Ice Storm Driller

by Anonymous on 2022-12-29

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Cryo Cannon

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x0.33 Pressure Drop Rate
-0.4 sec Chargeup Time
+1 Cold per Particle
+75 Tank Size
+5m Cold Stream Reach
-1 sec Repressurization Delay
x1.75 Pressure Gain Rate
+1.6 Flow Rate
+3 Damage per Particle
+1 Cold per Particle
+150 Tank Size
When a particle from Cryo Cannon damages a Frozen enemy and brings its health below 100 "true" hp, it has a (1 - hp/100) probability to deal the remaining hp as Kinetic Damage.
Cool down enemies within 4m of you at a rate of 60 Cold/sec. This stacks with the direct stream and Ice Path's cold sources as well.
Ice Storm

Subata 120

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x0 Base Spread
+4 Magazine Size
+48 Max Ammo
+3 Direct Damage
-33% Spread per Shot, x0.5 Recoil
Changes the Subata to fire in bursts of 2 bullets at 20 RoF during the burst. If both bullets hit an enemy, the second bullet gets +350% Armor Breaking. Additionally, -0.25 Mass and -4 Rate of Fire.
-0.6 Reload Time
+75% Weakpoint Bonus
+3 Direct Damage
+48 Max Ammo
+50% Direct Damage dealt to Burning enemies. Bonus damage is Fire element and adds the same amount of Heat, extending the Burn duration.
+1 Blowthrough
Shooting an enemy that is afflicted with Corrosion, Sludge Puddle, or Neurotoxin will apply 2 Status Effects. The first one lasts 5 seconds, and each bullet that hits will increase the DPS by +3.2, up to a maximum of 30 stacks (96 DPS). After its duration expires, you must apply a new instance and start stacking it again. The second Status Effect lasts 4.5 seconds, and its duration can be refreshed. If an enemy dies while the second one is active, then they will explode and damage nearby enemies proportional to the number of active stacks of the first effect. The explosion does (60 + 20*stacks) Typeless Damage, and the radius is (0.5 + SqRt[stacks]) meters.
Automatic Fire

Reinforced Power Drills

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Satchel Charge

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Heavy Drill Suit

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Impact Axe
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Loadout Guide

Ice Storm is good for one thing, or one mission type - Elimination. It takes away Cryo Cannon's biggest strength - freezing power, and replaces it with direct damage.

Cryo Cannon struggles with ammo as it is, and this OC takes away another 75, so you'll have to be smart about ammo consumption. With this build you should try and conserve ammo, letting your team/Bosco deal with trash mobs, or using your sidearm, and save your Cryo Cannon ammo for Dreadnoughts. The damage you'll deal will be considerable, and probably the most Driller can do to a Dreadnought with any of his main weapon builds. If you ever feels useless on Eliminations as Driller, this will be right up your alley.

This build ignores all freezing power mods because that's not what you're gonna be doing with this one. But if you find yourself needing at least some, take Cold Radiance in T5 instead.

Automatic Fire Subata is a great choice for a secondary here, allowing for quick burst damage up close, also serving as a back-up DPS source in case you bottom out the pressure meter on the Cryo Cannon.