After the 500% Buff | Praxic Vestment vs Ultimate Birthplace of The Vile

Описание: Following up on the last video, I wanted to test the new Praxic Vestment changes and the 500% buff in an Ultimate Birthplace of the Vile run.

I picked Birthplace because there is a lot of space to fly and feel the new mobility changes. This is not a full build guide yet, I’ll make one as soon as I can! For now, I just wanted to share my first impressions for anyone curious about how Praxic Vestment feels after the update as I've been receiving a lot of questions already 🫡

⚙️ Build Link: https://dim.gg/czoptay/Prismatic-Vest...

The core of the build is simple (1:05):
Fly in. Kick something. Use Vexcalibur to stay alive.
Now watch your feed proccing Knockout, Frost Armor, Overshields and Devour while you apply Exhaust, Jolt and Weaken 😄

Knockout is one of the most important parts of this setup. After breaking a combatant’s shield, it gives a 160% melee damage bonus, triggers healing, grants Amplified, and makes our uncharged melees behave like powered melees. That means uncharged melee kills can create orbs with Heavy Handed and also feed into the Praxic Lift loop (glaive melee kills are not powered, unfortunately)

The kick itself is much stronger now! It also charges faster and feels way more satisfying to use. The flight feels smoother / faster, the camera feels a bit better, and it doesn’t get stopped by dead bodies or random geometry as much as before!

That said, I do have mixed feelings about the damage buff.
The big 500% buff seems to apply only to the Praxic Kick itself. The “Praxic Kick” buff still feels very small for melee damage. From my testing, it is only a 5% melee buff... Which is not what I was hoping for 🤔

If that is intended, then Praxic Vestment is not really a boss damage rotation exotic. It can help you survive and deal decent damage, but it will not replace something like Wormgod or Synthos when it comes to sustained melee damage. When Wormgod can keep a 400% melee buff rolling through an entire room, a 500% buff for 5s does not feel broken to me 🤷‍♂️ Especially when it requires aggressive arc-powered melee kills to keep the loop going.

But ... this thing is fun!
It works as a neutral game / mobility exotic and it is very capable at staying alive and clearing adds on its own.

The survivability is ridiculous, and I mean it: Knockout and Facet of Blessing heal you after melee kills and Vexcalibur can refresh overshields with Perpetual Loophole. With Singularity Blade, your melees and sword hits can weaken enemies while you have an overshield and Power from Pain can turn weakened kills into Devour!

So one good melee kill can refresh overshields, trigger healing, start regen, activate Devour, and keep the build moving? Yes, and Tazer Tag lets arc melees apply Jolt😂

And then... we add damage resistance on top of that:
Frost Armor feels great now and Amplified adds more damage resistance. Void Overshields are extremely strong (70% DR). Swordmaster can exhaust targets with melee, glaive melee, and glaive projectile hits, reducing their outgoing damage. And Vexcalibur still has the glaive shield, right? 97.5% DR anytime you need. Debuffs and buffs are all tied to your melees!

The movement is probably my favorite part (7:18). Eager Edge, Thruster, and Praxic Lift together make this build incredibly fun for transitions and puzzle encounters!
⚠️The only part that feels weird is that sometimes the flight simply refuses to connect to an enemy, especially if they are too close (5:05). It feels like you need a little distance before the kick now...

My early review:
✅The mobility is better and the kick is more satisfying to use!
✅The 500% damage buff is fun, but more limited than I thought.
❌The tracking still has some weird moments that can put you into a bad position (another reason to bring Vexcal with you)

Overall, I’m much more comfortable taking Praxic Vestment into solo dungeon challenges and I can already see it working in encounters with lots of movement, like Equilibrium and Ghosts entrance, Duality 2nd encounter (the gauntlet) or even the entire Shattered/Prophecy dungeons.
It is not the strongest boss damage exotic, but it is fast, tanky, aggressive, and extremely fun to play with. And as you can see, it is strong enough for a GM / Ultimate activity. Also... champion stunning is even better now that Stasis can deal with Overload and Unstoppable champions again!

Hope you have fun with this one and / or learn something useful here.
Let me know if you have any questions about the build or the artifact mods. I'm still working on this setup but I think it's close to its final form now.

Thanks everyone for your support and I hope you’ve been having fun with the update! Now allow me to farm here... 👊😄

See you in the next one!

Chapters:
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0:00 - Movement and Champion Stuns Showcase
9:07 - Boss Damage Potential
13:13 - Build, Artifact and Activity Modifiers:

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