Looking for carrier build ideas

[Ribbons0121R121]

ive already found the min maxed ones(vital overseer crash, temporal apex overseer) and im out of ideas for new carrier builds

[Gnodab]

Depends on how powerful you want it, but I had fun with this one.

https://nova-drift.fandom.com/wiki/Flaming_Hornet

[a_triangle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2891765191
New ataraxia variant of this build definitely outperforms this. Instead of stacking wild mods you just save points for ataraxia. Grabbing challengers is worth it if you can handle it for the extra levels for more swarm. Bravado, drone specialist, and one hypermetabolism is worth taking as well. Quantum decoherence is great if you can get it after all of the required mods. Kinetic boost, skirmish, deadly wake, blink, adrenal module, candescence, corrosion, and purification are unnecessary

[Soulshell]

Probably not the best build, but maxing vulnerability is kinda fun.

[yivrneyakumo]

you can utilize carrier to fuel your shields regen, or you can do SC carrier and do SC shenanigans.

OR, you can do hybrid builds. The most powerful thing about carrier is that you can just not invest into constructs at all and do a weapon or some other build. the swarms are totally free. You can do whatever you want with carrier!

[Ribbons0121R121]

the problem with any form off carrier shield build without sc is basically sentinel can do the build much better
but sc carrier is simply superior for just overwhelming your enemies, temporal apex carrier is litterally just time stop because the shield instances stack really well
hybrid builds tend to suffer if they rely on any form of mobility tho, carrier is quite sluggish for that. that said i havent seen even leviathan quite as goofilly knock enemies around as carrier with blast armor
if there was some form of way for the swarmlings to boost your weapon i could see a lot of interesting builds pop up

[yivrneyakumo]

carrier doesnt need to invest in any construct mods at all except Shielded Constructs. Sentinel still needs to invest in drone/ally/turret for shield things. It's a tradeoff. Though I do agree carrier is one of the more mid-tier bodies for this.

[Soulshell]

Noone plays any Rapid Regen with a weapon build? Kindve surprising, though I'm more of a Tempest Break kindve player myself anyway.

[Yextiny]

Originally posted by Halfshell cat:

Noone plays any Rapid Regen with a weapon build? Kindve surprising, though I'm more of a Tempest Break kindve player myself anyway.

RR has bad damage mitigation & is counter-intuitively more vulnerable and squishy than shields, in my experience. I used to play RR exclusively but could never get past like 3.5mil, whereas my with-shields builds top out around 6.5m

I think charged shields (siphon or halo) carrier has some promise. The lil guys will eat enemy projectiles, their lil lances cause vulnerability, & they'll also heal your shields IIRC. I think that might be more net benefit than the sentinel body I've using for those builds.

[Botji]

Originally posted by Ribbons0121R121:

ive already found the min maxed ones(vital overseer crash, temporal apex overseer) and im out of ideas for new carrier builds

SC + Shockwave shield + Polar Inversion + shield explody mods, Tempest Break etc.

Its fun even if it will likely get you killed.