This is the highest damage you are getting out Viessa although you need Blue beetle show this man some love czcams.com/video/JQelvphDb-w/video.htmlsi=FVDF5J82Bt1YU6Io First mistake- the two blue crit mods are just better than the purple emergency measures mods albeit by not that much VIESSA THINGS- COOLDOWN CANT BE REDUCED UNDER 90% THERE ARE ANIMATION TIMES YOU MUST INCLUDE WHEN TESTING COOLDOWN TIMERS GUYS SECRET GARDEN IS maxes out at 10 seconds a stack EVERY DAMAGING SKILL GIVES YOU THREE ORBS REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE PASSIVE SAYS. THE FIRST GIVES YOU ZERO ICE SHACKLE ON BURST UNLESS YOU CONNECT WITH ANOTHER CREATURE -viessa bliz is double dmg the 1st tick, ticks another 3 times even at base, then the explosion. depending on how the game feels, u may not get the last tick along with the explosion unless u add 1% duration. it takes 6s to do 1440x5 + 1840 = 9000* (or 7600) skill power not 6500 @atc_evie Thanks for watching. Come back to the vid later to see if I made mistakes. Ille post them in this comment. Also dint say you'd get some damage out of crit damage-almadine The gameplay I thought would be smoother when sped up
Could you keep the original speed and suggest to speed-up? If you want to watch it at regular speed slowed down it becomes stuttery. And yes i'm picky PC player xD
with the 90% cd reduction cap, the most can get down to is 60-(60*.9)=6sec; so its impossible to get it under 5s for secret garden. unless theres a way to get more than 90%, but i thought that was the hard cap.
First, love your videos. Numbers are great. Now for those that want to hear more about Viessa and don't mind reading, just keep going: Viessa thankfully has MANY viable builds. She has 3 main ones that most people focus on and only 2 of her 6 Transcendent mods are kind of useless. Cold-Bloodedness - Arguably her strongest mod and thankfully usable by Normal and Ultimate Viessa. - It leaves her skills at a Fusion/Fusion/Fusion/Tech and passive as Tech (as she is with her base), unlike her other two popular mods that change things up. - Because of the CD reduction and the Cost reduction, as long as you have the MP Recovery substats on your components (the generic one, in and out of combat, along with Max MP), you will never run out of MP even without adding extra mods to reduce MP cost. You do not even need to take MP Collector. - With the blue and purple mods that reduce CD, along with little you get with Focus on Chill, you will hit that sweet 68.2% CD Reduction. The reason this is the sweet spot is that there is a HARD CAP on CD reduction at 90%, of which Cold-Bloodedness will give you an additional 20%, bringing that 68.2% to 88.2%. Essentially as close as you can get without wasting stats/mod slots. No real need for more CD Reduction when you are only 1.8% from the cap. Allowing you (if lucky) to just get Skill Crit Rate and Skill Crit DMG substats on your reactor as the best in slot rolls. - Her base CD's are 7s/25s/20s/60s and 20s on the passive. At max 90% CD, you'll be at 0.7s/2.5s/2s/6s and 2s, which is insane. This also means that you will always have a Blizzard up while being able to spam her skills (well, if doing what was mentioned above, you would be at 88.2%, which would bring you to 0.826s/2.95s/2.36s/7.08s and 2.36s.... close enough). - You also do not need any Duration buffs from mods either, by using the 2-piece bonus from the Annihilation set. This will bump that 6s duration of Blizzard to just barely over, allowing for that extra tick, getting 3 ticks in before the big hit at the end. - Not needing any DEF or Shield mods when mobbing, you can go full Range as well, turning this into an amazing mobbing build. - At max Range, her 3 becomes a mobbing beast. It turns from a simple 10x3 line in front of you into a huge spammable 25x7 field of ice that wipes things out. Along with her 1's small 3.5 radius going to a 8.75 and her Blizzards you place everywhere from 4/6 (for the ticks and final hit which hits in a larger AoE) to 10/15. - Or if using in bossing, you do not need as much range and can add some extra survivability in there. - Even with spamming her 1 and 3 like crazy, a Tech reactor is generally taken because Blizzard still hits crazy strong. - Even with a Tech Reactor though, you can have her 1 crit for 1.5 million in the training area against things with no Chill RES (not even weak to it), while against Colossi, that will still hit for 400-500k at spammable rates.... Hypothermia - Also usable by Normal and Ultimate Viessa and can kill bosses almost as fast as Cold-Bloodedness (only seen a couple second differences depending on the build), even though this mod is often thought as a mobbing only mod by many at a glance. - It changes her Blizzard and Passive into Singular type skills, leaving her with Fusion/Fusion/Fusion/Singular and her passive as Singular. - With that, one generally takes Singular as the reactor type of choice, as much of her DPS is as always Blizzard, but also her passive. - Her passive, no longer slows, but instead deals a very strong DoT. Allowing her to leave large ice trails that damage like Valby as well as EVERY thing she does now add those extra DoTs (something that was missed in Ryechews Games' video, who said it was really only for her Icy Roads....). - Because of this, Hypothermia, instead of focusing on big numbers, is about an insane amount of DoT's that constantly damage and melt away the target's HP. - This allows it to be very good for Farming/Mobbing and surprisingly, Bossing as well. Absolute-Zero - Showcased in this video, it is EXCLUSIVE to Ultimate Viessa, thus not able to be enjoyed by the majority that haven't farmed her up or opened their wallet. - Turns everything she has into Singular, leaving her with Singular/Singular/Singular/Singular and a Singular passive. - Her passive itself changes just like with Hypothermia, but instead of changing it to a DoT, it makes it so Crit's generate her Sphere's now. So you need to build for Crit (all her builds do anyway...), while further buffing the damage her Sphere's do. - All in all, it doesn't really change her kit much other than making it really nice to have a reactor that actually buffs EVERYTHING she does. - Her spheres also inflict Frostbite, but the set that can use it isn't really the best set and you're generally better off with a combination of two different 2p sets or just generic things, since you want those MP regen substats like all her other builds. - The Sphere buff, like Hypothermia's DoT's, allow Viessa to really stack on extra DPS when her passive normally just slows things. On that front they do seem to have Cold-Bloodedness beat, but Cold-Bloodedness doesn't lose it's slows while being able to spam the most spells, which is why it tends to win the DPS race. Cold Snap Watch - Changes her 3 into a field that lasts while dealing high DoT's - Purely a farming mod, but can be nice. It doesn't offer nearly as much as the previous 3, but with expansions and durations added, it can lock down an area as well as any Valby or Freyna, allowing one to focus on another area..... Not much else to say about this mod. It's very simple. Cold Cohesion - Exclusive to Ultimate Viessa like Absolute-Zero, but completely useless sine Absolute-Zero exists. - Already explained in the video this is posted on, but as mentioned, while it allows you 5 spheres instead of 3, they still only fire one at a time and this mod doesn't do anything else. No buffing the spheres or changing her typing. With the spheres firing at the same rate and if you always generate and have more ready to fire, Absolute-Zero's buff to their DPS will do far more..... Glacial Cloud - You can already summon the Blizzard at a distance with her base kit and any of her other mods. - You can now throw out her Blizzard with a visual grenade like lob..... - It literally does nothing else. No buffs, no changes, nothing..... Just pointless..... With all that said, Viessa has many viable builds. The first 4 can all be used for mobbing. The first 3 can also be used for bossing. On weapons though, she has two big choices that were not even talked about in this video..... Clairvoyance - The obvious one. This Beam Rifle lowers Chill RES by a huge -80% when you max out the weapon, while also slowing enemy movement by 90%, including everything but Colossi. - This makes it an amazing team weapon along for the slow on priority targets as they essentially freeze in place for your team to wail on them. - The weapon itself however really shines in two situations - One, if you build for long Durations, thus you can use this to remove the RES off a target while your Blizzard goes to town on the enemy. This of course means that a spell slinger build isn't going to be using the Clairvoyance as it does take away from spell spamming. - Two, if there is more than one Viessa on the team, only one needs a Clairvoyance for everyone to take advantage of it, which can be really fun. Blue Beetle - The fun choice and the best option for spell slingers. - This weapon DOES NOT WORK with Absolute-Zero other than for a Cleanse of status effects (which can be nice but situational). As Singular triggers this cleanse. - The main perk of the weapon is that when a Fusion skill is used (her 1/2/3 when not using Absolute-Zero), gives her a sizable Skill Critical Rate buff. - The buff is +30%a FLAT Base Critical Rate buff for 10% - This buff cannot be modified by anything, be it mods, reactor substats or the like. - Viessa's base Skill Crit Rate is 15%, so this is a +4.5% flat increase to whatever she has after mods, very nice and will always be up. - This weapon is another reason why Cold-Bloodedness and Hypothermia can get even more consistent crits (and thus DPS) than Absolute-Zero. - Note that Hypothermia, like Bunny, can make use of both the Skill Crit Rate buff and Cleanse, having both Fusion and Singular skills. - The weapon in its own right is a very nice Scout Rifle, offering 100 (perfect/maxed) accuracy, high fire rate and a scope if needed. - When fully built, it can reliably do critical hits on weak points for 400k per shot. Viessa in the end doesn't really need a weapon if going full spell slinger. As you'll never have time to use the weapon in that case, but these are great choices. Of course a sniper would also be a fine choice for when things are too far away and you just need a strong accurate shot, but the Blue Beetle also covers that decently enough while buffing her skills tremendously. The Secret Garden can work if not using Hypothermia or Absolute-Zero, as it requires Blizzard to stay as a Tech skill (her passive, which would also be Tech, doesn't trigger Secret Garden and that might be a bug). However it is hard to maintain stacks with it, since even when maxed, Secret Garden's buffs do not have a 100% trigger rate. If you are lucky and Blizzard procs the buffs on every hit though, this can be a very nice Skill Power buff.... But that is a lot of RNG for Viessa and the weapon is probably better on another character, while again, the Blue Beetle is 100% uptime and no RNG. Secret Garden, though note, is getting an unknown buff on July 31st with the update. So things here could change for the better..... ANYWHO, I've rambled quite a bit and I'm sure very few have read this. Hope it helped someone learn some things about her Transcendent Mods and Ultimate Weapon choices.
@@TCGSyphax Nope. I DID write a very similar (and long) post in one other Viessa Build video. However if you did take the time to read it, it actually is different and covers a handful of different points. Wording is also different because it is tailored to address things that are spoken about specifically in the video said long post was made in. But "everywhere" would be a stretch if I only wrote up something similar once.
