Best Destiny 2 Warlock Void Build For PvE and PvP (Season 23)

The dust has settled a bit following the release of Lightfall, Destiny 2's latest expansion. Now that it's been out for some time, we can finally take a look at the revamped mod system and put together what we consider to be top-tier Meta builds. 

What makes a build good? It all depends on what you want to do. If you're a PVE fanatic, you might find more value in builds that are better for burst damage and survivability. PVP players might need faster recovery and snappier movement options. Things that don't necessarily hit hard, but indisputably hit fast. Let's get down to brass tacks and take a look at the best PVE and PVP builds for Void Warlocks in Destiny 2.

Best Void Warlock PVE Build: Briar's Binding

This new Void build is all about dominating the battlefield with a few Void Buddies to help you in your never-ending quest to Devour everything in your path. This build takes advantage of the new Season of the Witch Warlock Exotic Gauntlets, Briarbinds. While running the Child of the Old Gods Aspect, these Gauntlets allow you to cast your Rift and create a Void Soul that has a longer duration and has its damage and durability increased as you get kills with it. On top of that, you can retrieve the Void Soul and redeploy it. This is useful because it allows you to potentially have multiple Void Souls active at any given time, dealing huge damage and keeping you healed.  

Required Gear

• Exotic Armor: Briarbinds (Gauntlets)

Again, this Exotic Gauntlet is built around Void Soul, so we're gonna want Healing Rifts often and Child of the Old God to be able to cast the Void Soul in the first place. 

Class Setup

• Super: Cataclysm
• Grenade: Vortex Grenades
• Class Ability: Healing Rift
• Melee: Pocket Singularity (it's the only one) 
• Jump: Burst Glide. If you're feeling dangerous, you could also go with Blink, but only if you think you can control it. 

Aspects

• Chaos Accelerant: This allows you to Overcharge your grenades by holding the Grenade button before throwing them. For our build with Vortex grenades, it will increase the size and duration of the Vortex. 
• Child of the Old Gods: When casting your rift, you create a Void Soul (aka Void Buddy). This will track to enemies once you open fire on them and create an area of effect that will deal damage to them and Weaken them. This will heal you if you're running Empowering Rift, or grant you grenade and melee energy if you're running Healing Rift. Getting a Void Buddy kill will grant you Class Ability energy, too. This plays into our Rift/Void Buddy spam really well. 

Fragments

• Echo of Persistence Void buffs applied to you have increased duration
• Echo of Starvation grants Devour when picking up a Void Breach or an Orb of Power 
• Echo of Harvest creates a Void Breach or Orb of Power when defeating Weakened enemies
• Echo of Vigilance grants a temporary Void Overshield when defeating a target while your shields are depleted 

While this particular build doesn't really play into Volatile Rounds, it will keep you alive, stacked with ability uptime, and provide some good times. You could switch out Echo of Vigilance for Echo of Instability if you're really missing those explosions, but I recommend the emergency Overshield for the rest of this setup.  

Armor Mods

Outside of Stat Mods, you'll want to min/max for ability uptime to further lean into the grenade, melee, and rift spam that this build is all about. 

• Head Mods: I recommend Harmonic Syphon x2 and Heavy Ammo Finder for more orbs and heavy ammo
• Arm Mods: I recommend Grenade Kickstart, Font of Focus, Bolstering Detonation for more grenade energy and Rift energy when causing grenade damage. Vortex Grenade will deal continual damage, so this is a great way to build Rift energy
• Chest Mods: I recommend Emergency Reinforcement and whatever damage reduction mods of your choosing. Emergency Reinforcement is crazy strong right now and a requirement for high-end content
• Leg Mods: I recommend Void Weapon Surge and Recuperation. You can choose 2 copies of either mod here, whichever is more important to you at any given time. If you're struggling to survive, I'd recommend 2 Recuperation mods, but if you need a slightly higher DPS, I'd say a second or even third Weapon Surge mod to help with an increase in damage output. 
• Bond Mods: I recommend Time Dilation, Proximity Ward, and Healthy Finisher. You can swap out Proximity Ward and Healthy Finisher for a second copy of Time Dilation if you want more time with your Armor Charges, but again, if you want more survivability, go with my recommendations. 

Weapons

• Kinetic Slot: Witherhoard (recommended) While not required, Witherhoard is a kinetic slot grenade launcher that deals DOT (damage over time). It is a great way to apply constant DPS to enemies and is just a fun weapon to use. If you're trying to get a little risky, I'd also recommend trying this out with Touch of Malice now that it's been changed in Season of the Witch to not kill you! All of these Healing Rifts make it mighty tempting to run. 
• Energy Slot: The choice here is yours, but I do recommend eitherFunnelweb to help spread Volatile quickly or Doom of Chelchis from King's Fall, which can roll (or be crafted) with both Firefly and Dragonfly, spreading explosions and Volatile Rounds with deadly speed. 
• Heavy Slot: Again, this is entirely up to you. Right now, Grenade Launchers and Rockets have become favorable, but Linear Fusion Rifles are still a great option. Regardless of what it is, I recommend a Void Heavy weapon to lean into the synergy of the build. 

