Outriders – Trickster Tank Shield Build – Damage Taken: 362! (sometimes 0…)

I thought this was one where I took 0 damage, instead, but apparently I took literally a sliver of health at some point and didn’t feel like redoing it lol. It should be clear though I can sometimes take 0 and most definitely can if I decided to destroy the anomaly rifts. This build with all the shock wave damage actually eats through rifts when I want it too. Aggressive teleport, moaning winds, and scrap grenade can all one shot kill the rifts near them. I just intentionally left everything alive as I concentrated on the boss to further highlight its tanking.

Here you get to see why even my pistol is useful as it provides my only means of decent ranged damage when needed. It also has weapon leech so stacking that with skill leech off Venator’s Knife is how I can quickly regen my health too on this build any rare moments it’s actually breached.

Frankly even if my health is damaged I’m still getting tons of shield protecting it by continuing to spam my abilities. Then by switching to my pistols and using my knife it will still recover relatively quickly while my shield gains continue to help it not go down further. The trickster can never remotely achieve the sort of insane skill and weapon leech heals (except for the firepower build with weapons though its skill leech and shield still suck by comparison) the other classes can obtain, but that is why the key to an ultimate tank on it is to focus on your shield gains, instead, and use whatever skill and weapon leech you can muster to still have some kind of health recovery not dependent on kills. And remember again my shield max and gains by that extension is tied to how much health I have (why I go max health and don’t use Trespassors). That is really why my shield is so strong then it’s a double whammy with my health being strong too lol.

This is why I must emphasize this build could already take 0 damage most expeditions, including EOTS, BEFORE NEW HORIZON update when Disruption Shield only gave you 20% shield gain not 50%. It’s been viable since the start of the game. The update just made it even tankier!

And as for damage again you see how I rely on shockwaves, indeed, and galore. I combine that with the debuff of Venator’s Knife, since my weapon and anomaly damage suck, and add the faster reload skill node while using the fastest reload gun in game to max my scrap grenade primary. My damage can never compare to firepower tricksters but it’s not bad at all I think for a pure tank. I will still rival anomaly build trickster damage in some expeditions while being 100 times tankier lol.

With all the shock waves, though, this build is still good AoE crowd control and the max cool down and mods on Slow Trap allow it to also offer decent support to the team as a protector you could say. I always notice most teammates stop dying when I fight near them due to two reasons: (1) Just being a tank who draws some enemies off them at least but (2) Constant slow trap activations make them nigh immortal in them too and give chances for recovery.

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