Respect Thread Guardian & Ghost (Destiny) feat representation thread 2.0

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(For my readers who read the first thread).

Because of some very petty and small pp energy people, I was banned from my original work so I have to do my updates here.

WIP until other wise noted 03/02/2023
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So this is going to be a feat thread for Guardians I feel like some people sleep on them too much and don't really know how powerful they are since they look at them as generic FPS Scifi Soldier#466.

this thread is going to consist of the most "impressive" feats of note that they have, these will be an aggregate of Hunter/Warlock/Titan feats who are Newly Risen/Unspecified amount of time Risen & Veteran Risen.



So Part 1

Guardian Attack Potency Feats

The Protocol is contained in the patterns on the robe that, if scanned at the molecular level, describe a Turing-compatible virtual computer and program that, when executed on said computer, calculates the entire Protocol, exactly as it was determined in the Precipice of Flame.

This is of little interest to most Guardians, who can subconsciously "load" the program simply by looking at the pattern. In execution, the Protocol enhances the use of Solar Light to catalyze fusion.

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The definition of "catalyze" is described as to "cause" or "accelerate a process".

Performing fusion can induce temperatures over 15,000,000 Celsius.

However this requires the use of a "Program" that helps them efficiently use their Sol Power but Guardians don't seem too concerned about it as they can use this program by subconsciously downloading it and not actually have to be carrying on their person.

With out mention of the program the Sunstriker Titan is described as this when using their power.

Forge your Light into a raging inferno of Solar energy, and pull forth a blazing hammer from the fire. Cloaked in flames, launch your hammer at enemies from afar, releasing a devastating eruption of Solar fire on impact. You burn with the intensity of stars, and no shadow is safe from your Light.

your Light.

Temperature range between Stars is 2,500 to 50,000 Kelvin.

The Sunbreakers burn the brightest

"Of all the Lights, we burned the brightest." —Unknown Sunbreaker

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"If only our own star burned as bright as you can, Guardian." -Eris

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Any Guardian can burn better than our sun (5,778 Kelvin to roughly 15 Million Kelvin)

Ana Bray states that Sol energy is at least 5,778 Kelvin

"Ah, you like Solar energy! Me too. Never know when you're gonna need to toast a marshmallow (or a Cabal, for that matter) with the concentrated fury of 5,778 Kelvins." —Ana Bray

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Cayde vaporizing three Cabal Soldiers each with one shot.

Specific Heat Calculator
Melting 362 kilograms of steel (Low ball calc assuming they are wearing armor as heavy as they weigh despite being known as high density and thick) gives us a minimum energy output of 482,796,504 joules at a gaseous temperature of 2,862 Celsius. (If we assume Titanium then we're looking at 622 million joules of energy)

Then you have to add the actual weight of the Cabal (362 kilograms of flesh/bone) if we use the temperature melting point of bone (1670 C) to vaporize that you would need 2,115,890,000 joules of energy so roughly 2.7 to 2.5 gigajoules of energy out put per Golden Gun shot, the best part?

This is the LOWEST energy output, include Sunstrikers or "The Protocol" and it goes up much higher, infact Guardians can actually boost the amount of power they're oomping out so the 2.7/2.5 gigajoules isn't scratching their potential.

He pushes the bulk of his Light into his weapon, spreads its influence to reach the nearby Redjacks, and reignites his gun before touching the barrel to the ground and firing. The ground bubbles with hot magmatic Light; a warmth envelops the Redjacks as Solar flame imbues and empowers their rifles with golden power. Shaw directs the firestorm of golden Redjack rifles to incinerate every last charging foe.

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In this case a Hunter split his power between multiple Redjacks so instead of using a super oomph he gave every Redjack with him Golden Gun level fire power (Giga joule weapons godayum!). So calc wise you can divide his maximum strength shot by the amount of Red Jack's he split it tool (So three golden shots per Red Jack so if it's between two Red Jack's would be 7.5 Gigajoule per shot minimum if he's decided to put that into his own shots)


This disintegration is pretty much common with every Guardian Super.

"The first time my fists became thunder and I disintegrated those Fallen? I'll never forget it. Every time since then is second nature." —Zavala

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Fighting back to back, rezzing each other when they died, Felwinter and Gryphon took down some 15 frames with gunfire alone, and a few more with grenades. Several got back up despite crippling damage, tottering forward on bent and broken legs, relentless, single-minded. They drew inexorably closer as the two Exos ran down their ammunition and energy.

It was Gryphon who saved them in the end, with three bolts of Arc Light that erupted out of his hands. As the frames closest to them disintegrated in a shower of blue light, Gryphon whooped and said, breathlessly, "I've never done that before."
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Attack Potency wise the Guardians can "melt flesh" with out penetrating armor and consume physical bodies with "anti life".

However, no amount of study could prepare one for the depravity of the actual event.

Humans immolate each other, melting flesh beneath unpenetrated armor. They drive swords through each other's faces, reveling in the creation of deformity. They unleash bursts of Void and Darkness, consuming each other's bodies with anti-life. The amount of precious ammunition that goes wasted in every match would be punishable by docking in some Eliksni Houses.
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Guardian Physical Strength Feats

Using light Guardians can enhance their striking power of their limbs or just the overall strength.

Sentinel Guardian here completely redirecting the momentum of a Cabal launched several meters per second to a different direction at a faster speed and hard enough to shatter a stone wall.

Cabal Legionary should weigh in the ball park of 724 kilograms with armor and their own mass included, be free to calc.

Ogre's head snapped sideways from a forceful hit. Siegfried followed the sound to a figure perched in the mouth of a tunnel opposite of him. The Ogre turned and roared— [CRACK] Its head blew back, oozing from a raw wound. Three more shots followed from the figure, bringing the Ogre to its knees. The man looked at Siegfried and performed a small bow. The Titan dispersed his shield and seized the Ogre by the neck. He slammed the wounded thing to the ground and brought both fists down with a bolt of electricity and a killing blow. The Titan turned to confront his rescuer but saw only an empty tunnel.

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The Corsair finished reloading and popped her head back over the barricade. She downed three loping Acolytes in quick succession before even noticing the ogre looming in the background. It was enormous—at least seven meters high.

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Guardians can punch 7 meter tall Ogres off their feet or manhandle them.

Daimos-22 whipped his free arm as he called to the crowds of Humans, pleading with them to hurry. The compound must have been their home for years—that was his guess based on the armfuls of possessions passing him. But it was flooding now. Sinking.

The tunnel—the only one that hadn't flooded, made of cracked, rotten wood and brittle metal—was barely big enough to stand in, but it would get them to the surface. "Come on!" the Titan called as they streamed past him.

Children and old folks crying. "I know," he said, straining not to shout. "But we have to move."

A woman dropped her enormous suitcase, and he kicked it aside. She looked back at the bag, and then she was gone in the crowd.

The whole structure groaned. Daimos looked up, scanning up and down the tunnel. It didn't sound right at all.

The section of roof above him split open, and the whole tunnel buckled. He could hear the tension grinding in his arms as he pressed on the roof. Hold.

He kept calling out, and they kept running past.

He held and held. And when he let go, he knew he was the last one left.
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Titan Guardian with out light holding the roof of a tunnel to prevent it from collapsing, how do we know that they don't have light? This is a piece of gear during an event memorizing the Guardians who died during the Red War.


A Guardian's light for the "Best" of them can be used to make themselves strong with out needing to let it loose.

