Best Gene build for Replica?

[KREOSES]

Just wanted to know if there is someone who already built a full Shooter replica. :D

[Aura]

I'm going to build myself a Thorns(Reflect) build, not sure what I want to add to it though. I know Ion Shield conflicts with it from experience as it doesnt count as taking damage so I might go Thorns with full Attack Speed or Defence

[Red riding hood the third]

I did build a full shooter replica just so they can oneshot mobs when i farm underground. They don't do much in bossfights because they can't survive anything so i made a second replica with a bunch of ion shield and ranged damage to assist.

[knife12886]

Minigun 100% ammo spend reduction meco bullets. Before minigun shotgun will do. You can buy gold shotgun in city when reach insect lvl. You dont really need replica before insects anyway,

[Ender]

try replica with plasma gun <3

[Balm]

I've tried a few different setups. Full shooter is nice for progressing since the added damage and safety of range is useful vs mobs. Full range + crit damage with a sniper rifle was delivering 1200 damage plinks. It's helpful not having to worry about getting crit chance. I used that guy for awhile, and even made a second one with high ion shield with high regen per second to avoid having to babysit it.

Vs. bosses, however, some sort of hp/shield sustain and serious defense is needed. The key to making a boss surviving replica is to place the protection node that gives boss damage reduction on a 2x slot, so you start out with 50% damage reduction vs bosses and +!50 health, baseline. At that point you can decide if you want to leech with melee damage, or tank with regenerating ion shield, while mixing in some evasion. The max defense + damage reduction type of armors seem to be the best for replica survival in the face of bullet hell spam. You can reroll for evasion set to maximize their uptime.

Squeezing serious damage out of your guy while still being tough enough to face tank the hardest hitters is a challenge, so you will need to pick the most broken weapon possible. I made a Replica that used HP leech from melee damage, combined with a Fine chainsaw with +damage +% damage +defense penetration and it was giving about 30 health leech a second, which was more than enough to keep him up even against the final boss (except for a certain point blank AOE move in a certain phase.).

I meant to try a full reflect build, but gathering the parts became tedious and had a lot of RNG factors, so its gone by the wayside for now. It's kind of weird since you need to take enough damage to do serious damage, but also somehow get your health back up after taking that damage. Still piecing it together.

[knife12886]

Originally posted by Ender:

try replica with plasma gun <3

Minigun out damaging plasma gun like 2 or more times.

[tragicshark]

My best replica has 430 ion that never stops recharging and does so with 2 +50% rate genes, 50% evasion, 333 defense, 86.9 damage resistence and 51% damage reduction.

It face tanks divil with a chainsaw for about 2/3 of the fight without me doing anything.

I'm running every evasion gene except the alpha one (6/6 plus the symptom), full coverage and ion skin (first and last from that set) and precise strike (melee weapon ignore 20% defence), with a second fine chainsaw.

A full reflect build is basically a bomb on a timer, when the replica comes online it instantly dies and deals a ton of damage but the replica is basically aways recovering.