Uhh nearly exactly my build :D i use detonation trigger for explosion dmg + fire for extra mod regen (failsafe or failsafe from your amulet doesnt work well with arbalest.) mp-60 with tentacles and ammunition refund to not run empty on primary ammunition. shielded heart shield amount, mod dmg, health. rings: blasting cap (changeable) burden of the follower ( kinda BIS) shield for reload or shield for dogde or both maybe health regen while shielded (genesis ring) krell axe with corrosive mutator there is a mod that can split dmg from friend to enemy, but kills your minions cause kinship needs to be changed for more health for summons and kinda hard to use.
@evgiszzz0699Ай бұрын
Oh man, I'm having so much fin with this build, thanks! Couple alternatives to Probability Cord I used: First is Black Pawn Stamp - only because I didn't have access to mythic relic fragments - less damage but loop felt more consistent. And second is (and oh boy how I like it!) Burden of the Audacious. This ring has awesome interaction with the build - your Worm Hole is now is restoring 10% hp instead of consuming 15% (since WH is a perfect dodge)! Which allows you to spam Worm Hole to quickly jump through the map and to not be afraid to lose health and even heal in between encounters!
@miller74512 ай бұрын
To keep yourself always aiming at the enemy you’re facing, you can teleport while aiming at the boss. Problem with that is the ouroboros mod will hit the enemy and ruin the crit from your spear. I decided to put on creeping mist on a mod-less primary and adding the gifted trait at max to allow the damage boost from wormhole to last longer, allowing more time to aim. However, the time needed to shoot creeping mist and then wormhole again can exceed the 3 seconds of the decoy so it can get dicey trying to time it right with the boss getting aggro on you again. The mist does no damage so it won’t trigger the crit, but it does apply a debuff that can help in coop if someone is using status builds. I recommend deceit for bosses you can’t safely teleport behind though because some fly, the creeping mist build is better for bosses that melee and follow you around.
@miller74512 ай бұрын
Oooo flying bomb trap works too. And actually does decent damage because archon is on
@hanshans9902Ай бұрын
Thank you
@AgatBro2 ай бұрын
see. now THIS is how originality and brilliant theory crafting looks like. 5/5 well-fucking-done👌
@AgatBro2 ай бұрын
i see a brilliant original off meta twisted arbalest build, im automatically subscribing. don’t tell me what to do😤
@Binyamin.Tsadik2 ай бұрын
How does "top heavy" work with this gun? Also, been using "tightly wound coil" as a ring, was fun to try. Have you tried using Anguish instead of Nebula?
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
Top Heavy does not help with our strategy at all. Like all other guns with only one shot in the magazine, it permanently has access to the full benefits of the mutator, granting 15% bonus ranged damage and 20% bonus weakspot damage. Neither of these bonuses are relevant to our objective of explosive mod damage as a primary damage source. Tightly wound coil works well, but I explain in the video why I didn't go that route. With nothing else synergizing with the shield, by itself it is an inferior survivability option compared to the Encrypted Ring as long as you already have a decent amount of damage reduction. Tightly Wound coil would only be worth considering if you were in a light roll kind of setup where the shield may be the difference between getting oneshot and surviving getting hit. Anguish isn't a support gun, it's a gun that wants to be a primary damage source. If our objective is to have Twisted Arbalest be our primary damage source, Anguish adds nothing to the build. Anguish by itself is a better gun than the Twisted Arbalest, so if we add it to the build we may as well just stop using the arbalest and swap to using anguish as our main gun. Again, feel free to do so, but then this isn't a twisted arbalest build anymore. it's an anguish build. Nebula gives us the perfect support option, giving us damage over time, a corrosive effect to boost the damage of the twisted arbalest, and more mod generation. We can just swap to it, activate the mod, and stow it again so we can focus on the arbalest.
@Drew-im7is2 ай бұрын
Awesome! I've been running invoker, invader, and opportunist with spectral for some teleporting action! I'll have to try this version!
@MrCachimira2 ай бұрын
just amazing Keep the great job ma man
@Dxwill102 ай бұрын
Nice work. I've been loving this build. Melting bosses with meta builds in apoc gets boring. This type of play style requires more skill and knowledge to perform well and is much more enjoyable than just face tanking everything with a melee tank build everyone is running these days. These effortless faceroll builds are used by the type of people who comment "you will get good one day" Bet.
@harshkale16882 ай бұрын
I can't find opportunist mutator anywhere ?
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
It's a drop from one of the randomly spawning Domination Aberrations. You just have to get lucky. You can try to force an encounter with one by using the N'erud method; start a Apocalypse Adventure in N'erud, get into the first open area, pick a fight with a drone but don't kill it, wait three or four minutes so that you trigger an ambush event or two, if an aberration appears then you kill it, otherwise you reroll and try again. And remember that if you do finally find one, Opportunist is just one of the many things that it might drop.
@tazaroc19332 ай бұрын
Yo I’ve been playing with this for a bit, and i think it might be the most fun and most creative build I’ve ever used. The loop is fun and rewarding but also takes skill. Not too much though where you lose everything if you make a mistake. And the dps is really competitive. Thank you so much for putting this together.
@loligerpoper59982 ай бұрын
Damn this is gonna get nerfed simply because of the worm loophole teleport ability Too evasive
@kizmo23172 ай бұрын
Nice build. I'd probably go with Burden of the Rebel rather than Stargazer since you're probably not going to be actually consuming a relic very often.
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
My build uses both, if you go back and look to see which rings I have equipped. We need both because either one on its own is insufficient to keep us net positive on the cooldown rotation. We can't even swap one of them for the Black Pawn Stamp, because even a 5% loss in cooldown means we will eventually be unable to restore a full worm hole charge upon Ouroboros usage.