"The Light gives us the freedom to accomplish great things," Panesh said. He laid one of his metal greaves flat on the ground and carefully poured half of the water into it. "The best of us can be strong just by holding that power inside us—we don't have to let it out."

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"I have Light." Saladin tosses the rock in his hand and opens two palms writhing with Arc bolts. "But it's out of range. Even for me. We'll have to take the long way down."

"As if there's time." Below, the Walker begins a march across the field. "I could throw you."

Saladin emits a single, sharp laugh. When she says nothing, he turns to stare. Realizes it's not a joke. "There's no dignity in that."

"Is there dignity in letting those people die?"

Saladin doesn't respond. He looks down the mountainside…
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I am posting this to show the feat of Efrideet was not just throwing someone off a mountain as Saladin could have done that himself since it was outside of his range. (Meaning it was further than he can jump off the mountain)

He stops speaking as Efrideet grabs him by the metallic collar, pressing him over her head. Arc energy from both Lightbearers coalesces in a roaring storm around them—Saladin's crackling, barely contained, Efrideet's flowing, guiding. The mountain rumbles beneath her as she steps forward. Waves of gravel and dirt blast up behind her as she hurls the armored man off the cliffside like a javelin, their combined Arc energy singing like a drawn sword. Saladin's gilded form becomes a cannon shot, tearing holes through three layers of clouds as he rips down toward the Fallen Walker.
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So a super sonic throw (blast wave pushed debris behind her)

Efrideet, she lifts Saladin over…over her head. And she says… She says, "I never miss." She lifts him over her head, and she throws him. And he cranks his Fist of Havoc. Their combined Arc energy singing like a drawn sword! Twenty miles down he plummets— into a Fallen Walker! He's like a… like a cannon shot out of a friggin' anti-aircraft gun. Everything—EVERYTHING explodes!

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Assuming Efrideet was only contributing 50% (10 miles) of the force with her Arc energy augmented limbs they were still throwing someone 164 times further than the Olymic record for Javelin throwing.

Olympic Javelins mind you weigh 1.76 pounds so Efrideet at the very bare minimum is stronger than a hundred men when tapping into Arc power and Hunters are not the strongest of the Guardians.

The rock in his hand shatters into dust as his fist spasms. "I suppose we may run out of ammo again," he concedes through gritted teeth. "Meet us out at Dwindler's Ridge."

Saladin can crush rock into dust
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Titans can crush Diamonds into dust

These hands could once turn diamonds into dust

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Shaxx a Warlord Titan at the time decapitated a Guardian Exo's head off their shoulders with a casual punch.

Iron Lord stepped forward, dragged a Solar sword from the air, and thrust it at Shaxx. The Warlord turned his stance sideways as the burning blade sang past his helm, ducked the horizontal cut that followed, and stepped back as Felwinter drove the blade into the stone floor. The chamber erupted with ethereal fire and Solar Light—

Shaxx's backfist took Felwinter's head from his shoulders in a shower of sparks. The Iron Lord's Light died with his crumpling form.

Efrideet coughed as Saladin blinked inside his helm.

Felwinter's Ghost unfolded above his prone corpse and the Iron Lord reemerged from a pillar of cascading Light.

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Looked like it's a feat any Titan Guardian can do.

"Situational awareness. Not courage. I go where I can do the most good. Thank you for seeing me." Felwinter's voice sounded as hollow as his helmet. Citan wanted to knock it clean off the Iron Lord's bony shoulders. He could do it with a single punch.

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A just risen Guardian is able to beat a Cabal Legionnaire to death with a beast that damaged her other arm.

My Guardian—this woman only just reborn in the Light—grabbed the Beast clamping down on her arm by the hind legs, Lifted, and brought her entire weight down on the creature's spine, knee first.

The sound—cracked bone and a sudden, sharp yelp—caused the other Beasts to halt and the Cabal to quell their laughter.

She resumed her charge. No hesitation. The Beast's limp body was still locked on her arm. She pulled it free—I could hear the flesh tear, but she did not flinch. Instead she closed the distance, rushing the Cabal, the Beast held tight in her good arm's grip.

The Cabal raised his weapon, but too late. The other Beasts charged as my Guardian pummeled the Legionary with the corpse of his pet. It was brutal, swift.

Guardian Physical Durability Feats

Lightless Guardian tanked being smacked multiple meters away.

Consistent and even the Glass Cannon (Hunters are not as tanky as Titans) Cayde can survive a direct hit to the head from this

By enhancement with Light can shrug off head first ramming into concrete flooring that he busts through with a multi meter jump.

Also light has the interesting property of retconning projectile attacks.

"How does Light make you tougher? Bullets strike your armor and then decide they didn't."

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Guardian "Speed" Feats
Banshee is able to move his hands FTE, while he's not a Guardian they scale above him.

Well, any dirt on this hardware was long forgotten by now. Banshee set to disassembling the gun, his hands working faster than the eye could follow. In just a few seconds, he had it in constituent parts on his bench. He scanned the surface of each component, looking for the maker's mark.

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A Guardian using Arc energy being FTE

"They say there was something more than mortal about her, for those who were there said she could move faster than the eye could track, and her steps took her higher than anyone could leap. But eventually, the raiders surrounded her, and she fell to their guns.

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Just Risen Guardian outright dodging slugs fired or aim dodging

My Guardian charged the nearest Cabal—a creature of war she had never seen, a hulking brute in thick-plated armor.

She docked and dodged, left to right and back again to avoid slug fire. A War Beast lunged, clamping its jaw on my Guardian's forearm. She yelled.

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Ghosts outright dodge projectile after its fired.

"I've misplaced Osiris again," Sagira told a Goblin.

The Goblin, being a Goblin, shot at her.

She dodged with a sigh, and continued through the Forest.

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Hunters can deflect projectiles back at their opponents if they're using their Arc energy to boost their physical ability


It's explicitly not a shield

Elite Psions can shoot rounds out of mid air, Guardians scale to them.

The day the Shadows died, Feltroc sat in a perch high above the fighting, among a sea of glittering rounds. There was a Red Legion corpse for each shell on the engineering deck of Ghaul's ship below. When everything in her field of vision was dead, she took aim at the enemy's airborne rounds, the ones meant for the Shadows still in the fight. She had hit several by the time the Red Legion managed to fill the air shaft around her with a neurotoxin.

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Hive Knight reacts to bullets after they were fired, Guardians scale from this too

He smiled beneath his helm, then spun his Rose with a confident Hunter's twirl, before steadying his aim and fanning its hammer one more.

The angry bloom lit the dark.

Six shots, center mass.

Rezyl's lead pinged off a sudden, shimmering wall of black.

The knight had conjured a protective barrier as if from nothing.
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Guardian blitzes a Ghost before it can dodge

Shayura moves like a lightning bolt, materializing beside the Ghost with an upward flourish of a sword of raw Praxic Fire. The Ghost looses a howling scream of horror as he shatters into a flurry of glittering pieces.

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Guardian Aim/Accuracy

Lady Efrideet can hit a target twenty miles away with the naked eye (Quote already put)


Random light less Guardian can fire hundreds of rounds never missing and each one being a kill shot.

The old doubts came back when the Light went out.
But the iron in her bones, worn and rusted as it was, never buckled.
The Light was gone, but holding a sniper rifle still felt right.
She marched into the City beneath a refugee's hood, took up a roost in the building with the white rabbit, and killed 216 Cabal with 199 bullets.

