Solar

Tarrabah — Unleash the Beast (Hunter)

Solo-survivable scorch/ignition shredder — feed the Beast, never swap off it

✓ Manifest Solar · Primary · 720 RPM · No intrinsic champion

Weapon: Tarrabah (Submachine Gun · Primary · Solar) · Subclass: Gunslinger · Role: Solo-survivable scorch/ignition shredder — feed the Beast, never swap off it Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Created 2026-06-16

Tarrabah is the one gun that punishes you for weapon-swapping. Ravenous Beast only charges while it's in your hands, drains the instant you holster, and the Beast itself reduces incoming Solar damage. So you don't build a rotation around a second gun — you build a Solar Hunter whose abilities do everything (scorch, ignite, invis, heal) so the trigger never leaves Tarrabah. Charge it on the trash, unleash on the orange, and the catalyst keeps the mag overflowing.

The weapon

Ravenous Beast (verbatim): "This weapon stores power when dealing or receiving damage; defeating combatants or dealing damage to Scorched combatants grants increased progress. [Alternate Weapon Action]: Unleashes the beast when full, increasing outgoing damage and reducing incoming Solar damage."

Catalyst — Ambitious Assassin (verbatim): "Overflows the magazine based on the number of rapid kills before reloading." (Per `docs/knowledge/`: Ravenous Beast tuning also gives +33% charge progress from damaging Scorched combatants — the catalyst and the perk both reward a scorch-heavy kit.)

What it does in practice: hold the trigger on adds to fill the Beast meter (damage dealt and taken both count, and Scorched targets count for more). Hit [Alternate Weapon Action] at full → a damage-boost window where incoming Solar is reduced (huge in Solar-burn content). Ambitious Assassin overflows the mag off rapid kills so the unleashed window doesn't end on an empty mag. The whole gun is built to stay equipped — every design choice below protects that.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Gunslinger (Solar)	Scorch engine feeds Ravenous Beast's Scorched-target bonus; Solar weapon synergy.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman	Off-gun panic/priority delete; Knock 'Em Down extends it. (Nighthawk-free — the Pants/gun is the build.)
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Reloads Tarrabah on dodge — reload without holstering, the one safe "swap-free" refill.
Melee	Knife Trick (or Lightweight Knife)	Scorch + precision-kill Radiant; the ability that does damage for you so the gun stays up.
Grenade	(charge) Gunpowder Gamble aspect, else Tripmine	Gunpowder's [Grenade] is a shoot-to-ignite Solar bomb — ignition scorches a whole pack to feed the Beast.
Aspect 1	Gunpowder Gamble	Add kills charge an improvised Solar explosive; shoot it mid-air → ignition → mass scorch → Beast progress + catalyst +33%.
Aspect 2	On Your Mark	Precision hits (Tarrabah is a hipfire-friendly SMG, but ADS crits stack) grant Weapons stat ×10; ×10 final blows cure you — free sustain while holding the trigger.

Fragments

Ember of Ashes more scorch stacks per hit → faster Beast charge
Ember of Searing scorched kills → melee energy + Firesprite → re-arm the Knife loop
Ember of Char ignitions spread scorch — turns one Gunpowder bomb into a field of Scorched targets the Beast feeds on
Ember of Empyrean Solar final blows extend Radiant/Restoration — Tarrabah is a Solar weapon, so it self-sustains those buffs without swapping

Exotic armour — Assassin's Cowl (Helmet)

Vanishing Execution: "Powered melee final blows grant invisibility and restore a portion of health and shields. Finishers and final blows against more powerful targets increase the duration of the invisibility and the amount of health and shields restored."

The chosen exotic because Tarrabah forbids weapon-swapping. The single biggest problem with a "never holster" gun is you have no panic option — no shotgun swap, no special-ammo reset. Assassin's Cowl makes your melee the reset: Knife Trick final blow → invis (drop aggro, reposition, let the Beast meter ride) + a heal that refills the health you spent taking damage to charge the Beast. It closes the only hole in a one-gun playstyle without ever asking you to leave the gun.

