Solar

Snake Eyes — Lucky Pants + Malfeasance (Solar Hunter)

Hand-cannon champion/major deleter — draw-ramp × Radiant × Malfeasance slug detonation, with built-in Unstoppable

Centerpiece: Lucky Pants (Legs) · Subclass: Gunslinger (Solar) · Role: Hand-cannon champion/major deleter — draw-ramp × Radiant × Malfeasance slug detonation, with built-in Unstoppable Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

Holster, draw, delete. Malfeasance buries tainted slugs that all detonate at once — stunning survivors and carrying intrinsic Unstoppable — and Lucky Pants ramps the gun's damage on every hit the moment you draw it. Stack Radiant on top (element-agnostic) and a champion eats one drawn mag. It's the same habit from both exotics: dump a ramped mag into one priority target, then swap away.

The exotic

Illegally Modded Holster — "Improves sprint, slide, and airborne effectiveness while a Hand Cannon is equipped. For a short time after being drawn, Hand Cannons ready faster, are more accurate, and each hit against a combatant increases Hand Cannon damage."

Explosive Shadow (Malfeasance) — "Shoot tainted slugs that burrow into combatants. Stacking enough slugs causes them all to explode, stunning surviving combatants. Strong against [Stagger] Unstoppable Champions."

Lucky Pants is the armour centrepiece and Malfeasance is the co-exotic weapon; they finish each other's sentences on the draw. The Pants pay you for weapon-swapping discipline — the damage ramp triggers when you draw the hand cannon, not when you fire it, and it climbs with each hit against a combatant while stacking faster ready and accuracy. Malfeasance only asks for a few sustained hits to reach its slug cap, which the ramped, fast-readying draw makes trivial. When the slugs pop they clear the cluster and stun any surviving Unstoppable champion intrinsically. Both exotics reward the identical loop: swap to the hand cannon for a priority target and empty a ramped mag into one body.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	Radiant + precision economy that buffs a Kinetic gun element-agnostically.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	On-theme precision super and an emergency delete; the Pants + gun are the sustained damage.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Instant reload between draws — reposition, re-draw, re-ramp.
Movement	Triple Jump	Air control to keep the hand cannon out; Lucky Pants also improves airborne effectiveness.
Melee	Lightweight Knife	Precision-kill melee that triggers Radiant via Ember of Torches — the universal damage buff.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	Survivability at mid-range; the gun, not the grenade, is the damage.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Precision hits stack reload + Weapons stat ×10 — a third damage layer from just landing hits.
Aspect 2	Knock 'Em Down	Enhances Marksman Golden Gun (increased duration) and reinforces the Solar precision loop.
Fragments	Torches · Solace · Singeing · Searing	Radiant on tap, longer buff windows, class-ability regen, and melee refunds.
Exotic armour	Lucky Pants (Legs)	Draw ramp + faster ready/accuracy — the front-load that caps Malfeasance's slugs fast.
Weapons	Malfeasance (Kinetic HC) + special/heavy	The star + Unstoppable; the other two slots cover the champions and boss DPS the Pants can't.

Fragments

Ember of Torches powered-melee hit → Radiant, the build's main Radiant tap
Ember of Solace Radiant/Restoration duration +50%
Ember of Singeing class-ability regen on Scorch
Ember of Searing defeating scorched targets → melee energy + Firesprite, refunding the knife

Why it works (the mechanics)

The draw front-loads the detonation. Lucky Pants' Illegally Modded Holster ramps hand-cannon damage per hit the moment you draw, plus faster ready and accuracy. A Malfeasance mag therefore reaches its slug-cap explosion faster and the burst lands harder — holster, draw, empty the mag, pop the slugs.
Radiant is element-agnostic, so a Kinetic gun isn't a downgrade. Radiant's weapon-damage bonus applies to Malfeasance exactly as it would a Solar hand cannon. You source it off the Lightweight Knife (Ember of Torches makes you Radiant for 8s, 12s with Solace) and keep it rolling without needing a Solar primary at all.
Unstoppable is built in. Malfeasance's Explosive Shadow stuns surviving combatants on detonation and is intrinsically strong against Unstoppable champions — the build carries its own anti-champion for that class, freeing the artifact and other slots to cover Barrier and Overload.
On Your Mark triple-dips the 9.7.0 Weapons stat. Landing precision hits (or using your class ability) grants stacking reload speed and Weapons stat, up to ten stacks. That Weapons-stat bump stacks on top of the Lucky Pants ramp and Radiant — three multipliers, all paid out by the same precision hits that cap the slugs.
The Solar melee loop self-sustains. Ember of Searing refunds melee energy off scorched-target kills and Ember of Singeing regens your dodge on Scorch, so the Lightweight Knife that seeds Radiant keeps coming back — the buff economy never stalls between draws.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Health → Class. The whole build is hand-cannon throughput, so the first 100 Weapons is the PvE damage bonus and On Your Mark stacks add more on top; Health is the mid-range survivability floor; Class feeds Marksman's Dodge between draws. Archetype lean: Gunner / Powerhouse (Weapons), with a Bulwark (Health) secondary.