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Cayde getting kill shots with out even looking at the Scorn.

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Part II


Attack Potency

So we know that Guardians have various vaporization feats and attack potency equal to on the low-end the heat of stars to the high end heat significantly better than stars.
But lets break down their other forms of hax, again we're going to use the BEST feats here.

Channel the Traveler's Light into a bolt of energy with the power of a collapsing star. The devastating Nova Bomb scours the battlefield with ethereal fire - but be careful in its use. It takes precious moments to summon, and it must be aimed precisely to avoid obstacles.

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Now this implies here on the wankish end Black/Hole to Supernova level fire power but I personally interpret the definition of it being a pseudo singularity that excels in a combination of gravikinetic force and esoteric fire with other hax.


Here we know there's density involved and that Warlocks can dial a yield their nova bombs

"The Rift match began as a Voidwalker focus exercise. We were attempting to increase the yield of the Nova Bomb. We succeeded, easily doubling the yield. But the resulting Void density was impossible to detonate." —Ikora Rey

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Below we have a series of passages describing the Nova Bomb and its mechanics, it is a bit more complex then simple hurhur big bomba

"A Voidwalker can detonate her Light in many ways. The Nova Bomb is simply the crescendo in a litany of explosions." —Ikora Rey

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"Just before a Nova Bomb hits, there is a rush of air and warmth—the destruction of Light and life in its path."
—Ikora

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"When you wield the Void, you wield a key. When the Void touches life, it unlocks the Light within. Sometimes with terrrible results."
—Brother Vance

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The Nova Bomb itself is pretty much a singularity made of Void energy

Osiris extinguishes a blade into his palm to form a singularity of Void and hurls a Nova Bomb that consumes them.

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She snaps her fingers, and the particles coalesce into a singularity that blinks out of existence.

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But Void energy is described as this

Voidwalker

"Those who have stared into the Void are not bound by the laws of space and time."
The Traveler came out of the void that surrounds all things. Thus we know that the void is full of power. Thus we enter the void without fear.

Small minds will call your abilities blasphemous. They will compare you to the abominable Wizards of the Hive.

But you will not be held back. Gifted with the Traveler's Light, armed with the secret physics of a lost age, you will tear reality asunder.

You will fear nothing, and nothing will not fear you.

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Which is in line with what Osiris says in Lightfall

Meaning the Void energy a Guardian possesses ins't limited to just gravikinetic force (But that is one application) but has other abilities such as a form of life or essence manipulation which is why Titan Suppresor Grenades can work, when Guardians die their light harvested by WIzards become "Void Energy", its a fundamental force but also a vacuum and the absence of everything else. But includes hax such as creating esoteric flames that don't involve any sol energy

"If the Void is negation, behold the ultimate negator." —Ikora Rey

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"The Void is not the Darkness. The Darkness is what it is. Void energy is like all things of this universe, it is Light seen through a prism. A fundamental force, the vacuum between the stars, the absence of everything else.

Just try explaining that to someone who has never walked the Void."

—Toland's Journal

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Ghost: Void Light can only be created by Guardians. I don't understand how the Hive got their claws on it.

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"The Nightstalkers found a way to turn their Void Light into flame, without a single iota of Solar energy involved. If he cared about the intricacies of Light manipulation, Shaxx would say that it's quite a thing. " —Ikora Rey

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In summary the Void energy is one of the most diverse classes have more haxish stuff involved, this quote here implying they use life force energy to empower their own defenses.

"The Titans decry the Voidwalkers of our use of Light. Vampiric and grotesque, they call us. But how do they think their Disintegration barriers form? What do they think happens to their atomized victims? Titans can be so amusing." —Ikora Rey

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Now before I actually get into AP feats for the void class please keep in mind this

"Use your Light to its maximium potential. It's not a resource a Voidwalker should spend freely." —Ikora Rey

Lights a resource so while the Guardian classes can spam these there's a recovery time for some classes unless you have like a high tier Gunslinger near by at which point lmao infinite light.

But then… before her, a blinding flash of gold. She sees Eliksni burst into flame and ash around her as a gun fires one shot after another. Pools of shining light are the only trace of the victims. The Guardian wielding the gun is like a tiny sun.

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"You want another story about the Twlight Gap? Ana Bray, the Hunter. We all dug deep that day. We all touched the Light in ways we never thought we could. Or should.
Ana, though. When she fired the Gun, where her Golden blasts hit home, she left behind the pools of light. Like splashes of sunlight that burned and burned."
—Lord Shaxx

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Said pools still exist decades after the Battle of Twilight Gap and as shown before Light is a resource that fuels their powers, [Quest Shadows at Twilight]

Now!

Feat time.

Warlocks with Void Energy can TK snap necks

"You know we'll burn the world down before we let the Iron Lords rule it," the larger man gasped, breathing out of his mouth, his face a bloody mess. The Void Light in Felwinter's hand snapped—and so did the Warlord's neck.

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More pseudo TK.

The Warlock recoiled from the force and whipped an open palm of malformed Void at Yara, releasing unstable energy that shattered the pistol's frame into ragged scraps. "No more of that."

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Warlocks can manifest Void grenades past someones armor and a void grenade is powerful enough to vaporize another Guardian.

The Warlock bent her glowing hand into Trestin's chest plate, lodging a vortex grenade into her armor. Yara met her eyes and saw the Void overtake her. She did not hear the scream, or the splitting armor. She only saw flickers of Trestin break apart and scatter as the vortex ate away at her.

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Conjuring Grenades out of thin air is an actual canonical power

A duo of gauss repeaters drop and align firing solutions. Ana grips Jinju with her gun-hand and flings her back, condensing a swarm grenade into her left. She tumbles sideways as the coilguns open fire and flings the grenade in the opposite direction. It erupts into firefly explosives that flutter toward the turrets.

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She took a deep breath, formed a roiling Void grenade in her hand, and—

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"Incredible that we can capture the Void in a vessel as small and simple as a grenade." —Master Rahool

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Implied fort busting by using the Void

Efrideet coughed as Saladin blinked inside his helm.

Felwinter's Ghost unfolded above his prone corpse and the Iron Lord reemerged from a pillar of cascading Light.

"You should have used your Void instead," Shaxx said. "You could have brought the whole fort down on us. Gained a fighting a chance."

The Iron Lord shook his head. "Your people wouldn't have survived that."

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Casual tank busting

Marin takes the distraction. He distillates all his will, all the Light he can muster into one point. Color drains around him, and the point grows dark. He casts it from him, a pale iridescence that rips reality endlessly into itself. The sphere of Void strikes the Walker true, twisting the crumpling metal into oblivion.

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Impressive because Skiffs can eat Guardian rockets

Rezyl leveled his rocket launcher. A digital ping signaled a lock, and a trail of smoke shot toward the lead Skiff.

Two more rockets followed in rapid succession.

The lead Skiff took two hits, lurched and retreated back toward the Ketch above.

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And well Guardian rockets can do this

(Blowing up massive Hive Wall likely made out of the same armor that Hive Knights are made out of)

And yes the wall was blown up at-least some part of it was.

Fallen Walkers scale above Skiff armor wise so one shotting a Fallen Walker is an extremely impressive feats for a Nova Bomb but not the best AP feat for Guardians. The Best goes to Alternate Reality Ikora who; shook Mars with her Nova Bomb, glassed the surface of Mars to sand and used her powers of Light to throw the planet off its orbit permanently, take it as a max wank high end lmao.

