[1.12.x] Hive Scum Talents & Mechanics

Health (alive)
health

150

Health (downed)
knocked_down_health

1000

10%

100

5% of max toughness

8m

1.5s

(allies: 0) 0 toughness per second
(allies: 1) 3.75 toughness per second
(allies: 2) 5.625 toughness per second
(allies: 3) 7.5 toughness per second

2s

3

0.5s

2 stamina per second

0.25m          

Minimum travel distance needed before a dodge can be performed

2.5m

How far the dodge can move the character

0.15s

Time until next dodge can be performed

0.5s

Time until next dodge can be performed if interrupted by a jump

0.85s

Time to reset the effective dodge count

0.25s (vs melee)
0s (vs ranged)

Grace window after finishing a dodge in which the character is still considered as is_dodging against an attack

25%

Maximum dodge time after dodging into an obstacle

1

Modifies toughness damage taken while dodging; below 1 means taking less damage, above 1 means taking more damage BUT due to the complexity of the calculation, neither does 0 translate into taking no damage at all nor does 2 translate into taking double damage. For an in-depth explanation, refer to this write-up (still up to date despite some values having changed).

4m/s

4m/s

1.75m/s

1.4m/s

5.2m/s

0.75

This reduces only the bonus to movement speed when sprinting with stamina.

1

Modifies toughness damage taken while sprinting; below 1 means taking less damage, above 1 means taking more damage BUT due to the complexity of the calculation, neither does 0 translate into taking no damage at all nor does 2 translate into taking double damage. For an in-depth explanation, refer to this write-up (still up to date despite some values having changed).

4.2m/s

Minimum movement speed required to perform a slide

0.5

Modifies toughness damage taken while sliding; below 1 means taking less damage, above 1 means taking more damage BUT due to the complexity of the calculation, neither does 0 translate into taking no damage at all nor does 2 translate into taking double damage. For an in-depth explanation, refer to this write-up (still up to date despite some values having changed).

 
The upper left branch of the stimm tree offers four types of buffs:

Replenish 6.25% Toughness.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

(1) Replenishes 6.25% of maximum toughness on stimm use. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is not affected by Barrage and is affected by certain player debuffs like toxic gas. Procs additionally to the same stimm effect and to Chem Fortified.

+X% Toughness Replenishment.

stat buff: toughness_replenish_modifier

(2) Increases the amount of any toughness replenished by melee kills, talents, and select weapon blessings (only Momentum) by a specific percentage; stacks additively with itself, with Ogryn's aura Stay Close!, and with toughness replenishment debuffs like being in toxic gas. Does not apply to coherency toughness regeneration.

+4% Damage Reduction.

stat buff: damage_taken_multiplier

(3) Reduces both toughness and health damage taken by 4%; stacks multiplicatively with itself and with other damage reduction buffs.

Replenish +5% Toughness every 1 seconds.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

(4) Every second, replenishes 5% of maximum toughness. This toughness replenishment is inactive while Hive Scum is knocked down. Its effectiveness is affected by Barrage and by certain player debuffs like toxic gas. Does not interact with coherency toughness regeneration.

Barrage I
Barrage II
Barrage III
Barrage IV
Tank
Regain

+5% toughness generated | 4% damage reduction | 6.25% toughness replenished
+5% toughness generated | 4% damage reduction | 6.25% toughness replenished
+5% toughness generated | 4% damage reduction | 6.25% toughness replenished
+5% toughness generated | 4% damage reduction | 6.25% toughness replenished
+30% toughness generated
5% toughness replenished per second

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The upper right branch of the stimm tree offers four types of buffs:

+4% Strength.

stat buff: power_level_modifier

(1) Increases the power level of melee and ranged attacks, DoTs, and explosions by 4%; stacks additively with other power level buffs, and multiplicatively with damage buffs. 'Power level buffs' increase the base power of attacks which benefits damage, stagger, and cleave (where applicable).

+X% Finesse.

stat buff: finesse_modifier_bonus

(2) Grants a finesse damage bonus to melee and ranged attacks boosting crit and weakspot damage; stacks additively with other finesse damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

+X% Rending.

stat buff: rending_multiplier

(3) Grants rending to all attacks boosting damage against armor types Carapace, Flak, Maniac, Unyielding (including damage of explosions and DoTs). Only affects Hive Scum's own damage. Stacks additively with other rending buffs ('rending') and with rending debuffs that are applied to enemies ('brittleness').

