Even though it wasn't necessarily my exact build it was still pretty dope to see you cover a version of my build. 😎 Thanks for the info and input. I truly appreciate all the research and probably lots of farming that went in to making this video. You the g.o.a.t. 🐐
That was an amazing vid, wasn't expecting to see Catharsis on a skill build lol The first step to create a good ninjabike build is to not be a purist. I think you showed really well where the ninjabike backpack works best, rifle/MMR and skill builds. Ninjabike can give incredible amounts of weapon handling and skill damage/duration with different brandsets. My favorite backpacks are the eclipse, strikers and memento especially. And because I'm old I'll recognize The X Files every time and everywhere 🤣
Thank you! Took way too much time to make but I said I would do it. 🤷🏼♂️ It all came about really because so many build guides that came out post Project Resolve were using NB when there were better alternatives. I could see players blindly following them and nerfing themselves as a result. Using it for a theme is spot on. Weapon handling or accuracy with the chameleon is a good example where hitting shots is so essential to make it work. Classic tv series. 🙂
@@NYLCasualGaming it was nice to see so many variations. I don't like rifles that much in the game, but ninja and several brands put together makes them usable for me. Hotshot can also benefit from it, personally I think the gear set talent is trash, extra handling is always welcomed. Personally I think memento will always be the better choice for most cases like you showed, but it's hard to compete with such an op exotic
I'm not much of a rifle fan either. They don't hit hard enough for the slower fire rate. Massive keep trying to persuade us otherwise though with all the gear they keep throwing at us.
I love a lot of the analysis in here, and I'm impressed with how many different build's you've looked at. The comparisons are pretty good, and something I think a lot of agents miss when trying to build for NBBP. Things like: is it better than Memento? Is it better than a gearset Backpack? etc. Disagree on the Negotiator's dilemma critique. The hardest part of ND is being exposed to multiple enemies to get and maintain multiple marks. That NBBP build actually should help a ton to be able to be exposed and continue to get marks. While the ND backpack provides a lot of *theoretical* damage, you'll often find that the transfer damage kills marked targets so fast that you're constantly left with only one marked target standing. Not using the ND backpack actually allows more efficient kills by having the targets burn down at a more similar rate. Also, as far as the hotshot build goes, having a habs chest with a breaking point mask would actually be better damage than the airaldi you've got in there. Also, last I tested, Damage To Health does not increase the damage of any skills.
Glad you liked the video. With ND you deal more damage with just 2 enemies tagged when using the backpack. If you aren’t tagging at least 2, there isn’t really any point in running the gear set. Personally I think it is the chest piece that is less useful as tagging 5 rarely happens, but the ND build I was looking at was using it. Not sure about your point on the lower shared damage. If all the enemies are elite you would want as much damage as possible to be transferred, particularly as on average only 60% of hits are going to result in damage being transferred. Also killing other marked enemies quickly with the transferred damage is a good thing to reduce incoming damage. So overall, I still very much prefer the ND backpack to NB and would recommend players use it. But each to their own. All the builds are pre year six season one. I will take your word on the breaking point mask. I tested DTH in the range and could see the damage increase coming through (in red bar enemies). Not every skill though works with it (and DTA). Notable ones that don’t are Sniper Turret, Assault Turret, and Striker Drone. Cheers
@@NYLCasualGaming Even though we disagree I appreciate your points and respect your arguments. Rare to have level-headed discussions on here. Thanks for responding!
My pleasure. I will try out that breaking point mask as soon as I get a godroll Habs chest. That will be an adventure. I appreciate people sharing their views. I am not always right, and according to my wife rarely, so it is good to hear others opinions and to be able to discuss them. Sadly, these days the jump to insults when an opposing opinion is provided is almost automatic for some.
Right now I use Ninjabike, one piece of hotshot, 3 pieces of breaking point and the new Bober chest piece for my marksman build. Lots of weapon damage bonus, lots of survival and lots of ammo up time when firing from cover like you probably would with a marksman.
I’ve not had time to even start looking at the new gear sets yet. I like using hotshot with determined because after the first headshot kill bodyshots proc the hotshot takent giving you the armor, dmg, and ammo.
Sounds good but I would recommend you try out the hotshot sniper build in the video as well to see if you like it. Once you have the first headshot kill, aim for a red bar for a one shot to start, the damage keeps stacking. I haven't optimized the build as well and the biggest hit was 33 million. Everything is a one shot kill after the first.
Try this really different group support healer build for Legendary. Ninja backpack. 3 Future Init with chest. Motherly Love gloves and one Murakami. Use Decoy and Heal Chem launcher. Scorpio for CC. 6 skill tier. Put 3 Skill duration mods on and repair skills on attributes. Decoy lasts over a minute, chem heal pool lasts over 10 seconds, and your whole team is obliterating everything from damage boost and not being targeted. Throw your decoy and then shoot a heal chem on it and it can withstand legendary enemies shooting at it for quite a while.
@@NYLCasualGaming Yeah you're only job is to throw decoy and heal, occiasional CC with scorpio on a chunga, which gives even more damage boost. The heal chem pool lasts so long that it's actually effective on teammates sitting in cover and absorbing damage.
My only complaint is in the beginning when you talk about how good strikers backpack is. In practice i often find the max damage potential of full stacks from the backpack does not translate as well into normal gameplay unless you're in a full team to make large spawns to shoot all the time, or in a incursion or raid where you have a big boss to focus on. It's like using intimidate over obliterate. Technically it's more damage but jumping through the hoops of activating that damage potential is important. For me at least in normal gameplay watching my striker stacks when running both the chest and backpack, i have a time time maintaining more than half stacks unless i'm on a boss that has the HP to allow a full buildup. OR i'm using a ACS12 to stack quickly. Even with the Ouroboros, the stacks fall off so quickly after the first half you don't end up benefiting from the possible damage potential.
