I find it very ironic that Acrid, a literal aspect of disease, synergizes well with an item that is literately called *purity*

My greatest run of all time had three purity in it. It's a very niche item, but it can be nutty in the right situations

"Ion Surge is a joke." *cries in aerial Artificer*

Him: You don't get to choose what item you get Command bois: Yes but actually no

The run I discovered Purity was good on Mercenary, I found a Kjaro printer and decided "Fuck it, why not" and got 14 in exchange for all my green items. I found a H3AD-5T v2 and suddenly realized that dealing 3000% of 10,000% damage was enough to sit on God. Found a forge for both Kjaros and Runalds right before Mithrix and rounded my numbers off to 15 Kjaros and 5 Runalds, dealing about 5400% from the bands times the 10,000% from the headstomp attack. It took two stomps for each phase of the boss to disappear. The role that Purity played in all this? No cooldown on Rising Thunder meant that I could avoid all danger by soaring to the heavens, then descending only when it was time to spread my cheeks upon his mortal face. So yeah Purity's pretty good on Mercenary

'Ion surge is a joke' bruh you are just jealous of the artificer extraordinaries that throw basketballs at bosses from orbit and oneshot them

I really like the concept of purity, you are purifying yourself from items to bring out your character's uniqueness. You pair it up with items that give you more base damage you can still be playing your characters till end game instead of having a bunch of items that do damage for you. It's the solution to an endgame that can feel repetitive because of how hard proc items can carry someone in the game. For best combo pair purity with tonic to really feel the rush!

As someone who mostly plays huntress, the alternate blink is actually really good in the mithrix fight due to the ability to make smaller adjustments in postion more often (especially on eclipse 4+ with increase enemy speed) and the purity giving it a 0.5 second cooldown just makes it even better

Purity Acrid is my new favorite build. Combined with Visions of Heresy and the backup mag you can fire both at the same time rapid fire and your damage output is ridiculously high.

Backup magazine is exceptionally good on loader for this simple reason: The loader combo to achieve max damage with her punch is usually M2 onto enemy, jump for Wax Quail if available, while charging Punch, release. This will give you insane speed and ensure you hit the max damage cap. However, during the teleporter, it yeets you across half the map. Always staying on one STORED grapple to recover messed up punches or to counter momentum to not have to leave the teleporter is very useful. Grapple isnt used constantly, as one good grapple with an angled punch can cover insane areas. Thus, the grapple doesn't need to ge up 24/7 and is more of an added mobility safety net. That aside, really enjoyed the video, keep it up!

I kind of disagree with the artificer verdict, as I've played purity artificer many times and it plays much better than you made it out like it would. In reality you won't get to use the whole duration of your flamethrower every time because you need to move and you can't sprint during flamethrower unless you want to cancel it. Purity helps mitigate some of that downtime you might have had if you needed to cancel flamethrower quickly to keep yourself alive. The ice wall also greatly benefits from the reduced cooldown, and you won't always full charge the spear/bomb for the same reason you won't always commit to flamethrower. A lot of times I'll just spam my spears to proc kjaro's/runald's and reposition while the bands do their thing instead of committing to full charge. Look, is Alien head a better item for her? Yeah, maybe. But you can't rely on getting an alien head every run. You have a much better chance at seeing purity. Imo saying purity is F tier on her is way too harsh. This is not a corpsebloom tier item we're talking about here.

As someone who plays loader way too much for my own good, having backup mags on loaders is so useful when you wanna swing around the map instantly cause you aren't always gonna use your secondary when it's off cooldown and your utility helps since you can just swing and then punch at the apex across the entire map and get to the teleporter instantly. I'd say 1-2 mags is really all you need on loader and honestly using the secondary to deal with enemies isn't great, you have your special ability to deal with the wisps and your utility for anything larger. Using your utility helps a ton so you can swing, punch, and then swing so you can stay airborne as much as possible. On a sidenote engineer also has an extremely weird quirk with his thermal harpoons, is if you shake your aim left and right of the enemy while painting targets, it will paint the same enemy way faster since you're "unpanting" and "repainting" the same enemy as you shake your aim, allowing you to get 4 or more rockets off way faster but can be unreliable cause you can target other enemies unintentionally.