@@blackkat101 GOATED POSTS, i was looking for somewhere that explained which mod changed which Skill's type eg Tech to Singular, even has substat recommendations!
@@carter9543 Okay then, this time it will be a complete copy/paste of something I posted in response to someone else asking the same thing (so everything below is that): --------------------------------- - Cold-Bloodedness - Long-Distance Grapple - Dangerous Ambush - Skill Insight - Increased HP - Focus on Chill - Nimble Fingers - Emergency Measures - Front Lines - Maximize Range - Skill Expansion - MP Conersion This is for general use, but can be used for bossing as is. The weapon is best as Blue Beetle, as that offers an additional +4.5% Skill Crit Rate when maxed with 100% uptime. Place the Defense Master mod on the Blue Beetle, as that will give +128.3% DEF on every enemy kill for 10s with only a 15s down time, which makes up for any DEF you might feel you're missing. Very high uptime. All other mods on the gun are extra as you won't have time to shoot with a spell slinger build like this. On bossing, you can drop Maximize Range for Spear and Shield to get some extra DEF along with the Skill Power that it offers (making a good offensive choice still at the cost of less range). You NEED MP Regen (general one), MP Regen in Combat, MP Regen out of Combat as well as Max MP on your components. You also NEED Max DEF on the substats, but do NOT need any DEF as a main stat. You will have enough with just that. The other main stats should be x2 Max HP and x2 Max Shield (unless using a set). With the shield, just like with MP, you will want the Shield Regen buffs on components. All of that is the best survivability for her. Again, not really necessary to build any DEF beyond what was mentioned. She DOES NOT need MP Collector if you have gold rolls on all those component MP regen substats. As you already have lowered cost because of Cold-Bloodedness and then all that regen will give you way more MP than you ever need. If you ever step out of combat, you will almost instantly have max MP again, but also generate it very quickly in combat. If you for some reason feel you NEED more survivability, you can drop Dangerous Ambush for HP Collector (but in general, not necessary unless you have useless teammates and really need to deal with everything yourself, be it in Colossi fights or Wave Defense....). MP collector can also be used in this spot, but in Colossi fights, it's not really going to help since there are not many things to kill to get said MP and in the world, you are out of combat so often that your MP is just instant regenerated.... Note that with this build, you will have 68.2% CD without Cold-Bloodedness and when you activate Cold-Bloodedness, it brings you to that sweet 88.2% (only 1.8% from the cap, so no wasted stats). Meaning you do not need any CD reduction on your Reactor. Thus not needing CD reduction on your reactor at all, your god rolls would then be Skill Crit DMG Skill Crit Rate Chill Power Modifier In that order. Crit ones are the best for getting the higher DPS, but Chill is also good. Any other rolls won't be helping you much. You could get some more Skill Cost reduction as an okay thing to make things even cheaper, but not really necessary when you already get -20% skill cost from Cold-Bloodedness being active. You also don't need Skill Range, since you already have so much in your kit that you're maxing those out in the normal version of the build. Do not get Duration either, as you will already be just over 6s on her 4, getting that extra tick. You would only want more Duration if you got enough to get her OVER 8s (as you need it to be even 0.01s over each 2s interval to get that extra tick of damage or it is not worth it). OH.... you need 2p Annihilation set for the small Skill Duration buff you need. You want the Memory and Processor from the set, as their mainstats are Max HP (while the other two are Max DEF, not wanted). The other two (Auxiliary and Sensor) do not need to be from a set, but if you do, Polar Night is where you want this 2p set from for a bit more Chill Skill Power. Note that sets are harder to farm than generic components, so that is up to you on how much effort you want to put into Viessa..... Her 3 will be your favorite button with how it takes out entire groups on demand, with 1 being powerful and even more spammable. And of course, her 4 being the biggest DPS when needed and also pretty spammable. 2 keeps you as the 3rd fastest descendant in the game and keeps your Cold-Bloodedness active, so that'll always be on too. Hope that all helps. ...okay, just wanted to type out the Components out neater, so here that is for ideal Compoenents: Polar Night 2p (Chill Skill Power) - Auxiliary (Max HP): Max HP and MP Recovery out of Combat - Sensor (Max HP): Max MP and MP Recovery in Combat Annihilation 2p (Skill Duration) - Memory (Max HP): Max DEF and MP Recovery Modifier - Processor (Max HP): Max Shield and Shield Recovery Modifier Sadly, you cannot get the Shield Recovery In and Out of Combat substats, as the MP stuff is WAY more important. The MP, HP and DEF stuff is all required and thus only the Processor is a bit more on the extra side. However there isn't anything else good to get but the shield substats, so just go with that if you can. YOU DO really want the Annihilation set, again, for that small bit of Skill Duration for an extra tick from your Blizzard as you are not getting any from your mods or reactor (allowing those to focus on other things). The Polar Night set itself, again, is extra if you want to really push your DPS, but you can use generic ones here. If using generic ones, the main stat can be Max HP or Max Shield, either works fine (just set pieces are fixed, which is why they're all listed as such).
for mp collector the Xiantic slot- i would strongly recommend energy collection. i find the mp recovery modifier boost is far more reliable to use since it stacks with mp recovery in/out of combat from your components and with cold blooded+slayer set (extra skill cost) im never running out of mana, especially during colussi when there are natural break off points when you are forced out of combat like from the immune phases you can go from empty to full in ~3 seconds its kinda nutty.
@ricardosharry8944 the big thing is you need mp recovery in/out combat . Mp recovery out is more of a luxury pick I was doing fine with just mp recovery in combat with proper blizzard only spam for bossing. But ideally you want both especially if you want to just use everything lol. If you have none all it's going to do is let you top up off 1 blue orb. So you got to farm for good rolls but it scales way better then collector.
I agree completely. MP Collector would be good (better for mobbing) if it had a higher chance to activate and on something other than mob kill. It also barely recovers any mana because its 12% of your MP (on a 13% chance - JeeeeZUS that feels bad) and combined with *-max MP* from MP conversion, it's just not that much.
I'm not using my Viessa currently because I plan to only invest on her for real, when I get the Ultimate, same for Bunny. I'm currently maining Freyna instead since I think her Ultimate will take a while to arrive. But Viessa is still my most used Decendant.
i love the This is my build, not the best build energy. Also hands down the best explanaitions on yt, not focusing on the most damage in every character is super refreshing love the vids!!:)
quick corrections for anyone checking -viessa passive makes 3 spheres as soon as u proc a shackle, its not 1 per -viessa bliz is double dmg the 1st tick, ticks another 3 times even at base, then the explosion. depending on how the game feels, u may not get the last tick along with the explosion unless u add 1% duration. it takes 6s to do 1440x5 + 1840 = 9000* (or 7600) skill power not 6500 -cold blood: idk what he means "aquire certain things" u just press the button and its on permanently as long as u keep track or recasting it before it runs out -consider maximize conservation or other sort of -cost, stacks well with cold blood and still ncie to have on az -u cant get bliz below 6s cd as the cap for cdr is 90% -slayer set isnt too mandatory tbh the polar full set on cold blood does the same dps overall without massively eating ur mana // edit for this: tbh i can see polar not being that efficient if u run only 2 crit mods as opposed to 4
Thank you for this detailed guide, I've been trying to explain to some friends that skill power modifier is pretty much diminishing returns once you get to a huge number like Viessa. So, It doesn't hurt the build as much as you think it would using a module or two that subtract a small amount of points from the number. Especially since its the numbers you do add are additive.
After watching all your first descendants vids, i can safely say you, my sir, are one of the few youtubers i trust when it comes to builds. Thank you for your work 🙏. I would recommend looking into the secret garden for the bossing build
Fun fact about Absolute Zero, you can circumvent the skill crit/frostbite requirements to summon spheres by just applying frostbite from another source, like the Clairvoyance
Infusing the Clairvoyance to get the beam charge up quicker alongside the blue mod for the beam charge time makes it much more smooth to play. Having that nice duration blizzard down and you can ramp up that beam much more quickly for that nice def shred. Not too mention since it's a crit weapon has that nice synergy with Absolute Zero. Defo a nice alternative if you don't want to go for that strict caster playstyle and want a bit more gun play.
you need skill expansion. if the aoe from center hits pyro before the stick its immune. It takes 2 non crits to break. but everytime i try i get clapped with chain rings. I would have to try over and over for best run for that. I do it in a party though or try the ledges
Skill Concentration + Skill Insight would give greater crit increase than Front Lines + Emergency Measures since the 2 blue mods give 115% in crit dmg and crit rate vs the 93% from the 2 purples
yes true, not sure why he went with 2 purples. especially since they are all Xiantic. Speaking of. what do you think would be better Skill cont+skill insight+front lines and either dangerous ambush as the 4th or emergency measures as the 4th? running cold blooded
Hey Ryechews, I wanted to get some feedback from you on something I've noticed with Viessa's Blizzard ability. So, I had been doing some in-depth testing in the lab and I noticed that at its base duration, Blizzard has a very bizarre inconsistency. The base duration is 6 seconds with damage intervals every 2 seconds thereafter for 6 seconds. The initial cast of Blizzard does 2 ticks of damage at the same time. After 2 seconds, there is another tick, and then another after 4 seconds. So, we are at 4 ticks of damage at this point. Here is what I find very bizarre - seemingly random, at the 6 second mark, Blizzard will do either 1 more damage tick with the explosion, for a total of 5... or 2 more for a total of 6. With an increase of just 5% skill duration (the lowest percentage I could find when testing), Blizzard will ALWAYS do 6 damage ticks, the 5th tick occurring just before the explosion. Recapping, when at its base duration, there is _sometimes_ a 5th damage tick that occurs at the same time as the explosion, for a total of 6. And adding a mere 5% will guarantee 6 damage ticks. From what I can tell, this creates two scenarios. First one being that at its base duration, Blizzard is only supposed to have 5 damage ticks and frequently is getting a bonus 6th tick that it shouldn't be getting alongside the explosion. Second scenario being that it is supposed to get 6 total damage ticks at base duration, but frequently only gets 5. With how the ability's stats are displayed when hovering over it in the Descendant menu, and that at 6.3 seconds duration resulting from the 5% duration increase that there is a Continuous Damage tick at 6 seconds, I'm inclined to believe that there should be a Continuous Damage tick at the 6 seconds mark alongside the explosion at base duration. So, I'm hoping that the second scenario is what is occurring, and if it is, that the devs fix it. What do you think?
