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Baruuk: Fire Blast/Empower/Voracious Metastasis - General Use

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Beware the fury of the truly patient. Baruuk boasts survivability and crowd control. Pushed beyond his restraint, he unleashes the storm within.

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30

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APPLY CONDITIONALS

ENERGY
300
HEALTH
280
SHIELD
370
SPRINT SPEED
1.2
DURATION
100%
EFFICIENCY
100%
RANGE
100%
STRENGTH
100%
ARMOR
185
Damage Reduction
38.1%
EFFECTIVE HIT POINTS
946
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Baruuk: Fire Blast/Empower/Voracious Metastasis - General Use

Baruuk Gameplay Guide

[Baruuk] utilizes several forms of damage reduction and mild crowd control to survive attacks while eroding his Restraint passive. This passive meter can either be used as fuel for Serene Storm or another source of damage reduction.

📝 Build Overview 📝

This build combines offensive and defensive abilities for consistent results across general content. Restraint can be eroded more quickly by using extremely low Duration and spamming Lull. Unfortunately this low Duration can limit what abilities we choose to subsume.

🔢 Helminth Options 🔢

Elude is replaced as it's far too expensive with our ability stat spread. Minimum Duration skyrockets the energy cost and we don't have the Range to have a 360 degree radius of protection anyway.

Fire Blast synergizes with the ability stats and allows Serene Storm and other weapons to deal with highly armored enemies. It also has the same range and mechanics for target acquisition as Lull.

Empower gives Serene Storm and Desolate Hands a reasonable boost and synergizes with the extremely low Duration. It has a larger impact if any Strength mods are removed.

Hideous Resistance doesn't require Duration any can [Protect] you against several status effects.

Voracious Metastasis has positive synergy with this stat spread and can more quickly grant health and energy to allies.

Pull can be used to forcibly spawn energy orbs or gather items with the augment. It synergizes with the ability stats similarly to Lull.

Other abilities can be difficult to fit into the build. Minimum Duration will cause most other options to fizzle seconds after they're cast.

📊 Ability Stats 📊

Minimum Duration and high Strength are the two most important parts of the build. Efficiency is naturally boosted by using [Fleeting Expertise] to lower Duration.

Helminth Invigorations, Arbitration Buffs, Ally Abilities, Arcanes, and other external stat boosts can save you multiple mod slots but may rely on specific team compositions, loadouts, or sheer luck. Plan around these situations and modify your loadout to hit desired ability stat breakpoints.

⏲️ Duration ⏲️

Duration should be as low as possible. We achieve this by using [Transient Fortitude] and Fleeting Expertise. It isn't suggested to change this Duration by adding additional mods or changing mod ranks.

⛽ Efficiency ⛽

Efficiency is boosted by running [Fleeting Expertise]. Streamline can be slotted into a flex slot but Serene Storm doesn't cost energy so this shouldn't be necessary.

📏 Range 📏

Range isn't touched as the only abilities that use it have line of sight requirements. Stretch can be slotted over a flex mod for a slight boost in larger tilesets.

💪 Strength 💪

Strength is boosted high enough to provide decent damage to Serene Storm while also giving Desolate Hands 18 charges. At 219% Strength Desolate Hands is able to give allies 9 charges which gives them maximum damage reduction. Due to polarity plan constraints Augur Secrets is the only option to slot over a flex mod for additional Strength.

↔️ 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 easy to proc and allows us to hit the 219% Strength breakpoint. It probably shouldn't be replaced unless Augur Secrets is slotted over a flex slot.
  • [Primed Sure Footed] is necessary for avoiding the Quick Thinking stagger. Pain Threshold is another option and allows you to save a forma.
  • [Adaptation] is the primary flex mod in this build. It's the weakest survivability mod due to the way resistances are calculated on raw health.
  • [Quick Thinking] and [Primed Flow] are important for survivability as [Baruuk] has low health balanced by his high damage reduction. [Vitality] doesn't solve this issue as it scales off of his base health. Rolling Guard is the only necessary mod in high level content and Quick Thinking becomes a flex mod near the level cap.
  • [Reactive Storm] significantly increases the damage of Serene Storm and allows it to adapt to different enemies in the same mission. It can be replaced on builds that intentionally keep their Restraint low.

⚙️ Arcanes ⚙️

Arcane Energize synergizes with high Efficiency and [Primed Flow] which allows you to be greedy with your ability casts. It can be replaced if you're confident with your energy economy. Offensive arcanes like Arcane Avenger or Arcane [Fury] are usually the call.

Arcane [Guardian] gives a large boost of survivability to a frame with low armor. It can be replaced if you're relying on various forms of invincibility. Tertiary offensive arcanes like Arcane Strike or defensive arcanes like Arcane Aegis are usually the call.

📋 Final Notes 📋

Restraint erosion is dependent on several different factors that may not be optimal on all missions. Serene Storm is strong but you should be paying attention to your average Restraint erosion before you activate the ability. If you're having issues it's better to not activate the ability and to keep the damage reduction from the passive rather than burn it and struggle to erode your Restraint again.

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📧 Contact Information 📧

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🏆 Credits 🏆

  • NICHE - Developed tools that made generating builds far easier.
  • Dragazer - Helped to clarify certain melee interactions.
  • Marr - Helped with proofreading original build format.

🛑 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.