Plunder + the new passive is insane.
That's the tl;dr version, at least. Tempest Barrage is absolutely worthless for it's damage, nothing changed there, but it's absolutely amazing at applying tons of Corrosive and (with the augument) Viral procs to everything in an area. Tidal Surge is still very much worthless, it's too fast to reliably control and I found myself crashing into walls all the time and just never bothering to waste 50 energy on it. It does grab enemies very well now, though! Here comes the star of the show, Plunder! This ability is crazy good, but ONLY because of Hydroid's new passive. The armor buff was enough to make me able to survive rather comfortably with this janky no forma build I slapped together for testing on Steel Path Taveuni, Kuva Fortress with the exception of Slash procs forcing me to heal through them with my Operator. The Corrosive damage buff is straight up insane on anything with decent status chance and fire rate. I brought my Incarnon Torid and proceeded to melt everything, including the Acolyte, like it was a lvl 20 mission. Tentacle Swarm is a lot more useful now, but I still only used it once for testing purposes. It's an OK CC, but it still makes it hard to shoot at enemies and I would rather have Larva in it's place instead (or other grouping ability).
Overall Hydroid seems really good now, he's a classic weapon's platform frame, with tools to help him survive and buff his weapon damage vastly! Will forma him when I have some time to play during weekend and try him out on a tougher Steel Path mission, like a 20min Circulus run to stress test him some more.
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I vastly underestimated Tempest Barrage's damage potential, for some reason I incorrectly assumed the game surely wouldn't let you overlap the ability multiple times in one spot. With it's augment, fast cast time and cheap cost, this thing is deceptively good at killing. It does tend to stagger tougher enemies out of it's range, but anything other than heavies and eximuses gets shredded by the corroding/viral rain.
oh, has hydroid been reworked already? Big hype for ocean man's redemption arc, that skin is too good to just leave on the table.
I'd be lying if I said I don't miss the puddle, but I'm still very excited to try him out!
Seems interesting so far, and the augments seem kind of useful for various things.
Tempest Barrage + Viral Tempest- provides moderate CC, armor strip and priming enemies with Viral. This is a pretty useful combination since it frees up the related elemental mods to be used for other combinations. Enemies to tend to flail around a lot making it harder to land shots on a weak point.
Tidal Surge + Tidal Impunity - An okay grouping ability but is somewhat tileset dependant, it's more usable on a map with few obstructions like the Void than it is on Earth. Impunity for some timed status immunity/cleanse, this is pretty niche, but not a terrible mod for missions with frequent status effects going on like the ones from sortie modifiers.
Plunder + Rousing Plunder - as a damage buff, it's a bit of a feedback loop with corrosive, and helps to mitigate enemies taking less damage from Corrosive once they're fully armor stripped. Defensively, this ability seems reasonably good, although it does not keep the highest armor value when recasting.
Tentacle Swarm + Pilfering Swarm - It's now a lot easier to hit enemies captured by the tentacles. Not much else has changed other than it now deals Corrosive damage instead of Magnetic. The tentacles do tend to spawn outside of the room you're in when cast near a wall now, instead of just spawning extra tentacles on the wall.