Talk:Chroma/@comment-107.216.106.24-20190122070620/@comment-2600:8804:6400:2B9:4C28:A113:7C8E:9BAC-20190131004459

Effigy's pretty nice, really. I have my chroma built specifically for it, and I have pretty good success with it. The dragon's damage isn't bursty for sure, but it's not a pushover either and can actually be pretty dang efficient with that base 2k DPS it's doing in a line AoE, especially since it can retarget and turn around super fast. Plus it's pretty set-and-forget. Plop it down and it'll just do its thing, leaving you free to do whatever. It's somewhat beefy too with 8000 health, so it can draw a bit of fire too. Perhaps not a TON if you're getting up into REALLY high levels, but every shot it takes is one that you don't. His radial attack can ragdoll iirc, and his scream is surprisingly wide-ranged.

Yeah, you probably don't want to use it much on Exterminate, Spy, or any other mission where you're basically always moving forward, but any mission where you're sitting in one spot or running around the same area(s), which is most missions really, he's really nice. In my experience, death most often doesn't come from the enemies in front of you, but from the ones that are shooting your butt. Drop Effigy a decent bit behind you. Enemies shoot Effigy, Effigy does his damage/CC thing to enemies, and your butt is protected. And since he flies back onto you when he "dies," you will always know if the enemies manage to get rid of him. Just DO make sure to put him back far enough. He doesn't have increased threat or anything.

But what REALLY makes this ability super duper handy is the augment for it. it doesnt sound like much, but the ability to have your Effigy actively zip around makes it a LOT more versatile, and makes it safer to get him into good positions. Plus Mr. Dragon will also assume you're telling him to go mess some people up when you tell hime to move, and will thus be sure to ALWAYS scream VERY LOUDLY to assert his dominance. Giant enemy deathball up ahead? Drop Effigy, he screams, enemies are stunned, tell him to fly into enemy deathball, he screams again, and now you've got him in the middle of the horde AND CC'd them pretty nicely. And now Effigy is cooking them too. All the enemies coming from the other direction? Tell Effigy to fly over there. He does so, screams again, more CC, fun times. Just want to CC everything in a five mile radius? Tell Effigy to move two feet to the right. He screams. Enemies are CC'd. Granted the pathfinding for him can get a little... wonky, but I've had pretty good success with him. Plus I believe he just teleports to his destination if he takes too long getting there.