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The video centers around "The Collector," a recently introduced exotic chest piece in a game that significantly enhances grenade abilities. Released in Season 2 of Year 5 (2023), players can obtain it by reaching level 85 on the reward track. The chest piece features a unique talent called "Hoarder," which increases grenade capacity, radius, damage, and regenerates two grenades every 30 seconds. Despite its strengths, the chest piece has limitations, especially in long-form content like raids and legendary missions due to insufficient grenade regeneration. The speaker suggests improvements such as full grenade regeneration and customization of attribute slots, with a preference for critical hit attributes and enhanced team support utility.
The importance of fire grenades is emphasized due to their lasting damage, which synergizes well with survivalist builds and the "Lefty" weapon, enhancing team buffs and overall damage. The build also incorporates ongoing directive gear and critical hit stats to boost effectiveness. Additional gear choices include shock traps, fixer drones, and weapons like the St Elmo and Doctor's Home for crowd control and high damage. The speaker highlights the advantages and challenges of using the chest piece in both PvE and PvP scenarios, suggesting tweaks to make it more suitable for varied gameplay styles.
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In this part of the video, the speaker introduces “The Collector,” a new exotic chest piece in a game. The chest piece focuses on enhancing grenade abilities and was released in Season 2 of Year 5 (2023). Players can obtain it by logging in, playing, and reaching level 85 on the reward track, with the blueprint at level 86.
Key tips for managing the chest piece include reconfiguring its stats if unsatisfactory, which requires exotic components and rerolls via RNG. The speaker also advises marking it as a favorite to avoid accidental deletion. The chest piece features critical stats, a red core, and a unique talent called “Hoarder.” This talent increases grenade capacity, radius, and damage, and regenerates two grenades every 30 seconds.
The regeneration process means players won’t completely run out of grenades but will need to collect additional grenades themselves. Comparisons are made to the “Acosta’s Go Pack,” noting similarities and differences in grenade regeneration mechanics.
00:03:00
In this segment, the creator discusses the release of volume 12 of their gaming music playlist, which is available to specific membership tiers for streaming and offline listening. They then delve into the specifics of a chest piece in a game, highlighting its 50% increased grenade radius and additional damage as beneficial for inflicting damage. However, they note potential improvements needed from the developers, particularly concerning the inclusion of critical hit attributes. While the chest piece can enhance grenades, the creator feels it may be more suitable for team support or PvP rather than solo play. They express a preference for using it with a crit build for better efficiency and predict limited developer changes to the attribute slots. Overall, the chest piece is seen as more effective in PvP scenarios.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the effectiveness and limitations of grenade regeneration in a specific chest piece designed for conflict builds. They highlight that while the chest piece is intended for long-form content like legendary missions, incursions, and raids, it falls short due to the insufficient grenade regeneration capacity. The speaker shares their personal experience of running out of grenades halfway through missions, which forced them to save grenades for tougher rooms and checkpoints. They suggest that the chest piece should provide a full grenade regeneration or be moved to a less crucial gear slot if it can’t fulfill this need. Additionally, they explain their preference for fire grenades due to their forgiving nature and larger radius, which allows better anticipation of enemy waves.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the importance of timing and precision when using grenades, particularly emphasizing that with the chest piece being discussed, it’s impossible to “cook” grenades like you can with the Mad Bombers set. They highlight a useful tip for toggling between special grenades using the directional pad. The speaker then expresses gratitude to their community and promotes member perks.
The focus shifts to the advantages of fire grenades, especially when used with a survivalist build, as they can continue to damage enemies even if the initial toss is imprecise. Fire grenades also provide additional benefits by offering a 10% damage boost to status-affected targets for the team. The speaker argues that this makes fire grenades superior to other types, which either don’t offer team support or require specific conditions like running demolition.
They further explain that the fire grenade synergizes well with the “Lefty” weapon, a niche choice that benefits from the fire grenade’s team buff capabilities. This setup allows for more frequent use of the Sledgehammer trait, enhancing overall effectiveness.
00:12:00
In this segment of the video, the presenter discusses the unique benefits and strategic advantages of using fire grenades in combination with different weapon and gear setups. They highlight how fire grenades, due to their duration, can effectively proc the Sledgehammer skill, making it viable as a primary weapon. The presenter also explains that the perfect Sledgehammer shotgun, combined with the perfect opportunistic perk on the usen, boosts damage from all sources, including team and grenades, by 15%. This results in increased overall damage output, especially from fire grenades, which benefit from additional percentage-based damage amplifications.
Furthermore, the build incorporates four pieces of ongoing directive gear, providing status effects, faster reload speeds, and special hollow point ammo that applies bleed and 20% amplified damage to marked enemies. This synergizes with team buffs and additional damage through status effects. The presenter also mentions running critical hit gear to enhance overall effectiveness, adding an armor core to the build for better durability against bleed effects and powerful enemy attacks, ensuring a well-rounded and resilient setup.
00:15:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses an armor core build primarily focused on team support rather than high damage output. They explain the option to go full tank, although they didn’t choose it due to the lack of components to justify the extra armor. Key elements of their setup include a shock trap for crowd control, a fixer drone for healing, and the use of the St Elmo weapon as a secondary to build and store shock ammo for crowd control. The speaker also notes the importance of marking targets with the Lefty shotgun to activate the opportunistic talent. The downside of the St Elmo weapon is that ongoing directive can override its shock ammo with bleed ammo. For backup, the speaker mentions the Doctor’s Home exotic weapon, emphasizing its strong DPS. They conclude by highlighting the critical hit stats for their gear.
00:18:00
In this part of the video, the speaker discusses their positive experience with The Collector chest piece, highlighting its fun aspects. They suggest improvements like better regeneration to full grenade capacity and the ability to cook grenades. Additionally, the speaker requests changes to make the chest piece more practical for team support builds without needing two attribute slots. They express excitement about sharing new build ideas soon and invite viewers to provide feedback in the comments to communicate suggestions to the developers for potential future improvements.