Stag for everything!

As a Solar Warlock, you basically have 3-4 builds that can be used for fun and maybe 1-2 that's actually end game viable. Sunbracers Cheese Ball Spam. Sounds just like it is. Felwinter 1 Punch Ignitions (even though Bungie just nerfed the piss out of it because of its new synergy with glavies) Poison Flame with Necrotic grips and celestial fire. Spread burn and sticky icky Starefire Stickies, the goto metah build. That's about it. Daybreak sucks. Use Well.

Check out Plunderthabooty on Youtube. He does some pretty neat builds. Goes in depth on what Aspects and Fragments, as well as options for exotics and mods. Breaks down why he used what and even (on a lot of newer builds) adds a DIM link to the build so you can look it over if videos aren't your thing.

I like to generalize my builds and make slight adjustments based on what I'm up against. For Solar warlock, it has no real ability looping power in its aspects, so that needs to be made up for in fragments and mods. What I consider necessary aspects: Heat rises - (allows you to at least gain some melee energy by hopping just as you kill something) Touch of Flame - Signifcant grenade buff Significant fragment options: Ember of singing - Lets you recharge you rift significantly faster, which opens up certain loops based on other fragments and mods. Searing - Recovering melee energy by scorched kills allows for easier melee loops, especially with how easy it is to apply. +10 recovery helps too Ashes: let's your Incinerator snap ignite if most of the particles hit. Paired with ember of char and searing, it makes for a simple melee build that can be expanded upon. Solace: Helps if you're focusing on a more supportive playstyle, as you reap the benefits you sow for 50% longer (restoration, radiant). Torches: The only way the subclass can gain radiant outside of super. Can make allies radiant if you are close when a melee hits. Benevolence: A big player in support-based Dawnblade. It's heavily nerfed, but can stack with things like singing and searing for compounding ability regen, and can be procced from heat rises, healing grenade, healing rifts and Phoenix dive, and ember of torches. You want to focus on a playstyle with dawnblade, mostly either offensive and melee-focused or supportive and ability regen. Use as many mods as you can spare to increase regen, like class item mods and arms mods. Elemental well builds can usually focus around the melee or the weapon that you're radiant with. For exotics, you have a few options. Stag for addition rift regeneration and resistance while in one. Boots of the Assembler for standing your ground in a team and buffing your mates. This will continually proc ember of benevolence (as far as I've checked) Eye of another world for baseline passive regen Dawn chorus for the offensive, melee focus, providing a percent of melee energy per scorch tick, and scorch does 3x (!) Damage. Phoenix protocol for super looping. Sample support template: https://dim.gg/aog75kq/Dawnblade-Benevolent-Flames Hope this helped!