Hey! This is cool! (This is Traumahawk with the oxidizer). My oxi ticks at them between 279,000-472,000 depending on what procs I have up and running. @Gameydaddy happy to theorycraft with ya. HMU.
I use the EMP pulse. 2 pulses will generally take out all the veteran war hounds in heroic , bring the elite hounds down to 1/4 and the Med stations will bust.
Also a thing to consider. The slow walking shield guys, this oxidiser attacks them, AND their shields. The turret guys, too. And can go through cover. NPCs may try and run out of the cloud, but combine this and another person with blinders, and you can melt people.
Weirdly enough i was running this today but the npcs move too much for the chem launcher oxidizer to be as effective but the sticky burn is really good. Was one tapping elites.
Colby Williamson I haven't found one yet so I dont know how it works in builds, but I know that oxy clean over charged has a massive area. Even with level six it's a large area and the amount of ammo you get you can shoot a lot and it allows you to cover large areas also with good skill haste
I've always used it to make golds break cover, or wipe out cover camping lesser targets. Yes, that it won't be a legit status is annoying (creeping death anybody?) But it's penetrating terrain and detonate on impact nature give it good roles. Oxidizer, they break cover, sniper turret. One-two punch, esp on a skill damage build.
The game I am playing the enemies just leave the oxidizer cloud immediately. Only thing the oxidixzer is "good" for is to damage static targets so skill proxies I guess, and to push enemies out of cover. In it's defence though, I believe it pops enemy grenades immediately, also drone operator drones etc, but I'd categorize it as niche skill, there is just not room in my 2 skill slots for such niche skill.
All this will result in is in the next state of the game the devs will say "we are looking into the oxidizer doing an unintended amount of damage and we are looking into tweaking its a little".
knman00 I run the oxidizer and assault turret religiously. For months. Back when you had to grind for the components. I hope they do not nerf it again because of some youtube videos.
@@DaGamerDad but that's what we need to hear.... the good stuff... its just too bad that the only way they keep the game "new" is by nerfing everything so that you have to find a new wat to play.
Honestly, I feel that everytime there is a skill buold coming out that evens the olaying field against dps/tanks and such, they always nerf the skill and/or lmg because some dev has a hard on for shotguns. Look what they did to not only the Hard Wire det but the BTSU gloves as well. Those together make a skill build a treat to play with and then next thing you know...TU8 comes out and EVERYTHING is rewritten and now the npcs are oyems you would expect the Division to come out with first. ( The NPC laying down the shield turret is soemthing highly unlooked for by us ). Watch what happens. Someone is going to bitch and moan to the the devs and then there will be nerfs to skill builds and buffs to dps builds, as though it isn't hard enough to last long as a skill player
Oxi is interesting but from my huge experience with using skill builds it simply can't compete with firestarter. If you stack even a little status effect on skill build, enemies hit by firestarter will loose even 2.7M damage! In my case it's about 400K on hit and then 230K per seconds for 10 seconds! All that damage is guaranteed if you actually burn them. With firestarter you not only deal damage but also apply status effect. Burning enemies walk aimlessly, stand in place or hide in cover. The only advantage of oxi is that you can stack oxi clouds on enemies - each cloud will apply ticks on its own. The perfect combination would require two skill builds - one with oxi and the other with riot foam. Riot foam would immobilize a large group of enemies in place, so that oxi user would be able to shoot clouds not worrying about enemies escaping its range.
Technician is my favorite specialty! Will give this a try! Thanks! I had a build before the patch, that my Turret and Drone could almost clear the level on there own! Getting there again!
EMP disrupting skills is more useful, a tier 6 or overcharged EMP takes out all skills and leaves them disrupted for a very long time. The oxidizer is definitely a tier 2 skill by comparison.
Problem is enemies move to much for it to be effective. I like the sticky fire bomb. That thing melts enemy health. The oxidizer is good for area denial but if you want to kill something the enemy needs to be slow or CC'd.
At high tier and with good mods you can literally use it like a pistol against the bigger "Tank" enemies as it refills so quickly and they move relatively slow, but I know exactly what you mean against some it's almost a waste....I've not even tried the sticky fire bomb I'll have to give it a go mate :)
there are a ton skill builds that people overlook. ive been running a seeker skill haste build with the morter . by the time the burn is gone i already have the seeker back lol add in ever lasting gaze ( i think that it) and its non stop damage.
I'm going to say NPC movement on PC is not as aggressive compared to console. I remember Marco's video on Clear Sky 5 min runs on PC compared to his console run. The NPCs as mentioned by other posters don't stay in that AOE for that long.
So they Gave PC an Easy Mode on the Game damn i new it PC Masterrace think they are Special but now they get treated Special thats some Iluminati scale type of shit. xD
It's useful against the backup power for the missile launcher at tidal basin final area. 2~3 well placed shot can take out both batteries at the same time with a tier 6 oxidizer.
