Pre-Final Shape release I never would've guessed that I would use Getaway Artist over an Exotic class item lol

I think the main thing I noticed about warlock exotic class item sets is that outside of star eater, they’re all just doing what a single warlock exotic does, slightly worse, but less element dependent. Osmio Harmony, for example, is just a weaker, elemental agnostic version of crown or nezerac

I don't see myself taking getaway artist off anytime soon

I really hope some of the “rift” effects become “class ability” on the exotic class item. example - spirit of filaments changed from “empowering rift” to “class ability”

Been using Necro/Star-Eater this week in GMs and it gets you transcendent so ridiculously quick!

Osmio/Star Eater gives you essentially the best Voidwalker experience: constant weakening Vortex uptime, and 1 million damage Nova Bombs

I feel like everyone is REALLY sleeping on Mataidoxia. Instant barrier breaks without a weapon, and when you go transcendent you can effortlessly string up and entire room in suspend since you don't even need to kill the enemy to trigger it.

I am LOVING Felwinter's Helm for those lightning surge builds. When you run it with buried bloodline and imminence you can swap seamlessly between unravelling and volatile rounds. Use the lightning surge to finish off low health enemies and inflict massive AOE weakens and suppressions to take down the rest of the group and neuter things like subjugators. And keep devour running to throw nades and reproc volatile. Necrotic/synthos seems decent but the subclass keywords go crazy with Felwinter.

Hot take (maybe), the Warlock class item is good if you want a build that covers multiple aspects of play, but doesn’t excel as much as a focused build with a singular exotic. For example, osmiomancy and star-eaters for decent grenade regen and boosted super. But, for example, I would take base Verity’s Brow over a combination of osmiomancy and Verity. There are too many times when you won’t get enough hits or osmiomancy (on the bond) isn’t consistent enough, whilst using the full Verity helmet provides a more deterministic consisted regen, plus it boosts you teammates as well. Plus the biggest part. No RNG

What Datto said at the end has been my findings. The Getaway Warlock build is so good that I feel like I'm self nerfing when I take it off for an exotic class item build.

HOIL + stareaters is my go to. It’s noticeable. I get it, no arc buddy. However, I can throw down a turret consistently while spamming melee and rift/dive. The super damage multiplier is great too

I've been running Verity's Brow in almost all of my prismatic builds. The damage buff, regen (when combined with Devour) and support abilities are so strong. I just wish the fuckin' thing had an ornament.

Warlocks, don't sleep on a HOIL/Claw class item. Using incinerator snap with this makes your transcendence feel like a mini song of flame. Not to mention snaps fill the light bar near instantly with ignition procs. Can personally say it's at least a 7/10 or 8/10 roll in terms of power.

How did Datto get 4 rockets in the mag for his Dr. Disrespect I mean Apex Predator?

Tbh The tuning of the exotic class items (for warlock anyway) would be appropriate if they were available to use outside of prismatic...

I got a inmost/harmony one a few weeks back and I love it. You just don't have to think too much about it. You can pair it with Graviton if running Nova or Sunshot if running with Song. With storm grenades, arcane needle and hellion, you just have constant ability uptime and spam. It's a ton of fun just cycling abilities, unravelling, jolting and scorching everything. As you said, you can't see the inmost light buff on the hud but I just don't even bother looking at the buffs tbh. I just cycle my abilities as soon as they are available. What I really like about this build is that everything benefits my playstyle, abilities help each other and weapon use brings my super back quickly and ofcourse keeps devour up to get my grenade back quickly. It really helps that the 2 best supers on prismatic have really good exotic primary weapons (Sunshot, Graviton) to pair with.

To reinforce Datto's point, there really isn't much reason to run anything other than Getaway Artist. The only scenarios I find myself swapping to a Star-Eater setup is when the boss is so far away that my Arc Soul, Stasis Turret, and Helion can't reach it. Those Arc Soul (which is exclusive to Getaway Artist on Prismatic) only deals about 15k DPS, or 300k total over the 20 seconds. This isn't quite as much as say a Nova Bomb being increased from 600k to 1 million damage, but offers far superior neutral game abilities by comparison.

