Solar

Lumina — The Field Medic Hand Cannon (Hunter)

Fireteam medic + team damage-buffer

✓ Manifest Kinetic · Primary · 140 RPM · No intrinsic champion

Centerpiece: Lumina (Hand Cannon · Primary · Kinetic) · Subclass: Gunslinger (Solar) · Role: Fireteam medic + team damage-buffer Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

A hand cannon that shoots healing. Every kill drops a Remnant; scoop one and your next hipfire shot becomes an ally-seeking Noble Round that heals a teammate and buffs both your weapon damage and theirs. Stack a Solar support subclass and Aeon Swift on top, and you become the guardian nobody wants to run a GM without — the medic who also makes the whole fireteam hit harder.

The weapon

Noble Rounds (intrinsic): "Kills with this weapon leave behind Remnants. Absorbing a Remnant converts your next hipfired shot into an ally-seeking Noble Round and partially refills the magazine."

Blessing of the Sky (weapon perk): "Using a Noble Round on an ally heals them and grants both you and them a weapon damage bonus for a short duration."

Catalyst — Resonant Virtue: "Gain two Remnants per final blow instead of one."

The loop is: kill an add → a Remnant tracks to you (10 m, 8 s), absorbing it refills 4 rounds and banks one Noble Round stack (max 6) → hipfire that Noble Round into a wounded ally → the seeking orb restores 90 HP and stamps both that ally and you with Blessing of the Sky: +35% weapon damage (15% in PvP) and 100 Class stat for 11 seconds. So one trigger is a heal and a two-target DPS buff. The catalyst doubles Remnant income to two per kill, so at a normal add-clear pace you almost never run dry. It stays a Primary-ammo 140 workhorse the whole time, never competing for the special/heavy your DPS players want.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	Solar turns every heal you throw into your own ability regen via Ember of Benevolence.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	Summon a precision flaming pistol that scorches and disintegrates targets with Solar Light — on-theme single-target delete whose precision hits make Orbs of Power that feed the orb economy.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Instant reload of all weapons + collects ammo bricks in 15 m — re-arms Lumina between Noble Rounds and triggers On Your Mark.
Movement	Triple Jump / Strafe Jump	Positional control so you can reposition to the team to place Noble Rounds and eat less splash.
Melee	Lightweight Knife	Cheap precision-kill throw; keeps you shooting and generating Remnants.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	A second team-heal source that also procs Ember of Benevolence and Ember of Empyrean.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Class ability or precision hits grant you and nearby allies reload speed and Weapons stat, stacks ten times — a free second team buff on top of Noble Rounds.
Aspect 2	Gunpowder Gamble	Defeat targets to charge an improvised Solar explosive — more add kills = more Remnants = more Noble Rounds.
Fragments	Benevolence · Empyrean · Solace · Torches	Convert your healing output into ability regen and keep restoration/radiant sustained.
Exotic armour	Aeon Swift (Gauntlets) — Sect of Vigor	Support role mod: class energy + damage reduction on ally death/revive; DR to critically-wounded allies.
Weapons	Solar special (fusion / GL / sniper) + Champion heavy (MG or rocket)	Solar special feeds Empyrean and surge mods and opens DPS windows; heavy covers the champions Lumina can't.

Fragments

Ember of Benevolence applying restoration/cure/radiant to allies boosts grenade, melee, and class regen — Lumina's heals and Healing Grenade proc this constantly
Ember of Empyrean Solar final blows extend restoration and radiant on you
Ember of Solace longer restoration/radiant on you
Ember of Torches powered melee makes you and nearby allies radiant — a second buff verb

Why it works (the mechanics)

One trigger, two payoffs, two people. Blessing of the Sky heals the targeted ally for 90 HP and grants both that ally and you +35% weapon damage plus 100 Class stat for 11 s. Most support exotics do heal-or-buff; Lumina does both, to two guardians, per Noble Round — and Resonant Virtue's two-Remnants-per-kill keeps the supply flowing at normal add-clear pace.
Solar makes supporting the team fund your own kit. Ember of Benevolence reads that applying restoration, cure, or radiant to allies grants increased grenade, melee, and class ability regeneration. Every Noble Round and every Healing Grenade you land on a teammate is therefore also refilling your abilities — the heals you throw are the engine that keeps you topped up.
On Your Mark is a second, free ally buff layered on Lumina. Landing precision hits or using Marksman's Dodge grants you and nearby allies reload speed and Weapons stat, stacking to ten. So between Noble Rounds (heal + damage buff) and On Your Mark (Weapons stat + reload), you stack two independent team buffs — and Weapons stat is a real PvE damage lift in 9.7.0.
Aeon Swift / Sect of Vigor is revive insurance for the medic. The Aeon Cult role mod grants class-ability energy and damage reduction when an ally dies or you resurrect one, plus DR to critically-wounded allies. Your most dangerous moment in a GM is the rez — Aeon makes you tankier exactly then and refunds your dodge so you can re-arm and instantly heal the revived player.
The whole thing is fed by add-clear, not a fragile rotation. Kills → Remnants (×2 with catalyst) → Noble Rounds → heals/buffs → Ember of Benevolence regen → grenade and dodge return → On Your Mark stacks from the precision hits you're already landing. You play a normal primary and the team support falls out of it.
Golden Gun: Marksman closes the orb economy. Its precision hits create Orbs of Power, and Marksman's Dodge / Powerful Attraction vacuum them — feeding both your Super and any Charged-with-Light-style economy while you keep the fireteam upright.