In comparison to the NB, you only need 1 hit for the strikers backpack to be better because it is a straight 35% multiplicative damage uplift. Each shot does more damage irrespective of how many stacks you have. The same is true when comparing with any other backpack. Vigilance for example. You only get the benefit from vigilance if you are landing shots, which also benefits the strikers backpack. Your complaint is really more relevant to the chest piece which extends the strikers stacks to 200, which when playing solo is very hard to utilize fully, and the gearset as a whole. In which case I think it is absolutely a good challenge and worth testing out. If you are using strikers then the backpack is essential to maximize dps. If the question is strikers compared to a different build, it would be interesting to calculate the graph which shows the point at which strikers starts to outperform. I will create a short vid on it. Thanks for the question.
@@TheEedjit Yes, that's what I said. But taking their point beyond that, there is a point in the stacks curve on strikers below which a different build would be better. I'm curious now what that graph looks like.
@@grimreaper6112 I get where they were coming from re striker stacks. It is a different question as you correctly point out, but an interesting one nonetheless.
Vigilance isn't on all the time , it's off when your shot. And striker doesn't have the issue of glass cannon making you basically...ehh..made of glass Saying that, I don't enjoy strikers on solo heroic content. It's fine but it really shines on harder content like incursion or in groups where the stacks are up most of time. In solo heroic I prefer negotiators dilemma (and by some margin)
I would say using legmo, named R&K holster and 1 more R&K, brazos and lastly 1 piece sokolove for that smg and crit dmg. I suggest using elmo and a smg of 850 RPM or higher. Run 3 blues, 3 yellow and go crazy with red cores. Run technician for more heal and attributes for that extra red core and for that shock and emp resist. With the amount of health that your shield has been given youre a walking DPS tank with good heals. Perfect for solo content. Also explosive res and hazard protection due to your heals comes in handy. I use obliterate for more dmg or you can use good O'L unbreakable.
Thanks for this. I'm not actively looking at ninjabike builds right now but appreciate you sharing yours with the community. If I create a follow up video on the ninjabike, I will absolutely include this build in it. Cheers!
Yooo my combat medic build made it into the video! I loved your input on it, pretty helpful. I honestly might do some tweaking and add an opportunistic bag to the build without sacrificing too much armor 🤔 that overlord shotgun looking pretty interesting for a pvp healer (yeah with my Ninjabike dz healer, it's so not meant for PvE content and your advice is spot on for PvE content)
Almost famous!!! 🙂 Do you find you need all the healing from future initiative in the dz? Just curious. I run a solo healer build in the dz but with brandsets. More dps with enough healing to heal through getting ganked.
@@NYLCasualGaming I've managed to get the exact same amount of repair skills by going the Palisades Steelworks route. With this build, it's going to rely heavily on Kard TDI as the build itself will have 1.6m armor and only 5 skill tiers (6 with Kard TDI). Yes, it's another ninjabike, but holy shit 1.6m armor on a healer build insane!! I'll leave my new build below: Weapon 1 - Capacitor - why? Weapon damage from the skill tiers Weapon 2 - MP5 with future perfect - why? Getting a kill will give skill tiers Pistol - Kard TDI with reformation - why? Talent grants repair skills, and you hold it to get to skill tier 6. Mask : Murakami (skill tier/repair skills/skill haste) Chest: Palisades (armor/repair skills/skill haste/repair skills) unbreakable Holster: Brazos (armor/repair skills/skill haste) Backpack: ninjabike (duh) Gloves: Alps summit (armor/repair skills/skill haste) Knees: Palisades (armor, repair skills, skill haste) Skill 1 - Healer hive (duh) Skill 2 - Heal Chem (duh) 1.6m armor, 5 skill tiers (6 if you get a kill with future perf or you hold kard TDI) **Do note:** each piece can be swapped around. Unbreakable is optional, empathic resolve is a good one. I chose unbreakable so it makes me harder to kill, very good when your role as the manhunt group healer is to keep the team alive. If you wanted to troll, you can take that named Palisades chest and use healer hive + repair trap to set off explosions with the heal skills. People hate it so much when I run that build 🤣
@@NYLCasualGaming and also, I went with the future initiative route due to the talent FI gearset gives, which is the damage buff when at full armor. By running that, I basically give my whole team free 15% weapon damage (almost like vigilance) when they're fully healed. FI chest bumps it to 25 but rarely in pvp will you be at max health. So, empathic resolve was my best choice. 15 bonus from empathic, 15 from future. Gives 30 total at its strongest. Was hard to turn a blind eye to future
@@NYLCasualGaming You literally know nothing about this game do you? Please learn before talking next time. Future initiative is never for the healing, it's for the damage amp. There is no such thing as a solo healer, you run a healer with a team in the dz. Otherwise you go regen or hotswap to everyday carrier and firewall medkit. Holy hell you sure talk a lot for knowing nothing about the game.
@@enderbreton8136 Maybe you could try asking if you don’t understand what is being referred to rather than just insulting people. If you had done you might have learned something. As is, you are talking about something completely different to what I was talking about. And no, don’t reply or you will get a permanent ban.
Thank you for the time and effort it to make this very excellant video...top notch quality! As a NB user youve really opened my eyes...time to watch this video again x3! RogueFerret
Hotshot works well still. Determined still triggers Hotshots talents. There is the new gear set, breaking point, which some players have said is good but I’ve not tried it out yet.
