This is a niche 'semi-AFK' camping [Protea] [Blaze] Artillery build for survival, using Mecha Set, Roar and [Archon Vitality] to mega boost heat status DPS. [Huras Kubrow] is needed for absolute lazy mode since it makes you invisible.

UPDATE JUNE 2024
The new [Blaze] Artillery augment will allow you to make one turret follow you for the duration of temporal anchor (approximately 20s) but stays stacked at 20x dmg multiplier. This is personal preference but could be a great quality of life change that goes in the empty slot (previously for [Primed Continuity]).

PLAYSTYLE

  1. First you need to find a room in a decent tileset with ONE entrance where enemies funnel in through a narrow corridor or door. Pick a spot as your DPS LOCATION where you will camp and pop turrents, making sure the turrets are able to target all the enemies entering the area from that spot. Then pick another spot in the room that is AT LEAST 15m away from this camping spot and designate this as your DISPENSARY LOCATION. This is because Vacuum/Fetch radius is 13.5m maximum and any energy/health orbs you pick up during temporal Anchor are basically "wasted" since you revert back to near max energy at the end. The orbs from dispensary will basically be your "backup" pool of energy in case you run out somehow outside of Temporal Anchor.
  2. Use 2 to trigger [Protea]'s 100% str passive before casting roar to get a 299% str roar.
  3. Use 2 three times again to trigger 100% str passive then pick up health orbs from your dispensary spot to refill energy to max, before casting Temporal Anchor.
  4. Once you cast temporal anchor, make sure NOT TO MOVE from this location, and just cast three turrets every 8-10s when they expire. Staying completely stationary will cause the resulting rewind to be nearly instantaneous.
  5. Turrets cast while Temporal Anchor is active will automatically strip enemies as they take damage, in a few shots per enemy. Huras will keep you invisible as long as you don't attack with your weapon.

BUILD SPECIFICS

[Mecha Empowered] Aura
This is optional, but if you use a Kubrow you can utilize the Mecha Set bonus which transfers status procs from a marked enemy to all other enemies in 20+ meters, once every 15 to 30s depending on whether [Mecha Pulse] is equipped or not. If you want the maximum mod set effect, replace [Primed Continuity] with [Mecha Pulse]. If you DON'T want to use Mecha Set at all, swap aura for [Growing Power].

Duration
Scales the cumulative damage of [Blaze] Artillery and gives a very long Dispensary, Shrapnel Vortex and Temporal Anchor.

Range
We want to maintain a slightly positive range to give [Blaze] Artillery almost 40m range, while keeping some radius for Shrapnel Vortex.

Strength
Boosts [Blaze] Artillery, Dispensary extra pickup chance and the amount of armor stripped per hit by [Temporal Erosion], as well as any helminth you subsume on.

HELMINTH

The choice here is between Roar, Pillage

Roar (subsume over 3 and use additional energy sources or perhaps 1 if you run Huras for invisibility)

Pillage (subsume over 4)

FOCUS SCHOOL

Vazarin - gives protective dash for i-frames and void snare gives free low range grouping without a subsume.

ARSENAL

The mecha set requires a kubrow, ideally Huras kubrow which will allow you stay invisible as long as you don't shoot:
https://overframe.gg/build/268129/huras-kubrow/huras-mecha-synth-stealth-doggo/

A heat Inherit primer can further boost the heat DoTs created by Blaze Artillery:
https://overframe.gg/build/376162/epitaph/heat-inherit-primer-epitaph/

What is Heat Inherit?
The status effect of heat causes enemies to take heat damage every second over 6 seconds according to the formula

"0.5 x modded base damage x (1+heat damage) x (1+faction damage) x critical multipliers"

Each additional application of a heat status adds a stack of heat damage AND refreshes the 6 second duration. However, every subsequent heat proc uses the heat damage and faction damage from the very first stack applied. This means if you use a 'heat primer' with max +heat damage mods and +faction damage mods, then switch to a 'DPS weapon' with only one heat mod that can consistently reapply heat status but with damage, crit and faction mods, every heat proc will actually 'inherit' the heat/faction mods from the primer while taking the modded base damage and critical multipliers from the DPS weapon.

Example setup by Dystopia:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ta_ex7MUDs

Basically this means with 299% strength, Archon vitality, Mecha set, Roar and heat inherit you get the following maximum possible damage:

Raw hit per second:
1500 dmg/s x 2.99 (strength) x 1.897 (roar) x 4.25 (viral) * 1.25 (cloned flesh bonus) = 45 198 dmg/s which ramps up to 451,980 dmg/s after 10 shots.

Heat DoT per second:
500(base) x 0.5 (DoT multiplier) x 2 (Archon Vitality) x 2.99 (from strength) x 4.64 (from double dip roar + faction mod) x 3.25 (from heat inherit mods) x 6.25 (from mecha empowered) x 4.25x (from 10 viral status) x 1.25 (Cloned flesh bonus) = 2.24 million dmg/s, which ramps up to 22 million/s after 10 shots

If we consider this against something without a mecha mark, then we get 350,000 dmg/s which ramps up to 3.5 million dmg/s after 10 shots.

Over 8s of [Blaze] Artillery, all together we can basically deal between 10 million to 30 million damage per cast of [Blaze] Artillery

At levelcap, an unarmored corrupted heavy gunner and demolyst have approximately 2 to 4 million health, meaning they would die after 1-2s when armor stripped.

On the other hand, a fully armored corrupted heavy gunner has 3.3 billion eHP, which is halved to approximately 1.15 billion eHp by heat procs, meaning it could take 30+ full casts of [Blaze] artillery to kill them without armor strip. At level 500, they have approximately 75 mil eHP meaning they should still be killed within a few seconds depending on enemy density and number of turrets.