which rhino augment?

[Dee]

so i finally gave the hippo a proper shot and... i freaking love this frame!

just interested to see what augments do you guys run on him and how do you build around them?

been running a ~250% strength build with stompy-stompy aug and looking to change things around a bit. all his augs sound fun!

[depresso]

Go his charge. Charge into a pack of enemies then cast your iron skin - hello invulnerability (basically). Everything else is window dressing.

[Spook]

Ironclad charge can make iron skin absurdly high, and the iron skin augment lets you dispel your own and recast it instead of needing to wait until it runs out and possibly dying before you get a chance to.

piercing roar seems worthless, and reinforcing stomp always looked like it would have a hard time making a meaningful restoration compared to how huge the available pool would be for an ironclad ironskin. especially when you can just refresh it yourself so easily.

[Handoiron]

Definately the iron skin aug because re-casting iron skin at will is just too nice. Not as necessary in a stomp build, but other builds make great use of it.

Charge aug can help build some insanely high iron skin numbers but really isn't necessary except in high high level runs where they can take your normal skin down in a few hits. Otherwise , you're better off taking a bit of cover and re-casting skin when it's low than charging facefirst into a pack to refresh a bigger skin.

Roar augment is the least usefull IMO but if you're running with a premade group and basically just being buff rhino with roar, an extra AE damage + 30% damage reduction from puncture proc is something. Also, buff rhino is typically maxed out on ability strength to maximize the damage increase of roar so the 150 damage puncture proc will be increased significantly by power strength.

Stomp aug you already know but just to round it out, just like most other augment mods, it's affected by power strength so that with a decent power strength, you can be refreshing ironskin by 250-300 health for every enemy hit by stomp.

[Dee]

pretty solid ideas here, thanks all!