Ataraxia Achievement - Pure of Mod and Body

[JudgeTy]

My How to: Spoilerish if you want to figure it out yourself.

Step 1:

You first need to have the Ataraxia [nova-drift.fandom.com] Super Mod unlocked and preferably Mayhem unlocked, you could probably do this without Mayhem but it would be harder and take longer.

Step 2:

You need to save 4-6 upgrades up to have Ataraxia show up. 6 including picking a ship and weapon or if you decline possibly 4 (I'm not sure to be honest, I declined to change the ship at first).

Step 3:

Plan your build out- Build for sustain and aoe clear.
I achieved this using Salvo [nova-drift.fandom.com] (IMO the best weapon as of 12/19).
As mentioned I declined changing the ship at first.
I ended up switching to Assault [nova-drift.fandom.com] after I grabbed Ataraxia.
Picked Reflect [nova-drift.fandom.com] as my shield.

Step 4:

Farm the first boss on mayhem.
To do this you don't kill it even after the next wave of enemies come in. Just focus on the missile frigate adds. One of them spawns to fight you every 15-33 seconds. They drop exp usually. Focus on clearing everything but the boss.

Step 5:

Once you have 6 or so upgrades stored, go to mod select, Ataraxia should be there, if it's not reroll. If you fail your rerolls. You can try and farm more rerolls or pick a weapon upgrade that leads to Barrage if you have more than 4 upgrades still AFTER picking. If you fail to have Ataraxia show up and have less than 3 upgrades, it's probably easier to restart.

Step 6:

Build for Barrage [nova-drift.fandom.com]. This is Focus Fire + Burst Fire. This will take up 5 total mods.

Step 7:

Grab a secondary damage or Mine. I prefer Scorching Wake. Why? The ring boss will take a very long time with just Barrage.

That's it.

Here's my Build:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1940626073

Made a guide real quick:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1940630281

[Mystra4]

Salvo is certainly a good weapon...

I went for Spread to stack more shots per barrage, and Candescence/Corrosion to make those extra shots work that much harder.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1937527680

[JudgeTy]

Very nice!

[Asherogar]

Meh,honestly. Salvo without weapon mods decent at best and only cos of targeting and small blast. And picking up weapon mods when you have only 7 slots? Huge wast.
Split shot(high firerate + big blast) - Decline shield - Research body( +hp from banishing mods)
Ataraxia
Regeneration - Rapid reconstruction
Hull mod - Plating - Forced hull
Candescence - Corrosion
Huge HP pull with a lot of defence and 10hp+/sec regen. You can shrug off and regenerate almost ewerything. Split shot + corrosion gives you a lot of easy-to-deliver dmg.
570k points at first try with all challenges on.

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Asherogar:

Meh,honestly. Salvo without weapon mods decent at best and only cos of targeting and small blast. And picking up weapon mods when you have only 7 slots? Huge wast.
Split shot(high firerate + big blast) - Decline shield - Research body( +hp from banishing mods)
Ataraxia
Regeneration - Rapid reconstruction
Hull mod - Plating - Forced hull
Candescence - Corrosion
Huge HP pull with a lot of defence and 10hp+/sec regen. You can shrug off and regenerate almost ewerything. Split shot + corrosion gives you a lot of easy-to-deliver dmg.
570k points at first try with all challenges on.

The odds of getting those exact mods are extremely slim. I'm able to get the 5 mod combo every time for barrage. I could of easily gotten further with salvo but I had a boss spawn on top of me pushing me into mines that I went to clear.

I've run many games where flame doesn't even show.

[Asherogar]

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

The odds of getting those exact mods are extremely slim. I'm able to get the 5 mod combo every time for barrage. I could of easily gotten further with salvo but I had a boss spawn on top of me pushing me into mines that I went to clear.

I've run many games where flame doesn't even show.

Rerols? Besides with Research body instead of rerolling you ban mods for the entire run, so they never appear again. Flame start showing only after you take some mods (5 or so, dont remember for sure) And not only flame, theres a lot of mods that appear only after you take ~10 other mods, so starting mod pool not so big.

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Asherogar:

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

The odds of getting those exact mods are extremely slim. I'm able to get the 5 mod combo every time for barrage. I could of easily gotten further with salvo but I had a boss spawn on top of me pushing me into mines that I went to clear.

I've run many games where flame doesn't even show.

Rerols? Besides with Research body instead of rerolling you ban mods for the entire run, so they never appear again. Flame start showing only after you take some mods (5 or so, dont remember for sure) And not only flame, theres a lot of mods that appear only after you take ~10 other mods, so starting mod pool not so big.

Banning would screw the achievement up previously. I think it has been fixed in today's patch. I had never been able to get the achievement with the research ship. You could always switch to it after you get the achievement-- switch to it, ban whatever, then switch back btw, but that would screw up the achievement, not sure now. No point in sticking with research long term when ataraxia gives you the long range exp pull anyway.

Also with the patch barrage + silo I think is now nerfed. It was ridicously overpowered before. Unlimited swarm of missiles doing 100 damage a pop.

[Asherogar]

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

Banning would screw the achievement up previously. I think it has been fixed in today's patch. I had never been able to get the achievement with the research ship. You could always switch to it after you get the achievement-- switch to it, ban whatever, then switch back btw, but that would screw up the achievement, not sure now. No point in sticking with research long term when ataraxia gives you the long range exp pull anyway.

