Ergo Sum PERFECTED (All Perks and Catalyst Review) | Destiny 2 The Final Shape

Cross, pointing at 8 telesto orbs: "As you can see, there are 7 orbs here"

I love Ergo so much. After about 30 farmed up my favorite rolls are: Ticcu's - Wave Frame: All aerial sword attacks are qualified as light attacks so the enemy is both Primed and Detonated as part of the same heavy attack chain. Riskrunner - Wave Frame: If the group of adds doesnt die to the wave of Arc Light falling into the center of them doing your best Tesla Coil impression will probably do the trick. Telesto - Caster Frame: All telesto bolts spawn once the disc hits a target letting you spawn them on melee targets or that thing over there that you want dead. Polaris - Vortex: Build up those hits nice and quick to reach that ignition faster.

@11:14 enemies that get killed by the arc chain lightning also triggers the artifact mod giving you back ammo without having to spend anymore ammo. So with my waveframe version I use a heavy attack, then the free light attack to close the gap and the arc conductor cleans up any remaining adds around, (amplified running around will quickly clean up the whole room) and get back a ton of ammo.

In case anyone's curious, the youtuber Aegis did some damage testing and found that an Ergo Sum with The Perfect Fifth (polaris lance) and Caster Frame, plus the transcendence buff, has greater DPS than any HEAVY sword in the game currently. The only caveat is that it might not be possible to proc the ignitions as a team at a scaling rate, so multiple people using it might decrease overall DPS, but still worth checking out Aegis' video for a deep dive.

For those not in the know, Ergo sum with caster frame and perfect 5th is as of right now the highest dps sword in the game, jumping past falling and bequest by a sizeable margin.

Don't forget, with hunter when using Ergo Sum, Ascension uses the exotic ability of the sword. So if you ascend, you can cast Stormbreaker/Wolfpack/Insectoid etc., your Ascension takes on the surge/siphon of the sword damage type, and each kill in ascension counts as a sword/weapon kill. Pretty neat synergy.

Glad to hear someone giving unplanned reprieve some love. Been using it in the second encounter of the raid, and that thing slaps lol

Telesto bolts number is dependent on the frame, vortex 10, aggressive/wavesword 8, caster 6, and so on. Vortex spread everywhere unless you use it on up close to something beefy, then all 10 will hit the boss. Wave sword frame also does damage on the uppercut, so the damage with that added gets up closer to vortex/caster heavy damage. Good rolls to try: Arc conductor/wavesword/caster - add clear Unplanned rep/vortex/wavesword/aggressive - damage Wolfpack/lightweight/aggressive - shortest animation - damage/add clear Perfect fifth/caster/vortex - damage, does slightly more damage on solar subclass with ignition fragment Sacred flame/wavesword - add clear

Something of note with the perfect fifth perk on a caster frame, if you are on a solar subclass with the fragment that increases applied scorch stacks, one heavy attack is enough to proc an ignition. Might be niche since the sword seems made for transcendence.

Riskrunner's perk is my favorite for Ergo Sum. One Caster shot and you have arc chain damage and shield. It doesn't even have to hit a target.

My strongholds titan build has been going crazy with wolfpack rounds ergo sum. One ergo heavy and you can go crazy with light attacks with a sword with relentless strikes. You can easily get around 200 heavy ammo back

Wave with Ticus works, very fun

My favorite form of this so far has been an Aggressive Frame with Stormbringer. Pairing it with Precious Scars allows you to have the greatest power trip of all time (slamming your sword down and spawning a thunderstorm is so much fun).

Of note for Unplanned Reprieve, the bolts are emitted based on the direction the heavy attack is swung. Cross had an aggressive frame, so it spawned them in a cluster, a vortex frame spawns them in a ring around you, etc.

The ticuu divination perk feels really good on the new wave frame, and the telescope bolts on the aggressive frame sword was the first ergo sum I actually got and I love the thing

Nobody mentioning that running double swords and the artifact mod is basically unlimited ammo since the heavy sword will give ergo ammo and visa versa.

Perfect Fifth is incredibly powerful when used on a Solar subclass with a Caster Frame. One use of the projectile will proc the explosive twice, and with the fragment that increases Scorch stacks, it also causes an ignition. Though you won’t be on a Prismatic class, if you’re looking for the best possible damage, go with Perfect Fifth/Caster Frame/Solar subclass with fragment.

philosophy nerd here. ergo sum is referencing Rene Decartes's first principle "cogito ergo sum" in latin, in english is "i think, therefore i am." ergo sum pronounced AIR-GO-SOOM. 🍻

I was hoping for aggressive frames dealing the most damage but they are beaten by caster and vortex frames Ascension helicopter combo into a aggressive frame sword slam feels dope af

The Riskrunner sword also procs Amplified so a prismatic build without another way to proc it can benefit from the damage reduction from the artifact perk. It's fun.