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Class
Weapons
Skullcrusher
Target receives 4 Stack(s) of +10% Damage if already Staggered. Lasts 5s.
Thunderous
Hitting an enemy gives them 4 stacks of +2.5% Brittleness. Debuff lasts for 5 seconds and can have a maximum of 16 stacks.
Dumdum
+6% Close Range damage on Repeated Hit. Stacks 5 times.
Infernus
4 Burn Stack(s) on Critical Hit to a maximum of 12 Stack(s).
Curios
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Description
Description
The stamina aura (zealous) lets you constantly reset attack chains on the crusher with push attacks, its best attack. Even though the crusher is not the fastest hoard clearing weapon, it has high unyielding/boss damage, and it's very safe due to naturally pushing all the time, with long range and high stagger. The crusher is also a top melee weapon vs the highly annoying Bulwarks because its special can open shields.
Your role is to initiate by suppressing enemies (esp gunners) with chorus, stagger stuff in melee, and apply skullcrusher and brittleness to everything.
Curios
At least 1 stamina regen perk, rest is personal preference.
Weapons
Melee: Aside from its push attacks, the crusher has pretty bad adms vs flak and carapace, so brittleness from Thunderous greatly helps the damage. Slaughterer is the best blessing for general hoard clear, but it only applies on kill, and has a short refresh window so it won't help as much vs carapace. For perks, choose between unyielding/flak/carapace.
Ranged: Game currently throws large waves of specials at you. I like the recon lasgun 12 since it lets you stack blazing piety from afar, deal with longer range threats your blitz knives can't reach such as snipers, and is ammo efficient with the burn. Alternatives include the bolt pistol, laspistol, agri combat shotgun, or flamethrower vs rotten armor.
Combos (reset with push attack anytime):
Hoard 1: Push attack -> (heavy -> light, repeat)
Hoard 2: Push attack -> (light spam), much better when you have slaughterer instead of thunderous
Single 1: Push-attack -> (light -> heavy, repeat)
Single 2: Push attack -> light, repeat (with push attack)
Nodes
Blinded by blood/prime target/no respite is up to personal preference.
Flex nodes: infectious zeal, grievous wounds, thy wrath be swift, punish impiety.
The chorus subnodes are not great since you have to channel 5 pulses to get the effect (upcoming patch will change that, though it still looks to be mid).
Auras
Alt Aura: If corruption modifier, take beacon of purity, no respite, as well as retaliatory defense, which seems like a meme node but it basically guarantees revives and prevents block breaks, which can happen due to push attack spam.
Tips:
Hit weakspots
Wide Heavy (h2) has higher stagger, Overhead heavy (h1) has higher damage
Use the special to initiate, open bulwarks and apply aoe debuffs.