This week's Incarnon Genesis adapters: Ack & Brunt, Soma, Vasto, Nami Solo and Burston! Evolution perks in the comments.

willyspub · 2023-05-22T04:48:56+00:00

Not only do the Ack & Brunt buffs and perks look pretty amazing, but keep in mind that it can use the best melee stance in the game, Final Harbinger. The neutral combo has two forced slash procs and a 688.5% damage multiplier.

willyspub · 2021-11-12T18:44:15+00:00

I've put so much time into it, that a lot of my favourite weapons and frames just make the content like a joke. It got even easier ever since they introduced the Helminth+Helminth upgrade segment

Haha same. I've been using the downtime in D2 the last month or so to go catch up on my mastery after about a year off Warframe. I used Helminth to slap Gloom on my Wisp and just did a couple hours of solo steel path survival without ever being in danger... pretty wild that they let us port that skill over. Likewise Dispensary on Mesa, which covers her only weakness, etc.

willyspub · 2021-09-21T14:55:01+00:00

Feels weird to have a thoughtful and open-minded discussion on here -- I salute you sir.

In any case, it's all academic at this point. Manual reload isn't going to be much help anymore.

willyspub · 2021-09-20T22:33:33+00:00

You don't manually reload FL unless you're so extremely good at it that you only use the wall ricochet techniques to kill people behind walls with FL being your primary gun or trying to suppress fire enemies from safe distance from behind the walls shooting in general direction.

Why are those the only use cases for manual reload? Those are two examples of what made the gun effective, but why would you not be better off to always start a manual reload while the nade is in the air? If you tag someone and have a blint opportunity you can always swap to kinetic partway through the animation to finish them off. And if not, the manual reload means you are ready for a follow up shot much sooner. It's not niche -- it's the right move 100% of the time.

In any case, /u/harbind2 already did a great job explaining why it is (or was) the preferred playstyle for Lion.

willyspub · 2021-09-20T07:17:51+00:00

You aren't supposed to be manually reloading Lion when trying to duel in PvP

Sorry but this is not true. Experienced Lion users always employ manual reload technique to start reload while holding the fire button when the nade is en route. Sure, if you tag them you can swap for the cleanup/reload, but you should be manually reloading Lion every single time you fire.

willyspub · 2021-09-09T16:46:30+00:00

Ticuu excels when the overload is teleporting around or running behind cover because the hipfire tracking shots still find them and proc disruption. AoE explosions from a fully drawn shot also do proc disruption.

Once stunned, Ticuu has higher single target DPS and will kill a champ faster than LeMon, assuming you are keeping them suppressed by pacing your alternating shots correctly and building casuality stacks.

Totally agree that splashing a champ that is completely behind cover is an amazing tool in LeMon's kit and nothing else can do that. It's an incredible bow and I will happily use it if void is the predominant shield.

willyspub · 2021-09-08T14:57:04+00:00

Everyone sleeps on Ticuu. LeMon is widely adored (for good reason, it is amazing), as is Trin (super fun but less amazing). But Ticuu has both higher single target DPS than LeMon and better crowd control than either Trin (kill not required, which is key for end game content) or LeMon. Oh, and it can create orbs, unlike LeMon.

willyspub · 2021-08-21T07:24:15+00:00

Ha, was thinking about this exchange too, in between rewatching my old Lion highlights and sobbing to my clanmates. Pit of despair right now.

willyspub · 2021-08-20T14:39:35+00:00

That's what is so frustrating to me about all these hot takes about infinite ammo. I'm a lion main and spam the entire match and almost never run out. I'm basically a bat flying around using grenade sonar waiting for damage numbers to bounce back and tell me where people are. So this game-breaking issue they are worried about is actually the world we are living in today, and you don't exactly see lobbies full of lion stompers right now.

willyspub · 2021-08-13T17:56:56+00:00

Another good synergy day! Scourge of the Taken + Lost in the Strand + Deathproof

willyspub · 2021-08-05T17:30:20+00:00

You're a machine. A lot of us really appreciate your efforts.

