My experience with grenade weapon mastery levels

[Spud the Spud]

THROW IT AT THE BOSS COME ON ALREADY HE'S RIGHT THERE JUST THROW IT IN HIS DIRECTION!!?!!?!

Seriously. Please?

[カミル]

My experience with all nade masteries and a good deal of other weapons is: reroll first artefact until you get a weapon box and level an actually useful weapon instead, lmao.

The weapon masteries are the least balanced challenges in the game right now.

[Spud the Spud]

It's borderline unplayable at the higher end, particularly for High Explosive that doesn't have some of it's damage backloaded like Acid and Fire do. The grenades just bounce all over after being thrown at I have no idea and the boss is almost unkillable as a result. 27 million damage done on that run, but the twin bosses never got below half hp. It's all just splash on the trash. Super frustrating.

[Yasahi]

Originally posted by Spud the Spud:

It's borderline unplayable at the higher end, particularly for High Explosive that doesn't have some of it's damage backloaded like Acid and Fire do. The grenades just bounce all over after being thrown at I have no idea and the boss is almost unkillable as a result. 27 million damage done on that run, but the twin bosses never got below half hp. It's all just splash on the trash. Super frustrating.

The grenades go backwards if there's nothing closer. There's a method to the madness when kiting stuff. Keep your kiting in a line, don't zigzag. If you're really fast, it's better to stutter step so that you'll still be throwing them backwards. You can even circle the Dreadnought with enough movement speed and have nades constantly blow up on it.

High-Explosive Grenade used to be hard but with the buffs it got it's quite easy to do the Hazard 5 dive. Just redid it and didn't even get the cluster grenade OC. Play as Foreman for this one. The Strong Armed with +20% Weapon Range is actually bad for weapon challenges since the grenades have a fuse. If they exploded on impact it wouldn't matter.

As long as you stack Reload and Crit rate you'll have enough killing power to take out both the swarm and both Dreadnought variants. Feedback Harness will allow you to clear the swarm while also dealing lots of damage to the Dreaddy. With a couple of HP upgrades you can hit a small grunt, blow everything up and then wait for a few regen ticks before doing it again. Just make sure you're doing it after the Dreaddy has jumped so that you actually hit it.

Final build: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3381589945
Upgrades: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3381591082
Final stats: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3381590470