Here's my build recommendations:
- Max valence, with Larva, using Vesper 77 with leaded gas, and gas infusion.
- Electric with coda pox or melee influence
- Min valence Xatablast, with proboscis cernos
- Min valence with cedo prime, using about any combined element
Steel Charge, Power Drift, full Umbral set, P. Continuity, Stretch, Augur Message, Amar's Hatred, Valence Formation, Arcane Reaper, Molt Augmented, two Tau blues for regen, and three Tau reds for melee crit. It's a shit build but it does everything I need it to do. I'm a melee player, usually using Karyst Prime or Dual Zoren Prime. Frame buffs the blades, blades buff the frame with Reaper and Fortification, good loop. Simple, fun, effective.
True, it isn't, but damage is. And I don't really need more attack speed, I like my healing and armor more. I like to health tank. I am the most basic of bitches.
you already have 207% str with mods, arcane slots can give you so much more than just more strength. especially with focus school buffs like sling strength if you really wanted more strength
My setup does what I want it to do, the way I like to do it. Could it be better? Absolutely. But I'm happy with what I have and don't feel the need to optimize. I learned years ago that chasing bigger, better, more all the time is a fast track to burnout. So I find what works for me and stick with it.
Null Star is affected by universal weapon damage buffs.
Like Valence Formation.
If you stack enough of this like swap mods and arcane Arachne with high power strength and the augment to dump all your null stars at once it can do CHUNKY damage.
You’re missing out on some funny variety. It takes thought behind which to subsume to keep the elements that matter, but Lavos does like some subsumes.
Let me give you the single most important piece of advice on playing him that I had to figure out myself, despite having asked in threads like this a dozen times trying to figure out how to play him. It doesn't matter if you use him as a weapon buffer or nuke or anything else...
Know what the enemies you're fighting are weak against and infuse your abilities with that before you use them. If you don't, you will not experience what it is to lavos.
Yeah, as somebody who JUST finally had it click how important infusions are to playing him, no matter the build, I need to do that. I find myself accidentally using my abilities when I'm trying to infuse an element way too often.
When you say max valence and min valence what stat are you referring to? Since it's always 200% I try to work with a mix of range and enough duration to be able to forget about it for a little while, but I also like going all in on range to make vial rush a more effective movement ability, and probe convert more drops easier
The passive augment with twin rogga and the arcane that makes you deal flat damage per proc is really, really funny. The smiting flintlocks of "fuck you". Blast is a flashbang, cold is a freeze ray, so on and so forth
With a riven, i think the highest I've gotten its multishot is in the mid 50's range
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u/Saikousoku2 16h ago
Me, who hasn't changed my Lavos build in like two years and barely ever swaps weapons