This build abuses Metal Management plus guaranteed crits from Awe. You can run it for full gun damage but I personally like losing a bit of damage so I can have the laser for better mobbing and an alternate damage type. You can run taser as well if you can stick to the boss but I find the laser or just not taking a capstone to work the best for general purpose.
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Rafa
APOPHIS Lance
Rafa Alt Fire Cheese
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APOPHIS LanceBuild Overview
Strengths And Weaknesses
- Great for both bossing and mobbing.
- Has a long cooldown waiting on action skill if you run out of enemies to keep shock on. If you use a Triple Bypass with cooldown you can avoid this problem.
Build Variants
You can run the laser at the cost of some Gun damage or go down the red tree a bit for the bonus damage from El Valiente.
Skill Tree
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This is what I run but you can take points out of the bottom right and take Sitiar>Field Repairs>El Valiente in red for maximum gun damage. You will have to take 1 point out of Awe or Fiesta depending on what mod you are running to max El Valiente.
Equipment
Weapons
Repkit & Ordnance
Utilities
This is what I run at the moment. The taser I put on Birt's Bees because the fire rate is higher then the default Vladof purples I found but you can use any SMG with a taser. If you have the Maliwan shotguns that shoot the triple lasers those are super broken with this build and you can spam them as long as you keep the enemy shocked. I use tasers but if you can find a good grenade that can keep them shocked that would work as well but you will need to throw them before you activate Lance because you can't throw Ordinance during the action skill. The shield and class mod are flexible and you can swap out the enhancement depending on what gun you primarily use for damage.
Specialization
Specialization 1A Honed Mind
Specialization 2Contamination
Specialization 3Compounding Afflictions
Specialization 4I Am A Gun
I haven't gotten test all of these yet but this is probably what I will be running unless Compounding afflictions doesn't scale with the same re-applied dot.
Gameplay
The way the build works is Metal management works on alternate fire for weapons so you can spam things like the taser or the Maliwan shotgun triple lasers for crazy damage. Single shots like underbarrel grenade launcher that does huge burst don't work as well because the gun will switch firing modes even though the ammo is not consumed so it can't be fired rapidly like others. Just make sure you shoot a bit right after activating your action skill to start shocking something then you are free to spam both action skill and your under barrel attachment infinitely as long as the enemy stays shocked. You have to keep firing the action skill for the free ammo it cannot be held down.
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