The artificer isn't just about repairing skills, that is a big benefit. The bigger benefit is the increased damage output in the form of skill damage from the added skill tiers. This leads to a lot of confusion where players don't understand what the artificer actually does. I agree the drone is a great distractor and the turret targeting bug is so annoying. With a build like this if you aren't fighting from cover then the drone is needed otherwise use the artificer with turret is amazing.
I personally run 3 piece Empress 2 piece Brazos one being picaros and memento backpack and It makes you have 6 skill tiers and 5 weapons cores and 1 armor core at max stacks Everything rolled for Skill dmg and crit chance tell you get to 45% then put everything else into crit dmg
My favorite pve build! Ive been using the OG build of yours since then... without a doubt my go to build when struggling with something in legendary mode.
Patrick thanks for an awesome build and all your efforts and time to investigate, trying to make amazing builds and this build by far is one of my many favorites from you. Appreciate it big time...thanks
Ninja bag, 2 empress, 1 Picaro rolled to skill, 1 HB, and 1 Fenris/Cescka/Contractors....with Technician. 6 Skill tiers, 4 Red and two blue. I use this with pestilence. Send out the drone and turret and just sit back and spread plague. Switch to Test subject to crank up the skill dmg.
I find the Scorpio to be a bigger help with my build so I use the Test Subject as my primary and Scorpio as secondary. Using Glass Cannon and Perfect Combined Arms. 1 red core, 5 Yellow, +1 from Technician. My Turret & Drone level 26.
I appreciate all your research and testing!! Agree with Bikerbloke though I’m a visual learner so I have to see it piece by piece to totally get and understand it
Awesome build bro I'm a huge fan of skill builds a solo build that hits very hard.👍👌 I love using glass Canon I like living on the edge lol 😅 but glass Canon gives you a lot of damage most players are afraid of it though keep up the great work my friend!!👍👌✌️👏👏🤙🤙💯💯💪
My skill build, is 3 pieces of Empress, (mask, chest and gloves) Murakami knee pads, and Hana U pack. Instead of crits I run blues either regen or armour on kill. Works on legendary non issues
Many build creators insist on proposing, for technical builds with turret and drone, some pieces that are apparently strong but definitely inferior to others because of their characteristics and typical features of the technical build with drone and turret. First among them, the weapon: it is very popular to propose the Capacitor as the primary weapon but this weapon forces you, in order to have significant damage, to constantly come out of cover and shoot. But this build is specifically made to stay in cover a lot, so proposing this weapon is nonsense! The best weapon, in my opinion, is the GR9 machine gun (or an assault rifle) with “Synchronized” talent. This way no one is forced to be constantly out of cover. You can only fire a few rounds for the turret and drone to increase their damage accordingly. Second piece, in my opinion wrong to propose, is the backpack with “Combined Forces.” In most of the builds I have seen it is the proposed backpack. But again, first of all, the 25 percent you get of more damage is for three or four seconds and, more importantly, it forces you, again, to shoot all the time because three or four seconds of damage increase is not much help. The best talent for this build is “Technical Support” which gives you 25 percent more total damage for skill kills and this 25 percent lasts for 25 seconds!!! So you basically have it all the time, continuously!! Alternatively, an excellent choice that also offers more survivability (though with less damage) is the "Memento" backpack, which increases over time both the damage of skills as well as their efficiency and defense as well as attack, as well as providing constant recovery in terms of armor. Third and last piece, is the armor: the one that is often offered is the armor with the “Glass Cannon” talent. Sure, this talent dramatically increases the damage done but it still increases the damage taken even more!!! But this is still more nonsense in relation to what I was saying earlier, which is that to do damage you have to be out of cover. So, in my opinion, the best armor talent in this build is “Kinetic Momentum” which gives you a 1% increase in damage and 2% increase in skill repair. But it doesn't make you die receiving a few hits! I have field tested all these variants and the tests show that this build is the best in terms of damage and survivability. Of course, under the same circumstances (same outpost or mission, same directives, same difficulty).
