Solar

Last Rites — Golden Gun: Marksman (Solar Hunter)

Twin-sustain primary duelist — two independent self-heals make an aggressive Solar gunfighter that simply will not go down (dual-exotic with Red Death Reformed)

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Centerpiece: Wormhusk Crown (Helmet) · Subclass: Gunslinger · Role: Twin-sustain primary duelist — two independent self-heals make an aggressive Solar gunfighter that simply will not go down (dual-exotic with Red Death Reformed) Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

Two heals, one trigger finger. Red Death Reformed cures you on every kill and floods your handling and reload right after; Wormhusk Crown turns the dodge button into a second cure and lets your Solar kills crank both. Stay in the open, win the gunfight, get healed for winning it — and dodge to top up when you do not.

The exotic

This is a legal dual-exotic loadout (one exotic armour piece plus one exotic weapon). Both intrinsics, verbatim:

Wormhusk Crown (Helmet): Activating your class ability grants Cure. Rapid Solar final blows grant stacks of Burning Souls that increase Solar ability damage, increase the potency of Dodge's healing, and spreads the healing to nearby allies.

Red Death Reformed — Redemption: Final blows with this weapon cure you and increase reload speed; reloading after final blows cures nearby allies.

Red Death Reformed — Helping Hand (catalyst): Final blows charge this weapon. When the weapon is charged, the next final blow creates a healing burst at your location and leaves a remnant behind that provides restoration to allies.

Wormhusk's dodge grants Cure (67 HP per Clarity) each time you use your class ability, and rapid Solar kills bank Burning Souls stacks that make that dodge-heal hit harder and spread it to allies. Red Death is the engine that feeds it: a 340-RPM Solar pulse whose every kill cures you and dumps reload speed, while its catalyst turns every third kill into a team-wide healing burst plus a restoration remnant. Because Red Death is a Solar weapon, its kills are exactly the "rapid Solar final blows" that stack Burning Souls — so the gun you shoot to win the fight is also the fuel that scales the dodge you press to survive it. The two exotics reinforce each other rather than competing for a resource.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	The Solar toolkit — Radiant, Restoration, Scorch, ignitions — that every kill and dodge in this build feeds and consumes.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	Precision Solar execution that overpenetrates and creates Orbs of Power on precision hits — a room-deleting "last rites" that pays the team back in Orbs.
Class ability	Gambler's Dodge	The second heal button — using your class ability triggers Wormhusk's Cure, and dodging near a target refunds melee for the Throwing Knife.
Movement	Triple Jump	Vertical control to break line-of-sight after the dodge-cure; pure flex, not load-bearing.
Melee	Weighted Throwing Knife	A precision Solar melee whose kills grant Radiant, feeding Kindling Trigger's scorch and the ignition line while the knife refunds itself while Radiant.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	On-demand third sustain for the window when both the gun-heal and dodge-heal are on cooldown; swap to Tripmine for ad pressure.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Class-ability use or precision hits grant you and allies reload speed and Weapons stat (×10); final blows at ten stacks cure you — a third heal woven into the gunplay.
Aspect 2	Gunpowder Gamble	Kills charge a free Solar explosive that ignites for ad-clear and champion pressure, and it grants an extra fragment slot to stack more Embers.
Fragments	Solace · Empyrean · Tempering · Benevolence · Singeing	Extend and stack the Radiant/Restoration this build lives on, rebuild the old health-overflow via max-health, and close the dodge loop.
Exotic armour	Wormhusk Crown (Helmet)	The dodge-cure engine whose Burning Souls scales off Red Death's Solar kills — the second, non-positional heal.
Weapons	Red Death Reformed (Energy) · Kinetic champion legendary · Power Rocket Launcher	Red Death is the primary you live on; the Kinetic slot carries the anti-Barrier/Overload stun the Solar pool lacks; the rocket is the artifact's heavy burst.