I have an explosive hybrid using the ninja bag & capacitor for PvP. It’s top tier. I use explosive sticky bomb & explosive seeker mine. I’m skill tier 6, 1.4 mil armor with Unbreakable & my sticky bomb hits for 1.2 mil in PvP & my seeker hits for 800k. I use technician specialist, 1 piece China Light, 1 piece Wyvern, 1 piece Grupo, Picaros Holster & 1 piece Hana U. My sticky bomb & seeker comes back after about 15 seconds & my capacitor is sitting at 56% chc & about 130% chd. It’s a fun build. Gotta use Unbreakable on chest however since it’s a PvP build. There are some funky builds that work using Ninja Bag out there. With my particular build, I can actually face tank a 2+ mil armor PvP player & mow them down with my capacitor after or while my sticky & seeker chunks their armor off. It really is a super fun build.
What are your thoughts on hunters fury with a piece of sokolov and either WH or providence. Obliterate* on chest. Hunter fury is supposed to be close range so headshots are pretty easy with smg. *edit 3 Edit.. Could also switch to closer chest with linked laser on smg (vector is preferred for me) sokolov would likely be the other brand set. Edit 2 I do agree that memento for solo players trumps almost any ninja bike
HF is a great gearset and intimidate following its buff is a very strong talent with something like adrenaline rush on the backpack. A great combination. You could also go grupo or Ceska for the second piece for another source of multiplicative damage. I would need to run it through my model to see if the amp damage of spotter outperforms the higher WD from intimidate. I will have a look later today. Another option for SMG is the banshee. Following the buffs from Project Resolve I have heard it is the hardest hitting SMG now, but not tested in yet.
@NYLCasualGaming I like the banshee for sure and I suppose the disoriented status would proc vindictive for some awesome results. I honestly havent tried ninja with HF as I usually run memento. I was just trying to find another gear set that might do decent with ninja as the HF backpack is kind of lack luster.
@NYLCasualGaming I also just realized that intimidate isn't what I meant to type as there is no bonus armor on HF, I meant obliterate originally. Was late when I watched the video.
Try 3 piece umbra chest,face, holster, and 2 piece striker, gloves, kneepads. With ninjabp. Amplifies rpm 45%, crit 100%+, and armor regen. (EVEN WITH ALL RED CORES AND ALL CRIT D AND CRIT C.
In the first chapter of the video I tested the rpm buff of strikers against a brandset backpack with vigilance. The brandset backpack delivers better time to kill. 🤷🏼♂️
try 3 pieces umbra chest holster face 2 piece striker glove and kneepads with striker. If you set oroborous up with it around 1900 to 2152 rpm, bulletking up to 1212 rpm. St. Elmos 1200 rpm, even shield splinter over 1100 rpm, and best yet Pestilence up to 843 rpm.
It won't make any difference. What I tested was effectively whether the damage uptick by not using the 2 piece Strikers was better than the RPM increase from Strikers. So as long as everything else on the build stays the same, you will get exactly the same results. Do you get it? The Umbra part on your build will remain exactly the same and sill buff RPM and DMG the same whether you are using Strikers or not. And I've proved that I can outperform the Strikers part with brandsets.
@@NYLCasualGaming The Survivalist Specialization Primary Weapon: Scrorpio Secondary Weapon: Carbine 7 - Reformation Mask: Catharsis: Armor, Incoming Repairs, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites Chest: Gila Guard: Amor, Armor Regen, CHC, Mod: Protection from Elites Holster: Badger Tuff: Armor, Amor Regen, Hazard Protection Knee Pads: Improvised: Armor, Hazard Protection, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites Gloves: Improvised: Armor, Explosive Resistance (could be better), Armor Regen, Mod: Protection From Elites Backpack: Uzina Getica: Armor, Armor Regen, Hazard Protection, Mod: Protection From Elites Skill Slot: Crusader Shield Skill Slot: Revive Hive (4 yourself if reds or purples flip out) but perfect to pick up team mates. Kryptonite: purples and reds, this build is most effective against Hunters, Rogue Agents. Any elites or named NPCs in front of you will not take you down. Literally invincible. Let me know, Didn't think about using Lengmo, it wasn't out at the time. Let’s see what you can do.
@@NYLCasualGaming The Survivalist Specialization Primary Weapon: Scrorpio Secondary Weapon: Carbine 7 - Reformation Mask: Catharsis: Armor, Incoming Repairs, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites Chest: Gila Guard: Amor, Armor Regen, CHC, Mod: Protection from Elites Holster: Badger Tuff: Armor, Amor Regen, Hazard Protection Knee Pads: Improvised: Armor, Hazard Protection, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites Gloves: Improvised: Armor, Explosive Resistance (could be better), Armor Regen, Mod: Protection From Elites Backpack: Uzina Getica: Armor, Armor Regen, Hazard Protection, Mod: Protection From Elites Skill Slot: Crusader Shield Skill Slot: Revive Hive (4 yourself if reds or purples flip out) but perfect to pick up team mates. Kryptonite: purples and reds, this build is most effective against Hunters, Rogue Agents. Any elites or named NPCs in front of you will not take you down. Literally invincible. Let me know, Didn't think about using Lengmo, it wasn't out at the time. Let’s see what you can do.
