Amalgam mods

[Sparkz]

How are they?

[pavig]

Situational - good for very specific custom builds and playstyles, but probably not in a general build. Amalgam mods aren't as powerful as their plain or primed counterparts, so only really worth it if you want to use their extra quirks. A bit like set mods - mostly not so great unless you plan to use their synergies.

[JebKerman]

EDIT: I've only used the Argonak's and Javlok's so far:
The Argonak one is interesting, it upgrades the Argonak's native target highlighting ability to a wallhack (highlights enemies through walls and obstacles), while effectively adding Shattering Impact to daggers (apparently still requires impact damage, so no dice for the (Rakta) Dark Dagger), which is a little weird since, while daggers are fast, they have covert lethality.

Javlok's is hilarious for it's secondary effects, channelling with a sword and shield weapon causes the enemies to kill themselves reasonably effectively. Not terribly practical though since it'll show you just how much the enemies miss you.

Furax's looks interesting too. A 15m knockdown each time you kill an enemy with them while also being the longer combo duration mod we have. Also has the "Firestorm" effect.

Ripkas and Daikyu look a bit meh by comparison.

If you use the Ripkas, the mod should be welcome for being better than True Steel, and it's secondary effects are definitely nice to have, but aren't that special by comparison.

The daiku's, I feel is going to make it into something of a go to "stat-stick" for nikanas since it adds life steal without taking up mod space in the nikana itself.

[JebKerman]

Originally posted by pavig:

Amalgam mods aren't as powerful as their plain or primed counterparts

That's actually false if we're talking the new weapon-specific ones from the ropalolyst, they are all more powerful than their base version

[massgunner32]

I'd say broken, though i haven't tested them myself, the Fortuna ones are nightmare mods on steroids basically.

[Pakaku]

The Argonak mod has a major upside and downside.
- Upside: You can highlight enemies through walls, and the thickness of the walls you can see through is determined by your punchthrough length.
- Downside: The enemies are fully highlighted as one solid colour, rather than just an outline, and that makes it very difficult to gauge where their heads are if you're going for headshots

If the mod ever gets changed so that it only highlights them with an outline, like without the mod, then I'd probably like it more.