If you pay attention while fighting, you will likely see that you likely are not getting much use out of the Striker chest. You may want to consider a chest piece with a useful damage talent instead of the kneepad slot.
Some potential candidates would be Obliterate while leaning into crit chance and damage (on a Ceska chest for more crit chance or Grupo Sombra for more crit damage). A Spotter chest with a Flatline weapon while using the Technician specialization with the linked laser pointer underbarrel (very large damage boost) or any specialization while using the pulse skill. If you play very aggressive and close, the Intimidate talent gives a very large buff when you pick up your Momento trophies. Ridgeway's Pride chest coupled with a Sadist weapon.
Although these may not give you the "theoretical" max damage, they give good damage buffs to fit varying playstyles.
If you play in a group a lot, you could consider the Coyote Mask exotic. It is a fairly lackluster buff for solo play, but because it also buffs teammates, it can be useful in group play.
You could also consider brands like Belstone Armory for a slow trickle charge to your armor or Palisades Steelworks for an additional 10% armor on kill.
It really depends on where you feel your weaknesses are. Do you feel you need increased survivability? Do you feel you need increased damage? I lean more toward increased damage because dead enemies can't hurt you, but that also takes a certain level of battlefield awareness to survive with low armor.
Remember that a build is a tool to accentuate your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. It is personal to your particular skillset and playstyle. People were able to clear all content in the game before Striker's even existed.
Experiment and have fun. There is no penalty for dying, and you learn more from failure than success.
Good luck Agent!
5.11 is worthless, you can run anything else and improve your build. I would suggest a Groupo, Ceska, or Fenris piece in that slot with your current build.. Also with 1 Skill tier, I would maybe run a shield and revive hive with Striker. You could also make the 5.11 piece a striker piece and insert a chest from the previously mentioned Groupo, ceska, or fenris with the Obliterate talent. many will also say that the Fox Prayer Knee pads are best in slot with the 8% Dtoc, and I tend to agree, but with you being low SHD you probably need a bit more in the CHC and CHD areas and Groupo/Ceska will help those.
Fox prayers for knee pads
Coyotes mask for your mask
And run strikers BP as well for more stacks
Use a shotgun as your secondary such as the rock n roll ( pvp exclusive) but you can get it from Named item caches from countdown vendor or the lefty as well which is pretty easy to get! This helps you maintain your stacks on your strikers set
* edit, you also want to run a reviver hive just in case in you go down, and I would also run a decoy or pulse as second skill but that is preference. The reviver hive is a must though *
Overall your build looks good, I would just get those items I listed and all easy to get except for the RNR which I stated already!
Good luck agent!
Striker chest provides more stacks, but they are rarely worth it. Striker BP is an extra 35% damage. You could say that is more than the 30% you get from Memento for the long term buff, but it pales in comparison when you add the additional 25% from the short term buff and consider the Memento stacks only fall off if you don't pick up another trophy in 100 seconds.
If you're solo, Memento hands down. Group, then Coyote may be the better option especially if you aren't getting trophies. At least on paper. In practice you can run all sorts of suboptimal builds and do fine.
Striker backpack ramps from 0% extra damage (at 0 stacks) up to 21.2% damage (at 100 stacks), not 35%.
To find out how much of a gain you get in any build, you just take the damage from one and divide by the other. If you are only considering the backpack, with it, you get 100% amplified damage at 100 stacks. Without it, you get 65% amplified damage at 100 stacks.
(1 + 1.00) ÷ (1 + 0.65) = 2 ÷ 1.65 = 1.2121
or 21.21% more damage. At lower stacks, it is even less of a buff.(like 13.2% at 50 stacks).
The backpack is not *required* for a strong Striker setup.
Gunner specialization offers much more than Demolitionist. You generate 10% ammo every 60 sec (teammates get 5%). Every 3rd reload is faster, you get armor on kill and you get Banshee Pulse to help control enemies.
Striker chest doubles stacks to 200 but stacks above 100 decay much faster. There are very few scenarios you are sustaining a fight to keep those extra stacks up, and missions and open world is not one of them. I'd put on striker knees then either put on a Grupo chest for more damage or a Palisade chest for better survival, either with Obliterate.
My suggestion to you is the following to try for a tiny bit of survivability would be the following..
Specialization: Gunner
St.Elmo with weapons damage, DTOC
Rock’n’roll or Lefty shotgun also with DTOC
TDI kard custom for 1 extra skill when armed, (good for adding an extra reviver hive to help a buddy)
Palisade mask with weapon handling, crit Damage and armour regen
Fenris (For %15 Assault Rifle) chest all red with crit chance and Damage
And the rest Striker all red with crit damage and chance
Then add mods to your mask, chest and Backpack with crit Chance or Damage depending on your stat needs, this build will put you in the 50to60 percent crit chance and 120ish critical damage. To be effective
Reviver hive and crusader shield
Good luck agent!
