High strength [Revenant] build for high mesmer skin charges to stay invulnerable and status immune with reave to one shot enemies and roar to boost reave and general weapon DPS.
PLAYSTYLE
- Activate Mesmer Skin (2) at start of mission and refresh as soon as you lose all charges and shields break
- Enthrall (tap 1) enemies and let it spread and keep enthralls capped at 7 as needed
- Cast Reave and aim through Enthralled enemies to one-shot them and regain mesmer skin charges
- For non-enthralled enemies, prime with viral status and reave to one-shot (only need exactly 2 viral status to one-shot at 313% str with roar, or 9 viral status to one-shot without roar)
BUILD SPECIFICS
Duration
Total duration with molt efficiency active is 147%, giving adequate duration for enthrall and mesmer skin stun, as well as for your helminth ability.
Efficiency
Decent efficiency around 135% makes it cheap to spam Reave and recast mesmer skin on demand. Enthrall cost is basically free since it spreads and is free on an enemy stunned by mesmer skin.
Range
We use [Stretch] to maintain a little bit of range so Reave has a hitbox width closer to 5m and you can also Roar buff adjacent allies easier.
Strength
Very high strength helps maximise the Mesmer Skin charges (19 at 313%, or even higher if running Madurai/Zenurik), Reave and Roar.
Flexible Slots
[Natural Talent] is good quality of life since it speeds up casts of Reave as well as allows you to refresh Mesmer skin in between casts and within the i-frames given by shield gating.
Rolling Guard is an alternative to natural talent since it gives more i-frames between mesmer skin casts but generally becomes a wasted mod whenever mesmer skin is active.
Streamline and Stretch are flexible for Primed Flow/[Primed Continuity]
Aura
[Enemy Radar] is best in slot especially without adding aura forma
Growing Power gives one additional meser skin charge
Arcanes
Molt Augmented/Vigor - if you want more strength for mesmer skin stacks
Molt Efficiency - more duration for thrall and roar uptime
HELMINTH OPTIONS
- Roar - boosts general weapon DPS and reduces amount of viral status needed to one-shot non-enthralled enemies with reave
- Xata's Whisper - void themed ability that has specific synergy with new incarnon weapons running devouring attrition and gives general DPS boost