New meta, new incarnons! I don’t have any commentary this week since everything is new.
The offerings:
- Sybaris
- Sicarus
- Okina
- Dera
- Cestra
What did everyone pick? I went with Okina followed by Dera. I love melee incarnons, and I love Cold, so Okina was an easy pick. I went with Dera because it’s an OG weapon from back in the days when “laser damage” was a thing, and because I don’t believe we have any Magnetic incarnons (excluding Synoid Gammacor, kinda).
Will post my thoughts on my picks as I unlock them.
What kind of build did you go with on Okina? Cold lends well to a crit-focused build but it seems most evolution are better suited for a status or hybrid setup. I was hoping to use it on frost but I think the overall crit chance gets too high for arcane duplicate and frankly I’m not sure what to replace it with
Yeah, I took it down the status damage and duration evolutions. I settled on an Influence build, specifically viral/electric. The multi-CO means you can also build CO onto it and just mod pure electric for mag/cold/electric for much higher damage. The Okina and all melee incarnons are still strong enough to kill most priority targets anyway, even doing focused Influence builds.
The boilerplate Influence build I run with the new Galvanized Melees is (for incarnons with +100% melee damage when shifted): Weeping Wounds, Blood Rush, Elementalist, Galvanized Steel, Blast 60/60s, Shocking Touch, Elementalist, Discipline’s Merit on Exilus. On this weapon, if you’re trying to optimise for damage, you would swap the 60/60’s for CO and Berserker Fury.