Bloodhound — Foetracer (Prismatic Hunter)
Anchor: Foetracer (Helmet) · Subclass: Prismatic · Role: Elemental-cycling marksman — "the right tool for every target" Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Created 2026-06-16
Tag a champion with an ability, and your weapons of that element hit harder. Finish it with the matching element and it coughs up an elemental pickup, which your Facets turn back into Transcendence energy and an even bigger element-X damage buff. Then you read the next target and swap elements. Foetracer is the only exotic that pays you for owning the whole rainbow — and Prismatic is the only subclass that can throw the whole rainbow. That's the build.
How Prismatic works in this build
Foetracer's loop needs you to deploy abilities of different elements on demand and finish targets with whichever element you just tagged them with. A mono-element subclass physically can't do that — its grenade, melee and Super are all one colour, so it can only ever buff one weapon type. Prismatic is the entire point: its ability pool spans Arc/Solar/Void/Stasis/Strand, so you choose which element to "paint" a target with, then cash the matching pickup into the Light/Darkness Transcendence meters. Snare Bomb / Deadfall fill Light (Void); Gunpowder Gamble's Solar ignitions fill Light; any Stasis slow or Strand sever fills Darkness. Because the build is designed to swing across elements, both meters climb together and Transcendence comes up fast — and Facet of Honor turns every Foetracer pickup straight into Transcendence energy.
Loadout
| Slot | Pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Super |  Shadowshot: Deadfall (Void) | 35% team weaken + suppress + groups the pack. Sets Void as the "house" element so the Super-keyed artifact pickups (Coalescence/Overdrive) default to Void Breaches; weaken thins champions for the matched-element finisher. |
| Class ability |  Gambler's Dodge | Refunds melee energy near enemies (scales with Melee stat) — keeps a painting-melee charged. |
| Movement |  Triple Jump | Air control to line up shots / Gunpowder throws. |
| Melee |  Snare Bomb (Void) | Tags a powerful/champion with Void ability damage → Foetracer marks it + buffs Void weapons. Feeds Stylish. |
| Grenade |  Magnetic Grenade (Void) | Attaches + double-detonates — a precise Void "paint" for a priority/champion so the mark lands where you want it. |
| Aspect 1 |  Stylish Executioner (Void) | Any elemental-debuffed kill → invis + Truesight; next melee while invis weakens. Survivability engine + a Void-debuff source. |
| Aspect 2 |  Gunpowder Gamble (Solar) | Kills charge a throwable Solar explosive → mid-air  ignition. A whole second element on tap with no second cooldown — paint a target Solar, finish Solar, spawn a Firesprite. Costs only 1 Facet slot. |
Facets (5/5) — the pickup-conversion core (manifest-verified wording):
Facet of Honor (+10 Melee) — "Collecting an Elemental pickup or destroying a Tangle grants Transcendence energy of the same type." This is the keystone: every Foetracer pickup you create becomes Transcendence energy of the element you cycled. The exotic makes the pickups; Honor banks them.
Facet of Awakening (+10 Health) — "Rapidly defeating targets with Light/Darkness damage or Super final blows generates a matching Elemental pickup." A second pickup source that runs on raw element kills — so Honor and the Overdrive damage buff stay fed even between Foetracer marks.
Facet of Hope (no stat) — "While you have an elemental buff, your class ability regenerates more quickly." Foetracer's matched-element weapon buff is an elemental buff, so the moment you mark a target your dodge is recharging faster — more Snare Bombs to paint with.
Facet of Purpose (−10 Class) — "Picking up an Orb of Power grants Overshield / Restoration / Frost Armor / Woven Mail / Bolt Charge based on your equipped Super." Keyed to Deadfall → Void Overshield on every orb. (Separate trigger from Honor — Honor eats elemental pickups, Purpose eats Orbs of Power — so they don't compete.)
Facet of Courage (+10 Grenade) — "Your Arc, Solar, and Void abilities deal increased damage to targets afflicted with Darkness debuffs." Deadfall's group-up plus any Stasis weapon slow makes the painting abilities themselves hit harder when you cycle into a Darkness debuff.
Exotic — Foetracer (Helmet)
Relentless Tracker: Damaging a powerful combatant or Guardian with an ability temporarily increases weapon damage of the same type. Defeating that marked target with damage that matches the element creates an Elemental pickup.
