New Strand perk Slice is one of the best elemental perks in the game. You should definitely check it out!

Slice - Casting your class ability allows this weapon to sever targets on hit, up to a maximum number of targets.

Sever - decreases target's outgoing damage by 40%.

Weapons with Slice as of right now:

- Seasonal rapid-fire fusion rifle

- Seasonal slug shotgun

- Iron Banner high-impact auto rifle

- Trials of Osiris adaptive trace rifle

- Competitive aggressive pulse rifle

- World drop adaptive machine gun

Sever is very strong, and you can build into applying it (and enhancing) with right builds and artifact perks. Seasonal rapid-fire fusion rifle in particular is my go-to on any non-Strand subclass. It has Slice and Controlled Burst. And it works perfectly with setup like this on Solar subclass:

- Kindling Trigger - Radiant causes Solar weapons to apply scorch to unscorched combatants

- Torch - While radiant, deal increased weapon damage (5%) to combatants affected by Strand and Stasis debuffs

- Unravelling Orbs - Picking up an Orb of Power grants Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds

- Horde Shuttle - Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a threadling

- Ember of Singeing - Your class ability recharges faster when you scorch targets

Gameplay loop is easy:

1) Get Radiant

2) Generate Orb of Power and gather it to get Unraveling Rounds on fusion rifle

3) Activate class ability to proc Slice. Fire fusion on target, to Sever it and Unravel at the same time

4) Damage it with your desired weapon. You will have bonus damage from radiant, and target will have decreased damage output and will receive more damage from you because of Torch

5) Damage any enemy with Solar weapon while radiant to scorch it and activate Ember of Singeing, to recharge class ability very fast

You can enhance with synergy further of course. It's really good and makes surviving against beefy targets a lot easier

Oh and this perk works in PvP, yea.

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