Awesome video brother! I have never tried the chem launcher & instead have always run with the striker drone & the seeker mines. They’ve been an effective combo & have worked well supporting my gaming style, which I might add, is very similar to yours. I’m going to give the corrosive chem launcher a run for its money & see how I like it. Thank you for furthering my collective knowledge base of New things to try! I always learn something new when listening & watching your channel. I’m struggling a bit to get past level 30 & am currently at WorldTier 3. As a solo player I’m beginning struggle with the tougher levels & am hoping this tip helps!
I've been running this skill for a while now combined with hive (bleed) and it melts anything in its path. You can use it to cover a whole area, and in that way no matter where the npcs run to there will be a cloud.
Oxidizer hurts you, but, if you run with a healer or as a healer, you can quikstop it. If a teammate runs a disrupt pulse on a group that includes a dog, you can oxidize the area, finishing off dogs and NPCs promptly. Saves on ammo. + crowd control.
When legendary came out, been trying to solo legendary with a skill tank build usiing a ballistic shield and oxidizer. Could kill everything fast except for the Juggernaut.
@@af.9803 I don't really see any skill tank build online, only blues. I made my skill tank by myself when wony came out.pretty much just stack skill haste and skill damage and you good . I do group challenging and heroics with it and still can get high damage. I switch between the hive and oxidizer as when you get too close to enemies the oxidizer will kill you.
I'm running a damage/skill build with just 663k armour and 283k health. Im running the exotic mask, 2 hard wire, One lmg chest piece and a providence back pack. Gives my lmg about 73k damage, Bakers dozen is doing over 445k and my turret is kicking out about 75k as well. I use my chem launcher as my healer ( 486k per second/ 6.1second cloud duration) and I pretty much run as a support. Just wish they had left the damn BTSU gloves alone because they helped in skill haste a whole lot.
@@dreamweaver6816 With the technician i like to run my hard wired unlimited seeker mine loadout. Using either a shield or a sniper turret as secondary skill cuz they have low cooldowns, its amazing. Throw seekers at the start of combat, ( with skill maxed out you get like 7 mines or more ! ) wait for the cooldown to start, you still have to wait for 2-3 seconds though, and equip the secondary skill for a refresh so you can use seeker mines every 3 seconds if you use the shield. Even better might be the armor with the skill with a 25% chance to refresh the seeker mines to get an instanst refresh. With Perfect Glass Canon i wont even have to get out of cover. Only for very close encounters but those can be easy kills with the sniper. With some other good skill enhancements on you loadout purple enemies are insta kills and elite about 75% armor with a sniper turret or seekers mines on challenging.
I put together an Oxidizer build and used it in The Summit. Really fun! I don’t run Hardwired, I use 2x Hana U, 3x Empress International, 1x Wyvern Wear. Chest Talent: Tag Team, Backpack Talent: Perfect Combined Arms. Primary: The Capacitor, Secondary: Rifle with In Sync talent.
probably one of the best builds I've used for legendaries is a status effect build with banshee pulse and firefly, use this with Acosta's go bag and you can hit the entire map with the banshee pulse couple the pulse with everlasting gaze your stun can last up to 25 seconds its insane
I did a status effect build based on bleed, but on heroic this wasnt by far what I expected. It just lacked damage. This seems far more suitable and a nice alternative to fire.
Welcome to the "dark" (skill) side.... LOL. I'm always running an assault turret and cluster seeker mines in Heroic missions. Hard Wired for life hehe.
The only problem with the oxydizer is the enemies need to be in the cloud for it to do anything to them, and of course they don't stay there. The fire starter on the other hand just needs to catch them on fire, which happens as soon as it ignites.
I'm currently using a skill focused build and find the firestarter bombs to be more effective against npcs. They jump and dive outta the corrosive cloud as soon as it lands but with the fire bombs they dive out the cloud then right back intro it. I just place the cloud and don't ignite it until they jump back intro it. Against the dogs and enemy skill proxies yeah, the firestarter doesn't damage them and the oxidizer does but technician grenades are pretty good against those too. Although setting an enemy on fire stops them from regenerating health and armor. Or you can switch as the situation dictate.
Yes...it's not a status effect. So you have to invest in skill damage instead of status effects. But shock and awe is nevertheless the better talent while playing in a squad. In squadplay you dont get a kill often because you are behind in cover and the DD's get the kills so tech.support dont proc a lot. You can frequently proc shock and awe from you cover with a nade or shooting red fire bottles on the map. It procs way more often than tech.support. Also with a healer in squad run glas cannon on your chest for another boost of your oxidaiser. Without healer I run unbreakable for more freedom to run around. Best regards from Germany
enemies will just move out of the area of effect. its only good for flushing enemies out of cover. it will only be useful if it has a lingering status effect of like increase incoming damage to all sources by 10 percent for 15 seconds scales with skill tier. When combating black tusk, I always use jammer and blinder with hardwired acostas. Endless CC Spam.
I've tried to use oxidizer in the past, my problem with it is that NPCs run away from the cloud just after a few seconds of being damaged by it. In an open space environment it's close to impossible to kill something with it and then you end up on a huge cooldown killing nothing. Maybe with all those stationary targets we have now I should try to use it again.
