Balanced Ice Spear Drillboi

by Antisyzygy on 07/02/2022

Salutes 3

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 Spear

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

Loadout Guide

This is my standard EDD build, for when I know the EDD is going to be difficult.

The freezing power suffers a little, however, cold radiance helps freeze grunt swarms faster in the range you'll be engaging them in anyway. It does, however, trade that for high ammo sustain. You need the extra ammo anyway for the ice spear to make sense.

I use the ice spear OC to give myself an extra long range attack. Use it on breeders, wardens, spitballers, menaces, etc.

Use the fully auto subata against frozen praetorians or oppressors. You can also use impact axes if you take them, however, it's not strictly necessary with this build. Sometimes I'll take neurotoxin grenades since we have the ice spear + fully auto subata to take advantage of frozen damage bonuses.

The subata is IMO the best sidearm in general for cryo builds. I use the full auto OC so I can quickly shred frozen praetorians or a frozen group of grunts. Also, you don't get carpal tunnel in your finger.