@kizmo23172 ай бұрын
@@YourSponsor Damn, I should pay attention. I hate using Stargazer on my Invader builds because I all too frequently find my health depleted after spamming Wormhole and some ad I didn't see stabs me in the back and one shots me.
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
@@kizmo2317 That's why we have Siphoner, Leech, and Profane Heart. With all of those combined, we gain more than we spend as long as we don't miss the spear throw. In the boss showcase, there are numerous times where I get hit by adds or fumble into stage hazards and survive because we're always topping off. Venom even stabs me at one point, I somehow survive despite being in light armor, and I heal back to full before stumbling into one of those hurt circles on the ground which also doesn't kill me. the downsides of Stargazer are completely negated by this setup.
@kizmo23172 ай бұрын
@@YourSponsor So, I put the build together and tried it. Man, that 2 second window on Opportunist is pretty tight. I wonder if you could sub Akari War Band for Probability Cord to potentially keep you in crits if you miss that 2 second window? Sort of like training wheels on a bicycle. Btw, I am in awe of your gameplay and I subbed despite your protestations.
@coltonbellamy27422 ай бұрын
S tier build!”. Requires skill but not so much that a little practice can’t make you op! Love it. Super unique.
@meathir49212 ай бұрын
I doubt the devs will change Ouroboros to just mod damage, it and Ring of Spears are intended to be melee. For Ouroboros it's part of Deceit's design.
@BloodyInitiate2 ай бұрын
I am glad you’re loving the build. I tried it last night and I think my old gamer hands on my controller just found the rotation to be a bit much. I was able to pull it off a few times and I know it’d take practice, but if it weren’t my hands letting me down I feared for my left bumper. Either way it’s pretty cool throwing the spear for 7k. I probably should have tried it on something other than mother mind, but I could feel the limits of my hardware… my hands approaching
@jermyson2 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting, bruh. I enjoyed your video very much!
@mandi_od85072 ай бұрын
The Leonidas build 😂 nice
@StonedPsycho2 ай бұрын
I'm fairly new to your content but it does seem like you are trying to break the game (which i must say is working beautifully) however there is a ring that you missed that i think would be a better fit instead of the 15% crit chance. imo red ring of death would probably work better boosting damage by duplicating the status you last applied but only decreasing that status damage by 10% it sounds crazy but I've been using it with spear and without anything equipped but that and my spear and i hit for 2400 on crits
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
Had to do some math for this, but sadly that ring doesn't work for what we're doing. I'm not using a ring that grants 15% crit chance, I'm using Probability Cord which raises the crit damage by 20%. Red Ring of death would turn our 300 damage over time corrosive proc into two separate dots of 270 each, so an increase of 240 damage per spear throw. Probability Cord, however, raises our spear throw damage from 6276 damage to 7036, an increase of 760 damage, more than triple what the red ring of death is giving us. Red Ring of Death is something you would want to use on builds focused on status damage, but we don't really care about status damage on this build, we only care that the corrosive proc makes us deal 10% more damage to them while it's on them. the damage is irrelevant.
@Slim_Sumo2 ай бұрын
@@YourSponsor It'd be, probably fairly interchangable in the long run to be honest. Depending on how quickly you execute the combo you will probably average out enough tics if not more than the damage you get from a spear hit. Accounting for sloppy gameplay red ring probably ekes out the advantage, whereas if you're really on point with it Probability wins by a bit. Love this build btw, Huntress Spear is my favorite weapon and I'm constantly looking at new ways to monkey with it.
@sPaCe_NiNjA1872 ай бұрын
What ring gives 15% crit chance? No such thing. You don’t seem to know very much about the game. Red ring is a waste to use on anything other than a status build.
@MAADUKTV2 ай бұрын
Free trainer from Nexus mod give u that crit 😂😂😂😂 I’m try almost all build from KZread, not working at all! So, KZreadrs used trainer from nexusmod or similar. Basically cheating and post video on KZread and people believe it’s working 😉 yeas please delete mine comment 😂😂😂😂
@meathir49212 ай бұрын
@@MAADUKTVThey get 100% crit from Opportunist.
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
In other news, Space Crabs also not nearly as bad as I thought. I didn't really intend for my bad takes to inspire my future builds, but life has many doors, ed boy.
@MellowTarnished2 ай бұрын
Wasn’t gonna subscribe until he told me not to
@Whitedeath242 ай бұрын
As an Arbalest connoisseur this makes me happy, more players should dive into the glorious insanity of the twisted arbalest
@204random2 ай бұрын
mactics?
@freeman25822 ай бұрын
dont you EVER disrespect Faelin sigil again! 😡It slaps
@BlargMan1002 ай бұрын
Yeah, been playing ritualist alot for mob control and this is my new favorite . I'm loving running solo in apoc. I've been taking the shovel as my melee so that after i get out of a conflict, i can dig up a touch of ammo as i go. easily one of my new go-tos for fun runs.