Something a lot of people overlook about the Backup Magazine on characters with a charged m2: Having multiple charges is good, not because you can spam them, but because you can charge them while you don't need them. For example, on Artificer, with no CDR and 3 backup mags, you can run around the map and stack up 4 Nano-Bombs for a boss fight or other situation, and the cooldown is the same once you run out of charges, you get a slight reward for the time you aren't in combat or need to spam a skill. It's still pretty underwhelming on survivors with charged secondaries, but not enough to discount them entirely

I learned that when it comes to purity, there's actually a few tricks to learn, making anything "guaranteed" to happen is top priority, not proc chains, so capping bleed and crit is more important than an ATG or Ukulele, and since the band re-work loader with purity has just become too much fun for me and I haven't played the other survivors help.

Great summary of Purity! I would like to cover some overlooked aspects of the item and some minor mistakes in the video (these might be misunderstandings on my part, if so, I apologize). To start, the single best item for ranged Acrid is the Visions of Heresy. This item combos incredibly well with purity, and you can hold down both primary and secondary fire simultaneously for very high ranged damage output. In addition, Blight is a far better passive to use with Purity, given how often you are applying the debuff. Finally, there is something a bit off about your backup mag math at 5:58. When you use your secondary fire multiple times, the charges come back one at a time, the cooldowns of each are not tracked separately. This means that no matter how many backup mags you have, if you have at least one attack speed buff, you will eventually run out of charges of the ability. To answer your question at 9:21, yes, the regen stacks. Your Commando section is solid, although it is sad that so many Purities are necessary to unlock the full potential of low-cooldown Commando. I have disagree with your opinion on Artificer. While I totally understand that dealing constant damage not hard with proper ability rotation, the strength of purity here is that you don't have stay on that damage cycle, you can pick the best ability for the situation, without worrying about the cooldown. Of course, this is just an opinion. In addition, Purity is strong with the Ion Surge ability, because without the Flamethrower, your damage rotation has several gaps. These can be filled in with a purity, making up for much of the missing DPS. The reason backup mag is good on Loader is because it allows you to make multiple swings in a row, not because it increases your damage output (actually, it does, but only because it allows you move faster when landing your Charged or Thunder Gauntlet). With just 1-2 backup mags, your utility, and some skill, you can cross most maps in just a few seconds. Using purity to spam Bramble Volley is a new one to me, I will try that out soon! As you stated, MUL-T has next to no synergy with Purity. While you are right that Huntress does not work great with Purity, Phase Blink is definitely a superior utility, at least for combat. If you only want your Blink for reaching the hard-to-find newt altars, then go for it, but Phase Blink covers more distance per second (its faster), is more versatile (its omnidirectional), and can save you from hard hitting abilities far more frequently (you die less). Merc section is good, the fact that his secondary does not cancel his primary at very low cooldowns is a very strange interaction, but very useful nonetheless. Your Engi section is also good, not much else to say. Again, this is a very good video, I am just trying to fill in the gaps. Please let me know if I have misunderstood anything!

Triple blink is absolutely not inferior to default blink, it’s more useful in infinitely more situations

Om loader, you shouldn’t hold down your grapple all the time Loader is a burst and to have the best possible movement, you need to chain them, so the backup mag is VERY important

yes, loader's grapple doesn't start recharging until you're done using it. that is *exactly* why it's great to have at least one backup mag. the point of using backup mags on loader isn't to constantly fly around the map, but to chain grapples together so you become the most mobile character in the game, bar none.

Surprised when going over acrid you didn't talk about his R action being more spammable as well, as it is fairly important in his kit and stacking purity or additional cdr items gives him strong wave clear without the need for proc chains.