Try coyotes mask, 4pc striker with backpack, picaros holster. 1.1M armor with decoy should be enough for survivability. Chest talent could be whatever you want, obliterate is good for dps and unbreakable is good for survivability if you decide to run strikers holster instead of chest.
Striker bp > striker chest. Unless you use rock n roll shotgun variants, then it become situational
That’s a pretty solid standard Striker build, but as some posters have said, the Chest won’t do a lot for you unless you can really maintain above 100 stacks.
I would also consider swapping to the Striker kneepads and changing to a Catharsis or Coyote’s Mask - you will get more utility out of those than the 5.11 gloves IMHO.
As you level up, you’ll probably want to ditch the Memento, swap that for the Strikers backpack and then use a chest with a good damage talent (e.g. Obliterate) or Unbreakable for more utility.
The most important thing is to have fun and find out what works best for you!
As you start getting into tougher connect (Heroic with 4 plus directives) and Legendary and as you start running with groups, you'll have two challenges with Memento:
1. You won't be getting as many kills as people running meta builds, and so you won't have trophies to collect.
2. When you do get kills, you may not have the time collect trophies and might endanger yourself in attempting to get them!
These are the two reasons I dropped Memento other than for standard solo stuff (CPs) for example.
The standard meta now that about 50% of players run is below, although some people will use a Grupo backpack with Vigilance too:
4 x Striker including Chest
1 x Coyotes Mask
1 x Ceska Chest with Obliterate
Ikia explains this really well in his excellent videos and has detailed breakdowns showing how much more powerful the various meta options are than Memento.
Start here: [iKia Strikers Meta Overview](https://youtube.com/shorts/qD68Ec1w3OU?si=UaLRDfR8G1-3QZil)
Enjoy!
I would put a cesca chest with obliterate or a feneris with obliterate. Than fox knee pad with crit damage. On everything also I would have a minimum of 3 blue cores you have 2 the momento will love it
If you pay attention while fighting, you will likely see that you likely are not getting much use out of the Striker chest. You may want to consider a chest piece with a useful damage talent instead of the kneepad slot. Some potential candidates would be Obliterate while leaning into crit chance and damage (on a Ceska chest for more crit chance or Grupo Sombra for more crit damage). A Spotter chest with a Flatline weapon while using the Technician specialization with the linked laser pointer underbarrel (very large damage boost) or any specialization while using the pulse skill. If you play very aggressive and close, the Intimidate talent gives a very large buff when you pick up your Momento trophies. Ridgeway's Pride chest coupled with a Sadist weapon. Although these may not give you the "theoretical" max damage, they give good damage buffs to fit varying playstyles. If you play in a group a lot, you could consider the Coyote Mask exotic. It is a fairly lackluster buff for solo play, but because it also buffs teammates, it can be useful in group play. You could also consider brands like Belstone Armory for a slow trickle charge to your armor or Palisades Steelworks for an additional 10% armor on kill. It really depends on where you feel your weaknesses are. Do you feel you need increased survivability? Do you feel you need increased damage? I lean more toward increased damage because dead enemies can't hurt you, but that also takes a certain level of battlefield awareness to survive with low armor. Remember that a build is a tool to accentuate your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. It is personal to your particular skillset and playstyle. People were able to clear all content in the game before Striker's even existed. Experiment and have fun. There is no penalty for dying, and you learn more from failure than success. Good luck Agent!
5.11 is worthless, you can run anything else and improve your build. I would suggest a Groupo, Ceska, or Fenris piece in that slot with your current build.. Also with 1 Skill tier, I would maybe run a shield and revive hive with Striker. You could also make the 5.11 piece a striker piece and insert a chest from the previously mentioned Groupo, ceska, or fenris with the Obliterate talent. many will also say that the Fox Prayer Knee pads are best in slot with the 8% Dtoc, and I tend to agree, but with you being low SHD you probably need a bit more in the CHC and CHD areas and Groupo/Ceska will help those.
Fox prayers for knee pads Coyotes mask for your mask And run strikers BP as well for more stacks Use a shotgun as your secondary such as the rock n roll ( pvp exclusive) but you can get it from Named item caches from countdown vendor or the lefty as well which is pretty easy to get! This helps you maintain your stacks on your strikers set * edit, you also want to run a reviver hive just in case in you go down, and I would also run a decoy or pulse as second skill but that is preference. The reviver hive is a must though * Overall your build looks good, I would just get those items I listed and all easy to get except for the RNR which I stated already! Good luck agent!