Two distinct rewards from one mark, and the build is built to collect both:
- The damage buff — ability hits a powerful/champion with element X → your element-X
weapons hit harder for a window. This is why you carry a weapon of every element you can paint: the buff only helps the matching gun. - The pickup — finish that same marked target with matching-element damage → an Elemental pickup spawns (Firesprite / Void Breach / Ionic Trace / Stasis Shard / Strand Tangle). On its own that's a stray orb; under Facet of Honor it's Transcendence energy, and under the artifact's
Elemental Overdrive it's a further +22% to that element's weapons.
Why this works (the mechanics)
- The element-cycle economy is a closed loop with three payouts per target. Paint (ability hits target, element X) → buff (Foetracer: element-X weapons hit harder) → finish (kill the marked target with element X) → pickup (Foetracer spawns an element-X pickup) → bank (Honor: pickup → element-X Transcendence energy; Overdrive: pickup → +22% element-X weapon damage). Every marked target you process feeds damage, the Super-meters, and the next element's buff. Nothing is wasted.
- Matching the element is mandatory, not incidental. Foetracer's buff and its pickup both gate on the damage type matching the mark. A mono-element kit can only ever satisfy that for one colour. Prismatic + a multi-element weapon set means you always have the matching finisher in hand — see Weapons.
- Honor closes the loop to Transcendence; Awakening keeps it primed. Honor converts the pickups the exotic creates straight into matching Transcendence energy — so the more elements you cycle, the faster both meters fill, because Void marks feed Light and Stasis/Strand marks feed Darkness. Awakening is a second, passive pickup faucet (rapid Light/Darkness kills) so Honor never runs dry between marks. Transcendence then becomes a guaranteed heal + damage window on demand.
- The artifact is purpose-built for this exotic. Hunter's Journal carries the entire pickup economy: Elemental Overdrive (pickup → +22% matching-element weapon damage — it re-buffs the same element Foetracer just buffed, stacking the two),
Elemental Coalescence (kills chance-spawn a matching-Super pickup → more Void Breaches → more Honor energy), 
Elemental Daze (champion stun with an elemental weapon → matching-element debuff explosion) and 
Refresh Threads (matching pickup → energy to your least-charged ability). Pick this artifact; it is the difference between a gimmick and an engine. - Stylish makes invisibility a kill reward, so safety scales with output. Any elemental-debuffed kill (and you debuff constantly — weaken from Deadfall/Stylish, slow from a Stasis gun, scorch from Gunpowder) → invis + Truesight. The damage you don't take while invisible beats any DR%. Purpose's Void Overshield on every orb is the second layer; Transcendence's heal is the third.
- Gunpowder Gamble is a second element with no second cooldown. It charges off any kills and pays out a Solar ignition you can fire on command — so even though your melee/grenade/Super are Void, you can paint a target
Solar whenever the read calls for it, then finish Solar for a Firesprite. That's what makes "every tool" real on a Void-leaning ability kit, and it only costs one Facet slot.
Weapons
Multi-element on purpose — this is the identity, not a preference. Foetracer only buffs (and only spawns a pickup for) the element that matches the mark, so you need a gun ready in whatever element you just painted the target with. Carry at least two elements across your three weapon slots, ideally three.
- A Void weapon (the house element) — matches Snare Bomb / Magnetic / Deadfall, so it's your default paint-and-finish gun and it benefits from the Super-keyed artifact mods (Coalescence Void Breaches, Overdrive on Void). Destabilizing Rounds / Repulsor Brace are gravy.
- A Solar weapon — to finish the targets you paint with Gunpowder Gamble's ignition, spawning Firesprites for Honor.
- A Stasis (or Strand) weapon — slow/sever applies a Darkness debuff, which (a) turns on Facet of Courage (your abilities hit those targets harder) and (b) lets a Stasis finish spawn a Stasis Shard. Gives the kit a Darkness-meter pump that the Void abilities can't.
- Champions (Anti-Champion 2.0): stun is intrinsic to weapon archetypes, and because you're already running multiple elements/frames, champion coverage falls out of the weapon choices for free — pick frames so the three guns span Aggressive/High-Impact (Unstoppable), Precision/Adaptive (Barrier) and Lightweight/Rapid-Fire (Overload). Deadfall's suppress handles Overload behaviourally as backup, and the artifact's Elemental Daze turns a champion stun into a matching-element debuff explosion — i.e. champions become an extra paint source. The matched-element finisher on a stunned champion is the cleanest pickup you'll make all run.
Stats & archetypes
This build wants its weapons to land the matched-element finishers and its Class to keep Snare Bomb/dodge cycling, so:
Weapons 150+ → Class 130+ → Melee 100 → Health (dump).
