Solar

Jötunn — Tracking Furnace (Solar Hunter)

Aim-and-forget room clear + scorch/ignite engine

Your gear best achievable Weapons 161 / 150 target — gear ready

Health 30 · Melee 46 · Grenade 63 · Super 23 · Class 38 · Weapons 161 · armour only; stat mods + fragments add more

✓ Manifest Solar · Special · No intrinsic champion

Centerpiece: Jötunn (Fusion Rifle · Special · Solar) · Subclass: Gunslinger · Role: Aim-and-forget room clear + scorch/ignite engine Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

Hold the trigger, let go, and watch a homing fireball burn down whatever it touches. Jötunn is the laziest precision weapon in the game — it tracks, so it doesn't care that a Fusion Rifle has no zoom and you have no aim. The catalyst bolts Incandescent onto the charge shot, so every kill sprays scorch, and the Solar Hunter turns that scorch into radiant, melee energy, class-ability regen and Firesprites. The whole build is one button held a half-second.

The weapon

Charge Shot (intrinsic): Hold down the trigger to charge up a tracking shot that explodes and burns on impact.

Catalyst — Cornered / Incandescent: Cornered: Faster charge time or draw time when surrounded by combatants. / Incandescent: Defeating a target spreads scorch to those nearby.

The base gun fires a tracking explosive bolt that already applies burn (Solar scorch) on impact — you point in the general direction and the projectile finds the target on its own, which erases the fact that a Fusion Rifle has no zoom and no aim assist to speak of. The catalyst adds the two effects the build is built around: Cornered cuts the charge time when enemies are close, deleting Jötunn's one weakness (its long charge) in exactly the swarms you want to nuke, and Incandescent turns every kill into an AoE scorch burst. Scorch is the Solar debuff that, stacked high enough, ignites for a big burst — and Gunslinger is the subclass built to farm scorch. It is a Special-ammo fusion, so it shares the Special brick economy with your other Special pick.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	Native scorch→ignite economy turns Incandescent into a full ability loop.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	Cheap, fast Super that banks while the gun does the work; swap to Blade Barrage for a bigger add-clear Super.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Reloads Jötunn on dodge and is the On Your Mark trigger; stacks with Rain of Fire's air-dodge reload.
Movement	Triple Jump	Maximises air time so Rain of Fire's air dodge is always available to reload mid-fight.
Melee	Lightweight Knife	Scorch-on-hit; precision knife kills feed the Torches radiant loop.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	Pure sustain — cure + restoration; the gun is the damage, the grenade keeps you up.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Class-ability use / precision hits grant reload speed + Weapons stat (stacks ×10) to you and allies.
Aspect 2	Gunpowder Gamble	Kills charge a thrown Solar explosive → guaranteed ignition; Jötunn's scorch flood feeds it fast.
Fragments	Searing · Singeing · Torches · Empyrean	Convert Jötunn's constant scorch into melee energy, faster dodge, radiant and extended buffs.
Exotic armour	Rain of Fire (Leg Armor)	Fusion final blows make you radiant and air dodge reloads Jötunn — self-buff and self-reload from the gun alone.
Weapons	Overload/Barrier primary + Solar heavy (MG or rocket)	Primary covers champions and range past fusion; Solar heavy matches the surge for bosses.

Fragments

Ember of Searing defeating scorched targets grants melee energy + a Firesprite
Ember of Singeing class ability recharges faster when you scorch targets
Ember of Torches powered melee makes you and allies radiant
Ember of Empyrean Solar weapon/ability final blows extend restoration and radiant

Why it works (the mechanics)

Tracking removes the aim tax. Fusions have no zoom and a charge delay; Jötunn's bolt homes, so the only input is "point roughly and release." Cornered deletes the charge delay in crowds — the exact situation where a tracking AoE bolt is best — so in a swarm Jötunn fires almost instantly and the shot finds a target itself.
Incandescent + Gunslinger is a closed scorch loop. Every kill spreads scorch (catalyst); scorched-target kills grant melee energy + a Firesprite (Ember of Searing) and faster class-ability regen (Ember of Singeing); enough scorch ignites for AoE, and Gunpowder Gamble converts kills into a thrown guaranteed ignition. The gun fuels the abilities — you just keep firing.
Three radiant sources keep the buff live. Rain of Fire (fusion final blow → radiant), Ember of Torches (powered melee → radiant) and Ember of Empyrean (Solar final blows extend radiant) mean Jötunn self-applies radiant with no setup. Radiant is a flat weapon-damage multiplier, so Jötunn's own bolt hits harder for free.
Reload is solved twice. Marksman's Dodge reloads on dodge; Rain of Fire reloads on air dodge. Jötunn's small mag never bottlenecks because both class-ability triggers refill it — and Singeing shortens the dodge cooldown off the scorch you are already applying.
On Your Mark stacks the Weapons stat. Class-ability use and precision hits stack the Weapons stat (up to ×10), adding weapon damage on top of radiant — two independent buffs from just running the loop, shared with allies.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Class → Health. Weapons because radiant and On Your Mark already lean on weapon damage and Jötunn is the build; Class to keep Marksman's Dodge (the reload + On Your Mark trigger) on a short cooldown, which Singeing shortens further; Health as the floor, since Healing Grenade + restoration cover sustain. This is a weapons-archetype lean with a class-ability secondary.