Backup mags are good for the same reason afterburner is top teir on her: Extra secondary uses means you're not punished for botching your swings as much and you can use it in quick succession. It doesn't matter that the cooldowns don't start until you let go, having extra uses means you can course correct with your hook very easily. It's not necessary to be extremely mobile with her, but it's nothing but a boon as it lets you be much more liberal with your swinging and hooks, overall increasing your mobility. But hey, you don't like playing loader so I guess that explains why you didn't think of that.

It is important to take into account that while you are creating "ideal" loadouts, you are neglecting to account for other item possibilities. there are other healing, defensive, and offensive items that would also affect these builds. Acrid for example, leeching seeds, repulsion plates, tougher times. (you did mention rejuvenation rack) all these items would affect how well melee acrid works. Also, you completely neglected to account for Merc's invuln frames. running 3 purity on Merc allows you to have invincibility for all but one frame between evicerates. combine that with damage reduction, tougher times. and survivability items. Merc becomes invincible regardless of damage output. you could have no damage boosting items and you still can't die. combining it with fuel cells and "The Backup" equipment. I was able to even cheese Mythrix. he could never touch me, and when he stole my items, I just summoned a dozen plus backup drones before my fuel cells were stolen. which in turn returned all my items, and I proceeded to be invincible against him again.

With acrid ravenous, I think you were kinda dead braining it. You didnt run away from the dunestrider drain attack. If you had have done that you would have taken less damage, even if you just disconnected yourself and ran back in while it was drinking from other enemies

16:17 did any one else notice that lemurian yeeting back his grenade?

Have you considered blight with acrid? Since you have such a low cooldown you could actually stack it decently high for once, which might make it work

The back-up mag thing on loader is exactly why it is so important, maybe not with purity but it is still important normally.

The Lock-On of the engineer harpoons scales with attackspeed...

29:32 “secondary skill is inferior to the blink” LUL found the non-huntress player

Artificer M1 does start cooling down after the first shot. With one Purity you can fire a volley of 6 or 7 shots if you just hold down the button. It can burn and bleed if you stack seven Tri-tip Daggers so I'd say just a single stack of Purity helps her kit a lot.

Acrid m1 and bite actually has a weird interraction where if you cancel your m1 with m2 it will still land the hit from your m1, even though the m1 didnt get far enough in its animation where it normally lands the hit, so you should be holding m1 and m2 to maximize damage. You were doing this in the clip against the dunestrider but the commentary said otherwise so :^)

The format coupled with your clean voice makes this a pretty damn good watch. Also helps that it is a pretty cool topic. Great work!

Sorry I haven't been watching many of your vids but I'm happy to see your channel is doing great

Awesome video, but I feel you left out two builds that are very important to discuss. Infinite ShadowFade with an equipment, and infinite eviscerate. Both allow you to be fully invincible while still doing damage.

I'm surprised he didn't talk about how you can have your r on a 1 second cooldown for merc making you basically unkillable

Wouldn't this make the blight M2 on Acrid good since it can stack?

Was playing acrid with purity the other day, is pretty good can confirm. Acrid isn't gonna proc a lot of stuff in the first place so you might as well.

Yeah, honestly I'm a loader type a guy, and back up mags are alright. They're mainly good just because you can do multiple grapples in a row which allows you to just send yourself across the mad with ease (Even though she can do that either way).

just found your channel a while ago and saw this video get recommended. for context I play ions artificer, melee poison acrid with the stun leap, and loader (and also railgunner, but it's not a good take on railgunner at all). to say the least time to sit upsetly by and watch one of my favourite items dragged through some mud

I think it's worth noting that Visions of Heresy actually also gets affected by Purity, cutting its reload time down from 2 seconds to just 0.5 seconds. So for survivors that want to go for Purity (Acrid, Artificer, Loader, or even Engineer if you're running mobile turrets) then one Visions can actually be a very worthwhile pickup since you can fire out nonstop shards.