Can you please tell me the build that is the best for damage and the most survivability for PVE and PVP in your opinion? I have yet to make a single build cause I keep switching my choices I just want to make 1 build and be done such a grind😭
You will need at least two builds because PvE and PvP play so differently. A PvE build just won’t work in PvP. For PvE I would start with a heartbreaker build because it deals good damage and has great survivability. It is the third build in this video: th-cam.com/video/h8VPj2eBNaU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0bYNLXPSbfw8-5aM For PvP it very much depends what you are doing - conflict, farming dz landmarks, going rogue in the dz or killing rogues, solo or in a group - all will be very different.
For the DZ my recommendation would be to start with a pretty simple build and get in there farming. If you are playing solo avoid any gearsets that need stacks to work well because rogues won’t give you the time to build them up. I use something like this one but with the capacitor now it has been buffed. th-cam.com/video/5FNQ8DRL2ks/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Qbng-q-mk3Iu6--U There are some good tips for farming in this video as well. th-cam.com/video/xbajSepgJao/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JNpzP8lrMRtkLmtX Then every time you are killed by a rogue, before you respawn inspect their build. Once you find one that fits best with your playstyle in pvp, go with that one. I say all this because I really don’t think there is a one fits all build for pvp. Are you aggressive or cautious, up close and personal or from range, do you like fast encounters or to wear rogues down? All of these will influence what build works best for you.
The Memento? Completely different backpack. See the fourth secret I think it was about solo players. I did a direct comparison between Ninjabike and Memento.
@@NYLCasualGaming memento😂💀 backpack** wouldn’t the same apply to the other gear set packback . Like Memento backpack with 4 pieces of striker instead of the backpack being the striker BP. With memento we pick up trophies but lose out on the weapon dmg by the striker BP if not mistaken. Edit:Just got done with the video
You are correct. For pure dps, the striker backpack is the best option when playing striker builds. I don’t know how familiar you are with the damage bucket concept in D2. Certain damage modifiers are additive and some are multiplicative. So 10% more additive weapon damage (WD) is worse than 10% multiplicative damage. Say you have 3 weapon cores for 45% WD. Adding another 10% and you are multiply your base WD by 1.55. But adding 10% multiplicative damage to your build will be 1.45 x 1.1 = 1.595. So 4.5% higher dmg output. Striker stacks fall into their own multiplicative bucket.
@@NYLCasualGaming I run two builds my self full 4 pieces with the backpack and chest cheska holster and coyote mask mostly run this for incursion and heroic/legendary. My memento build mask, holster,gloves and knees with cheska obliterate chest
Ninja bike is a pvp exotic not a pve one to be honest like you said it kinda sucks with gearsets unless its for conflict or dz use if you have a brazos chest piece for more ammo but still, i actually try to stay away from it now but if you have a brazos chestpiece with obliterate or unbreakable its really fun to have a shit ton of ammo only way you can run a hybrid on striker you need a brazos chestpiece all red and then yes you will hit hard but striker backpack is king
Do you have a good NB conflict build you could share? I’ve heard this before but I still think something like catharsis might be a better option. Would like to test some out and crunch the numbers.
@@NYLCasualGaming for sure bro all you need is picaro holster brazos chestpiece obliterate all crits the chest piece needs to be a red core tho everything else is strikers red cores pairing that with iron lung for the 127 round mag, its one of my fav countdown builds and still hits over a mill in crits on max striker stacks,
@@NYLCasualGaming btw NYL thats a coutdown build for conflict its pretty straightforward you just max smg amplified damage as much as you can Unbreakable sokolov chest piece 2 piece electrique walker harris and picaros holster thats it or you can put 1 piece hunter fury in there if you want.
Which is probably the most important information players can take away about the Ninjabike Backpack. At the same time, if you do want to try out a Ninjabike build, it covers a ton of the best ones and the one that is the absolute best in the same time that many videos only cover one or two. 🤷🏼♂️
This is all well and good to have build diversity but you're killing things just as quick with any half decent build. The game needs stronger and more challenging missions or enemies or BOTH.
What the game needs is new replayable content that is designed for veteran players. They have been reusing the same content, or delivering content aimed at new players, for years now.
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Damn good video.
Thank you!
Good video I bet your uncle daddy is proud of you.
This is why the community needs people like you, someone who is willing to do all the research so the people can make informed decisions. Great job
Thank you!
You’re forgetting the best thing about the ninja bike backpack. If you can’t be arsed farming for a backpack you can just slap this old thing on. Haha
Very true
It's been a game changer. Literally and figuratively
It has indeed.
Even though it wasn't necessarily my exact build it was still pretty dope to see you cover a version of my build. 😎 Thanks for the info and input. I truly appreciate all the research and probably lots of farming that went in to making this video. You the g.o.a.t. 🐐
Glad you liked it! It was a labor of love for sure!
That was an amazing vid, wasn't expecting to see Catharsis on a skill build lol The first step to create a good ninjabike build is to not be a purist. I think you showed really well where the ninjabike backpack works best, rifle/MMR and skill builds. Ninjabike can give incredible amounts of weapon handling and skill damage/duration with different brandsets.
My favorite backpacks are the eclipse, strikers and memento especially. And because I'm old I'll recognize The X Files every time and everywhere 🤣
Thank you! Took way too much time to make but I said I would do it. 🤷🏼♂️ It all came about really because so many build guides that came out post Project Resolve were using NB when there were better alternatives. I could see players blindly following them and nerfing themselves as a result.
Using it for a theme is spot on. Weapon handling or accuracy with the chameleon is a good example where hitting shots is so essential to make it work.
Classic tv series. 🙂
@@NYLCasualGaming it was nice to see so many variations. I don't like rifles that much in the game, but ninja and several brands put together makes them usable for me. Hotshot can also benefit from it, personally I think the gear set talent is trash, extra handling is always welcomed. Personally I think memento will always be the better choice for most cases like you showed, but it's hard to compete with such an op exotic
I'm not much of a rifle fan either. They don't hit hard enough for the slower fire rate. Massive keep trying to persuade us otherwise though with all the gear they keep throwing at us.