Bro.........my team used the demolisher firefly in the beginning of Roosevelt island to stop the drone spamming............works amazing There are things to counter Black Tusk, the problem is players are not really looking at all the skills because they don't want to get out of their comfort zone My buddy and I ran around on a mission playing with the chem launcher........just for the fun and get used on how to use it, we laughed our asses off watching them not know how to handle it. I've used the chem launcher when NPC get stuck behind walls......and it kills them
First time I solo played The Tombs, I got stuck at the end so did some experiments with different skills. It became immediately obvious that at high levels the oxidizer rocks, quickly melting turrets. I switched from fire because you don't need to activate oxidizer. I ow work with a sniper turret-seeker combo but oxidizer is a fallback.
Here are the pieces from my build. You need to look for to make this build better depending on how you play, the surge rifle ( it does 25% skill damage over 8 secs), find ones that's maxed out headshot attribute. The hana u named backpack (it does 30% skill damage for 3secs) with maxed out skill haste or skill damage, then add the attribute that's not maxed onto that piece then 4 pieces of hardwired (chest piece is a must ) now you can use either a wyvern glove for damage, a murakami glove for skill duration or the btsu glove with group play in mind.
How much damage does a sniper turret round do for you? I run rifle red dps and in comparison, the sniper turret with a skill build isn't really a big increase in damage. And you have cooldowns to wait for...
Edward Lee it was doing about 5 million a shot. God knows now. I know that doesn’t compare with what was my M1 Bakers Dozen build that’s CHD, CHC min maxed doing around 2.5 million a shot. But for a skill build it’s the best choice. Or was.
I swear by oxidizer, my friends were amazed how quickly I melted people. Must have if you are struggling even in solo. Oxidizer and turret/drone plus whatever pew pew you’re running.
I have 2 different skill builds. Hardwire and one using China Light and the new gear set Umi, or something like that. Thanks for the tip definitely gonna try it.
Build diversity is there. I personally have 4 different skill build set ups and they are allot of fun in both solo play and coop. Thing about skill builds is they are usually quite complex in both set up and usage with allot of moving parts. Allot of people prefer the straight forward DPS approach, nothing wrong with that. There is beauty in simplicity. Every team can use DPS players. Now as a skill main, they do really need to fix drone and turret A.I. but apparently they are addressing this soon.
The problem is the npc just leave the cloud and it has a long cool down and foam grenade works better for the npc gunner turrets.Oxidizer works best with trap.
In regards to your comment on sniper turret, it is not uncommon for that skill to hit for 12-16 million when pairing it with the technician specific hive skill. That said the artillery turret is better in general since its aoe and can land on npc behind cover id rather have 4-8 million aoe and a "free" skill than 12-16 million on single target.
You do know that if you shoot multiple oxy shots, they stack! I use this with my artillery turret/HW build. It melts. Also, the oxidizer is super handy in removing pesky enemies from cover.
Oxidiser on its own doesn't seem to be that effective just because enemies seem to move around way too much, and they don't really group up either. When you team up with somebody using shock traps / a riot foam launcher where the enemies are immobile for atleast 12 seconds then this thing works really well. A really cool feature of this skill is that the damage over time actually stacks... So if you literally empty every canister onto one area, the damage per second is HUGE.
I use it at tier 6 with the acosta go bag and the hive that comes with the tactician specialization, it hits for about 400-420k per tick and covers a huge area. If you know where the ads Spawn you can Spawn trap them. PS you want 1 piece Murakami for the skill duration 😛
I used to run a build like this with chem launch and a stinger, but I could not find the right talents to provide a benefit for it. Also, I would have to call it out in group play via microphone so that I can avoid friendly fire. I.e. stinky in the hole, incoming armor eater etc. Stupid I know but it would force others to run away from it. Edit. To add. This was with hard wired.
Glad u brought this up! I forgot about it until I needed to cheese a tidal basin run with some new people. It could work well as a heal/aoe build. If npcs avoid the cloud it could be a good area denial tool as well. Need to give this a try
Very nice, I'm a Skill Builder hahaha, and actually I play a Drone/Turret Combination with 2 Hana-U and one wyvern piece plus Mother Love gloves and Perfect tech support on the back more a chest with glass canon, not perfect (Gyla guard with defense because if you use tech you don't need 6 yellow pieces). This is amazing, Heroic NPCs melt for my "Robotic minions", maybe these compositions could be usefull with chem Launcher, I'll try... thank you for the videos ^^
I'm thinking about running with traps, with a skill build the radius is super big and for enemy to be shock and not move so might be good to shoot at enemy staying still
Omg use a fire fly and a emp pulse jammer...... Emp destroys all electronics like hounds health boxes etc..... Fire fly blinds them where u can just shoot out of cover
NPCs move away from the corrosive gas. So yes damage is high but how long can it do damage for. If a teammate can run the foam it will pay off. But solo it's not that great because npc's move from the gas.
