Hymn serena gear?

[Ganzerberus]

So, my serena is pretty much done, but i have a few questions, first and foremost, her reactor... does it matter what element her reactor is? i have seen some people using whatevertehfk reactor as long as it has CD and Duration up, is that correct or not? doesnt her extra DMG on her 4th skill increase dmg with her reactor?
Also what components are good for her? i have seen peeps using ascending armory, but with the new dogo i dont really run out of ammo, wouldnt volcanic be more helpful? because extra Handgun and hand cannon dmg.

[ChickenBalls]

I've been wondering the same but after running a few vep30 with both a non attribute singular reactor and then a fire singular both with duration up and cool down maxed I couldn't really tell the difference but then again mine only uses her gun

as for external components I try to get as much HP and resist as possible
so I got like HP + max HP on the auxiliary and the standard 600 something HP on the other three

[Ganzerberus]

Originally posted by ChickenBalls:

I've been wondering the same but after running a few vep30 with both a non attribute singular reactor and then a fire singular both with duration up and cool down maxed I couldn't really tell the difference but then again mine only uses her gun

as for external components I try to get as much HP and resist as possible
so I got like HP + max HP on the auxiliary and the standard 600 something HP on the other three

Surviving isnt an issue on my end, damage its somewhat low tho, i clear VP30 on 6 mins, trying to reduce that, but i have no clue where i should cut because if i do i will most likely end up squishy...

[ChickenBalls]

Originally posted by Ganzerberus:

Originally posted by ChickenBalls:

I've been wondering the same but after running a few vep30 with both a non attribute singular reactor and then a fire singular both with duration up and cool down maxed I couldn't really tell the difference but then again mine only uses her gun

as for external components I try to get as much HP and resist as possible
so I got like HP + max HP on the auxiliary and the standard 600 something HP on the other three

Surviving isnt an issue on my end, damage its somewhat low tho, i clear VP30 on 6 mins, trying to reduce that, but i have no clue where i should cut because if i do i will most likely end up squishy...

and I'm stuck on vep challenge level 3 and found that poison resist really helps against order of truth

when grinding cores I think public games are usually faster. just leave whenever there are more than 1 troll with a descendant that is not Gley or Serena...
Those usually take 3 min or 2 min if you are with a good team
I'm pretty sure you can't consistently get sub 3minutes when doing it solo.
wonder how many times those youtubers had to try before getting below 2 min in their videos

[Rumi]

If you haven't found out the information needed:

Any reactor, mounting doesn't matter nor does the element, aslong as it has SDU and CD golden roll, you are fine. I use 2x SC + 2x random but all 4 components have max HP (646 with max 914 on auxiliary) her 4 doesn't grant more damage or reduce dmg based on the reactor which is why any reactor works on her.

substats:
auxiliary: max hp/mp recov
sensor: max mp/mp recov
memory: mp recov/random
processor: max shield/shield recov

*this build gives me 35.3k HP and ensures the dmg uptime, I can clear sub 3 minutes with a poorly optimised albion
*you never want to sacrifice HP as redemption dmg multiplier relies on .8% of your max HP.

[Ganzerberus]

Originally posted by Rumi:

If you haven't found out the information needed:

Any reactor, mounting doesn't matter nor does the element, aslong as it has SDU and CD golden roll, you are fine. I use 2x SC + 2x random but all 4 components have max HP (646 with max 914 on auxiliary) her 4 doesn't grant more damage or reduce dmg based on the reactor which is why any reactor works on her.

substats:
auxiliary: max hp/mp recov
sensor: max mp/mp recov
memory: mp recov/random
processor: max shield/shield recov

*this build gives me 35.3k HP and ensures the dmg uptime, I can clear sub 3 minutes with a poorly optimised albion
*you never want to sacrifice HP as redemption dmg multiplier relies on .8% of your max HP.

Ok thats where i was failing, now that you mentioned i never really noticed Redemption scales on HP, my build has some DMG reduction to add survivability but i never paid attention to that part!

[Lamiosa]

fire reactor is only important, if you go "skill Serena", but for "weapon Serena" it is not important. I also found Hymne near useless, but you also have nothing else for "weapon Serena". Only gives some boost on speed to clear a little bit faster.

