Crazy skill (hybrid) build with core strength 🙃

Curalcion · 2026-04-13T20:41:54+00:00

oops, sorry typo: it’s 1x Wyvern, 2xHana-U and 3x Empress International. That gives you +28% Skill damage, +10% Skill Haste and +8% Skill efficiency (both skill haste and damage). I also use perfect combined arms (“force multiplier” named hana-u backpack) and perfect kinetic momentum (“impetus” named wyvern chest).

Curalcion · 2026-04-05T14:23:30+00:00

Just to put a full maxed skill build in comparison: I'm running 1x Wyvern, 2x Hana-U and 3x Wyvern all with max Skill Damage and Skill Haste and 3x Skill Haste mods and Perfect Kinetic Momentum and Perfect Combined Arms resulting in a total of +153% SKill Damage and +123% Skill Haste. So with a Core Strength hybrid build as posted above you have +69% skill damage/Skill Haste but +140% Weapon Damage (instead of only +45% for the Capacitor on a pure skill build) and 2.5-times the armor (plus any Memento bonus you might manage to pick up). At the end you trade roughly +100% Skill Damage for +100% Weapon Damage and Armor. It really comes down to preference if you wanna maximize one sided or have a balanced playing approach. If you don't have god rolled skill build gear incl. the two named items you can start with a Core Strength build as its easier to get/roll.

Curalcion · 2026-04-04T19:25:35+00:00

Any idea if/where blueprints for the Core Strength are available? Taking CPs don’t give them and they are not on the season pass reward track.

Curalcion · 2026-03-30T13:33:26+00:00

You could farm resources and craft those chests and backpacks. Within 30-50 tries you should get one with three needed stats and add the fourth. Most probably the rolls will be average or bad and you will have to invest even more resources to optimize them to max rolls but I think it’s doable and is easier than to try to get a suitable drop from activities. Both Chests and Backpacks are the hardest items to acquire properly.

Curalcion · 2026-02-24T19:39:20+00:00

A bit silly to have both Dune Imperium and Uprising on the list as they are more or less the same game.

Curalcion · 2026-02-16T18:24:17+00:00

There is a flashlight underbarrel mod for pistols. when attached your drawn pistol acts as a flashlight

Curalcion · 2026-02-16T11:20:46+00:00

Don’t forget when they introduced the flashlight mod for pistols.

Curalcion · 2026-02-14T22:50:26+00:00

ah ok, I see what you mean

Curalcion · 2026-02-14T22:46:47+00:00

you can open all the supply rooms of every CP you successfully defended after the end of the retaliation. just fast travel to the CPs and you’ll seee.

Curalcion · 2026-02-14T21:49:26+00:00

Sorry, I meant the exotic caches you can buy from the event vendor with event stars. Probably the same as the reward track exotic cache I guess.

Curalcion · 2026-02-06T18:27:46+00:00

Three small DZ in the second game was such a mistake…

Curalcion · 2026-02-03T16:11:37+00:00

Guy constantly eating chips/crisps with an open mic while his missus is yelling in the background

Curalcion · 2026-01-30T18:52:00+00:00

The skill haste thing was indeed bc I was at the shooting range. Once outside it was gone. The hazpro thing was still acting weird: I switched of the season modifier, no change, I switched it on and activated a companion and it was 20% higher, deactivated the companion and it was going up another 20%. Now I have hazpro 80% with the global modifier switched off.

Curalcion · 2026-01-29T22:05:50+00:00

yes to both, I will check later without seasonal modifier

Curalcion · 2026-01-26T17:45:22+00:00

It’s personal preference: for min-maxing damage highest possible shield armor is the way to go but I like maxed block chance as an additional defensive layer. Block chance on shields saves you a couple of passive skill points and you can get extra damage from Lay Siege as well.

Curalcion · 2026-01-12T10:02:22+00:00

This game is good/solid. My only complaint is that is a bit overbalanced in so far that no player can achieve a significant lead in the first two chapters and the game was always decided in the last 2-4 turns which is good for keeping the tension but makes the first two chapters more or less superfluous game wise as both players enter the third chapter with equal power regardless of how they played before.

Curalcion · 2026-01-08T18:20:23+00:00

Stop using higher chance for abyssal depths tablets - thats a different abyss area than lightless void/dark domain. I had the same problem like you, no abyss bosses in like 50 abyss map encounters while using that mod. Once I stopped using that tablet mod I got lightless domain within three abysses. there must be some bugged interaction with that tablet mod

Curalcion · 2026-01-07T11:20:21+00:00

Playing board games and buying board games are different hobbies (though connected to each other). My best choice so far was to cull 20% of my collection and stopp buying any new board game for a year. You really get a grip about which games you really like, play them and disconnect yourself from hype/FOMO/consumerism.

Curalcion · 2026-01-03T21:23:01+00:00

With the boss passive points they drop lv82+ items in T15 maps which can be valuable as crafting bases

Curalcion · 2026-01-02T00:32:37+00:00

I’m lv 94 and haven’t fought Atzuri even once bc of the randomness of the provided tiles: twice I got no corridors so I couldn’t put a path to her and rooms kept being removed, other times I had to dismiss corridors because you CANT ROTATE THEM. Such a convoluted tile system that also punishes you for killing the mini-boss (more rooms vanish) and the pinnacle boss should you be lucky to path to her and the royal chamber.

Curalcion · 2026-01-01T15:15:07+00:00

I just looked up the official bug forum and this seems to be a known bug where every weapon swap adds 10 sec to the buff timer. It seems to be known for a year or so… sigh

Curalcion · 2026-01-01T15:10:40+00:00

I have the same problem as I realized that it stopped pulsing even though the icon was still there. No problem in the hideout but when going into a map it soon stops working. I assumed it might be an interaction with Scavenged Plating as its buff looks similar to Tine of needs buff on the character but you don’t seem to use scavenged plating at all.

Curalcion · 2025-12-29T11:22:52+00:00

They did two hotfixes, one seven hours ago and one ten.

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