Ruvox

The extra jump passive is restricted to double jumps. This is what the max movement speed buff looks like on a frame with 1.0 sprint speed: https://i.gyazo.com/983c280c2a0996b08eb77eaa08522046.mp4

I wonder how long this and melee influence will be allowed to do what they are currently doing (or if it was intended). Melee influence is busted enough with it's ridiculous range, but it is downright outrageous with whatever goofy shit is going on with the proc proliferation/damage ramp up with the spikes. When you start hitting a DPS wall with just influence, this just deletes whatever enemy whatever level, without any form of stripping.

Also, it's pretty funny going back in the comments to see people trashing this. It has been busted the whole time it existed.

Alright so I finally figured out how to make blast do the same crazy runaway damage that you see with gas or electric. Use Dante with at least 51% ability strength, but the more the better since it's barely noticeable until you get a bit past that. You want to mod ruvox for blast and electricity, and use melee influence. Install melee elementalist, and as many status chance mods as you can. Do whatever you want with your remaining slots, but be mindful that too little status weighting for electricity will make it annoying to proc influence.

Once you're in a mission, cast pageflight and build up combo (I recommend shockwave synergy and a grouping ability from helminth, although you'd have to give up Noctua for it) while you wait for influence to proc. Next, wait until the enemies in the crowd around you are NOT ragdolled, lifted, or otherwise off their feet - it turns out you can't impale them unless they're touching the ground - and hit them with the heavy slam.

From here onwards, vulnerability serum will give each explosion a 35% chance to reapply blast to the enemy it expires on, and influence will spread that to all enemies within 18 meters of that impaled enemy. The magic happens here, since the damage calculation for reapplied blast procs looks like this: Runaway blast multiplier = 0.3 * ( 1 + 50% * [Dante's ability strength] ) * ( 1 + [Melee Elementalist bonus] ). The only thing that really matters is that this number is greater than 1, since it'll scale exponentially with the number of reapplications.

But then it REALLY runs away when you get to 10 stacks on any one enemy, since on average 3 or 4 of them well be reapplied, and influence will once again spread them to the whole crowd, but now the big explosion that you get at 10 stacks will deal 10x the damage of regular procs, which itself can also reapply to any enemies caught in its radius as another new proc, and then each of THOSE enemies can spread it around via influence! It just keeps going and going until everything around you dies - but it all happens basically instantaneously because everything is accumulating more than 10 blast procs per frame. For the record, I even saw an 11M explosion tick during testing.

Blast be blastin'.

Fun fact: If you shoot impaled enemies with a pistol using secondary encumber, electric and gas aoe damage can also proc encumber, lol. Tested with bronco prime incarnon using rain of lead along with lethal torrent, barrel diffusion, perpetual agony, stunning speed, dizzying rounds, pistol pestilence, scorch, and jolt.

According to this page this weapon needs 180 + 45 + 45 which somehow equates 360????? that's 270, someone fix that!

Evolution 3, Seismic Slam does not seem to increase the radius of heavy slams.

The Ruvox blade seems to only drop from Steel Path Disruption. That wasn't mentioned anywhere here.

A few people have mentioned the DoT damage on the heavy slams being very high.

I have not tested this, but if you recall, Dante's Pageflight originally was bugged to increase status effect damage as well as the chance. This was later fixed and then reimplemented officially.

My speculation is that Vulnerability Serum, despite the description, may also increase status effect damage.

Furthermore, when you apply a bunch of AoE elemental procs all at once, the damage ticks are quantized and displayed as a single number per enemy- so if you heavy slam a group and apply a gas proc, each tick will display the combined total of both the enemy's personal gas proc, as well as the damage it's taking from adjacent enemy's procs.

Of course, with that said, put Melee Influence on this, mod for electricity and gas, and, frankly, it doesn't really matter if Vulnerability Serum is bugged or not. Shockwave Synergy lets you build melee combo ridiculously quickly against groups of enemies, and those heavy slams are going to take your melee combo multiplier into account. And Melee Influence is going to spread the aoe status effects everywhere, which will be hitting everything around them.

Also, it gives me a third jump, so I kind of love this weapon.

Why is it listed as "Dante's signature weapon" on the wiki? There is literally no point in mentioning this as there is zero special interaction when used with Dante.

This thing deletes huge crowds with a gas/electric build; something about vulnerability serum and the spikes lets it ramp up status damage REALLY fast - status effects applied by the spikes can reapply themselves at exponentially increasing strength each time they pop off a damage tick, to ANY impaled enemy. I went to the simulacrum, spawned 2 lv. 205 corrupted bombard eximi, peeled off their overguard before impaling them side by side, and watched a pair of electric procs start off at 6 damage and ramp up to the hundred thousands over the course of like 4 ticks. As far as I can tell, it grows exponentially not just over time, but also with how many enemies get caught in the status tick aoe; grouping 20 bombard eximi with coil horizon kills them all on like the second damage tick using the same build as above, which was just the 3 electricity mods + WW + melee prowess.

Idk why but with gas, it deletes enemies

Is there any indication that Ruvox is Dante's signature weapon? The weapon description doesn't mention Dante, it doesn't have a passive connected to Dante, and the update notes don't call it Dante's signature weapon.

The duration of the impalement scales with combo multiplier. Looks like it gives 1 sec per multiplier

Is Void spike affected by slam range?

Is it effective against all enemies within slam range?

If you use it with gas, you can break the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclmpSXeSeE

We've gone through a number of tests to finish this weapon... To be honest, I think it was all for nothing.

The 100% impact was Primed Heavy Trauma's second PPP, with strong base damage, and the Gauntlet's unique quick strike could be expected to recruit SI.

In fact, everything is concentrated in the Incarnon form and there is almost no room for SI, and due to its low base damage and slow attack speed, Primed Heavy Trauma was deemed to be a PPP substitute to stick in and there was no room for two in the slot.

The conclusion was that it would be better to set the default combo counter to x3 so that it can always transform, and use it to suck in enemies with magnetic damage and vortexes. This is the idea.

Seems like the Evolution 2 challenge is broken. just murderized a bunch of waves in Onslaught and none of the Eximus units killed counted even though I was in Incarnon mode as required.

This weapon is a tat weak imo they should buff it up a bit

A way i think it be buffed is instead of a only 100% puncture conversion a 200% should buff its dmg a lot and maybe a forced slash proc on heavy attacks/heavy slams should be enough of a buff or an even better idea is to keep the 100% puncture conversion but also add an additional ???% slash so it has slash

This weapon is shockingly ass, especially for a patch dedicated to fixing slam attacks lol

Can't get it to evolve to 2nd stage. Took off companion in case they were killing them and nope. Really wanted to try some slam shenanigans but even in first stage it feels weak for an incarnon.