As recorded by the enshrined Scribe Shagac, the Vanguard of Earth requested mercy, and their request was denied. Thus the Warlock Ikora was permitted a final day to consider her perfidy before her death.

To this generosity Ikora Rey said, "I do not need a day. Let us end this now."

And she unleashed from her fingertips a Nova Bomb of such proportions that it shook Mars to its foundations and made the stars weep for envy. And the Shadow answered her with the strength of a god-killer.



Alight with the power of a hollow god, Ikora Rey let loose such torrents of Arc and Solar and the most majestic Void that the sands of Mars turned to glass and shattered. And the Shadow matched her blow for blow. No greater battle has ever been enshrined in the Emperor's Glorious accounts, and none ever will be again, for at the last of it, Mars's orbit was forever altered, and the mighty Ikora Rey was no more.
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Also all Guardians can imbue their guns or other guns with Light to increase their dakka.

With the leftmost repeater, chunking round after electrified round into the sparking turret. Her gun burns, super-heated, discharging arc-rounds with cores of solar Light

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Your project is going well. The gun is now mechanically sound, but it is simply a gun: it has no intrinsic power of its own. You'll need to reconnect it to the Light somehow, and the vast dark secrets of the Void seem like the most promising route. Defeat Guardians in the Crucible using Void energy or Hand Cannons. Precision streaks using Void Hand Cannons grant the most efficient progress. Note that progress is multiplied in the Iron Banner or in Survival Crucible matches.

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Guardian Physical Strength Feats
A Titan Guardian can beat the shit out of a Centurion and shoulder charge them hard enough to knock them off their feet.

A shoulder charge took the monster off its feet, and Marcus dropped to the ground. He heard more than saw the brutal hand-to-hand battle that followed.

After, the other man dropped to a knee at his side. His shadow fell over Marcus.

No words, just a hand on his shoulder. Then a lightness. The Hunter felt himself borne up into the familiar arms of a Titan.

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When I got to the City, Tallulah Fairwind was waiting for me at the gate.

"Ho, Andal Brask," she said with that big grin of hers. "Micah warned me about you."

I said, "Warned you? I was dead, then I floated here. All I've ever done in my entire life is barf into the Pacific Ocean."

Tallulah slapped my shoulder so hard I actually died right there. My Ghost had to rez me. I was so embarrassed.

When I came to, she was crouched next to me. "Well, then let's add to your story," she said without missing a beat, as if she hadn't just murdered me.
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A HUNTER slapping another Guardian so hard in gest accidentally killed another Guardian, VERY IMPRESSIVE considering blows that launch Hunters/Lightless Titans don't kill them in one hit.

And Saint 14 Punches wrecking house

(Multi-Meter punch launching)

(Exploding you into pieces punch)

Guardian Defenses

This is going to break down exotic defenses/armor protections.

Ghosts have a defensive aura to gravity manipulation and Ana has a similar shielding but it protected her from a darkness based attack

||GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ANOMALY DETECTED||

The ship lurches. Ana's stomach churns. Jinju vibrates violently in place, an outer shell of Light absorbing some form of force.

Red iron needles whistle tea-kettle pressure in white anxiety from Ana's helmet.

Cloaked Shadows shift through the vacuum an eternity away and all too close; shown only when they wish to, to only whom they want.

Ana swallows to settle her stomach. "What even was that? Did we move?"

"Leave. Now please. Ana." Jinju presses against the glass of the canopy, peering outward.
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Jinju whirs and floats passed Ana, decompiling herself into data-points of Light that sift into the walls around the lift. Jinju's flashlight goes with her. Darkness rushes in on Ana to fill the space left by Jinju's absence. It halts against a Light epimysium, clinging to her like a second skin.,

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Its implied Guardians have resistance to telefragging since Vex haven't used it against them where as the Fallen....

Namrask is not surprised. The Light does not reach them; the Great Machine does not watch over them. "We need to move," he says. He reaches out to Turrha, to touch her. "We should go to—"

A white mist envelops her. Tiny electrical discharges cover her armor. She looks up at him and gasps. The Vex teleport delivers a Goblin inside her, shattering her body. The machine, with its indifferent red eye, raises its weapon to fire.

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Vex Warping Space and Inducing Accelerated Aging/Enthropy on a Fallen

A flash of light played over the red eyepieces of the Vex and they marched forward in lockstep, searching for a target they could not see.

She stepped to the side as they passed her.

As the last Minotaur stomped out of the canyon, she reached again into the portal. She willed their knowledge of Misraaks to her fingertips. She saw an image of his Skiff, flying low over the ice, framed in the minds of the Europan Vex. She pictured their awareness as a glass plane and envisioned it cracking, splintering into fragments of—

Inside the portal, dark threads wrapped around her wrist. She visualized them snapping as she struggled to withdraw her hand, but they stuck to her like pitch. She saw them crumbling under harsh Light, but the dust wet itself with her blood and dried around her hand. She saw the Light, but all she felt was the cold dark, freezing around her, holding her fast.

In the distance, the Vex turned as one.
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Guardians have extreme resistances to both high temperatures and low temperatures

Vatoc the Psion had been a coward before, and not even just once. As he braced behind a Vex tower and clutched his empty rifle, he recalled his legacy of hasty retreats.

He had run from Wire Rifle enfilades and soulfire barrages on the detritus flotillas of the Reef.

He had fled the relentless advance of the chronomatons, nearly boiling in his suit amidst mercurial deserts.

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The Exo Titan Reed-7 cuts an imposing silhouette across the Mercurian sands, the sun at his back. Reed and his Ghost fix their attention on two streaks of fire gleaming across the sky.

"They're late," Reed's Ghost chirps.

"Again," Reed notes with a sigh. His eyes follow the burning trails across the dusty beige sky until they reveal a pair of jumpships entering the atmosphere.

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And whenever that happens, she thinks: gasoline rains from the sky here, and it is -180 degrees Celsius outside, and no matter how comfortable we grow, life is tenuous here. Human life, especially.

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The dropships come down so fast Mia is sure they will crash, plunge into the methane sea, and sink like uranium bricks. She watches by cortical video as they make their blindingly bright suicide burns, flesh-peeling, 30-g decelerations into an arrogantly precise hover five meters above the arcology dome. Dark metal figures leap from the dropships, naked in Titan's flash-freeze cold and untroubled by 1.6 atmospheres of pressure. A drizzle of gasoline rain slicks their alloy skin. They move with inhuman efficiency

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They can resist "Stasis" which is a form of freezing but more exotic.

Stasis can flash freeze Fallen

A Fallen Captain stalks his prey through the barrens of Europa, Servitor at his back. The wind kicks up shimmering plumes of frost; he doesn't see the frozen kama hurtling towards him. It strikes with a deafening crack; the Servitor is gone. The Captain flees for cover, but it's too late — he is frozen in a crystalline prison.

His battle cry freezes in his throat; there is only deafening silence. He sees a shadow approaching, cloaked in the ice and whirling snow, but it vanishes as quickly as it appeared. Fear grips him as he scans the white wastes.

