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Dystopia, 10 months ago

I usually stick with 7-x-7 with Eternal Eradicate + Onslaught and Madurai for most content.

For Focus Schools, stick to the one you think you will get more use out of:
Use Madurai if you think you will be doing Eidolons more, it still does okay for killing regular enemies for Last Gasp. Unairu is better for Last Gasp because of its ability to armor strip and other passives, while still able to do reasonably good damage to Eidolons thanks to the Unairu Wisps. If you aren’t going to touch Eidolons then this is probably the better School to pick.

The amp does Void Angels reasonably well but does lack range if the Angel teleports to the outer edge of the platform. As soon you enter the Void Dimension for the first time, use Madurai’s 2 on the Angel and then activate Void Strike with 1, and the Angel should be dead almost instantly. When you enter the Void the second time, Void strike will probably still be on cooldown, spam your 2 to drain all of your operator’s energy to activate your Arcanes and you should do just enough damage to almost kill it before the Dimensional Orbs spawn if you’re playing solo, if you’re public then there’s a reasonable chance that your squad did enough damage to skip this and kill the Angel.

While it doesn’t happen too often, the Angels with 3 health phases will occasionally teleport out of the center of the ring, to the outer perimeter after a certain amount of time. This is out of the range of the 7-x-x Amp to reach with its primary fire but you can use a Scaffold which does have enough range to reach the perimeter, or just wait for it to teleport back to the center of the map. I would recommend against using the Phahd Scaffold for this, because it has a bug where it self-staggers if you try to use it within one of the yellow fields, but if you are aware of this or if this gets patched then its really a non issue. 7-1-7 works fine for covering the short range of your primary fire mode. I’m not sure how often you’re fighting Void Angels though for range to be that much of a concern for you though, and you may opt to just pick a Scaffold you like to use instead.

For general content/Last Gasp, the damage boost from Madurai’s abilities is okay for killing most enemies, but your 1 does have a cooldown on it so this is where Unairu is really able to outperform Madurai. It has a passive to increase your operator’s damage while in Last Gasp, Caustic Strike to fully strip enemy armor (and its upgrade to spawn Unairu Wisps for even more operator damage), and Magnetic Flair to strip enemy shields when they’re relevant.

My operator Arcanes are Magus Repair fore healing and Emergence Dissipate as a way to generate energy and replace Zenurik but this can be replaced with other things like Energy Generator or Exodia Brave. For Amp Arcanes, I use Eternal Onslaught/Eradicate, but Virtuous Shadow/Strike are also good options if you need to substitute, and are a lot easier to get early on.

tiresieas, 10 months ago

Without getting super into it, Physical mods are essentially a scam of a mod.

• They do not affect your base damage, so they don't also improve your elemental mods.
• The effective damage increase is only a fraction based on the baseline ratio: using Buzz Saw on Gram Prime as an example, a +120% slash on a weapon with 75% slash results in a total +90% damage.
• The real nail in the coffin is that the bleed status does not scale with slash damage, it only scales with base damage, base damage mods (like Pressure Point or Condition Overload), and double dips with faction mods (turning a normal +30% Bane into a 1.66x multiplier, and a primed Bane with +55% into a 2.4x multiplier), while also being affected by other damage multipliers (like crits, headshots, etc).

There are legitimate uses for physical mods, but for regular melee use, the opportunity cost of using them is high, when you could slot in other things to pump up your damage output higher. A regular Bane will almost reach the same damage output as Buzz Saw on Gram Prime (of course vs the specific enemy), while also increasing your Slash proc damage further.

Legitimate uses include bumping up a slash ratio to being above 50% for dismemberment (to produce more Desecrate targets); for certain weapons (eg Shaku is full Impact) and stat stick abilities (Landslide is full Impact) that only deal 100% physical damage to get an actually effective +120% damage buff; for certain stat stick abilities (eg Whipclaw) that don't benefit from something better like banes, and can fish for more slash procs with it.

emi, 11 months ago

It isn't even their logo, they are trying to copyright images of apples.

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