I've come to realize that my previous guide might have been a little lengthy, so allow me to not take up your precious time as you decide on a new gunner build to try:

NOTHING has changed about my picks for the rocket launcher since the previous Lazy Gunner guide I wrote:

(Haha! Look at this dude!)

Why focus on single targets?

You could be locked at pointing at compressed gold, calling out mushrooms, and slapping gunk seeds between your repeated and tiring bellows of "C'MON GUYS! ROCK AND STONE!"

While at the same time, racking up the top kills in your team and your matches? Sign me up!

UPDATE:
Tier 1's "Increased Blast Radius" buffed this hurricane build significantly. Instead of a +0.6m radius, it is a +0.8m radius to a total of now 2.2m per missile, translating to 3.3m per mine.

The Aggressively Lazy Gunner operates with the Armskore Coil Gun, which changes the overall strategy and feel if you have tried the Lazy Gunner build (see the guides that I've created).


By replacing the BRT7, we end up with something arguably stronger different. We obtain a greater damage output, unrivaled accuracy, the option to conserve ammo, and have a stun-like function.

What do we lose?


This build focuses on ammo conservation, meaning we're receiving the damage boost by shooting behind the safety of random obstacles, instead of having the damage boost of Extra Coil. Additionally, thanks to Tier 2, Optimized Magnetic Circuit is obsolete.

Being the aggressively lazy gunner that we are means that we're not always going to put 100% into our shots. Shots can consume 10 ammo if charged at 25%, which is 92 effective shots. No worries about going gung ho on our shots, our reload speed will pace us.

Overcharger will take away from our ammo conserving ways. Improving Feeding System sounds good on paper, but the delay is relocated into the charging speed.

We abandoned STUN? Yes, we did. The coil gun can now deliver 250% fear at a 5m radius (thanks to one of the latest updates), which opens up some effective breathing space in the heat of battle.

Concussive Shockwave gambles a 50% chance at a weak 1.5m range for a puny 3 second stun. Just enough time to reload. This modifier is worthless if it doesn't engage.

Since we're not really focused on charging to 100% most of the time, I don't see Defense Enhancement playing a major role during a match. I guess the extra 20 damage can delete some nearby weaklings.

So here's our stun substitute. It's not stun, is kind of like stun, has a "stunny" vibe, screams "lightning".

This compounded with the default trail DPS makes for a effectively annoying tail of the bullet. Slowing enemies to 80% speed while tickling their funny bone, I cannot see the other options playing any better role.

Necro-Thermal Catalyst is very conditional and as a reminder: AoE will be totally mastered by the Hurricane. Dilated Injector System doesn't bare enough significance to encourage me to use it.

We have a nasty weapon that can maximize on your laziness, allowing one to explore the caves and yet able to do surprisingly intense damage to the creatures hurting our friends. While not a ideal anti-air weapon, this gun is able to make mactera swarms survivable.

Will it hurt our friends too? Maybe. Take the good with the bad.

I was going to write some detailed stuff about the equipment choices of my build, but I got incredibly lazy figured that anything you select here will work as long as you are comfortable with your choices.

Usage steps:

1. Deploy mines
   
2. ????
   
3. PROFIT

Things to keep in mind:

• Mines take a second to arm. Judge where the glyphids will be.
  (easy if they are chasing you)
  
• The 15-second lifetime of a mine is comfy.
  
• It's easier to prevent an enemy's approach rather than to attack directly.
  
• Mines cannot be stacked/shot onto each other.
  
• Fighting in narrow corridors your forte.

Weaknesses?!

• Hurricane against Oppressors or anything bigger is not very effective due to their explosive resistances.
  
• Hurricane against anything that flies is also tough do their speed and dodgy behavior that is too fast for your slow rockets.

Usage steps:

1. You think: "Hurricane won't help me here."
   
2. Pew-pew-pew
   
3. PROFIT

Things to keep in mind:

• Try to always shoot through a wall.
  
• I estimate that bullets can go through 30m of terrain.
  
• More walls = more damage.
  
• Charge level affects damage bonus.
  
• The range of fear is crazy large and effective.
  
• Shocking enemies is better than stunning

Shocking Possibilities:

• Taking an oppressor down to 50% health in a single shot
  
• Taking down an ally to 0% health in a single shot

Win-win.

Weaknesses?!

• Reload takes some time, you must make the shot count.
  
• You might accidentally hit your allies with this one.

I find that this build works perfectly in Elite Deep Dives. I hope you all enjoy!