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Gara: Roar/Eclipse/Fire Blast - Damage Vulnerability Buffs

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Continue the legend of the glass-armored warrior Gara. Dominate the battlefield with the power and purity of crystal.

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APPLY CONDITIONALS

ENERGY
225
HEALTH
445
SHIELD
370
SPRINT SPEED
1.15
DURATION
100%
EFFICIENCY
100%
RANGE
100%
STRENGTH
100%
ARMOR
200
Damage Reduction
40%
EFFECTIVE HIT POINTS
1,235
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Gara: Roar/Eclipse/Fire Blast - Damage Vulnerability Buffs

Gara Gameplay Guide

[Gara] is primarily known for her defensive abilities which provide a unique blend of crowd control and damage enhancement. She can also leverage special interactions between each of these abilities to go on the offensive in various content. Combining the individual strengths of each ability with the scaling damage from their synergies is the key to keeping her relevant in most missions.

📝 Build Overview 📝

Splinter Storm and Mass Vitrify apply a damage vulnerability debuff on enemies and this build focus on making the most of that damage. Subsumed damage buffs are used to completely cripple any enemy that can be affected by either ability.

🔢 Helminth Options 🔢

Shattered Lash is the weakest ability in this build as we won't be using it to detonate Mass Vitrify.

Roar, Eclipse, and other damage buffing abilities are the primary choices on this build as it allows you to turn any weapon into a competitive option.

Fire Blast, Pillage, and other armor stripping abilities shine on weapons that aren't capable of doing Slash's Bleed procs.

Other abilities are decent but provide a lot of redundancy due to the existence of operator mode and the previously mentioned abilities.

📊 Ability Stats 📊

Strength and Duration are the two primary stats in a buff focused build. Efficiency isn't touched but this comes at the cost of Range.

⏲️ Duration ⏲️

Duration is boosted to keep your buffs up for longer without having to constantly recast them. Flex mods can be replaced for additional Duration but it most likely isn't necessary. Augur Message is the weakest source of Duration and can be replaced as you see fit.

⛽ Efficiency ⛽

Efficiency isn't touched as this build should have a fairly self-sufficient energy economy. If you're having issues replace a flex mods for Streamline.

📏 Range 📏

Range is hurt by [Narrow Minded] and we don't use any mods to bring it back up. This melee focused meta shouldn't need any more than this minimum Range to hit enemies with either Splinter Storm or Mass Vitrify but if you're having issues replace a flex mod for Augur Reach or Stretch.

💪 Strength 💪

Strength is boosted to keep your damage buffs and vulnerability debuffs feeling impactful. Augur Secrets is the weakest mod and can be replaced at your discretion.

↔️ Alternate Playstyles ↔️

Most builds utilize tools that can be swapped out to serve the same purpose albeit in a different manner. The following suggestions are an outline and aren't exhaustive.

🔧 Mods 🔧

  • Growing Power is another greedy source of Strength for your abilities but you can replace it if you think you already have enough.
  • [Primed Sure Footed] is a strong defensive mod that keeps you from being slowed down or even killed by various forms of enemy or environmental crowd control. It's expensive and tied to the login system so it can be replaced if it isn't an option for you.
  • [Augur Message] and [Augur Secrets] are weak mods that are mainly used to fit this build into the polarity plan while granting a source of shield gating survivability. They are the primary flex mod candidates.
  • [Rolling Guard] is our main defensive mod but it can be replaced on missions with heavy support from allies or external sources of survivability.
  • [Spectrosiphon] can be used if you're having issues with your energy economy but getting it to proc at this low of Range will be difficult.

⚙️ Arcanes ⚙️

Arcane Energize synergizes with [Primed Flow] and keeps your energy topped off. It can be replaced if you have other strong forms of energy recovery either through abilities or other energy support frames. Offensive arcanes like Arcane Avenger or Arcane [Fury] are usually the call.

Arcane Aegis is a great source of survivability on frames that can regain their shields consistently. It can be replaced if you aren't confident in relying on the random nature of the procs. Tertiary defensive arcanes like Arcane Guardian or Arcane Nullifier are usually the call.

📋 Final Notes 📋

Shattered Lash can break Mass Vitrify to form a pseudo nuke. The Puncture or Slash versions should be used depending on the health type modifier of the average nearby enemy. This also requires you to build your Shattered Lash slightly different as you can't use it like a normal stat stick fueled melee ability anymore. Be careful when trying to spam Mass Vitrify too quickly when setting up this combo as you can get a fake version of the glass shield that's unable to be broken until you cast the ability again.

Splinter Storm can absorb a portion of the explosion from the previously mentioned combo as long as you're outside of the Mass Vitrify walls. This can infinitely stack damage on your shield and you can keep the shield going forever as long as you keep using Mass Vitrify to reset the duration. Be careful cutting the time too close as Mass Vitrify sometimes does not correctly refresh Splinter Storm and you can drop millions of stored damage due to your inability to cast it again.

Splinter Storm can also absorb some of the damage from exploding Spectrorage mirrors but this is nowhere near as consistent as the first combo mentioned above between Shattered Lash and Mass Vitrify.

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📧 Contact Information 📧

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This build is part of a collection that you can either find on the builder's profile or through a special bot we have in the Discord server. We have builds for every item in the game and we're adding new ones frequently. Come check it out!

🏆 Credits 🏆

  • NICHE - Developed tools that made generating builds far easier.
  • Dragazer - Helped to clarify certain melee interactions.
  • Marr - Helped with proofreading original build format.
  • Dystopia - Tested several strategies to the level cap.

🛑 Disclaimers 🛑

This build may make certain assumptions about mechanics that can change after a patch. Multiple unnecessary forma may be used to facilitate more options across multiple builds with one polarity plan. Certain sub-optimal mods may be run to fit them into the forma polarity plan. We do not make builds that purposely attempt to abuse mechanics that aren't intended by the developers. None of these previous statements are excuses for a fundamentally incorrect build and we ask that you please contact us when we're wrong. We do not consent to anyone other than the original author of this guide posting it without permission.