Destiny 2’s 17th Season, Season of the Haunted, has launched with Solar 3.0, an overhaul of the Solar Light subclass, just as the release ofThe Witch Queenand Season Sixteen updated Void to 3.0. FollowingBeyond Light’sDarkness subclass Stasis, the decision to upgrade the Light’s Void, Solar, and Arc powers lets Bungie provideDestiny 2players with more customizable builds than before. Switching from a branching skill tree system, the conversion of Solar 3.0 sees the use of Aspects and Fragments - the same as Stasis - to provide buffs for players and debuffs for enemies.
While Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks all utilize the Solar subclass, their varying builds, which focus on different play styles, bring variants to how Solar works for each Guardian class. Solar 3.0 features new Abilities alongside its inclusion of Aspects and Fragments, ensuring creative ways for Guardians to incinerate their enemies with fiery pageantry. Organized into Super, Melee, Movement, and Grenade Abilities, each type has offensive and defensive perks that help shape the player’s play style and work in conjunction with the strengths of that particular class. While veteran players will find theirSolar subclass unlocked already, new players can purchase Abilities, Aspects, and Fragments with Glimmer by speaking with Ikora Rey at the Bazaar in the Tower.
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Buffs, Aspects, and Fragments
Solar 3.0’s powers will give Guardians buffs to their offensive or defensive strategies while simultaneously debuffing enemy combatants and providing new healing options. These buffs and debuffs are classified into a list of terminology or keywords highlighted in the descriptions of Aspects, Fragments, and evenExotic weapons and armor, indicating the use of the buff for powerful or altering effects. The terms are the following:
Used to determine the functionality of Guardian subclasses, Aspects and Fragments provide active and passive bonuses, focused on attacking enemies or defending players' Guardians or members of their Fireteam. WhileAspects and Fragments can be offensive and defensive, each Guardian class has three specific Aspects they can use that aren’t shared by the other two types, where Fragments are universal to all three. Despite there being three Aspects per class, only two can be equipped at any given time, and each Aspect has several Fragment slots that can be filled. Fragments are less potent than Aspects, which allows players to equip more than just two.
Titan Aspects
WIth Solar 3.0, Titans have become double-wielding weapon powerhouses that inflict fiery devastation and chaos on their enemies, unleashing Solar damage through hammers or mauls. While not gaining a new class ability with the release of Season of the Haunted, Titans are fearsomeGuardians who can decimate scores of enemiesin waves of Solar flame.
Hunter Aspects
Focusing on DPS, Solar 3.0 designs Hunters to keep enemies burningthrough Ignition and Scorch. Hunter can decimate additional enemies through extended use of bundles of grenades that can be thrown on the ground or mid-air.
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Warlock Aspects
Handling supreme proficiency of the Solar element,Solar 3.0 creates powerful Warlockswho wield mighty forces of heat and flame. They’re more than capable of battle on the ground or in the air while drawing power to support their Fireteam through potent healing.
Fragments in Solar 3.0
Applicable for all three classes, Fragments lean more heavily on passive buffs for players to further design theirGuardian builds into specific weapons of destructionor powerful healers for themselves and their team. These are Solar 3.0’s Fragments:
Destiny 2’sSolar 3.0 overhauls the Solar Light subclass for every Guardian class available, bringing new build flexibility to the game. Moving away from a branching skill tree and following in the path of the popular Darkness subclass, Stasis, Guardians can unleash devastating torrents of fiery power and maximize their healing abilities for themselves and their friends. With the Void subclass already receiving its 3.0 update, all that remains for theLight subclasses is Arc.
Destiny 2is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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