@ewalluis52 ай бұрын
So I have watched the previous video on the twisted arbalest, new thing I learnt was the use of summoner minion so I thought: He knows what he is talking abouth. After trying the build out I instantly swapped 3 rings and amulet - some of what you are suggesting now BUT the most important thing was the summoner minion tech. The flyer minion doesnt get as much in the way - biggest advantage in coop. Can use one and have one ready to summon - true. Additional point of impact? Are you high? The projectile doesnt bounce to friendly minions/players so you have to shoot twice (it does mark both minions if their hitbox overlaps). This only works if you have insufficient mod power regen. Considering how much you invest into mod power regeneration/cost reduction shooting twice to only het 3 hits (2 minions + boss) versus shooting twice for 2x2=4 hits (1 minion 1 boss) I'd say something is wrong with what you are trying to accomplish. If you have true 1:1 ratio of shooting and mod activation the you are sutting your damage by more than 1/3 (reload animation time minus mod activation time). Digested hog lure works. 1:18 "I tested out a lot of variations" - testing hog lure literally requires you to equip it, do the following twice: shoot the training dummy, spam mod activation. The first mod activation without the buff form reloading (your claim), second activation with ring active. Spoiler: the damage is the same, did you really try this out or just looked at top N comments and swapped items accordingly to the number of upvotes those comments had? The actual good build tldr: if you shoot your minions twice - 2 flyers - dont overinvest into mode power regen, just go for 2 damage rings. Digested hog lure works, if you invest a couple points into siphoner then life leech outheals burden of the warlock - strictly better than white pawn stamp ring. AND A LITTLE TEASE AT THE END - you can fing a spot on the shooting range so the projectile bounces 4 times and tags only 1 dummy to simulate worst case bossfight - 1 direct hit + 1 overlap (in boss fight from the minion, here its on another dummy but the damage, number of hits and mod power regen is the same). Now that I think about it its something mr build creator probably has already though of during this extensive testing so I needlessly make the comment even longer /s sorry for the tone of the comments but claims that you make in the video really grind my gears. minmaxing for mod regen and then the logic behind shooting twice over activating twice is so far beyond me I still cant imagine how you got there. Build concept if really good, thank you for the previous video. It had some rough parts but thats ok. Now however you claim that extensive testing has been made and multiple build variations later you came up with that?!
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
On the two points of impact; I mention this in both of my videos, I know that the disc doesn't bounce to friendlies intentionally, I'm not implying that you will always get both of them, I'm merely implying that during moments when the boss isn't near, you can stack the Guardian's call on both of them and save it for when they approach (showcased during my Stonewarden and Annihilation fights), OR you so have access to two different points of Guardian's call and can choose whichever depending on which is closer (showcased during the Venom fight). I'm not always the best at taking advantage of these as I'm still quite bad at this game but the idea is still that we're acting as though we have one point of contact consistently (two separate locations, whichever is closer) or two points whenever the situation grants it (waiting for the boss to approach, so stacking the damage) On the digested hog lure, what you're saying would make sense, but if I want more damage I would just use BotD instead (which I forgot to mention in this video) since we don't care about firearm range. Again, the way I try to play this is to just spam it as much as possible, not try to force situations where I overlap from both flyers. In the ideal situation, I won't be manually reloading ever, but again, I'm bad, so that doesn't always work out.
@ewalluis52 ай бұрын
@@YourSponsor I fully agree that leaning into mod regen is the better way of scaling damage and the setup you showed in this guide/build is superior to the previous one. Using 2 flyers at once is questionable but that's neither here nor there. The amount of hits is IMO the most important part and trying to increase it by hitting 2 minions in 99% cases lowers your damage - it only increases your damage when you hit 2 flyers with one shot by accident. This point sort of got lost in the middle of my unnecessarily mean comment. Picture this: activating mod reloads the gun. Activating mod is faster than reloading. 2 marked minions and marked boss - 2 shots so that requires reloading. in order to deal damage with the mod you have to shoot twice + reaload + activate mod - results in 3 hits. now if you have one minion you can just tag the minion/boss + activate (faster than reloading) and then tag your minion + the boss and activate again. that also results in 3 hits and the boss needs to be in the range of the aoe only for one of the activations so trying to hit both minions results in loosing damage outside of scenario when boss has invulnerability phase (OTK buffing itself, sunken witch leaving the area etc.) and you can possibly "prime" both of your minions. Another way to look at it is: 2 shots for 4 instances of damage = 2 hits per shot - ideal scenario more realistic: 2 shots for 3 instances of damage (2 hits + 1 overlaps OR 1 hit + 2 overlaps) = 1.5 hit per shot; 2 hits + 1 overlap is easier to do but requires 2x mod power by hit I mean direct damage not the aoe, the amount of projectiles hitting hte boss should be the same in both cases BotD is best in slot but you could possibly decide to go for 2 damage rings - hence my comment about digested hog lure. pls don't calim something doesnt work if you arent sure/havent tested it. the ring might not work (just my educated guess - havent tested this) with Alpha Omega where mod procs on reload start but Guardian's call has some delay between activating and damage being done. I didn't really mean to turn this into a discussion and mod activations/shot is just an unnecessary minmax thing, cool build, cheers
@NummyNoodles2 ай бұрын
Man reveals one of the most chad builds I've ever seen and says "don't subscribe to me" Me in a singsong voice, "How bout I do anyway?" :)
@QuantumLight9232 ай бұрын
you will get good one day
@xeinex2 ай бұрын
Not with that build , to much gimmic not enough dps
@QuantumLight9232 ай бұрын
@@xeinex 😂😂
@noobeternal97182 ай бұрын
I quite like how you approach build crafting for the purpose of skill expression and making the game more fun, rather than cheesing and deleting bosses on apoc. A mindset so rare these days, you are making it too hard to not suscribe 😂
@Flackwall2 ай бұрын
Had some fun with this one not going to lie, only change i made was swapping out the white pawn stamp for burden of the warlock and swapping the relic to the profane heart, the life steal seems to be off setting the grey health and allowing me constant up time, while giving me that little extra safety net of healing when a screw up a dodge (don't got those kid like reflexes any more damn it), but im interested to see where it goes.