It was harder to use in the past because the enemies run run around like crazy. Hard to hit and harder to get them in the cloud. Might have to try this thou. Thanks for the update
Many people in many games never understand builds, characters etc. Experienced this in Guild Wars from 2007, people said the following were useless : Mesmer, Assassin and Paragon. I played Mesmer mostly and people realised that Mesmer was a better Damage dealer that the Meta damage dealer the Elementalist. The Assassin and Paragon where also proven to be great characters. Ignorance is all around.
Hard wired is great if you want to get a skill back fast but it not as good as using high end gear in my opinion. You should try this build without hardwired. Nice video. Makes me wanna try it.
If they nerf the artillery turret then I’m out, they’ve nerfed too many damn things that shouldn’t have been. It’s getting to the point to where all of our hours of grinding for good gear will be nerfed, then what else are we grinding for after that? This game keeps getting worse and worse
Very slept on and overlooked skill my brother, I’ve seen a few creators starting to get on that oxidiser wave.. Definitely going to make a build and try this out at some point. Respect as always bruv! ✊🏾
My only concern is that the NPC duck and roll away, man every time I throw a foam Granada they just bail, I guess if the cloud was wide enough it would get some of him or her...lol
But the thing is getting them to stay in the radius of the effect, I think the flash bang followed by the oxidized would probably be best route unless they are occupied
I personally don’t like the firefly ( was hoping it was better) but maybe catching them off guard when you first encounter them. I know keeping them under fire with an lmg would definitely work or small rooms
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Hey! This is cool! (This is Traumahawk with the oxidizer). My oxi ticks at them between 279,000-472,000 depending on what procs I have up and running. @Gameydaddy happy to theorycraft with ya. HMU.
Yo! Thanks for commenting on this video.
@@DaGamerDad Thanks for making it. I feel humbled.
So going for more status effects on this build or skill damage on this build?
@@MrDrew0910 Skill damage. Oxidizer is not a status effect. Once they leave the AOE, they are no longer damaged.
Thanks appreciate the quick reply
I use the EMP pulse. 2 pulses will generally take out all the veteran war hounds in heroic , bring the elite hounds down to 1/4 and the Med stations will bust.
Bro a pulse and a negotiator and a oxide isn't a fun person to fight
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Also a thing to consider. The slow walking shield guys, this oxidiser attacks them, AND their shields. The turret guys, too. And can go through cover. NPCs may try and run out of the cloud, but combine this and another person with blinders, and you can melt people.
Weirdly enough i was running this today but the npcs move too much for the chem launcher oxidizer to be as effective but the sticky burn is really good. Was one tapping elites.
Moses Kungu depending on your skill level you can cover a large area with its area and ammo amount
@@_Smile_Today am at tier level 6 but those guys run away like bolt man.
Was thinking exactly this while he was explaining at the target range, their not gonna sit together like the range.
@@_Smile_Today If you run it with the Acosta Go Bag and throw a grenade the area is expansive still tuff but covers more area
Colby Williamson I haven't found one yet so I dont know how it works in builds, but I know that oxy clean over charged has a massive area. Even with level six it's a large area and the amount of ammo you get you can shoot a lot and it allows you to cover large areas also with good skill haste
Great skill for stationary or slow targets. In my experience these acrobat npcs jus dip out since it not a legit status effect
I was about to say the same thing even when using the firefly to blind npc the just keep walking and avoiding the cloud
I've always used it to make golds break cover, or wipe out cover camping lesser targets. Yes, that it won't be a legit status is annoying (creeping death anybody?) But it's penetrating terrain and detonate on impact nature give it good roles. Oxidizer, they break cover, sniper turret. One-two punch, esp on a skill damage build.
The game I am playing the enemies just leave the oxidizer cloud immediately. Only thing the oxidixzer is "good" for is to damage static targets so skill proxies I guess, and to push enemies out of cover. In it's defence though, I believe it pops enemy grenades immediately, also drone operator drones etc, but I'd categorize it as niche skill, there is just not room in my 2 skill slots for such niche skill.
All this will result in is in the next state of the game the devs will say "we are looking into the oxidizer doing an unintended amount of damage and we are looking into tweaking its a little".
knman00 I run the oxidizer and assault turret religiously. For months. Back when you had to grind for the components. I hope they do not nerf it again because of some youtube videos.
Dang it! That's why I try to stay away from talking about the good stuff in this game...The Devs... smh.
@@DaGamerDad but that's what we need to hear.... the good stuff... its just too bad that the only way they keep the game "new" is by nerfing everything so that you have to find a new wat to play.
Honestly, I feel that everytime there is a skill buold coming out that evens the olaying field against dps/tanks and such, they always nerf the skill and/or lmg because some dev has a hard on for shotguns. Look what they did to not only the Hard Wire det but the BTSU gloves as well. Those together make a skill build a treat to play with and then next thing you know...TU8 comes out and EVERYTHING is rewritten and now the npcs are oyems you would expect the Division to come out with first. ( The NPC laying down the shield turret is soemthing highly unlooked for by us ). Watch what happens. Someone is going to bitch and moan to the the devs and then there will be nerfs to skill builds and buffs to dps builds, as though it isn't hard enough to last long as a skill player
GameyDaddy if people play the game, they will find what works for them. Too much hand holding, not enough thinking.