I think something important to note is that for verity, it really starts, for me at least, to show in higher level content. I was using a storm grenade setup and what made verity amazing was not that it made my grenades like nukes or anything like that, but that it was able to consistently get ability kills to keep up devour, or funnel into my abilities like osmio or inmost. It gives a consistency especially with storm grenades that you appreciate when you swap off of it imo.

I can personally vouch for Apotheosis/Harmony as Datto mentioned apotheosis being more of swap exotic but when combined are good, and yes, you no longer need to worry about it because they pair very well together. So much fun to use and I’m glad I farmed for it. Would recommend it.

my first bond to drop was assassins synthos, can make for a really strong melee focused build that carries through GMs as long as youre not yeeting yourself into exploder units like the vex that sacrifice themselves or cursed thrall it can handle GMS very easily. just run the fragment where orb pick up gives a buff based on super type and use needle storm so that you get woven mail. then its a simple generate orb on melee kill go invis plus woven mail plus devour and you can just keep on spamming it out. throw either threadling grenades or use the stasis turret to maintain darkness transcendent energy generation as well as make light abilities doe even more damage and bamm you can just keep sliding and electrocuting everything quite easily. ive also got osmio/stareaters to drop and find that it works well but like you said most of the grenades we have access to as warlocks need to be perfectly placed for good regen. i also find they are slow to kill in higher tier content like GMs. i find my fire team (mostly our titan running the new rocket chest exotic, or consecration spam build) is killing things faster than my grenades will so they will quite literally kill stuff ive already hit with a grenade interrupting my build's flow and preventing me from using it fully.

Osmio/ syntho is the best lightning surge build. Coldsnap almost always immediately comes back in 1 throw, and lightning surge does significantly more damage to frozen targets via facet of courage and shatter

As always Warlocks land somewhere in the exact middle of busted and wasted.

I have almost every warlock class item. The simplest and most potent class item I use is Inmost Light/Claw. The ability uptime, insane super, and transcendant regeneration. When you do pop super and transcendant, it goes to a whole new level. Easily double everyone's kills in any GM, with record speed.

Would love to have a summary at the end for the rolls you discussed. Thanks Datto

The only problem with the Rift based exotic items now is for the most part if you are prismatic, people are using P.Dive over rifts. Its quicker to prock with the only con being you have to be in the air and if you are not careful, can be taken out.

Quick question: who decided to put stag, secant filaments, starfire, and vesper of radius on this thing? I just wanna talk

the problem I have with these class items is that they feel like they have no soul, they just kind of feel like these bonuses that compliment your build than more than having an actual exotic. like idk maybe I don't have the right combos but nothing really adds new gameplay other than maybe spirit of the assassin for non hunters? it just feels like everything worthwhile on the class item boils down to ability uptime or super regen or some passive buff that you can already do with other exotics in more interesting ways.

We need a nez sin and crown of tempests option. Both preferred lol.

I know it’s dumb but I was disappointed astrocyte verse was not in the warlock pool. I like blink but it’s borderline unusable without that exotic imo

