Best Destiny 2 Hunter Void Builds for PvE and PvP

Are you a Hunter main and want to take your game to the next level? These are the best Hunter Void builds in Destiny 2, including builds for endgame and Solo players. And by the way, as any top-tier Hunter build, these will guide you every step of the way, including essential Exotics, Mods, and more.

Updated as of Episode 3: Heresy.

Top Void Hunter builds

--	Name	Class	Area	Subclass	Excels in	Element	Status
	Stealthed Gyrfalcon	Hunter	PvE	Void	Endgame	Void
	Veiled Anchor	Hunter	PvE	Void	Grandmasters	Void

Best Hunter Void builds for PvE

Stealthed Gyrfalcon

Excels In: Endgame

Goal of the Build: Chain Invisibility to retain Volatile Rounds and synergize as much as possible with your Void 3.0 kit and weapons.

Mandatory Gear: Gyrfalcon’s Hauberk and a Void weapon. Weapons with Repulsor Brace are recommended (Collective Obligation, Graviton Lance, and The Manticore are acceptable choices).

Name: Gyrfalcon's Hauberk

Class: Hunter Slot: Chest

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: The Witch Queen

Exotic Perk: Your weapons gain a bonus to damage briefly after you emerge from being invisible. When you are invisible and defeat a combatant using a finisher, you and your nearby allies gain a reserve overshield and improved class ability regen. These reserve overshields can be deployed by using a class ability.

	Collective Obligation	Pulse Rifle	Primary	Void	Vow of the Disciple Raid	S29 - Updated
	Graviton Lance	Pulse Rifle	Primary	Void	Exotic Engram	Season 1

• Aspects: Stylish Executioner and Vanishing Step.
• Fragments: Echo of Starvation, Echo of Persistence, Echo of Remnants, and Echo of Obscurity.
• Abilities: Moebius Quiver and Vortex Grenades. Either Dodge works.
• Stats: Weapons → Grenade → Class/Super.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Void Siphon, Heavy Ammo Finder, and Super Font.
  • Arms: Grenade Font, Harmonic Reloader, Bolstering Detonation.
  • Chest: Concussive Dampener and Resistance Mods based on your enemies.
  • Legs: x2 Weapon Font and Void Surge.
  • Class Item: Reaper, Bomber, Powerful Attraction.

Gameplay Loop

Gyrfalcon’s Hauberk does practically everything. Essentially, the goal is to go Invisible through your dodge, exit Invisibility, gain Volatile Rounds, kill a Volatile enemy, and thus, re-enter Invisibility through Stylish Executioner and continue the cycle of exiting invisibility, getting a kill on a Volatile enemy, and repeating.

Adding in Devour grants you both Healing and Invisibility on kill. Then, once you add a Repulsor Brace weapon on top of this (which provides an overshield when defeating a Void-debuffed target), you become practically unkillable, weaving in and out of Invisibility with a tanky overshield and full health on kill.

By investing in our Weapons stat, we can manage ammo easier while also speeding up the loop of this build, as the quicker things die, the faster we go back into invisibility. Grenade is the next choice, as our Vortex Grenade is a good source of AoE damage, and finally, Class or Super is best as a final dump stat.

Temporal Teleporter

Excels In: Grandmaster Content

Goal of the Build: Take advantage of the synergy between Graviton Spike and Mask of Bakris to teleport around the battlefield, dealing high damage with your Primary Weapon.

Mandatory Gear: Mask of Bakris and Graviton Spike.

Name: Mask of Bakris

Class: Hunter Slot: Helm

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: Beyond Light

Exotic Perk: Replaces your Stasis subclass Dodge ability with a longer range, faster moving shift that partially cloaks you during use. After shifting, your Stasis and Arc weapons deal increased damage for a short time.

Graviton Spike

Hand Cannon

Primary

Arc

Exotic Quest

The Edge of Fate

• Aspects: Threaded Spectre + Winter’s Shroud or Ascension.
• Fragments: Facet of Purpose, Facet of Protection, Facet of Dawn, Facet of Balance, and Facet of Blessing.
• Abilities: Silence and Squall, Duskfield Grenade, Threaded Spike, and Gambler’s Dodge.
• Stats: Weapons → Class → Melee.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: x2 Heavy Ammo Finder and Harmonic Siphon.
  • Arms: x2 Momentum Transfer and Heavy Handed.
  • Chest: Concussive Dampener and Resistance Mods based on your enemies.
  • Legs: x2 Weapon Font and Recuperation.
  • Class Item: Reaper, Powerful Attraction, and Bomber.

