Solar

The Jade Rabbit — Firefly Marksman (Hunter)

Precision add-clear + Firefly chain-detonation

✓ Manifest Kinetic · Primary · 150 RPM · No intrinsic champion

Weapon: The Jade Rabbit (Scout Rifle · Primary/Kinetic · Kinetic) · Subclass: Solar Gunslinger · Role: Precision add-clear + Firefly chain-detonation Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Created 2026-06-16

One gun, one rule: only ever land headshots. Chain precision hits and the mag refills, stability climbs, and the Solar Firefly explosion the next precision kill drops gets "greatly increased" damage — so a Kinetic scout becomes a Solar chain-detonator. Build the whole Hunter around never missing a crit: Gunslinger for Radiant + Firefly synergy, Celestial Nighthawk to convert every precision final blow into Super, and fragments that turn the scorch the explosions spread into ability energy. Miss a body shot and you literally lose a stack — the fantasy is the discipline.

The weapon

The Fate of All Fools (verbatim): "Chain precision shots or land precision final blows to refill the magazine, improve stability, and greatly increase the damage of Firefly and body shots. Landing a body shot will remove one stack of the damage bonus."

Catalyst — Amassed Fate (verbatim): "[Alternate Weapon Action] to consume Fate of all Fools and prime a single Fated Missile that deals increased damage based on the number of stacks consumed."

What it does: every chained crit stacks a damage bonus that (a) buffs body shots so you can finish a precision-softened target without breaking your reload loop, and (b) buffs the Firefly explosion — and Firefly deals Solar damage ("Precision kills with this weapon increase reload speed and cause the target to explode, dealing Solar damage to nearby enemies"). A precision kill on a stacked Jade Rabbit is therefore an oversized Solar burst, not a chip explosion. The catalyst lets you dump the accumulated stacks into one Fated Missile (a single empowered round) for a burst-damage release valve against a priority target. Note the inversion: body shots cost you a stack, so the weapon punishes the exact mistake every other primary forgives — keep it a crit-only weapon and it never reloads and never stops ramping.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Solar Gunslinger	Firefly is Solar — the whole subclass amplifies the explosion the gun cares about.
Super	Golden Gun: Marksman (Hawkeye Hack → single shot)	Celestial turns it into one massive precision shot; precision final blows from the scout refund it.
Class ability	Marksman's Dodge	Full reload mid-fight (insurance for the rare missed-crit stack reset) + reposition for clean head angles.
Melee	Lightweight Knife	Precision knife kill → Radiant (via Ember of Torches); keeps the Solar buff rolling between Firefly chains.
Grenade	Healing Grenade	Cure/sustain — the gun is the damage, the grenade keeps you alive at range.
Aspect 1	On Your Mark	Precision hits grant reload + Weapons stat ×10 — and this gun is nothing but precision hits, so it's permanently maxed.
Aspect 2	Knock 'Em Down	Marksman Golden Gun gets increased duration — more Celestial single-shots per Super, and damage resistance on the cast.

Fragments

Ember of Torches powered-melee → Radiant for you and allies — your Solar weapon-damage buff
Ember of Searing defeating scorched targets → melee energy + Firesprite; Firefly spreads scorch so kills near it feed this
Ember of Empyrean Solar weapon/ability final blows extend Radiant/Restoration — Jade Rabbit's precision kills keep Radiant alive on their own
Ember of Solace Radiant/Restoration last longer

Why this works (the mechanics)

The gun's entire ramp is gated behind precision — so is the rest of the build. Fate of All Fools stacks on crits, On Your Mark stacks on crits, Celestial refunds Super on precision final blows, Ember of Empyrean extends Radiant on Solar kills. Every system pays out on the same input — landing headshots — so there's no rotation to juggle, just aim.
Firefly is Solar, and the weapon "greatly increases" its damage. A normal Firefly is a minor add-clear pop; a stacked Jade Rabbit Firefly is a real Solar AoE that chains through packs. Radiant (from Ember of Torches) is a ~10% weapon-damage buff that applies to the Jade Rabbit shot itself, feeding bigger precision hits → bigger Firefly. The explosion's scorch then feeds Ember of Searing (melee energy + Firesprite).
Celestial Nighthawk closes the Super loop off the gun, not the Super. Hawkeye Hack: "Precision final blows reduce the cooldown of your Super." A crit-only scout is a precision-final-blow machine, so Golden Gun comes back fast. When you cast, it's one high-damage Hawkeye shot for the boss/champion — then back to the gun, which is already charging the next Golden Gun.
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 the Fate-of-All-Fools ramp and Radiant — three independent multipliers stacked on the same precision hits, all permanently up because you never stop critting.
Body shots are a deliberate failure state, and the build covers them. Marksman's Dodge gives an emergency full reload if a missed crit resets your stacks; the body-shot damage bonus exists so you can finish an already-crit- softened target without resetting, not so you can spray. Discipline in, ramp out.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Class 100 → Health 70+. Weapons is the dump-everything stat: it scales the Jade Rabbit, the Firefly, and stacks with On Your Mark. Class ~100 keeps Marksman's Dodge (the reload insurance) on a short cooldown. Health as the remaining buffer since Radiant/Restoration carry survivability.