Oxi is interesting but from my huge experience with using skill builds it simply can't compete with firestarter.
If you stack even a little status effect on skill build, enemies hit by firestarter will loose even 2.7M damage! In my case it's about 400K on hit and then 230K per seconds for 10 seconds! All that damage is guaranteed if you actually burn them.
With firestarter you not only deal damage but also apply status effect. Burning enemies walk aimlessly, stand in place or hide in cover.
The only advantage of oxi is that you can stack oxi clouds on enemies - each cloud will apply ticks on its own.
The perfect combination would require two skill builds - one with oxi and the other with riot foam. Riot foam would immobilize a large group of enemies in place, so that oxi user would be able to shoot clouds not worrying about enemies escaping its range.
Technician is my favorite specialty! Will give this a try! Thanks! I had a build before the patch, that my Turret and Drone could almost clear the level on there own! Getting there again!
Technician +1 skill tier should grant constant overcharge. Nuff said.
Everyone would be running Technician then... That's the reason it doesn't grant overcharge I think :(
it doesn't (I wish it did)
You can use the Acosta go bag to get over charge with technician and HW build
robert leeland No... no it should not.. lol You realize how constant overcharge would be? Especially for an online shooter? That’s redundant
EMP disrupting skills is more useful, a tier 6 or overcharged EMP takes out all skills and leaves them disrupted for a very long time. The oxidizer is definitely a tier 2 skill by comparison.
Oxidizer is good on the wall st APC, 2 or 3 shots to the side of it will eat through the weakpoints.
Problem is enemies move to much for it to be effective. I like the sticky fire bomb. That thing melts enemy health. The oxidizer is good for area denial but if you want to kill something the enemy needs to be slow or CC'd.
At high tier and with good mods you can literally use it like a pistol against the bigger "Tank" enemies as it refills so quickly and they move relatively slow, but I know exactly what you mean against some it's almost a waste....I've not even tried the sticky fire bomb I'll have to give it a go mate :)
Use creeping death
@@kbrand866 the corrosive chem does not apply a status effect. It's just a cloud of damage.
there are a ton skill builds that people overlook. ive been running a seeker skill haste build with the morter . by the time the burn is gone i already have the seeker back lol add in ever lasting gaze ( i think that it) and its non stop damage.
I'm going to say NPC movement on PC is not as aggressive compared to console. I remember Marco's video on Clear Sky 5 min runs on PC compared to his console run. The NPCs as mentioned by other posters don't stay in that AOE for that long.
So they Gave PC an Easy Mode on the Game damn i new it PC Masterrace think they are Special but now they get treated Special thats some Iluminati scale type of shit. xD
It's useful against the backup power for the missile launcher at tidal basin final area. 2~3 well placed shot can take out both batteries at the same time with a tier 6 oxidizer.
Don't forget about Jammer. Skill tier 6 jammer/jammer with over charge takes care of enemy tech fairly easily.
Awesome video brother! I have never tried the chem launcher & instead have always run with the striker drone & the seeker mines. They’ve been an effective combo & have worked well supporting my gaming style, which I might add, is very similar to yours. I’m going to give the corrosive chem launcher a run for its money & see how I like it. Thank you for furthering my collective knowledge base of New things to try! I always learn something new when listening & watching your channel. I’m struggling a bit to get past level 30 & am currently at WorldTier 3. As a solo player I’m beginning struggle with the tougher levels & am hoping this tip helps!
I've been running this skill for a while now combined with hive (bleed) and it melts anything in its path. You can use it to cover a whole area, and in that way no matter where the npcs run to there will be a cloud.
Oxidizer hurts you, but, if you run with a healer or as a healer, you can quikstop it. If a teammate runs a disrupt pulse on a group that includes a dog, you can oxidize the area, finishing off dogs and NPCs promptly. Saves on ammo. + crowd control.
When legendary came out, been trying to solo legendary with a skill tank build usiing a ballistic shield and oxidizer. Could kill everything fast except for the Juggernaut.
Im new to the builds thing. Can you tell me where I can find a good skill/tank build? I have been wanting to play with skills ^^ Thanks!
@@af.9803 I don't really see any skill tank build online, only blues. I made my skill tank by myself when wony came out.pretty much just stack skill haste and skill damage and you good . I do group challenging and heroics with it and still can get high damage. I switch between the hive and oxidizer as when you get too close to enemies the oxidizer will kill you.
I'm running a damage/skill build with just 663k armour and 283k health. Im running the exotic mask, 2 hard wire, One lmg chest piece and a providence back pack. Gives my lmg about 73k damage, Bakers dozen is doing over 445k and my turret is kicking out about 75k as well. I use my chem launcher as my healer ( 486k per second/ 6.1second cloud duration) and I pretty much run as a support. Just wish they had left the damn BTSU gloves alone because they helped in skill haste a whole lot.
