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by Skull_Mush on 16/12/2022

"Stubby" Voltaic SMG
EM Refire Booster
Deepcore 40MM PGL
RJ250 Compound
LMG Gun Platform
S.S.G
Loadout Guide
Stubby Voltaic SMG
my new go-to primary for RJ engi.
- Tiers 1, 2, & 3: Damage & Hollow Points. EM Refire booster gives +2 electric DIRECT damage, which benefits from weakpoints and hollow points. Thus, it can hit 39 weakpoint damage (3-bullet grunt faceshot breakpoint). Even without RoF, it can kill 5 grunts / sec (same as 5 RoF cycle overload).
- Tier 2: Mag Size. I take this T2 instead of T5, to synergize with electric AoE Procs. It's basically the only node worth taking for a hybrid setup, since 15 damage breakpoint wants 3-shot bursts and recoil seems to scale off of how long you hold down the trigger. Max RoF is a wonderful buzzsaw, but electricity procs and ammo management both like mag size better on this tier.
- Tier 5: Electric AoE. This node surprisingly doesn't scale all that well with electicity procs. It's 25% when proccing or renewing an electric DoT, which is base 25%. 25% of 25% is 7% and some change per bullet (as opposed to 25% of 50% which is 12.5%--not that much better). 7% chance is really unreliable when killing 1-2 stray grunts (which will die too quickly for it to matter anyway), but surprisingly reliable when dealing with a large group of them. Electricity procs are also pretty reliable with the increased RoF from EM Refire OC. So, when you want to apply a slow to a group of grunts that surprise jump in your face, a mag dump will do the job (40 round mag is more reliable than 30, 2-3 procs). Slow them, then pop em with Fire PGl and move on with your life.
RJ 250 PGL
nothing to see here, carry on
Grenade: SSG
evens the playing field vs. Jellies between other primaries and Lok-1. on-demand AFK DPS in a circular AoE, that follows you around. forgot where I was going with this, but they're super good.