the boomsticks tier 4c option isn't trash, but it does get overshadowed by AB and plus 3 pen. this is something that may be valued being paired with jumbo shells for beefy things. burst for the gk2 is super underwhelming. the devs should have given it either plus 1 pen, or a 6 second stun duration (instead of % chance, which it doesn't need).
FYI, this overclocks allows dreadnoughts to be ignited, so imagine how much damage we did on a elimination mission with a volatile bullet gunner and a flamethrower driller on my side
Also, I believe you pondered if the Conductive Thermals status effect proc'd Bullets of Mercy. I just did some sandbox testing & it does indeed proc the extra damage from bullets of mercy. Not super valuable, but could be a cool interaction for a full scout mission meme.
I have also switched to tier 1A since posting my original comment, so you made the right choice lol. Glad you enjoyed the build, I'm happy to spread the word on how insane this overclock is. An explanation of why this is so absurd: each stack of conductive thermals adds 5% vulnerability to fire/shock/electric. Plasma splash adds a second stack, so you get +10% damage on direct hits and +5% if you hit heavy armor. This effect used to stack up to 100% extra damage, which at 16 shots per second you could reach in 0.6 seconds. Then a patch happened and _now it stacks up to infinity._ The only limit is that after 10 seconds the stacks decay as fast as they were applied, but the drak shoots so fast that it doesn't really matter. You just shoot something for two seconds, it now takes 4x fire/ice damage, and now it's dead or frozen or both. Plasma splash also does 50% fire damage, so drak actually does scale with itself (which is probably why they gave it the damage nerf). Also not only can you one-shot a bulk detonator with volatile bullets, you can one-shot a dreadnought, skipping its phases entirely and killing it so fast it's probably illegal. When people inevitably post clips of that and ghost ship notices, I just hope they don't nerf it too hard because my god it's so fun.
Some other notes about the overclock: 1. Its effect is additive with existing resistances/weaknesses. This means that all the extra fire damage isn't doubled by mactera fire weakness, but it also means it won't be cut by a third against oppressor fire resistance. Whatever extra damage you do thanks to thermals, it'll be the same extra damage no matter the target. 2. The infinite scaling came about from them patching a different bug, where the debuff wouldn't get refreshed from reapplying it. It used to have this thing where you can apply the debuff, wait 8-9 seconds, apply it again and it instantly runs out because it's been 10 seconds since the first instance of it. This change was the only one I could find, and it was mentioned in a bug tracker rather than any patch notes. _Probably_ means it's unintentional, since I imagine if they had given it the biggest buff in the history of the game on purpose, they would've written about it. It's also especially funny because the overclock has a second independent debuff that lowers burning/freezing thresholds. This debuff is still capped (at 30 stacks), and I'm 90% sure it still has the same bug where it runs out after 10 seconds no matter what and can't be refreshed. Not that it matters, since you'd get back to max stacks in under a second anyway.
@@agentoranj5858 I don't particularly mind them. Honestly I only hate it on hiveguard just cause that one has so many phases already, and sometimes the first one lasts forever for no reason. Plus it wouldn't be nearly as satisfying to skip those phases if they didn't exist.
You should absolutely try this OC with the Crossbow using 3, 3, 1, 1, 1 with either Fire Bolts (for solo) or The Specialist (for multiplayer) & IFGs. The DoT gets way out of hand. It absolutely destroys Bulks & Dreads. The shotgun is more immediate but watching the DoT chunk a Dread is still very satisfying
You like chicken? I can recommend buying some salt and pepper seasoning from your nearest Asian food shop, and I can also recommend soaking chicken in buttermilk then applying seasoning and dredging it twice before frying. Seasoning it after the buttermilk soak avoids wasting any spices when you discard the excess buttermilk, and double-dredging ensures a thick crispy coating which protects the spices from burning when the chicken is fried.
Something my mother taught me was soak chicken in pickle juice. There's already a decent number of spices in there, like mustard, vinegar, and onions in the jars I use. I've liked it every time I've had it. I cut mine into strips and that requires cutting the meat before soaking, but that's easy to do.
So the temp effect is that first it removes any super temp resistance (those with 1000 ignite temp), then roughly halves that at max stack. This is how you can ignite bulks and dreads so easily The second part boosts elemental damage, and for some reason it doesn't have a cap. However many stacks you can get in 10 seconds, it'll keep going. My problem with CT is that to get max stacks, your lose your ability to do any WP damage, and basically have to rely on your secondary as your primary damage dealer. I found a graph that estimates pcf vs plasma splash damage, and against x2 and x3 wps, there's a slight edge in total damage for pcf, which is annoying when the damage is so low. Also, CT only gets strong when you can get those stacks, which is basically pointless to reach on lower hp targets. It's very inflexible.
Running plasma splash does slightly help against low hp targets though, since having any form of splash damage will make dealing with crowds at least a little less painful than it would be otherwise. Though you are right about how inflexible it is, you basically have no option other than running fire boomstick with this. You can't afford to not take advantage of the debuff, and not having weakpoint damage means no frozen damage either (drak goes from 6 to 8 damage against frozen targets lol). So any kinetic damage secondary is out and you get little out of cryo minlets or cryo bolts, so all that leaves is taser bolts. That does do insane damage, but having to switch bolts, fire two or three of them and then wait for the DoT was just too slow to keep up outside of dreadnought fights.
@@squiddler7731 I've found _some_ success with fire/taser bolts, but I'm not sure how much of that is just fire bolts being insanely good at crowd clear.
@@SnowingFate If said target has enough HP to get the break over point, sure, but I believe Grunts are below that. Also, if t4a procs, you can basic ignore them as they DoT to death. In a team this is less of a problem, but in solo, or just running off to do an objective, it feels like a squirt gun.
Might be worth noting that splash also benefits from conductive thermals, it's still fire damage and I've noticed it can ramp up to 10 points, atleast when i used a damage numbers mod anyway.