@supergaspack2 ай бұрын
fuckin subcribed. for a game with this much variety you are the perfect content creator. please keep doin you man
@lunarbound99752 ай бұрын
Familiar outperforms Nano Swarm in the build I use. Also, Transference on your melee weapon greatly increases that sluggish Arbalest reload speed on demand. It might passively sit there if you never melee anything, but I’ve found it’s great to have a melee option that can contribute rather than not (a charged melee attack always procs 2X reload speed. Current favorite home for this is the projectile on the Hero’s Sword.). Anyway, some suggestions that might be enjoyable to test out.
@darttrapdoor98422 ай бұрын
I went a different route. I'm not going to say that it's a Twisted Arbalest Build as I do a fair bit of melee as well. Amulet: Kinetic Shiled Exchanger. 25% Mod Damage, 30% additional Mod power when a shield is active. Rings: Tear of Lydusa, increase lifesteal efficacy by 20% Tightly Would Coil: 15% shield (triggers amulet) Kinetic cycle stone: Increase Mod and Skill cast by 20% Leaking Gemstone: 20% Mod generation while mod is active. Twisted Arbalest: Top Heavy Mutator Sureshot: Ring of Spears with Spellweaver (Spellweaver may be overkill) Melee: Hero's Sword with Shielded Strike. Relic: Profane Heart. Arbalest lets me deal with the pesky range mobs and the Ring of Spears just kills it with melee. Rarely more than 5 seconds before I can proc Ring of Spears again. I'm using Archon/Medic - Medic's solid but may experiment with Summoner. I just love that I can get in people's faces. Build sucked ass on Legion, though. I hate that boss.
@be92402 ай бұрын
Hes using blasting cap and not using the best ring in the game for mod regen...
@tripled32672 ай бұрын
which is what?
@be92402 ай бұрын
@@tripled3267 we all know the one. Stone lol
@kinimix12742 ай бұрын
Sir i just wanna say that i have been using the twisted Arbalest long before you made this post but to see someone like you post about it. Makes me happy. Because of you i have never thought of using my summons to bounces of the disc. I usually aim it near the enemy at a wall or the ground as long as it is close to them it will follow. But now i will definitely try using the summons and im sure theres extra damage with the explosions it does. Also i do use digestive hog lure in my twisted built because your are constantly reloading to shoot in order to activated your aberlest so that 7s is enough time to bring down the thunder. But anyway i wanna say thank you now i feel like i have a reason to actually take this build into boss battle and definitely use the summons. Before i thought it would be good against boss and i never tried it so now i will put it to the test
@kinimix12742 ай бұрын
I used faelin sigil on my meele build
@partyrd4872 ай бұрын
Appreciate the build, explanation & all of your valuable time uncovering the meta. Subscribed.
@gamerbear70612 ай бұрын
My first special gun and I use to finish game. I think it good gun.
@GameOverArchives2 ай бұрын
5:08 "who the hell gonna use Faerin's Sigil?..." Me 😂. And i'm proud
@Spike21752 ай бұрын
Laughs in Deceit builds
@BlargMan1002 ай бұрын
fun stuff. I was using reed/failsafe mod spam on this build earlier. not a comfortable way to play but it was fun for the random power plays. I could see this becoming a new favorite gun.
@jaellpeerless2 ай бұрын
Lol that High five disrespect
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
0:01 Faelin 2:52 Kaeula 4:28 OTK 6:48 Astropath 9:05 Sunken Witch 11:39 Tal'Ratha 13:27 Abomination 16:10 literally who lmao 17:21 Stonewarden 20:19 Corruptor 22:56 Sha'Hala 26:16 Cancer 28:54 Corrupted Harbor all the way until Venom 36:44 Venom 39:24 Annihilation one day I'll actually get good at this game Link to the build I used throughout this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lqF4lMRmoZeniLw.html
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
Link to the extended gameplay video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a4Z3yaeNeZmsn5s.html Link to the previous video explaining the build concept: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4mfytlumrnJkrw.html Also I forgot to mention but Burden Of The Destroyer is superior to the Blasting Cap and Shard Banded ring because we don't care about firearm range, in case you wanna drop Encrypted for more damage
@jenniferhermanson89692 ай бұрын
I use the original arbalest for almost everything, with the exception of final/elite boss fights . I find that firing at the ground I can consistently hit enemies and my fliers. I am definitely going to try this build, it is very me
@ChibiDeth_God2 ай бұрын
This gun isn't this difficult ain't that hard why are people struggling like I've used on all modes
@lt73882 ай бұрын
George Michael says shoot the dog
@kaeleak12 ай бұрын
This is by far my favourite gun and i made a similar build recently with the same archetypes. i found burden of the follower, spirit and feedback was more then enough mod gen to spam out the mod constantly not to mention the almost permanent uptime on nebula. This allowed me to run jesters bell or golden ribbon for the amulet. Fun additions to this build ring wise is the shard banded ring, probability cord and the digested hog lure (which was buffed last patch) on reload you get 15% bonus mod damage. the trick is to let the animation of reloading start until you see the buff proc then use the mod to cancel the reload animation and instantly reload your weapon. this combo frequently gets me 2k damage crit aoes which makes running around the map on apoc a joke. Also when in a boss battle a second primary option is the corrupted merciless. with this kind of setup you can get to 5 stacks very quickly and pump out up to 12k damage on a weakspot crit. when running this i swap out the hog lure for zanias malice as using the mod of c. merciless instantly reloads your weapon and doesn't proc the ring buff. give it a try.
