Sleeper Simulant — Dornröschen (Hunter)

Weapon: Sleeper Simulant (Linear Fusion Rifle · Heavy · Solar) · Subclass: Gunslinger (Solar) · Role: Burst boss/miniboss DPS — radiant ricochet laser Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Created 2026-06-16

One bolt that overpenetrates, ricochets off geometry, and in 9.7.0 hits bosses and champions 10% harder. The build is built around one idea: keep Sleeper loaded, keep yourself Radiant, and air-dodge between shots. Rain of Fire is the iconic Hunter LFR exotic — an air dodge reloads every gun and LFR kills make you radiant — so the reload chore and the damage buff are the same button. Holster, air-dodge, fire, repeat.

The weapon

Dornröschen (exotic perk, verbatim): "The weapon's laser overpenetrates enemies and refracts off hard surfaces."

Sleeper Simulant Catalyst (verbatim): "Accelerated Coils: Speeds up weapon charge. / Deeper Pockets: Increased ammo reserves."

What it does: Sleeper fires a high-impact Solar linear-fusion bolt that punches through a target and bounces off walls/floors — one shot can hit a boss, the wall behind it, and tag adds on the rebound. The catalyst is the boss-DPS enabler: Accelerated Coils cuts charge time so your damage-per-second floor rises, and Deeper Pockets adds reserves so a single Heavy brick lasts a full DPS phase. 9.7.0 gave the whole gun a flat +10% vs bosses and champions — it sits in the top tier of Heavy LFR burst DPS.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	Radiant access + Golden Gun seeds Orbs for the dodge/Super economy.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	One precision GG shot for an off-cooldown priority kill and Orb spawn; on-element so it surges Solar.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Reloads the equipped weapon on dodge — but the air-dodge that triggers Rain of Fire reloads everything anyway; Marksman gives the on-ground reload + faster cooldown.
Melee	Lightweight Knife	Precision knife kill → Radiant (Ember of Torches). Cheap radiant top-up between Sleeper shots.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	Cure + sustain; the gun is the damage, the grenade keeps you alive standing still during a DPS phase.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Class-ability/precision hits grant +Weapons stat ×10 to you and allies — straight per-bolt Sleeper damage, and you proc it just by dodging.
Aspect 2	Knock 'Em Down	Enhances Marksman GG (longer duration) so the Super damage/Orb window is bigger; flavour-locks the kit to Gunslinger.
Fragments	Ember of Torches (melee → Radiant), Ember of Empyrean (Solar weapon/ability kills extend Radiant — Sleeper kills self-sustain the buff), Ember of Solace (Radiant lasts longer), Ember of Singeing (class-ability regen → more dodges → more reloads).
Exotic armour	Rain of Fire (Leg Armor) — Soaring Fusilier	The build's keystone. Air dodge reloads all weapons and boosts LFR airborne effectiveness; LFR final blows make you radiant.
Heavy (the gun)	Sleeper Simulant	The centerpiece.
Energy	Tractor Cannon (Solar Shotgun) — Repulsor Force	Weakens the boss ~30% (a separate debuff multiplier on top of Radiant) and stuns/handles Overload. Swap to Sleeper after the shove.
Kinetic	Envious Assassin / Bait-and-Switch primary (or any add-clear primary)	Kills before drawing overfill the mag (or, on an LFR with B&S, the 3-weapon swap buffs Sleeper).

Why this works (the mechanics)

• Rain of Fire makes the reload and the buff one action. A linear fusion's weakness is the reload between shots and staying grounded. Soaring Fusilier removes both: air-dodge → every gun reloads instantly, and any LFR final blow makes you Radiant. So the optimal Sleeper rhythm — fire, jump, dodge in air, fire — reloads Sleeper and keeps Radiant rolling with zero downtime.
• Radiant is a clean weapon-damage multiplier and you have four sources. Rain of Fire (LFR kills), Ember of Torches (knife), Knock 'Em Down's Radiant-while- GG, and the Solar subclass verb itself. Radiant's increased weapon damage stacks multiplicatively with Tractor's weaken and On Your Mark's Weapons stat — three independent buckets onto one bolt.
• On Your Mark double-dips the 9.7.0 Weapons stat. Its ×10 stacks add the Weapons stat, which adds PvE weapon damage on top of Radiant — and you proc it off the class ability, i.e. the same dodge you're already spamming for Rain of Fire reloads. Free ramp.
• The catalyst is the DPS floor. Accelerated Coils shortens charge time so bolts come faster; Deeper Pockets makes one Heavy brick cover a whole damage phase. Sleeper's overpenetration + ricochet means a single bolt can hit the boss crit and the ground behind it for a second damage instance in tight arenas.
• Golden Gun is the economy, not the damage. Marksman GG one-shots a priority target → spawns Orbs → Orbs feed Super back and (via mods) abilities, so dodges and the next GG come around faster. Knock 'Em Down lengthens the window. The gun is the boss damage; the Super keeps the loop fed.
• Tractor is the team multiplier + Overload answer. Repulsor Force weakens the boss ~30% (a debuff bucket Sleeper rides for the whole fireteam) and is intrinsically strong against Overload champions — the one champion Sleeper itself can't reliably stun.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Health 100+ → Super → Class. Weapons is the priority — it's a direct PvE damage stat on Sleeper and On Your Mark piles more on. Health 100+ so you can stand and DPS; Super to recycle Golden Gun for Orbs; Class to keep Marksman's Dodge (the Rain of Fire trigger) on a short cooldown.

Archetypes: Powerhouse / Gunner pieces that favour Weapons + Super. Mods:

• Boots: Solar Weapon Surge ×2 (≈+17% Solar weapon damage — straight onto Sleeper) · Orbs of Restoration.
• Arms: Heavy Ammo Finder / Reserves; Fastball if you keep Healing Grenade for placement.
• Helmet: Harmonic/Solar Siphon (Orbs for the GG/dodge economy) · Ashes to Assets (Super on grenade/GG-adjacent kills) · Dynamo (Super on dodge — stacks with the dodge you already spam).
• Class item: Powerful Attraction (dodge vacuums Orbs) · Reaper · Bomber.
• Mandatory: Heavy Finisher / Special Finisher to top reserves mid-phase.
• Stat tuning: +Weapons/−Class or +Weapons/−Health to push Weapons toward 200.

Where it shines

• Boss / miniboss DPS: raids, dungeons, GM bosses — the +10% boss buff, Radiant, Tractor weaken, On Your Mark and Solar Surge stack into one of the hardest-hitting Heavy LFR rotations available. Ricochet adds chip in tight rooms.
• Champions: Sleeper has no intrinsic champion stun (its perk is overpenetration/ricochet, not a Stagger/Disruption/Anti-Barrier keyword), and it's a Precision-frame Heavy LFR — flag this: it does not self-stun a champion. Tractor Cannon covers Overload; bring a primary/special whose archetype covers Barrier and Unstoppable (Anti-Champion 2.0: archetype- intrinsic stuns). Sleeper's job is to delete the champion's health bar once it's stunned, not to stun it.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

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).