I love a lot of the analysis in here, and I'm impressed with how many different build's you've looked at. The comparisons are pretty good, and something I think a lot of agents miss when trying to build for NBBP. Things like: is it better than Memento? Is it better than a gearset Backpack? etc.
Disagree on the Negotiator's dilemma critique. The hardest part of ND is being exposed to multiple enemies to get and maintain multiple marks. That NBBP build actually should help a ton to be able to be exposed and continue to get marks. While the ND backpack provides a lot of *theoretical* damage, you'll often find that the transfer damage kills marked targets so fast that you're constantly left with only one marked target standing. Not using the ND backpack actually allows more efficient kills by having the targets burn down at a more similar rate.
Also, as far as the hotshot build goes, having a habs chest with a breaking point mask would actually be better damage than the airaldi you've got in there.
Also, last I tested, Damage To Health does not increase the damage of any skills.
Glad you liked the video.
With ND you deal more damage with just 2 enemies tagged when using the backpack. If you aren’t tagging at least 2, there isn’t really any point in running the gear set. Personally I think it is the chest piece that is less useful as tagging 5 rarely happens, but the ND build I was looking at was using it.
Not sure about your point on the lower shared damage. If all the enemies are elite you would want as much damage as possible to be transferred, particularly as on average only 60% of hits are going to result in damage being transferred. Also killing other marked enemies quickly with the transferred damage is a good thing to reduce incoming damage.
So overall, I still very much prefer the ND backpack to NB and would recommend players use it. But each to their own.
All the builds are pre year six season one. I will take your word on the breaking point mask.
I tested DTH in the range and could see the damage increase coming through (in red bar enemies). Not every skill though works with it (and DTA). Notable ones that don’t are Sniper Turret, Assault Turret, and Striker Drone.
Cheers
@@NYLCasualGaming Even though we disagree I appreciate your points and respect your arguments. Rare to have level-headed discussions on here. Thanks for responding!
My pleasure. I will try out that breaking point mask as soon as I get a godroll Habs chest. That will be an adventure.
I appreciate people sharing their views. I am not always right, and according to my wife rarely, so it is good to hear others opinions and to be able to discuss them. Sadly, these days the jump to insults when an opposing opinion is provided is almost automatic for some.
@@NYLCasualGaming Much respect and thanks to you for making the video, and even more for your humility.
@@georgeoldham2060 My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
This is the best build how-to video out there. Thanks for the great work!
Thank you! The feedback is very appreciated.
Right now I use Ninjabike, one piece of hotshot, 3 pieces of breaking point and the new Bober chest piece for my marksman build. Lots of weapon damage bonus, lots of survival and lots of ammo up time when firing from cover like you probably would with a marksman.
I’ve not had time to even start looking at the new gear sets yet. I like using hotshot with determined because after the first headshot kill bodyshots proc the hotshot takent giving you the armor, dmg, and ammo.
@@NYLCasualGaming with the build I described I hit 800k on body shots and 3 mil using dread edict on a non optimized build.
Sounds good but I would recommend you try out the hotshot sniper build in the video as well to see if you like it. Once you have the first headshot kill, aim for a red bar for a one shot to start, the damage keeps stacking. I haven't optimized the build as well and the biggest hit was 33 million. Everything is a one shot kill after the first.
Try this really different group support healer build for Legendary. Ninja backpack. 3 Future Init with chest. Motherly Love gloves and one Murakami. Use Decoy and Heal Chem launcher. Scorpio for CC. 6 skill tier. Put 3 Skill duration mods on and repair skills on attributes. Decoy lasts over a minute, chem heal pool lasts over 10 seconds, and your whole team is obliterating everything from damage boost and not being targeted. Throw your decoy and then shoot a heal chem on it and it can withstand legendary enemies shooting at it for quite a while.
Another named item that rarely gets used. Nice! I will check the build out.
Fits into keep it simple - one theme done very well. Not trying to do everything.
@@NYLCasualGaming Yeah you're only job is to throw decoy and heal, occiasional CC with scorpio on a chunga, which gives even more damage boost. The heal chem pool lasts so long that it's actually effective on teammates sitting in cover and absorbing damage.
@@xrycon Nice
My only complaint is in the beginning when you talk about how good strikers backpack is. In practice i often find the max damage potential of full stacks from the backpack does not translate as well into normal gameplay unless you're in a full team to make large spawns to shoot all the time, or in a incursion or raid where you have a big boss to focus on. It's like using intimidate over obliterate. Technically it's more damage but jumping through the hoops of activating that damage potential is important. For me at least in normal gameplay watching my striker stacks when running both the chest and backpack, i have a time time maintaining more than half stacks unless i'm on a boss that has the HP to allow a full buildup. OR i'm using a ACS12 to stack quickly. Even with the Ouroboros, the stacks fall off so quickly after the first half you don't end up benefiting from the possible damage potential.
In comparison to the NB, you only need 1 hit for the strikers backpack to be better because it is a straight 35% multiplicative damage uplift. Each shot does more damage irrespective of how many stacks you have. The same is true when comparing with any other backpack. Vigilance for example. You only get the benefit from vigilance if you are landing shots, which also benefits the strikers backpack.
Your complaint is really more relevant to the chest piece which extends the strikers stacks to 200, which when playing solo is very hard to utilize fully, and the gearset as a whole. In which case I think it is absolutely a good challenge and worth testing out.
