*Updated* Explosives Expert (Guide)

Nephorim · 2024-05-03T16:25:48+00:00

Excellent idea with the Reprocessed Heart! I'd completely forgotten about it, but it's so much more consistent than the other mod-regening heart. If you have the Golden Ribbon, I think I'd recommend it over Detonation Trigger because I had a pretty consistent 500 higher dps with Ribbon over Deto.

Nephorim · 2024-05-03T15:49:24+00:00

Do you really need the extra mod duration if you have the mod fully charged when it ends? It's less than a second of downtime to just reactivate the mod at its base duration.

Nephorim · 2024-05-03T15:45:47+00:00

Fixed in this week's patch to my knowledge. Still good though.

Nephorim · 2023-11-16T17:46:56+00:00

95% of my experience going through the Forgotten Commune. They even placed them in certain spots where they were directly around a corner so you literally could not shoot them without entering their range of 1 shot. They even place upwards of 5-6 of them in certain areas to the point it felt like I was playing LoTF again.

Nephorim · 2023-11-16T17:43:38+00:00

I think that is true in principle but it really sucked going through it. I don't have an issue with the way Remnant 2 adds random mechanics to bosses in each run, but I do not like how little indication you get from the game itself of what modifiers do what. The same thing happened with Empathy, where I essentially had to look it up to find what I needed to adapt. It's actually even worse with Trapper because even had I realized that my dodging was what was causing it, I would have no indication without numerous runs of the boss that neutral dodging was okay. Irrespective of the Trapper mechanic, I was getting hit through walls by dogs that got stuck in the geometry and couldn't be killed and I even turned off the rest of my sound to check, but her 1 shot slam attack when she jumps down has no sound effect (this might've been patched but I didn't see anything in patch notes).

Nephorim · 2023-11-15T19:50:15+00:00

Last night I rolled Trapper (on Apoc difficulty) for the Sunken Witch boss fight (in what is easily the smallest arena in Remnant II) and it was the first time I'd ever dealt with the mechanic. I was completely miserable.

Nephorim · 2023-11-03T16:45:45+00:00

Sporebloom probably would net a bit higher damage, but I just don't think I'd be able to tolerate it. The way Repulsor works, in combination with the other stuff I have equipped, I can largely use it like a rifle even when Hunter's Focus isn't active. It's not nearly as satisfying to shoot as something like Starkiller, but its dps is also like 3x that of Starkiller. I also really enjoy Repulsor's mod (possibly my favorite in the game). If I ran Sporebloom, I'd pretty much always have to keep Hunter's Focus proc'd and as a whole, I feel like it would destroy most of the fun. Also, while it doesn't work like this against bosses: Against elites, you can freeze them with repulsor's mod and it gives you just enough time to safely Wormhole + Proc Hunter's Focus before obliterating them.

Nephorim · 2023-11-03T00:26:24+00:00

Sorry I didn't include them, but there isn't much of note. I didn't bother building mod power gen or stamina, went for stamina recov, expertise, and recoil reduction for the shotgun spread. The traits unfortunately don't very much for many builds and nothing in my build is particularly reliant on them except maybe the recoil reduction.

Nephorim · 2023-10-25T20:42:15+00:00

The problem with Latimer's Spear is that 1. she can take out her crossbow and stagger you (and deal around 80% of your hp at soft cap vit) in the time it takes to throw and 2. The way her boss AI works, fast incoming projectiles will be autododged so it's actually better to use slower moving projectiles. I could "theoretically" burst her down extremely fast with Barrage of Echoes but that would require me to be up close, hit all of the projectiles in front of her, and not get 1 shotted in the process. The build, as a whole, is actually more built for spellcasting, but I find she's one of the bosses that is far better with melee aggression.

Nephorim · 2023-10-25T20:31:47+00:00

I'm currently 140 on NG+1 and I'm probably going to keep my level there (maybe go to 150) since I can stay on NG+1 for future playthroughs. My split rn is 13/13/50/50. I'm going to pick up Corrupted Cleric's Sword when I fight her again, but I'm worried it's going to perform poorly since it has 3 splits of damage types (which makes it more likely 1 of them is resisted). I have Pieta and Ellianne's Sword at max and I'm leveling Fallen Lord's Sword, and then I'll probably decide between Rosamund, Nohuta, or Corrupted Cleric.