A second kama pierces the ice shelf. Biting whirlwinds erupt and tear at his frozen body. He catches a glimpse of the shadow in the squall, rifle in hand. The hunt has ended; he shatters in the wind.
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Guardians can use this ability to flash freeze opponents it also has the added benefit of being able to significantly weaken what ever it freezes. For example this Servitor is Flash frozen and gets one shotted by a casual punch from a Fallen

"The Fallen regard the Servitors as gods, but I've had a chance to scan them. I'm not impressed. They're just hyper-advanced frames! I'll be happy to see this Fallen 'deity' put on the scrap pile."

Frames push forward alongside them, absorbing slugs for the Guardians and keeping pressure on the gunline.

Frames that should be durable enough to eat Cabal Slug rounds which only the best of Guardian armor can do, so not a feat to look down upon.

As for heat. Guardians runs through the mini solar flares from the Sun without instantly getting fried.

Now the best part

Ward of Dawn

Open a pocket in the universe, an impregnable fortress for you and your allies. The mighty Ward allows Guardians to hold key points and gather their strength in the face of overwhelming opposition.

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Saint-14 held off several Fallen and even a tank for several minutes in his bubble (1:50 Time Stamp)


Not an outlier

"He stood atop the hill, his shield straining under a hundred Fallen weapons. I do not know how he held, but he did. And in the end, the Fallen were broken upon the battlefield."

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Routinely pronounced as impenetrable even by Zavala.

"Be impenetrable. Be insurmountable. Be unyielding. Like the shields we mold from the Void." —Commander Zavala

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Even described as goddammed infinite in density, magic ain't gotta explain shit lmao

The Exo's eyes lock to the tree line. His will: solid iridescence. The air around him bends into infinite density. Violet shimmer ripples across his plate and bows outward against the horror, consolidating into a luminous shield.

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And before anyone tries to downplay, Zavala in gameplay is scripted to drop the shield right before he gets hit by the last missile and there's no actual canon instance of seeing the bubble drop from volume of fire. The Bubble appears to be limited by the strength of the user, which speaking oooooof.

My Bro Shaax can make BIG Ward of Dawns.

Shaxx and Felwinter watched Efrideet and Saladin descend the snow-covered mesa from the shattered south wall.

"I thought I told you to get out," Shaxx broke the silence.

"I mean to challenge again," Felwinter replied.

"Not today," Shaxx shook his head. "My Ghost believes it'll snow before nightfall."

"Yes," Felwinter said. "What did this?"

"Fallen Walker."

"No amount of Golden Age polymer can repair this wall before that storm rolls in."

"No," Shaxx agreed. "My Light will be the wall."

"A Ward of Dawn? Your people will freeze. A Well of Radiance is what you need. My Light will be the wall."

"You think my Hammer of Sol wouldn't burn bright enough to last the storm?"

"Of course it would. And you'd set this castle ablaze. Leave it to me."
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Guardian "Speed" Feats

Ikora blitzes Red Legion soldiers in a second half heart beat. (So at-least half a second since a heart beat on average is a second long)

A flash of violet pulled my eyes from down sight. A Cabal ship careened out of the smoke, burning black-indigo. And I saw her, riding the wing, but she was gone in a blink as the ship smashed into the earth. She reappeared in the middle of a legion, and in a second half-heartbeat, rose into the air and dropped an explosion of void the likes of which I'd never seen.

I had believed I was a Voidwalker… until I beheld Ikora Rey.

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Warlock firing a Nova Bomb fast enough to intercept a rocket, the rocket was fired first. (So assuming its as fast as a RPG-7 which IRC Is a lowball that's a 117 meter per second projectile, Nova Bomb radius is about 9 meters in gameplay and the Guardians were just outside the edge of it (Lets say 10) that gives the Warlock a reaction time of 85 milliseconds.

If you go with Guardian Weapons being on par with a Javelin Missile (Actual surface to air missile) then it's 538 meters per second and a reaction time of 18.58 milliseconds

The words had barely escaped her when a Warlock brimming with Void Light Nova Warped past them. Yara turned and launched a rocket over Trestin's head. The opposing Warlock concentrated her aura of Void energy into her hand and unleashed a supernova blast. The two projectiles collided; void and flame ripped through each other and burst outward, sending all three fighters in different directions.

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Ana dodges a shot from an A.I controlled gauss turret close enough range that a thrown knife reached it before it could fire again, serves as a reaction and blitzing feat

With the swarm grenade's fireflies depleting, the remaining gauss repeater swivels and locks onto Ana. She ducks under a leading shot and spins—using the centrifugal force to whip a solar knife through the turret, splitting it. Flame-licked fluid spills onto the ground as the knife detonates.

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They were btw automatic coil guns

She tumbles sideways as the coilguns open fire and flings the grenade in the opposite direction. It erupts into firefly explosives that flutter toward the turrets. The repeaters snap to the solar-heat signatures and unload at the distraction.

A handheld modern day Coil Gun can fire projectiles at a velocity of 83 meters per second, GA Tech should be comparable, if we assume this was at a distance of five meters away this gives Ana a reaction time of 60 milliseconds.

Guardian "Skill"/Combat Prowess

Guardians are trained to detect the faint shimmer of cloaking tech

t had been like this for the past week. During the days, Crow would cover Zavala from afar with his Sniper Rifle, vigilant for any unusual transmat signatures or the faint shimmer of cloaking tech . At night, when visibility was restricted, the pair would creep into the Tower and act as the commander's invisible bodyguards.

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Guardians have access to gear that can read heat signatures.

No answer. Yara reached blindly through dust and particulate to recover her weapon, but found only scattered bits of stone and debris. Static streaked through her visor, throwing heat signatures directly in front of her through the swirling dust. She knocked the side of her visor to clear the interference.

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Guardians if they should desire can engage at distances hundreds of yards away. Making them on par with IRL soldiers in terms of distance fighting.

They had herded him into a kill box: a derelict ship with one way out. Then they started coming inside—and Crow found he much preferred fighting them from hundreds of yards away.

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One Guardian tactic when faced against overwhelming odds was to hold the line while her Ghost led refugees away, the plan being here that the Ghost will come back to rezz her showing that Guardians can adapt.

She would stay behind and buy them time. And by the Traveler's Light, it would be an eternity's worth.

And so, reluctantly, her Ghost floated ahead to rejoin the exodus, but not before swearing it would come back to find her and bring her back, no matter how long it took.

With the light of her Ghost now out of sight and the soft wet steps of a hundred refugees out of ear-shot, she strapped on her helmet, tightened her gauntlets, and drew a line in the muck beneath her feet. When the chittering of Fallen Dregs finally began to echo through the tunnels, she reached for the Light and with it crafted a shield of Void energy.

If need be, she would hold this line until the end of time.

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[Scooby Doo]

Part III

Guardian Attack Potency

I covered Sol/Void but didn't really touch Arc. So here we go.

Lets first get this covered Arc lightning from Guardian classes is legitimate lightning, I can not emphasize this enough which is why I'm posting ten examples/sources of it being legit lightning.

"Shooting lightning is little flashy for my taste, but I respect its effectiveness." —Petra Venj

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Flow like lightning. Strike like thunder.