Your content is so superior to others that I can't even watch other guides man. It's like you actually include all the information and EVERYONE else is regurgitating 3rd grade presentations with their hands in their pockets... Keep posting vids because you're the fucking GOLD standard on this game to me.
She's great all around, but I wish the collosi would stay in place for more than 2 seconds...if they stayed in place, your 4 with cold bloodedness would be able to shred collosi so much faster.
As a 250 hour Viessa Main, You dont use kit till you grapple on, ie, i get yellow shoulder, hit my cold blood drop a blizzard then grapple on. They stay in the zone taking the full damage. you dont knock off the piece till the shaking off animation to get more time. Then take off the piece fall down your cooldown will be ready drop another blizzard while they're staggered. Shoot knee or chest weakpoint. Rinse and repeat, if you pay attention to the grapple immunity you can get 2 in before they ever enrage. When you are grappled on and after when they drop the rage meter does not go up. Maximum damage per phase.
@@chipperdrewski As a 250 hour Viessa Main, You dont use kit till you grapple on, ie, i get yellow shoulder, hit my cold blood drop a blizzard then grapple on. They stay in the zone taking the full damage. you dont knock off the piece till the shaking off animation to get more time. Then take off the piece fall down your cooldown will be ready drop another blizzard while they're staggered. Shoot knee or chest weakpoint. Rinse and repeat, if you pay attention to the grapple immunity you can get 2 in before they ever enrage. When you are grappled on and after when they drop the rage meter does not go up. Maximum damage per phase.
You're the absolute authority on TFD. All of your videos and information is spot on and highly informative. Deeply appreciate seeing at least one youtuber for this game not following hype or using clickbait tactics while also misinforming people. Would love to pick your brain about a full support Jayber build I've been working on. I believe with future updates and the new descendant Luna we'll be seeing more builds focused around playing RPG "roles" rather than squeezing every descendant into the DPS role box.
Amazing video. Really appreciate all the thought-process behind the builds, the explanations, and the effort that went into making this. Really helpful, thank you.
I had the same conclusion about the increase to number of ice spheres, because I found that in most cases I never ran out of spheres. Of course the lower cooldown on the spheres could have made it a viable DPS build, where you launch one spell, then let all the spheres go off, before you launch another spell. I did this early on with Viessa as a way to consume MP. When you have enough MP though, you have better DPS just spamming skills, and then sometimes letting your MP recover while you shoot your gun. (And with Cold-Bloodedness I can more or less spam my 1-Skill and only get a few Thunder Cage shots off in between). I think if the way the spheres worked was just altered slightly you could get a cool thing going. At first I thought the spheres would be granted one by one, thus spamming skills was a way to get more of them. So, you could go "build up spheres, let spheres go why you replenish MP/shoot your gun). But when you get all at once, every skill you cast after that apply new spheres, and it's just simply a nice added damage.
another banger. Some of this knowledge can definetly transfer to other descendant, that's neat. Going deep in each descendant specific is neater, looking forward for a complete serie !
Perfect. I just came full circle, I started the game with Viessa then swapped to Gley for a long time, and I finally hit the point that I'm tired of spamming massacre every nine seconds. I want a skill spam character I can use some times, my trigger finger is worn out XD
Started to build her, for what ever reason i don't want the cold bloodedness for bossing, but absolute zero, maybe because all skills will have the same type which will unify the modules. I already had secret garden maxed which make me hesitate for this choice. For the first time in this game i feel lost, viessa is absolutely my favorite descendant fun and powerful
excellent informative video, very clear and precise, just discovered your channel and after watching this Viessa build you have my sub...Great work and keep it up!
You earned a sub and viewer so many ppl... Just don't explain clearly what's going on... And you did that....i truly appreciate it...i don't even play Viessa wasn't even interested this video as made me reconsider... Thank you
Damn what a really cool build ! My English doesn't allow me to understand all the little tips, but on the whole it's fine! 2 questions: - As long as the character isn't a full catalyst, which modes are best to start with? - Once you've got Viessa Ultimate, can you decraft the basic version to earn a slot?
i recently got into viessa and had a blast with her! i have a huge appreciation for your hard work and insight. i’ve been relying on your videos to help understand the game and they have been super helpful
A youtuber named Wafflicious has a 4 crit mod, max 90% CD using Multitalented, no extra skill range build with max upgraded blue beetle showcase. He did like around 52 mil on Molten Fortress in 2m41s only spamming skills and barely shooting at all. In teamplay, for consistency, I think 3 crit mod and Dangerous Ambush is the way to go. Blue beetle gives 1.5~4.5% extra crit rate on Viessa depending on the upgrade without any extra mp consumption and 100% trigger rate at max. Dont think I would go the extra thousand miles to max upgrade blue beetle just for Viessa lol but on Sharen, 6% extra crit rate could be worth it.
It wasn't mentioned but Absolute Zero gives Frost Roads an actual damage value, so you can just run around and kill open world things when they run over your Frost Roads. Hypothermia can do the same but the Frost Roads applies the Hypothermia DOT, where as Absolute Zero just gives it damage. The difference when speccing into both, is Hypothermia will tick 2 to 3 times to kill something, but Absolute Zero will kill in 1 tick. I used Absolute Zero during the Valby Outpost to instantly kill everything as it spawned so it killed faster than most Valby's, but it wont get as wide as Valby's trail.
I had been using Hypothermia as a mobbing setup as I don't have Absolute Zero yet but I'm looking forward to updating my mobbing build when that happens. Thanks for the upload
I use hypothermia it's really good for a valby run just add duration and you're just as good as valby farming. I have glacial, cold bloodeness, and cold snap. Cold snap is another fun mod I use it for special ops missions it does dot with some duration mods you're good.
good video, unfortunately nobody gonna waste their time playing with randoms to get a mod locked behind frost walker (absolute) , so cold blooded it is, which i already have. Would rather have my skills all the time anyway. I think viessa skills are about slowing enemies so you and your group can damage the crap outta them with guns/team mates skills. Also I use her blizzard for cover to revive players and play a tank build, the game is so much more fun when your not scrubbing the floor all the time and helping the team. 25k - 30k defense first - 2 mods and use armor pieces if you have to then 2 hp mods and max out hp as much as you can with armor pieces left. so much more fun and game much easier.✌
@@thorinhannahs4614 thanks!!. I will check it out. I unfortunately dont play her. do yall wanna @ or dm me in discord so i can steal your footage? @slabulous00
@ryechew Sorry dude, I am just a casual who doesn't record. I don't play Gley either. I am just messing with shotguns to see what I like (Ajax main). I'll have to do more testing over my weekend. Smithereens asks you to do the same thing as Executor, but you need to do less of it, and it doesn't penalize you if a pellet strays. The shock proc from Executor is underwhelming, but maybe a Bunny or infinite heavy weapon character would change that. Smithereens is just a good time. I have both ult shotguns at max perk.
Love your videos, probably my favorite TFD creator. Side note tho, definitely recommend time stamps for these longer videos. Makes it easier to come back to later and find what you need.
Real. I get the mp regen stats on my components and make do with that. I really only feel mp collecter on characters like bunny who just kill whole maps
Having the Clairvoyance should help with more damage as well. I'm farming it now for my Viessa. -20% chill resistance, possibly -40% if Void Gaze and Appalled Calling stack.
Unfortunately they do not stack, but it's 40% at max rank of the perk. But also unfortunately, it's kind of mediocre. I don't regret grinding it out as more damage is more damage and it feels good to use.
Everything was correct except what you said about hypothermia. There's videos of speed runners using it. It's viable I believe it killed a hard pyro in 30 seconds
Just the fact that its an original build that performs great, is well mathed out and relies on skills instead of guns....🎉 Of course there are common mods across builds but the info you add about the transcendent mods and attack/crit mods. Its just fantastic. Ill be switching from hypothermia and trying out coldbloodness They need to hire you to do tooltips and in game tutorials 😂
Cold Snap Watch is definitely worth it and is superior to Absolute Zero for farming in settings where mobs spawn in localized and predictable spots if you build her right (maximalizing CD reduction, skill duration, and range). It's excellent for XP/shard farming, especially in groups of 2 or more Viessas. Y'all should be using the right descendant for the right purpose - localized/predictable mob spawns > Viessa, unpredictable/spread out spawned> Bunny. That said I do understand not everyone has multiple fully build descendants.
There is a bug with Viessa range. Blizzard says max expand range is 250%, but actually it caps at 200%. Basic range is 4m, you cannot get it more than 12m.
I appreciate you actually using Viessa for the boss kill. One thing I wouldn’t have minded seeing was using Nazeistra’s a few times for the DEF reduction. I’m not sure how much it actually does but I try to get a few shots in while Blizzard is going. Great vid as always.
defence and elemental defence are 2 separate defences, so doing skill dmg that is entirely chill in this case i dont believe has any increase, but it is useful for helping teammates dps and will improve their gun dmg during the fight overall
Great work. Great video. Just subscribed! Currently have a viessa. But im one part away from her ultimate. So really dont wanna invest in the normal one. But will try out this build out.
Double comment. I would love to see your breakdown on reactors on whats best. I have been using a double gold skill crit rate & skill crit damage reactor for her since im running cold blooded. Not sure how the math stacks out on if i went too hard on crit rate stuff and should have went for a tech boost + colossi boost. also i see you don't run any hp mods, the mad lad!! im thinking about doing the same so i can burst out max damage and try it out.
I hate the fact that the power boost on your reactor for mounting is only active while you have that weapon active and when you switch to another weapon while running around you lose that mounting bonus power…. I wish it were applied if it were equipped in one of the three slots rather than being the active in hand weapon….
I had to stop watching this since Absolute Zero drops off one of the dumbest/hardest to pug Intercept bosses. I'm stuck on Frost Walker and don't see that changing any time soon.
Eh he aint that bad. just farm up a lepic/ult lepic or hope that you get some while pugging. Took me 12 or so kills to get the mod. I went in with ult lepic and 90% of the time there was another with me
They did alot of stuff with 3's and 6's in this game. The fire rate on the Thundercage is 666 (number of the beast) fitting i guess for one of the best guns in the game & if I add the 25% fire rate mod it becomes 888 for some reason (Angel Number) If i add 30% more rounds to it the ammo count is 33 Crit chance with a maxed insight is 33.32% Shot accuracy is 88.88
Classic Viessa Colossi, start a blizzard and he teleports elsewhere. I really love Viessa, feels like one of the best rounded kits so far. What do you think about the legendary beam rifle that inflicts frostburn? ^^ As it's a beam riffle you only need to hold the button.
