So Serena, what she is good at?

[RiseM]

I just started her and it seems pretty shallow. What will make her shine? I understand her mods are for skill cost and range, but what’s her best use in her Tormentor? Still exploring her. Also what guns are best for her?

[Root]

Add as many HP as you can, then use skill 4 in air and start shooting.
There are a lot of videos in youtube about serena.

[GameBuild]

Originally posted by RiseM:

I just started her and it seems pretty shallow. What will make her shine? I understand her mods are for skill cost and range, but what’s her best use in her Tormentor? Still exploring her. Also what guns are best for her?

Serena can kill Tormentor in less than 15 sec and any large mobs in an area. There are videos showing the builds.

[Angel]

As soon as you find out, it will all be to late. All the people with expensive modules will make sure it will be gone and Serena will be average like all of the others.

[Vindy]

YES.

Serena even with base mods already makes Ines look like a joke, ones you build into her Weapons Platform build she becomes a Monster. Double HP Mods (Tripple if you want to go with Shield > HP conversion) and use any 646 HP components and go max out her Cooldown to have her 4 up all the time.
Hit her 4 in mid Air and either use Voltia or Melevolence and watch things get obliterated.

A fully build Serena is absurd to put it lightly. And thats just her default Weapons Platform build without Transcendent Mod.

When you build into her "Booba Smash" as i call it Divine Surge Transcendent Mod she is on Paar or arguable better than even Ines at AoE Clearing and just double taps Sigma Sector Bosses.

She is everything i expected her to be after seeing the Dev Stream with her and having her Abilitys shown. Already said there in chat "She is going to make everything else Obsolet".
Power Creep from hell.

[Nikorasu]

She needs a lot of HP. I say she's close to Bunny level in mobbing, when it comes to bossing I say she's Gley level or maybe a bit higher

[Skipgoose]

it'd be the good old cycle > release fun new character for the season > people sweat and complain it make content too easy IN A PVE GAME > gets nerfed & benched > next patch, new character keep power creeping rinse and repeat.

[RiseM]

Why HP mods? Will take a look later, her skills depends on it?

[jvjd]

Everything,

Originally posted by RiseM:

Why HP mods? Will take a look later, her skills depends on it?

Because of her ulti , she get over + 300 % damage - so whatever weapon you are using ? yup that damage + 3x and the not so important part , she heals of % hp

[Adikos]

Originally posted by LFA:

Serena can kill Tormentor in less than 15 sec and any large mobs in an area. There are videos showing the builds.

In less than 3 second you wanted to write... BaLaNcEd

[Harris]

She's basically Gley but better. She nominally doesn't have infinite ammo - however between recovering ammo from shooting at enemies debuffed with 1, the new ammo dog and instantly reloading with 3 she technically does. Now add to that a crazy damage buff that scales off hp and a skill that reduces incoming damage and restores hp and mp for the entire group, and you get the idea. So it's a jack of all trades character, but instead of being master of none she's actually master of everything.

Oh, and last but definitely not least, make sure to stay away from going into the Photo mode and checking what she's wearing under the uniform. You have been warned.

[HerbertWess]

You got 3 builds basically. For solo with divine surge. This will make you a sort of Valby/Ines that slams on piles of enemies.

Hymn is more for co-op, but with core X weapons she will utterly destroy everything, just buff yourself mid air and shoot (takes some time getting used to).

The boss killer build is kinda specific, using every hp boost you got, overwhelming HP mod, every 646 hp component if possible (new ascending set does the job quite well for this). You boost hp like crazy because of the synergy with 4th skill mid air. Last Dagger, or if you have been able to get it the new sniper. Set up a specific arche tuning for bosses, you need the colossus dmg and you need the all attribute type (the one that enhances burst, pierce, crush dmg etc). You don't even need multihit, her scaling is simply that absurd.

I know ppl are divided on the difficulty issue and power creep. But on the other hand, if i must grind anything 70+ times, i'd like to be able to do it as fast as possible, so she works for me so far.

[RiseM]

Came some post her screenshot build? I’m more interested in Tormentor clearing, since everything else seems like a joke for her already.

[Palumtra]

At the moment it would be easier to list what she's not good at because she can shred everything. The only problem she may encounter is the void shields but voltia solves that too.
Note that the Hymn skill module currently still provides an instant reload which is not mentioned in the english description, which means you can also buff yourself and your allies with +40% movement speed (in comparison: Bunny sprints and +50%) on top of the reloading, if you can afford it.

[N/A]

Originally posted by Vindy:

YES.

Serena even with base mods already makes Ines look like a joke, ones you build into her Weapons Platform build she becomes a Monster. Double HP Mods (Tripple if you want to go with Shield > HP conversion) and use any 646 HP components and go max out her Cooldown to have her 4 up all the time.
Hit her 4 in mid Air and either use Voltia or Melevolence and watch things get obliterated.

A fully build Serena is absurd to put it lightly. And thats just her default Weapons Platform build without Transcendent Mod.

When you build into her "Booba Smash" as i call it Divine Surge Transcendent Mod she is on Paar or arguable better than even Ines at AoE Clearing and just double taps Sigma Sector Bosses.

She is everything i expected her to be after seeing the Dev Stream with her and having her Abilitys shown. Already said there in chat "She is going to make everything else Obsolet".
Power Creep from hell.

Voltia is better add clear than Divine surge. The damage you get from Divine surge is all around worse than without. Just Voltia and your two is better add clear than Divine surge.

And even Voltia on Serena isn't as good at add clear as Inis/Freyna.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by N/A:

Voltia is better add clear than Divine surge. The damage you get from Divine surge is all around worse than without. Just Voltia and your two is better add clear than Divine surge.

And even Voltia on Serena isn't as good at add clear as Inis/Freyna.

I use divine surge more as a travel mechanic, aim into the sky and see yourself fly far far away. I combine both divine surge and malevolent for area clear. lol.

For smaller/enclosed areas like VEP, the battlepass hand cannon Malevolent is a better choice for area clear, well at least when inversion bonus(+3 more blades) is available. Slice and dice, baby. Then you either use Hymn or use no transcendent module.