The Eidolon slayer, glass warrior, walking maelstrom of death - Gara!
Passive: When casting an ability, Gara’s glass body has 15% chance to Blind enemies within 12 meters for 10 seconds, exposing them to Melee Finisher attacks. Blind chance increases by 20% until the blind triggers.
Shattered Lash - Lash out with stream of shattered glass, or hold for an arcing strike.
Splinter Storm - Gara’s armor splinters into a maelstrom of shattered glass that slices enemies and impairs their weapons. Allies who contact the cloud are fortified against damage.
Spectrorage - Trap enemies in a carousel of mirrors, forcing them to attack visions of their true selves. Destroyed mirrors damage their attackers, as does the collapse of the carousel.
Mass Vitrify - Create an expanding ring of molten glass that slowly crystallizes enemies who enter. When the expansion is complete, the ring hardens to block weapons fire. The ring draws extra strength from the health and shields of crystallized enemies. Use Shattered Lash to smash the ring and send razor-sharp glass flying outward.
Acquisition: Main blueprint is awarded upon completion of the Saya’s Vigil quest. Component blueprints are acquired from Plains of Eidolon Bounties.
What are people slotting in as her Helminth? I used to really like Hildryn’s Pillage, but Gara’s new build runs a lot less strength for range instead. Is the answer just going to be Roar/Nourish, or does anyone have a more spicy option they’d like to share?
Nourish/Roar are the boring but solid options, even with lowered power strength they still provide a considerable damage boost. A good alternative (and my preferred option) is Lycath’s Hunt from Voruna, with Equilibrium this completely solves any energy issues you could possibly have and enables the use of Arcane Blessing to give Gara a rather considerable tankyness increase. You can also add Health Conversion to give that large health pool you got an extra layer of defense to make Gara VERY hard to bring down, so long as you keep on killing to make the health orbs happen.
Lycath’s Hunt is a good call I hadn’t considered, so it still works on the Shattered Lash kills? I prefer shield-tanking on frames that have in-built DR since it’s generally easier to build and can last for all content, but I am using 2 tau equilibrium shards on her. It might let me drop some efficiency for some more strength.
Downside is I’d need another Voruna for the wall, I love my wolf-mommy too much to feed her.
Nothing too spicy here, just nourish, but if you need energy and can find the room spectrosiphon generates so many orbs. Her whole kit is solid
Siphon + Eruption also augments her CC kit, and now that she’s an Influence nuker the enemies getting yeeted away isn’t as much of a KPM drag any more.