Also with the patch barrage + silo I think is now nerfed. It was ridicously overpowered before. Unlimited swarm of missiles doing 100 damage a pop.

I get this achivement a week ago with this exact build, so no theres no bug. Maybe switching is causing troubles with achivement.
I choose Research body because for this achivement its almost only useful body. It allows you to grow in strenght even without mods and even further increase exp pull range. Ataraxia with Research body let you pull exp across the entire map.
All this hull and regen mods far more reliable than weapon mods. Weapon mods work as "more the marrier" so when you have only 5 slots (2 reserved for flame) those mods dont give you much. With hull you can make a lot of mistakes and just shrug them off.
Aaand splitshot gives you all the damage you need due to 3 projectiles + very high fate of fire + good blast its stack corrosion FAR faster then salvo (4th boss, orange one, is just a joke with splitshot). Not to mention salvo rockets have less dps and tend to fly everywere instead of focusing 1 target

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Asherogar:

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

Banning would screw the achievement up previously. I think it has been fixed in today's patch. I had never been able to get the achievement with the research ship. You could always switch to it after you get the achievement-- switch to it, ban whatever, then switch back btw, but that would screw up the achievement, not sure now. No point in sticking with research long term when ataraxia gives you the long range exp pull anyway.

Also with the patch barrage + silo I think is now nerfed. It was ridicously overpowered before. Unlimited swarm of missiles doing 100 damage a pop.

I get this achivement a week ago with this exact build, so no theres no bug. Maybe switching is causing troubles with achivement.
I choose Research body because for this achivement its almost only useful body. It allows you to grow in strenght even without mods and even further increase exp pull range. Ataraxia with Research body let you pull exp across the entire map.
All this hull and regen mods far more reliable than weapon mods. Weapon mods work as "more the marrier" so when you have only 5 slots (2 reserved for flame) those mods dont give you much. With hull you can make a lot of mistakes and just shrug them off.
Aaand splitshot gives you all the damage you need due to 3 projectiles + very high fate of fire + good blast its stack corrosion FAR faster then salvo (4th boss, orange one, is just a joke with splitshot). Not to mention salvo rockets have less dps and tend to fly everywere instead of focusing 1 target

I'm not sure if you had tried barrage with salvo before the patch but it's a different beast. It focuses one target if you find the sweet spot. The eclipse boss (i think that's it's name) is easily cleared without ever being in danger. In fact the only thing that ends up killing me is a 4 wall mine. Now that enemy cargo trains (orange trollies with exp drops) are no longer cleared by missiles off screen resulting in no spawn, I'm pretty sure salvo will get the highest score depending on if it's been nerfed with or boosted with the new changes.

[Asherogar]

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

I'm not sure if you had tried barrage with salvo before the patch but it's a different beast. It focuses one target if you find the sweet spot. The eclipse boss (i think that's it's name) is easily cleared without ever being in danger. In fact the only thing that ends up killing me is a 4 wall mine. Now that enemy cargo trains (orange trollies with exp drops) are no longer cleared by missiles off screen resulting in no spawn, I'm pretty sure salvo will get the highest score depending on if it's been nerfed with or boosted with the new changes.

Lets just agree that we disagree? I still think that splitshot in this particular situation more efficient, and salvo all in all seems bleak compared to splitshot, railgun or godlike flak.

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Asherogar:

Originally posted by JudgeTy:

I'm not sure if you had tried barrage with salvo before the patch but it's a different beast. It focuses one target if you find the sweet spot. The eclipse boss (i think that's it's name) is easily cleared without ever being in danger. In fact the only thing that ends up killing me is a 4 wall mine. Now that enemy cargo trains (orange trollies with exp drops) are no longer cleared by missiles off screen resulting in no spawn, I'm pretty sure salvo will get the highest score depending on if it's been nerfed with or boosted with the new changes.

Lets just agree that we disagree? I still think that splitshot in this particular situation more efficient, and salvo all in all seems bleak compared to splitshot, railgun or godlike flak.

Well I think highest score will speak for itself. ;) I'll do a Ataraxia build with salvo, then I'll do a full run with salvo. We'll see.

[JudgeTy]

I just had a run with Ataraxia only picked two upgrades. Stealth ship and Salvo. 400k run. Base shield.

Salvo is amazing.

[Super Speed Snail]

Im using spectre, rail gun, and some damage mods. Halo shield for some swarming enemies.

Just calm while invis and one shot everything.

It blasting everything until the achievement comes.

[JudgeTy]

Originally posted by Super Speed Snail:

Im using spectre, rail gun, and some damage mods. Halo shield for some swarming enemies.

Just calm while invis and one shot everything.

It blasting everything until the achievement comes.

If your playing with mouse I suppose rail gun is doable.

I can easily get to 600k with just salvo Pure of Mod and Body. I literally just hold the fire button down don't have to aim.

[Faceless]

I used vortex leviathan,
Managed to survive long enough with regeneration, bravado, rapid reconstruction, hull strength, absorption, improved thrusters, and deadly wake, in roughly that order.
forgot to take a screenshot.

[Draco18s]

Don't remember my exact build, but it was something like...

Dart, Halo, Research
Volley
Targetting
Candescence
Shield Cooldown (or Shield Durability?)
Rapid Fire
Magnitude

Dart/Volley/Candescence/Halo gives a ton of burn damage benefits, further enhanced by Rapid Fire (most bullet) and Magnitude (Dart burn lasts longer and do more damage).

Research for Banishment, of course.