A Question About Blade Drones

[PrivateerBlack]

Since the blade drone weapon counts as a weapon AND a drone, does the Drone Specialist wild mod affect it as well or would it be affected by Ally Specialist? My guess is the former, but I haven't done much testing with it yet. Does anyone have more experience or wisdom to share?

[Bill]

It's unfortunate that the Blade weapon's description calls it a "bladed drone", considering how careful Nova Drift usually is with its wording. I think this might get revised in the future.

To be precise, it is a weapon and a standard construct, and not a drone.

None of the Specialist Wild Mods benefit the Blade weapon - Drone Specialist improves only the type of construct related to the Drones mod (as well as Defense Drones or Assault Drones), and Ally Specialist only improves Allies/Guardians/Interceptors. It is specifically not planned to introduce Specialist Wild Mods related to gear such as weapons.

[PrivateerBlack]

Well, that sucks. At least the Blade is still monstrous with the right builds anyway, so there's some comfort there. The swords, too.

[anarcher]

Ally specialist with guardian, medicharge and nano dispersion will indirectly help blades, and if you take burnout reactors they will build back up relatively quickly even with the specialist taking away build speed.
And that build is quite good in any case.

[Gonb]

with construct weapons being more common we need a fifth specialist mod for construct gear
bastion, blades, possibly a body like from that one automaton post on here, etc. could all use something like that