@YourSponsor2 ай бұрын
Swapping to a separate primary kinda defeats the purpose of the build though, which is to use the twisted arbalest as a full time strategy, not just for clearing maps. If you're just gonna use a different weapon for bosses, at that point just swap the whole build for something stronger. My goal is to create a setup that allows the twisted arbalest to match up decently against EVERY boss in the game, not just some of them. The gun already clowned on bosses like the Primogenitor that just fill the room with mobs, the problem was that solo bosses like Stonewarden absolutely shut the gun down, which is why I made this video to tell people that they can use the minion to be able to deal with those bosses much more easily. Furthermore, having big crits on the explosions is complete overkill for regular mobs who typically don't have more than 1200hp which is low enough to die from a disc hit + a detonation trigger boosted Guardian's Call without a crit. That extra damage only serves you better against elites or bosses, the former of which are trivialized by Misfortune Kraxe, and in the latter case I would argue having more mod gen instead of crit stacking would be far more consistent, especially against bosses like Stonewarden where you need all the mod gen you can get what with there being no other enemies to farm damage off of. Long story short, in my opinion, more frequent explosions is better than stronger explosions. And believe me, I have tested all the jewelry you described, and none of that ended up being as strong as the generation setup, and that's what I used to beat Venom, Annihilation, OTK, all the world bosses, all the solo bosses, etc. I'll probably make another video explaining this exact setup
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Uhh nearly exactly my build :D i use detonation trigger for explosion dmg + fire for extra mod regen (failsafe or failsafe from your amulet doesnt work well with arbalest.) mp-60 with tentacles and ammunition refund to not run empty on primary ammunition. shielded heart shield amount, mod dmg, health. rings: blasting cap (changeable) burden of the follower ( kinda BIS) shield for reload or shield for dogde or both maybe health regen while shielded (genesis ring) krell axe with corrosive mutator there is a mod that can split dmg from friend to enemy, but kills your minions cause kinship needs to be changed for more health for summons and kinda hard to use.
Oh man, I'm having so much fin with this build, thanks! Couple alternatives to Probability Cord I used: First is Black Pawn Stamp - only because I didn't have access to mythic relic fragments - less damage but loop felt more consistent. And second is (and oh boy how I like it!) Burden of the Audacious. This ring has awesome interaction with the build - your Worm Hole is now is restoring 10% hp instead of consuming 15% (since WH is a perfect dodge)! Which allows you to spam Worm Hole to quickly jump through the map and to not be afraid to lose health and even heal in between encounters!
To keep yourself always aiming at the enemy you’re facing, you can teleport while aiming at the boss. Problem with that is the ouroboros mod will hit the enemy and ruin the crit from your spear. I decided to put on creeping mist on a mod-less primary and adding the gifted trait at max to allow the damage boost from wormhole to last longer, allowing more time to aim. However, the time needed to shoot creeping mist and then wormhole again can exceed the 3 seconds of the decoy so it can get dicey trying to time it right with the boss getting aggro on you again. The mist does no damage so it won’t trigger the crit, but it does apply a debuff that can help in coop if someone is using status builds. I recommend deceit for bosses you can’t safely teleport behind though because some fly, the creeping mist build is better for bosses that melee and follow you around.
Oooo flying bomb trap works too. And actually does decent damage because archon is on
Thank you
see. now THIS is how originality and brilliant theory crafting looks like. 5/5 well-fucking-done👌
i see a brilliant original off meta twisted arbalest build, im automatically subscribing. don’t tell me what to do😤
How does "top heavy" work with this gun? Also, been using "tightly wound coil" as a ring, was fun to try. Have you tried using Anguish instead of Nebula?
Top Heavy does not help with our strategy at all. Like all other guns with only one shot in the magazine, it permanently has access to the full benefits of the mutator, granting 15% bonus ranged damage and 20% bonus weakspot damage. Neither of these bonuses are relevant to our objective of explosive mod damage as a primary damage source. Tightly wound coil works well, but I explain in the video why I didn't go that route. With nothing else synergizing with the shield, by itself it is an inferior survivability option compared to the Encrypted Ring as long as you already have a decent amount of damage reduction. Tightly Wound coil would only be worth considering if you were in a light roll kind of setup where the shield may be the difference between getting oneshot and surviving getting hit. Anguish isn't a support gun, it's a gun that wants to be a primary damage source. If our objective is to have Twisted Arbalest be our primary damage source, Anguish adds nothing to the build. Anguish by itself is a better gun than the Twisted Arbalest, so if we add it to the build we may as well just stop using the arbalest and swap to using anguish as our main gun. Again, feel free to do so, but then this isn't a twisted arbalest build anymore. it's an anguish build. Nebula gives us the perfect support option, giving us damage over time, a corrosive effect to boost the damage of the twisted arbalest, and more mod generation. We can just swap to it, activate the mod, and stow it again so we can focus on the arbalest.
Awesome! I've been running invoker, invader, and opportunist with spectral for some teleporting action! I'll have to try this version!
just amazing Keep the great job ma man
Nice work. I've been loving this build. Melting bosses with meta builds in apoc gets boring. This type of play style requires more skill and knowledge to perform well and is much more enjoyable than just face tanking everything with a melee tank build everyone is running these days. These effortless faceroll builds are used by the type of people who comment "you will get good one day" Bet.
I can't find opportunist mutator anywhere ?
It's a drop from one of the randomly spawning Domination Aberrations. You just have to get lucky. You can try to force an encounter with one by using the N'erud method; start a Apocalypse Adventure in N'erud, get into the first open area, pick a fight with a drone but don't kill it, wait three or four minutes so that you trigger an ambush event or two, if an aberration appears then you kill it, otherwise you reroll and try again. And remember that if you do finally find one, Opportunist is just one of the many things that it might drop.
