Gas weapon for Saryn?

[-BM-Mitz]

I'm testing the damaging abilities of Spores and I need a weapon to mod for gas to spread and buff the damage.

So far I've tested a Metal Auger Ignis and a Concealed Explosives Hikou. Both do well but I'm not really sure if there are other decent alternatives to try.

[Ivan_Rid]

Gas Lanka should do the job, it might not be very reliable, but redcrit headshot Gas proc makes Spores melt everything.

I also wanted to try Torid for a long time, but there is never enough prebuilt formas.

[RideaTear]

You could try the Torid. It does innate aoe toxin damage so it would easily mod for gas. I haven't used it in a while and never see anyone else use it so I'm not sure how well it stacks up with other choices.

[rawr1254]

Gas Concealed Hikou P. + Gasulor. It's an excellent combo. Hikou for spreading tons of spores then simulor for later in the game. Also when building your gasulor swap out SC for Argon Scope. Split Chamber is a wasted slot for simulor

Edited March 29, 2016 by rawr1254

[Le_lutin_magique]

IMO, metal auger is kind useless. IGNIS has innate 2 meters punchthrough. i think firestrom synergises better with ignis cone multishot and AOE.

[Ivan_Rid]

Oh, and also Arbiters of Hexis Truth effect is a guaranteed 1000 damage Gas proc, might be pretty fun when a couple dozens of spores absorb it.

[PikeOrShield]

Some of the things I use other than the standerd suff are: a gas Vaykor Marelock, a Gas/Electric 100% status Strun Wraith, and a Supra with the Sndicate Mod and Shread

[Danfu]

IGNIS.

[-BM-Mitz]

13 minutes ago, Ivan_Rid said:

Gas Lanka should do the job, it might not be very reliable, but redcrit headshot Gas proc makes Spores melt everything.

I also wanted to try Torid for a long time, but there is never enough prebuilt formas.

Torid's nice but this does sound interesting indeed :D I'll give it a shot, may be fun

[xlraistlx]

I hightly doubt you can make better than a Gas Ignis. It has the AoE, the high status chance, the innate puch through & the base elemental that eliminates the phsysical procs.

[-BM-Mitz]

Tested Lanka and hits like a truck on burst O_O

lvl 135 greneer lancers dropped a few secs after shooting

[Relentless.Zen]

I use always the Torid, when i play saryn..

[Ailith]

The Torid is an extremely slow weapon, in every sense of the word. The projectile is slow, reload time is slow, and dealing damage is slow unless you stack multiple 'grenades' on one target. Personally, I think it's impractical outside of Defense/Mobile Defense missions.

That being said, if you Forma the balls out of it and slap on a Reload Speed mod (maybe Terminal Velocity too), it will apply procs consistently and deal significant amounts of damage.

[cittran]

45 minutes ago, rawr1254 said:

Gas Concealed Hikou P. + Gasulor. It's an excellent combo. Hikou for spreading tons of spores then simulor for later in the game. Also when building your gasulor swap out SC for Argon Scope. Split Chamber is a wasted slot for simulor

 

SC isn't a wasted slot -- that was fixed recently -- and Simulor doesn't autoheadshot like Tonkor used to, so there isn't a huge point in using Argon Scope. On top of that, Simulor isn't really a critbased weapon, as the multiplier is only 2.0x at base. It can be done, sure, but it's not the best use of a weapon's modslots in this case.

As for Hikou P, using concealed explosives on it isn't as smart as you think it is in this case. CE does blast damage.

I'm not saying the weapons can't be modded to work well for saryn, I'm just saying that the specific mods you've listed aren't the best idea.

Edited March 29, 2016 by cittran

[rawr1254]

1 minute ago, cittran said:

 

SC isn't a wasted slot -- that was fixed recently -- and Simulor doesn't autoheadshot like Tonkor used to, so there isn't a huge point. On top of that, Simulor isn't really a critbased weapon, as the multiplier is only 2.0x at base. It can be done, sure, but it's not the best use of a weapon's modslots in this case.

As for Hikou P, using concealed explosives on it isn't as smart as you think it is in this case. CE does blast damage.

I'm not saying the weapons can't be modded to work well for saryn, I'm just saying that the specific mods you've listed aren't the best idea.

You seem to have never used anything you commented on.

[EinRyu]

Acrid? The forgotten one.

[(PSN)dursereg]

Ignis shoots through walls and floors