@@dreamweaver6816 With the technician i like to run my hard wired unlimited seeker mine loadout. Using either a shield or a sniper turret as secondary skill cuz they have low cooldowns, its amazing. Throw seekers at the start of combat, ( with skill maxed out you get like 7 mines or more ! ) wait for the cooldown to start, you still have to wait for 2-3 seconds though, and equip the secondary skill for a refresh so you can use seeker mines every 3 seconds if you use the shield. Even better might be the armor with the skill with a 25% chance to refresh the seeker mines to get an instanst refresh. With Perfect Glass Canon i wont even have to get out of cover. Only for very close encounters but those can be easy kills with the sniper. With some other good skill enhancements on you loadout purple enemies are insta kills and elite about 75% armor with a sniper turret or seekers mines on challenging.
I put together an Oxidizer build and used it in The Summit. Really fun! I don’t run Hardwired, I use 2x Hana U, 3x Empress International, 1x Wyvern Wear. Chest Talent: Tag Team, Backpack Talent: Perfect Combined Arms. Primary: The Capacitor, Secondary: Rifle with In Sync talent.
Clearly never tried running it for real, this is useless unless someone else in ccing or you are taking out skills, npcs just walk out of the cloud.
With exotic backpack, I can oxide almost entire rooms at District Union
@@MemoriesLP what backpack?
@@big-al-50cal39 Acosta backpack. gives you a free skill tier upon grenade throw. But @ogarza3 is right.
Agreed
@@big-al-50cal39 exotic backpack
probably one of the best builds I've used for legendaries is a status effect build with banshee pulse and firefly, use this with Acosta's go bag and you can hit the entire map with the banshee pulse couple the pulse with everlasting gaze your stun can last up to 25 seconds its insane
I did a status effect build based on bleed, but on heroic this wasnt by far what I expected. It just lacked damage. This seems far more suitable and a nice alternative to fire.
Welcome to the "dark" (skill) side.... LOL. I'm always running an assault turret and cluster seeker mines in Heroic missions. Hard Wired for life hehe.
I love shield and seeker mines. Much higher survivability and max mines every ten sec.
Biggest skills to impact legendaries: Players Listening to warnings and patience.
The only problem with the oxydizer is the enemies need to be in the cloud for it to do anything to them, and of course they don't stay there. The fire starter on the other hand just needs to catch them on fire, which happens as soon as it ignites.
Oh my god! I never realized that skill, especially that enormous damage. Thx for that tip and the input. Keep it up. Cheers
I'm currently using a skill focused build and find the firestarter bombs to be more effective against npcs. They jump and dive outta the corrosive cloud as soon as it lands but with the fire bombs they dive out the cloud then right back intro it. I just place the cloud and don't ignite it until they jump back intro it. Against the dogs and enemy skill proxies yeah, the firestarter doesn't damage them and the oxidizer does but technician grenades are pretty good against those too. Although setting an enemy on fire stops them from regenerating health and armor. Or you can switch as the situation dictate.
I love using the EMP pulse and blinder against the Black Tusk... have my cooldowns that I can spam every 11 seconds.
Yes...it's not a status effect. So you have to invest in skill damage instead of status effects. But shock and awe is nevertheless the better talent while playing in a squad.
In squadplay you dont get a kill often because you are behind in cover and the DD's get the kills so tech.support dont proc a lot.
You can frequently proc shock and awe from you cover with a nade or shooting red fire bottles on the map. It procs way more often than tech.support.
Also with a healer in squad run glas cannon on your chest for another boost of your oxidaiser. Without healer I run unbreakable for more freedom to run around.
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enemies will just move out of the area of effect. its only good for flushing enemies out of cover. it will only be useful if it has a lingering status effect of like increase incoming damage to all sources by 10 percent for 15 seconds scales with skill tier.
When combating black tusk, I always use jammer and blinder with hardwired acostas. Endless CC Spam.
I've tried to use oxidizer in the past, my problem with it is that NPCs run away from the cloud just after a few seconds of being damaged by it. In an open space environment it's close to impossible to kill something with it and then you end up on a huge cooldown killing nothing. Maybe with all those stationary targets we have now I should try to use it again.
Thanks for the tip bro. Big fan of skill builds right here 👍🏼
Bro.........my team used the demolisher firefly in the beginning of Roosevelt island to stop the drone spamming............works amazing
There are things to counter Black Tusk, the problem is players are not really looking at all the skills because they don't want to get out of their comfort zone
My buddy and I ran around on a mission playing with the chem launcher........just for the fun and get used on how to use it, we laughed our asses off watching them not know how to handle it.
I've used the chem launcher when NPC get stuck behind walls......and it kills them
First time I solo played The Tombs, I got stuck at the end so did some experiments with different skills. It became immediately obvious that at high levels the oxidizer rocks, quickly melting turrets. I switched from fire because you don't need to activate oxidizer. I ow work with a sniper turret-seeker combo but oxidizer is a fallback.
