@@kingcurmudgeon8685 try this for animations, skill seed & Range mod, normal

The only skill that scales with Fusion is his 4th skill. But that skill has a lot of negatives associated with it, mainly it's long animation locks. In the time it takes to just do his ultimate animation, you could have thrown out 4 or 5 mines which will do more damage.

@@GooberTroy his second is fusion and there is a trans mod that adds an extra explosion after manually detonating. I personally like it for mobbing.

I tend to favor building defense first when leveling up a character. So this is the mod priority I'd suggest maxing out first and then supplement with additional mods as you gain capacity. 1. HP mod (the basic blue one) 2. Spear & Shield for some defense and Skill Power. 3. Focus on Fire for your first damage mod 4. MP Conversion for CD Those 4 should get you started. The lower priority mods should be Deadly Ambush just because that's not always going to be active depending on the content you're doing. Then Focus on Tech is a mod you can add later.

@@lokistiglic1399 there are a handful of skill-based descendants where the majority of their damage comes from skills (on bosses). Viessa, Blair, and Lepic come to mind. All those descendants all have a base crit of 15 or higher (or have crit scaling in their kit). For a skill-based descendant to push their damage, they need crit. Increasing Esiemo’s crit chance is my number one quick change to fix him. I’d still love to have his 4 skill changed

Changing his out to shoot a few missles or a cluster bomb of stickies that auto lock or something would be so much better. At lower levels 95% of the time, the enemy is dead before the animation even finishes and my ultimate gets wasted.

I don’t disagree! 😂

I just wish the mods felt more impactful overall, especially for how hard some are to get (looking at you, Enzo). It seems like most descendants just have 1 good one. Then there are some rare instances where a descendant will have 2 good ones which can be built around and alter playstyles.

@@GooberTroy speaking of that my friend just got Enzo’s beta red while doing a single vault while I was helping him level out of white Gulch. Meanwhile I’ve spent 20 hours trying to get Jay ber skill mod with no luck. And ya now that I’m able to farm most hard bosses I get a lot of reds and almost all are useless.

? When did I say I didn't test the other ones? The only one I don't have is Creative Explosion, but as others have confirmed, it's not really the best because you lose your more consistent form of damage with the rest of your bombs for increased 4 damage. But his 4 is already really bad. Cluster bomb is bad because it doesn't scale with multiple bombs. Explosive Propaganda doesn't do anything against bosses. Evade is the only relevant mod here because of how efficient it is. You have a free 3rd skill that does more damage on a slightly longer cd. It also helps you increase your bomb count to reach your 2nd skill's damage cap. Hope that clears it up for you

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Yep, I think that's a good option too, but Skill Expansion just gives more of an increase in range. If you want to run both Skill Expansion and Arche Acceleration, you have to give up either skill CD or skill cost reduction. Or maybe Skill Power Modifier (Focus on Tech - which has skill CD). It's a little difficult to squeeze in.

It’s following the same trend as every other game. It’s been out for a little over a month and new games come out or people accomplish their goals within this game to move on to other things. It’s the natural cycle

Yeah, sounds like a new bug. It was working fine prior to the recent patch

Thanks for the support!

You and me are same then. I consider myself a bit of a "video game hipster" who tries things considered off meta to see if there's a way those things can break into the meta with some additional research. Everyone says Esiemo is bad, but I think he's actually a little different in that he doesn't have the most burst (like a Lepic), but he has more frequent burst windows. In his current state, he just needs a numbers tweak to be great. But more important a redesign on some aspects (like his transcendent mods or 4 skill) could be greatly appreciated.

@@Dmagicman52 It’s really dependent on the weapon the gold reactor requires as well as what you have built up. You want it to be a weapon you would use as a primary weapon, so likely not a heavy weapon for example simply because the gun swapping can be annoying. If you have a gun you’ve heavily invested into, such as Enduring Legacy or perforator, then finding a gold reactor with an Enduring Legacy is worth it. Otherwise you’ll be fine getting by with a purple reactor for most content for now

The main issue with the purple reactors is that they are much more difficult to target farm.

You’re right, I had forgotten that change was made early on in a hotfix. If I’m not mistaken it was because Preemptive strike could constantly trigger in colossi while they had their shield still making it do a lot of extra damage. Regardless, it still provides a little more while mobbing than deadly ambush. Or if running explosive propaganda, deadly ambush could still be used

@@GooberTroy absolutely... now they just have to fix EP 😢

@@jaykelz1528 if you’re just doing some general mobbing, you can get away with using a purple. In fact a lot of my secondary descendants are still using purple reactors. I think the only time it’s really worthwhile to use a gold for mobbing is if you have it for a weapon that’s decent for mobbing such as Thundercage or for a weapon you’ve invested quite a bit into. In my case, Secret Garden is the weapon I’ve invested the most resources into and it does the most damage of all my weapons, so I could go for a mobbing-focused reactor that has a secret garden mounting

If you are running a Tammer as your bossing weapon

Is that a bug introduced with the most recent patch? I haven’t played with propaganda since the previous patch, but back then it seemed like it was correctly using Esiemo’s HP and Defense so it felt a lot tankier. I don’t really like how your 2nd skill can instantly detonate propaganda because it feels like it defeats the purpose a bit.