Mods:

Boots (Rain of Fire): Fusion Rifle Reserves ×2 — Special reserves are the only real constraint on the loop.
Arms: Fusion Rifle Loader ×2 (or Melee Font to feed the Searing melee loop).
Chest: Concussive Dampener / elemental resists — Jötunn's own explosion can hurt you point-blank.
Class item: Reaper (dodge → next kill spawns an Orb) · Bomber (dodge → grenade energy).
Surge: Solar Weapon Surge on legs if a slot frees, to buff Jötunn directly.
Anti-Champion: none intrinsic on Jötunn — carry the champion mods/stuns on your other two weapons (Radiant covers Unstoppable behaviourally).

Artifact — Implement of Curiosity

The Solar-leaning artifact for a radiant/scorch Gunslinger: it turns Jötunn's own precision impacts into Radiant, builds a Solar pickup → damage chain on top of Incandescent, and hands the build the Unstoppable answer Jötunn lacks.

Picks (2/3/2):

Tier 1: Fever and Chill · Semi-Auto Striker
Tier 2: Energy Acceleration · Elemental Daze · Elemental Coalescence
Tier 3: Radiant Shrapnel · Elemental Overdrive

Fever and Chill grants Radiant on rapid Solar precision hits — Jötunn's bolt self-applies the +damage buff the whole loop is built on.
Semi-Auto Striker generates Armor Charge from rapid precision hits, feeding the Armor Charge economy this build pays off with surge/font mods.
Energy Acceleration makes sustained micro-missile damage emit a Kinetic shockwave that is strong against Unstoppable Champions — the coverage Jötunn itself cannot provide.
Elemental Daze turns a Champion stun with an elemental weapon into an elemental explosion and debuff, stacking with the scorch you are already spreading.
Elemental Coalescence drops Solar Elemental pickups from kills (Solar Super equipped) — extra Firesprite-style economy on top of Incandescent.
Radiant Shrapnel pays off both of Jötunn's floods at once: sustained damage while Radiant or a scorched-target kill releases Solar projectiles that scorch on impact.
Elemental Overdrive boosts Solar weapon damage when you grab the Coalescence pickups — a direct Jötunn buff that closes the pickup → damage chain.

Where it shines

Add-dense PvE — strikes, Nightfalls, seasonal activities, Onslaught: Cornered charges instantly in swarms, the bolt tracks, and Incandescent chain-scorches the whole pack into ignitions. This is Jötunn's home.
Lost Sectors / solo: aim-free room clear with self-radiant and self-heal.
Champion coverage: Jötunn has no intrinsic champion stun (manifest confirms no champion frame). Radiant covers Unstoppable behaviourally, and Energy Acceleration (artifact) adds an Unstoppable shockwave — but treat champion stun as the job of your other two weapons: bring an Overload or Barrier primary, and a Solar heavy for bosses.
PvP: niche — tracking + one-shot body kills are real, but the charge time and ammo economy keep it a special-pick, not a primary.

Verify notes

Weapon facts (Fusion Rifle · Solar · Special · RPM n/a · no champion) confirmed in `data/weapon_facts.json` — Fusion Rifles have no RPM value (charge-time weapons), so no RPM is quoted. Build prose already matched; no correction needed.
Intrinsic (Charge Shot) verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` line 262; catalyst (Cornered / Incandescent) verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/catalysts.md` line 91 (trimmed a trailing "larger radius" sentence not present in the manifest dump).
Rain of Fire (Soaring Fusilier) verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` (Leg Armor); not class-tagged in the dump, but it is a Hunter exotic and the fusion/air-dodge identity is Hunter-only here.
Aspects/fragments verified in `docs/encyclopedia/aspects.md` (On Your Mark line 142, Gunpowder Gamble line 89) and `fragments.md` (Searing 37, Singeing 38, Torches 43, Empyrean 31). Fragment stat deltas are from the manifest dump.
Charge time, radiant +25%, scorch→ignite threshold are standard sandbox values not in the encyclopedia dump — flagged as manifest/tuning; confirm exact numbers in-game.
Champion handling: the manifest gives Jötunn no champion-stun line, so this build assigns champion stun to the other two weapon slots; Radiant-vs-Unstoppable is a behavioural pairing, not an intrinsic Jötunn stun.

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 (5/10)	Melee Font 1e	You gain a bonus to your melee stat while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge decays over time.
	Melee Font 1e	You gain a bonus to your melee stat while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge decays over time.
	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.
Chest (8/10)	Concussive Dampener 3e	Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
	Concussive Dampener 3e	Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
	Solar Resistance 2e fill	Reduces incoming Solar 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 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 (3/10)	Reaper 1e	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
	Reaper 1e	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
	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: to buff Jötunn directly. - **Anti-Champion:** none intrinsic on Jötunn — carry the champion mods/stuns on your other two weapons (Radiant covers Unstoppable behaviourally).