If you are using strikers then the backpack is essential to maximize dps. If the question is strikers compared to a different build, it would be interesting to calculate the graph which shows the point at which strikers starts to outperform. I will create a short vid on it.
Thanks for the question.
Its about the ninga not any of the crap you have writen
@@NYLCasualGamingthat’s a chest issue bud, not the backpack.
@@TheEedjit Yes, that's what I said. But taking their point beyond that, there is a point in the stacks curve on strikers below which a different build would be better. I'm curious now what that graph looks like.
@@grimreaper6112 I get where they were coming from re striker stacks. It is a different question as you correctly point out, but an interesting one nonetheless.
1:49 this would be the x-files. Great show thst often left you questioning.
I agree, it does look like Gillian Anderson with a fbi badge
You are both right.
Vigilance isn't on all the time , it's off when your shot. And striker doesn't have the issue of glass cannon making you basically...ehh..made of glass
Saying that, I don't enjoy strikers on solo heroic content. It's fine but it really shines on harder content like incursion or in groups where the stacks are up most of time. In solo heroic I prefer negotiators dilemma (and by some margin)
I would say using legmo, named R&K holster and 1 more R&K, brazos and lastly 1 piece sokolove for that smg and crit dmg. I suggest using elmo and a smg of 850 RPM or higher. Run 3 blues, 3 yellow and go crazy with red cores. Run technician for more heal and attributes for that extra red core and for that shock and emp resist. With the amount of health that your shield has been given youre a walking DPS tank with good heals. Perfect for solo content. Also explosive res and hazard protection due to your heals comes in handy. I use obliterate for more dmg or you can use good O'L unbreakable.
Thanks for this. I'm not actively looking at ninjabike builds right now but appreciate you sharing yours with the community. If I create a follow up video on the ninjabike, I will absolutely include this build in it. Cheers!
Yooo my combat medic build made it into the video! I loved your input on it, pretty helpful. I honestly might do some tweaking and add an opportunistic bag to the build without sacrificing too much armor 🤔 that overlord shotgun looking pretty interesting for a pvp healer (yeah with my Ninjabike dz healer, it's so not meant for PvE content and your advice is spot on for PvE content)
Almost famous!!! 🙂 Do you find you need all the healing from future initiative in the dz? Just curious. I run a solo healer build in the dz but with brandsets. More dps with enough healing to heal through getting ganked.
@@NYLCasualGaming I've managed to get the exact same amount of repair skills by going the Palisades Steelworks route. With this build, it's going to rely heavily on Kard TDI as the build itself will have 1.6m armor and only 5 skill tiers (6 with Kard TDI). Yes, it's another ninjabike, but holy shit 1.6m armor on a healer build insane!! I'll leave my new build below:
Weapon 1 - Capacitor - why? Weapon damage from the skill tiers
Weapon 2 - MP5 with future perfect - why? Getting a kill will give skill tiers
Pistol - Kard TDI with reformation - why? Talent grants repair skills, and you hold it to get to skill tier 6.
Mask : Murakami (skill tier/repair skills/skill haste)
Chest: Palisades (armor/repair skills/skill haste/repair skills) unbreakable
Holster: Brazos (armor/repair skills/skill haste)
Backpack: ninjabike (duh)
Gloves: Alps summit (armor/repair skills/skill haste)
Knees: Palisades (armor, repair skills, skill haste)
Skill 1 - Healer hive (duh)
Skill 2 - Heal Chem (duh)
1.6m armor, 5 skill tiers (6 if you get a kill with future perf or you hold kard TDI)
**Do note:** each piece can be swapped around. Unbreakable is optional, empathic resolve is a good one. I chose unbreakable so it makes me harder to kill, very good when your role as the manhunt group healer is to keep the team alive. If you wanted to troll, you can take that named Palisades chest and use healer hive + repair trap to set off explosions with the heal skills. People hate it so much when I run that build 🤣
@@NYLCasualGaming and also, I went with the future initiative route due to the talent FI gearset gives, which is the damage buff when at full armor. By running that, I basically give my whole team free 15% weapon damage (almost like vigilance) when they're fully healed. FI chest bumps it to 25 but rarely in pvp will you be at max health. So, empathic resolve was my best choice. 15 bonus from empathic, 15 from future. Gives 30 total at its strongest. Was hard to turn a blind eye to future
@@NYLCasualGaming You literally know nothing about this game do you? Please learn before talking next time.
Future initiative is never for the healing, it's for the damage amp. There is no such thing as a solo healer, you run a healer with a team in the dz. Otherwise you go regen or hotswap to everyday carrier and firewall medkit.
Holy hell you sure talk a lot for knowing nothing about the game.
@@enderbreton8136 Maybe you could try asking if you don’t understand what is being referred to rather than just insulting people. If you had done you might have learned something. As is, you are talking about something completely different to what I was talking about. And no, don’t reply or you will get a permanent ban.
you will be putting all those youtube creators out of a job spreading all that fud. Great informative video.
Thank you!
Thank you for the time and effort it to make this very excellant video...top notch quality! As a NB user youve really opened my eyes...time to watch this video again x3! RogueFerret
My pleasure. Glad you like it.
Thank you
Great video as always but now I have so many options I’m getting confused hahaha
That is always a problem! Gotta try them all! Thanks for watching.
Been farming the hg backpack for 3 weeks, going to slap on the ninja. Do i swap hotshot for something else?
Hotshot works well still. Determined still triggers Hotshots talents. There is the new gear set, breaking point, which some players have said is good but I’ve not tried it out yet.