Fragments

Ember of Solace Radiant/Restoration on you last longer — extends Red Death's restoration remnant
Ember of Empyrean Solar final blows extend Restoration and Radiant — Red Death keeps them lit
Ember of Tempering Solar weapon final blows grant increased health, ×3 — the reconstructed "overflow"
Ember of Benevolence curing allies via dodge or Red Death boosts ability regen — closes the dodge loop
Ember of Singeing class ability recharges faster when you scorch targets — Kindling Trigger scorch feeds faster dodges

Why it works (the mechanics)

Two independent sustain engines, neither positional. Engine A is the gun: every Red Death kill cures you and dumps reload speed (Redemption). Engine B is the dodge: class-ability use grants Cure (67 HP per Clarity), amplified by Burning Souls. You never have to stand in a spot or hold a resource — you heal by doing the two things a duelist does anyway, killing and repositioning.
The two exotics feed each other. Red Death is a Solar weapon, so its kills are the "rapid Solar final blows" that stack Burning Souls, which explicitly "increase the potency of Dodge's healing." Win gunfights and your panic-dodge heals for more; Wormhusk scales off the gun instead of competing with it for energy.
A third heal is hidden in the aspect. On Your Mark reaches ten stacks fast on a 340-RPM precision weapon — every precision hit is a stack — and "final blows while at ten stacks cure you." The same trigger pull that stacks the aspect also pumps your Weapons stat for more handling and reload on top of Redemption's dump.
Restoration keeps it topped between kills. The catalyst's restoration remnant (every charged kill), plus Ember of Solace lengthening restoration on you and Ember of Empyrean extending it on Solar final blows, means a steady kill cadence keeps Restoration effectively always on — the instant Cure chunk and the Restoration regen-over-time layer.
The "overflow" is reconstructed with Ember of Tempering. The 9.7.0 Wormhusk rework grants Cure, not the old health overflow. Ember of Tempering restores that idea honestly — Solar weapon final blows grant increased health (×3) — so your effective health bar grows the more you kill, which is exactly the aggressive-duelist payoff the original premise wanted.
The dodge loop self-closes through Benevolence and Singeing. Curing allies (via the dodge spread or Red Death's ally-cure) triggers Ember of Benevolence's faster ability regen, while scorching targets (Kindling Trigger) triggers Ember of Singeing's faster class-ability recharge — so every heal you spread and every scorch you apply shortens the cooldown on the next dodge-cure.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Class → Health. Weapons is the duelist's stat (handling, reload, and the first-100 PvE minor/major damage bonus) and On Your Mark stacks more of it on top; Class keeps the Wormhusk dodge-cure on a short, repeatable cooldown; Health is raw survivability so the heals have less to undo. Archetype lean: Gunner (Weapons) with a Specialist (Class) secondary; mods and fragments add roughly 30 headroom over the armour ceiling.

Mods:

Boots: Recuperation / Innervation — orb pickups top health and grenade energy to reinforce the sustain floor.
Arms: Loader mods for the pulse-rifle slot; Momentum Transfer if leaning on Gunpowder Gamble for ability energy.
Chest: Solar/Kinetic resist mods sized to activity to survive the aggressive open-air positioning.
Class item: Bomber / Outreach to feed the dodge-heal cadence; Reaper for Orb generation.
Surge: Solar Weapon Surge for Red Death and the ignition package.
Anti-Champion: the Kinetic legendary's anti-Barrier or anti-Overload perk plus artifact stuns — the Solar pool is breaker-light.