No one remembers who the first Arcstrider was. Hardly anyone remembers the Arcstrider at all. Time vanished us like it does memories.
But in the darkest days of the Dark Ages, when humanity was utterly defenseless, Arcstriders disciplined their bodies to let the Traveler's energy flow through them, to call lightning itself to hand and wield it like a staff against the Darkness.
Become the Lightning, they said.
No.
Become the staff, they said.
No.
Become a weapon, they said.
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The hurricane battered me with a ferocity beyond any foe I had met, battered harder than the roiling chaos in my mind that drove me here, to the ends of the system, in search of—
"Calm," whispered the Voidwalker. "Burn!" roared the Dawnblade. All I could hear was the impassive voices of my teachers, encouraging me (ordering me?) to find my path, find it soon, no matter the risk, because we can never know when it will all be taken away again, when the storm will overtake us. Words, buffeting me like the hail that pelted my face as I pushed through the howling winds, forced my way through to the eye of—
Peace.
The stillness of the hurricane's eye prickled my skin and brought with it realization. We don't have to choose between the calm and the storm. In fact, to have either, we must have both.
That was the day I first called the storm.
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"I can always hear it when you Arc Guardians go off on strikes. You can't keep your lightning to yourselves." —Eva Levante

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"Shooting lightning from your palms isn't very subtle… but I admit it's impressive." —Petra Venj

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"The Stormcaller commands Arc lightning as if the sky becomes wholly theirs for a finite time." —Ikora Rey

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"A Stormcaller's focus is control of the Arc Light, in gradual and persistent guidance of the lightning. The Striker is only concerned with the burst, the Arc impact for maximum disruption and destruction. Zavala and I could argue the advantages of both, but the Crucible speaks for us." —Ikora Rey

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"How I wish I could call the storm once more. Indulge me, if you would." —Eris Morn

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"Because as the raiders roared through our village, a blue-white bolt of lightning struck among them—BOOM! Before anyone's eyes had cleared of spots, a masked stranger clad in robes and wielding a crook had killed a score of them. With her weapon, she hooked lightning from the clouds and hurled it, thundering among them.

"They say there was something more than mortal about her, for those who were there said she could move faster than the eye could track, and her steps took her higher than anyone could leap. But eventually, the raiders surrounded her, and she fell to their guns.

"Yet there was something else different about her: the storm crow. It flew at her shoulder, and when she fell, it looked upon her body, and under its gaze, she rose again.

"This time, she pointed her crook to the sky, and clouds moved at her command. Our people fled as thunderbolts stampeded through the village. Our homes were not safe. Only our root cellars, like this bunker, were a refuge.
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Clouds trundled at the storm's edge and forked bolts split through a central cumulonimbus supercell. Strikes of gnarled charge nipped scorch into the dirt with terrifying frequency as the sky rippled with lightning. Tohr's withered husk remained in meditative stillness, long dead, basking in the metronomic glow of each flashing termination. The armor around his corpse let slip a glint of light, pulsing like a guiding bannerette for thrill seekers. It had caught Tyv Lucine's eye many times.


Tyv knew how to find gaps. She knew how to bend away the lightning and loop Arc into itself. Lessons the Light had taught her. She slipped her hand through the barrier and lifted the plate from Tohr. She inhaled ozone and humidity and slid the Harness onto her shoulders.

Roars thundered from overhead and bolts scattered across Tohr's hill. Tyv swept the staff off the ground and drove her Arc-Light into its form. The reigns were in hand; the challenge issued. She would bend the storm, and live as lightning made flesh.
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And lightning in the Destiny verse isn't slow, it should be much faster than sound even if someone tried to lowball you could point this out.

He raced for shelter in the surrounding field, abandoning his munitions container in the dust kicked up by his fevered stride. The strikes razed the ground, sparking wildfires and scorching stone. There was no logic to their timing, with bolts crashing so frequently, the sound of the thunder couldn't catch up.

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So if the character in question is using an Arc Class (Striker/Stormcaller/Arcstrider/Bladedancer) mentions of THEIR lightning should be taken as literal. This means that Arc Guardians can shoot out an energy attack over 100,000 meters per second and sustain energy blasts with a temperature of 25,000 Celsius, neato.
The elements Arc, Void, Sol are made of paracasual energy. Also again Guardians can imbue their own guns and other guns with this power it gives their guns a degree of hax.

"Arc, Solar, Void: all manifestations of the Light. But how many ways might the Darkness manifest? Time will tell." —Eris Morn

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"I have hypothesized about what type of paracausal energy would most appeal to me if I were a Guardian! My leading theory is… Arc!" —Failsafe

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Solar might engulfs 18 Kelvins. Ana hammers off two rounds of celestial annihilation.

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He pushes the bulk of his Light into his weapon, spreads its influence to reach the nearby Redjacks, and reignites his gun before touching the barrel to the ground and firing. The ground bubbles with hot magmatic Light; a warmth envelops the Redjacks as Solar flame imbues and empowers their rifles with golden power.

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Destiny Arc Guardians can generate immense amount of energy and are even able to generate/manipulate/harvest enough energy to level cities. (Arc Elemental Orbs) are created by "killing enemies" but Guardians are able to manipulate and harvest these energies from their kills.

"Orbs of volatile Arc energy lie in the dust. Each could level a city." —Eva Levante

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Sol energy can contain enough energy to travel light years with out dissipating and this is after over-penetrating an Exo and Spacestation.

They melt straight through the Exo, puncture the station plating, and scream through space for light years.

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And minor feat showing Sol Fusion Grenade being able to one a shot Machinegun nest and a Hunter Tripmine vaporizing Cabal soldiers

He hurls a fusion grenade across the expanse without breaking pace and demolishes one of the dozens of machinegun nests outright.

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A Solar explosion vaporizes the leading Gladiator and scatters their charge. A surviving Cabal recoils from the explosion in confusion. He stumbles backward into another of Shaw's trip mines and obliterates the rest of his comrades in a chain of explosions.

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Additional stuff, on top of power suppression Void Shot can induce "Crushing" gravity which is probably what its tethers are.

The Guardian nocked a Void-Light bolt and cast his Shadowshot into the Wrathborn's chest, drawing its limbs in with crushing gravity.

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A single shot from Cayde's Golden Gun A single Sol element grenade from Cayde can launch three Cabal almost ten meters into the air while simultaneously vaporizing them. This is scripted and potentially 8 gigajoules feat from a single grenade.

Guardian Guns are strong, how strong? Well its difficult to say but we can scale from the Tigerspite as a basis. Its Caliber is 11x90

Sjur Eido selected a Tigerspite in 11x90mm with five-round flock guidance and an inertial sump.

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The Tigerspite using special material rounds that are supposed to be quite durable (Spinmetal/Plasteel) and was designed to be mass produced so its a good basis to scale on hey these weapons should be around the level of a mass produced weapon.

The gun is a standard-issue Tigerspite AR; it uses cased telescoped rounds made of a proprietary plasteel-spinmetal blend. There are engineers hard at work on manufacturing techniques that will allow for widespread distribution of the weapon to Risen and civilian populations on Earth.

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We know its mass produced by Awoken soldiers to fight the Hive.

Dusk set over the Dreaming City. Six Corsairs sporting Tigerspite Rifles made final checks on their gear. Movement became still salutes as Petra and Siegfried approached the staging ground. Just ahead, nestled in the Divalian Mists, menaced a fetid pit trimmed in Hive bio-growth. Frenetic inhuman whispers echoed from within like hoarse cords screaming.

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An 11x90mm bullet would be just a bit larger than a 10.36x77 mm bullet which is like a younger brother of the 50.cal

(.408 round is on the left and 50. cal is on the right)

.408 rounds depending depending on velocity and gram can usually output 11,000 joules of force where as a 50.cal is 14,895 joules so the .408 is 35% weaker, essentially Guardians shoot 50.cal lite guns or guns capable of similar performance.