Did you do one for Bandit, Railgunner, and Voidboi yet?

i cannot believe you brushed off slicing winds like that, even WITHOUT purity it's amazing and for me is way better than eviscerate. but with it's skill-spamming style of play, slicing winds with purity would be wayyyy better than eviscerate as you will be able to rely more on your buffed m2 and shift than eviscerate will allow, and you'll still get the benefit of being able to use it more often (and since slicing winds itself lowers your shift cooldown and it's own cooldown... yea). but also, if you were to get min cooldown on slicing winds, you would be able to spam it permanently, maybe not as good as perma eviscerate since you don't get invincibility but still basically would win you the run.

I'd just like to say that I like Ion Surge on Artificer because I'm a coward: being close enough for Flamethrower is scary and Ion Surge is a really nice "I need to leave immediately" button.

Usually if I find a purity and visions of heresy on an acrid run I grab them both. Visions on almost no cooldown compliments his other abilities very well, especially with the fast spit on top

Nice vídeo. What about an update now that the DLC gave us the CD reducing pauldron? (I forgot the name of it, the white one).

5 purities, full crit chance, runalds and kjaros, and a crap ton of focus crystals on mercenaries literally makes him invincible with his eviscerate ability having a 0.5 second cool down. For those who don’t know, what eviscerate does is make you invincible for about a second while you deal damage to everyone around you. However, since the cooldown is up by the time you finish your attack, you can literally just spam your eviscerate ability and be invincible while also dealing some pretty good damage because of the focus crystals which gives extra damage to nearby enemies. Eviscerate is a melee ability. Oh it also allows you to fly as eviscerate basically teleports you a few meters in front of your cursor wherever you are looking meaning you can just fly up to mithrix without needing to use the jump pads.

You mentioning the thunder gauntlet loader run just reminded me I actually had that kinda happen when playing with a friend. No artifacts Mithrix run, somehow got 4 purities in loop one, and just flew

Purity and Headstomper with Ion Surge scales better on Artificer than Flamethrower and has higher base dps. A must-find.

Back-Up mags are good on loader because you get to be Spider-Man for a bit at the start of every stage

Acrid: Yes due to M2 & Utility Artificer: Yes for obvious reasons but to elaborate - it makes a Death Mark'ing on-hit bleedstacker spec hilariously easy Captain: Very Garbage Commando: Ish, for obvious Phase Round/Blast build Engineer: Works if you're taking Visions Huntress: Buck wild with Phase Blink but otherwise nah Loader: Purity x2 + Afterburner with the Thunder Gauntlet is insane, that's about it Mercenary: Yes due to extreme tightening of chains and infinite M2 movement MUL-T: No Wrecks: I guess if you do a Bramble Volley build but why?

25:28 *desperately tries to land on focus crystal* *realizes command is enabled*

The reason backup mag is so useful on loader is that you can use multiple grapples back to back to move around to specific areas very quickly. You never really need grapples off cooldown at all times but it is great to have a few backup mags to use multiple grapples in short bursts. It also helps a lot for giving you forgiveness when messing up a grapple.

You can actually stack blight with purity right or is blight chance too? If it is guaranteed then you can stack blight finally

My favorite build right now is a purity artificer built around death mark. Seeing a hammer in the bazaar has turned into Christmas the last few days. Probably don't actually need purity but it gives it a good rhythm of fire 4 m1 charge m2 repeat.

Have you tried vision of heresy with purity on acrid? It is one of the most fun build to have. You can hold both m1 and m2 at the same time to fire both attacks.

not sure you if you mentioned it but does purity effect tougher times, or does it behave like clover does?

backup is really good on loader because you can use the grapple many times in a row, keeping the momentum in between them, and when you finish doing what you wanted to do at the location, all the backup M2s have already charged again

for loader backup is good because there are instances where two grapples would be way better than one in traveling, regardless of cooldown having an extra just incase is nice

Purity and Shaped Glass are usually my main go-tos on mercenary just because you can be almost invincible when your special and utility both dont have cooldowns, which helps with having like 4 to 10 (depending on the run) shaped glass.

I'm guessing bandit is one of the survivors that synergize well with purity, the only monsoon run I've cleared with bandit (where I went for mithrix) was one where I had picked desperado and 2 purities, who needs procs when you can just spam desperado like it's your main attack?

for loader, when the boss is dead in one shot, you only need the two backup mag charges. one to help you hit fast, one to stop your momentum after you've punched.