Artifact — Queensfoil Censer

Picks (2/3/2):

Tier 1: Fever And Chill · Kindling Trigger
Tier 2: Revitalizing Blast · Anti-Champion Nosecone · Perpetual Destruction
Tier 3: Rays of Precision · Solo Operative

Fever And Chill turns Red Death's rapid Solar hits into Radiant — a flat damage steroid the build keeps permanently lit through Empyrean and Solace.
Kindling Trigger makes those Radiant Solar shots apply Scorch to unscorched combatants, which also feeds Ember of Singeing's faster dodge recharge.
Rays of Precision ignites on Radiant Solar precision final blows, so Red Death's headshots clear adds and stagger on their own without spending the super.
Solo Operative ramps weapon damage on solo precision final blows until you die — the lone-duelist damage curve, a perfect pair with never-die sustain; note it does nothing in a fireteam, so swap the Tier-3 slot when grouped.
Revitalizing Blast · Anti-Champion Nosecone · Perpetual Destruction are the champion and heavy package: stun-to-ignition plus stun-clear, bonus rocket damage to Champions, and self-refunding rocket ammo for the boss burst.

Where it shines

Solo and small-team endgame (Master Lost Sectors, solo dungeons, Legend content) where the two independent heals plus Solo Operative's ramp let you hold ground aggressively without a healer.
Sustained ad-dense rooms where the kill cadence keeps Restoration always on and Rays of Precision ignitions chain through packs.
Open-air gunfights where you can duel in the line-of-sight the build wants, healing for every trade you win.
Champion coverage: breaks nothing intrinsically — bring the Kinetic legendary's anti-Barrier or anti-Overload for stuns, then Revitalizing Blast converts each stun into an ignition and clears your own shield stun; the Anti-Champion Nosecone rocket finishes the damage.

Verify notes

Red Death Reformed — manifest-confirmed Solar Pulse Rifle, Primary ammo, 340 RPM, no intrinsic champion breaker (`data/weapon_facts.json`); Redemption intrinsic and Helping Hand catalyst quoted verbatim from `exotics.md` and `catalysts.md`.
Wormhusk Crown intrinsic quoted verbatim from `exotics.md`; the 67 HP class-ability Cure is from `clarity_build_numbers.md` (Wormhusk Crown — Burning Souls). Burning Souls' stack cap, the Solar-ability-damage %, and the dodge-heal potency curve are not in Clarity — flag as manifest/tuning, verify the cap and ally-cure radius in-game.
On Your Mark and Gunpowder Gamble quoted verbatim from `aspects.md`; On Your Mark has no Clarity entry (it is an aspect), so the exact Weapons-stat amount per stack and the ten-stack cure are manifest/tuning — confirm in-game.
Red Death — Inverse Relationship (shield-drop damage ramp and the ×6 handling/flinch/move-speed stacks) is not in the short manifest intrinsic text; the PvE 10/20/40% figures are Clarity/community numbers — flag as manifest/tuning, confirm the breakpoints in-game.
Fragment effects (Solace, Empyrean, Tempering ×3, Benevolence, Singeing) quoted from `fragments.md`; Golden Gun: Marksman Orb-on-precision and overpenetration from `perks.md`.
Artifact Queensfoil Censer with all seven picks (Fever And Chill, Kindling Trigger, Revitalizing Blast, Anti-Champion Nosecone, Perpetual Destruction, Rays of Precision, Solo Operative) confirmed present in the Queensfoil Censer pool in `artifacts_structured.md`; exactly 2/3/2.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

Piece	Mod · cost	What it does
Helmet (7/10)	Solar Siphon 3e fill	Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
	Ashes to Assets 3e fill	Gain bonus Super energy on grenade kills.
	Heavy Ammo Finder 1e fill	Increases the effect of all contributions towards the Heavy ammo meter.
Arms (6/10)	Momentum Transfer 2e	Causing damage with a grenade reduces your melee cooldown.
	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.
	Fastball 1e fill	Increases grenade throw distance.
Chest (6/10)	Solar Resistance 2e fill	Reduces incoming Solar 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)	Recuperation 1e	Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
	Innervation 1e	Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
	Solar Weapon Surge 1e	Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
Class Item (3/10)	Reaper 1e	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
	Outreach 1e	Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
	Bomber 1e	Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.

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). Flex/loadout-dependent: the ignition package. - **Anti-Champion:** the Kinetic legendary's anti-Barrier or anti-Overload perk plus artifact stuns — the Solar pool is breaker-light.