+X% Critical Strike Chance.

stat buff: critical_strike_chance

(4) Grants additional crit chance to melee and ranged attacks; stacks additively with other sources of crit chance.

Wildfire I
Wildfire II
Wildfire III
Wildfire IV
Wildfire V
Fury I
Fury II
Vultoprene I
Vultoprene II

+4% power
+4% power
+4% power
+4% power | +10% finesse bonus
+4% power | +25% finesse bonus
+4% power | +5% rending
+4% power | +10% rending
+4% power | +5% crit chance
+4% power | +10% crit chance

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The lower left branch of the stimm tree offers ten types of buffs:

+4% Attack Speed.

stat buff: attack_speed

(1) Increases attack animation speed of both ranged and melee weapons by 4%; stacks additively with other attack speed buffs.

+25% Weapon Swap Speed.

stat buff: wield_speed

(2) Increases wield speed by 25%; stacks additively with other wield speed buffs. This reduces the time of wielding actions when swapping item slots (weapons, grenades, stimms, med packs, ammo crates, books, etc).

-X% Stamina Cost.

stat buff: stamina_cost_multiplier

(3) Reduces any kind of stamina drain. This includes stamina drain by blocking, pushing, sprinting, jumping while sprinting, and dodge-canceling sticky attacks. Stacks multiplicatively with itself and with Zealot's aura Zealous; also stacks multiplicatively with sprinting cost reduction buffs from Sprint Efficiency on curios and ranged or melee weapon perks; also stacks multiplicatively with block cost reduction buffs from Block Efficiency on curios and melee weapon perks.

+30% Reload Speed.

stat buff: reload_speed

(4) Increases reload animation speed by 30%; stacks additively with other reload speed buffs. This also increases the speed of the loading special action of Combat Shotguns.

-50% Recoil.

stat buff: recoil_modifier

(5) Reduces the recoil of ranged weapons by 50%; stacks additively with other recoil reduction buffs.

Grants Stun Immunity.
Grants Slowdown Immunity.

buff keywords:
stun_immune
slowdown_immune

(6) Grants immunity to stuns and slowdowns from both melee and ranged attacks.

There is currently a bug: Both immunity effects do not apply.

+10% Movement Speed.

stat buff: movement_speed

(7) Increases movement speed by 10%; stacks additively with movement speed buff from Street Tough and Vulture's Mark, and multiplicatively with sprint speed buff from Enhanced Desperado / Desperado.

+10% Dodge Distance.

stat buff: dodge_distance_modifier

(8) Increases dodge distance by 10%; stacks additively with Ally Rat. The effective distance a dodge can move a character depends on the dodge template of the currently wielded weapon or item.

+10% Dodge Speed.

stat buff: dodge_speed_multiplier

(9) Increases dodge speed by 10%; stacks multiplicatively with related buff from Nimble. This modifies the velocity during dodge.

+10% Dodge Recovery Speed.

stat buff: dodge_cooldown_reset_modifier

(10) Reduces Hive Scum's base dodge count reset time of 0.85s by 10% to 0.765s; stacks additively with related buff from Jittery. Only applies after the regular dodge action, does not apply after dodge-slide.

Spur I
Spur II
Spur III
Spur IV
Spur V
Reflex
Fervor

+4% attack speed | +25% wield speed
+4% attack speed | +25% wield speed | 15% stamina cost reduction
+4% attack speed | 15% stamina cost reduction
+4% attack speed | 20% stamina cost reduction
+4% attack speed | stun immunity | slowdown immunity
+30% reload speed | 50% recoil reduction
+10% move speed | +10% dodge distance | +10% dodge speed | -10% dodge reset time

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The lower right branch of the stimm tree offers the following buffs:

+X% Cooldown Regeneration.

stat buff: combat_ability_cooldown_regen_modifier

(1) Increases Hive Scum's base combat ability cooldown regen rate of 1s per second by a certain amount; stacks additively with itself and with the related cooldown regen effect from Hypex or Klay, and Chemical Dependency.

While active, Melee Kills grant +75% Ability Cooldown Regeneration for 1s.

stat buff: combat_ability_cooldown_regen_modifier

(2) Killing an enemy with a melee attack increases Hive Scum's base combat ability cooldown regen rate of 1s per second to 1.75s per second for 1 second; can be refreshed during active duration. Stacks additively with the related cooldown regen effect from Kalma and Chemical Dependency.