I‘m using something similar, skill damage/ chc. Using the memento for the wave form . Remember , the memento gives you 30% skill efficiency, one red and one blue core also armor regen.combined arms and glass cannnon is quite tricky in my opinion. One always has to keep shooting but you can get one shootet any second especially legendary. Just to say you have to do nothing and just let the skills work is not going to cut it. Remember you also need to build/ keep your 40 stacks for your AR. Yes Glas cannon does more damage but not if you are dead or constantly having to heal
It's quite likely a very high performance skill build. Yes, if you can use it correctly, you can get through, however, there's zero survivability. Hybrids aren't as damaging but there's got to be a balance of both. I'd like to see you complete the last room of any legendary, solo, with this build. All except the cheese of Capitol Building where you'd get away with ducking behind the desks. My hybrid of 60% skill efficiency and 75k regen with skill damage as every minor does. It really depends on a players gameplay quality to use this build to the end of legendary missions. Like I said, sure, great damage but respectfully I can't see many being able to solo and complete legendary missions with it 🤨
This is the most effective build to solo legendary missions with. My first ever solo legendary was using a build like this. This is a cover based shooter so there is always cover. The build you speak of will take a long time to complete a mission and wont help a team at all. You can throw a skill and it will complete the mission for you. This build is top 2 in the game without a doubt. This is in my opinion broken strong and its easy to use as you dont need survivability as you will kill everything so fast.
@@PatrickWolfChannel I use similar build using 3 empress and memento and 2 brazos but its outdated, ill give this build a try as i play solo and striker is a braindead build seen everywhere, good video patrick
I can clear Zoo, solo with my hybrid build in under an hour, bro. It's damn good. I use in sync M1A with Scorpio for any CQC situations. I'm not doubting what this build is for. I'm talking only about completions with a build. Even in a group, my hybrid is very useful. 60% skill efficiency shouldn't be slept on. With the regen, I can get up close and involved, which helps speed things up and carry plenty of damage. Can you solo complete a mission with your set up?
@@PatrickWolfChannel This build definitely has the most possible damage possible for a drone/turret built but ...I tend to run solo legendary with a skill build that has 1.3 mil armour, 10% armour on kill, 1 armour regen and the turret still hits for 230+K, drone for 115+k and capacitator for 330K. I've collected my grosseriestore food delivery mid legendary mission without dying before I got back. It's slower for sure but very noob friendly which is exactly what someone like me needs be all relaxed.
I take your point. He does specify that you need to adapt it to your situation. In my case, for example, end of invaded tidal basin I opt more for a tank/dps build while I work my way around taking out those lasers. I’m going to try this build there and see how it goes, I think it would be tricky and require impeccable timing.
I've been using the same build for a long time, only Fenris instead of Ceska, I'll try this. I also use a 6 skill tear Strike, Ninja backpack, 2 Brazos, chest with Obliterate and yellow core Picaro's and Capacitor. Striker + 50% mag size + Capacitor = Freakin' Sweet! Yellow Core on Picaro's = Weapons Damage only Capacitor can benefit from.
After testing this in a random group it out damaged a striker build by around 60 million in a legendary mission for many reasons. I hit around 1,4 million damage a second without even shooting my gun
@@PatrickWolfChannel I have 1 open slot for this build on my second character. But now I'm gonna watch the fide chess olympiad to see how RSA will do. Excited. Will give you feedback.
Thanks for the video, the only thing I would add is that at some point in the video you actually do a piece by piece scan of the actual gear . Other wise it's hard to follow what pieces you have where... Thanks!
@@PatrickWolfChannel Thx for the reply, I mean that when you talk about the gear and jump around it's hard to follow what pieces you have in what slot. Maybe towards the end of the vid or the middle or start, you go by one piece at a time, one after the other "chest: we have X, gloves we have: y" etc...like a summary of the pieces and slots with talents etc. would make it easier to put it together.
@@Asagtr that’s how I normally do it but in this case this is a slightly adjusted build to what I have already posted in the description. Just skill damage and crit chance on everything. Also I do show the full view of the build so it should be reasonably easy to follow. But yes most people don’t watch the full vid and want a quick fire.
@@PatrickWolfChannel coyt mask,spotter on wyvn with crit dam Chance and skill damage. Damage to targets out of cover. On the harmony and you and mechanical animal with future perfect with damage out of cover or you can use the capacitor with damage to targets out of cover but you won't be able to to use laser pointer.
It's yours yes, but the changes since S3 for sure are minor - not your fault of course just sad how bad the support for the game turned out... Hopefully by the time we have grandchildren we'll have a proper DIV game
@@PatrickWolfChannel it’s almost like the gear I use but I use overwatch on the chest and setup on the backpack and laser pointer on shotgun like glue and ammo dump instead of waveform. Btsu gloves and artificer hive on my assault turret. Artificer hive buff the damage on turret and it last longer. Like glue and Scorpio both shotguns. Makes legendaries hella easy.
@@PatrickWolfChannel Well I have completed legendary missions several times solo my friend and with Glass cannon I doubt i would get trough the first phase.