Gameplay Loop

The gameplay loop of this build is incredibly simple. You will be killing enemies, jumping between forms on Graviton Spike, and activating Light Shift by using your Mask of Bakris dodge. Light Shift also gives you a bonus to your Arc and Stasis damage, and while that buff is present, kills will grant you a large amount of dodge energy, allowing you to continue the loop with ease.

By prioritising the weapons stat, you can ensure that your Graviton Spike is generating plenty of ammo while also dealing a good amount of damage. However, you will want to make sure that you have at least around 80 Class and 80 Melee in order for your dodge and melee to be up as often as possible.

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Best Hunter PvP builds

PvP Essentials

Step one to playing Hunter in PvP is understanding that your Dodge is the strongest ability in your kit. Because of this, maximizing Mobility is a very standard choice for the shortest cooldown on your Dodge. Making sure that you have maximum Recovery is also recommended.

Hunters come with the benefit of being able to completely ignore the Strength stat, as using Gambler’s Dodge allows you to completely refund your melee ability when dodging near an enemy. This lets you dump the rest of your stat points into Discipline and Resilience. Personally, I choose to run 100 Mobility, Recovery, and Discipline; however, feel free to adapt some stats to your own preference.

Hunter Subclasses: Ranked

There will always be a ‘meta’ option for PvP, but every Hunter subclass is viable in its own way, with its own set of pros and cons.

Nightstalker

Nightstalker remains one of the most powerful kits in the game, even despite the nerfs that it has received. Invisibility is still incredible, and the map control and radar manipulation possible is not something to ignore.

Pros:

• Invisibility and Smoke Bombs allow you to fool your opponents and catch them off guard completely.
• It synergizes incredibly well with certain meta-picks such as Omnioculus or Wormhusk Crown.
• Invisibility makes you incredibly hard to see with the changes to Invisibility’s ‘visibility’ that came with Void 3.0.

Cons:

• Weak super choices. Spectral Blades is often outclassed and takes incredibly long to charge, and Tether is too inconsistent to warrant use.
• The kit relies heavily on Invisibility as much of the kit’s strength is placed on Invisibility.
• One-dimensional fragment choices. All grant Invisibility and provide little else, perhaps making the subclass slightly boring to play.

Best PvP Hunter Exotics

General Exotics

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Fr0st-EE5	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	Increased grenade, melee, and dodge regeneration while sprinting. Dodging increases your sprint speed.
St0mp-EE5	Hunter	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Increases sprint speed and slide distance while your dodge energy is full and improves High Jump, Strafe Jump, and Triple Jump.
Wormhusk Crown	Hunter	Helm	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 3	Free-to-Play	We strive to know infinity, and sharpen our minds on the whetstone of the impossible.

Due to a lack of prerequisites, neutral and more passive Exotics are often favored in PvP. Therefore, Stompees, Wormhusk, and Frostees always find a place in the meta for Hunters as they provide benefits while requiring nothing/very little to receive benefits from.

Stompees are still one of the most enjoyable Hunter exotics for PvP. The nerfs it received have affected viability quite a lot; however, they are still my pick if I’m playing PvP as they are just so fun to use.

Wormhusk Crown has been in the meta since it was released back in the Warmind DLC. Wormhusk provides unmatched instant value as it gives around a third of your health back for simply dodging. This allows you to take riskier engagements and get out with ease. Dodging is already a ‘get out of jail free card’, and Wormhusk takes this to another level.

Frostees are the pick for players who want high-ability uptime but don’t want to commit to a full-on build. By merely sprinting, you can increase your ability recharge rate by 100% and increase your Sprint Speed by 6.25% by simply dodging. Frostees will always serve players well when they want to maybe switch it up from the Stompees, but want to retain some movement speed and have high ability uptime.

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