Stats & mods

Health 200 → Class → Weapons. Health keeps the medic alive standing near the team in −power content; Class returns Marksman's Dodge fast — every dodge is a reload, an On Your Mark trigger, and (via Benevolence) ability regen; Weapons last because Lumina is a primary and On Your Mark already hands the team a Weapons-stat buff.

Archetype lean: Specialist / Gunner (Health + Class) for a durable support who cycles the dodge often.

Mods:

Boots: Solar Weapon Surge ×2 (surge your Solar special for DPS windows — Lumina is Kinetic), Orbs of Restoration.
Arms: Hand Cannon Loader, Fastball (lands the Healing Grenade where the team is).
Chest: Solar + Kinetic Resistance, or spread all-element resist — you stand near the team and eat splash.
Class item: Reaper / Powerful Attraction (orb vacuum feeds Golden Gun + Aeon), Class Font.
Surge: Solar Weapon Surge (matches the special that opens burn windows).
Anti-Champion: none intrinsic — carry Anti-Champion coverage on the special/heavy (see below).

Artifact — Implement of Curiosity

The Solar artifact amplifies Gunslinger's Radiant loop and pays it back — a fit for a support build whose Embers already pump Radiant to allies, while giving Lumina's Kinetic primary a damage perk and covering the champions a 140 HC can't.

Picks (2/3/2):

Tier 1: Fever and Chill · Semi-Auto Striker
Tier 2: Elemental Daze · Cauterized Darkness · That Fresh Bullets Smell
Tier 3: Radiant Shrapnel · Argent Quiver

Fever and Chill grants Radiant on rapid precision hits with Solar weapons — feeds your buff economy through the Solar special.
Semi-Auto Striker generates Armor Charge from precision shots, banking Charge for your Orbs-of-Restoration and Argent Quiver while you stay on adds.
Elemental Daze lets your elemental special/heavy stun any Champion — the Anti-Champion coverage Lumina intrinsically lacks.
Cauterized Darkness makes debuffed minors take bonus Solar damage, lifting your Solar special's add-clear.
That Fresh Bullets Smell buffs your Kinetic weapons on ammo bricks — a straight damage uptick on Lumina.
Radiant Shrapnel releases bursts while you sustain damage under Radiant — paying off the Radiant you and the team run.
Argent Quiver spends Armor Charge for weapon damage, cashing the Charge Semi-Auto Striker builds.

Where it shines

Grandmaster Nightfalls / contest-mode raids — the home run. You are the designated medic-plus-buffer: Noble Rounds top up squishy DPS players and hand them +35% weapon damage right before a burn, On Your Mark stacks their Weapons stat, and Aeon makes the inevitable rez survivable, freeing the fireteam to run pure-DPS loadouts.
Coordinated 3-stacks with a dedicated boss-DPS player — Noble Round → Blessing of the Sky damage buff dropped on the DPS guardian exactly as the damage phase opens.
Solo play — weakest case. Noble Rounds need allies to matter; alone you get the heal-on-self loop and a fine 140 Kinetic add-clear HC, but half the exotic sits idle. This is a fireteam tool by design.
Champion coverage: Lumina's 140 RPM frame stuns nothing intrinsically (no anti-champion). Bring your Solar special/heavy in Barrier- and Unstoppable-covering frames, and lean on Elemental Daze from the artifact to stun any Champion with that elemental special/heavy.

Verify notes

Element / ammo / RPM confirmed via manifest (`data/weapon_facts.json`): Lumina is Kinetic, Hand Cannon, Primary ammo, 140 RPM, intrinsic champion none. The build's prose already matched — no correction needed on the facts strip.
Corrected a labelling error from the pre-normalisation file: Blessing of the Sky was mislabelled a "catalyst-tied perk". It is a base weapon perk (`docs/encyclopedia/perks.md`); the actual catalyst is Resonant Virtue (`docs/encyclopedia/catalysts.md`). Fixed in the anchor section.
Verbatim quotes: Noble Rounds from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md`; Blessing of the Sky and Golden Gun: Marksman from `docs/encyclopedia/perks.md`; Resonant Virtue from `docs/encyclopedia/catalysts.md`; On Your Mark / Gunpowder Gamble / Knock 'Em Down from `docs/encyclopedia/aspects.md`; Embers from `docs/encyclopedia/fragments.md`.
Exact numbers from `clarity_build_numbers.md`: Noble Rounds refills 4 rounds + 1 stack (max 6), Remnants track within 10 m / last 8 s; Blessing of the Sky heals 90 HP, grants 35% [15% PvP] weapon damage + 100 Class stat for 11 s; Marksman's Dodge instant-reloads and collects ammo bricks within 15 m.
Aeon Swift perk text is blank in `exotics.md`; the Aeon Cult role mod Sect of Vigor (class energy + DR on ally death/revive; DR to critically-wounded allies) is sourced from manifest mod definitions, not the encyclopedia exotic line — flagged as manifest-sourced.
Boots of the Assembler even names Lumina (grants it +30 airborne effectiveness and Noble Rounds), but it is a Warlock Leg Armor — not available to Hunters, hence Aeon Swift as the Hunter support exotic (`exotics.md`, `clarity_build_numbers.md`).
Artifact section is audit-legal: Implement of Curiosity with the exact 2/3/2 preserved; all mods are real pool entries. Blessing of the Sky radius values show as `?` in Clarity — not numerically specified, left unquantified.

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)	Fastball 1e	Increases grenade throw distance.
	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)	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	Your Solar weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
	Orbs of Restoration 1e	Picking up an Orb of Power grants a small amount of energy to your ability with the least energy.
Class Item (6/10)	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.
	Class Font 3e	You gain a bonus to your class stat while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge decays over time.

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: or spread all-element resist — you stand near the team.