So is the spiritual driver build still a good build to have? I’m moving away from my melee build for the first time, and just wondering if any patches have taking place that have made the spiritual driver builds not as good.
It’s still good. I don’t use it, but I know it still scales very well.
Cool. Trying to understand how it all works together. Got the mod and the element projector relic.
Currently investigating what shields are the best…
You can pretty much use whatever shield you want. Just get one with a 50% ASE for 10 seconds. Same with the grenade. At least that was the old general idea of the build. There are new anointments now and may of them are better for actually using your action skill and not just grasping. So I don’t know how that build has changed, or even if it has.
Yes it’s super stupid still, pair with an elemental projector for pure damage on a boss or the pearl of your mobbing and don’t want to worry about matching elements.
When I say stupid I mean I can one shot both twins on xylorgous with ties that bind I NEVER thought I’d be able to do that on M10
Wow that’s crazy. I’m not anywhere near that damage…but I don’t have a shield and nade with 50% elemental damage on ase.
What platform are you on?
Xbox…
What’s crazy is I’m sure speed demon just makes her go nuts damage and speed unless there is some speed cap
I’m.capping out at 15 stacks of mindfulness. Think my mod only has 2 into mindfulness instead of 3.
Mindfulness with 1 one point will still cap at 25 stacks. Putting more into mindfulness just increases the speed, which directly increase the damage. That is why 50% element ASE for 10 seconds is so important. You put a dot for your action skill and the anointment on yourself when using diver. You could have multiple ticks of damage over time which raises you to 25 stacks very quick. With out it you rely on just your action skill and a mindfulness stack only last 5 seconds, so you’ll cap out at 15 like you are. 15 can still do a lot of damage if you have 6/3 mindfulness, but it’s still nearly half of what a full 25 stacks can do.
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One thing to note about the driver build, your 50% ASE grenade or shield and action skill element must offset each other or you will only cap at 15 stacks, drastically reducing the amount of damage dealing potential. Meaning if you are using fire for action skill element, do not use ASE 50% incendiary or you will not get 25 stacks of mindfulness.
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Yup super important!
And for pure damage make sure you have an elemental projector instead of the pearl. I go pearl for mobbing and projector for bossing, since you’ll already know what element to be using against them.
If your feeling spongy go for a transformer, if not I find a plethora of different Old God shields ad a solid boost to damage too if it’s matching your gun, annointments, or action skill element
All good info. I’ve stuck with my melee build ever since I reached end game. It’s a nice thought to go to a build that involves more than farming for a facepuncher.
I’m guessing I shouldn’t look for elemental anointments on weapons since the shield and nade have them and I don’t want to repeat them…
Okay this build is ridiculous! Lol. I’ve equipped the appropriate elemental anointment shield and grenade and that makes all the difference.
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Didn’t do too well on Graveward on mayhem 4 though with a cutsman. I think it’s time to start farming for some cutsmans with anointments
Cutsman moves slow and eventually will just disappear at extreme ranges. Not the best weapon for Graveward.
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Yeah I switched to a hellshock and things changed a little…
It’s the only way (ideally) to get any real use out of a melee-hybrid build, or at least it was before Mayhem 2.0 dropped. Now I haven’t a clue if it’d work past Mayhem 3 or 4.
Wait…can it be utilized with a brawler Ward and facepuncher??? Maybe I should try that out…