What stats affect/improve turrets, exactly?

[jpr-gaming]

I'm trying to optimize an Engineer build but I don't know what stats I should prioritize because it isn't clear what stats affect turrets.

[GeminiEclipse]

Engineering, explosion damage and range, projectile pierce count and damage increase, and projectile bounce I think are the only ones. I probably missed something.

The explosion stuff would only affect the level 4 turrets.

[Linguistically Inept]

statwise just engineering (luck as always will help you get the pieces though)

you can go negative on crit/atkspeed/damage without worry (i mean theyll affect the wrench/screwdriver damage, but if you're building engineering then theyre kind of irrelevant)

its items you want to look for; ones i know affect turrets:

- burn on hit (if using this you might want to pay attention to your elemental stat)

- burn spread/speed (if using the above they definitely work; it not using the burn on hit then im not sure if they affect the incendiary turret burn)

- ricochet (obviously only base/laser/explosive turrets, and doesnt suffer the damage decrease because turrets/mines ignore damage%)

- explosion damage (just explosive turret and mines)

- explosion size (same as above)

- projectile pierce (if you have both ricochet and pierce then itll ricochet and then pierce after the bounce)

i want to say the tooth that slows on hit works but honestly its so hard to tell with all the visual noise (took me a couple of rounds after getting them both to notice the ricochet pierce interaction and i still have no clue if incendiary turrets blue engineering burn counts for burn items)

[GeminiEclipse]

Oh right pierce damage wouldn't affect them cause they don't get affected by damage. Also didn't think about the burn stuff.

[0ShadowArcher0]

Does attack speed counts for the turrets too?

[GeminiEclipse]

Nope no attack speed.

[just.dont.do.it]

To add to the list, incendiary turrets' burn effect (blue-tinted) is scaled off Engineering, not your Elemental. If you have snake for fire spread, then, however, Incendiary turrets will spread the burn, which will scale off your Elemental as usual (orange-tinted).