Solar

Snake Eyes — Lucky Pants + Malfeasance (Solar Hunter)

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

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Anchor: Lucky Pants · Subclass: Gunslinger (Solar) · Role: Hand-cannon champion/major deleter — Lucky Pants draw-ramp × Radiant × Malfeasance slug detonation, with built-in Unstoppable Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Created 2026-06-24

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 +25%) and a champion eats one drawn mag. It's the same habit from both exotics: dump a ramped mag into one priority target.

The pairing — why two exotics, not one

Lucky Pants is the armour (legs), Malfeasance is the weapon — they coexist and finish each other's sentences:

Lucky Pants is an element-agnostic hand-cannon amplifier: drawing a HC ramps its damage per hit for a few seconds plus faster ready/accuracy. Its weakness is it carries no champion stun, and 9.7.0 cut it −33% vs bosses — it's a champion/major tool now, not a boss-DPS one.
Malfeasance is a HC that is its own win condition: slugs stack in a target and then all detonate, stunning survivors, with intrinsic Unstoppable. Its only ask is a few sustained hits to reach the detonation — which is exactly what Lucky Pants' fast ready + damage ramp makes trivial.
They meet on the draw: Lucky Pants pays you for swapping to the HC for the priority target; Malfeasance wants a full ramped mag dumped into one body to pop the slugs. Both reward the same discipline.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	On-theme precision super; Nighthawk optional. The Pants + gun are the damage.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Instant reload between draws — reposition, re-draw, re-ramp.
Melee	Lightweight / Throwing Knife	Precision-kill Radiant via Ember of Torches — the universal damage buff for a Kinetic gun.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	Sustain; the gun is the damage.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Precision hits stack reload + Weapons stat ×10 → Restoration at max — a third damage multiplier from just landing HC hits.
Aspect 2	Knock 'em Down	Cure on Super cast + enhanced Golden Gun, and a second Radiant source.

Fragments

Ember of Torches powered-melee hit → Radiant — the build's main Radiant tap
Ember of Solace Radiant/Restoration duration
Ember of Singeing class-ability regen on Scorch
Ember of Searing Solar kills → Firesprite + melee energy, refunding the knife that makes Radiant

Exotic armour — Lucky Pants (Legs)

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."

9.7.0 tuning pushed it off the boss-DPS throne (−33% vs bosses) and squarely into the champion/major lane this build occupies. The buff is on the draw, not the shot — it pays you for weapon-swapping discipline.

Exotic weapon — Malfeasance (Hand Cannon · Kinetic · Primary)

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

180-RPM Kinetic HC. Burrow slugs → detonation → AoE + Unstoppable stun. With Lucky Pants' ramp and Radiant layered on, the slug count caps fast and the detonation hits hard enough to clear a cluster or stagger a champion in one mag.

Why this works (the mechanics)

The draw front-loads the detonation. Lucky Pants ramps damage per hit the moment you draw, so a Malfeasance mag reaches its slug-cap explosion faster and the explosion lands harder. Holster → draw → empty the mag → pop.
Radiant is element-agnostic, so a Kinetic gun isn't a downgrade. Radiant's +25% applies to Malfeasance exactly as it would a Solar HC. You source it from the knife (Ember of Torches) and Knock 'em Down, so you keep it on tap without needing a Solar primary at all.
Unstoppable is built in. Malfeasance's detonation stuns Unstoppable intrinsically — the build carries its own anti-champion. Cover Barrier + Overload on the other slots (Anti-Champion 2.0 weapon archetypes).
On Your Mark double-dips the 9.7.0 Weapons stat. Its stacks add Weapons stat → more PvE damage vs minors/majors, stacking on top of Lucky Pants' ramp and Radiant. Three multipliers, all paid out by just landing precision hits.

Weapons

Malfeasance (Kinetic HC) — the star + Unstoppable.
Special/Heavy: cover the champions Malfeasance can't — a Precision/Adaptive frame for Barrier, a Lightweight/Rapid-Fire for Overload. A boss-DPS Heavy mops up what the Pants can't delete (the −33% boss lane).

Stats & archetypes

Priority: Weapons 200 → Health 100 → Class 60 → Super/Grenade/Melee dump.

Weapons 200 — the whole build is HC throughput; the first 100 is the PvE damage bonus, and On Your Mark stacks add even more on top.
Health 100 — survivability floor; you're at mid-range trading, healed by Healing Grenade + Restoration (On Your Mark at max).
Class 60 — Marksman's Dodge between draws.

Archetypes: Gunner / Powerhouse (Weapons), Bulwark (Health), Specialist (Class). Mods: Hand Cannon Loader + Scavenger, Hand Cannon Targeting, Special/Heavy ammo finders. Note: Malfeasance is Kinetic, so elemental Weapon-Surge mods do nothing for it — lean on Radiant + Lucky Pants + the Weapons stat instead (a surge matters only for a Solar/Arc/etc. secondary).

Artifact — Queensfoil Censer (Season of the Wish)

Picks (2/3/2): Fever And Chill + Kindling Trigger — Revitalizing Blast + Anti-Champion Nosecone + Perpetual Destruction — Rays of Precision + Solo Operative The Solar/Radiant + precision artifact for a Gunslinger. The Solar-HC mods key off the knife/super and Radiant economy; Solo Operative is the headline for the gun itself.

Solo Operative — precision-kill damage ramp; this build is nothing but precision kills, and it buffs the Kinetic Malfeasance fine (it's not element-locked).
Revitalizing Blast — stunning a Champion ignites it and clears shield stun — layers onto Malfeasance's Unstoppable detonation.
Anti-Champion Nosecone + Perpetual Destruction — champion damage + ammo economy for the boss/Heavy slot the Pants can't personally execute.
Fever And Chill / Kindling Trigger / Rays of Precision — Radiant + Scorch + ignition off your Solar super/knife, keeping Radiant rolling and adding AoE.

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 Scavenger 1e	Solar weapons get bonus reserves when picking up ammo used by that weapon.
	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.
Class Item (4/10)	Reaper 1e fill	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
	Bomber 1e fill	Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
	Powerful Attraction 2e fill	Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate 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: **Hand Cannon Targeting**.

The loop

Clear trash with the other weapons; throw the knife for Radiant.
Champion/major appears → draw Malfeasance → Lucky Pants ramp + Radiant + Weapons-stat stacks pour into the mag → slugs cap → detonation stuns Unstoppable and clears the cluster → holster.
On Your Mark hits ×10 → Restoration; re-draw on the next priority target. Golden Gun for an emergency delete.

Verify notes

Lucky Pants + Malfeasance intrinsics quoted verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md`. Malfeasance is Kinetic (per `data/weapon_facts.json`), with intrinsic Unstoppable — confirmed.
Aspect class-check: On Your Mark + Knock 'em Down are Gunslinger (Solar Hunter) aspects (verified vs `docs/encyclopedia/aspects.md`); Embers are Solar fragments. (See [[reference_d2builds_aspect_class_gotcha]] — the dump isn't class-tagged.)
Kinetic tradeoff is real: no elemental surge and no element-locked artifact synergy for the main gun. The multipliers are Lucky Pants ramp + Radiant (+25%, universal) + On Your Mark Weapons stat — still a stacked profile, just sourced off the subclass rather than the weapon's element.
Lucky Pants ramp %, 10 s window, and the −33% boss figure — manifest/in-game (it's been retuned repeatedly). Malfeasance catalyst not asserted here.
Radiant uptime depends on the knife (Ember of Torches) + Knock 'em Down since the main gun is Kinetic (Ember of Empyrean's Solar-kill extension won't fire off Malfeasance) — keep throwing the knife.