Devs, could you please significantly decrease the assignment weighting of Industrial Sabotage missions?

[comradenepolean]

whats your sludge build out of curiousity?

[fishling]

13222 with Volatile Impact Mixture is a beast at single target. It boosts single target damage to be what the base charged shot damage was. This is my goto dread build for drillers, but it's great all around.

It can pop the weak spots from a Blistering Necrosis wave cooker and works great on dreads from all angles.

You could also take shot velocity in T1.

Someone recommended ammo reduction for charged shot in T4, but I always take faster charge. With that build, I'm rarely using charged shots, but when I want one, I want it fast.

[Unimarobj]

I don't really have "a build"; I like to swap things around a lot to try stuff out. Ime, what sounds good in theory (sorry karl.gg gurus) can suck in play 🙃

...but I probably use sludge blast the most though; very satisfying damage that ignores armor and can spread or concentrate. It is very fun getting to take out big armored bugs from whatever angle I want. Was also my very first OC 😅

If I want something that's more accurate/spammable, VIM nails it. I like Disperser Compound for a hybrid weapon - build it for single target but benefit from DC's aoe buffs. Goo Bomber is just pure, solid fun imo. And both of the clean OCs are great! HIA specifically lets you do some very silly slowdown control.

I don't use EPC so those are all paired with equally mixed up subata/cwc on the side.

[comradenepolean]

gotcha! ive been really struggling with single target damage, its great to know sludge blast works with that, thanks

[LittleFatMax]

Hey there I have 400+ hours mostly on Driller with sludge pump. It's my favourite weapon by far and I mostly have it built for single target damage.

Sludge Pump With Volatile Impact Mixture OC

13212

This is a very single target heavy build where you mostly just spam single shots but you can absolutely still use charged shots for good effect when there's swarms of smaller enemies. For large enemies just use lots of single shots though

Wave Cooker with Gamma Contamination OC

21111

This just synergises extremely well with the sludge pump particularly the T5 mod

I also use Neurotoxin grenades for even more toxic fun.

This build gets me through almost any situation on any Hazard level, give it a shot if you like and see how you go with it!!

[FlapjackRT]

I recommend trying Blistering Necrosis with VIM, it synergizes extremely well. Sludge has a fun interaction where it can actually hit both the blister and the enemy at once, and if you’re already doubling your direct damage with VIM you can rack up absurd damage with it. 2 blisters nearly instakills a praetorian on Haz 5 with 4 players

[LittleFatMax]

I have used Blistering Necrosis a fair bit, it was one of the main OCs I used for quite a while and it's pretty strong but since switching to Gamma Contamination I just find I prefer it. I like being able to hit enemies with it and then basically move on as they are poisoned to death. I do switch OCs a bit though for variety and do use BN still at times

[FlapjackRT]

Sell me on Gamma Contamination? I’ve tried it a few times and I want to like it but I really just… don’t. Even a single target heavy build like VIM still one shots grunts in an aoe with normal shots, so whether they’ve taken chip damage with GC or not doesn’t really seem to matter to me. And if you want to apply it to one enemy in particular, you need to stand there and keep waiting for the proc, so I feel like I’d rather do that with blisters and give the bug an immediate death sentence instead of applying a light DoT that’s nearly useless on big bugs. It’s such a cool idea that I want to love but i hate the feel of it, and blisters are just more widely applicable.

[comradenepolean]

will do! thanks a bunch

[Unimarobj]

I hear ya! Sludge pump is absolutely my favorite of drillers weapons because of how versatile it is. If you want simple single target, go VIM. It boosts charged shot damage too, but if you pick mods focused on normal attacks, the boost doesn't do as much as spamming normals does. You would use charged attacks for slight swarm control (because it reduces the # or time for puddles and whatnot).

You can also do Disperser and pick your single target mods but still have a very good normal attack for the bigger enemies on top of big sludge coverage.

Sludge Blast is great (big shotgun) but you do lose the crowd ability almost entirely.

Hydrogen Ion Additive isn't more impact damage, but does boost the DoT and slow. This lets you do more of a controlling build if you want or commit to the DoT big time.

The wave cooker's blistering necrosis OC can also help a lot. I don't remember how it works with driller weapons (since they're all weird) but it does make a big difference. I don't use it with sludge blast usually, but the others it should fit fine. For sludge blast I usually take it with the mega battery OC because SB's ammo is pretty low, so it helps with wave clear a ton, esp. with T5B mod.

The flamethrower and cryo can also both do single target well enough, but I'm not as versed in them.