While active, Ranged Kills grant +75% Ability Cooldown Regeneration for 1s.

stat buff: combat_ability_cooldown_regen_modifier

(3) Killing an enemy with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) increases Hive Scum's base combat ability cooldown regen rate of 1s per second to 1.75s per second for 1 second; can be refreshed during active duration. Stacks additively with the related cooldown regen effect from Kalma and Chemical Dependency.

Kalma I
Kalma II
Kalma III
Kalma IV
Kalma V
Hypex
Klay

+6.25% cooldown regen rate
+6.25% cooldown regen rate
+6.25% cooldown regen rate
+6.25% cooldown regen rate
+25% cooldown regen rate
+75% cooldown regen rate
+75% cooldown regen rate

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+1 Effective Dodges.

stat buff: extra_consecutive_dodges

Adds one effective dodge at all times; the total amount of effective dodges a character can perform varies depending on the dodge template of the currently wielded weapon or item.

You are able to Sprint Dodge even when Stamina is depleted, and have a +15 degree Dodge Angle.

buff keyword: sprint_dodge_in_overtime

stat buff: sprint_dodge_reduce_angle_threshold_rad

This talent modifies sprint dodging in two ways:

(1) Usually, the is_sprint_dodging state requires the player to have more than 0 stamina. This talent allows to maintain sprint dodging capability even when current stamina has reached 0.

(2) Increases the angle within which an enemy that is firing at Hive Scum has to be[i.imgur.com]so that this enemy's ranged attacks can be dodged while sprinting. This leads to more leeway when angling the player camera in order to sprint dodge a shooting enemy. For reference, the default sprint dodge angle.[i.imgur.com]

+15% Melee Damage on first Enemy hit with each attack.

stat buff: first_target_melee_damage_modifier

Against the first target hit by a melee attack, increases melee damage by 15%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

Note that this talent's damage buff is applied against up to the first four targets if the melee attack is able to proc the Brutal Momentum weapon blessing.

+15% Clip Size, rounded up.

stat buff: clip_size_modifier

Increases Hive Scum's maximum ammo in clip by 15%, rounds up. For example, Hive Scum with a weapon that has a max clip size of 5 bullets will now have a clip size of 5×1.15=5.75 bullets which is rounded up to 6.

Hitting 3 or more Enemies with a single Melee Attack grants +50% Cleave for your next Melee Attack.

stat buffs:
max_hit_mass_attack_modifier
max_hit_mass_impact_modifier

Hitting at least 3 enemies with a melee attack increases the maximum hit mass limit of melee and ranged attacks (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) by 50%, thereby allowing attacks to cleave more enemies; stacks additively with related buffs from Battering Strikes, Pulverising Strikes, and from weapon blessings Devastating Strike, Savage Sweep, and Wrath, and multiplicatively with power level buffs. Once procced, this talent's buff remains active until it is consumed by the next melee or ranged attack. Has no HUD icon currently.

Note that this talent affects both damage cleave and stagger cleave.

Melee Kills grant +10% Melee Cleave for 5s. Stacks 5 times.

stat buff: max_melee_hit_mass_attack_modifier

Killing an enemy with a melee attack grants stacks (up to 5); can proc multiple times per swing when cleaving. Per stack, increases the maximum hit mass limit of melee attacks by 10% (up to +50%) for 5s, thereby allowing melee attacks to cleave more enemies; stacks additively with related buffs from Battering Momentum, Pulverising Strikes, and from weapon blessings Devastating Strike, Savage Sweep, and Wrath, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

While Stimmed, Kills clear 1% Corruption (up to 50% per Stimm).

function: reduce_permanent_damage

After having used a stimm on self and while the stimm effect is active, killing enemies with any attack (including DoTs and explosions) removes corruption damage; can proc multiple times per attack when cleaving. The amount of corruption damage that is removed per kill is 1% of Hive Scum's maximum health. This caps out once the total amount of corruption damage removed during one stimm's duration is equal to 50% of Hive Scum's maximum health. Heals corruption damage up to the next health segment.

For example, a Hive Scum with 180 max health would remove 180×0.01=1.8 corruption damage per kill and could remove up to 180×0.5=90 corruption damage total during one stimm's duration.

Note that this talent's effect can also be spread by Stimm Supply in which case it procs additionally to Stimm Supply's base corruption removal effect.

Gain Stun Immunity for 6s and restore +50% Toughness when Toughness is broken. 10s Cooldown.

buff keyword: stun_immune

function: recover_percentage_toughness

If not on cooldown, does two things when toughness reaches 0:

(1) Grants immunity to stuns from both melee and ranged attacks for 6s.

