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00 — The World

The Light is going out

A thousand years ago the Pyre — the last great star of the Light — began to die. As it dimmed, the Corruption poured through the wound it left in the sky: the Rift. World by world, the star-empire went dark.

You are a Lightbearer, dragged back from death by the last embers of that failing star. You do not age. You do not stay dead. And you are one of the few things left that the Darkness has learned to fear.

From the Last Bastion — the final walled city clinging to a habitable shard — fireteams push out into the ruin: to reclaim old worlds, to answer the seasonal threats crawling out of the Rift, and to hold the line one more night against a dark that has already all but won.

Hold the line. Refuse to go out.

Era

The Collapse

The slow death of the Pyre and the fall of the star-empire. The age you were born to fight in.

Haven

The Last Bastion

The final city. Your social hub, vendors, and the wall between the fireteams and the void.

The Wound

The Rift

The tear the dying star left behind. Everything that hunts you crawls out of it.

Gift

The Ember

The spark that resurrects you. Spend it as your Super — the Light made weapon.

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01 — Choose your Guardian

Six ways to carry the Light

Every Guardian is a Lightbearer, resurrected to fight the encroaching dark. Six classes, each with three elemental specializations — eighteen builds in all. Each class is a flexible chassis: it has a natural role, but that role is rebindable — any class can build any role. Pick your role in the fireteam, then re-spec on the fly as the encounter demands.

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Titan

Bulwark · Melee · Barricade

Frontline juggernaut. Drops cover for the fireteam, overshields allies, and finishes staggered foes with brutal shoulder-charges. High Resilience, unmoving under fire.

Specializations

AegisVoid

CinderguardSolar

BastionStasis

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Specter

Stalker · Precision · Dodge

Agile skirmisher built on tempo. Blinks out of danger, stacks precision multipliers, and executes with elemental blades. Highest Mobility on the roster — never where you last saw it.

Specializations

UmbraVoid

VoltaicArc

WeaverStrand

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Vanguard

Warden · Support · Rift

Battlefield caster. Plants healing and empowering rifts, weaves crowd-control Supers, and keeps the fireteam alive through Grandmaster modifiers. Recovery-focused, endlessly useful.

Specializations

DawnwardSolar

CurrentcallerArc

NullwardVoid

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Revenant

Reaper · Berserk · Lifesteal

A berserker that feeds on the fight — melee frenzies, health-on-kill, and heavy-weapon overkill. The deeper into the Corruption it wades, the harder it hits.

Specializations

ReaverStrand

PyrebornSolar

RavagerCorruption

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Artificer

Engineer · Turrets · Tech

A battlefield engineer. Deploys turrets, drones, and traps, overclocks the fireteam's weapons, and turns any doorway into a fortified killzone.

Specializations

GunsmithKinetic

ArcwrightArc

CryotechStasis

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Oracle

Seer · Control · Debuff

A void-touched controller. Suppresses, freezes, and unravels entire packs — bends the encounter so your fireteam never has to fight it fair.

Specializations

NullseerVoid

WarpmindStasis

DoomsayerCorruption

02 — The Fireteam

Three roles, one tight band

Roles differentiate contribution, not power. Damage sits in a 20-point band — DPS to Tank — so every role is a real damage dealer; identity comes from the specialty stacked on top. And role is a flexible build choice: any of the six classes can build any role — each just has a natural one.

DPS

Raw damage · the powerhouse

The whole kit points downrange — no compromises, the top of the band. The fireteam's damage engine, and the number every encounter's DPS-check is measured against.

Damage

100% damage

Healer

Keep the team alive · buffs

Sustains and empowers the fireteam through the hardest modifiers — and still deals real damage. Healing output is never scaled down; only the damage scalar dips a touch.

Damage

90% damage

Tank

Control · survive · hold aggro

Controls the room, absorbs the punishment, and holds the enemy's attention so the fireteam can work. Trades the least damage for the most enabling power.

Damage

80% damage

03 — The Spectrum

Seven elements. One is not like the others.

Subclasses draw on six aspects of the Light — plus the thing eating it. Switching element changes how you deal damage, never how much: match your damage type to a shield, chain the signature status verbs, and turn a room into a light show.

Horizontal by design

Six aspects of the Light orbit the Pyre as equals — no element out-damages another. Each engine is normalized to the same average output; it only chooses the delivery curve: burst, sustained, damage-over-time, or control.

