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 📝

Lull is already a decent crowd control ability with the augment but the sleep delay is slow and inconsistent for survivability. This build adds other subsumed crowd control abilities to fill the gap before Lull puts enemies to sleep.

🔢 Helminth Options 🔢

Desolate Hands is usually a great damage reduction ability but it's replaced here as the Strength is too low to utilize the damage reduction and the charges will be spent almost instantly due to the high Range. Elude provides better Restraint erosion and Lull is paramount to the build. Serene Storm is fairly weak and is a secondary option to replace if you have higher Strength.

Resonator keeps enemies preoccupied while the Lull takes time to put them to sleep. It has decent range and doesn't need to be constantly recast to put enemies under this effect.

Ensnare has a similar propagation delay but pulls enemies into a small area to be easily dispatched by your weapons. It needs to be cast more than Resonator and Lull.

Larva is the quickest and cheapest ability for pulling enemies together but it requires for more casts and has an issue with line of sight obstruction on some tilesets.

Other ability options can work if this build is being used for Stealth Finisher attacks rather than crowd control. Silence and Radial Blind can help you to instantly kill higher level enemies while Quiver can keep you invisible.

📊 Ability Stats 📊

Range is the most important stat with some small investments into Range and Efficiency. Strength has no purpose on a crowd control build as we kill enemies with meta weapons rather than abilities.

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 is increased a bit to allow the crowd control abilities to hold enemies for longer than the baseline. These abilities will still need upkeep so massive Duration investment isn't advised as you'll be recasting them halfway through their duration to catch new enemies. Primed Continuity should be fine on its own.

⛽ Efficiency ⛽

Efficiency is increased a bit to help your energy economy. Fleeting Expertise hurts your Duration while can be counterintuitive on crowd control builds.

📏 Range 📏

Range is nearly maxed to hit more enemies with all of your abilities. It also has the side benefit of making Elude have a full 360 degree radius of protection from non area of effect attacks. Augur Reach is a flex mod on smaller tilesets.

💪 Strength 💪

Strength doesn't matter on this build as it has no positive benefit on the main abilities. It can be increased by replacing flex mods but that would only benefit the damage reduction from Desolate Hands and Serene Storm.

↔️ 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 🔧

• [Enemy Radar] helps you and your team to find enemies. Crowd Control builds can have issues with holding enemies in awkward areas which can artificially elongate missions that require you to eliminate enemies. It can be replaced if there are other forms of enemy detection on your team.
• [Ice Spring] is a decent movement boost and fits into the polarity plan. It can be replaced at your discretion as it isn't important to the build.
• [Augur Reach] and [Streamline] are flex mods depending on the tileset and your energy economy. Replace them for additional survivability or more Duration.
• [Rolling Guard] is our only survival tool outside of our crowd control abilities. It's necessary for high level missions and shouldn't be replaced unless you're confident in using your operator mode to avoid damage.
• [Endless Lullaby] allows you to chain Finisher attacks to keep Lull up for far longer and to move it across the map without having to recast it. Other augments like Conductor are good options if you're only camping a single room.

⚙️ 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 Strike boosts the attack speed of most meta melee weapons. This edges out other options due to the reliance on weapons to kill enemies. Tertiary defensive arcanes like Arcane Guardian or 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.

🔄 Linked Builds 🔄

Frames

• General Use Shared Polarities
• Damage Buffs Shared Polarities
• Damage Reduction Shared Polarities
• Stealth Scanning Shared Polarities

Weapons

• Desert Wind: General Use Shared Exalted Loadout
• Kuva Nukor: Condition Overload Primer Shared Loadout
• Kronen Prime: General Use Melee Shared Loadout
• Kronen Prime: Naramon Alternate Melee Shared Loadout

Other Necessary Tools

• Smeeta Kavat: General Use Shared Loadout
• Panzer Vulpaphyla: General Use Alternate Shared Loadout
• Adarza Kavat: General Use Critical Chance Loadout

📧 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.