(2) Replenishes 50% of maximum toughness instantly. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Barrage (Cartel Special Stimm) and by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

-25% Toughness Damage taken while reloading, and for 4s afterwards.

stat buff: toughness_damage_taken_modifier

While reloading and for 4s after a reload is finished, grants 25% toughness damage reduction; stacks multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

Each 1% of your current Critical Hit Chance grants a stack of +0.5% Melee Damage.

Stacks 30 times (up to +15% Melee Damage).

stat buff: melee_damage

Every percent of current crit chance generates stacks (up to 30); stack calculation rounds up, so for example, having 15.5% crit chance would grant 16 stacks. Properly accounts for crit chance granted by Hive Scum's base template, talents, Cartel Special Stimm, weapon perks, weapons' handling templates, and weapon blessings.

Per stack, increases the damage of melee attacks by 0.5% (up to +15%); stacks additively with other related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

+10% Damage against Enemies that are Staggered. Medium and Heavy Staggered Enemies instead take +15%.

stat buffs:
damage_vs_staggered
damage_vs_medium_staggered

This talent does two things:

(1) Against enemies who are staggered, increases any damage by 10%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

(2) Against enemies who are put into stagger types medium, heavy, sticky, and explosion increases any damage by an additional 5%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

Generally, for most enemies, any stagger type that is below medium is telegraphed by a brief flinch animation. A medium stagger is usually displayed via a backwards tumble animation and a 'heavy stagger' shows the enemy as being knocked down to the ground. Note that, for this talent, enemies also count as 'heavily staggered' when they are staggered because of (1) ripping heavy attacks from Bone Saw or Crowbar, because of (2) sticky attacks form a revved up chain weapon or from an activated Force Sword, or because of (3) Electrocution caused by Zealot's Stunstorm Grenade, by Psyker's Elektrokinetic Staff, by Arbitrator's Exterminator Shotgun Mk III (shock shell), Shock Mine, by the (Arbites) Shock Maul weapon special, by Skitarius' arc lightning (Arc Maul), Electro-Strike Conduit, Overcharge Transfer Lattice, Voltaic Emitter, or by weapon blessings Lightning Reflexes and Overwhelming Force.

Also note that this talent's 5% extra damage buff is always active against enemies who have been put into 'heavy stagger' by force stagger sources, e.g. the shout granted by Forge's Bellow.

Melee Critical Strikes infect Enemies with 1 stack(s) of Chem Toxin.

Hitting enemies with critical melee attacks applies 1 stack of Chem Toxin; can apply Chem Toxin through Bulwark/Vanguards shield. For details on Chem Toxin, see appendix below.

+1 Blitz Charges.

stat buff: extra_max_amount_of_grenades

Allows Hive Scum to carry 1 more grenade/missile; stacks additively with the 'Enhanced Blitz' difficulty mutator that adds another 2 grenades/missiles to Hive Scum's maximum capacity.

Perfect Blocks and Successful Dodges grant +20% Critical Strike Chance for 3s.

stat buff: critical_strike_chance

Grants 20% additional crit chance to melee and ranged attacks for 3s; stacks additively with other sources of crit chance. Can be refreshed during active duration.

Procs on perfect block. 'Perfect block' refers to perfect blocking. This is a blocking state which requires a successfully executed block action within 0.3s against an incoming attack. If the character has been blocking for longer than 0.3s when the to-be-blocked attack hits, it is not a perfect block. By default, a perfect block has no benefit. It is considered as a proc condition.

Alternatively, procs on successfully dodging enemy melee or ranged attacks (except Gunners, Reaper, Sniper), and disabler attacks (Pox Hound jump, Trapper net, Mutant grab). 'Successful dodge' means dodging an enemy attack that is locked on the player with an accordingly timed dodge or sliding action.

The dodge effects from Enhanced Desperado / Desperado, Slippery Customer, and Vulture's Dodge as well as from weapon blessings Ghost, Hit & Run and Stripped Down can also proc this talent.

Up to 20% Damage Reduction, depending on available Stamina. Additionally, up to 20% Melee Damage depending on spent Stamina.

stat buffs:
damage_taken_multiplier
melee_damage

Based on Hive Scum's current stamina percentage, does two things:

(1) Reduces both toughness and health damage taken by up to 20%; stacks multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

(2) Increases the damage of melee attacks by up to 20%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

These two effects scale inversely to each other and linearly with Hive Scum's current stamina percentage:

Critical Strikes instantly kill Human Sized Enemies if their current Health is less than 2 times the amount of Damage of the Critical Strike.