Yo I’ve been playing with this for a bit, and i think it might be the most fun and most creative build I’ve ever used. The loop is fun and rewarding but also takes skill. Not too much though where you lose everything if you make a mistake. And the dps is really competitive. Thank you so much for putting this together.
Damn this is gonna get nerfed simply because of the worm loophole teleport ability Too evasive
Nice build. I'd probably go with Burden of the Rebel rather than Stargazer since you're probably not going to be actually consuming a relic very often.
My build uses both, if you go back and look to see which rings I have equipped. We need both because either one on its own is insufficient to keep us net positive on the cooldown rotation. We can't even swap one of them for the Black Pawn Stamp, because even a 5% loss in cooldown means we will eventually be unable to restore a full worm hole charge upon Ouroboros usage.
@@YourSponsor Damn, I should pay attention. I hate using Stargazer on my Invader builds because I all too frequently find my health depleted after spamming Wormhole and some ad I didn't see stabs me in the back and one shots me.
@@kizmo2317 That's why we have Siphoner, Leech, and Profane Heart. With all of those combined, we gain more than we spend as long as we don't miss the spear throw. In the boss showcase, there are numerous times where I get hit by adds or fumble into stage hazards and survive because we're always topping off. Venom even stabs me at one point, I somehow survive despite being in light armor, and I heal back to full before stumbling into one of those hurt circles on the ground which also doesn't kill me. the downsides of Stargazer are completely negated by this setup.
@@YourSponsor So, I put the build together and tried it. Man, that 2 second window on Opportunist is pretty tight. I wonder if you could sub Akari War Band for Probability Cord to potentially keep you in crits if you miss that 2 second window? Sort of like training wheels on a bicycle. Btw, I am in awe of your gameplay and I subbed despite your protestations.
S tier build!”. Requires skill but not so much that a little practice can’t make you op! Love it. Super unique.
I doubt the devs will change Ouroboros to just mod damage, it and Ring of Spears are intended to be melee. For Ouroboros it's part of Deceit's design.
I am glad you’re loving the build. I tried it last night and I think my old gamer hands on my controller just found the rotation to be a bit much. I was able to pull it off a few times and I know it’d take practice, but if it weren’t my hands letting me down I feared for my left bumper. Either way it’s pretty cool throwing the spear for 7k. I probably should have tried it on something other than mother mind, but I could feel the limits of my hardware… my hands approaching
Thanks for posting, bruh. I enjoyed your video very much!
The Leonidas build 😂 nice
I'm fairly new to your content but it does seem like you are trying to break the game (which i must say is working beautifully) however there is a ring that you missed that i think would be a better fit instead of the 15% crit chance. imo red ring of death would probably work better boosting damage by duplicating the status you last applied but only decreasing that status damage by 10% it sounds crazy but I've been using it with spear and without anything equipped but that and my spear and i hit for 2400 on crits
Had to do some math for this, but sadly that ring doesn't work for what we're doing. I'm not using a ring that grants 15% crit chance, I'm using Probability Cord which raises the crit damage by 20%. Red Ring of death would turn our 300 damage over time corrosive proc into two separate dots of 270 each, so an increase of 240 damage per spear throw. Probability Cord, however, raises our spear throw damage from 6276 damage to 7036, an increase of 760 damage, more than triple what the red ring of death is giving us. Red Ring of Death is something you would want to use on builds focused on status damage, but we don't really care about status damage on this build, we only care that the corrosive proc makes us deal 10% more damage to them while it's on them. the damage is irrelevant.
@@YourSponsor It'd be, probably fairly interchangable in the long run to be honest. Depending on how quickly you execute the combo you will probably average out enough tics if not more than the damage you get from a spear hit. Accounting for sloppy gameplay red ring probably ekes out the advantage, whereas if you're really on point with it Probability wins by a bit. Love this build btw, Huntress Spear is my favorite weapon and I'm constantly looking at new ways to monkey with it.
What ring gives 15% crit chance? No such thing. You don’t seem to know very much about the game. Red ring is a waste to use on anything other than a status build.
Free trainer from Nexus mod give u that crit 😂😂😂😂 I’m try almost all build from KZread, not working at all! So, KZreadrs used trainer from nexusmod or similar. Basically cheating and post video on KZread and people believe it’s working 😉 yeas please delete mine comment 😂😂😂😂
@@MAADUKTVThey get 100% crit from Opportunist.
In other news, Space Crabs also not nearly as bad as I thought. I didn't really intend for my bad takes to inspire my future builds, but life has many doors, ed boy.
Wasn’t gonna subscribe until he told me not to
As an Arbalest connoisseur this makes me happy, more players should dive into the glorious insanity of the twisted arbalest
mactics?
dont you EVER disrespect Faelin sigil again! 😡It slaps
Yeah, been playing ritualist alot for mob control and this is my new favorite . I'm loving running solo in apoc. I've been taking the shovel as my melee so that after i get out of a conflict, i can dig up a touch of ammo as i go. easily one of my new go-tos for fun runs.
