I’ve recently noticed some melee builds that revolve around heavy slams, I was wondering if you folks can share your experience with them and help me decide whether they are fun and worth investing into them.
I guess the top contenders are Samptones and Sancti Magistar incarnon, but there’s also mention of Fragor and Arca Titron. Any of you got experience with these builds, is it a gimmick or not?
I’ve mostly been using Okina recently and Azothane before that so I want to spice it up a bit with something different for a change. They’d be for general use in any missions, from relic cracking to 1999 bounties, etc.
Heavy Slam builds got a recent massive upgrade with Galvanized Reflex bumping them to at least 5X combo.
Arca Titron is basically Sancti Magistar. Jat Kittag is great too due to Vulcan Blitz. Sibear also has an Influence-less (unless you’re Volt or Frost with their respective augments) slam build which is quite performant. Arca Titron can hit in the millions on armoured foes, so the builds are definitely legit.
Highly recommend trying them with Volt, as he has both attack speed to get out of the slam animation faster (without committing to a roll), Speed cancelling, and the massive damage boost from Shock Trooper.
My one complaint with slam builds is that clicking M3 makes my wrist hurt on long missions.
I haven’t used Arca T. in a long time so I decided to give it a try since it was already upgraded a bit and this shit is just ridiculous in the simulacrum! Basically just galvanized reflex, seismic wave and crit mods, even without any capacitor charges, basically wipe out any battle group in one or two slams!
I bound the heavy attack on a mouse side button so it’s not as bad, but there’s still the drawback that it doesn’t pull the melee weapon out if you’re in mid air like regular E does, you have to swing it once before jumping and then heavy attack.
I swap it to a thumb button on my mouse.
Along with crouch, actually. My little finger kept getting tired so I just made my thumb do it.