Solar

Gjallarhorn — Wolfpack Warlord (Solar Hunter)

Boss DPS — a Super↔rocket rotation that buffs the whole fireteam's rockets

Your gear best achievable Super 125 / 200 target — 75 short — needs better rolls

Health 83 · Melee 48 · Grenade 9 · Super 125 · Class 8 · Weapons 68 · armour only; stat mods + fragments add more

✓ Manifest Solar · Heavy · 15 RPM · No intrinsic champion

Centerpiece: Gjallarhorn (Rocket Launcher · Heavy · Solar) · Subclass: Gunslinger · Role: Boss DPS — a Super↔rocket rotation that buffs the whole fireteam's rockets Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

The original raid trophy, and still the only rocket that makes other people's rockets hit harder. Every impact splits into tracking Wolfpack micro-missiles, the catalyst adds a fatter homing missile on every kill, and Pack Hunter sprays Wolfpack Rounds onto every non-exotic rocket in the fireteam. Your job as the Hunter is to burn the two-shot burst, dodge to skip the reload, and alternate it with a fully-overcharged Golden Gun so the boss never gets a breath.

The weapon

Wolfpack Rounds (intrinsic): "Rounds fired split into tracking micro-missiles upon detonation."

Pack Hunter (weapon trait): "Gain increased handling and reload speed when standing near allies. Firing this weapon also grants Wolfpack Rounds to nearby allies wielding non-Exotic Rocket Launchers."

Catalyst — More Wolves: "Increases magazine size. Final blows with Wolfpack Rounds spawn a faster, more powerful micro-missile at the target's location."

A 15 RPM Solar Heavy rocket whose direct hit is only the opening move. On detonation it spawns a swarm of tracking micro-missiles; the catalyst grows the magazine (so you fire twice before reloading) and adds a heavier homing missile on every Wolfpack kill; and Pack Hunter makes it a team weapon — any non-exotic rocket fired nearby also gains Wolfpack Rounds. That is the whole pitch: Gjallarhorn is a fireteam DPS multiplier, not just a personal gun. Its one weakness is the tiny reserve and slow reload of an Aggressive rocket, which is exactly what Marksman's Dodge and an orb-fed Golden Gun exist to paper over. Note it carries no intrinsic Champion stun (see Verify notes).

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	Solar element matches the rocket so one surge and the Ember fragments buff both halves of the rotation.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	Single-target precision Super — the off-rotation nuke fired while the rocket reloads.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Instantly reloads Gjallarhorn mid-fight — fire the burst, dodge, fire again with no reload animation.
Movement	Triple Jump	Aerial repositioning to line up rocket shots and reach orbs without leaving the damage lane.
Melee	Lightweight Knife	Precision-kill loop that feeds Radiant + Ember of Searing melee/Firesprite economy.
Grenade	Tripmine Grenade	Sticks the boss for chip + scorch and is a cheap ignition feeder for the Solar verbs.
Aspect 1	Knock 'Em Down	Marksman Golden Gun gains increased duration — more shots per Super, a longer burst window between rocket reloads.
Aspect 2	Gunpowder Gamble	Defeating adds charges a free Solar explosive → ignitions for ammo/Firesprite economy without spending Super or rocket ammo on trash.
Fragments	Ashes · Searing · Char · Empyrean	Scorch/ignition economy plus Radiant/Restoration upkeep off Solar kills (see line below).
Exotic armour	Star-Eater Scales (Leg Armor)	Converts the orbs Gjallarhorn generates into a fully-overcharged Golden Gun — the second nuke of the rotation.
Weapons	non-exotic Rocket Launcher (Energy) + Solar Special/orb-pump Primary (Kinetic)	The energy rocket catches Pack Hunter's Wolfpack Rounds for a self double-dip; the primary just pumps orbs to keep Star-Eater fed.

Fragments

Ember of Ashes more scorch per hit → faster ignitions
Ember of Searing scorch kills → melee energy + Firesprite, your add-clear economy
Ember of Char ignitions spread scorch, +10 Grenade
Ember of Empyrean Solar weapon/ability kills extend Radiant and Restoration — Gjallarhorn kills keep both rolling

Why it works (the mechanics)

The catalyst turns it into a burst weapon. More Wolves increases the magazine, so you fire multiple rockets — multiple impacts, multiple micro-missile swarms, plus a bonus homing missile on every Wolfpack kill — before you ever touch reload. Against a boss that is the difference between one wave of Wolfpacks and a sustained swarm.
Marksman's Dodge is the reload. Aggressive rockets reload slowly; dodging refills the magazine instantly. Fire the burst → dodge → fire again → cast Golden Gun → repeat. The rocket's only real weakness (15 RPM, slow reload) is erased by the class ability.
Pack Hunter makes one rocket a fireteam rocket. Standing near allies buffs Gjallarhorn's own handling and reload and grants Wolfpack Rounds to every nearby non-exotic rocket. In a damage phase the whole team's rockets split into tracking swarms — which is why it never left the meta. Running your own non-exotic rocket in the energy slot lets you self-double-dip.
Star-Eater alternates the burst with the Super, no downtime. Gjallarhorn generates Orbs (siphon / Heavy Handed); Feast of Light funnels them into a fully overcharged Golden Gun the instant Super is full → bonus Super damage + a heal + an overshield. You are either rocketing or Golden-Gunning the entire phase.
Solar everything stacks one surge. Solar rocket + Solar Super + Solar weapon surge on the boots means a single +damage source rides both halves of the rotation, and Ember of Empyrean keeps Radiant (a flat weapon-damage buff) up off Gjallarhorn kills so the rocket buffs itself.
The scorch loop feeds the Golden Gun half for free. Gunpowder Gamble and Tripmine keep ignitions rolling on the adds; Ember of Searing turns those scorch kills into melee energy and Firesprites, so add-clear pays for the ability economy without spending rocket ammo or Super on trash.

