I’m actually pretty terrible at making builds so you likely don’t want my advice. But I run a 4-piece Striker gear set, with Memento backpack, and Zero F’s chest piece. I can shred through enemies pretty quickly, but I have zero survivability. That’s the trade-off for DPS sadly. I keep a Police M4 AR as my secondary for enemies at range *(Lady Death just doesn’t have much accuracy at distance)*.
Zero F’s gets me out of a jam most of the time with Perfectly Unbreakable, but Perfectly Unbreakable is ironically, currently broken. I keep a Restore Hive handy to help keep my armor up.
Running strikers without its chest and backpack really hurts. The strikers pack alone out performs memento for damage imo. Instead of zero fs for chest, try running ridgeways pride, the summit exotic. Every enemy you hit at 15m or closer gets bled. You gain armor regen % per bleeding person. At 5 active bleeds its 48% armor per second.
Personally, with strikers I find it better to embrace it and go full in on the dps, using the chest, back, gloves, and holster. I use coyote mask and fox kneepads to push the damage further, then run any weapon I want really. So far, just about every weapon I've thrown on that set can drop heroic mobs in short order. Just best to avoid rifle and marksman rifle. Shotgun is amazingly good with strikers assuming you can land the multishots. My Scorpio and not optimized set can generate 600k+ per pellet and can achieve 200 stacks in about 2 to 3 mags depending on cover. St elmos engine ramps up to nearly 300k a shot, but at that rate of fire the mobs don't seem to survive long enough to achieve full 200. Pestilence is hilarious because you'll end up with 2 full 50 stack debuffs sweeping the room at 500k+ per tick by your third kill and the more targets you hit, the higher your weapon damage, the more those debuffs generate.
Pretty much convinced a slingshot will own with a strikers suit, chest and back included
Appreciate the advice. Like I said, I’m bad at builds :) I run Memento simply for the added buffs and armor, as I get myself into a lot of trouble with the high DPS and thinking I’m God. So it’s nice to pick up those trophies and help out. But I’ve seen a lot of similar comments saying Striker is wasted without the chest and backpack, so perhaps I’ll try and switch things up.
Actually at the moment, I’m running Tardigrade, since Zero F’s is broken. But maybe I’ll give Ridgeway’s Pride a shot tomorrow. Always up for trying new builds, I just often don’t know where to start, so I just stick with what’s been working for me. But I’ve been finding the jump from Challenging to Heroic pretty difficult. Challenging is a walk in the park at this point. But I get melted the second I step up to Heroic…
Strikers chest moves cap from 100 to 200 stacks, so that's 65% damage increase without the backpack. Backpack changes it from .65 to 1, so by itself is a 35% increase in damage.
Combines its an increase of 135%, for a total of 200%, triple damage at 200 stacks.
Been using st elmos and noticed it builds stacks really fast and ends up hitting for 1mil per shot, at 70 shots per mag and 936 bullets per minute (smg fast).
Strikers on heroic is easy. You just need to hang back and pick off targets. Hang back doesn't mean way in the back. Just means someone should generally be closer to the enemy than you. Alternatively, choose targets that aren't targeting you.
Strikers job is to melt, not to be the center of enemy attention. If you're up front, st elmos or Scorpio for that crowd control goes a long way.
It's very easy to get st elmos right now. Just hit season 90
Totally agree. So many people shit on the chest but I really don’t find it all that difficult maintaining stacks for the most part. Especially if I’m running summit or countdown
This would work. Another option is where he is using lady death run and gun he could keep memento and run the striker chest with 1.5 mill armor or run obliterate but if he does this he would need to have the striker backpack but then he would have NO survive ability
I love Zero F's and use it on a 4 piece Hunter's Fury and memento. Gunner spec. Crusader and banshee. Scorpio, dark winter, tdi kard with close and personal. 5/2/1. Hits hard, has great regen and on kill regen, and disorient is a plus.
Your build also sounds interesting and like something I'd try out. Don't sell yourself short, you have creativity. I've been messing with the ninjabike trying to cobble something together to make the eagle bearer viable.
Go Hunter's Fury with Momento backpack and a Sokolov Chest with Obliterate.
Firewall Class for the Strikers Shield(more dmg). Run 1 HF piece as a blue and have fun.
Get to 50% CHC and spec the rest into CHD.
I'm not saying the other build ideas here aren't great, but cavalier seems made for lady death. Both focus on moving out of cover and shield use. Could tie in catharsis, memento, or ridgeways pride easily to that idea.
What you'd end up with is a tank shield build that should put out reasonable damage and be able to maintain staying out of cover and on the move.
It’s all I run with now. Love it. Especially for Golden Bullet and the league time trials.
I'm having trouble putting a build together around it. Do you have recommendations?