So I have watched the previous video on the twisted arbalest, new thing I learnt was the use of summoner minion so I thought: He knows what he is talking abouth. After trying the build out I instantly swapped 3 rings and amulet - some of what you are suggesting now BUT the most important thing was the summoner minion tech. The flyer minion doesnt get as much in the way - biggest advantage in coop. Can use one and have one ready to summon - true. Additional point of impact? Are you high? The projectile doesnt bounce to friendly minions/players so you have to shoot twice (it does mark both minions if their hitbox overlaps). This only works if you have insufficient mod power regen. Considering how much you invest into mod power regeneration/cost reduction shooting twice to only het 3 hits (2 minions + boss) versus shooting twice for 2x2=4 hits (1 minion 1 boss) I'd say something is wrong with what you are trying to accomplish. If you have true 1:1 ratio of shooting and mod activation the you are sutting your damage by more than 1/3 (reload animation time minus mod activation time). Digested hog lure works. 1:18 "I tested out a lot of variations" - testing hog lure literally requires you to equip it, do the following twice: shoot the training dummy, spam mod activation. The first mod activation without the buff form reloading (your claim), second activation with ring active. Spoiler: the damage is the same, did you really try this out or just looked at top N comments and swapped items accordingly to the number of upvotes those comments had? The actual good build tldr: if you shoot your minions twice - 2 flyers - dont overinvest into mode power regen, just go for 2 damage rings. Digested hog lure works, if you invest a couple points into siphoner then life leech outheals burden of the warlock - strictly better than white pawn stamp ring. AND A LITTLE TEASE AT THE END - you can fing a spot on the shooting range so the projectile bounces 4 times and tags only 1 dummy to simulate worst case bossfight - 1 direct hit + 1 overlap (in boss fight from the minion, here its on another dummy but the damage, number of hits and mod power regen is the same). Now that I think about it its something mr build creator probably has already though of during this extensive testing so I needlessly make the comment even longer /s sorry for the tone of the comments but claims that you make in the video really grind my gears. minmaxing for mod regen and then the logic behind shooting twice over activating twice is so far beyond me I still cant imagine how you got there. Build concept if really good, thank you for the previous video. It had some rough parts but thats ok. Now however you claim that extensive testing has been made and multiple build variations later you came up with that?!
On the two points of impact; I mention this in both of my videos, I know that the disc doesn't bounce to friendlies intentionally, I'm not implying that you will always get both of them, I'm merely implying that during moments when the boss isn't near, you can stack the Guardian's call on both of them and save it for when they approach (showcased during my Stonewarden and Annihilation fights), OR you so have access to two different points of Guardian's call and can choose whichever depending on which is closer (showcased during the Venom fight). I'm not always the best at taking advantage of these as I'm still quite bad at this game but the idea is still that we're acting as though we have one point of contact consistently (two separate locations, whichever is closer) or two points whenever the situation grants it (waiting for the boss to approach, so stacking the damage) On the digested hog lure, what you're saying would make sense, but if I want more damage I would just use BotD instead (which I forgot to mention in this video) since we don't care about firearm range. Again, the way I try to play this is to just spam it as much as possible, not try to force situations where I overlap from both flyers. In the ideal situation, I won't be manually reloading ever, but again, I'm bad, so that doesn't always work out.
@@YourSponsor I fully agree that leaning into mod regen is the better way of scaling damage and the setup you showed in this guide/build is superior to the previous one. Using 2 flyers at once is questionable but that's neither here nor there. The amount of hits is IMO the most important part and trying to increase it by hitting 2 minions in 99% cases lowers your damage - it only increases your damage when you hit 2 flyers with one shot by accident. This point sort of got lost in the middle of my unnecessarily mean comment. Picture this: activating mod reloads the gun. Activating mod is faster than reloading. 2 marked minions and marked boss - 2 shots so that requires reloading. in order to deal damage with the mod you have to shoot twice + reaload + activate mod - results in 3 hits. now if you have one minion you can just tag the minion/boss + activate (faster than reloading) and then tag your minion + the boss and activate again. that also results in 3 hits and the boss needs to be in the range of the aoe only for one of the activations so trying to hit both minions results in loosing damage outside of scenario when boss has invulnerability phase (OTK buffing itself, sunken witch leaving the area etc.) and you can possibly "prime" both of your minions. Another way to look at it is: 2 shots for 4 instances of damage = 2 hits per shot - ideal scenario more realistic: 2 shots for 3 instances of damage (2 hits + 1 overlaps OR 1 hit + 2 overlaps) = 1.5 hit per shot; 2 hits + 1 overlap is easier to do but requires 2x mod power by hit I mean direct damage not the aoe, the amount of projectiles hitting hte boss should be the same in both cases BotD is best in slot but you could possibly decide to go for 2 damage rings - hence my comment about digested hog lure. pls don't calim something doesnt work if you arent sure/havent tested it. the ring might not work (just my educated guess - havent tested this) with Alpha Omega where mod procs on reload start but Guardian's call has some delay between activating and damage being done. I didn't really mean to turn this into a discussion and mod activations/shot is just an unnecessary minmax thing, cool build, cheers
Man reveals one of the most chad builds I've ever seen and says "don't subscribe to me" Me in a singsong voice, "How bout I do anyway?" :)
you will get good one day
Not with that build , to much gimmic not enough dps
@@xeinex 😂😂
I quite like how you approach build crafting for the purpose of skill expression and making the game more fun, rather than cheesing and deleting bosses on apoc. A mindset so rare these days, you are making it too hard to not suscribe 😂
Had some fun with this one not going to lie, only change i made was swapping out the white pawn stamp for burden of the warlock and swapping the relic to the profane heart, the life steal seems to be off setting the grey health and allowing me constant up time, while giving me that little extra safety net of healing when a screw up a dodge (don't got those kid like reflexes any more damn it), but im interested to see where it goes.
fuckin subcribed. for a game with this much variety you are the perfect content creator. please keep doin you man
Familiar outperforms Nano Swarm in the build I use. Also, Transference on your melee weapon greatly increases that sluggish Arbalest reload speed on demand. It might passively sit there if you never melee anything, but I’ve found it’s great to have a melee option that can contribute rather than not (a charged melee attack always procs 2X reload speed. Current favorite home for this is the projectile on the Hero’s Sword.). Anyway, some suggestions that might be enjoyable to test out.
