I love playing the driller with the cryo weapon but is cryo good against bosses?

[Angelatic Birdy]

I played the latest elite deep dive and I keep on being low on ammo, is there any build fire/cryo that works best against bosses?

[Heron]

Drillers just don't have the options other classes have against single target bosses. Sticky / +freeze builds can help a little and of course impact axes.

[Chibbity]

Either gun specced for full damage is prolly your safest bet for bosses.

Controlling him via slows or freezes is also decent, but not exactly super effective.

That said, Driller really shines against groups of smaller enemies; bosses just aren't his forte. That's really a job for other classes, just try to help as best you can.

[GIRL]

If you're going solo, take the flamethrower. Cryo won't help you much solo. And with a team, cryo is potentially really powerful... but it obviously requires coordination and good reaction times on your team's part. There's also the potential factor of your teammates having builds that apply Fire damage, which would make it hard to freeze the bosses.

In short, I'd say cryo has more risks but is also incredibly rewarding when pulled off properly. Flamethrower is the safer bet, it's far more reliable, however, Dreadnoughts can't be burned. So you're only getting the raw damage from your weapon (so, follow Chibbity's advice and spec it for raw damage).

[Chibbity]

I'd also like to add that the most effective thing Driller can do is before the fight; when he preps the area by making it as large and comfortable an area as possible for the fight.

This can mean the difference between victory and defeat before a single shot has been fired.

[Scuzz MB]

Cryo's not my first choice going in to a Dreadnought boss battle, but it's definitely doable even at Haz 5 solo or in a team. It just becomes a methodical war of attrition and it helps to balance as much damage you can do with your secondary (EPC or Subata) and the cryo.

With flamethrower, my Overclock of choice (if you have it) for dreadnought fights currently is Compact Feed Valves because of the ammo and tank size bumps - with which you can still build for decent damage. With the bigger tank size you can sustain damage longer without having to reload and not have to worry about running out of ammo.

With any primary, tank size, mag size, or longer sustained fire without overheat is always a good path to take so you sustain dealing damage as long as possible while you have the dread weakpoints in your line of site.

[Nosteru]

Chibbity a écrit :

I'd also like to add that the most effective thing Driller can do is before the fight; when he preps the area by making it as large and comfortable an area as possible for the fight.

This can mean the difference between victory and defeat before a single shot has been fired.

Thiiiiiis!

[moerty]

I always recommend freezing power over damage with the cryo, it stops them quick so you have a range of options that open up. the best way to do massive damage to them is to get real close so cold radiance is also affecting them then shoot an axe and a power attack in quick succession. it just wrecks all the dreadnoughts and with berserk and/or slayer stout you're just a menace to any big bug, an absolute barbarian.

Get your freezing power to 10 and stack all the ammo you can and you can't go wrong under any circumstance. i also recommend the subata in full auto with maximum damage if you're solo, it's the only time i'd consider that sidearm.

[ゴブリンスレイヤー]

get good

[Farmor tulle]

Driller isn't the best against single targrets, you should rely on your secondary more than your primary. Impact axes can help alot though.

Doesen't mean that driller can't be useless, you can help your team alot by expanding the arena you fight the boss in.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Driller can be good against bosses, but you have to build him a little differently.

Just use all his different weapon slots, and put single-target oriented damage in each one.

-Impact axes are great
-C4 the dreadnought cocoon before it comes out to get a big hit off guaranteed without risk of friendly-fire. (just don't detonate if it's hiveguard)
-using the plasma secondary is more damage-per-second and you can cycle it out to cooldown instead of reloading the subata.
-Cryo launcher has an icicle overclock that is a big direct-damage projectile, on the weakspot it does lots of damage.

The strategy is to cycle out the different weapons. Launch icicle, then while it reloads itself, switch to secondary, then do impact axes, then back to cryo icicle again.

[zverozvero]

I go cryo with Ice storm 11212 and it works fairly well. Freezes boss well enough if you can manage Cold radiance radius alive and dish out good enough damage at the same time.
Impact axes for more damage and crit subata/heavy hitter epc to have something from secondary.
Didnt like how pure max freeze perform as team wont allways catch up on freeze moment and it freezes fast enough with cold radiance. Icicle is neat but you either freeze or icicle plus it is not instant sniper shot and can be quirky more so if you are not host.

Latest EDD i drilled axed and (suicide) bombed with C4 most of the and it went fine. You will run out of ammo if you go ham on anything so use it sparingly. Sticky flames would do good for ammo conservation but for dreads they wont bring much.

[Frisky]

instead of focusing on primary i use explosive reload subata for bosses
that thing lets you put out really good damage against bosses and it destroys BET-C when combined with a neurotoxin grenade for slowdown

[Ackranome]

With elites - Cryo is subpar. So, you need to make sure you're not using Cryo for elite dives.

if on an EDD cryo is still the better weapon as a driller but you need to run sub most likely as your secondary and you are not helpful against Elites so focus elsewhere.

[kestrel]

the crspr used to be good with a sticky fuel build, back when sticky flames still did maximum damage and slowdown to dreadnoughts. that doesnt happen anymore sadly, so now your best bet is to use face melter - but even that's pretty ineffective

the cryo works but you need a coordinated team to make it really shine
if you have a regular dread or a hiveguard don't bother freezing them until their actual hp (the red bar) is exposed

[DD The Pumpkin King]

People seem to have it covered so I'll just suggest trying with Engie buddy combining hyper propellant with cryo. Once frozen, you can shoot anywhere and get the huge damage.