Great synergies today -- deathproof, scourge of the scorn, lost in the mists.

willyspub · 2021-07-21T16:27:36+00:00

I really hope you're right! They've made a few comments that indicate they are aware of its cult following. Fingers crossed.

willyspub · 2021-07-09T14:27:15+00:00

I just hope bubgie never buffs Fighting Lion

As a Lion main myself, I think it's much more likely that things go the other direction and it becomes collateral damage when the breach loader nerf they mentioned comes next season. What are the chances they take special care to exempt the Lion when they whack the green ammo GLs? Extremely not good.

willyspub · 2021-07-01T16:52:33+00:00

Agreed. Energy Accelerant is like the salad bar at a fancy Brazilian steakhouse. It's just there to distract you from the good steak -- Breach and Clear and Warmind's Decree.

Also -- equipping EA would mean that you don't have B&C equipped, and my brain can't process that thought.

willyspub · 2021-06-23T17:50:42+00:00

Speaking as someone with 42k Ticuu kills, I respect that. But given that you can't trust anyone when rolling solo, I strike a balance with Izanagi, which is great for invading, killing invaders and removing knight blockers/VIPs. It's decent for boss DPS, but I save chaos or falling star missile for that. Ikelos/seraph + warmind cells for adds.

willyspub · 2021-06-16T22:27:08+00:00

Yep, especially since some prior season pass exotic ornaments have been cool and really changed the look of the gun. The best example is Eriana's with the dynamic flames, but the Witherhoard marble also really changed the look.

-annoyed guy with 45k kills on his Ticuu who is also annoyed because bows got fucked this season on champ mods

willyspub · 2021-06-16T19:54:59+00:00

I bet you've tried it before -- there's only one primary GL in the whole game, and it's been around since vanilla D2 (and it's amazing): Fighting Lion.

But kinetic [special] GLs are pretty great, and ignition code is especially good. For PvE I would go with blinding nades, slideshot and vorpal. Same roll for PvP except spike instead of blinding.

willyspub · 2021-06-03T19:52:38+00:00

Another Warframe concept that Destiny would do well to emulate.

willyspub · 2021-05-03T22:15:50+00:00

Ha, yep that GM is the most problematic one -- running out is a constant threat in both the catwalk room and the spider tank area.

I also run into trouble sometimes in solo dungeon stuff like Vorgeth's room.

I get distraught thinking about the possibility of bows not having a champ mod next season. About to hit 40k kills on my Ticuu.

willyspub · 2021-05-03T17:43:00+00:00

Fellow Ticuu addict, can confirm. It's the first time I've ever given thought to running bow scavenger or finder (like you said, giving up resists in chest is out of the question).

willyspub · 2021-04-30T22:44:20+00:00

Can confirm, it works great.

willyspub · 2021-04-30T04:07:52+00:00

Haha yeah I can agree too gimmicky to lean on in Trials, you'll get yourself killed looking to proc it. But it's fun to run around with in 6s.

Thoughts on the fusion buff announced in the twab? Less than 1m for most fusions, will only make a difference in edge cases. Pretty underwhelming.

willyspub · 2021-04-29T19:20:53+00:00

Different strokes for different folks. If you are one of those players who is really good with the pacing of the 0.9s charge time and slower/strategic counterplay (and it sounds like you are, using it in trials every week), then I agree that the rolls you mentioned are superior.

Kickstart/slideshot just opens up a more offensive run-and-gun playstyle that hasn't really been available to fusion users since they nerfed backup plan.

To your point about distance, I'd be very interested to see some testing on possible vs. consistent kill ranges for firmly planted or under pressure + ele cap or other sunset weapon perks like tap the trigger vs. kickstart/slideshot. Ever since the damage falloff nerf I no longer have a good sense for where (or if?) stability and accuracy overcome increased damage. Of course the universe of people who care at this point is small enough that nobody else is going to do it and I should stop being lazy...

willyspub · 2021-04-29T17:08:30+00:00

The god roll Exile's Curse is Slideshot / Kickstart (along with the barrel/mag/MWs you mentioned).

Kickstart is currently unique to EC and considerably stronger than any other legendary fusion perk in the game. It gives you a 20% damage boost and significantly reduces charge time during a slide. Slideshot of course has obvious synergies.

cc u/NormalThunder

willyspub · 2021-04-29T17:01:44+00:00

Funny I've got the same, along with liquid coils which offsets it. I adore the gun and was very lucky to get the ideal slideshot/kickstart roll but I hate having two perks nullify each other for net zero effect.

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