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An aug4 Ivara build designed to go hand-in-hand with the Brain Box Ventilator build for lots of brain giblets.
2 forma (1V 1-) + Aura.
Note that [Concentrated Arrow] explosions have no falloff and go through walls. With just this build, Conc Arrow will have 18.55m radius; you can get another 4.62m radius by using PFirestorm on [Artemis Bow].
Stat priority
- Range, but it's okay to drop a mod or two since PFirestorm gives us some extra.
- Strength, to make sure stuff actually dies when you blow it up.
- Efficiency, to make your other abilities cheap to cast.
- Duration, a dump stat as long as your Sleep Arrow and Condemn last long enough for you to line up a shot.
Why choose these mods/arcanes?
- Concentrated Arrow -- The primary focus of this build. Make enemies stop moving for a moment via Sleep Arrow or Condemn, shoot them in the head while they're stopped, brain box goes boom.
- Condemn -- Condemn gives us a nice extra way of immobilizing enemies, plus helps maximize Molt Efficiency uptime.
- Deciding whether to replace Navigator or Prowl is ultimately a matter of personal preference.
- I typically end up using neither of them, because I'd rather just spam more shots.
- That being said, if I absolutely must use one, I prefer to use Prowl since the energy drain is much slower.
- Molt Efficiency -- Duration might be the dump stat, but you can't drop it too low. I've found that around 50% duration is the sweet spot: too short and you can't reliably line up a headshot, too long and you're wasting mod slots. A combination of Transient Fortitude, Fleeting Expertise, and Molt Efficiency leaves you at 48.5% duration, which is basically perfect.
- Energy Siphon -- In general, it's a bad aura. In this case however, it means you can spam arrows and Condemn to your heart's content and not worry about running out of energy.
Variants
Cunning Drift -- Replaces [Power Drift]. For people who want to squeeze every last bit of explosion radius out of the build as possible. This gives an extra 1.05m radius.
Augur Secrets -- Replaces Augur Reach. For people who want to squeeze a bit more damage out of the build.
Growing Power -- Replaces [Energy Siphon]. For people who want to squeeze even more damage out of the build, at the cost of needing to place your arrows and Condemn a bit more carefully.
Eclipse -- Replaces Condemn. Just in case you want even more damage.
How to play this build
Before activating [Artemis Bow], make sure any strength buffs you can get are activated: [Growing Power], [Energy Conversion], Molt Augmented, Operator focus, etc.
Set Quiver to Sleep Arrow. You'll be using it extensively. You can use it without the annoying charge up by using the alt-fire button while wielding [Artemis Bow].
- Immobilize an enemy using Sleep Arrow or Condemn.
- BOOM HEADSHOT
- I mean... MAH HEART'S BEATIN', MAH HEART'S BEATIN', MAH HANDS ARE SHAKIN', MAH HANDS ARE SHAKIN', BUT AH'M STILL SHOOTIN', AH'M STILL REPEATING FROM THE TOP