Superior explanation of why Ninjaback BP is inferior with helpful evidence-based numbers. You are the true hero of the Tom Clancy republic!! :)
Thank you! 🙂
I have an explosive hybrid using the ninja bag & capacitor for PvP. It’s top tier. I use explosive sticky bomb & explosive seeker mine. I’m skill tier 6, 1.4 mil armor with Unbreakable & my sticky bomb hits for 1.2 mil in PvP & my seeker hits for 800k. I use technician specialist, 1 piece China Light, 1 piece Wyvern, 1 piece Grupo, Picaros Holster & 1 piece Hana U. My sticky bomb & seeker comes back after about 15 seconds & my capacitor is sitting at 56% chc & about 130% chd. It’s a fun build. Gotta use Unbreakable on chest however since it’s a PvP build. There are some funky builds that work using Ninja Bag out there. With my particular build, I can actually face tank a 2+ mil armor PvP player & mow them down with my capacitor after or while my sticky & seeker chunks their armor off. It really is a super fun build.
Nice. I might try it out.
I use my ninjabike for exotic components, game changer 😂😂
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You dare disparage the mighty Ninja Backpack? Great Vid! I'm gonna go watch more.
Thank you!
One shot sniper/rifle builds seem to be rather decent with ninja bag for solo content. Alot of variation from dps to survivability!
Yes. It’s my go to for quick clears.
Great video!! Thank you 🙏
My pleasure. Not sure it will get anywhere near the views to justify the time spent making it, but needed to get it done. 🙂
What are your thoughts on hunters fury with a piece of sokolov and either WH or providence. Obliterate* on chest. Hunter fury is supposed to be close range so headshots are pretty easy with smg.
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Could also switch to closer chest with linked laser on smg (vector is preferred for me) sokolov would likely be the other brand set.
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I do agree that memento for solo players trumps almost any ninja bike
My favorite piece I run solo to farm with a Scorpio shotgun. Destroys everything.
@capt.america2737 depending on content, zero f's could help a lot with scopio to give some dps and heaps of survivability
HF is a great gearset and intimidate following its buff is a very strong talent with something like adrenaline rush on the backpack. A great combination. You could also go grupo or Ceska for the second piece for another source of multiplicative damage. I would need to run it through my model to see if the amp damage of spotter outperforms the higher WD from intimidate. I will have a look later today.
Another option for SMG is the banshee. Following the buffs from Project Resolve I have heard it is the hardest hitting SMG now, but not tested in yet.
@NYLCasualGaming I like the banshee for sure and I suppose the disoriented status would proc vindictive for some awesome results.
I honestly havent tried ninja with HF as I usually run memento. I was just trying to find another gear set that might do decent with ninja as the HF backpack is kind of lack luster.
@NYLCasualGaming I also just realized that intimidate isn't what I meant to type as there is no bonus armor on HF, I meant obliterate originally. Was late when I watched the video.
Try 3 piece umbra chest,face, holster, and 2 piece striker, gloves, kneepads. With ninjabp. Amplifies rpm 45%, crit 100%+, and armor regen. (EVEN WITH ALL RED CORES AND ALL CRIT D AND CRIT C.
In the first chapter of the video I tested the rpm buff of strikers against a brandset backpack with vigilance. The brandset backpack delivers better time to kill. 🤷🏼♂️
You did not test thr umbra striker. I saw the whole video. You tested different variations.@NYLCasualGaming
try 3 pieces umbra chest holster face 2 piece striker glove and kneepads with striker. If you set oroborous up with it around 1900 to 2152 rpm, bulletking up to 1212 rpm. St. Elmos 1200 rpm, even shield splinter over 1100 rpm, and best yet Pestilence up to 843 rpm.
I use this in many different type content.
It won't make any difference. What I tested was effectively whether the damage uptick by not using the 2 piece Strikers was better than the RPM increase from Strikers. So as long as everything else on the build stays the same, you will get exactly the same results. Do you get it? The Umbra part on your build will remain exactly the same and sill buff RPM and DMG the same whether you are using Strikers or not. And I've proved that I can outperform the Strikers part with brandsets.
Thanks
Thanks for watching
You’re awesome, I’d like for you to rate my tank build… “The Wall”
Well thank you. Feel free to drop the details here. Happy to have a look. Presumably using Lengmo for the skill health.
@@NYLCasualGaming
The Survivalist Specialization
Primary Weapon: Scrorpio
Secondary Weapon: Carbine 7 - Reformation
Mask: Catharsis: Armor, Incoming Repairs, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites
Chest: Gila Guard: Amor, Armor Regen, CHC, Mod: Protection from Elites
Holster: Badger Tuff: Armor, Amor Regen, Hazard Protection
Knee Pads: Improvised: Armor, Hazard Protection, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites
Gloves: Improvised: Armor, Explosive Resistance (could be better), Armor Regen, Mod: Protection From Elites
Backpack: Uzina Getica: Armor, Armor Regen, Hazard Protection, Mod: Protection From Elites
Skill Slot: Crusader Shield
Skill Slot: Revive Hive (4 yourself if reds or purples flip out) but perfect to pick up team mates.
Kryptonite: purples and reds, this build is most effective against Hunters, Rogue Agents. Any elites or named NPCs in front of you will not take you down. Literally invincible. Let me know, Didn't think about using Lengmo, it wasn't out at the time. Let’s see what you can do.