The seventh, Corruption, is the Darkness itself — the thing eating the Light. Wield it and it wields back.

6 aspects of Light +1 Darkness

Kinetic

Precision

Raw ballistics — no status, just the headshot and the stagger that follows.

Solar

Scorch · Ignite

Stack Scorch until it detonates the target in an Ignition.

Arc

Jolt · Amplified

Chain-lightning Jolts between foes; go Amplified for raw speed.

Void

Suppress · Volatile · Devour

Lock down abilities, prime Volatile, Devour a kill to survive.

Stasis

Slow · Frozen · Shatter

Slow the horde to a Freeze, then Shatter the statues.

Strand

Sever · Suspend

Suspend them off the floor; Sever cuts the damage they deal.

Corruption

Unravel

The Darkness. Unravel spreads between targets — and it bites back.

04 — Build depth

The meta is gear-based

No class, spec, or element is the "right" answer — every version is viable and fun. Power and progression live in element-neutral stats and the gear you chase; the only meta is build-based, and it rotates with the loot and the seasonal artifact.

The build stack

Most permanent → most fluid

ClassLayer 01

The chassis — a natural role and three specs to grow into. Any class can build any role.

Fixed

SpecLayer 02

One of eighteen: your fixed element and a signature mechanic. Your most permanent combat choice.

Fixed element

AspectsLayer 03

Two to three build-defining slots that rewrite how your kit plays. Where a build takes its shape.

2–3 slots

FragmentsLayer 04

Keyword and stat tweaks, mixed and matched into your Aspect slots. Fine-tune the feel.

Mix & match

ConstellationLayer 05

A passive tree of stat nodes and rule-changing keystones — the deep, permanent spine of a character.

Keystones

GearLayer 06

Affixes and Exotics — the chase, and where the meta actually lives. Swappable in a heartbeat.

Fluid · the chase

No meta — a parity band

Every class × spec × element build clears the reference dummy within ±8% of its role's target time-to-kill. Base kits stay inside the band; only gear is allowed to push past it — that's the chase.

Base kits in band Gear can push past

Elements are horizontal

Switching element changes how you deal damage — burst, DoT, control — never how much. Every element engine is normalized, so you can swap your whole loadout's colour without losing a point of damage.

Kinetic Solar Arc Void Stasis Strand Corruption

Horizontal, not vertical. Element is a delivery curve, not a power tier — so the chase stays about the roll, never the colour.

The 18 specs — one per class and element. No class monopolizes an element; no element is the answer.
Class	Kinetic	Solar	Arc	Void	Stasis	Strand	Corruption
Titan	—	Cinderguard	—	Aegis	Bastion	—	—
Specter	—	—	Voltaic	Umbra	—	Weaver	—
Vanguard	—	Dawnward	Currentcaller	Nullward	—	—	—
Revenant	—	Pyreborn	—	—	—	Reaver	Ravager
Artificer	Gunsmith	—	Arcwright	—	Cryotech	—	—
Oracle	—	—	—	Nullseer	Warpmind	—	Doomsayer

05 — The Arsenal

Every drop is a slightly different god roll

Three weapon slots, random perk combinations, and a rarity ladder that tops out at Exotic — where the rules stop applying. Chase the roll, masterwork it, make it yours.

Primary

Kinetic Weapon

Auto rifles · hand cannons · pulse rifles — infinite ammo, dependable damage.

Slot 01

Special

Energy Weapon

Shotguns · fusion rifles · snipers — elemental burst for shields and majors.

Slot 02

Heavy

Power Weapon

Rockets · swords · machine guns — scarce ammo, room-clearing payoff.

Slot 03

Common Uncommon Rare Legendary Exotic

◆ Exotic Hand Cannon

Last Sunrise

Kinetic · 140 RPM · Primary

☀

Intrinsic — Dawnbreak

Precision kills reload from reserves and set the next round ablaze.

◇

Barrel — Corkscrew

+Range, +Stability, +Handling. Balanced for the long fight.

↻

Trait — Pyre Chain

Igniting a target refunds Super energy to the fireteam.

Solar Power 1810 Masterworked ★

05.5 — First look

Scenes from the front

Pre-visualization captures — stylized concept frames, not final in-engine footage. A taste of the fireteam fights, the elemental light shows, the loot, and the worlds you'll patrol.