Here are the pieces from my build. You need to look for to make this build better depending on how you play, the surge rifle ( it does 25% skill damage over 8 secs), find ones that's maxed out headshot attribute. The hana u named backpack (it does 30% skill damage for 3secs) with maxed out skill haste or skill damage, then add the attribute that's not maxed onto that piece then 4 pieces of hardwired (chest piece is a must ) now you can use either a wyvern glove for damage, a murakami glove for skill duration or the btsu glove with group play in mind.
Thank you. I'll be on the hunt.
Try pairing the sniper turret with perfect glass canon it’ll rock I promise.
Neil Gibbs I can honestly vouch for this 👍🏻
Neil Gibbs enjoy it while you can because that will be gone too
obadiah7771 You know it 🤣🤣
How much damage does a sniper turret round do for you? I run rifle red dps and in comparison, the sniper turret with a skill build isn't really a big increase in damage. And you have cooldowns to wait for...
Edward Lee it was doing about 5 million a shot. God knows now. I know that doesn’t compare with what was my M1 Bakers Dozen build that’s CHD, CHC min maxed doing around 2.5 million a shot. But for a skill build it’s the best choice. Or was.
I swear by oxidizer, my friends were amazed how quickly I melted people. Must have if you are struggling even in solo. Oxidizer and turret/drone plus whatever pew pew you’re running.
Been using that for skill power build with EMP pulse. My clan run mainly DPS build so I am running skill mainly.
I have 2 different skill builds. Hardwire and one using China Light and the new gear set Umi, or something like that. Thanks for the tip definitely gonna try it.
Build diversity is there. I personally have 4 different skill build set ups and they are allot of fun in both solo play and coop. Thing about skill builds is they are usually quite complex in both set up and usage with allot of moving parts. Allot of people prefer the straight forward DPS approach, nothing wrong with that. There is beauty in simplicity. Every team can use DPS players. Now as a skill main, they do really need to fix drone and turret A.I. but apparently they are addressing this soon.
The problem is the npc just leave the cloud and it has a long cool down and foam grenade works better for the npc gunner turrets.Oxidizer works best with trap.
Keep up the great D2 content my man!
Glass Cannon will help even skill damage it applies to all damage
In regards to your comment on sniper turret, it is not uncommon for that skill to hit for 12-16 million when pairing it with the technician specific hive skill.
That said the artillery turret is better in general since its aoe and can land on npc behind cover id rather have 4-8 million aoe and a "free" skill than 12-16 million on single target.
Before the last patch you can have duration and damage on 100% poison protection and stay in your own poison cloud as enemy died around you
Widdz made a video a few weeks ago showcasing this skill with the BTSU exotic gloves for the overcharge benefit along with a few other skillz.
You do know that if you shoot multiple oxy shots, they stack! I use this with my artillery turret/HW build. It melts. Also, the oxidizer is super handy in removing pesky enemies from cover.
Oxidiser on its own doesn't seem to be that effective just because enemies seem to move around way too much, and they don't really group up either. When you team up with somebody using shock traps / a riot foam launcher where the enemies are immobile for atleast 12 seconds then this thing works really well. A really cool feature of this skill is that the damage over time actually stacks... So if you literally empty every canister onto one area, the damage per second is HUGE.
I put on hard wired, throw seekers, wait 5 seconds, drop hive, resets seekers, throw seekers, rinse and repeat. Works well.
This is one of my go to's when I'm in run and gun situations on my status/skill build.
The artillery turret is also very good to take them out if your turret can see them
I use oxidizer all the time. Nothing new to me. I kill all the glitched enemies behind walls all the time
The fire sticky and the airburst seeker are good for a fire based status effect build
I've been running mine with oxi chem and hammer! Every time i run with we spreed thru harder content! 100% recommend. Wish i could see you a pic
I used it on the level 5 project on the Gunner specialization to take off the armor on the sledgehammer guy on Rosevelt island
I use it at tier 6 with the acosta go bag and the hive that comes with the tactician specialization, it hits for about 400-420k per tick and covers a huge area. If you know where the ads Spawn you can Spawn trap them. PS you want 1 piece Murakami for the skill duration 😛
I used to run a build like this with chem launch and a stinger, but I could not find the right talents to provide a benefit for it. Also, I would have to call it out in group play via microphone so that I can avoid friendly fire. I.e. stinky in the hole, incoming armor eater etc. Stupid I know but it would force others to run away from it.
Edit. To add. This was with hard wired.
I never thought about that. That it's pretty cool. Ty!!
Really really good a good way to pinpoint them to is with the disrupt EMP pulse takes a chunk to if you have the damage up
And it's fun to use. Personally I like disrupt and or blind for a combination.
I used the regular attacking turret with the oxidizer and it works pretty good but my build still needs a lot of work.
Oxi is sooo underrated.
