Cold Hearted

SKILL TREE NOTES

Unweave The Rainbow is the star of the show, as it will greatly increase your damage against frozen enemies, provided you're using a splash gun. Unweave is boosted by action skill damage, so maxing blue tree is a necessity.

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ACTION SKILL

Eternal Fist, for potentially the longest grasp time, for more nova destruction. It's also one of the grasp variants that begins and ends immediately when grasping a non-graspable target, and begins cooling down. This is useful because, for the most part, targets that cannot be lifted also cannot be frozen.

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With Expedite, every enemy that gets grasped and kills gives you a stack, and any enemy that gets killed by Unweave The Rainbow also gives you a stack.

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ACTION SKILL ELEMENT

Whatever element is suited to your content. Unweave The Rainbow will be that element, as will your "constant novas", even though those novas still have the ability to freeze enemies. You should also match this element to the gun you're using.

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GUNS

Anything decent that does splash damage, in fire, shock, and corrosive. Anointments: Killstack, Consecutive Hits, or ASE 125% Splash if applicable. Suggested guns: Plaguebearer, Backburner, Beacon, Sand Hawk, Free Radical, Major Kong, Guardian Angel (yes, as a gun to shoot), Kaoson, Prompt Critical.

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CLASS MOD

Spiritual Driver, with as many points into Mindfulness as possible, and also with a recommended Splash Damage Radius roll. Other recommended passives: action skill damage, splash damage, action skill cooldown rate, weapon type damage.

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Protip: turn dialog volume all the way down if you do not wish to hear Amara screaming from self-dots all of the time.

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SHIELD

Frozen Heart, with the anointment, "While Phasegrasp is active, Amara constantly triggers novas that deal 24756 damage." As mentioned at the top, these novas on this shield makes every nova have the freezing and healing properties of the Frozen Heart. They'll freeze everything around you while Eternal Fist is doing its thing.

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ARTIFACT

Elemental Projector Victory Rush, with an Area of Effect Damage roll in the 2nd or 3rd slot, which will increase the radius of your novas. The Elemental Projector means your action skill element needs to match your gun's element. Other recommended passives: weapon type damage, action skill cooldown rate, movement speed, elemental damage.

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GRENADE

Anything useful, with an ASE 50% radiation bonus element. The radsplosions will help obliterate frozen enemies. For utility, It's Piss, Hyperion Quasar (non sticky), Mesmer. Something like the Lightspeed can also deal decent damage with Unweave on frozen enemies, especially if it matches along with Elemental Projector.

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GAMEPLAY LOOP

The novas from your shield anointment aren't as large as the regular Frozen Heart novas, so getting good damage with the Driver usually means staying close and strafing around a grasped, frozen enemy. Once that enemy is dead, everything around you will also be frozen, and you can finish them off, then go looking for the next enemy that Eternal Fist found.

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Generally, like any Driver gun build, move quickly and shoot. Because this is a fairly close-quarters build, the only thing you have to look out for is splashing yourself in the face.

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NOTES - IMMUNE MALIWAN HEAVIES

Because of Elemental Projector, nearly all of your damage is stacked on one element, which can create problems with immune heavies in the Maliwan Takedown. Either punch/ground slam to deliver Groundbreaker to kill them, use a different element gun, or briefly swap action skill elements.

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NOTES - RAID BOSSING

This build has the old Amara-bossing-with-guns problem, at least when it comes to raid bossing. To overcome this, change over to a regular Driver build by swapping your Frozen Heart out for an Action Skill Start Re-Volter and move fast while shooting strong gun. If you wanna get really strong, put your action skill element on shock, swap to Phasecast, and use a 250% Phasecast Free Radical.

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