Overload, or Barrier) depending on activity.
Miscellaneous solo tips
With the best loadouts and classes out of the way, you are almost ready to take on the game by yourself — literally!
- Know When to Retreat: You don’t have teammates to revive you, so be patient.
- Break Down Engagements: Don’t fight entire groups at once; pull enemies toward you or snipe from afar.
- Use Cover and Verticality: Many enemies can’t hit you from odd angles or ledges. Use that.
- Equip Radar Mods: Knowing enemy positions in PvE can help you avoid ambushes.
- Abuse Finisher Mods: Finishing a champion or elite enemy can give you massive bonuses like ability energy or health.
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In conclusion
With the right build, you can crush high-level content, farm exotic gear, and even complete solo challenges that once seemed impossible. The key is building around sustain, control, and smart engagement.
With all of this in mind, you are ready to take on the world by yourself! Whether you’re a sneaky Void Hunter, a sun-bathing Solar Titan, or a frosty turret-casting Warlock, the tools to dominate solo are in your hands. Take control of the battlefield, survive the chaos, and prove that a lone Guardian can be just as deadly as a full fireteam.