But would the Engi be good with the new ICB and Purity? I play on Xbox so if someone could test this I’m kinda curious

It was amazing in my eclipse run on engineer. I replaced my grenades with visions of heresy which has amazing synergy since it's reduced to the global cooldown. Harpoons are also reduced to global cooldown. I was able to focus on crit and bleed for damage since they stack linearly and can reach 100%. It was my best eclipse run yet.

backup mags work well on loader because you are allowed more freedom of movement to be able to send yourself flying then grapple to the floor after, and also frees up more opportunities to use it offensively as a stun using her alt m2

The point of stacking backup mags on loader is so that you can chain multiple grapple swings together. This way you can swing over to a location, fight for 10-15 seconds, then swing over somewhere else.

The reason backup mag is good for loader is because it loads (x) extra swings in the hopper. Once you get to where you want to go, open some chests and do your attack, you’ll have a few more swings loaded up, as opposed to just one and done. But having multiple stacks is nice to George of the jungle around the map.

Loader grapple is literally a damage multiplier for her punch, a map crossing tool combined with punch, an evasion tool, an escape option, and the literal best movement ability in the game when combined with punch. Adding backup mags to it is the key because then you basically become a one punch spider woman.

I had a friend with Captain using Diablo strike, his tactic was getting a few items, Regenerating Scrap, Crowbar, Stun grenade, Mocha, Hardlight Afterburner, and Purity, plus and minus a few other items, and he was dropping diablo strikes after a while like he was doing a terrestrial cleansing. That's truly scary power.

This may be a little too late, but I believe that backup mags do help out loader, but moreso in terms of burst swinging. Being able to grapple 3 times in quick succession after a period of not flying around could help you position better and get your slam or punch off. I never had good luck without atleast one backup mag because the surface I ended up latching to, unfortunately, had a slight overhang and caused me to hit a lemurian instead of a boss.

FYI for Engi thermal harpoons: if you shake your mouse back in forth when locking onto a target it will lock on faster as there is a bit of cooldown for the relock of the same target, so if you move the cursor off the target & back on it really fast then each lock will be the fast insta lock instead of waiting for the relock.

About loader You are usually swinging => fighting(takes time) => swinging(you have at least one mag ready) and even then, you usually use only two to three grapples(if you're out use her shift) when swinging

Loader main here - with a bunch of backup magazines you can spend a lot of time in midair. Depending on the arch of the swings, your 1st magazine can recharge before using your third, and so on. Loader's in-air momentum is waaaaaay better than her on ground momentum running, and all those abilities that require you to stop running to use can be used in midair without losing that momentum. Loader is kind of like a trebuchet - you look for a big target in the distance, get some height, swing yourself off of the environment, and go in full speed for one massive hit. You can even then bounce off the enemy (depending on your setup) and then grapplehook on top of them, wailing on them, building shield, while your backup magazines recharge for an escape. In my view, Loader is by far the best character in the game, and the backup magazine is absolutely essential to playing the Loader properly. If you're on the ground for most of your time with her then you aren't really understanding the potential of the character.

For someone who’s most played character is loader, I only ever consider getting a backup mag is when I have hardlight afterburner, so that I can launch using multiple m2 with multiple shift abilities

backup mag is good for loader because you can chain grapples like spiderman, letting you build up momentum as you fly through the air. requires some skill but once you figure it out its pretty great

The way that I’m currently beating eclipse on bandit is using purity (1-2 purities) for a really low desperado and invis cool down + shaped glass for that double damage, and then reaching mithrix with 30+ desperado stacks and having a 10k+ damage ability on a 1-2 second cool-down

Purity+Afterburner+band changes makes it incredibly nice on loader punch when it hits the cap of 0.5sec. Also if you reach 100% chance to activate it will still always proc because a negative outcome of 100% is still 100% this is useful for things like tri-tip dagger and crit glasses because once you reach the cap it will always proc even with the purity

Loader Acrid and Artificer Are amazing with purity

Why don't use the raincoat when doing a blast shower build?