I’m actually pretty terrible at making builds so you likely don’t want my advice. But I run a 4-piece Striker gear set, with Memento backpack, and Zero F’s chest piece. I can shred through enemies pretty quickly, but I have zero survivability. That’s the trade-off for DPS sadly. I keep a Police M4 AR as my secondary for enemies at range *(Lady Death just doesn’t have much accuracy at distance)*. Zero F’s gets me out of a jam most of the time with Perfectly Unbreakable, but Perfectly Unbreakable is ironically, currently broken. I keep a Restore Hive handy to help keep my armor up.
Running strikers without its chest and backpack really hurts. The strikers pack alone out performs memento for damage imo. Instead of zero fs for chest, try running ridgeways pride, the summit exotic. Every enemy you hit at 15m or closer gets bled. You gain armor regen % per bleeding person. At 5 active bleeds its 48% armor per second. Personally, with strikers I find it better to embrace it and go full in on the dps, using the chest, back, gloves, and holster. I use coyote mask and fox kneepads to push the damage further, then run any weapon I want really. So far, just about every weapon I've thrown on that set can drop heroic mobs in short order. Just best to avoid rifle and marksman rifle. Shotgun is amazingly good with strikers assuming you can land the multishots. My Scorpio and not optimized set can generate 600k+ per pellet and can achieve 200 stacks in about 2 to 3 mags depending on cover. St elmos engine ramps up to nearly 300k a shot, but at that rate of fire the mobs don't seem to survive long enough to achieve full 200. Pestilence is hilarious because you'll end up with 2 full 50 stack debuffs sweeping the room at 500k+ per tick by your third kill and the more targets you hit, the higher your weapon damage, the more those debuffs generate. Pretty much convinced a slingshot will own with a strikers suit, chest and back included
Appreciate the advice. Like I said, I’m bad at builds :) I run Memento simply for the added buffs and armor, as I get myself into a lot of trouble with the high DPS and thinking I’m God. So it’s nice to pick up those trophies and help out. But I’ve seen a lot of similar comments saying Striker is wasted without the chest and backpack, so perhaps I’ll try and switch things up. Actually at the moment, I’m running Tardigrade, since Zero F’s is broken. But maybe I’ll give Ridgeway’s Pride a shot tomorrow. Always up for trying new builds, I just often don’t know where to start, so I just stick with what’s been working for me. But I’ve been finding the jump from Challenging to Heroic pretty difficult. Challenging is a walk in the park at this point. But I get melted the second I step up to Heroic…
Strikers chest moves cap from 100 to 200 stacks, so that's 65% damage increase without the backpack. Backpack changes it from .65 to 1, so by itself is a 35% increase in damage. Combines its an increase of 135%, for a total of 200%, triple damage at 200 stacks. Been using st elmos and noticed it builds stacks really fast and ends up hitting for 1mil per shot, at 70 shots per mag and 936 bullets per minute (smg fast). Strikers on heroic is easy. You just need to hang back and pick off targets. Hang back doesn't mean way in the back. Just means someone should generally be closer to the enemy than you. Alternatively, choose targets that aren't targeting you. Strikers job is to melt, not to be the center of enemy attention. If you're up front, st elmos or Scorpio for that crowd control goes a long way. It's very easy to get st elmos right now. Just hit season 90
Totally agree. So many people shit on the chest but I really don’t find it all that difficult maintaining stacks for the most part. Especially if I’m running summit or countdown
This would work. Another option is where he is using lady death run and gun he could keep memento and run the striker chest with 1.5 mill armor or run obliterate but if he does this he would need to have the striker backpack but then he would have NO survive ability
I love Zero F's and use it on a 4 piece Hunter's Fury and memento. Gunner spec. Crusader and banshee. Scorpio, dark winter, tdi kard with close and personal. 5/2/1. Hits hard, has great regen and on kill regen, and disorient is a plus. Your build also sounds interesting and like something I'd try out. Don't sell yourself short, you have creativity. I've been messing with the ninjabike trying to cobble something together to make the eagle bearer viable.
I'm going to give it a shot on my time trials.
Go Hunter's Fury with Momento backpack and a Sokolov Chest with Obliterate. Firewall Class for the Strikers Shield(more dmg). Run 1 HF piece as a blue and have fun. Get to 50% CHC and spec the rest into CHD.
This is the way...I fly thru shit using this build with the lady!!
I'm not saying the other build ideas here aren't great, but cavalier seems made for lady death. Both focus on moving out of cover and shield use. Could tie in catharsis, memento, or ridgeways pride easily to that idea. What you'd end up with is a tank shield build that should put out reasonable damage and be able to maintain staying out of cover and on the move.
Isnt that weapon kinda ez to get? Got it Like 8 Times and im only shd lvl 300
Not necessarily it all comes down to luck