As a 250 hour Viessa Main, You dont use kit till you grapple on, ie, i get yellow shoulder, hit my cold blood drop a blizzard then grapple on. They stay in the zone taking the full damage. you dont knock off the piece till the shaking off animation to get more time. Then take off the piece fall down your cooldown will be ready drop another blizzard while they're staggered. Shoot knee or chest weakpoint. Rinse and repeat, if you pay attention to the grapple immunity you can get 2 in before they ever enrage. When you are grappled on and after when they drop the rage meter does not go up. Maximum damage per phase.
All glass all the time lol. I feel that's the meta. I main dps, I feel if you're not a stacked tank it's not worth it to go above and beyond defensively. My gley does so much self damage 40k def and 20k+ hp doesn't matter if I'm at half hp before the fight begins and lose 10 percent every 9 seconds. I'd rather just go down and be revived rather than having to drop frenzy , pop hp buff and hug walls and adds popping heal every couple of seconds just to drop back down to half life lol
I've been watching all your TFD videos, they're insanely informative. Thanks. I saw what you did with Kyle and Viessa is my main so I'm extra curious to know what you've cooked up
Great video. Would highly recommend some DMCA free music of some sort during the sped up sections, but I do think this'll help me enjoy my viessa more.
I did notice reactors dropping less - and I like and don't like it. I find it annoying to constantly get reactors for characters I don't use/need when I'm doing other things. It would honestly be nice if we could turn on and off the drop of the special rewards.
I don't know if you will see this Ryechew but you are inaccurate regarding the range on Blizzard. She caps at 250%, so 2.5x on a base of 6m for a max of 15m. With max Skill Expansion and max Maximize Range, you are about 30% over the max even though the info on the ability will show 18m. It's actually 15m. Test it in the lab!
Cold bloodedness is great I just wish it didn't get rid of the increased speed. I'll farm for Absolute Zero whenever I somehow manage to beat Frost Walker
What I found with her 4 is that it ticks at 0 - 2 - 4 seconds and explodes when it ends. I added a mod with just an extra 5% Duration that changed the duration of her 4 from 6 seconds to 6.3 seconds and now it ticks at 0 - 2 - 4 - 6 then explodes when it ends at 6.3 seconds. So I think the goal should be to get Duration as a perk on your reactor to save a mod slot and get an extra tick of damage for free.
So, I had been doing some in-depth testing in the lab and I noticed that at its base duration, Blizzard has a very bizarre inconsistency. The base duration is 6 seconds with damage intervals every 2 seconds thereafter for 6 seconds. The initial cast of Blizzard does 2 ticks of damage at the same time. After 2 seconds, there is another tick, and then another after 4 seconds. So, we are at 4 ticks of damage at this point. Here is what I find very bizarre - seemingly random, at the 6 second mark, Blizzard will do either 1 more damage tick with the explosion, for a total of 5... or 2 more for a total of 6. With the mod you mentioned equipped (the one I tested with is called An Outstanding Investment, providing 5% skill duration increase), Blizzard will ALWAYS do 6 damage ticks, the 5th tick occurring just before the explosion. Recapping, when at its base duration, there is _sometimes_ a 5th damage tick that occurs at the same time as the explosion, for a total of 6. And adding a mere 5% will guarantee 6 damage ticks. Blizzard has two parts to it - the first is the Continuous Damage, the Damage interval, and the Continuous Damage Range. The second part is the explosion Burst Damage and the Explosion Damage Range. When viewing the skill's stats from the Descendant tab of the menu, we can see that Damage Interval is listed beneath Continuous Damage. This means it applies to the Continuous damage, and when the explosion occurs is determined by the skill's duration. Mathematically, Blizzards base duration of 6 seconds and damage intervals every 2 seconds means it is supposed to have 3 ticks of Continuous Damage after the initial 2 damage ticks from casting it, and then the explosion for a total of 6 damage ticks at base duration. Since it is seemingly random to get either 5 or 6 ticks, it is almost as if the skills duration fluctuates between like 5.99 seconds and 6 seconds, making the explosion frequently end the skill before that 5th tick of damage can occur. So, unfortunately, you will frequently miss out on a _lot_ of damage if you don't use anything to give yourself even just a sliver of duration up. Hope this made sense, trying to spread awareness in the hopes the devs fix it.
So this build (mobbing one) is amazing for damage but im curious as to how it performs in something like hard mode infiltration on higher waves on special ops like Void Experiments ? 2430 HP seems suicidal lol. I do see you have 14.8k Defense but does that make much of a difference with such low HP?
@@NigelDRealest If you're just speedrunning Void Intercept bosses solo, meaning you can because you have enough DPS modules, then you don't need it because you're just trying to kill them first before they kill you. That said, if you ever decide to play in public 4 man lobbies or doing general world mobbing, or they release harder content, then you're gonna need at least a couple defensive modules in there. My conspiracy theory, he doesn't want to put defensive modules in because if he had to recommend what is actually the best all around build with defense, he'd go HP stacking because that's the best way to go with nearly all the characters barring one or two exceptions. However he released a (in)famous video at this point where a lot of people interpreted his math as saying you want 50k Defense, which is NOT true, you don't want anywhere near that much defense in this game, in fact you are better off ignoring Defense aside from a Memory external component substat and just go full HP stacking. But he doesn't want to reopen that wound so he just completely forgos it with a pure glass cannon build lol.
I'm curious about the Clairvoyance, and how rate of fire works on beam rifles. Do you get the same number of hits per magazine no matter the rate of fire, or do we get more hits per magazine with a slowed rof?
Great video as usual, much respect for your work. Couldn’t help but notice that you went well over the 250% max expandable skill range though. (Blizzard explosion radius is 6, so x2.5 is 15?)Would it not be better to keep everything exactly the same and just not level up maximize skill all the way so it doesn’t decrease skill power as much?
Skill insight and skill enlightenment will give you more crit than front lines and emergency measures. Just straight up better, only use the purples if you are stacking more than 2 crit mods.
helll yea i just got my ult viessa out of the oven yesty and checkin out sum builds i already have hypothermia and cold bloodedness , was sorta working into hyperthermia but will b e swapping to cold bloodedness 4 sure
@ryechew just thought id suggest this but when your explaining skill mechanics with video footage of said skill in the background try to slow things down a little and let the video clip play out , a couple of time during this video you said "like this" but the clip was insanely quick and cut off fast , im actually pretty sure they were cut before/after the described event had happened. keep up the great work tho
This is the highest damage you are getting out Viessa although you need Blue beetle show this man some love
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First mistake- the two blue crit mods are just better than the purple emergency measures mods albeit by not that much
VIESSA THINGS- COOLDOWN CANT BE REDUCED UNDER 90% THERE ARE ANIMATION TIMES YOU MUST INCLUDE WHEN TESTING COOLDOWN TIMERS GUYS
SECRET GARDEN IS maxes out at 10 seconds a stack
EVERY DAMAGING SKILL GIVES YOU THREE ORBS REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE PASSIVE SAYS. THE FIRST GIVES YOU ZERO ICE SHACKLE ON BURST UNLESS YOU CONNECT WITH ANOTHER CREATURE
-viessa bliz is double dmg the 1st tick, ticks another 3 times even at base, then the explosion. depending on how the game feels, u may not get the last tick along with the explosion unless u add 1% duration. it takes 6s to do 1440x5 + 1840 = 9000* (or 7600) skill power not 6500 @atc_evie
Thanks for watching. Come back to the vid later to see if I made mistakes. Ille post them in this comment. Also dint say you'd get some damage out of crit damage-almadine
The gameplay I thought would be smoother when sped up
Could you keep the original speed and suggest to speed-up? If you want to watch it at regular speed slowed down it becomes stuttery. And yes i'm picky PC player xD
@@MrHaggyyI plan to do this in the future. I thought it would come out better than it did
Upgrade your reactor twice for a fast and easy boost to power too...not big, but something
with the 90% cd reduction cap, the most can get down to is 60-(60*.9)=6sec; so its impossible to get it under 5s for secret garden. unless theres a way to get more than 90%, but i thought that was the hard cap.
@@rulix2537yeah I do know about upgrading, bur this isn't my forever reactor
I don't use Viessa, just came here to show appreciation for your work, thank you!
Oh no... thank you!!
Same
Who do you use young one
Viessa hits like a truck. Your missing out
@@mothermoy no one cares
that jab at those youtubers saying this build drops it in 30 sec while they melt it with guns had me dead
LOL it bugs me every time
@@ryechewearned a subscription from me just because of that comment.
You know this guy is legit when he doesn't hover over every fucking mod on the top part 24/7 when talking about it. You can actually see the build.
Damn y'all cry about anything 😅 pausing videos must be hard for your little brain.
Def subscribing. Of all the creators that cover this game, you're a favorite. Keep up the vids man. Hope to see you in-game!
You just might. Thanks!!
First, love your videos. Numbers are great.
Now for those that want to hear more about Viessa and don't mind reading, just keep going:
Viessa thankfully has MANY viable builds.
She has 3 main ones that most people focus on and only 2 of her 6 Transcendent mods are kind of useless.
Cold-Bloodedness
- Arguably her strongest mod and thankfully usable by Normal and Ultimate Viessa.
- It leaves her skills at a Fusion/Fusion/Fusion/Tech and passive as Tech (as she is with her base), unlike her other two popular mods that change things up.
- Because of the CD reduction and the Cost reduction, as long as you have the MP Recovery substats on your components (the generic one, in and out of combat, along with Max MP), you will never run out of MP even without adding extra mods to reduce MP cost. You do not even need to take MP Collector.
- With the blue and purple mods that reduce CD, along with little you get with Focus on Chill, you will hit that sweet 68.2% CD Reduction. The reason this is the sweet spot is that there is a HARD CAP on CD reduction at 90%, of which Cold-Bloodedness will give you an additional 20%, bringing that 68.2% to 88.2%. Essentially as close as you can get without wasting stats/mod slots. No real need for more CD Reduction when you are only 1.8% from the cap. Allowing you (if lucky) to just get Skill Crit Rate and Skill Crit DMG substats on your reactor as the best in slot rolls.