Stat Distribution 

For these, you'll want to focus on 100 Resilience and at least 90 Recovery for both survivability, but also Rift uptime. Next would be a minimum of 60 Discipline, but anything higher is obviously better. The rest of the stats are completely up to you. Mobility isn't that important overall for Warlcok and I constantly run 20, 10, or even fewer stat points in Mobility. 

Conclusion

Again, perhaps not the most contemporary build, but it's a great choice and I never leave home without it. I recommend putting this together and saving it for your next Grandmaster Nightfall run!

Best Void Warlock PVP Build: Blinking Nightmare

This build is all about annoying your enemies in as many ways as possible. Remember when we talked about Blink in the PVE build? We're going to turn Blink up to 11 with the Astrocyte Verse. Teleport, throw grenades, and make your enemies cry. It's what Shaxx would want. 

Required Gear

• Exotic Armor: Astrocyte Verse (Helmet)

This helm will allow you to Blink more, Blink better, and keep your radar up all at the same time. Airborne effectiveness and weapon readiness also get a slight boost, so don't worry about being in the air too much. 

Class Setup

• Super: Nova Warp, just to mix things up a bit. 
• Grenade: Axion Bolt OR Suppression Grenades
• Class Ability: Healing Rift
• Melee: Pocket Singularity
• Jump: Blink!

While I constantly switch between Axion and Suppression, I think either one will work well. Suppression is of course great for stopping your enemies' Supers in their tracks but also keeps them from casting any other abilities, including their jump abilities. Axion with Echo of Remnants will track them forever, which will allow you to push an enemy into a corner. I say base it on which subclasses your opponents have chosen and don't be afraid to adapt to their playstyles. 

Aspects

• Feed The Void: This grants Devour when getting Void ability kills. While active, Devour will instantly heal you to 100%, grant you grenade energy, and extend itself. This is the Void Dream.
• Chaos Accelerant: This allows you to hold your grenade before throwing it, overcharging it. When running Axion bolt, this will great an additional seeker, making it even more annoying. 

These two Aspects used in tandem like this will only grant 3 Fragment Slots, so we're going to be a bit choosy with what we roll next. 

Fragments

Similar to Solar Warlock, your PVP fragments likely won't have as great of an effect on your build. That said, I do have some recommendations that should help you frustrate your opponents into either slowing down or quitting the match altogether. 

• Echo of Instability grants Volatile on grenade kills.
• Echo of Remnants increases the duration of lingering grenades, like Axion Bolt!
• Echo of Undermining Void grenades Weaken enemies. This is great because even in PVP, this will cause your affected enemies to take more damage and slow their movement. 

Armor Mods

Outside of Stat Mods, you'll want to min/max for weapon steadiness and handling. These are all pretty straightforward and grant bonus weapon stats and ability recovery. 

• Head Mods: I recommend Kinetic OR Energy Targeting
• Arm Mods: I recommend Grenade Kickstart and Reloaders of your choice
• Chest Mods: I recommend Unflinching mods of your choice
• Leg Mods: I recommend Absolution, Better Already, Orbs of Restoration
• Bond Mods: I recommend Reaper, Bomber, Outreach

Weapons

• Kinetic Slot: I recommend a Kinetic Sniper or Shotgun. This will free up your energy slot for a void primary weapon, but using a primary in your kinetic slot in favor of a Void special weapon is okay, too. Go with your heart, here!
• Energy Slot: This might sound silly, but if we're entertaining the idea of annoying your opponents, I cannot recommend Graviton Lance more. This weapon fires a two-round burst that, when killed, makes enemies create a void explosion which also spawns Axion Bolt-like Void projectiles that track enemies. This gun is silly, fun, and extremely grating on the other team. 
• Heavy Slot: Take your pick, but I always recommend a synergistic weapon based on your build. Of course, it doesn't matter quite as much in PVP, but a Void Rocket is going to do well here. 

Stat Distribution 

For these, you'll want to focus on as much recovery and resilience as possible for both survivability, but also Rift uptime. Next would either be Discipline for Axion Bolts and then whatever else you find to be important. I almost recommend against stacking too much Mobility, because you're already going to be zooming around with Blink. 

Conclusion

Destiny 2's PVP is a silly and wacky thing that I genuinely love playing. Building into that, especially, will end in you laughing more than swearing even if the fights don't always go your way. 

These are the best Void Warlock builds for PVE and PVP right now. Make sure you save them in your new Loadout slots before you start moving on to your next build. While you're here, go check out what we recommend for Solar Warlocks, too!