Some possible questions that you guys may ask regarding my Massacre build Why am I running Sharp precision shot on python instead of Mental Focus? Mental focus only affects the firearm damage portion of Massacre and does not affect the Massacre damage portion. Thus, it is better overall to run Sharp precision shot as the fire rate can buff both the firearm and Massacre damage portion of the ability. I've taken a screenshot which shows the Massacre damage portion being constant even at 150 MF stacks, you can view it here: imgur.com/a/bme3c0s If you plan to run SPS on python, try to go for a 10 second 3rd ability Massacre setup so that you can utilize more of the SPS buff since the buff disappears everytime you recast your 3rd ability. Why am I going the annihilation set instead of slayer for the Massacre build? I am running a higher duration Massacre build of 10 seconds on my 3rd ability and the annihilation set is better suited for this. Going for a higher duration Massacre build is like having a larger magazine size but lower damage per bullet when compared to running a lower duration Massacre build with slayer set. Going lower duration and running slayer set would make your Massacre damage have more burst damage when compared. In longer fights, it might be better to run the longer duration build as you spend lesser time in the cast animation of your 3rd ability which would allow you to dish out more damage. Both high and low duration Massacre builds have their own niche aspects and you can experiment around on which one you find more comfortable with.
I can tell just by glancing a at your build and the fact that you said defense is useless.....That your Gley Firearm build isn't that good. Walk the tight rope, 4 piece annihilation with dmg reduction mod and defense. I barely get damaged, my hp pool is massive and I don't need to worry about falling below 50% hp. But when I do....The bullets hit really hard! Your comment on the Frenzy mod is correct as it only procs from Auto guns. So you do have a few good pointers. Nothing new. Gley's no MP or Shields is her strength as it allows you to focus on the good stuff. Resistance is important yes, but you are just replacing one defense for another. Why not have both? I know I prefer both.
My bad for making a point on saying that defense is useless. The reason why I did’nt opt for a defense mod is because I only ever use Infinite Ammo Gley in colossus and most of the time the ranged attacks that colossus bosses hit you with are considered elemental attacks. This means that defense will provide no value in reducing the damage done by these attacks since they mitigate off resistances instead. Defense is generally more useful against the mobs spawned by the boss but provide no value against the ranged elemental attacks by the colossus. You can try building 40-50k defense but you can still die in 1-2 hits to something like Gluttony’s ranged attacks. In a scenario where you are using the infinite ammo build for mobbing (eg, gley rocket spam), or facetanking the physical groundslam attacks from colossus, defense is the better option for sure since these attacks you receive mostly do physical damage that can be mitigated via DEF. As for why I don’t run 4P annihilation and walk a tightrope, I figured that it might be better to run 4x HP external components for the infinite ammo build with shot focus where you have constant uptime of +15% firearm atk compared to walk a tight rope & 4P annihilation set’s 50% HP in public squads for harder bosses like Gluttony is more comfortable. If lets say I were to run 4P annihilation, it would greatly reduce the EHP (Effective Hitpoints) that I have in the build due to how the annihilation set only has 2 pieces that offer HP. If you do watch tfd theory crafters/tfd math tubers you would see that building HP is way better compared to building defense. Eg, 10k HP 40k defense can only take 8 hits from X attack BUT 20k HP 5k defense can take 10 hits from the same X attack Lastly for my build, if you want to run a max rank defense mod with dmg reduction, it is possible as well. You can just switch out shot focus and the elemental resist mods. I prefer running elemental resist compared to defense due to my point on how most colossus ranged attacks are elemental.
when did you last play zazoreal? just a couple seconds reading your comment tells me you have no idea what you talking about. defense is useless and hp is superior. my external components are all hp and no def stats. i take more hits compared to def components.
Some possible questions that you guys may ask regarding my Massacre build
Why am I running Sharp precision shot on python instead of Mental Focus?
Mental focus only affects the firearm damage portion of Massacre and does not affect the Massacre damage portion. Thus, it is better overall to run Sharp precision shot as the fire rate can buff both the firearm and Massacre damage portion of the ability. I've taken a screenshot which shows the Massacre damage portion being constant even at 150 MF stacks, you can view it here: imgur.com/a/bme3c0s
If you plan to run SPS on python, try to go for a 10 second 3rd ability Massacre setup so that you can utilize more of the SPS buff since the buff disappears everytime you recast your 3rd ability.
Why am I going the annihilation set instead of slayer for the Massacre build?
I am running a higher duration Massacre build of 10 seconds on my 3rd ability and the annihilation set is better suited for this. Going for a higher duration Massacre build is like having a larger magazine size but lower damage per bullet when compared to running a lower duration Massacre build with slayer set. Going lower duration and running slayer set would make your Massacre damage have more burst damage when compared. In longer fights, it might be better to run the longer duration build as you spend lesser time in the cast animation of your 3rd ability which would allow you to dish out more damage.
Both high and low duration Massacre builds have their own niche aspects and you can experiment around on which one you find more comfortable with.
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does the massacre take basic stats of the weapon or including mods on the weapon as well?
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I can tell just by glancing a at your build and the fact that you said defense is useless.....That your Gley Firearm build isn't that good. Walk the tight rope, 4 piece annihilation with dmg reduction mod and defense. I barely get damaged, my hp pool is massive and I don't need to worry about falling below 50% hp. But when I do....The bullets hit really hard! Your comment on the Frenzy mod is correct as it only procs from Auto guns. So you do have a few good pointers. Nothing new. Gley's no MP or Shields is her strength as it allows you to focus on the good stuff. Resistance is important yes, but you are just replacing one defense for another. Why not have both? I know I prefer both.
My bad for making a point on saying that defense is useless. The reason why I did’nt opt for a defense mod is because I only ever use Infinite Ammo Gley in colossus and most of the time the ranged attacks that colossus bosses hit you with are considered elemental attacks. This means that defense will provide no value in reducing the damage done by these attacks since they mitigate off resistances instead.
Defense is generally more useful against the mobs spawned by the boss but provide no value against the ranged elemental attacks by the colossus. You can try building 40-50k defense but you can still die in 1-2 hits to something like Gluttony’s ranged attacks.
In a scenario where you are using the infinite ammo build for mobbing (eg, gley rocket spam), or facetanking the physical groundslam attacks from colossus, defense is the better option for sure since these attacks you receive mostly do physical damage that can be mitigated via DEF.
As for why I don’t run 4P annihilation and walk a tightrope, I figured that it might be better to run 4x HP external components for the infinite ammo build with shot focus where you have constant uptime of +15% firearm atk compared to walk a tight rope & 4P annihilation set’s 50% HP in public squads for harder bosses like Gluttony is more comfortable.
If lets say I were to run 4P annihilation, it would greatly reduce the EHP (Effective Hitpoints) that I have in the build due to how the annihilation set only has 2 pieces that offer HP. If you do watch tfd theory crafters/tfd math tubers you would see that building HP is way better compared to building defense.
Eg, 10k HP 40k defense can only take 8 hits from X attack
BUT
20k HP 5k defense can take 10 hits from the same X attack
Lastly for my build, if you want to run a max rank defense mod with dmg reduction, it is possible as well. You can just switch out shot focus and the elemental resist mods.
I prefer running elemental resist compared to defense due to my point on how most colossus ranged attacks are elemental.
Can you share build ty.
when did you last play zazoreal? just a couple seconds reading your comment tells me you have no idea what you talking about. defense is useless and hp is superior. my external components are all hp and no def stats. i take more hits compared to def components.
I wish I understood this stuff like you all do. 😢
Defense is useless