Hello all,
The build is centred around Amara’s ability to boost Tediore reload damage through her +weapon damage +reload speed +elemental +splash damage talents. By fakegrasping with a Driver Com, Amara can reach an absolutely INSANE dps levels and speed with 100% anointment and mindfulness uptime. Hitting a crit spot on a reload with Amara with the correct element after fakegrasping, with max mindfulness stacks and with the 300% damage anointment over 90% hp can deal 300m+ damage on the initial explosion not considering the 5 Mirv projectiles..
Furthermore, by using a transformer shield, cutpurse victory rush artifact together with the new Driver class mod, you can sprint around the battlefield at up to +180% movement speed, instantly heal your shield and hp with 1 reload and regen all your ammo in 1 facepuncher shot, all while maintaining health gate with sustainment.
Mystical Assault:
1/5 Do Harm, 5/5 Violent Tapestry, 3/3 Fast Hands
3/3 Fast hands increases the speed at which you can throw reloads, might as well be a 19% fire rate increase. The weapon swap speed is great for when you switch to your facepuncher to regen ammo.
Do harm and Violent tapestry allow us to build rush stacks which boosts our reload speed through alacrity. While 1 point in each would be enough, violent tapestry is our best filler in order to reach Wrath since it gives increased chance of applying Dots which do massive dmg with tediore reloads. We can stack Violent Tapestry by spamming the fakegrasp since we will be applying a Dot to ourselves every time. Restless is also not needed since missing phasegrasp on purpose reduces the cd to 1-2 seconds.
5/5 alacrity 1/5 restless
As stated before, alacrity offers a massive reload speed bonus. Restless for when you accidentally use fakegrasp on an enemy and have to wait for the cd.
3/3 Wrath
Wrath offers a 40% damage increase each time you fakegrasp. Laid bare isn’t useful to us since we will try to never phasegrasp an enemy or we will have a longer cd.
Fist of Elements
5/5 Anima
Tediore reloads can proc some nasty DoTs of 10k+ per tick so this helps with dps. This also increases the length of the driver’s Dot so you can keep moving fast for longer and do more dmg.
5/5 tempest
A massive multiplicative bonus to elemental damage. By far our best talent for reloads, especially since we’ll be using shock reloads most the time.
5/5 Wildfire
Helps spread the massive tediore DoTs and increases our rush stacks.
1/1 Deep Well
A 20% increase to magazine size which makes our reloads do more dmg.
3/3 steady hands and 1/5 indiscriminate
Fillers that provide minimal benefit
1/5 Sustainment
Allows us to heal with reloads, ensuring that you can health gate even without shock reloads.
Brawl
2/5 Root to Rise
Makes you slightly tankier but is mostly a filler.
3/3 personal space
Helps a lot when you use the Sandhawk for out of range boss type enemies.
5/5 Arms Deal
20% increased splash damage which greatly boosts our reload damage, as well as a nice 40% resistance to splash damage. (Great vs rocket launcher zealots)
2/5 Helping Hands
Together with our com this will offer 35% damage reduction after action skill use for 15 seconds which means it’s up all the time if you fakegrasp.
3/3 Mindfulness
Massively increases your shield regen delay and movement speed when taking damage. At full stacks plus the Driver com you’ll have up to +150% movement speed will receive a 4 times damage boost.
1/3 Vigor
Stacks multiple times with normal kills and boosts our damage with the driver.
Tediore Reloads are directly boosted by grenade damage/ aoe damage/ splash damage/ magazine size/ gun damage / elemental damage. The damage you will do is based on the remaining bullets in the magazine. Reload speed, Actionskill Cd, Movement speed, grenade aoe radius can also be seen as indirect boosts to your dmg output.
The Gear:
Everblast
The Everblast offers by far the highest damage per reload and spawns 5 Mirv projectiles that will home on enemies and explode for massive dmg. Even though shock will be our main element (we will use it to regenerate our transformer shield and we get a +20% shock damage boost from Tempest) I carry 1 for each element for bosses or immune enemies.
Sandhawk
Our best option vs boss type enemies when they move out of range of tediore chucks. It does insane dmg with the driver + anointments and our talents suit it well overall since we have a lot of gun / elemental damage / reload speed mag size and personal space.
Face-puncher
Shotgun ammo can be fully regenerated with 1 Face-puncher shot using a cutpurse relic, since every pellet counts as a melee attack. This will allow you to chuck Tediore reloads endlessly. An 8 mag redundant version is optimal so you get the most ammo back per shot and don’t waste time reloading.
Transformer
The transformer shield allows us to insta-heal by throwing a shock reload to our feet since it converts shock damage to shield. Also has a 40% chance to absorb ammo as bullets which together with the 30% dmg reflect anointments makes you extremely tanky. Unfortunately, this absorb can also stop you from reloading since it can refill your mag before you reload, make sure spam fire and reload quickly while taking heavy fire to avoid this.
It’s piss
The It’s Piss provides additional utility since it will allow you to remove Dots and increase the damage that enemies receive by 20% for 6 seconds. Great against bosses. Tediore reloads benefit from both the weapon damage and grenade damage from the anointment so it offers a massive damage boost. Careful not to remove Dots when you are trying to gain Mindfulness stacks or you will lose dps.
Driver
A seriously op com, not only does it offer massive survivability with the movement speed increase and helping hands, the damage bonus can reach up to x4 at maximum mindfulness stacks+ sprinting and jumping. Fakegrasping allows us to spam your actionskill every 1-2 seconds so you have a constant 15 mindfulness stacks uptime from dots alone which translates to roughly 75% movement speed, 2 times the damage and keeps our anointments up constantly.
Cutpurse Deathless
As stated before, the Cutpurse + facepuncher combo will allow you to regain all your ammo and spam reloads endlessly. Victory Rush gives us gun damage and a bonus to movement speed which also translates into more damage. I can picture using an elemental projector if you want the absolute most damage, but you will lack the ability to regen ammo.
That’s all! Hope you enjoyed the build. Let me know in the comments if you have any suggestions. Please credit and add a link to the guide if you use this anywhere else. Thanks!
Is cooldown not a problem, though?