- Her base CD's are 7s/25s/20s/60s and 20s on the passive. At max 90% CD, you'll be at 0.7s/2.5s/2s/6s and 2s, which is insane. This also means that you will always have a Blizzard up while being able to spam her skills (well, if doing what was mentioned above, you would be at 88.2%, which would bring you to 0.826s/2.95s/2.36s/7.08s and 2.36s.... close enough).
- You also do not need any Duration buffs from mods either, by using the 2-piece bonus from the Annihilation set. This will bump that 6s duration of Blizzard to just barely over, allowing for that extra tick, getting 3 ticks in before the big hit at the end.
- Not needing any DEF or Shield mods when mobbing, you can go full Range as well, turning this into an amazing mobbing build.
- At max Range, her 3 becomes a mobbing beast. It turns from a simple 10x3 line in front of you into a huge spammable 25x7 field of ice that wipes things out. Along with her 1's small 3.5 radius going to a 8.75 and her Blizzards you place everywhere from 4/6 (for the ticks and final hit which hits in a larger AoE) to 10/15.
- Or if using in bossing, you do not need as much range and can add some extra survivability in there.
- Even with spamming her 1 and 3 like crazy, a Tech reactor is generally taken because Blizzard still hits crazy strong.
- Even with a Tech Reactor though, you can have her 1 crit for 1.5 million in the training area against things with no Chill RES (not even weak to it), while against Colossi, that will still hit for 400-500k at spammable rates....
Hypothermia
- Also usable by Normal and Ultimate Viessa and can kill bosses almost as fast as Cold-Bloodedness (only seen a couple second differences depending on the build), even though this mod is often thought as a mobbing only mod by many at a glance.
- It changes her Blizzard and Passive into Singular type skills, leaving her with Fusion/Fusion/Fusion/Singular and her passive as Singular.
- With that, one generally takes Singular as the reactor type of choice, as much of her DPS is as always Blizzard, but also her passive.
- Her passive, no longer slows, but instead deals a very strong DoT. Allowing her to leave large ice trails that damage like Valby as well as EVERY thing she does now add those extra DoTs (something that was missed in Ryechews Games' video, who said it was really only for her Icy Roads....).
- Because of this, Hypothermia, instead of focusing on big numbers, is about an insane amount of DoT's that constantly damage and melt away the target's HP.
- This allows it to be very good for Farming/Mobbing and surprisingly, Bossing as well.
Absolute-Zero
- Showcased in this video, it is EXCLUSIVE to Ultimate Viessa, thus not able to be enjoyed by the majority that haven't farmed her up or opened their wallet.
- Turns everything she has into Singular, leaving her with Singular/Singular/Singular/Singular and a Singular passive.
- Her passive itself changes just like with Hypothermia, but instead of changing it to a DoT, it makes it so Crit's generate her Sphere's now. So you need to build for Crit (all her builds do anyway...), while further buffing the damage her Sphere's do.
- All in all, it doesn't really change her kit much other than making it really nice to have a reactor that actually buffs EVERYTHING she does.
- Her spheres also inflict Frostbite, but the set that can use it isn't really the best set and you're generally better off with a combination of two different 2p sets or just generic things, since you want those MP regen substats like all her other builds.
- The Sphere buff, like Hypothermia's DoT's, allow Viessa to really stack on extra DPS when her passive normally just slows things. On that front they do seem to have Cold-Bloodedness beat, but Cold-Bloodedness doesn't lose it's slows while being able to spam the most spells, which is why it tends to win the DPS race.
Cold Snap Watch
- Changes her 3 into a field that lasts while dealing high DoT's
- Purely a farming mod, but can be nice. It doesn't offer nearly as much as the previous 3, but with expansions and durations added, it can lock down an area as well as any Valby or Freyna, allowing one to focus on another area..... Not much else to say about this mod. It's very simple.
Cold Cohesion
- Exclusive to Ultimate Viessa like Absolute-Zero, but completely useless sine Absolute-Zero exists.
- Already explained in the video this is posted on, but as mentioned, while it allows you 5 spheres instead of 3, they still only fire one at a time and this mod doesn't do anything else. No buffing the spheres or changing her typing. With the spheres firing at the same rate and if you always generate and have more ready to fire, Absolute-Zero's buff to their DPS will do far more.....
Glacial Cloud
- You can already summon the Blizzard at a distance with her base kit and any of her other mods.
- You can now throw out her Blizzard with a visual grenade like lob.....
- It literally does nothing else. No buffs, no changes, nothing..... Just pointless.....
With all that said, Viessa has many viable builds.
The first 4 can all be used for mobbing.
The first 3 can also be used for bossing.
On weapons though, she has two big choices that were not even talked about in this video.....
Clairvoyance
- The obvious one. This Beam Rifle lowers Chill RES by a huge -80% when you max out the weapon, while also slowing enemy movement by 90%, including everything but Colossi.
- This makes it an amazing team weapon along for the slow on priority targets as they essentially freeze in place for your team to wail on them.
- The weapon itself however really shines in two situations
- One, if you build for long Durations, thus you can use this to remove the RES off a target while your Blizzard goes to town on the enemy. This of course means that a spell slinger build isn't going to be using the Clairvoyance as it does take away from spell spamming.
- Two, if there is more than one Viessa on the team, only one needs a Clairvoyance for everyone to take advantage of it, which can be really fun.
Blue Beetle
- The fun choice and the best option for spell slingers.
- This weapon DOES NOT WORK with Absolute-Zero other than for a Cleanse of status effects (which can be nice but situational). As Singular triggers this cleanse.
- The main perk of the weapon is that when a Fusion skill is used (her 1/2/3 when not using Absolute-Zero), gives her a sizable Skill Critical Rate buff.
- The buff is +30%a FLAT Base Critical Rate buff for 10%
- This buff cannot be modified by anything, be it mods, reactor substats or the like.
- Viessa's base Skill Crit Rate is 15%, so this is a +4.5% flat increase to whatever she has after mods, very nice and will always be up.
- This weapon is another reason why Cold-Bloodedness and Hypothermia can get even more consistent crits (and thus DPS) than Absolute-Zero.
- Note that Hypothermia, like Bunny, can make use of both the Skill Crit Rate buff and Cleanse, having both Fusion and Singular skills.
- The weapon in its own right is a very nice Scout Rifle, offering 100 (perfect/maxed) accuracy, high fire rate and a scope if needed.
- When fully built, it can reliably do critical hits on weak points for 400k per shot.
Viessa in the end doesn't really need a weapon if going full spell slinger. As you'll never have time to use the weapon in that case, but these are great choices.
Of course a sniper would also be a fine choice for when things are too far away and you just need a strong accurate shot, but the Blue Beetle also covers that decently enough while buffing her skills tremendously.
The Secret Garden can work if not using Hypothermia or Absolute-Zero, as it requires Blizzard to stay as a Tech skill (her passive, which would also be Tech, doesn't trigger Secret Garden and that might be a bug). However it is hard to maintain stacks with it, since even when maxed, Secret Garden's buffs do not have a 100% trigger rate. If you are lucky and Blizzard procs the buffs on every hit though, this can be a very nice Skill Power buff.... But that is a lot of RNG for Viessa and the weapon is probably better on another character, while again, the Blue Beetle is 100% uptime and no RNG. Secret Garden, though note, is getting an unknown buff on July 31st with the update. So things here could change for the better.....
ANYWHO,
I've rambled quite a bit and I'm sure very few have read this.
Hope it helped someone learn some things about her Transcendent Mods and Ultimate Weapon choices.
nah u copy pastin this everywhere arent u
@@TCGSyphax Nope.
I DID write a very similar (and long) post in one other Viessa Build video.
However if you did take the time to read it, it actually is different and covers a handful of different points.
Wording is also different because it is tailored to address things that are spoken about specifically in the video said long post was made in.
But "everywhere" would be a stretch if I only wrote up something similar once.
@@blackkat101 GOATED POSTS, i was looking for somewhere that explained which mod changed which Skill's type eg Tech to Singular, even has substat recommendations!
What is you cold blooded build
@@carter9543 Okay then, this time it will be a complete copy/paste of something I posted in response to someone else asking the same thing (so everything below is that):
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- Cold-Bloodedness
- Long-Distance Grapple
- Dangerous Ambush
- Skill Insight
- Increased HP
- Focus on Chill
- Nimble Fingers
- Emergency Measures
- Front Lines
- Maximize Range
- Skill Expansion
- MP Conersion
This is for general use, but can be used for bossing as is.
The weapon is best as Blue Beetle, as that offers an additional +4.5% Skill Crit Rate when maxed with 100% uptime.
Place the Defense Master mod on the Blue Beetle, as that will give +128.3% DEF on every enemy kill for 10s with only a 15s down time, which makes up for any DEF you might feel you're missing. Very high uptime.
All other mods on the gun are extra as you won't have time to shoot with a spell slinger build like this.
On bossing, you can drop Maximize Range for Spear and Shield to get some extra DEF along with the Skill Power that it offers (making a good offensive choice still at the cost of less range).
You NEED MP Regen (general one), MP Regen in Combat, MP Regen out of Combat as well as Max MP on your components.
You also NEED Max DEF on the substats, but do NOT need any DEF as a main stat. You will have enough with just that.
The other main stats should be x2 Max HP and x2 Max Shield (unless using a set). With the shield, just like with MP, you will want the Shield Regen buffs on components. All of that is the best survivability for her. Again, not really necessary to build any DEF beyond what was mentioned.
She DOES NOT need MP Collector if you have gold rolls on all those component MP regen substats. As you already have lowered cost because of Cold-Bloodedness and then all that regen will give you way more MP than you ever need. If you ever step out of combat, you will almost instantly have max MP again, but also generate it very quickly in combat.
If you for some reason feel you NEED more survivability, you can drop Dangerous Ambush for HP Collector (but in general, not necessary unless you have useless teammates and really need to deal with everything yourself, be it in Colossi fights or Wave Defense....). MP collector can also be used in this spot, but in Colossi fights, it's not really going to help since there are not many things to kill to get said MP and in the world, you are out of combat so often that your MP is just instant regenerated....
Note that with this build, you will have 68.2% CD without Cold-Bloodedness and when you activate Cold-Bloodedness, it brings you to that sweet 88.2% (only 1.8% from the cap, so no wasted stats). Meaning you do not need any CD reduction on your Reactor.