I went a different route. I'm not going to say that it's a Twisted Arbalest Build as I do a fair bit of melee as well. Amulet: Kinetic Shiled Exchanger. 25% Mod Damage, 30% additional Mod power when a shield is active. Rings: Tear of Lydusa, increase lifesteal efficacy by 20% Tightly Would Coil: 15% shield (triggers amulet) Kinetic cycle stone: Increase Mod and Skill cast by 20% Leaking Gemstone: 20% Mod generation while mod is active. Twisted Arbalest: Top Heavy Mutator Sureshot: Ring of Spears with Spellweaver (Spellweaver may be overkill) Melee: Hero's Sword with Shielded Strike. Relic: Profane Heart. Arbalest lets me deal with the pesky range mobs and the Ring of Spears just kills it with melee. Rarely more than 5 seconds before I can proc Ring of Spears again. I'm using Archon/Medic - Medic's solid but may experiment with Summoner. I just love that I can get in people's faces. Build sucked ass on Legion, though. I hate that boss.
Hes using blasting cap and not using the best ring in the game for mod regen...
which is what?
@@tripled3267 we all know the one. Stone lol
Sir i just wanna say that i have been using the twisted Arbalest long before you made this post but to see someone like you post about it. Makes me happy. Because of you i have never thought of using my summons to bounces of the disc. I usually aim it near the enemy at a wall or the ground as long as it is close to them it will follow. But now i will definitely try using the summons and im sure theres extra damage with the explosions it does. Also i do use digestive hog lure in my twisted built because your are constantly reloading to shoot in order to activated your aberlest so that 7s is enough time to bring down the thunder. But anyway i wanna say thank you now i feel like i have a reason to actually take this build into boss battle and definitely use the summons. Before i thought it would be good against boss and i never tried it so now i will put it to the test
I used faelin sigil on my meele build
Appreciate the build, explanation & all of your valuable time uncovering the meta. Subscribed.
My first special gun and I use to finish game. I think it good gun.
5:08 "who the hell gonna use Faerin's Sigil?..." Me 😂. And i'm proud
Laughs in Deceit builds
fun stuff. I was using reed/failsafe mod spam on this build earlier. not a comfortable way to play but it was fun for the random power plays. I could see this becoming a new favorite gun.
Lol that High five disrespect
0:01 Faelin 2:52 Kaeula 4:28 OTK 6:48 Astropath 9:05 Sunken Witch 11:39 Tal'Ratha 13:27 Abomination 16:10 literally who lmao 17:21 Stonewarden 20:19 Corruptor 22:56 Sha'Hala 26:16 Cancer 28:54 Corrupted Harbor all the way until Venom 36:44 Venom 39:24 Annihilation one day I'll actually get good at this game Link to the build I used throughout this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lqF4lMRmoZeniLw.html
Link to the extended gameplay video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/a4Z3yaeNeZmsn5s.html Link to the previous video explaining the build concept: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4mfytlumrnJkrw.html Also I forgot to mention but Burden Of The Destroyer is superior to the Blasting Cap and Shard Banded ring because we don't care about firearm range, in case you wanna drop Encrypted for more damage
I use the original arbalest for almost everything, with the exception of final/elite boss fights . I find that firing at the ground I can consistently hit enemies and my fliers. I am definitely going to try this build, it is very me
This gun isn't this difficult ain't that hard why are people struggling like I've used on all modes
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This is by far my favourite gun and i made a similar build recently with the same archetypes. i found burden of the follower, spirit and feedback was more then enough mod gen to spam out the mod constantly not to mention the almost permanent uptime on nebula. This allowed me to run jesters bell or golden ribbon for the amulet. Fun additions to this build ring wise is the shard banded ring, probability cord and the digested hog lure (which was buffed last patch) on reload you get 15% bonus mod damage. the trick is to let the animation of reloading start until you see the buff proc then use the mod to cancel the reload animation and instantly reload your weapon. this combo frequently gets me 2k damage crit aoes which makes running around the map on apoc a joke. Also when in a boss battle a second primary option is the corrupted merciless. with this kind of setup you can get to 5 stacks very quickly and pump out up to 12k damage on a weakspot crit. when running this i swap out the hog lure for zanias malice as using the mod of c. merciless instantly reloads your weapon and doesn't proc the ring buff. give it a try.
Swapping to a separate primary kinda defeats the purpose of the build though, which is to use the twisted arbalest as a full time strategy, not just for clearing maps. If you're just gonna use a different weapon for bosses, at that point just swap the whole build for something stronger. My goal is to create a setup that allows the twisted arbalest to match up decently against EVERY boss in the game, not just some of them. The gun already clowned on bosses like the Primogenitor that just fill the room with mobs, the problem was that solo bosses like Stonewarden absolutely shut the gun down, which is why I made this video to tell people that they can use the minion to be able to deal with those bosses much more easily. Furthermore, having big crits on the explosions is complete overkill for regular mobs who typically don't have more than 1200hp which is low enough to die from a disc hit + a detonation trigger boosted Guardian's Call without a crit. That extra damage only serves you better against elites or bosses, the former of which are trivialized by Misfortune Kraxe, and in the latter case I would argue having more mod gen instead of crit stacking would be far more consistent, especially against bosses like Stonewarden where you need all the mod gen you can get what with there being no other enemies to farm damage off of. Long story short, in my opinion, more frequent explosions is better than stronger explosions. And believe me, I have tested all the jewelry you described, and none of that ended up being as strong as the generation setup, and that's what I used to beat Venom, Annihilation, OTK, all the world bosses, all the solo bosses, etc. I'll probably make another video explaining this exact setup
Still upset bout the bore synergy removal