For me I've been running Assassin and Star-Eater. My build is based around using all of the Void buffs/debuffs, and the FAR upgraded Invis from Assassin makes Prismatic a much more enjoyable subclass to use over Voidwalker. On Voidwalker I get a Finisher and stay invisible for maybe 6 seconds, but with Assassin I can go invisible for up to 17 seconds. It gives me so much more time to reposition or get a revive safely. In general the Finisher build is super fun since you just slam everything with Volatile constantly. If one enemy dies from their explosion then 2-3 more will be in Finisher range, and that will set off chain reactions where you're completely safe to approach and do another Finisher. I picked Star-Eater for the right column since everything else there kinda just sucks. I'm not using Arcane Needle, so Claw doesn't do a lot for me. Swarmers just took the wrong half of the original perk. Starfire just doesn't do enough to justify an Empowering Rift, Vesper has the same issue as Swarmers. Verity is just not good, and Synthocepts doesn't do much since Warlock melee isn't really good for damage (though if we ever get a Kinetic, Stasis, or Strand glaive I'll definitely consider that roll). The only two I would consider good for my build are Harmony and Star-Eater. Harmony is good for getting my Nova Bomb back, but Star-Eater has been really thrusting Nova into a top tier damage option for me. It's nice being able to go into a Dungeon or a Raid and slam out 1.3 million damage into a boss right off the bat and THEN have all of my weapons to supplement my damage. Harmony just doesn't provide that same benefit.

I personally would not go anywhere near Necrotic Grips, the poison damage on the exotic class item is SUPER weak compared to the regular exotic. Not worth it.

No warlock but watch and like like because Datto is the 🐐. 10 years listing to Datto advice man thanks for all the advice.

I have three combos that I'm running at the moment. I would do more, but I've only got 20 unique rolls so far. 1. Apotheosis/Harmony: So good. I run nova and void weapons with demo. You shoot stuff and throw grenades. You get your super very quickly. You throw the nova and follow up with melees and grenades for a ton of damage. This gets you a lot of super energy again from the grenade kills. Rinse and repeat for what is essentially a better Skull of Dire Ahamkara. 2. Assassin/Claw: Incinerator snap for days, run around getting invis and devour, live forever. You get a bunch of grenades from devour, safety and healing at all times to reposition and jump in and out of close range combat, and it pairs nicely with the Monte Cristo. 3. Necrotic/Star-Eater: Do all of the DoT with your melees, grenades, and helion. Do more damage with thorn or necrochasm. Make all of the orbs possible for you and your allies. Then you get transcendence super easily which you can do more tick damage with. All of the orbs will give you your super very quickly and Star-Eater makes it very powerful. Just make sure helion isn't active when you do Song of Flame.

Inmost with syntho for everything outside of Master tier content. Then have a Apothesis + star eater switch when doing raids/dungeons. Getaway is my go-to for Master and GM content.

I got a inmost/swarm role that I enjoy, with facets of protection, purpose, devotion, balance, and hope. I use final warning bc it’s strand, unravels, and does a lot of burst damage. I took it through a few runs of the glass way GM a few weeks ago and it did fine. However, if you really want to build into threadlings, just use strand and swarmers. You could also use swarmers on prismatic, but thread of evolution is what makes threadlings very strong so it really helps make them more viable. The only reason one should be opting for a prismatic threadling build is if you want to use feed the void to get devour. That being said, you could just use buried bloodline to get devour and roll on from there, but I don’t have that gun yet so I guess I’ll go cry in a corner. The build is fun and viable in certain high end content (I like to use it in certain and dungeon encounters), but it really isn’t gonna blow anything away, and you can die quite easily if you get caught out without devour or take a lot of burst damage, such as the swarm of moths that the final boss of ghosts of the deep releases. So it’s fun and somewhat viable, it’s just not as good as other warlock options

Starfire is insane with threadling grenades and the raid exotic. Devour is up 99.8% of the time in any level of content so empowering rift ain’t even a terrible pick. 2 kills with a demo weapon basically gives a nade back which adds stacks to Euphony. Use with a Ros Arago with permeability and onslaught and if you’re running weaver’s call, your juiced ros arago will generate a threadling every so often.

inmost light-stareaters for me. osmiancy-stareaters works too but I've found more energy consistency with inmost light in GMs compared to osmiancy even if all the energy back is spread between everything. which is fine for me because id usually be running hellion with the setup so i find myself pushing all the buttons anyway, mine as well sprinkle some extra regen around too. with some juiced up stareater supers.