Your project is going well. The gun is now mechanically sound, but it is simply a gun: it has no intrinsic power of its own. You'll need to reconnect it to the Light

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A Guardian can further add oomph to their gun by using the light so they can hit very hard even with out spamming supers.


Ghost Miscellaneous Feats
Overdue love for these guys, lets get started.

Ghosts can overcharge their guardians with superhealing, healing bones mid combat and giving Ana a super. Keep in mind in most cases it takes 6/8 weeks to heal a broken wrist or arm meaning that Ghost can heal their Guardians a million times faster than it would take to do on their own.

Jinju rushes to Ana's side. The Ghost deconstructs itself, orbital shell bits swirl around a core of coalescing Light. She fills the room like a brilliant star, overcharging her wayward Guardian.

Ana's crushed bones reforge. Light fills her eyes. Her grip, still holding against the seizing Exo's bladed thrust, liquefies its plated hand to scrap. A glorious crown of Solar flame erupts from her visor and she cracks her forehead into the Exo's face. It reels, tufts of flame extinguish in the vacuum. Ana kicks away.

Solar might engulfs 18 Kelvins. Ana hammers off two rounds of celestial annihilation. They melt straight through the Exo, puncture the station plating, and scream through space for light years.
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Ghosts can still heal even when cut off from the Light

And remove internal liquids from a Guardian (Like water in Lungs)

Ghost can survive a strike from a Shockblade

Ghosts can perfectly reconstruct a Sparrow much faster than an engineer who spent two weeks working on it.

Suddenly, a smallish robot is floating beside the Warlock. The tinker had seen Ghosts before, but never this close. It speaks. "This is irrational. I'm capable of reproducing your Sparrow on command and in mint condition. Why pay this person to repair your old one? It increases the failure rate by 18% at minimum."

The tinker stares at the Ghost, his face reddening. He had worked day and night for two full weeks on this Sparrow, and the proceeds would keep his shop open for another three months. It was the biggest job he'd had in a year.

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Ghosts can do complex calculations or strategies in seconds.

Jinju perks up, internal sensors suddenly askew. "Something nabbed us right out of our jump. We're off course by…" Jinju calculates, "…three AU?"

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"Glint?" A rainbow of colors played across the Ghost's eye. This usually meant he was calculating complex enemy behavior, determining combat outcomes, or mapping hundreds of bullets and their millions of possible trajectories. "Oh, I like Glint!"

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Serves as a mobile com

Engage and defeat the enemy at extreme range. The LR2a has an integrated com set, but a Guardian's Ghost renders it redundant.

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Can become intangible, its actually what they do when they "disappear"

Jinju whirs and floats passed Ana, decompiling herself into data-points of Light that sift into the walls around the lift. Jinju's flashlight goes with her. Darkness rushes in on Ana to fill the space left by Jinju's absence.

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Jinju recompiles herself into being, a smug lilt to her wafting motions through the air. Her light-beam carves existence out of the dark. "Rasputin can't do everything you know."

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Have scanners that can see up to 500 meters away, likely higher but was mitigated by reinforced walls.

Her Ghost told her the bad news—this cave system was a labyrinth extending dozens of kilometers with more dead-ends than not. The walls were deeply reinforced, and its scans could see but half a kilometer at best.

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Ghosts can blind threats while rezzing their Guardian

The Hunter's Ghost discharged a pulse of Light, blinding the Guardian and raising the Hunter. The risen Hunter swift-drew a cannon of Light, as if reactively defending his Ghost. He cracked off a single golden shot from his flame-licked weapon.

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Ghosts are adept at hacking they can even hack turrets.

She shimmied from under her Guardian's body, snaked through dead Cabal, and slinked over oil-stained dirt—out of sight, avoiding detection from the scanning turrets above. The Ghost made her way to the outskirts of the battleground before doubling back to exploit the turret's blind spot.

Rays of Light cascaded over the turret's frame as the Ghost hacked its targeting computer, delivered an override to its command module, and redirected authority to herself. She told herself the Cabal were her enemy. She did not listen to their gasps of surprise as rounds loosed from the dual Scorpius barrels. She did not look at the confusion on their faces as heavy projectiles punched them down. It was all she could do not to feel the same remorse she had so many years ago when she had last needed to defend her charge.

It was done. A lone Ghost in the deathly stillness of the EDZ.
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Implied that Fallen weapons can't destroy a Ghost, this makes them Small Arms proof considering Fallen weapons are lethal enough to kill Guardians who have protections at minimum of tier III armor.

"Scorn guns can't kill a Ghost," the man said, taking a step away from the wall, and uncrossing his arms.

Aunor ignored him. "Cause of death?" she continued.

"'Sundance' appears to be the victim of a single, catastrophic wound from a Devourer Bullet, modified to fire from a Scorn launcher. Projectile classified as ontological."

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"Speed Feats" for Guardians

"Light flows through you. If you focus, you can feel it: lightning running through your arms to your fingertips, crackling across your palms." —Tyra Karn

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"Arc, Solar, Void: all manifestations of the Light. But how many ways might the Darkness manifest? Time will tell." —Eris Morn

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Striker Guardian can punch as fast as lightning when using Arc Energy (This is not a reaction feat but a feat of how fast the limbs can move when amped)

"Too slow!" Siegfried whipped a crackling elbow into Crome's stomach and blocked the counterattack. The Titan delivered a knee to the man's ribs that chained into three lightning-fast strikes across the Hunter's body—ending in a thundercrack blow to the temple.

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Reaction times canonically listed for people in the Destiny verse.

Baseline Humans can react to a visual stimulus in less than two hundred milliseconds. Awoken, less than a hundred.

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Guardians scale from non Guardian Awoken and thus have reaction times under 100 milliseconds, so all my calcs for reaction/reflex speed are supported.



Guardian Defenses Continued

Legendary Tier Hunter Armor can withstand High Caliber rounds with bruising (mainly the arm piece was shot and this was before Guardians existed so High Caliber rounds probably wouldn't even bother them)

"Stand over here. Stick your arm out. Yes, perfect. OK, just hold still…" —Production Lead, BrayTech R&D

FEEDBACK FROM FIELD SESSION 177
* Thermal conservation tech "felt good" over a seven-hour session
* Micromesh webbing had minor grating on user's wrist, consistent across multiple test subjects
* 3cm, 1cm, 5mm grip tests successful
* User shouted expletive during high-caliber round test, but only sustained minor bruising

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Legendary Titan Armor can survive a Headshot from a Cabal Slugthrower

Titan and a Hunter crash on Mars. Titan's helmet stops a Cabal slug. Hunter's helmet stops her from starving. Who lives?

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Legendary Titan Armor can protect against point blank Centurion gunfire so well that the wearer laughs off the attack

"The Cabal centurion opened up on her at point-blank, and we heard the most fearsome sound. She was laughing."

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The Sentinel Barricade taking prolonged exposure from an Ogres gaze which IRC can turn rock to powder

Siegfried raised a towering barricade just as the Ogre unleashed its hellish gaze. Cracks webbed through the Light wall. Siegfried braced it with both hands. The Ogre shook the ground as it bore down on him. The Titan readied himself to clash, lightning welling in his bones.

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"Its gaze shattered the rock, and then it smashed the rock to powder."

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Suppressor Grenades are canon and are great at depowering opponents mid combat and if lore is anything to go by there isn't the massive delay to use grenades as because its simply manipulating light to get their desired affect so only when they are low on light is it an issue.

