Engineer's "What Are You Doing In My Breach?!" Build

by Guardian_Angel on 30/11/2023

Salutes 4

"Warthog" Auto 210

"Warthog" Auto 210 icon
+1 Rate of Fire
+2 Magazine Size
+42 Max Ammo
+2 Pellets per Shot
x0.5 Base Spread
x0.4 Recoil
-0.5 Reload Time
+2 Magazine Size
+400% Armor Breaking
+1 Damage per Pellet
Shoot a Turret with the Shotgun to consume 5 turret ammo and fire a projectile in the direction currently being aimed at by the turret, with a 3 second cooldown between projectiles. Each projectile travels at 75 m/sec, does 160 Explosive element Area Damage in a 2m radius, has a 100% chance to stun for 1.5 seconds, inflicts 1.0 Fear, does 50% Friendly Fire damage, and has 200% Armor Breaking.
Changes the Shotgun from semi-automatic to fully automatic, +0.5 Rate of Fire
Light-Weight Magazines

Breach Cutter

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+1.5 Projectile Lifetime
+3 Magazine Size
+6 Max Ammo
+175 Beam DPS
+3m Plasma Beam Width
-0.2 Plasma Expansion Delay
-0.6 Reload Time
+200% Armor Breaking
+100% Stun Chance, 3 sec Stun duration
After firing a line and a 0.4 second delay, the player can press the fire button again to manually detonate the line dealing 40 Explosive element Area Damage in a 3.5m radius and leaving behind a 3.25m radius sphere of Persistent Plasma that does an average of 35.56 Fire Damage per second and slows enemies by 20% for 4.6 seconds. If the player doesn't detonate it manually, the line explodes at the end of its lifetime.
Leaves behind a Persistent Plasma field that does an average of 20 Fire Damage per second for 4.6 seconds. The Plasma field's width is 2/3 of the beam's width, and extends along the entire length of the beam's path.
Adds a line above and below the primary projectile (multiple lines hitting doesn't increase DPS)
Spinning Death

Platform Gun

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LMG Gun Platform

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Engineering Suit

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Plasma Burster
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Loadout Guide

Do you enjoy having escape cards? How about 10?

Best use cases: defensive swarm removal, emergency crowd-control, stunlocking.

Strong against: trash enemies, praetorians, wardens, nemesis

Serviceable against: macteras, oppressors, bots

Weak against: menaces, stationary enemies, q'ronars, acid spitters

Warthog specifications:

[Why Light-Weight Magazines?]

— This OC offers the golden mean between DPS and versatility. It offers a very healthy amount of total ammo, fast magazine cycling and great damage output.

[Are there alternatives for this OC?]

— Magnetic Pellet Alignment is a good second option, albeit less balanced. Your effective range increases dramatically, but missing the weakpoints hurts much harder, and enemies with destructible weakpoints become slightly harder to deal with it.

[How about Cycle Overload?]

— To my mind, no, that's a bad choice. You're heavily gimping your effective range and magazine cycling speed for mildly higher immediate DPS.

[Is Turret Whip necessary?]

— Quite. Your secondary slot should be used prudently, whilst every other sutiation leaves you with only your shotgun and turret to make do. Combining both of those gives you a great damage output and ensures that you spend your ammo evenly across all your weapons.

Grenade Slot:

— Plasma Bursters are the best choice here. You get 6 very effective explosive grenades, that can immediately remove a huge chunk of a swarm all by themselves, and you get 6. Maximises your swarm-clearing power for dirt cheap.

— S.S.G. is OK too, if you want more single-target damage or are very lazy. Just drop the shredders anywhere and they'll do their thing without no further input.

— L.U.R.E. overlaps with the Breach Cutter in its intended role - being your escape ticket out of iffy situations, and hence is less valuable.

— Proximity Mines are just Plasma Bursters with extra unnecessary steps. Can't be used to immediately shut down swarms, fewer in number, require setup, and are likely to deal a lot of friendly fire without smart placement.