Hello there, fellow Agents!! So, i realized that I have not used the Survivalist specialization at all and decided to go ahead and activate it and fill in the points. What inspired me to activate it was the Xbox achievement called "Arrow to the Knee," where you have to shoot 10 enemies in the leg with the crossbow. That was pretty fun!! Lol. I'm looking forward to trying out the incendiary grenades as well with that one. Do you all have any good build suggestions for the the Survivalist?
Just threat it as any other specialization, the exception is that heavily armored foes are somewhat a bit faster to deal with. Otherwise just do whatever, regular full red crit build, negotiator, skill build with turret and drones, EP status effect and so on.
The very few things note worthy are the fire granades are useful as ****, and some small protection from elite if you want to stack that in your mods slots for more tankyness
Yeah, those fire grenades are a lot of fun!! I was kinda thinking that a weapon with the Ignited talent or Perfectly Ignited would work well with those when a group is on fire. It seems like a Pyro build would work with Survivalist maybe.Originally Posted by xcel30 Go to original post
yes it would , whenever i use a pyro build either with the sticky or chem launcher i also throw a fire nade into the mix , and why you might ask ? the nades burn damage is very low compared to the othar two i mentioned but while they are sitting on those flames that is an extra tick of damage even if they are already burning from another source.Originally Posted by GhostAgent14 Go to original post
would argue that fire duration bonus from firewall spec is better if you are fully investing in fire.Originally Posted by GhostAgent14 Go to original post
i tested that a while ago and if im not mistaken i ended up choosing survivalist over firewall because the bonus damage all the team gets against status affected enemies was much better than the longer burn duration for me only.Originally Posted by xcel30 Go to original post
EP build, acosta's go-bag, chest with mad bomber, riot foam chem launcher. Your nade radius with the fire nade will be giagantic, If you still have trouble hitting, stick them in place with chem launcher. You could use your xbow to finish them off if they don't die from the fire. It's a lot of fun on lower difficulties, but not so great on challenging/heroic.
I've heard that Tip of the Spear is good with the survivalist xbow, but haven't tried it myself.
There's an argument for using Scorpio with HF and survivalist, although I don't know what the details of that build would look like. Seems like a pretty standard all-red build.
10% Damage to Status Effected enemies - works perfectly with HF & Scorpio. Double up with Opportunist? Hunter-Killer [with Memento or another BA backpack] or Anarchist Cookbook can also be fun. Maybe Firm Handshake if you like an SMG secondary.
TipS is great, because MOAR arrows!!!1!
Pyromaniac is great too, if you prefer to roll AR.