@@GooberTroy It has to be a brand new bug cuz I use it quite a bit an even my buddy was wondering why it was dying so easily . I really liked it for mobbing id throw it down an ult an it would bring a wild wave clear but it's being odd lol

@@rawlinsfernandes7823 the melee

I had recorded/edited this guide 4 times and in every single 1 of them I removed the camera...except this one. It was a late night recording session. That's on me, sorry! But that's a fair point about propaganda. Give it max range extension and you can taunt the whole map

@@GooberTroy Yeah, with CDR, Duration and Range you have a solid Build for Defense Mission. To bad the Mod is bugged right now but before I was able to cast it without downtime. =) So defense Missions were like a walk in the park.

@GrandLapika narcissistic folks.. Like looking at them helps anything lol..

His playstyle can be pretty hit or miss with a lot of people, but I find him pretty fun. There was a lot of research put in here so hopefully this provides you with some direction on how to build him!

Luna isn't helping him 😅 try to enjoy him instead of max him. He's much more fun then critical. Creative explosion has got to be the funnest playstyle in the game. Il have a video on it later today if your curious. It can do 1.6 m every 7 seconds or so, and yes uses up all the bombs AND removes the firearm attack from his forth, huge womp womp

@@Twizzler300 like a lot of descendants, his trans mods just don’t really feel impactful. Explosive evade isn’t really build defining. It works though because it’s just free damage, but not really something to build around. I was hoping cluster bomb would function differently and just change his 1 to split into additional bombs, but not replace his 2! I still have yet to receive Creative Explosion, but based on your description it works as I’d expect. Sucks the firearm buff is dropped when equipping that mod though. Overall it seems like his 4 skill is a bit of a mess and I think that’s the part of his kit that needs the biggest overhaul

@GooberTroy oh believe me. Explosive evade is 100% build able. And should be. Those mines can hit for almost 200k alone, that's without the 2nd skill adding damage. It's actually his strongest skill not called arche explosion.

@GooberTroy ideal you run 78 cooldown and secret garden as you have. It kills devourer (just mentioning others runs, I personally haven't gotten his gear perfect yet) 20 secs with him. He absolutely should be built around explosive evade, I hope you try it eventually. He spawn camps for well over 3m damage a pop

@GooberTroy I'm only mentioning colossal damage build because it makes running pyro and devourer solo ALOT easier and faster, for farming gear purposes. That evade is absolutely aces. And funny enough, his base passive that drops a live grenade is INSANELY useful with creative explosion and refreshes in like 10 secs. Creative explosion makes him as fast as bunny for quite some time, and literally a live time bomb. He is ABSOLUTELY A BALST TO PLAY (Pun intended) that way 😆 it's so funny hitting outposts over and over again with arche explosion with 80% range

This isn't exactly related to invasions, but one of my favorite pvp experiences was when playing New World on release. When that game first came out, everyone was afraid to flag themselves for pvp in the open world. But when I finally took that step to flag for pvp, it made my experience so much better. It was like I was playing a survival game trying to avoid other players if I didn't feel like fighting. And it also made for some memorable experiences when I would fight players.

@@calebman1 what are you talking about.. You literally start with your first one unlocked at lvl 1. And you unlock next ones within the next 2 levels from the last one.

It depends on what Lepic's base skill crit hit rate is. I don't have Lepic so I can't confirm. In the case of Esiemo, he only has a 5% base crit chance. Because of his awful crit rate, having a reactor with crit chance doesn't do much for him. If Lepic does have 15% crit chance or more, then you would probably get some decent value out of crit on him. Going for crit damage is a lottery unless there's some modifier to help bump his crit chance up high enough. Going Fire/Tech skill power + colossus skill attack damage will be more consistent, but it will have a lower skill ceiling than crit.

It depends on what Lepic's base skill crit hit rate is. I don't have Lepic so I can't confirm. In the case of Esiemo, he only has a 5% base crit chance. Because of his awful crit rate, having a reactor with crit chance doesn't do much for him. If Lepic does have 15% crit chance or more, then you would probably get some decent value out of crit on him. Going for crit damage is a lottery unless there's some modifier to help bump his crit chance up high enough. Going Fire/Tech skill power + colossus skill attack damage will be more consistent, but it will have a lower skill ceiling than crit.

Not exactly. Think of it like this: skill power modifier works best for characters who do a lot of small hits vs one big hit. Freyna does poison damage, Blair burns enemies for damage over time, and Enzo’s drone does small hits of danage. All 3 of those are different character types, but all 3 of them scale well with skill power modifier. Skill power works well for characters like Kyle or Esiemo who does a big hit with their ultimate. Ultimately, every character can benefit from both skill power and skill power modifier. It’s just in the early stages of building a descendant, you want to make sure you’re using the correct mod. But towards the end of your build, you’re likely going to equip both skill power and skill power modifier anyhow

@@GooberTroy oh ok i got it so any skill that scales its better with skill power modifier and any skill with one single big hit like ajax for example is better with skill power i got what you mean thank you for explaining this video helped me a lot..i'll definitely subscribe 👍🏻

I’ve come to the same results as you. If a skill doesn’t scale with any particular sub-stat (fusion, tech, etc.) via skill power, then you can seemingly skip that stat on the reactor. This probably makes building a support a bit easier since they’re more dependent on the reactor’s random stats like cooldown and skill duration up

Okay cool. Just making sure I’m looking at the numbers correctly. lol