Necrotic with glaives is my go to build for most content other than gm. Perfect in the raid since you have the healing melee and the poison explosions for max clearing. Then you can mix it with thorn, witherhoard, or necrochasm. You can also do a heavy hitter like call or fusion since honestly most of the time you will be using the glaive.

I'll be honest, after playing around with the warlock class item, other than an apotheosis/star eater role for dps I prefer other exotics for prismatic builds

You should definitely get one with star eaters for Witness DPS though. That boosted nova bomb is something else. Just don't forget to aim at for his head so you don't mess up your teammates shots.

I ran osmeo/ verity in GMs and it was putting in some work with the right set up

I’ve been using necrotic claw ever since i got the exotic class item and i basically haven’t taken it off. It’s so easy to get transcendence and claw makes it so the song of flames hits even harder, does even more ignitions, and more poison spread. Once it gets rolling it is a powerhouse.

I'm having a ton of fun with Battle Harmony/Apotheosis Veil personally

osmio harmony is a lot of fun, building fully into darkness abilities with solar weapons and song of flame is awesome! hope you get that roll datto!

Osmio/Star and Inmost/Star are my two favorites that I actually have

I've been constantly running an Osmio Bond with Storm Grenades and Khvostov. Before the nerf/bug fix to Storm Grenade energy regen, I was instantly getting a grenade back every time it got 3 kills with Devour proc'd (maybe now 4-5 kills) and if you were lacking in grenade energy somehow, just use Khvostov for Shoot to Loot or to get ricochet kills to top up your grenade. Constantly applying jolt to anything and everything with very high uptime is great and a nice change of pace if Getaway Artists is getting stale for you

I truly believe that the Apotho/star eaters is really rocking so far . It really hasn’t failed me . I’ve been swapping it out with The Osio/verity class item . I use the later until I get to a boss or near a boss . You have to collect some orbs for the star eaters so bare that in mind . Honestly I haven’t been to pumped up over the class items until I got this Apotho combo . It does hit pretty hard . I’m using vortex nova bomb .

Getaway Warlock is just so good in every aspect and I dont see myself putting it away for a while. You can also basicly pair it up with any weapon you wish and it will be extremely good. The only other build I feel is holding up with it is the necrotic strand build with Thorn, however, it has less survivability especially when you got galvanic armor as an artifact perc. I run mostly necrotic/star-eater for dps damage and usually run Thorn for the necrotic synergy. Great at add-clearing and star eater just provides that extra dps for bosses.

Yeah, that's all been my findings as well. Though I haven't been able to run around with inmost + star eater (the main one I want for constant everything energy), but every other combo feels just bad in comparison to getaway artist. Getaway just gives you everything, double turrets per grenade, amplified, constant generation of transcendence from said turrets, easy access to literally every effect in the game. It's just ridiculous and so very strong, and anything else has to fight so hard just to barely meet the bar getaway presents. I've tried the strand suspend needles, feels neat but it basically begs you to run monti. I've tried osmiomancy + star eaters, nad never seemed to come back any faster than just having devour itself. Inmost + syntho and lightning surge just shows you how little DR effects warlocks have access to (it's none, Protection is all you got), and you just get spiked into the floor constantly while doing basically nothing XD. Anything that has to do with Vesper you should just run Vesper, I actually REALLY like Vesper on prismatic, running it with Weavers call (for the darkness energy) and just blinding everything with facet of hope + devour and the innate regen while surrounded from Vesper letting you spam rifts incredibly well. It's been the only thing that's felt even close to on par with getaway artist, as you trade turrets for blinding fields and constant army spam, and it's pretty amusing. But yeah, that just makes all the 'rift' stuff that much more untakable for me as the stag you should just use the stag (for the rift regen when critically wounded) and the empowerment rift ones are just like 'hahahaah NO' given the devour from secants is just the worse form of feed the void and starfire is completely worthless. So yeah, just run Vesper on it's own, Getaway Artist, or Inmost Light + Star Eaters with a hot swap to apotheosis + Star Eaters for raid encounters. That's, pretty much it on warlock XD

Been running Inmost Light/Harmony ever since I got it. Paired with Song of Flame and Aberrant Action, it's a great time.