Hitting 'human-sized' enemies with a critical melee attack kills the target instantly if the target were to be left with an amount of health that was less than the attack's damage dealt.

For example, dealing 700 damage with a critical melee hit to an enemy who has 1800 current health will not proc an instakill because the enemy's remaining health of 1800-700=1100 is greater than 700. However, dealing 950 damage to an enemy who has 1800 current health will proc the instakill because the remaining health of 1800-950=850 is less than 950.

Breeds that are not considered 'human-sized': Beast of Nurgle, Bulwark, Captains/Twins, Chaos Spawn, Crusher, Daemonhost, Pack Master, Plague Ogryn, Reaper

Kills grants +25% of the difference between the Damage dealt by your attack and the Health of the killed Enemy as Melee Damage for 1s.

stat buff: melee_damage_bonus

Killing an enemy with any attack adds a flat damage bonus to subsequent melee attacks for 1s; does not proc on instakills caused by Hyper-Critical and the Haymaker weapon blessing. The flat amount of bonus damage carried over is 25% of the difference between the enemy's health when killed and the attack's damage dealt. The active duration can be refreshed only if the overkill damage amount that is supposed to be carried over to the next melee attack is greater than the overkill damage amount that was carried over on the previous proc.

For example, killing an enemy who has 300 current health with a melee attack that deals 500 damage results in an overkill damage amount of 500-300=200. A quarter of this overkill damage amount is carried over, so the same melee attack would then deal 500+200×0.25=550 damage. Now, for as long as it is possible to accumulate an increasing carry-over amount of overkill damage (e.g. by getting damage buffs, by targeting enemies with low health, by switching from an attack with low base damage to an attack with high base damage, etc), the 1s duration will be refreshed and the next melee attack will be buffed accordingly. When the carry-over amount of overkill damage does not increase between two attacks, the 1s duration will not be refreshed and the buff effect will reset.

Does currently not have a HUD icon.

+25% Ranged Damage against targets within 12.5 meters, scaling down to a minimum of +10% at 30 meters and beyond.

stat buffs:
damage_near
damage_far

While the ranged weapon is wielded, increases any damage by 10% at all distances. Against targets beyond 12.5m, any damage is increased by up to +25% at 30m. Stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

This talent's implementation is intricate: Two damage buffs (damage_near and damage_far) are granted that stack additively with each other, but scale inversely to each other over distance:


This also increases the damage of explosions and DoTs as long as Hive Scum wields the ranged weapon.

+40% Dodge Recovery Speed while Stamina is above 75%.

stat buff: dodge_cooldown_reset_modifier

While at or above 75% of max stamina, reduces Hive Scum's base dodge count reset time of 0.85s by 40% to 0.51s; stacks additively with related buff from Fervor (Cartel Special Stimm). Only applies after the regular dodge action, does not apply after dodge-slide.

+5s Stimm Duration.

stat buff: syringe_duration

Adds 5 seconds to the 15s base duration of Celerity Stimm, Combat Stimm, Concentration Stimm, and Hive Scum's Cartel Special Stimm. Only increases the duration of stimms that are applied to Hive Scum. Does not increase the 8s duration of Med Stimm.

Gain +1 Effective Dodges while wielding your Ranged Weapon.

stat buff: extra_consecutive_dodges

While the ranged weapon is wielded, adds one effective dodge; the total amount of effective dodges a character can perform varies depending on the dodge template of the currently wielded weapon or item.

Killing an Elite or Specialist Enemy with a Melee Attack while Ammo Reserve is below 20% will refill it to 20%.

function: Ammo.add_to_reserve

While current ammo in reserve is below or at 20%, killing an elite or special with a melee attack sets the ammo count in reserve to 20% of max ammo; rounds down.

For example, with a ranged weapon that has a max ammo reserve of 556 bullets, the talent would be able to proc once there are 111 bullets or less in reserve (because 111/556=0.199 is below the threshold of 0.2). Killing an elite or special would then set the ammo count in reserve to 556×0.2=111.2 bullets which is rounded down to 111 bullets.

Blitz explosions infect Enemies with stacks of Chem Toxin differently, depending on your chosen Blitz.