Thus not needing CD reduction on your reactor at all, your god rolls would then be
Skill Crit DMG
Skill Crit Rate
Chill Power Modifier
In that order. Crit ones are the best for getting the higher DPS, but Chill is also good. Any other rolls won't be helping you much.
You could get some more Skill Cost reduction as an okay thing to make things even cheaper, but not really necessary when you already get -20% skill cost from Cold-Bloodedness being active.
You also don't need Skill Range, since you already have so much in your kit that you're maxing those out in the normal version of the build.
Do not get Duration either, as you will already be just over 6s on her 4, getting that extra tick. You would only want more Duration if you got enough to get her OVER 8s (as you need it to be even 0.01s over each 2s interval to get that extra tick of damage or it is not worth it).
OH.... you need 2p Annihilation set for the small Skill Duration buff you need. You want the Memory and Processor from the set, as their mainstats are Max HP (while the other two are Max DEF, not wanted).
The other two (Auxiliary and Sensor) do not need to be from a set, but if you do, Polar Night is where you want this 2p set from for a bit more Chill Skill Power.
Note that sets are harder to farm than generic components, so that is up to you on how much effort you want to put into Viessa.....
Her 3 will be your favorite button with how it takes out entire groups on demand, with 1 being powerful and even more spammable. And of course, her 4 being the biggest DPS when needed and also pretty spammable.
2 keeps you as the 3rd fastest descendant in the game and keeps your Cold-Bloodedness active, so that'll always be on too.
Hope that all helps.
...okay, just wanted to type out the Components out neater, so here that is for ideal Compoenents:
Polar Night 2p (Chill Skill Power)
- Auxiliary (Max HP): Max HP and MP Recovery out of Combat
- Sensor (Max HP): Max MP and MP Recovery in Combat
Annihilation 2p (Skill Duration)
- Memory (Max HP): Max DEF and MP Recovery Modifier
- Processor (Max HP): Max Shield and Shield Recovery Modifier
Sadly, you cannot get the Shield Recovery In and Out of Combat substats, as the MP stuff is WAY more important.
The MP, HP and DEF stuff is all required and thus only the Processor is a bit more on the extra side. However there isn't anything else good to get but the shield substats, so just go with that if you can.
YOU DO really want the Annihilation set, again, for that small bit of Skill Duration for an extra tick from your Blizzard as you are not getting any from your mods or reactor (allowing those to focus on other things).
The Polar Night set itself, again, is extra if you want to really push your DPS, but you can use generic ones here.
If using generic ones, the main stat can be Max HP or Max Shield, either works fine (just set pieces are fixed, which is why they're all listed as such).
for mp collector the Xiantic slot- i would strongly recommend energy collection. i find the mp recovery modifier boost is far more reliable to use since it stacks with mp recovery in/out of combat from your components and with cold blooded+slayer set (extra skill cost) im never running out of mana, especially during colussi when there are natural break off points when you are forced out of combat like from the immune phases you can go from empty to full in ~3 seconds its kinda nutty.
I'll try this
@ricardosharry8944 the big thing is you need mp recovery in/out combat . Mp recovery out is more of a luxury pick I was doing fine with just mp recovery in combat with proper blizzard only spam for bossing. But ideally you want both especially if you want to just use everything lol. If you have none all it's going to do is let you top up off 1 blue orb. So you got to farm for good rolls but it scales way better then collector.
@@crazedmonk8u nice one!, I'll have to try this since I'm always struggling with mana and mp collector doesn't seem work for me
I agree completely. MP Collector would be good (better for mobbing) if it had a higher chance to activate and on something other than mob kill.
It also barely recovers any mana because its 12% of your MP (on a 13% chance - JeeeeZUS that feels bad) and combined with *-max MP* from MP conversion, it's just not that much.
Yeah Mp collector is more for someone like Valby or Bunny
Im currently using normal viessa, and have loved her since the my first log in. Glad someone is putting in some effort to showing her off!
Viessa mains rise up
I'm not using my Viessa currently because I plan to only invest on her for real, when I get the Ultimate, same for Bunny. I'm currently maining Freyna instead since I think her Ultimate will take a while to arrive. But Viessa is still my most used Decendant.
@bloody4558 base bunny is so heavenly for grinding mats. Honestly, she's saved my sanity haha.
i love the This is my build, not the best build energy. Also hands down the best explanaitions on yt, not focusing on the most damage in every character is super refreshing love the vids!!:)
quick corrections for anyone checking
-viessa passive makes 3 spheres as soon as u proc a shackle, its not 1 per
-viessa bliz is double dmg the 1st tick, ticks another 3 times even at base, then the explosion. depending on how the game feels, u may not get the last tick along with the explosion unless u add 1% duration. it takes 6s to do 1440x5 + 1840 = 9000* (or 7600) skill power not 6500
-cold blood: idk what he means "aquire certain things" u just press the button and its on permanently as long as u keep track or recasting it before it runs out
-consider maximize conservation or other sort of -cost, stacks well with cold blood and still ncie to have on az
-u cant get bliz below 6s cd as the cap for cdr is 90%
-slayer set isnt too mandatory tbh the polar full set on cold blood does the same dps overall without massively eating ur mana // edit for this: tbh i can see polar not being that efficient if u run only 2 crit mods as opposed to 4
the legend from my discord!!!
i think the polar set is bugged for absolute zero. I can never get the full 10 stacks on polar night but i do use the 2pc
@dataz9912 same here I just use 2 pieces
"good enough is good enough for me and at the end of the day, if its good enough its good enough"
- Ryechews 2024
Never in my life have I heard a some into maths say "close enough is good enough".
Thank you for this detailed guide, I've been trying to explain to some friends that skill power modifier is pretty much diminishing returns once you get to a huge number like Viessa. So, It doesn't hurt the build as much as you think it would using a module or two that subtract a small amount of points from the number. Especially since its the numbers you do add are additive.
After watching all your first descendants vids, i can safely say you, my sir, are one of the few youtubers i trust when it comes to builds. Thank you for your work 🙏. I would recommend looking into the secret garden for the bossing build
Yeees! A 30 min long video! 🎉🥳 Its gonna be a pleasure to watch!
Fun fact about Absolute Zero, you can circumvent the skill crit/frostbite requirements to summon spheres by just applying frostbite from another source, like the Clairvoyance
you are correct. but honestly stopping my skills to proc 3 beam levels is a waste
@@ryechew while you are right clairvoyance is fun and I like it because lazors are cool, beam rifles in general tho I think need a buff lul
you can just applying frostbite by having chill damage on your weapon with good enough attribute chance.
@@Silentpoppy they need a big one. Like 30% atk
Infusing the Clairvoyance to get the beam charge up quicker alongside the blue mod for the beam charge time makes it much more smooth to play. Having that nice duration blizzard down and you can ramp up that beam much more quickly for that nice def shred. Not too mention since it's a crit weapon has that nice synergy with Absolute Zero. Defo a nice alternative if you don't want to go for that strict caster playstyle and want a bit more gun play.
one of the fewest or maybe the only complete and well explained viessa builds guide that you can find right now. terrific work brother...
Fun fact you can throw ice shard above pyro’s head to destroy his enrage tube if crit you can destroy it with one hit if not it may take up to 4
you need skill expansion. if the aoe from center hits pyro before the stick its immune. It takes 2 non crits to break. but everytime i try i get clapped with chain rings. I would have to try over and over for best run for that. I do it in a party though or try the ledges
Skill Concentration + Skill Insight would give greater crit increase than Front Lines + Emergency Measures since the 2 blue mods give 115% in crit dmg and crit rate vs the 93% from the 2 purples
Yeah it would lol. Oops
yes true, not sure why he went with 2 purples. especially since they are all Xiantic. Speaking of. what do you think would be better Skill cont+skill insight+front lines and either dangerous ambush as the 4th or emergency measures as the 4th? running cold blooded
Why not just use all 4 together?
Nice this gives me something fun to do with my ultimate viessa I finally got yesterday.
Hey Ryechews, I wanted to get some feedback from you on something I've noticed with Viessa's Blizzard ability.
So, I had been doing some in-depth testing in the lab and I noticed that at its base duration, Blizzard has a very bizarre inconsistency. The base duration is 6 seconds with damage intervals every 2 seconds thereafter for 6 seconds. The initial cast of Blizzard does 2 ticks of damage at the same time. After 2 seconds, there is another tick, and then another after 4 seconds. So, we are at 4 ticks of damage at this point.
Here is what I find very bizarre - seemingly random, at the 6 second mark, Blizzard will do either 1 more damage tick with the explosion, for a total of 5... or 2 more for a total of 6.
With an increase of just 5% skill duration (the lowest percentage I could find when testing), Blizzard will ALWAYS do 6 damage ticks, the 5th tick occurring just before the explosion.
Recapping, when at its base duration, there is _sometimes_ a 5th damage tick that occurs at the same time as the explosion, for a total of 6. And adding a mere 5% will guarantee 6 damage ticks.
From what I can tell, this creates two scenarios. First one being that at its base duration, Blizzard is only supposed to have 5 damage ticks and frequently is getting a bonus 6th tick that it shouldn't be getting alongside the explosion. Second scenario being that it is supposed to get 6 total damage ticks at base duration, but frequently only gets 5.
With how the ability's stats are displayed when hovering over it in the Descendant menu, and that at 6.3 seconds duration resulting from the 5% duration increase that there is a Continuous Damage tick at 6 seconds, I'm inclined to believe that there should be a Continuous Damage tick at the 6 seconds mark alongside the explosion at base duration. So, I'm hoping that the second scenario is what is occurring, and if it is, that the devs fix it.
What do you think?
Your content is so superior to others that I can't even watch other guides man. It's like you actually include all the information and EVERYONE else is regurgitating 3rd grade presentations with their hands in their pockets... Keep posting vids because you're the fucking GOLD standard on this game to me.
She's great all around, but I wish the collosi would stay in place for more than 2 seconds...if they stayed in place, your 4 with cold bloodedness would be able to shred collosi so much faster.
As a Viessa main, I completely agree. You’ll get most benefit from using your abilities when the boss is staggered.