Its funny, as a Raidspeedrunner i have zero use for this build, but casual players would love this build. We need more inventory space. I have two characters with only raid special builds.
@@MirrorofSociety-t3q i would never use this build in a raid my man this ain’t a raid build 😂regardless the raids are easy now due to us having more damage.
@PatrickWolfChannel sometimes, we run skill builds as fun in the raids. But a few weeks ago, we made the first under 10 min DH run with one shot boomer and Razorback. God, that's an awesome feeling.
The artificer isn't just about repairing skills, that is a big benefit. The bigger benefit is the increased damage output in the form of skill damage from the added skill tiers. This leads to a lot of confusion where players don't understand what the artificer actually does. I agree the drone is a great distractor and the turret targeting bug is so annoying. With a build like this if you aren't fighting from cover then the drone is needed otherwise use the artificer with turret is amazing.
@@failcakes I use the hive often it’s great with a damage skill. I usually always use it in a chem launcher oxidizer build.
Now if Massive would make the green healing hive only heal players and stop wasting charges healing skills.
@@syn80 That happened to me yesterday in a mission lol. Facts.
I personally run 3 piece Empress 2 piece Brazos one being picaros and memento backpack and It makes you have 6 skill tiers and 5 weapons cores and 1 armor core at max stacks Everything rolled for Skill dmg and crit chance tell you get to 45% then put everything else into crit dmg
@@rybr3ad that’s a good build also!
That is more of a hybrid skill build then 🤓
I run the same setup
Try this with a lvl 26 sniper 😎. One - two shots… crack Chungas armor in three shots 😎
My favorite pve build! Ive been using the OG build of yours since then... without a doubt my go to build when struggling with something in legendary mode.
Love to see another Ridgeways Build been studying your Work Wolf Cheers Mate
Patrick thanks for an awesome build and all your efforts and time to investigate, trying to make amazing builds and this build by far is one of my many favorites from you. Appreciate it big time...thanks
Ninja bag, 2 empress, 1 Picaro rolled to skill, 1 HB, and 1 Fenris/Cescka/Contractors....with Technician. 6 Skill tiers, 4 Red and two blue. I use this with pestilence. Send out the drone and turret and just sit back and spread plague. Switch to Test subject to crank up the skill dmg.
I find the Scorpio to be a bigger help with my build so I use the Test Subject as my primary and Scorpio as secondary. Using Glass Cannon and Perfect Combined Arms. 1 red core, 5 Yellow, +1 from Technician. My Turret & Drone level 26.
I'm still using your drone and turret build from 4-5 years ago.
Me too bro, it's so much fun
Same here. That old skill build is tried and true! Excited to give this new one a try though too
I appreciate all your research and testing!! Agree with Bikerbloke though I’m a visual learner so I have to see it piece by piece to totally get and understand it
Awesome build bro I'm a huge fan of skill builds a solo build that hits very hard.👍👌 I love using glass Canon I like living on the edge lol 😅 but glass Canon gives you a lot of damage most players are afraid of it though keep up the great work my friend!!👍👌✌️👏👏🤙🤙💯💯💪
I am going to go give this a whirl. Keep it up Patrick 🎉🎉🎉
My skill build, is 3 pieces of Empress, (mask, chest and gloves) Murakami knee pads, and Hana U pack. Instead of crits I run blues either regen or armour on kill. Works on legendary non issues
Many build creators insist on proposing, for technical builds with turret and drone, some pieces that are apparently strong but definitely inferior to others because of their characteristics and typical features of the technical build with drone and turret. First among them, the weapon: it is very popular to propose the Capacitor as the primary weapon but this weapon forces you, in order to have significant damage, to constantly come out of cover and shoot. But this build is specifically made to stay in cover a lot, so proposing this weapon is nonsense! The best weapon, in my opinion, is the GR9 machine gun (or an assault rifle) with “Synchronized” talent. This way no one is forced to be constantly out of cover. You can only fire a few rounds for the turret and drone to increase their damage accordingly. Second piece, in my opinion wrong to propose, is the backpack with “Combined Forces.” In most of the builds I have seen it is the proposed backpack. But again, first of all, the 25 percent you get of more damage is for three or four seconds and, more importantly, it forces you, again, to shoot all the time because three or four seconds of damage increase is not much help. The best talent for this build is “Technical Support” which gives you 25 percent more total damage for skill kills and this 25 percent lasts for 25 seconds!!! So you basically have it all the time, continuously!! Alternatively, an excellent choice that also offers more survivability (though with less damage) is the "Memento" backpack, which increases over time both the damage of skills as well as their efficiency and defense as well as attack, as well as providing constant recovery in terms of armor. Third and last piece, is the armor: the one that is often offered is the armor with the “Glass Cannon” talent. Sure, this talent dramatically increases the damage done but it still increases the damage taken even more!!! But this is still more nonsense in relation to what I was saying earlier, which is that to do damage you have to be out of cover. So, in my opinion, the best armor talent in this build is “Kinetic Momentum” which gives you a 1% increase in damage and 2% increase in skill repair. But it doesn't make you die receiving a few hits!