I'm too attached to how comfy of a playstyle getaway artist is on prismatic, that I just don't see myself ever using the exotic class items.

Only been using Osmio star eater for boss damage and it's really good. Get your 6 stacks throw grenade for weaken hit a melee for radiant dive for helion pop your nova for easy 1mil. Even more dmg with facet of ruin, courage and command with trancend grenade.

The necrotic one works with the same weapons that og necrotic grips works with, which is the reason why I want it with another perk that will actually work. The weapons are kinetic, so battle harmony and what not won't work super well.

Thank you. I usually just run inmost star eaters goofing around…maybe because they are some of my favorites on a hunter or titan. The mataodoxia exotic is also very strong. Especially if I want to e a bit more aggressive

I feel like you might be sleeping on Apotheosis/Harmony a little bit. It is STUPID good. I have three different builds for it (SoF, Slowva, Needlestorm) and they all get my super back so quickly it’s ridiculous. I run vortex grenades on all three with ashes to assets and double siphons so whether I get kills with grandes or my weapons (I have weapons that synergize with the builds for each one), I’m getting a ton of super energy. I have been taking it into nightfalls without issue. For endgame stuff, I have been running the Getaway Artist build more, but I have also used those builds there. It’s just so much fun and I don’t have problems dealing damage or staying alive.

The main one I've used is a osmiomancy/star eater. It's not as chill and easy as the getaway build, but it overcharges the nova bomb. Tossing a weaken grenade and then the nova yields some great burst damage. I use it for shorter DPS times and melting chunky enemies. Otherwise, it's mostly getaway artist for me.

On regards to the exotic class item, I've been on Inmost/Star-Eater, it's just a nice paring of neutral game and super enhancement. But my favourite build on prismatic has easily been lightning surge with Felwinter's Helm, that thing shreds and is incredibly fun to play. Mataiodoxía has been a close third, as well.

I just like the way osmiomancy ahamkara feels. Double snaps and free grenades are nice

The build I currently have glued to my guardian is my Lightning Surge build with inmost Synthoceps. That with pugilist swordbreaker and I have so much uptime on those surges it's nuts. Plus I get transcendence super quickly for even more Surge shenanigans. I really enjoy that build.

Star eaters + anything is the best roll. Does something that other warlock exotics simply can’t. Other than that just run a normal warlock exotic.

hey datto, you can also use the starfire effect when u have volatile rounds, volatile round kills also are empowerd weapon kills. So if u use facet of bravery and gain volatile rounds from grenade kills you also have a great gameplay loop.

my apothi/star class item has helped me get used to the idea of using my super for more than just damage. Being a nova bomb enjoyer I would tend to save the big boom for the final boss and just almost never use it, but having an exotic that is all about my super I feel its a waste not to use it on more groups and the following grenade storm helps clear out the survivors. All and all the Swap exotic helps me use my super more (which i should have been doing anyway) and seeing my nova actually do damage makes me feel good.

DATTO I LOVE YOU MAN AND I HOPE YOUR STAYCATION WILL BE NICE

I love Osiomancy/Swarmers or Verify for 2 second Threadling grenades and armies with Devour is very fun with a Demo/Adrenaline Junkie Better Devils. I did not realize how much I would love Assassin/Synthos with Monte Carlo. Super Electric Slides are so fun to pull off

You are absolutely right about getaway artist getting boring after a while, but it's strong, but I tend to like to dabble with other builds to keep it interesting. The drop rng on exotic classes is way to hideous also.