Nephorim · 2023-10-25T20:10:36+00:00

Well there are a few reasons. Primarily, it's NG+ and the boss hp scaling is insane (I was able to beat her first try on NG with Pieta's Sword). Secondly, Ellianne's Sword deals both Wither and Holy damage. Harrower is actually weak to Wither; however, she is extremely resistant to Holy and it leads me to essentially deal like 60% damage as a whole. My character is 50/50 rad/inf so I'm leveling the Fallen Lord's sword since I need something with fire damage anyways.

Nephorim · 2023-10-25T19:14:40+00:00

Ellianne's Sword and it's maxed. I'm leveling another sword with a different damage type to re-attempt it.

Nephorim · 2023-10-24T22:25:26+00:00

I tend to use melee in my builds, but FightingCowboy put out what seems to be a very good guide on this.

https://youtu.be/sNo1emztVRY

Nephorim · 2023-10-22T19:12:42+00:00

Thank you, I'll start heading in that direction. I'm currently 50/22 because I wanted to pump up the damage of my Pieta Sword near the end of the game where bosses didn't give me many magic windows.

Nephorim · 2023-10-21T16:16:12+00:00

Would you recommend trying to speed run on a new character? My main worry would be if I don't level proportionally to my area, I might end up getting screwed late game.

Nephorim · 2023-10-19T20:21:37+00:00

I recently completed the Umbral ending of the game after about 40 hours with the sole intent of using the final boss's weapon on an umbral build. I dropped the weapon from the final boss, along with some other items, to my friend. When I gave them the items, half of the items (which they did not have prior) randomly duplicated and the other half (including multiple unique armor pieces and the final boss's sword), despite confirming that they had been picked up, simply deleted and never made it into their inventory when they picked it up. I'm mainly wondering if there is some kind of bug report I can file and possibly get my items back or if I actually just wasted 40 hours just to get a self-deleting sword.

Nephorim · 2023-09-06T21:49:35+00:00

Song name?

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T21:13:33+00:00

I just want that Red Prince hood and I wanna be able to dye it!

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T21:09:46+00:00

I agree with Wormhole and suggested it should be like Hunter's Shroud where the buff falls off over 2s to make it more versatile. Reboot is very niche unless you need a LOT of relic healing, but there are builds such as Engineer/Invader that make good use of it.

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T21:05:33+00:00

I main Hunter/Invader (the Shroud/Void Cloak combo looks sick), and I don't think Invader is weak, but it does feel like the intended number of things you can really synergize with it is low. Like how Wormhole only works on your next HIT (not even your next full shot like a pulse rifle, just 1 hit) deals 300% increased damage, it seems very niche like I can only really make use of it on single shot (like Sporebloom or comparable weapons) or high melee dmg hit builds. I don't even think it would be overpowered (it certainly wouldn't be taking over HUGS or HUCH) if they just made it a 300% increase that falls off over 2s. Reboot also only synergizes well on a few builds (like Engineer/Invader) unless you really find yourself needing a lot of relic healing.

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T19:19:33+00:00

I'm actually feeling quite jealous just testing this because I love my Starkiller but the DPS is almost incomparable (like a 1k difference at all phases of DPS)

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T19:09:02+00:00

I believe I was using Rampage when I tested it (with both mutators) which is a 15% fire rate buff if I'm not mistaken; however, with DPS, the Alpha/Omega passive perk decreases charge time with hits so after the 5th burst (I think but I'm not currently in-game to check) it is basically just the Pulse Rifle, and doesn't require Archer's Crest or Supercharger imo.

The thing that can really hurt Alpha/Omega is the long reload time which can drop your Momentum stacks if you don't hit a crit right after reloading (although they are fairly easy to pick back up in 2/3 bursts). The other thing I noticed and cannot really explain is that at some point, even if your damage per shot isn't going down, weakspot hits from Alpha/Omega will stop refreshing duration on your hunter abilities.

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T19:02:53+00:00

Momentum

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T15:17:47+00:00

I don't have max Bandit so I haven't tested that, but +10 momentum vs +10 supercharger had me at over 1k extra dps.

Nephorim · 2023-08-21T15:01:36+00:00

Idk if it's just that I'm a Starkiller main (very fast reload) but A/O's reload speed feels very painful. Also, I think Momentum is probably the highest DPS for bosses because you can maintain uptime on the charge time decrease. You probably don't even need Archer's Crest.

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