(Season of the Chosen) Endgame build without armor grind for all classes

With the introduction of sunsetting in Destiny 2, armor grind has been increasingly more annoying to-do and the effort spent on it feels wasted after a while, getting that perfect 1 in 100000 piece is straight up meet with the feeling of waste given they will be sunset rather sooner than later.

Bungie provides a "decent" source of high stat armor rolls every season in their 10$ season pass, we will be utilizing those.
This guide focuses on setting everything up with mods so you can get the best out of these armor pieces.

Every build has 1 exotic as well, don't worry though the stats don't matter as we are utilizing the collection rolls.

Introduction

With the introduction of sunsetting in Destiny 2, armor grind has been increasingly more annoying to-do and the effort spent on it feels wasted after a while, getting that perfect 1 in 100000 piece is straight up meet with the feeling of waste given they will be sunset rather sooner than later.

Bungie provides a "decent" source of high stat armor rolls every season in their 10$ season pass, we will be utilizing those.
This guide focuses on setting everything up with mods so you can get the best out of these armor pieces.

Every build has 1 exotic as well, don't worry though the stats don't matter as we are utilizing the collection rolls.

Prerequisite

This will be a list of things you should have ready, be able to get.

• Enough materials to masterwork everything
  
  
• The Dragon's Shadow Hunter Exotic
  
  
• Crest of Alpha Lupi Titan Exotic
  
  
• Aeon Soul Warlock Exotic
  
  
• Following mods:
  
  • Powerful Friends
    
    
  • Radiant Light
    
    
  • Protective Light
    
    
  • Global Reach
    
    
  • Taking Charge
    
    
  • Stat-mods (for Recovery, intellect, Discipline, Mobility)
• Season Pass rank: 57

Meta loadout, adjustable loadout

All weapon related mods are based around one meta loadout that I like to use, those mods can be adjusted to whatever you want to run in your build. Global Reach requires any Ikelos/Seraph weapon to create Warmind Cells, I greatly advice to run one of those at all times.

My current seasons setup is the following:

Hunter stock build

Required armor

• Praefectus Mask at Season Pass Level 57
  
• Praefectus Grips at Season Pass Level 37
  
• The Dragon's Shadow from collections
  
• Praefectus Strides at Season Pass Level 44
  
• Praefectus Cloak at Season Pass Level 47

Stat & Mod breakdown

Explanation

Hunters were super lucky this season, their armor is really really great providing you with 37 total stat tiers (with mods). You get the 100 recovery, you get the 40 threshold for Str and Int & you get an insane 80 Str/70 Mobility stat.

Mobility with Dragons Shadow maxes out whenever you use it, it also reloads your guns and provides your mobility ability if you use gamblers dodge (which you should).

It is all in all the best setup this season by far.

Warlock stock build

Required armor

• Praefectus Hood at Season Pass Level 57
  
• Aeon Soul from collections
  
• Praefectus Vestment at Season Pass Level 54
  
• Praefectus Boots at Season Pass Level 44
  
• Praefectus Bond at Season Pass Level 47

Stat & Mod breakdown

Explanation:

This seasons armor is heavily focused around Resilience, making it near impossible to get something good out of this. Aeon Soul's rework provides you and your team with a constant stream of ammo in activities.

The 7 stat tiers in res. provide you with an additional 6.5% damage resistance (this is not a whole lot) however it may or may not give you an edge to survive 1 more tick damage of AoE effects.

If you got any other builds or got better armor or even still have the armor from the Season of the Hunt, you are better off using that. This build works, you get enough out of it to do every activity in the game but its by far not as optimal as you would want it to be.

Titan stock build

Required armor

• Praefectus Helm at Season Pass Level 57
  
• Praefectust Gauntlets at Season Pass Level 37
  
• Crest of Alpha Lupi from collections
  
• Praefectuss Greaves at Season Pass Level 44
  
• Praefectus Mark at Season Pass Level 47

Stat & Mod breakdown

Explanation

All decent to good collection roll Titan exotics didn't fit with the armor, it constantly provided an enormous amount of wasted stats. This current setup allows for decent amount of stats in all important stats. All thresholds were met, the mobility is over the top and might not be for everyone.

The recovery is the lowest out of all 3 classes however Crest of Alpha Lupi makes up for that. You can pair this with Bubble and get a constant stream of supers for your team given you create more Orbs with that exotic as well.

Your Int. stat is quite high as well, so you will get your supers quite often as well.
It is all in all a solid build however it is something you would need to get used to.

Summary

All in all you can make very decent builds that you can use for everything, your weapons and weapon specific mods are changeable to whatever you want.

You can always grind for your own armor, make better builds, with better exotics or different exotics however this is a very basic one that works for everything, every activity and most importantly it doesn't require a stupid amount of grind to get certain pieces.

[MTZ]

Thanks for making these guides!

[Hawkeye]

Well done!
I am a new player since last season, and this is a great starting point! I actually don't mind the grind for stats, but this is a great place to start with a simple concept build that can be seasoned to taste. It also is great for my non-main guardians.
I really appreciate how you were able to put everything on one post, with pics and everything. This is "S" tier content in my book.
The idea that you can get everything from the season pass is awesome! I appreciate that you do no assume everyone has every exotic in the game with great stats.

[Nikoshotz]

dope shit, that titan stock build is actually pretty nice for pvp as well. I havent done any group content on pc since ps4 broke and moved here lol, add me if you're down to help

[Ant Carpenter]

thank you :)

[Shest]

@Sky123mine, Yup ^^

[Skyspirit]

Not sure if you saw, but Bungie sunsetted Sunsetting

[Shest]

@Falcon, honestly I can't help you then :) You are wrong though

[>//The_FALCON]

specialized warmind/charged with light builds would benefit them more than the "one size fits all" skeleton build you're suggesting

[Shest]

@Falcon, what Ferdi said. It has nothing to do with "getting the maximum stats" possible otherwise why would you bother.

Also since I am on my computer now.
Global Reach on its own is an S+ Tier mod.
Taking Charge/Protective Light are S+ Tier mods due their effectiveness
Powerful Friends/Radiant Light give you the +40 stat bonuses but are also nice Team mods.

The guide aims for an "easy to replicate" endgame build for newcommers who start out this season and don't want to grind armor endlessly.

[FerdiTheBull]

No, its to help you in endgame. if you want high stats you grind out armor