Why this works (the mechanics)

The whole kit exists to keep Tarrabah equipped. Ravenous Beast charges only in-hand and drains on holster, so a second damage weapon is anti-synergy. We replace the usual "swap to your DPS gun" habit with abilities (Gunpowder, Knife, Golden Gun) that deal the off-gun damage without a swap. Marksman's Dodge reloads without holstering; that's the only refill that respects the perk.
Scorch is a damage multiplier on the catalyst itself. Ravenous Beast grants +33% charge progress when damaging Scorched combatants, so every point of the build is a scorch factory: Knife Trick scorches, Gunpowder ignitions scorch, Ember of Ashes adds stacks, Ember of Char spreads scorch off ignitions. You fill the Beast meter roughly a third faster than a non-scorch build does.
Ambitious Assassin pays off the unleashed window. Rapid kills overflow the mag, so when you pop the Beast on a pack you don't run dry mid-damage-buff — the overflow + the +outgoing-damage window chew through orange bars in one sustained burst instead of a burst-reload-burst.
"Receiving damage" charges the Beast — so taking hits is good, and the Cowl pays the bill. The perk literally rewards standing in fire. Assassin's Cowl's melee-kill heal refunds the health you spend charging, and the unleashed Beast's incoming-Solar reduction makes Solar-burn rooms a charging station instead of a death trap.
On Your Mark double-dips the 9.7.0 Weapons stat. Precision hits stack Weapons stat ×10 (more PvE weapon damage on top of the Beast's outgoing buff), and ×10 final blows cure you — a third sustain layer alongside Cowl heal and Empyrean-extended Restoration, all earned just by shooting.
Invisibility is the missing panic button. No special swap means no emergency damage; Vanishing Execution's invis is the escape valve. Knife a wounded add → vanish → the Beast meter keeps whatever it had → re-engage.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Health 100+ → Class → Melee. Weapons maxes Tarrabah's PvE damage and stacks with On Your Mark; Health because the build invites incoming damage to charge the Beast; Class for Dodge uptime (the only no-holster reload); Melee for Knife Trick / Cowl invis cadence.

Mods: SMG Loader + SMG Scavenger (reserves matter on a one-gun build), Solar Weapon Surge ×2 on boots (≈+17% straight onto Tarrabah), Heavy/Special Finisher (Cowl wants finishers on majors for the longer invis/heal), Font of Endurance/Restoration as filler. Anti-flinch helps since you hold the trigger through incoming fire.

Archetypes to chase: Powerhouse / Gunner pieces (Weapons + Super/Class), +Weapons stat tuning over Health.

Where it shines

Solo / sustained add-dense content (Lost Sectors, Nightfalls, Onslaught, GM trash phases): Tarrabah wants a continuous stream of bodies to keep the Beast fed and Ambitious Assassin overflowing — exactly what horde content provides.
Solar-burn modifiers: the unleashed Beast's incoming-Solar reduction + Restoration/Cure stack make Solar singe rooms a net positive.
Champion coverage — flag: Tarrabah is a Rapid-Fire SMG with no bespoke anti-champion intrinsic. Under Anti-Champion 2.0, Lightweight/Rapid-Fire frames stun Overload, so Tarrabah covers Overload champions only. Barrier and Unstoppable are NOT covered by the gun — lean on the subclass (Golden Gun deletes any champion; Gunpowder ignitions + scorch stagger) or accept that this is an add-clear/major build, not a champion-stun toolkit. Bring Overload-reliant content to it, not a Barrier-heavy GM expecting the gun to handle stuns.

Verify notes

Manifest data is thin on Tarrabah's stat block. `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` and `catalysts.md` give the verbatim perk + catalyst text (quoted above), but the encyclopedia does not print Tarrabah's element/ammo/RPM numerically. Element (Solar) and frame (Rapid-Fire SMG, Primary ammo) are stated from known sandbox facts, not read off a manifest field here — confirm RPM/frame in-game. No fabricated damage numbers are used.
The +33% Ravenous-Beast progress from Scorched targets is from `docs/knowledge/exotics_and_catalysts.md:167` (web-researched), not a verbatim manifest string — treat the exact % as "reported", though the scorch synergy direction is solid.
Verbatim sources confirmed: Ravenous Beast (`exotics.md:313-314`), Ambitious Assassin catalyst (`catalysts.md:134`), Assassin's Cowl (`exotics.md:9`), Gunpowder Gamble / On Your Mark / Knock 'Em Down (`aspects.md:75,124,102`), Embers of Ashes/Searing/Char/Empyrean (`fragments.md:25,37,29,31`).
Knife Trick specifically (Gunslinger throwing-knife variant) wasn't grepped verbatim in `aspects.md` (it's a melee, not an aspect) — any Solar throwing-knife melee that scorches works; Lightweight Knife is the safe substitute. Confirm the exact melee that procs Caliban-style scorch in-game if you swap to Caliban's Hand instead of the Cowl.
Anti-Champion: Rapid-Fire SMG → Overload is the 2.0 archetype rule from the task brief / house references; Tarrabah carries no bespoke stun, so Barrier/ Unstoppable rely on subclass, not the weapon. Flagged, not assumed solved.

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)	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	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)	Special Finisher 1e	Finishers generate Special ammo for the whole fireteam.
	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.

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: Font of Endurance/Restoration as filler. Anti-flinch helps since you hold the trigger through incoming fire.