Works also great at Tidal Basin against the rocket lauchers, the warhounds and mini tanks
Glad u brought this up! I forgot about it until I needed to cheese a tidal basin run with some new people. It could work well as a heal/aoe build. If npcs avoid the cloud it could be a good area denial tool as well. Need to give this a try
Very nice, I'm a Skill Builder hahaha, and actually I play a Drone/Turret Combination with 2 Hana-U and one wyvern piece plus Mother Love gloves and Perfect tech support on the back more a chest with glass canon, not perfect (Gyla guard with defense because if you use tech you don't need 6 yellow pieces). This is amazing, Heroic NPCs melt for my "Robotic minions", maybe these compositions could be usefull with chem Launcher, I'll try... thank you for the videos ^^
fun fact throw on contractors gloves and it (all skills for that matter) Chew through armor faster.
Iff a rogue npc uses a oxidiser against me then it tics straight at health. When i use it against a enemy it has to chew through its armour first.
I'm thinking about running with traps, with a skill build the radius is super big and for enemy to be shock and not move so might be good to shoot at enemy staying still
Shue Lo yeah man that sounds like a very good idea, trap them fuckers an ox’s em! 🤕
Nice I was running this 1 month ago is awsome I know the npcs move to much but still working
And I think it's pretty cool if you have a valuable skill build that you can just switch your skill depending on the enemies
The problem with running the oxidizer is that npcs in higher difficulties will just roll out of the area of the oxidizer.
Can you stop saying easy. Do it solo then. Before the developers be like “oh it’s easy huh, let’s do another title update, how bout that!
Would you consider running the numbers to compare the different build options for skill builds to see which combination is actually the most powerful?
Omg use a fire fly and a emp pulse jammer...... Emp destroys all electronics like hounds health boxes etc..... Fire fly blinds them where u can just shoot out of cover
I’ve Been using oxidizer build With Hard wire set. It’s good for Pve and PvP. PvP it eats armor quick especially at max skill 😁
The oxidizer is superb against Hyena shields as well fyi
I’m all about skill tier and mostly play solo, definitely about to test this out when I get home, thanks!
NPCs move away from the corrosive gas. So yes damage is high but how long can it do damage for. If a teammate can run the foam it will pay off. But solo it's not that great because npc's move from the gas.
Riot foam in a cc build is slept on loads it has a 20 sec ensnare when its maxed or almost maxed out
lee saggers tired it with creeping death ?
@@TheJoshy2011 I use it with galvanised I tried creeping death tbh they are both decent with the buff to creeping death it will be good
lee saggers I’ve always been tempted to use galvanised but don’t like how you need to be within certain distance of target. How’s it going for you ?
It was harder to use in the past because the enemies run run around like crazy. Hard to hit and harder to get them in the cloud. Might have to try this thou. Thanks for the update
I've been using it for months now, so much fun!
So would you spec in to status effects for the oxidizer or skill damage?
Many people in many games never understand builds, characters etc. Experienced this in Guild Wars from 2007, people said the following were useless : Mesmer, Assassin and Paragon. I played Mesmer mostly and people realised that Mesmer was a better Damage dealer that the Meta damage dealer the Elementalist. The Assassin and Paragon where also proven to be great characters. Ignorance is all around.
Try to use this with the blind flying bird or banshee pulse because the ennemie gonna not stay in the cloud without that
never ever ever used and tried this. WOW. Eye opener.
It's really good in the dark Zone I used it and killed 4 people that were running the Patriot build
I run a CC build using blind firefly and shock trap. It makes fights a lot easier.
Very underrated skill!!! 😎
Hard wired is great if you want to get a skill back fast but it not as good as using high end gear in my opinion. You should try this build without hardwired. Nice video. Makes me wanna try it.
Jokes on us, perfectly rooted is dead. I'm looking forward (not) to them nerfing the artillery turret next...
If they nerf the artillery turret then I’m out, they’ve nerfed too many damn things that shouldn’t have been. It’s getting to the point to where all of our hours of grinding for good gear will be nerfed, then what else are we grinding for after that? This game keeps getting worse and worse
This is ideal in a closed / small area situations.
Very slept on and overlooked skill my brother, I’ve seen a few creators starting to get on that oxidiser wave..
Definitely going to make a build and try this out at some point.
Respect as always bruv! ✊🏾
Alfa Omega Thanks, bro!
My only concern is that the NPC duck and roll away, man every time I throw a foam Granada they just bail, I guess if the cloud was wide enough it would get some of him or her...lol
That was the piece I was missing. Thanks!
great for nuking skill proxies, like their annoying and always well hidden healing stations perhaps. I've got to give it a try
That's funny, just now seeing this and I've been running with those exact same skills the past couple days.
But the thing is getting them to stay in the radius of the effect, I think the flash bang followed by the oxidized would probably be best route unless they are occupied
Blind firefly? Maybe. Its skill build already
@@LtS0UP even when blinded these npc's move away rapidly to the sides
Rush carefully but fast cover to civer catch em in the entry ways they wont get out the dooors
I personally don’t like the firefly ( was hoping it was better) but maybe catching them off guard when you first encounter them. I know keeping them under fire with an lmg would definitely work or small rooms