Since the tick damage scales from whichever is higher from your damage or a percent of the enemy's health, on bosses it usually scales to their health.

It can replace your secondary if you're in a pinch.Īnother tip: Apply poison as much as possible to as many things as possible. It can also finish off 1HP enemies since it does damage when spreading. It's basically a weaker version of your secondary, BUT it spreads. Shoot this into a crowd and then soon you'll have a bunch of 1HP guys to finish off. Special: Arguably the best AOE ability in the game. It's also good for dodging things since it accelerates you instantly. Occasionally use it for damage on the first stage or two, sure, but past that it's pure movement. But of course save it if you have backup mags and/or there's nothing high-priority enough to shoot at. Spam, spam, spam! Every time it's available and you're not using it for pure damage, shoot non-poisoned or 1HP enemies. But with or without them, this thing's still got a lightning-fast 2 second cooldown. Backup mags are definitely your friend here. I use it to apply poison, deal damage, and finish off 1HP poisoned enemies. Secondary: This is the main big source of damage (240%!!). Ideally this would be replaced with the Visions of Heresy ability. Can be useful killing singular/weak enemies if you're saving your other abilities for later.

It's pretty crap compared to everything else, considering the risk you need to take standing in melee range. Primary: I only use this in the early game. Acrid's main sources of damage are his poison, secondary, and special. In the mid-game (starting at about stage 3-4), you should be relying on your ranged power. When you're at point-blank range of enemies, you're gonna need more than that. Take a look at the main melee characters: Mercenary's got invincibility frames, and Loader's the most mobile survivor by a huge margin. If you're playing Acrid as melee beyond the first few stages, of course you're gonna get shredded. He's pretty much a ranged character disguised as a melee one. Tell me how Acrid is viable, are you implying he is a ranged character?Īctually, that's pretty much what I was about to say. Originally posted by AEgb:So do you want my help or are you gonna keep being angry? PS: the best characters sadly in the game, only seem to be Huntress, Rex, Mercenary and Loader seem to be the ones you HAVE TO PLAY, in order to get into at least stage 8. Please someone, anyone tell me any benefit to having Acrid and his concept for being the way he is because to me and my friend (who is WAY more of a genius than I am) do not like, see, or even consider Acrid a viable character AT ALL. Why isn't he tanky? You need to go in right? I mean they give you a leap ability which is his best one IMO and he is still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage. Can someone please tell me, when and where if EVER does Acrid EVER become useful - he is a terrible solo character, barely works well within a group of at least 2 (I've yet to try with others seeing as I really only play with one other friend of mine) he has at level 2 barely over 200hp it's so sad to see this his concept is amazing and I love the idea of him but it's awful, the poison? Why is that even a thing, blight is better - weaker but useful because it can actually KILL an enemy.

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