As a 250 hour Viessa Main, You dont use kit till you grapple on, ie, i get yellow shoulder, hit my cold blood drop a blizzard then grapple on. They stay in the zone taking the full damage. you dont knock off the piece till the shaking off animation to get more time. Then take off the piece fall down your cooldown will be ready drop another blizzard while they're staggered. Shoot knee or chest weakpoint. Rinse and repeat, if you pay attention to the grapple immunity you can get 2 in before they ever enrage. When you are grappled on and after when they drop the rage meter does not go up. Maximum damage per phase.
@@chipperdrewski As a 250 hour Viessa Main, You dont use kit till you grapple on, ie, i get yellow shoulder, hit my cold blood drop a blizzard then grapple on. They stay in the zone taking the full damage. you dont knock off the piece till the shaking off animation to get more time. Then take off the piece fall down your cooldown will be ready drop another blizzard while they're staggered. Shoot knee or chest weakpoint. Rinse and repeat, if you pay attention to the grapple immunity you can get 2 in before they ever enrage. When you are grappled on and after when they drop the rage meter does not go up. Maximum damage per phase.
@@steeloc I literally said that.
multitalented on the absolute zero build would be a recommendation
the singularity boost is bugged and only does like 8% or i would have. thanks i forgot to put that in the video.
2k hp💀💀 I know a lot of people learn the choreography of bosses but your overall regular player don't.
The honesty and sobriety of your videos is great.
Thank you.
You're the absolute authority on TFD. All of your videos and information is spot on and highly informative. Deeply appreciate seeing at least one youtuber for this game not following hype or using clickbait tactics while also misinforming people. Would love to pick your brain about a full support Jayber build I've been working on. I believe with future updates and the new descendant Luna we'll be seeing more builds focused around playing RPG "roles" rather than squeezing every descendant into the DPS role box.
Timestamps would be really helpful.
i had time stamps on you tube didnt register them. They are back now though
I love long videos like these! Especially for characters i didn't play yet.
Amazing video. Really appreciate all the thought-process behind the builds, the explanations, and the effort that went into making this. Really helpful, thank you.
I had the same conclusion about the increase to number of ice spheres, because I found that in most cases I never ran out of spheres. Of course the lower cooldown on the spheres could have made it a viable DPS build, where you launch one spell, then let all the spheres go off, before you launch another spell. I did this early on with Viessa as a way to consume MP.
When you have enough MP though, you have better DPS just spamming skills, and then sometimes letting your MP recover while you shoot your gun. (And with Cold-Bloodedness I can more or less spam my 1-Skill and only get a few Thunder Cage shots off in between).
I think if the way the spheres worked was just altered slightly you could get a cool thing going. At first I thought the spheres would be granted one by one, thus spamming skills was a way to get more of them. So, you could go "build up spheres, let spheres go why you replenish MP/shoot your gun). But when you get all at once, every skill you cast after that apply new spheres, and it's just simply a nice added damage.
another banger. Some of this knowledge can definetly transfer to other descendant, that's neat. Going deep in each descendant specific is neater, looking forward for a complete serie !
Perfect. I just came full circle, I started the game with Viessa then swapped to Gley for a long time, and I finally hit the point that I'm tired of spamming massacre every nine seconds. I want a skill spam character I can use some times, my trigger finger is worn out XD
Started to build her, for what ever reason i don't want the cold bloodedness for bossing, but absolute zero, maybe because all skills will have the same type which will unify the modules. I already had secret garden maxed which make me hesitate for this choice. For the first time in this game i feel lost, viessa is absolutely my favorite descendant fun and powerful
excellent informative video, very clear and precise, just discovered your channel and after watching this Viessa build you have my sub...Great work and keep it up!
You earned a sub and viewer so many ppl... Just don't explain clearly what's going on... And you did that....i truly appreciate it...i don't even play Viessa wasn't even interested this video as made me reconsider... Thank you
It's honestly *genius* to leave a mod slot blank to be able to swap it in and out as needed. I would have never thought of that.
Damn what a really cool build !
My English doesn't allow me to understand all the little tips, but on the whole it's fine!
2 questions:
- As long as the character isn't a full catalyst, which modes are best to start with?
- Once you've got Viessa Ultimate, can you decraft the basic version to earn a slot?
i recently got into viessa and had a blast with her! i have a huge appreciation for your hard work and insight. i’ve been relying on your videos to help understand the game and they have been super helpful
maybe im missing something but why use emergency and front lines over the 2 blue crit mods? they provide more crit chance and dmg
Lol because I'm dumb and you are most definitely correct 😮
Wait so drop one or both of those mods and just go blue?
@@leonseuropeanislandadventu7398 yes. My brain some time oh purple better cause rare
A youtuber named Wafflicious has a 4 crit mod, max 90% CD using Multitalented, no extra skill range build with max upgraded blue beetle showcase. He did like around 52 mil on Molten Fortress in 2m41s only spamming skills and barely shooting at all. In teamplay, for consistency, I think 3 crit mod and Dangerous Ambush is the way to go. Blue beetle gives 1.5~4.5% extra crit rate on Viessa depending on the upgrade without any extra mp consumption and 100% trigger rate at max. Dont think I would go the extra thousand miles to max upgrade blue beetle just for Viessa lol but on Sharen, 6% extra crit rate could be worth it.
I really this structure of build video because you explain the math behind the choice of mods. Look forward to more content like this.
Excellent video, perfectly explained. Thank You.👍👍👍
I want ult Viessa so bad... been grinding for a couple days. I'm half way there. Thanks for the great vid!
It wasn't mentioned but Absolute Zero gives Frost Roads an actual damage value, so you can just run around and kill open world things when they run over your Frost Roads. Hypothermia can do the same but the Frost Roads applies the Hypothermia DOT, where as Absolute Zero just gives it damage. The difference when speccing into both, is Hypothermia will tick 2 to 3 times to kill something, but Absolute Zero will kill in 1 tick. I used Absolute Zero during the Valby Outpost to instantly kill everything as it spawned so it killed faster than most Valby's, but it wont get as wide as Valby's trail.
I had been using Hypothermia as a mobbing setup as I don't have Absolute Zero yet but I'm looking forward to updating my mobbing build when that happens. Thanks for the upload
I use hypothermia it's really good for a valby run just add duration and you're just as good as valby farming. I have glacial, cold bloodeness, and cold snap. Cold snap is another fun mod I use it for special ops missions it does dot with some duration mods you're good.
Love the videos !!! Just grinded and got Ult Viessa and then this video pops up !! Perfect timing
good video, unfortunately nobody gonna waste their time playing with randoms to get a mod locked behind frost walker (absolute) , so cold blooded it is, which i already have. Would rather have my skills all the time anyway. I think viessa skills are about slowing enemies so you and your group can damage the crap outta them with guns/team mates skills. Also I use her blizzard for cover to revive players and play a tank build, the game is so much more fun when your not scrubbing the floor all the time and helping the team. 25k - 30k defense first - 2 mods and use armor pieces if you have to then 2 hp mods and max out hp as much as you can with armor pieces left. so much more fun and game much easier.✌
I love this I can't wait for you to circle back and show your theory about grey and the executor shotgun
Yeah, I have found Executor to be underwhelming. So, I'd like to see some coverage on it to debunk or prove my experience.
@@thorinhannahs4614 thanks!!. I will check it out. I unfortunately dont play her. do yall wanna @ or dm me in discord so i can steal your footage?
@slabulous00
@ryechew Sorry dude, I am just a casual who doesn't record. I don't play Gley either. I am just messing with shotguns to see what I like (Ajax main). I'll have to do more testing over my weekend. Smithereens asks you to do the same thing as Executor, but you need to do less of it, and it doesn't penalize you if a pellet strays. The shock proc from Executor is underwhelming, but maybe a Bunny or infinite heavy weapon character would change that. Smithereens is just a good time. I have both ult shotguns at max perk.
I love how informative your video is as always. Looking forward to more content!
Love your videos, probably my favorite TFD creator.
Side note tho, definitely recommend time stamps for these longer videos. Makes it easier to come back to later and find what you need.
He has em.in description
Here after the Viessa Summer outfit buff. I really like her since she was my most played during the beta
My man! Best TFD creator hands down. Thank you for this!
Nice build! I run a build similiar to this with a few different modules. With a maxed secret garden, it clears pyro in 7 seconds using only abilities.
I’m gonna be honest with you I feel like mp collecter actually does nothing I just feel like a 17% chance to get mp is too low
Real. I get the mp regen stats on my components and make do with that. I really only feel mp collecter on characters like bunny who just kill whole maps
Having the Clairvoyance should help with more damage as well. I'm farming it now for my Viessa. -20% chill resistance, possibly -40% if Void Gaze and Appalled Calling stack.
Unfortunately they do not stack, but it's 40% at max rank of the perk. But also unfortunately, it's kind of mediocre. I don't regret grinding it out as more damage is more damage and it feels good to use.
Level up your reactor for more damage. I always forget to do it also.
Everything was correct except what you said about hypothermia. There's videos of speed runners using it. It's viable I believe it killed a hard pyro in 30 seconds
9:14, lol man's shot me right in the heart. This mod SHOULD be useful.
Love your content and appreciate all the work you put in to better the community!
Just the fact that its an original build that performs great, is well mathed out and relies on skills instead of guns....🎉 Of course there are common mods across builds but the info you add about the transcendent mods and attack/crit mods. Its just fantastic.
Ill be switching from hypothermia and trying out coldbloodness
They need to hire you to do tooltips and in game tutorials 😂
Cold Snap Watch is definitely worth it and is superior to Absolute Zero for farming in settings where mobs spawn in localized and predictable spots if you build her right (maximalizing CD reduction, skill duration, and range). It's excellent for XP/shard farming, especially in groups of 2 or more Viessas. Y'all should be using the right descendant for the right purpose - localized/predictable mob spawns > Viessa, unpredictable/spread out spawned> Bunny. That said I do understand not everyone has multiple fully build descendants.
Shame it’s impossible to get it to drop
Glacial Cloud allows to throw it out on the move while not having to pause actions to aim, keeping high mobility. So player preference.
There is a bug with Viessa range. Blizzard says max expand range is 250%, but actually it caps at 200%. Basic range is 4m, you cannot get it more than 12m.
I cant wait for the ajax videos, ive been working on a couple different variations with the red modules and want to see some math lol
I appreciate you actually using Viessa for the boss kill. One thing I wouldn’t have minded seeing was using Nazeistra’s a few times for the DEF reduction. I’m not sure how much it actually does but I try to get a few shots in while Blizzard is going.