Mods:

Boots: Hand Cannon Scavenger + special/heavy ammo finders to keep the kit fed.
Arms: Hand Cannon Loader for faster reloads between draws.
Chest: resist mods for mid-range trading; the gun holds you forward.
Class item: Bomber / Powerful Attraction for dodge uptime and orb pickup.
Surge: none for Malfeasance (Kinetic — elemental Weapon-Surge does nothing for it); slot a surge only if your special/heavy is elemental.
Anti-Champion: Malfeasance breaks Unstoppable intrinsically; bring artifact/weapon coverage for Barrier + Overload on the other slots.

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

Solo Operative grants a precision-final-blow weapon-damage ramp while you're solo — this build is nothing but precision kills and it buffs the Kinetic Malfeasance fine (not element-locked).
Revitalizing Blast ignites a stunned champion and clears your shield stun, layering directly onto Malfeasance's Unstoppable detonation.
Fever And Chill grants Radiant on rapid Solar hits, and Kindling Trigger turns that Radiant into Scorch on your Solar weapons — feeding the Ember of Searing / Singeing melee-and-dodge loop.
Rays of Precision ignites combatants on Solar precision final blows while Radiant, adding AoE off the Golden Gun and knife.
Anti-Champion Nosecone and Perpetual Destruction hand champion damage and ammo economy to the boss/heavy slot the Pants can't personally execute after the 9.7.0 boss cut.

Where it shines

Master/GM content and champion-dense rooms — draw Malfeasance, cap the slugs on a champion or major, detonate, holster. The draw-ramp rewards the swap discipline these tiers demand.
Mid-tier clears and seasonal activities — Golden Gun and the knife-fed Radiant carry ad-clear while the hand cannon deletes priority targets.
Champion coverage: Malfeasance breaks Unstoppable intrinsically. Bring a Barrier and an Overload source on your other two slots (anti-champion weapon archetypes or artifact mods) to cover the rest.

Verify notes

Lucky Pants (Illegally Modded Holster) intrinsic quoted verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` (line 37); it is Leg armour.
Malfeasance (Explosive Shadow) intrinsic quoted verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` (line 272). Manifest facts (`data/weapon_facts.json`): Kinetic · Primary · Hand Cannon · 180 RPM · Unstoppable — all confirmed.
Aspects On Your Mark + Knock 'Em Down quoted from `docs/encyclopedia/aspects.md` (lines 142, 120) — both Gunslinger (Solar) aspects. Fragments Torches/Solace/Singeing/Searing verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/fragments.md`.
Artifact Queensfoil Censer; all seven picks confirmed live in its pool in `docs/encyclopedia/artifacts_structured.md` (Fever And Chill, Kindling Trigger, Revitalizing Blast, Anti-Champion Nosecone, Perpetual Destruction, Rays of Precision, Solo Operative).
Numbers flagged: Radiant's weapon-damage % (community-standard +25% PvE) is not in `clarity_build_numbers.md` — treat as community/manifest. Lucky Pants' exact ramp %, its draw window, and the −33% boss figure are manifest/tuning (retuned repeatedly, not in Clarity). Ember of Torches Radiant = 8s / 12s-with-Solace and Solace's +50% duration are Clarity-confirmed.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

Piece	Mod · cost	What it does
Helmet (7/10)	Heavy Ammo Finder 1e	Increases the effect of all contributions towards the Heavy ammo meter.
	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.
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 (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)	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.
	Solar Weapon Surge 1e fill	Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
	Recuperation 1e fill	Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
Class Item (4/10)	Bomber 1e	Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
	Powerful Attraction 2e	Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.
	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).