- Weapons is the priority: the matched-element buff multiplies your gun, so more base weapon damage compounds with Foetracer + Elemental Overdrive (and the first 100 Weapons carries the PvE minor/major damage bonus).
- Class ~130 keeps Gambler's Dodge up (and Hope already accelerates it whenever a mark's elemental buff is live) for a steady supply of paints.
- Melee ~100 so Snare Bomb is available to tag the next target; Honor (+10) and the dodge refund top it up.
- Health is the dump stat — invis (Stylish), Void Overshield (Purpose) and Transcendence's heal already cover survivability.
Archetypes: 
Skirmisher (Melee/Weapons), 
Powerhouse (Weapons/Super), 
Reaver (Class/Melee). Mods: Weapon Surge ×2 on boots (matched-element damage stacks straight onto the buffed gun — swap the element to your most-used finisher), 
Harmonic Siphon (orbs for Purpose), 
Utility Kickstart / 
Class Font (Class to ~130), 
Recuperation / Better Already on orb pickup.
Set bonus (optional — never the driver)
House rule: set bonuses are garnish, not a driver. The Foetracer cycle is complete on stats + Facets + artifact alone. If your rolls happen to carry one, the on-theme pick is a set whose 2pc rewards elemental-pickup collection or multi-element kills — but slot it only if the piece already carries the Weapons/Class spread above. Do not chase a set; never give this a Spirit-of-X class item — the exotic is Foetracer (Helmet), so the class item is an ordinary legendary (Prismatic's usual exotic-class-item slot is spent on the helmet here).
Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)
| Piece | Mod · cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Helmet (7/10) | Harmonic Siphon 1e | Rapid Arc weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Stasis weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Void weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power. |
| Arc Siphon 3e fill | Rapid Arc weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. | |
| Ashes to Assets 3e fill | Gain bonus Super energy on grenade kills. | |
| Arms (6/10) | Utility Kickstart 3e fill | When your class ability energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain class ability energy for each Armor Charge used. |
| Momentum Transfer 2e fill | Causing damage with a grenade reduces your melee cooldown. | |
| Fastball 1e fill | Increases grenade throw distance. | |
| Chest (5/10) | Arc Resistance 1e fill | Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants. |
| Concussive Dampener 3e fill | Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants. | |
| Sniper Damage Resistance 1e fill | Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at long range. | |
| Legs (3/10) | Arc Weapon Surge 1e | Your Arc weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time. |
| Arc Weapon Surge 1e | Your Arc weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time. | |
| Better Already 1e | Your health begins to regenerate immediately after picking up an Orb of Power. | |
| Class Item (7/10) | Utility Kickstart 3e | When your class ability energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain class ability energy for each Armor Charge used. |
| Class Font 3e | You gain a bonus to your class stat while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge decays over time. | |
| Reaper 1e fill | Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power. |
All 15 sockets used, 10 energy per masterworked piece; costs from the manifest. Core mods are the build's engine; fill mods are strong defaults — swap freely (chest resists should match the activity's damage types).
Artifact — Hunter's Journal (The Edge of Fate)
Run this artifact; it is the build's other half. The pickup loop lives here:
- Elemental Overdrive — pickup/Tangle → +22% matching-element weapon damage. Stacks with Foetracer's own buff on the same element → your finisher gun is buffed twice off one marked kill.
- Elemental Coalescence — kills chance-spawn a pickup matching your Super (Void Breaches) → more Honor energy even off un-marked trash.
- Elemental Daze — champion stun with an elemental weapon → matching-element debuff explosion (turns champions into paint).
- Refresh Threads — matching pickup → energy to your least-charged ability.
Elemental Benevolence — granting allies an elemental buff → class energy (works in a fireteam alongside Deadfall's weaken).
The loop
- Read the target, pick the element. Champion or powerful incoming → Snare Bomb / Magnetic it (Void paint) → Foetracer buffs your Void gun.
- Finish with the matching gun. Kill the marked target with Void → Void Breach spawns. Honor banks it (Light Transcendence), Overdrive re-buffs Void.
- Swap elements on the next read. Charge Gunpowder for a Solar paint → finish Solar (Firesprite); or slow with the Stasis gun for a Darkness paint → Courage makes your abilities bite harder → finish Stasis (Stasis Shard, Darkness meter).
- Stylish keeps you alive off every debuffed kill (invis + Truesight); Purpose tops Void Overshield off the orbs Harmonic Siphon makes.
- Both meters full → Transcend for the guaranteed heal + damage window (Hailfire Spike), then tether the densest pack/boss with Deadfall for the 35% team weaken when it matters. Repeat — every fight is you sniffing out the right element for each target.