[Ganzerberus]

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

fire reactor is only important, if you go "skill Serena", but for "weapon Serena" it is not important. I also found Hymne near useless, but you also have nothing else for "weapon Serena". Only gives some boost on speed to clear a little bit faster.

i mean yeah, hymn is basically not important, but i just call it Hymn serena lol, but yeah i meant weapon serena.

[Lamiosa]

Originally posted by Ganzerberus:

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

fire reactor is only important, if you go "skill Serena", but for "weapon Serena" it is not important. I also found Hymne near useless, but you also have nothing else for "weapon Serena". Only gives some boost on speed to clear a little bit faster.

i mean yeah, hymn is basically not important, but i just call it Hymn serena lol, but yeah i meant weapon serena.

Basically if you go weapon Serena, the only difference between mobbing and Boss build is, that you rather go for MP regeneration in mobbing since you want fly around and need mana for spamming the 3rd and 4th skill and for HP in boss, since you want highest damage output.

[Ganzerberus]

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

Originally posted by Ganzerberus:

i mean yeah, hymn is basically not important, but i just call it Hymn serena lol, but yeah i meant weapon serena.

Basically if you go weapon Serena, the only difference between mobbing and Boss build is, that you rather go for MP regeneration in mobbing since you want fly around and need mana for spamming the 3rd and 4th skill and for HP in boss, since you want highest damage output.

tbh im not looking for world record-breaking builds, i just want serena to farm cores at a decent pace, after what happened with Ines i'd rather stop spending more than what i should with builds and stuff, cuz man, i can guarantee that Serena will be nerfed when the next one comes, she is WAY too OP, made Ines nerf look pointless honestly.
But anyway, thanks for the pointers friend!

[Lamiosa]

Originally posted by Ganzerberus:

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

Basically if you go weapon Serena, the only difference between mobbing and Boss build is, that you rather go for MP regeneration in mobbing since you want fly around and need mana for spamming the 3rd and 4th skill and for HP in boss, since you want highest damage output.

tbh im not looking for world record-breaking builds, i just want serena to farm cores at a decent pace, after what happened with Ines i'd rather stop spending more than what i should with builds and stuff, cuz man, i can guarantee that Serena will be nerfed when the next one comes, she is WAY too OP, made Ines nerf look pointless honestly.
But anyway, thanks for the pointers friend!

Serena is not more powerful than Ines, Bunny, Freyna, Gley or Valby. You can faster do mobbing with Ines, Bunny, Freyna and Valby and Bossing faster with Gley or Hailey. Overall I would say she is same level as Ines, with Ines being a little better at mobbing and Serena being a little better than Ines.
If nearly all these descendants needs to be nerfed, don't we run in a circle?

[ChickenBalls]

guess I was wrong about grinding vep30 with randoms

just did 10 solo earlier and the best i got was just over 3 min and worst around 4:30

but yeah it depends highly on luck and how good you are getting headshots...

[Jundah 101]

Originally posted by Ganzerberus:

So, my serena is pretty much done, but i have a few questions, first and foremost, her reactor... does it matter what element her reactor is? i have seen some people using whatevertehfk reactor as long as it has CD and Duration up, is that correct or not? doesnt her extra DMG on her 4th skill increase dmg with her reactor?
Also what components are good for her? i have seen peeps using ascending armory, but with the new dogo i dont really run out of ammo, wouldnt volcanic be more helpful? because extra Handgun and hand cannon dmg.

ill break it down

1. serena reactor only matter for her transcendence module that modified her 4th because it scales off skill power. however her normal 4th doesnt, it scales off HP

2. reactor substat is preference, personally i value cost and duration because im using multitalended which already allow me to have 100% uptime on her buff's

3. her 4th dmg scales with 0.8x Max HP, so you want as much HP as possible

4. for component is anything with 648 main HP stat to scale your HP up as high as possible, of course for substat you also want HP stat, and then MP, and then DEF and then max Shield

but of course build are flexible, so you can use this above as reference and then modified them to your need.