Inmost/syntho + chill clip fusion has been my go-to for slide melee builds. Chill porcs facet of courage for extra damage and won't cost you an ability/aspect slot for the dark debuff, run w/ voltshot energy weapon for traces if you wanna spam spam

No love for assassin/syntho is sad. I’ve had a ton of fun with an aggressive lightning surge/devour build

Ive been running Starfire/Filaments with weapon focused builds in order to use those utility abilities (Healing Grenade + Penumbral Blast) and have an easy route to Devour. The extra grenades can go toward turrets. Throw in Hierarchy that promotes standing in the rift.

Getaway is super good. That’s certain. I’m enjoying a necrotic grip with thorn build right now. Feels super nice! I’d go with something like necrotic star eaters to make it a power house.

6:56 i’ve found that using fast ball on gloves allows ur threading nades to hit the witness and build up spindle fast. can get to x25 spindle after 5 nades, an ult and 2 shots.

Should do a video on what perks you would like to see changed in each exotic class item

Osmio + star eaters has been my go to since I got it for bosses. Vortex weaken nade + nova + a b&s edge transit equals really good burst dmg

My very first roll was the one I wanted, that being Verity and inmost, song of flame is just ridiculously fun with Verity, and facet of balance with arcane needle gives near constant uptime of empowered abilities, meaning I don't have to constrain myself to a demolitionist gun to spam toss nades out either. Sure it's essentially just what Verity does on it's own, but add in prismatic grenade, having song of flame instead of nova since I generally gravitate towards void over any other element, but still be able to use void guns for Verity stacks, and it's just all around a great time.

I actually have an amazing build with inmost and star, it works amazing for ability uptime and damage, but i love being amplified and doing damage while reloading and sprinting.

I've been using an apotheosis harmony exotic for my main build, its a super easy to get a nova bomb per damage phase, even on easier content, and its a super reliable way to constantly debuff a boss during dps with void weaken grenades, while still allowing you to take a good heavy and special for a really good combo of support and DPS. I currently run with nova bomb, a legendary rocket launcher, graviton lance, and the call. My usual rotation is to throw a grenade, shoot a rocket and reload, nova bomb, immediately follow up with another grenade, and spam rockets until empty, having a third grenade ready for a reapply on super long dps phases, Easily able to get millions of damage with barely any work

@Datto I just got an exotic class item with Inmost Light + Starfire for my Warlock. This seems like a sleeper item because the grenade can recharge with 2 kills from an empowering rift and makes Transcendence last significantly longer with ability spam.

I've always found Sunbracers and Sunshot to be a good combination. Just... Fire. Fire everywhere. Then you got Thorn and Necrotic with Strand. There's something about just sending a plague over hordes of enemies to sweep ads that just seems so satisfying. XD

I think my favorite combo is apotheosis and synthoceps paired with a lightning surge aspect. It gives you some potentially really beefy needles to kill bosses and great add clear as neutral game. You can get off a million damage of needles if you time it correctly during prismatic right after super. I also really like necrotic and star eater for song of flame builds with weapon of sorrow.

i really wish the options were actually good besides the infinite nades or good super or melees one, like why is vesper just rift shockwaves, why is spirit of the swarm the WORST part of swarmers, they gotta update this stuff because hunters can solo the witness in their sleep with one finger with their class items

I haven’t used getaway since prolly the first week. I have two builds both prismatic and they both do work in higher end content. I’m usually always carrying in match making. If you mess with it enough you can find combos better than getaway I promise ! Just takes a bit too much effort but I’m currently stuck in my house so I been going at it lol

My main issue with the Solipsism is a lot of warlock exotics are way more wordy and therefore have a lot more effects compared to other exotics, so the perks that got nerfed basically got hit way harder than they should have. Like spirit of the swarm loses the unravel effect, which is what helps feed the loop of swarmers in the first place, by unraveling a target with a threadling, killing the target and then destroying the tangle to make more threadlings therefore unraveling more targets. If you want to make a threadling build for prismatic, you are better off just using normal swarmers.