A great video on purity! But given artifacts were put into the game I only do artifact runs 😅

if artificer had cooldown counting while charging it would be pretty nice ngl

does purity reduce kjaro and runald band cooldown?

With the void fuel cell on mercenary and one purity you can spam your R or special which makes you invincible

With regards to backup mag on Loader, It's so you can swing multiple times without needing to hit the ground, and can change your directiion mid air. That way, you can use one grapple to engage and deal your charged burst, then the second grapple to get out of dodge. THen you wait for both to charge and hop straight back in. It doesn't matter that they don't charge while you're swinging, it lets you use it twice in a row which is insane.

On Engineer, I did two purity and 1-2 alien head, spicy kill zone setups. This also give you that 1-2 seconds thermal harpoons take to lock on.

I changed my sprint to G on the one time I used her to clear monsoon. After that I never rebound it to ctrl even though I rarely played her again. The change to G for sprint made me actually feel the ONE PUNCHHHH vibe every time I charge shift rather than the beginnings of repetitive stress syndrome.

Also visions on artificer with purity does give more hits to work with especially with lower cooldowns with purity

Considering this was like 2 years ago you may know by now that you can wiggle the mouse when aiming thermal harpoons to make it much faster to lock on

Bandit is very open with purity if you have 3 his secondary becomes semi-automatic

If anyone didn’t know, Eviscerate starts cooling down while you are still hitting enemies. If you use some combo of purity and alien head to get it to .5s cd, you become invulnerable as long as it always hits an enemy

The ravenous bite one was dumb. I'm not defending it and I've never used it but most people would know not to go headfirst into a dunestrider and an imp overlord

Funny thing with Engineer's Harpoons is if you just wiggle your mouse back and forth, the harpoons lock on much faster for some weird reason. Could not tell you why but it works.

Purity is even better on Acrid after survivors of the void, IMO, because Lysate cells allow you to spam your Epidemic way more often. With Blight, Purity, and just a couple Lysate cells you can essentially just spam R on the ground and clear everything. Bosses melt extremely quickly, too, because you can stack an absurd amount of Blight on them in a very short amount of time. I accidentally ended up building this the other day and it was quite fun.

Bit of an unrelated topic but what do you think would be a good buff/change for artificer

a single purity on artificer is really good for players who don’t know her ability use order, and even better for those that do because it will increase how much she can use her primary which will increase her already high damage output

28:29 did you check this out with some increase attack spped?

also something to note for mercenary is that if you have enough purity, your just invincible because you can spam the R

Backup magazine on the loader is so good because you don't need to use your M2 literally all the time. With one or two backup magazines you can save up M2s so you can use it twice in a row which enables you to get almost anywhere on any map within a few seconds. Due to how the momentum conservation works you can get much further and around corners with two M2s instead of just one. It doesn't help much during fights, I agree with that.

You could easily use blight on acrid with the bite or neurotoxin and purity because with the amount f times you'll be hitting the enemies, its likely that your blight will stack high enough to out-damage poison

Perma blast shower uptime with things like gotd, fuel cells, soulbound catalyst etc means no downtime for runald and kjaro bands. Pair that with purity, and maybe an alien head/hardlight afterburner, and no cooldowns whatsoever on things like loader punch. Stack bands and punch away.

I think purity mul-t is worth revisiting. Last patch made his scrap launchers reload all 4 at a time, and power mode turns his M2 into an alternate ability, so backup mags work on it. There is an upper limit to this, though, where too much attack speed means you blow through all your rockets in less than the half second to reload them.

I had a commando run where I had 5 57 leaf clovers and 2 Purity, and 2 Alien Heads. Yes I did hover all over the map and just skipped to the mithrix arena haha (AHs were drops, Clover was a store item and this was a 3 hour run)

My first legit monsoon victory (no command) was with loader. Once you have at least 4 or 5 backup mags on loader you never notice the cooldown unless you're exclusively moving around with your M2.