Driller in Elimination mission?

[Humping Koala]

What is the role of driller in elimination missions, given the fact his main weapon is oriented towards CC? Couple of C4 are not gonna contribute as much either, imo. And the maps in elimination are usually more simple than others, since you have a central hub with 2-3 branches, so escape is very simple as well. To me it seems more reasonable to take 2nd gunner for elimination. Your thoughts?

[mayonaise]

Freeze the dreadnaught, does a heap of damage to it

[Dante]

Depends on what weapon I'm using. I use a flamethrower so I can deal with swarms, if I bring my axes I can deal great damage against the big boss as well.

[Kirk]

Originally posted by Humping Koala:

What is the role of driller in elimination missions, given the fact his main weapon is oriented towards CC? Couple of C4 are not gonna contribute as much either, imo. And the maps in elimination are usually more simple than others, since you have a central hub with 2-3 branches, so escape is very simple as well. To me it seems more reasonable to take 2nd gunner for elimination. Your thoughts?

Axe+Satchel+Freeze or Sticky flames
1.Drill a hole in the wall and aggro Dread on you.
2.He will try to dig you out while your teammates will be behind him.
3.???
4.Profit!

[Syncourt]

Driller is the best for kiting the dreadnought. He can lure it over C4 and damage it from the front with his primaries (or any AoE) while the team hits his rear.

Taking the cryo cannon helps a lot too, even though the freeze is short, it can give you and your team extra time to get to a better position.

[R1105]

Driller's weapons deal damage through dred armor. Cryo canon freezes dread. C4 deals significant antiarmor dmg. Even drills do anti armor dmg.

[Chibbity]

You can see the cacoons on the map, so Driller can just drill straight to them.

Also, he can clear an area to fight in around the cacoon if needed.

Finally, he's really not that bad in the actual fight, although he's certainly not the best.

[Humping Koala]

Originally posted by Kirk:

Axe+Satchel+Freeze or Sticky flames
1.Drill a hole in the wall and aggro Dread on you.
2.He will try to dig you out while your teammates will be behind him.
3.???
4.Profit!

This seems like an interesting strat. How do u quickly agro dread though? Ask team to stop shooting him whenever he targets someone other than driller?

[Syncourt]

Originally posted by Humping Koala:

This seems like an interesting strat. How do u quickly agro dread though? Ask team to stop shooting him whenever he targets someone other than driller?

The person to destroy the egg takes first aggro. Afterwards you can steal it back a couple of ways if you remain as the closest target. After lures or if the gunner throws a shield over the current aggro.

Usually I can break the egg and maintain aggro with the cryo cannon right through the fight though. Maybe the freeze resets him again?

[DariusSlayer]

Originally posted by Syncourt:

Originally posted by Humping Koala:

This seems like an interesting strat. How do u quickly agro dread though? Ask team to stop shooting him whenever he targets someone other than driller?

The person to destroy the egg takes first aggro. Afterwards you can steal it back a couple of ways if you remain as the closest target. After lures or if the gunner throws a shield over the current aggro.

Usually I can break the egg and maintain aggro with the cryo cannon right through the fight though. Maybe the freeze resets him again?

From my own experience, freezing him doesn't always reset his aggro - though if you're the closest to him when he's thawed/pissed again, then there's a likely chance that he will aggro to you.

[Winters]

Personally I've had some great moments where a driller protects us during eliminating a dreadnaught.

[Mercury]

If the dreadnought spawn is cramped the driller can make some extra breathing room and make tunnels to keep him distracted. If you got a competent team with a game plan he’ll go down in a breeze.

And C4’s are pretty strong against its shield just be careful in the lava region.

[Dozey]

Originally posted by Kirk:

1.Drill a hole in the wall and aggro Dread on you.
2.He will try to dig you out while your teammates will be behind him.
3.???
4.Profit!

[aditya.faris]

Driller rules in Elimination.

Provided you're running with a team that is not cluster mess and willing to spend a minute or two of strategy preparation.

My go to strategy as Driller in Elimination:
1. Drill hole into wall
2. Make another hole in another wall
3. Connect 1 & 2
4. Mark 1 & 2 entrance with your axe and tell team to run there if dread's aggro on them
5. Hit dread from behind when he's digging for whomever has aggro
6. Profit.

[MrPurple33]

For Solo Elimination, It can be pretty hard as Driller - Gunner and Engie do pretty well Solo

For Team Play, even with just 2 Players, Driller has some uses depending on what you equip

1- Cryo can freeze the Dread Letting the entire team pile on it (don't personally use it myself)
2- EPC can give some Charge Shot fury with the team (also seldom use it)
3- Flamethrower can do some nice sustain, and wittle down the armor Leaving a Dread open to the bigger guns of Gunner and Engie, and give an opening for a Scout with the M1000 - decent combo still will Subata's Volatile Bullets
4- C4 and HE Grenades still do good damage, but you have to follow it up with some close range- Driller is the most Likely to get squashed just because of his weapon sets
5- The Axes - always good, yet I'm an Old-School Driller, use the HE Nades- however, 70% of the time I WILL go Axes on Elimination- they do nice base damage, and once the Armor pops off, either yourself with the above explosives, FT, other weapons or teammate weight of fire- you can easily chuck 3-5 Axes right into the meat of the Dread, If you're right by the Orange Tail, some nice damage
6- the above mentioned tunnel trick- Driller digs faster than the Dread- dig in, turn and do Fire, Cryo, or just anything- the real damage is the team popping the Dread from behind
7- Willing Decoy/Rodeo Clown - I will willingly take a KO If it gets the Big Bull's attention and the team finishes it- I have known to go Full Karl, toss all my explosives, and charge HEAD ON at a Dread and Drill In to It- getting KOd, but doing Major Damage, usually stripping the Armor and some Meat, then the team kills it

If the mission is class-Locked, I will happily be the Crazy Driller in an Elimination Mission- I just accept I'm getting KOd 3-4 times more than the others, and my role is to get up in that Dread's Grill, then hopefully run, jump, or dig and get away- It's actually a big change from how I normally play Driiller, and have to be in the Mood, but it can be Lots of fun- If I'm really Krazy-Karl Komitted, I'll make sure to be Slammered up for the mission as well- Blurry Orange Fury as I'm charging with my Drills is pretty wild to do