@@NYLCasualGaming
The Survivalist Specialization
Primary Weapon: Scrorpio
Secondary Weapon: Carbine 7 - Reformation
Mask: Catharsis: Armor, Incoming Repairs, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites
Chest: Gila Guard: Amor, Armor Regen, CHC, Mod: Protection from Elites
Holster: Badger Tuff: Armor, Amor Regen, Hazard Protection
Knee Pads: Improvised: Armor, Hazard Protection, Armor Regen, Mod: Protection from Elites
Gloves: Improvised: Armor, Explosive Resistance (could be better), Armor Regen, Mod: Protection From Elites
Backpack: Uzina Getica: Armor, Armor Regen, Hazard Protection, Mod: Protection From Elites
Skill Slot: Crusader Shield
Skill Slot: Revive Hive (4 yourself if reds or purples flip out) but perfect to pick up team mates.
Kryptonite: purples and reds, this build is most effective against Hunters, Rogue Agents. Any elites or named NPCs in front of you will not take you down. Literally invincible. Let me know, Didn't think about using Lengmo, it wasn't out at the time. Let’s see what you can do.
Can you please tell me the build that is the best for damage and the most survivability for PVE and PVP in your opinion? I have yet to make a single build cause I keep switching my choices I just want to make 1 build and be done such a grind😭
You will need at least two builds because PvE and PvP play so differently. A PvE build just won’t work in PvP.
For PvE I would start with a heartbreaker build because it deals good damage and has great survivability. It is the third build in this video:
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For PvP it very much depends what you are doing - conflict, farming dz landmarks, going rogue in the dz or killing rogues, solo or in a group - all will be very different.
@@NYLCasualGamingFarming DZ and killing rogue agents
For the DZ my recommendation would be to start with a pretty simple build and get in there farming. If you are playing solo avoid any gearsets that need stacks to work well because rogues won’t give you the time to build them up. I use something like this one but with the capacitor now it has been buffed.
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There are some good tips for farming in this video as well.
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Then every time you are killed by a rogue, before you respawn inspect their build. Once you find one that fits best with your playstyle in pvp, go with that one.
I say all this because I really don’t think there is a one fits all build for pvp. Are you aggressive or cautious, up close and personal or from range, do you like fast encounters or to wear rogues down? All of these will influence what build works best for you.
So this concept will also go with the momento backpack as well.
The Memento? Completely different backpack. See the fourth secret I think it was about solo players. I did a direct comparison between Ninjabike and Memento.
@@NYLCasualGaming memento😂💀 backpack** wouldn’t the same apply to the other gear set packback . Like Memento backpack with 4 pieces of striker instead of the backpack being the striker BP. With memento we pick up trophies but lose out on the weapon dmg by the striker BP if not mistaken.
Edit:Just got done with the video
You are correct. For pure dps, the striker backpack is the best option when playing striker builds. I don’t know how familiar you are with the damage bucket concept in D2. Certain damage modifiers are additive and some are multiplicative. So 10% more additive weapon damage (WD) is worse than 10% multiplicative damage. Say you have 3 weapon cores for 45% WD. Adding another 10% and you are multiply your base WD by 1.55. But adding 10% multiplicative damage to your build will be 1.45 x 1.1 = 1.595. So 4.5% higher dmg output. Striker stacks fall into their own multiplicative bucket.
@@NYLCasualGaming I run two builds my self full 4 pieces with the backpack and chest cheska holster and coyote mask mostly run this for incursion and heroic/legendary. My memento build mask, holster,gloves and knees with cheska obliterate chest
Ninja bike is a pvp exotic not a pve one to be honest like you said it kinda sucks with gearsets unless its for conflict or dz use if you have a brazos chest piece for more ammo but still, i actually try to stay away from it now but if you have a brazos chestpiece with obliterate or unbreakable its really fun to have a shit ton of ammo only way you can run a hybrid on striker you need a brazos chestpiece all red and then yes you will hit hard but striker backpack is king
Do you have a good NB conflict build you could share? I’ve heard this before but I still think something like catharsis might be a better option. Would like to test some out and crunch the numbers.
@@NYLCasualGaming for sure bro all you need is picaro holster brazos chestpiece obliterate all crits the chest piece needs to be a red core tho everything else is strikers red cores pairing that with iron lung for the 127 round mag, its one of my fav countdown builds and still hits over a mill in crits on max striker stacks,
Nice, sounds good.
@@NYLCasualGaming btw NYL thats a coutdown build for conflict its pretty straightforward you just max smg amplified damage as much as you can Unbreakable sokolov chest piece 2 piece electrique walker harris and picaros holster thats it or you can put 1 piece hunter fury in there if you want.
Got it. I might do a follow up on pvp builds at some stage.
1:49 - X-files
So this video is just 30 minutes of telling people to never use it. What a weird clickbait. Blacklisted.
Which is probably the most important information players can take away about the Ninjabike Backpack. At the same time, if you do want to try out a Ninjabike build, it covers a ton of the best ones and the one that is the absolute best in the same time that many videos only cover one or two. 🤷🏼♂️
6:30 Hold on...
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Now ..why would you destroy they dreams by opening they eyes. Lmao
Some of the conversations I had with high SHD level players about Ninjabike would open your eyes! 🤣
I’ll send you a build
Look forward to it
U ever play with viewers bro ?
I have done in the past on other games. Lack of cross play makes it tough with D2.
@@NYLCasualGaming what platform are u on bro ?
XSX. You?
@@NYLCasualGaming oh damn PS
This is all well and good to have build diversity but you're killing things just as quick with any half decent build. The game needs stronger and more challenging missions or enemies or BOTH.
What the game needs is new replayable content that is designed for veteran players. They have been reusing the same content, or delivering content aimed at new players, for years now.
The X Files
A classic.
If I could play again without Uplay I would. Uplay is trash.
That it is