Stats & mods

Super 200 → Weapons → Class. Super maximises Golden Gun uptime (the second nuke); Weapons adds universal PvE weapon damage on top of the rocket; Class feeds Marksman's Dodge (the reload). Lean Super/Weapons archetype armour.

Mods:

Boots: Solar Weapon Surge ×2 — straight +Solar weapon damage onto Gjallarhorn, the single biggest mod for the gun.
Arms: Heavy Handed (powered-melee kills → Orb, more Star-Eater fuel) · Heavy Ammo Finder.
Chest: Solar/Arc/Void Resistance to taste under the overshield.
Class item: Powerful Attraction (dodge vacuums orbs straight into Super overcharge) · Reaper.
Surge: Solar Weapon Surge (matches rocket, Super, and Radiant into one damage stack).
Anti-Champion: none intrinsic — bring a champion-capable secondary or artifact stun for Barrier/Overload/Unstoppable (see Where it shines).

Artifact — Queensfoil Censer

The Solar-and-Rocket artifact: it amplifies the Radiant/Scorch loop that feeds Golden Gun and directly buffs Gjallarhorn's damage, reload, and Armor Charge economy.

Picks (2/3/2):

Tier 1: Kindling Trigger · Blast Radius
Tier 2: Anti-Champion Nosecone · Perpetual Destruction · Revitalizing Blast
Tier 3: Argent Ordnance · Rays of Precision

Kindling Trigger makes Radiant cause Solar weapons to apply Scorch to unscorched combatants — turning every Gjallarhorn hit into an ignition feeder while Radiant is up.
Blast Radius grants Armor Charge on rapid rocket/grenade-launcher final blows — the fuel that Argent Ordnance spends.
Anti-Champion Nosecone makes Rocket Launchers deal increased damage to Champions — bonus damage into champion targets (note: damage, not a stun).
Perpetual Destruction refunds ammo and boosts reload on rapid non-exotic rocket kills — keeps the energy-slot Wolfpack rocket firing.
Revitalizing Blast ignites a Champion when you stun it and clears your shield stun — it pays off a stun rather than providing one, so it needs a stun source in the kit.
Argent Ordnance consumes a stack of Armor Charge on firing a rocket for increased damage and reload — the headline DPS multiplier, fed by Blast Radius.
Rays of Precision ignites combatants on Radiant Solar precision final blows — pays off Radiant on the Golden Gun half and keeps scorch spreading.

Where it shines

Raid/dungeon boss DPS: the two-nuke rotation (overcharged Golden Gun ↔ catalyzed Gjallarhorn) plus Pack Hunter buffing the whole team's rockets is a classic, still-top-tier damage phase.
GM / −30/−40 content: Anti-Champion Nosecone + Argent Ordnance make the rocket a high-value priority-target deleter, while Star-Eater's overshield and Restoration cover survivability.
Champion coverage: none intrinsic — Gjallarhorn has no built-in stun (champion = None in the manifest) and this exact 2/3/2 has no stun mod either; Anti-Champion Nosecone only adds Champion damage. Bring a champion-capable primary (or an artifact stun mod) for Barrier/Overload/Unstoppable, and let Golden Gun handle priority kills.

Verify notes

Manifest-confirmed weapon facts (`data/weapon_facts.json`): Gjallarhorn = Rocket Launcher · Solar · Heavy · 15 RPM · intrinsic Champion = None. Corrected the old prose, which claimed the Aggressive frame intrinsically stuns Unstoppable and cited an "Unstoppable Rocket Launcher" artifact mod that is not in the chosen Queensfoil Censer 2/3/2 (and not in that artifact's pool) — this loadout carries no Champion stun.
Wolfpack Rounds and Pack Hunter verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` / `perks.md`; catalyst More Wolves verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/catalysts.md`.
Star-Eater Scales — Feast of Light verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md`. Clarity (`clarity_build_numbers.md`) puts the overcharge bonus at 70% increased Super damage + 200 HP heal + 100 HP overshield at 6 stacks; orb Super-energy gain is reduced to 0.5% while Golden Gun: Marksman is equipped (the damage/heal payoff still applies) — flagged as tuning, confirm in-game.
Gunslinger aspects Knock 'Em Down / Gunpowder Gamble and the four Ember fragments verified against `docs/encyclopedia/aspects.md` / `fragments.md`.
All seven artifact mods verified as real Queensfoil Censer picks (exactly 2/3/2) against `docs/encyclopedia/artifacts_structured.md`; artifact name given bare (no "Season of the Wish" suffix).
Numbers Bungie does not expose (Wolfpack micro-missile damage, catalyst magazine size) are not fabricated here — confirm in-game.

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 (8/10)	Heavy Handed 3e	Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
	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.
Chest (6/10)	Void Resistance 1e	Reduces incoming Void damage from combatants.
	Solar Resistance 2e fill	Reduces incoming Solar damage from combatants.
	Concussive Dampener 3e fill	Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
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	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	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	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
	Powerful Attraction 2e	Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.
	Bomber 1e fill	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: Super; Radiant into one damage stack). - **Anti-Champion:** none intrinsic — bring a champion-capable secondary or artifact stun for Barrier/Overload/Unstoppable (see Where it shines).