Archetypes: Powerhouse / Gunner-primary pieces (Weapons + Super favoured).
Mods: Scout Rifle Loader + Scout Rifle Scavenger; Solar Weapon Surge ×2 on boots (the Firefly damage is Solar, so a Solar surge buffs the explosion); Kinetic Weapon Surge does nothing for Firefly but helps the body-shot hits — prefer Solar surge for the AoE. Harmonic Siphon (Solar kills → Orbs feed Celestial's Super loop), Heavy/Special Finisher for ammo economy.
Stat tuning: +Weapons / −Health where available.

Where it shines

Add-dense PvE: GMs, Nightfalls, Onslaught, legend content. Firefly chains through trash; Celestial recycles Golden Gun for the orange-bar that needs a burst. The crit-only loop self-reloads, so ammo economy is excellent for a scout.
Mid-range lanes where a scout's range lets you stay out of melee and farm clean headshots — exactly the discipline the gun demands.
Champion coverage (Anti-Champion 2.0): The Jade Rabbit is a Precision-frame scout, so by archetype it stuns Barrier champions (Precision/Adaptive → Barrier). It carries no bespoke champion stun in its exotic perk. Overload and Unstoppable must come from your other two weapon slots or the artifact — flag this when slotting champion mods for a given activity.

Other two weapon slots (complement the scout):

Energy/Special: a Solar weapon (e.g. a Solar fusion or sniper) so a Solar surge buffs both it and Firefly, and to extend Radiant/Empyrean via its kills. Pick a frame covering Overload (Lightweight/Rapid-Fire) for the champion gap the Jade Rabbit leaves.
Heavy: a Machine Gun or Linear Fusion for the boss/Unstoppable duty the scout and Golden Gun don't personally cover — choose a frame that stuns Unstoppable (Aggressive/High-Impact) to round out champion coverage.

Verify notes

Manifest data is solid for this weapon. Exotic perk text, catalyst text, and Firefly's Solar-explosion text are all quoted verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md` (line 321), `catalysts.md` (line 90), and `perks.md` (line 1163).
Numbers Bungie doesn't expose in text: the per-stack Fate-of-All-Fools damage %, how many stacks the ramp caps at, the "greatly increased" Firefly multiplier, and the Fated-Missile damage curve are all qualitative in the manifest — confirm exact values in-game. No numbers were fabricated here.
Celestial Nighthawk, Golden Gun: Marksman, Knock 'Em Down, On Your Mark, Ember of Torches/Searing/Empyrean/Solace, Lightweight Knife — all verified in `docs/encyclopedia/` (exotics.md L18, perks.md L1330, aspects.md L102/L124, fragments.md L37/L31/L32/L39). No fallback to `docs/knowledge/` was needed.
Champion handling: Precision-frame scout → Barrier is the standard Anti-Champion 2.0 archetype mapping; the manifest entry lists no bespoke stun for The Jade Rabbit, so Overload/Unstoppable are explicitly delegated to the other slots/artifact (flagged above), not invented.
Armour set bonuses are intentionally omitted as the build driver per house rule; any Solar/precision-flavoured 4pc is optional garnish once stats are hit.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

Piece	Mod · cost	What it does
Helmet (7/10)	Harmonic Siphon 1e	Rapid Arc weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Solar weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Stasis weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Void weapon final blows create an Orb of Power. Rapid Strand weapon final blows create Orbs of Power.
	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 (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 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.
	Kinetic Weapon Surge 1e	Your Kinetic 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).