I have field tested all these variants and the tests show that this build is the best in terms of damage and survivability. Of course, under the same circumstances (same outpost or mission, same directives, same difficulty).
I‘m using something similar, skill damage/ chc. Using the memento for the wave form . Remember , the memento gives you 30% skill efficiency, one red and one blue core also armor regen.combined arms and glass cannnon is quite tricky in my opinion. One always has to keep shooting but you can get one shootet any second especially legendary. Just to say you have to do nothing and just let the skills work is not going to cut it. Remember you also need to build/ keep your 40 stacks for your AR. Yes Glas cannon does more damage but not if you are dead or constantly having to heal
It's quite likely a very high performance skill build. Yes, if you can use it correctly, you can get through, however, there's zero survivability.
Hybrids aren't as damaging but there's got to be a balance of both. I'd like to see you complete the last room of any legendary, solo, with this build. All except the cheese of Capitol Building where you'd get away with ducking behind the desks. My hybrid of 60% skill efficiency and 75k regen with skill damage as every minor does.
It really depends on a players gameplay quality to use this build to the end of legendary missions.
Like I said, sure, great damage but respectfully I can't see many being able to solo and complete legendary missions with it 🤨
This is the most effective build to solo legendary missions with. My first ever solo legendary was using a build like this. This is a cover based shooter so there is always cover. The build you speak of will take a long time to complete a mission and wont help a team at all. You can throw a skill and it will complete the mission for you. This build is top 2 in the game without a doubt. This is in my opinion broken strong and its easy to use as you dont need survivability as you will kill everything so fast.
@@PatrickWolfChannel I use similar build using 3 empress and memento and 2 brazos but its outdated, ill give this build a try as i play solo and striker is a braindead build seen everywhere, good video patrick
I can clear Zoo, solo with my hybrid build in under an hour, bro. It's damn good. I use in sync M1A with Scorpio for any CQC situations.
I'm not doubting what this build is for. I'm talking only about completions with a build.
Even in a group, my hybrid is very useful. 60% skill efficiency shouldn't be slept on. With the regen, I can get up close and involved, which helps speed things up and carry plenty of damage.
Can you solo complete a mission with your set up?
@@PatrickWolfChannel This build definitely has the most possible damage possible for a drone/turret built but ...I tend to run solo legendary with a skill build that has 1.3 mil armour, 10% armour on kill, 1 armour regen and the turret still hits for 230+K, drone for 115+k and capacitator for 330K. I've collected my grosseriestore food delivery mid legendary mission without dying before I got back. It's slower for sure but very noob friendly which is exactly what someone like me needs be all relaxed.
I take your point. He does specify that you need to adapt it to your situation.
In my case, for example, end of invaded tidal basin I opt more for a tank/dps build while I work my way around taking out those lasers.
I’m going to try this build there and see how it goes, I think it would be tricky and require impeccable timing.
I've had the exact build for months, love it
I've been using the same build for a long time, only Fenris instead of Ceska, I'll try this. I also use a 6 skill tear Strike, Ninja backpack, 2 Brazos, chest with Obliterate and yellow core Picaro's and Capacitor.
Striker + 50% mag size + Capacitor = Freakin' Sweet!
Yellow Core on Picaro's = Weapons Damage only Capacitor can benefit from.
That sounds like a sick build man!
Spike is a good talent on the secondary weapon then switch to Capacitor
Thanks Patrick, I've been using your OG Empress build for years. If I was a pimp that build would be my bottom bit-h.
Lekker man. Like your mix breed setup kwaai. Not sure about beating striker though.
After testing this in a random group it out damaged a striker build by around 60 million in a legendary mission for many reasons. I hit around 1,4 million damage a second without even shooting my gun
@@PatrickWolfChannel I have 1 open slot for this build on my second character. But now I'm gonna watch the fide chess olympiad to see how RSA will do. Excited. Will give you feedback.
Nice build!