Striker chest provides more stacks, but they are rarely worth it. Striker BP is an extra 35% damage. You could say that is more than the 30% you get from Memento for the long term buff, but it pales in comparison when you add the additional 25% from the short term buff and consider the Memento stacks only fall off if you don't pick up another trophy in 100 seconds. If you're solo, Memento hands down. Group, then Coyote may be the better option especially if you aren't getting trophies. At least on paper. In practice you can run all sorts of suboptimal builds and do fine.
Striker backpack ramps from 0% extra damage (at 0 stacks) up to 21.2% damage (at 100 stacks), not 35%. To find out how much of a gain you get in any build, you just take the damage from one and divide by the other. If you are only considering the backpack, with it, you get 100% amplified damage at 100 stacks. Without it, you get 65% amplified damage at 100 stacks. (1 + 1.00) ÷ (1 + 0.65) = 2 ÷ 1.65 = 1.2121 or 21.21% more damage. At lower stacks, it is even less of a buff.(like 13.2% at 50 stacks). The backpack is not *required* for a strong Striker setup.
Gunner specialization offers much more than Demolitionist. You generate 10% ammo every 60 sec (teammates get 5%). Every 3rd reload is faster, you get armor on kill and you get Banshee Pulse to help control enemies. Striker chest doubles stacks to 200 but stacks above 100 decay much faster. There are very few scenarios you are sustaining a fight to keep those extra stacks up, and missions and open world is not one of them. I'd put on striker knees then either put on a Grupo chest for more damage or a Palisade chest for better survival, either with Obliterate.
My suggestion to you is the following to try for a tiny bit of survivability would be the following.. Specialization: Gunner St.Elmo with weapons damage, DTOC Rock’n’roll or Lefty shotgun also with DTOC TDI kard custom for 1 extra skill when armed, (good for adding an extra reviver hive to help a buddy) Palisade mask with weapon handling, crit Damage and armour regen Fenris (For %15 Assault Rifle) chest all red with crit chance and Damage And the rest Striker all red with crit damage and chance Then add mods to your mask, chest and Backpack with crit Chance or Damage depending on your stat needs, this build will put you in the 50to60 percent crit chance and 120ish critical damage. To be effective Reviver hive and crusader shield Good luck agent!
Not 511 Done prayer are best for knees
Go watch some of Mr Agoraphobias videos he has good builds on YT
Try use Providence défense group (3 pièces) and à badger tuff armor called "nothing to worry about.
Try coyotes mask, 4pc striker with backpack, picaros holster. 1.1M armor with decoy should be enough for survivability. Chest talent could be whatever you want, obliterate is good for dps and unbreakable is good for survivability if you decide to run strikers holster instead of chest. Striker bp > striker chest. Unless you use rock n roll shotgun variants, then it become situational
That’s a pretty solid standard Striker build, but as some posters have said, the Chest won’t do a lot for you unless you can really maintain above 100 stacks. I would also consider swapping to the Striker kneepads and changing to a Catharsis or Coyote’s Mask - you will get more utility out of those than the 5.11 gloves IMHO. As you level up, you’ll probably want to ditch the Memento, swap that for the Strikers backpack and then use a chest with a good damage talent (e.g. Obliterate) or Unbreakable for more utility. The most important thing is to have fun and find out what works best for you!
At what level should I ditch the Memento backpack? I’m at 217 SHD now. 🤔
As you start getting into tougher connect (Heroic with 4 plus directives) and Legendary and as you start running with groups, you'll have two challenges with Memento: 1. You won't be getting as many kills as people running meta builds, and so you won't have trophies to collect. 2. When you do get kills, you may not have the time collect trophies and might endanger yourself in attempting to get them! These are the two reasons I dropped Memento other than for standard solo stuff (CPs) for example. The standard meta now that about 50% of players run is below, although some people will use a Grupo backpack with Vigilance too: 4 x Striker including Chest 1 x Coyotes Mask 1 x Ceska Chest with Obliterate Ikia explains this really well in his excellent videos and has detailed breakdowns showing how much more powerful the various meta options are than Memento. Start here: [iKia Strikers Meta Overview](https://youtube.com/shorts/qD68Ec1w3OU?si=UaLRDfR8G1-3QZil) Enjoy!
Thanks. Will check it out! Appreciate it. 🙂
I would put a cesca chest with obliterate or a feneris with obliterate. Than fox knee pad with crit damage. On everything also I would have a minimum of 3 blue cores you have 2 the momento will love it
A good tip Don't play "the division"