Great vid as always.
defence and elemental defence are 2 separate defences, so doing skill dmg that is entirely chill in this case i dont believe has any increase, but it is useful for helping teammates dps and will improve their gun dmg during the fight overall
@@jordanmatchett6155 ahh, that’s right. I heard def and ele def were separate on your descendant, I should’ve known it would apply to enemies too.
@@jordanmatchett6155 You're wrong, nazeistra def debuff actually increases spell damage. You can try it out in 5 seconds in the lab.
Great work. Great video. Just subscribed! Currently have a viessa. But im one part away from her ultimate. So really dont wanna invest in the normal one. But will try out this build out.
Double comment. I would love to see your breakdown on reactors on whats best. I have been using a double gold skill crit rate & skill crit damage reactor for her since im running cold blooded. Not sure how the math stacks out on if i went too hard on crit rate stuff and should have went for a tech boost + colossi boost. also i see you don't run any hp mods, the mad lad!! im thinking about doing the same so i can burst out max damage and try it out.
I hate the fact that the power boost on your reactor for mounting is only active while you have that weapon active and when you switch to another weapon while running around you lose that mounting bonus power…. I wish it were applied if it were equipped in one of the three slots rather than being the active in hand weapon….
I had to stop watching this since Absolute Zero drops off one of the dumbest/hardest to pug Intercept bosses. I'm stuck on Frost Walker and don't see that changing any time soon.
Eh he aint that bad. just farm up a lepic/ult lepic or hope that you get some while pugging. Took me 12 or so kills to get the mod. I went in with ult lepic and 90% of the time there was another with me
Love the explanation and the builds. Ill need to farm and invest into those augment mods
They did alot of stuff with 3's and 6's in this game. The fire rate on the Thundercage is 666 (number of the beast) fitting i guess for one of the best guns in the game & if I add the 25% fire rate mod it becomes 888 for some reason (Angel Number)
If i add 30% more rounds to it the ammo count is 33
Crit chance with a maxed insight is 33.32%
Shot accuracy is 88.88
Classic Viessa Colossi, start a blizzard and he teleports elsewhere. I really love Viessa, feels like one of the best rounded kits so far. What do you think about the legendary beam rifle that inflicts frostburn?
^^ As it's a beam riffle you only need to hold the button.
As a 250 hour Viessa Main, You dont use kit till you grapple on, ie, i get yellow shoulder, hit my cold blood drop a blizzard then grapple on. They stay in the zone taking the full damage. you dont knock off the piece till the shaking off animation to get more time. Then take off the piece fall down your cooldown will be ready drop another blizzard while they're staggered. Shoot knee or chest weakpoint. Rinse and repeat, if you pay attention to the grapple immunity you can get 2 in before they ever enrage. When you are grappled on and after when they drop the rage meter does not go up. Maximum damage per phase.
Good video thank you I always thought the DPS numbers didn’t make sense especially with the mods
This is the viessa build as an ajax/kyle player i see on the floor the most yet dealing the most dps. Its fine guys we tank mains gotchu nuke away. 😂😂
I do thank you for your service lol
All glass all the time lol. I feel that's the meta. I main dps, I feel if you're not a stacked tank it's not worth it to go above and beyond defensively.
My gley does so much self damage 40k def and 20k+ hp doesn't matter if I'm at half hp before the fight begins and lose 10 percent every 9 seconds. I'd rather just go down and be revived rather than having to drop frenzy , pop hp buff and hug walls and adds popping heal every couple of seconds just to drop back down to half life lol
Saving this for later. Thanks for the vids. Keep it up.
I've been watching all your TFD videos, they're insanely informative. Thanks. I saw what you did with Kyle and Viessa is my main so I'm extra curious to know what you've cooked up
Amazing video! I would love to see a Gley,Valby,Freyna build. Specially Gley xD
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The reactor could pump even more if it was upgraded.
None of the shown reactors are upgraded to +2, keep that in mind while looking up numbers.
Great video. Would highly recommend some DMCA free music of some sort during the sped up sections, but I do think this'll help me enjoy my viessa more.
I did notice reactors dropping less - and I like and don't like it.
I find it annoying to constantly get reactors for characters I don't use/need when I'm doing other things.
It would honestly be nice if we could turn on and off the drop of the special rewards.
for everyone dont useemergency measures and frontlines, use the two blue perks it gives you way more than this. and this is a fact
You use all four usually.
My first video I've watched for viessa and we aren't identical but it's close lol😂😂
Any chance we could get some math on crit resistance, in particular the special ammo mod Analysis Master that reduces enemy crit resist
This needs more upvote!
i was going to make request to make a full frost roads build for the valby farm. i think it would be funny.
My AZ build is hitting 480-510M on crit, definitely my favorite mod for viessa.
Thank you for your channel you are great with your information
I don't know if you will see this Ryechew but you are inaccurate regarding the range on Blizzard. She caps at 250%, so 2.5x on a base of 6m for a max of 15m. With max Skill Expansion and max Maximize Range, you are about 30% over the max even though the info on the ability will show 18m. It's actually 15m. Test it in the lab!
Cold bloodedness is great I just wish it didn't get rid of the increased speed. I'll farm for Absolute Zero whenever I somehow manage to beat Frost Walker
Just finished farming Ult Viessa and Ult Lepic time to grind again
What I found with her 4 is that it ticks at 0 - 2 - 4 seconds and explodes when it ends. I added a mod with just an extra 5% Duration that changed the duration of her 4 from 6 seconds to 6.3 seconds and now it ticks at 0 - 2 - 4 - 6 then explodes when it ends at 6.3 seconds. So I think the goal should be to get Duration as a perk on your reactor to save a mod slot and get an extra tick of damage for free.
So, I had been doing some in-depth testing in the lab and I noticed that at its base duration, Blizzard has a very bizarre inconsistency. The base duration is 6 seconds with damage intervals every 2 seconds thereafter for 6 seconds. The initial cast of Blizzard does 2 ticks of damage at the same time. After 2 seconds, there is another tick, and then another after 4 seconds. So, we are at 4 ticks of damage at this point.
Here is what I find very bizarre - seemingly random, at the 6 second mark, Blizzard will do either 1 more damage tick with the explosion, for a total of 5... or 2 more for a total of 6.
With the mod you mentioned equipped (the one I tested with is called An Outstanding Investment, providing 5% skill duration increase), Blizzard will ALWAYS do 6 damage ticks, the 5th tick occurring just before the explosion.
Recapping, when at its base duration, there is _sometimes_ a 5th damage tick that occurs at the same time as the explosion, for a total of 6. And adding a mere 5% will guarantee 6 damage ticks.
Blizzard has two parts to it - the first is the Continuous Damage, the Damage interval, and the Continuous Damage Range. The second part is the explosion Burst Damage and the Explosion Damage Range. When viewing the skill's stats from the Descendant tab of the menu, we can see that Damage Interval is listed beneath Continuous Damage. This means it applies to the Continuous damage, and when the explosion occurs is determined by the skill's duration. Mathematically, Blizzards base duration of 6 seconds and damage intervals every 2 seconds means it is supposed to have 3 ticks of Continuous Damage after the initial 2 damage ticks from casting it, and then the explosion for a total of 6 damage ticks at base duration.
Since it is seemingly random to get either 5 or 6 ticks, it is almost as if the skills duration fluctuates between like 5.99 seconds and 6 seconds, making the explosion frequently end the skill before that 5th tick of damage can occur.
So, unfortunately, you will frequently miss out on a _lot_ of damage if you don't use anything to give yourself even just a sliver of duration up.
Hope this made sense, trying to spread awareness in the hopes the devs fix it.
So this build (mobbing one) is amazing for damage but im curious as to how it performs in something like hard mode infiltration on higher waves on special ops like Void Experiments ? 2430 HP seems suicidal lol. I do see you have 14.8k Defense but does that make much of a difference with such low HP?
Actually NVM, just noticed you had that much HP on pyro and did fine. amazing!
It doesn't you'll get 2 tapped at best. 😂. Glass cannon build threw and threw.
@@NigelDRealesthe dodged most it's attacks bro watch again.
@@zaoshikung2756 yeah I noticed after
@@NigelDRealest If you're just speedrunning Void Intercept bosses solo, meaning you can because you have enough DPS modules, then you don't need it because you're just trying to kill them first before they kill you. That said, if you ever decide to play in public 4 man lobbies or doing general world mobbing, or they release harder content, then you're gonna need at least a couple defensive modules in there.
My conspiracy theory, he doesn't want to put defensive modules in because if he had to recommend what is actually the best all around build with defense, he'd go HP stacking because that's the best way to go with nearly all the characters barring one or two exceptions. However he released a (in)famous video at this point where a lot of people interpreted his math as saying you want 50k Defense, which is NOT true, you don't want anywhere near that much defense in this game, in fact you are better off ignoring Defense aside from a Memory external component substat and just go full HP stacking. But he doesn't want to reopen that wound so he just completely forgos it with a pure glass cannon build lol.
Would love your take on freyna ! 👀
Same .. I hope she gets a ultimate soon
@@reapersasmr5483I really hope hers is next. I'd love to see her Ultimate skin and new abilities like they are giving Valby.
I'm curious about the Clairvoyance, and how rate of fire works on beam rifles. Do you get the same number of hits per magazine no matter the rate of fire, or do we get more hits per magazine with a slowed rof?
Great video as usual, much respect for your work. Couldn’t help but notice that you went well over the 250% max expandable skill range though. (Blizzard explosion radius is 6, so x2.5 is 15?)Would it not be better to keep everything exactly the same and just not level up maximize skill all the way so it doesn’t decrease skill power as much?
Great vid, would be helpful if you quickly ran through where to farm the pieces of the build!
Skill insight and skill enlightenment will give you more crit than front lines and emergency measures. Just straight up better, only use the purples if you are stacking more than 2 crit mods.
Was about to mention this lmao.
Ok I'm sold. I'm buying ult Viessa.
Even the game says "Vee-essa" why do people still say "vye-essa"?
helll yea i just got my ult viessa out of the oven yesty and checkin out sum builds i already have hypothermia and cold bloodedness , was sorta working into hyperthermia but will b e swapping to cold bloodedness 4 sure
@ryechew just thought id suggest this but when your explaining skill mechanics with video footage of said skill in the background try to slow things down a little and let the video clip play out , a couple of time during this video you said "like this" but the clip was insanely quick and cut off fast , im actually pretty sure they were cut before/after the described event had happened. keep up the great work tho