CONCEPT

Fireteam vs. an Ultra in a NightfallCAP-01

CONCEPT

A Solar Super ignites the roomCAP-02

CONCEPT

An Exotic engram decryptsCAP-03

CONCEPT

Patrol vista — the Ashen ReachCAP-04

06 — Power & Loot

Climb the power ceiling, then break it

Every piece of gear carries a Power number. Push through three soft ceilings toward the pinnacle cap — and tune six armor stats to shape your build around cooldowns, not stat sticks.

Soft Cap

World Drops

Any activity. Fills your gear to the opening ceiling.

1750

Powerful

Weekly Sources

Strikes, Crucible, Gambit — capped drops above the world.

1800

Pinnacle

Raids & Nightfalls

+1 to +2 gear from the hardest content in the game.

1810

Artifact

Seasonal Bonus

Uncapped bonus power that climbs all season long.

+30

Armor Stats

Six stats, three tied to your class ability. Build for the cooldown you want back fastest.

Mobility

70

Resilience

100

Recovery

80

Discipline

60

Intellect

40

Strength

50

Engrams drop encrypted. Decode them at the Cryptarch to gamble on a roll — or focus them with materials to target the stat spread you're chasing.

07 — Endgame

A ladder that never quite ends

Start in the open world. Work up through matchmade fights to no-respawn raids and Grandmaster Nightfalls, then step into the Crucible and Gambit when you want players on the other end of the barrel.

01

Patrol

Open-world zones, public events, and lost sectors. Where every season's story begins.

Solo · Open

02

Strikes

Three-player matchmade missions that end on a boss. The daily grind, and a good one.

3 Players

03

Nightfall

Strikes with modifiers, Champions, and a score chase. Grandmaster is the real wall.

3 · Modifiers

04

Dungeons

Three-player endgame puzzles and boss encounters. Secrets, and Exotics behind them.

3 · Pinnacle

05

Raids

Six Guardians, mechanics that demand a callout, no room for a dead weight. The summit.

6 · Pinnacle

PVP

Crucible

Guardian versus Guardian across control, elimination, and ranked. Your build, tested.

Player vs Player

PVPVE

Gambit

Bank motes, summon a Primeval, then invade the enemy team to stall their run. Greed kills.

4 v 4 v AI

Seasonal

Exotic Missions

Hand-crafted, story-driven quests that hand you a chase-worthy Exotic at the end.

Rotating

08 — The Darkness & its servants

Know what's coming through the rift

Six enemy factions, each with their own rules of engagement — and Champions that shrug off everything until you bring the right counter mod.

FAC-01

The Fallen

Scavenger clans. Shields, shanks, and stealth.

FAC-02

The Hive

Ritual swarms. Overwhelm and summon.

FAC-03

The Cabal

Armored military. Phalanx walls and artillery.

FAC-04

The Vex

Time-machines. Teleport, replicate, adapt.

FAC-05

The Taken

Corrupted husks. Reality bends around them.

FAC-06

The Hollow

Tyranid-like devourers from beyond the veil.

Champions

Elite enemies that hard-counter unprepared fireteams. Slot the matching seasonal mod, or don't bother shooting.

BarrierCounter · Anti-Barrier

OverloadCounter · Disruption

UnstoppableCounter · Stagger

Minor MajorEliteMiniboss Ultra

08.5 — The road ahead

Year One, season by season

Four seasons of story, threats, and loot — each one cracks the Rift a little wider. The seasonal artifact rotates the meta; the raid at year's end closes the chapter. Dates and contents are a placeholder concept roadmap.

Season 01

Ashfall

The Pyre gutters out. Fend off the first Hollow incursions and light the beacons of the Last Bastion.

Live now · Free entry

Season 02

Tempest

Arc storms tear across the Reach. A new strike, an Arc-charged exotic, and the first Gambit map.

Coming next

Season 03

Deepfrost

Stasis creeps in from the Rift's edge. A frozen dungeon, new Champions, and the mid-year power surge.

On the horizon

Season 04 · Finale

The Last Pyre

The Rift splits wide. Year One's six-player raid drops — and a decision that reshapes the Bastion.

Raid · Year-end

09 — Enlist

Pick your war chest

The base game is free to enter. Editions add the Year-One campaign, seasonal passes, and cosmetics for Guardians who want to look the part on day one.

Free to play

Recruit

$0Base game · always free

All 6 classes, 18 specs & the Spectrum
Patrol, Strikes, Crucible, Gambit
Full loot & power progression
Year-One campaign

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