"Did you see that? He came crashing down through the sky and POP, no more Light. Boy left quite the scene for his Ghost to clean up." —Sloane

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Another feat is a void barricade tanking concentrated Heavy Slugthrower fire from 24 machine gun nests

Slugs slap hard into the earthen trench wall at his back, sending reverberations through his ribs. He shifts to plot a safe path to defend the flank. Shaw readies to move as a heavy metal boot slams out of transmat in front of him, followed by a solid Light barricade erected to deflect the incoming metallurgic hail.

"Get up, Han. That ditch isn't going to save you." Machine Gun fire thunders off the barricade as Lord Saladin grabs him and raises Shaw to his feet. "That's for your Light to do."

"Saladin?" Shaw closes his mouth and tries again. "Lord Saladin."

"Zavala forwarded your support request." Saladin ignores Shaw's surprised expression and eyes the Cabal fortifications. "You're with me now."

"Sir." Shaw nods with a steady confidence. "What's the plan?"

Saladin peers through the cracking barricade, slugs crashing finger-lengths from his face. "Holliday is en route to deploy our heavy ordnance, but she needs their attention off the skies." Saladin looks at him for the first time and smiles. "Take out their flak guns, and give them no choice but to focus those Machine Gun nests on us."

"Oh…" Shaw wasn't sure if he'd call this a plan—maybe a Titan plan.

"You're fast on your feet, son. You'll be fine." Saladin motions the advance; "JACKS, SUPPRESSING FIRE!"

Lord Saladin strides into the no-man's-land surrounded by advancing Redjacks and a billowing aura of searing refraction. He hurls a fusion grenade across the expanse without breaking pace and demolishes one of the dozens of machinegun nests outright.
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Keep in mind Void Barricades aren't the strongest construct of the Titan Sentinel, their Shield and Ward of Dawn are. We also know the general ROF for a Cabal Machinegun.

So low end 900 rounds divided by sixty is 15 rounds a second, Saladin was talking say for five seconds so that's 75 rounds multiplied by 24 Machine Guns that's 1,800 rounds.
Assuming accuracy of 50% since its a big stationary glowing structure that's 900 rounds hitting it to make it crack.

Heavy Slug Thrower rounds would scale above Guardian small arms but I'll low ball and say they're as powerful as the .408 cheyenne tactical (Making this gun weaker than a Guardians autorifle which is listed as 11x90). This makes the shield at minimum able to withstand 9 megajoules of force (11,000 joules per bullet x 900 rounds hitting) before showing signs of collapse, also keep in mind this is a very lowballed calc and could be much higher.


Titans with Sol energy can create a defensive aura that nigh instantly melts slugs hitting him to the point he's essentially invulnerable to the Cabal, not even flinching from their bullets.

Hot barrels realign on the Guardians as a magnificent flare emblazons Lord Saladin's armor in Solar Light. From his palms erupts a mighty maul that clinks into his gauntlets. Heavy slugs clang as they shrug off his immolated plate. He does not flinch or falter. Saladin charges the line, heat intensifying and melting slugs into slag droplets that ping and sizzle against him. He slams his maul into the dirt, driving a sweeping inferno toward the Cabal gunline. It hits like a bursting artillery shell, catching oil alight and spreading hot panic through the Cabal ranks.

Saladin bears down on the Cabal, almost in their ranks now. He is a wildfire of Light and death. Legionaries flee their nests rather than challenge him. Frantic Cabal radio transmissions crackle across the battleground. All remaining guns turn to stop the Iron Lord's advance, but only succeed in slowing it. Saladin's voice bellows above the gunline.
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Titans with Arc energy can create a defensive aura where the Arc lightning intercepts incoming projectiles automatically before they can do harm.

Siegfried bolted directly toward Crome like living lightning. Each fanned shot from the man's cannon was struck down by bolts arcing from the Titan.

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Zavala casually withstands (Take as long as you need were his exact words) weapons fire from squadrons of Fallen and even one equipped with a Scorch Cannon (Gigajoules of fire power)

Miscellaneous Feats


Guardian with the naked eye performing a shot over 700 meters away with pin point accuracy

Marin spat onto the dusty ground, scuffed it with the heel of her boot. Squinted across the flat, dusty expanse of the High Plains. Ignored the Rifleman to address the other person on the channel, ex-Corsair Errol Mayz, who stood alone just over seven hundred meters from her position with his hands bound behind his back and a canister of ether balanced on his head.


"You know the wager." The Rifleman didn't like to be ignored. "Get on with it. If you think you can make the shot."

Marin's eyes flicked to the hills of rubble dotting the High Plains, looking for the Rifleman's perch. Almost a sure thing the four-armed lunk on the far ridge was just another of the braggart's decoys, but no point risking Errol's life over a guess. "I can make the shot. And I expect you to honor this wager when you're down a K of ether and I'm walking outta here with Mayz."
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It's implied in the weapon quote that she succeeded.

"I couldn't afford to miss. Not when it was his life on the line." —Marin Mansanas, Tangled Outrider

The world record for an archery shot is 253 meters, Guardian blew it out of the water. Needless to say Guardians are so dam stupidly accurate or at-least quite a few of them are.

 

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Baby Post.


As of Lightfall.

Guardian Physicals allow them to resist the pull of a ship accelerating at light speed. They are able to resist this long enough to open a hatch and get inside, this is not a casual feat for them but does display immense strength and durability.

A feat of Saladin outright catching a bullet after it was fired. Keep in mind this is Saladin centuries to decades before the events of Destiny 1 and Guardians canonically grow stronger with time and experience so many Guardians can scale from this.

"Good pig." The young girl has him at gunpoint, flatfooted. Saladin's brow furrows as he eyes his opponent: no older than fourteen, a wilder-child girl wrapped in furs and smears of dirt.

"I will put a hole in you." Her unsteady voice grapples with seldom spoken syllables. "No lie!" The scrawny girl's dim eyes and matted hair are silvered with persistent trauma.

Saladin steps forward, his massive frame overshadowing the wilder-child girl. "You're not going to kill me, girl."

"I'll take your demon when you're dead." The girl hesitates for a moment before yelling, "I know it gives magic. Then Jaxxen will be afraid too!" Experience had clearly deafened her to empathy; morality was a luxury for a civilized age she'd never known.

Isirah bursts out laughing behind Saladin. "Try."

The girl swings the rifle to Isirah and fires. Saladin drops Elmi—to clattering squeals—and stops the bullet in the air with his hand before it contacts his Ghost. He picks the round from the interior backplate of his gauntlet, blood running from the fresh hole in his palm. "Whoever you stole these from is underpacking their grains."

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And as of most recently in Lightfall we see Eramis react to an explosion and create a wall of Stasis after the pressure wave hits Mithraax but before the flames touch him.

Guardians scale to or above this reaction feat as they can defeat Eramis even when she has reinforcements aiding her in the FINAL fight.

Just more supportive arguments for Guardians have Super Sonic to Hyper Sonic reaction speed and explaining how the Fallen can keep up with Hive Knights who have their own bullet timing feats (Fallen and Hive have explicitly enhanced reflexes).

Powerful enough Guardians such as Ikora can outright and completely vaporize surprisingly resilient Ogres with a somewhat casual gesture. (Or it could have been a Nova Bomb with no animation working)

From this perspective a purple beam over penetrates the Ogre and it gets vaporized.