Thanks for the video, the only thing I would add is that at some point in the video you actually do a piece by piece scan of the actual gear . Other wise it's hard to follow what pieces you have where...
Thanks!
What do you mean?
@@PatrickWolfChannel
Thx for the reply, I mean that when you talk about the gear and jump around it's hard to follow what pieces you have in what slot.
Maybe towards the end of the vid or the middle or start, you go by one piece at a time, one after the other "chest: we have X, gloves we have: y" etc...like a summary of the pieces and slots with talents etc. would make it easier to put it together.
@@Asagtr that’s how I normally do it but in this case this is a slightly adjusted build to what I have already posted in the description. Just skill damage and crit chance on everything. Also I do show the full view of the build so it should be reasonably easy to follow. But yes most people don’t watch the full vid and want a quick fire.
@@PatrickWolfChannel great vid and build in any case. Thanks for your time and effort
@@Asagtr appreciate you man will look into your feedback!
I feel like the problem for this kind of build is CQC especially rusher type enemy.
The weapon takes them out fast enough. Especially if you focus your skills on them.
Mhm my favorite way to play in a relaxed way, glass cannon along with 726K armour.
nice !
please slow down and go through the build systematically bit by bit instead of jumping all over the place
And what does systematically mean?
@@PatrickWolfChannel
As a veteran of the game I appreciate you moving through the build fast. Thanks wolf and thanks for supporting the game.
Please right a polite and adult response instead of complaining and not elaborating.
Lol, that was too fast for you? Must be a 2nd wave agent.
There's a play and pause, rewind. Put on closed captions if you need. I followed just fine
I think you have great builds but I can never see them through and through
Coyt mask, and harmony and spotter with combined arms with
Sounds weak tbh
@@PatrickWolfChannel coyt mask,spotter on wyvn with crit dam Chance and skill damage. Damage to targets out of cover. On the harmony and you and mechanical animal with future perfect with damage out of cover or you can use the capacitor with damage to targets out of cover but you won't be able to to use laser pointer.
Insync or perfect insincere on weapons work to
What is the base damage on your turrent and drone ?
Lots of damage but not much armor. I run 3 steelworks, 2 hana u, and waveform
Wait people actually get kicked for using kinetic energy? I use it for my sticky builds not once have I ever been kicked for it. Lol
What outfit you wearing?
it's the same build since season 2 - i have it in my loadout and i didnt play the game for more than a year
I am the one who created that build. This is an updated version.
It's yours yes, but the changes since S3 for sure are minor - not your fault of course just sad how bad the support for the game turned out... Hopefully by the time we have grandchildren we'll have a proper DIV game
@@elad2112 Dont get your hopes up however, I have seen leaks of the game if they are true get ready for big changes.
Will overwatch work? Instead of glass cannon?
Obliterate would be probably the next best skill or even the best skill instead of glass canon. You just have to remember to shoot every few seconds.
@@edwardburris1453 overwatch can work but it’s not the strongest talent especially in the current patch.
@@PatrickWolfChannel it’s almost like the gear I use but I use overwatch on the chest and setup on the backpack and laser pointer on shotgun like glue and ammo dump instead of waveform. Btsu gloves and artificer hive on my assault turret. Artificer hive buff the damage on turret and it last longer. Like glue and Scorpio both shotguns. Makes legendaries hella easy.
Glass Cannon solo with no Armour regen ? I dont think so.
Yeah if you have regen with G.C you are making a mistake my friend.
Get better
@@PatrickWolfChannel Well I have completed legendary missions several times solo my friend and with Glass cannon I doubt i would get trough the first phase.
@@andygreener3130 All ready have on most of my skill builds.
@@swany001 use kinetic momentum with the healing drone if you need survivability. That is a better and more effective way to do it.
Skill builds suck ass end of story
Its funny, as a Raidspeedrunner i have zero use for this build, but casual players would love this build. We need more inventory space. I have two characters with only raid special builds.
@@MirrorofSociety-t3q i would never use this build in a raid my man this ain’t a raid build 😂regardless the raids are easy now due to us having more damage.
@PatrickWolfChannel sometimes, we run skill builds as fun in the raids. But a few weeks ago, we made the first under 10 min DH run with one shot boomer and Razorback. God, that's an awesome feeling.
@@MirrorofSociety-t3q have you tried to solo dark hours or 4 man the new raid? That’s a good challenge.
@PatrickWolfChannel DH on normal with 8 agents. Incursion with 4 agents. I got the Oro with 3 Chars, got my 4th char this week.