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Glass Howitzer ()

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Death’s crimson maiden sharpens her talons. Garuda weaponizes the blood of her foes to deal high damage. Sanguine beauty complements her deadly power.

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ITEM RANK

30

60 / 60

APPLY CONDITIONALS

ENERGY
240
HEALTH
370
SHIELD
370
SPRINT SPEED
1
DURATION
100%
EFFICIENCY
100%
RANGE
100%
STRENGTH
100%
ARMOR
315
Damage Reduction
51.2%
EFFECTIVE HIT POINTS
1,252
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Glass Howitzer ()

Just a fun non-meta build. Use with a bleeding key, decaying key, 2 more augur mods, and any melee with Healing Return.

120% shield conversion from augur mods will give indefinite shield gating from radial blind usage (0.5s cast, one-handed). Decreased health will allow for more efficient bloodletting.

The range allows quick traversal using [Dread] mirror's [Pounce], gives huge cc from radial blind, and gives [Dread] mirror + [Blending Talons] insane nuking capability (even with 0 damage absorbed, [Dread] mirror uses 26% of an enemy's max health as initial damage, more than enough for slash procs to finish an enemy off)

Toxin and slash will kill you, so bloodlet for a status cleanse the moment you get this effect.

[Blood Forge] is optional, could be replaced with [Transient Fortitude] or [Quick Thinking], though it's really fun with guns like the [Kuva Zarr], [Kuva Hek], [Exergis], [Tigris], and other similar weapons. [Reach] or [Blending Talons] could also be replaced with [Quick Thinking] to allow you to tank more damage.

Any Arcanes will do, but Arcane Consequence really makes you feel like a [Whirlwind] of death and is pretty fun. Arcane Tempo just allows you to better take advantage of [Blood Forge] without wasting a weapon mod slot.

Since this doesn't need [Pain Threshold] for the QT stagger, any exilus will work. Mobility mods that improve sprint speed or bullet jump speed allow quicker repositioning after casting [Dread] mirror or seeking [Talons]. [Handspring] recovery prevents stun locking. Experiment.

This is a hot take, but for this specific build [Quick Thinking] isn't actually that good. For one, casting 2 should allow you to indefinitely shield gate, and since it's one handed there's really no downside to spamming it. At higher levels, most things can oneshot you anyway, so you'd probably die with or without QT. QT also has this annoying stagger on hit which indirectly forces you to use [Pain Threshold] over any other exilus to make it work. Radial Blind and [Dread] mirror also make it very unlikely an enemy will ever be able to hit you in the first place, unless you do something dumb. And finally, with negative efficiency and inconsistent healing outside rejuvenation, you probably won't be near full energy most of the time anyway, which further reduces it's viability. 9/10 times, QT is good, especially below SP. But for proactive playstyles such as this, at high ranks, it really doesn't bring much to the table.