For me I want Spirit of Necrotc and Star-Eater. I’ve had a lot of fun of combining poisoned Arcane Needles (Necrotic Grip) with Feed the Void as it’s kept me alive a lot and clearing ads during Legendary TFS. Star-Eater would also play into the Nova Bomb buffs we got recently. Other choices I’ve thought about possibly for the second slot are Spirit of the Swarm (more Threadlings, which I’ve been generating a lot of) or even Claw for an extra melee, but that’s definitely my last choice.

Necro can be a solid option if you’re using a poison weapon like thorn, because you can run it along side other strong options

Your lightning surge take is insane to me. Synthoceps is enough to bring it up into endgame content. I have an assassin/synthoceps roll, and I can't take it off. It allows for such an aggressive playstyle in expert and master content, and having assassin as a bug out option is incredibly useful. Please revisit this. There is way more to lightning surge than just the utility.

Something i accidentally found is with spirit of osmiomancy and threadling nades is sometimes you can get the nade to sort of ricochet inside a boss on impact granting you a full nade charge instantly. If people can find a way to consistently get the nade to refund itself osmio could be a potential replacement for apotheosis for euphony damage.

vesper does have the blinding but you need to be on an arc super

Necrotic syntho works awesome with glaives. Highly recommend Vexcalibur with it so you can toss on an overshield and then go to town.

Honestly I think they could have done a little better with Warlocks for this.. For example like the could have fixed contraverse hold and allow ANY grenade to be charged allowing the void shield buff to go with any grenade. There are a other exotics that haven't been touch that they could have updated and fixed or prismatic a well.

necrotic/star eater goes pretty crazy. especially with threaded needle.

Finally!!! Down-to-earth Datto ❤

I was surprised by Necrotic paired with Star Eater. I don't like to swap, and Necrotic with Thorn or Osteo is up all the time, and having Star Eater build up passively just works really well.

I've just been running regular necrotic grips, even though I've gotten some drops of the class item with spirit of necrotic. The class item's poision doesn't increase in damage over time like the regular exotic, which is a pretty big downside imo. Necrotic + Star eater might be worth it, but I don't have that one yet.

I have Osmio/Harmony, I love it. The other one that I’m still chasing is Apotheosis/Harmony. Osmio/Harmony with Ashes and Grenade Kick start can help get your Super and grenade back really quick.

personally, i feel like Spirit of Necrotics has a bit more of a use case for something like Necrochasm. Necrochasm's thrall explosions can be detonated by getting bodyshot kills with the weapon on a poisoned enemy, and you've already demonstrated in a short how effective that add clear can get once you get it going. while Necrotic Grips does have a case with its ramping up poison damage, the poison damage being stronger can make it a bit trickier to set off that chain reaction whenever you want... but you do more heavily specialize into that poison, whereas you can pair it with a second perk to expand your options

ive been running HOIL/star eater and focusing on big damage novas. feels much stronger to me than getaway, getaway build is such a snore

My first warlock bond was inmost/harmony. Made me think i wasnt gonna need to get more, but hearing some more combos, guess I'll have to get to more farming at some point.

Inmost, syntho is pretty fun to spam arc slides, combod with devour ur basically unkillable in mid level content

Bungie really dropped the ball with warlock exotic perks. Like imagine getting something like skull of ahamkara and getting nova energy based off nova bomb hits, or felwinters helm to proc weaken off of powered melee final blows, hell even nezaracs sin for void damage kills increase ability regen. I would choose any of these over swarmers/vesper/ verity.

Man, not even the exotic class item could rejuvenate some interesting gameplay into warlock. Really hoping the next exotic balance changes actually push the needle. As a warlock, I rarely feel like the amount of exotic choices I actually have is more than the amount of fingers I can count on one hand.

Honestly the mataidoxia build is great too. Covers all the champs super easy, lots of trance energy a little bit more involved than getaway.