Blackout: 3 stacks.
Boom Bringer: 6 stacks.
Chem Grenade: 10 stacks.

Applies stacks of Chem Toxin when hitting enemies with the explosions created by:

(1) Blackout / Blinder: 3 stacks to all targets within 3.5m radius
(2) Boom Bringer: 6 stacks to all targets within 7m radius
(3) Chem Grenade: 10 stacks to all targets within 4m radius (initial explosion)

For details on Chem Toxin, see appendix below.

Melee Hits replenishes 4% Toughness. Melee Critical Strikes and Weakspot Hits instead replenish 8%, and Critical Weakspot Strikes replenish 12%.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

Hitting an enemy with a melee attack replenishes 4% of maximum toughness. If the melee attack hits a weakspot or is critical, replenishes 8% of maximum toughness instead; if the melee attack hits a weakspot and is critical, replenishes 12% of maximum toughness. Procs once per melee attack regardless of how many enemies have been hit.

If one of the hit enemies dies, the toughness amount replenished from the talent is added to Hive Scum's base 5% of maximum toughness gained on melee kill. For example, with 125 max toughness, hitting three targets with a critical melee attack and if one of the attacked targets dies, Hive Scum would replenish 125×(0.08+0.05)=16.25 toughness (HUD rounds up: 17).

The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Barrage (Cartel Special Stimm) and by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

+15% Damage against Elites and Monstrosities.

stat buffs:
damage_vs_elites
damage_vs_monsters

Increases any damage against enemies with the elite or monster tag by 15%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

Breeds with elite or monster tag: Beast of Nurgle, Bulwark, Chaos Spawn, Crusher, Daemonhost, Gunners, Mauler, Pack Master, Plague Ogryn, Plasma Gunner, Radio Operator, Ragers, Reaper, Shotgunners

+15% Close Range Damage for 3s after a Successful Dodge.

stat buff: damage_near

Increases any damage by 15% against enemies within a 12.5m radius for 3s; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs. Beyond 12.5m, the damage buff falls off convexly[i.imgur.com](dropping off sharply at first, then leveling out) until it loses its effect entirely at 30m:


This also increases the damage of explosions and DoTs as long as Hive Scum stays within 30m to the enemy.

Procs on successfully dodging enemy melee or ranged attacks (except Gunners, Reaper, Sniper), and disabler attacks (Pox Hound jump, Trapper net, Mutant grab). 'Successful dodge' means dodging an enemy attack that is locked on the player with an accordingly timed dodge or sliding action.

The dodge effects from Enhanced Desperado / Desperado, Slippery Customer, and Vulture's Dodge as well as from weapon blessings Ghost, Hit & Run and Stripped Down can also proc this talent.

Backstabs grant +10% Melee Strength. Stacks 5 times. Regular Melee Hits will instead remove all stacks.

stat buff: melee_power_level_modifier

Hitting an enemy when backstabbing grants stacks (up to 5); stacks last until the next non-backstab hit. Per stack, increases the power level of melee attacks by 10% (up to +50%); stacks additively with other power level buffs, and multiplicatively with damage buffs.

'Backstabbing' refers to melee attacks executed from within a specific angle[i.imgur.com]behind an enemy's back.

'Power level buffs' increase the base power of attacks which benefits damage, stagger, and cleave (where applicable).

+10% Stamina on Successful Dodge.

function: add_stamina_percent

Replenishes 10% of maximum stamina per successful dodge; has no internal cooldown. Procs on successfully dodging enemy melee or ranged attacks (except Gunners, Reaper, Sniper), and disabler attacks (Pox Hound jump, Trapper net, Mutant grab). 'Successful dodge' means dodging an enemy attack that is locked on the player with an accordingly timed dodge or sliding action.

The dodge effects from Enhanced Desperado / Desperado, Slippery Customer, and Vulture's Dodge as well as from weapon blessings Ghost, Hit & Run and Stripped Down can also proc this talent.

Kills replenish 1% of your Cartel Special Cooldown. Killing Chem Toxin infected Enemies instead replenishes 2%.

function: reduce_ability_cooldown_percentage

Killing an enemy with any attack (including Bleed, Burn, Electrocution, and explosions) reduces the remaining cooldown of Hive Scum's Cartel Special Stimm by 1% of its max cooldown; can proc multiple times per attack when cleaving. Killing an enemy with a Chem Toxin damage tick reduces the remaining Cartel Special Stimm cooldown by 2% instead. Note that this talent can only be procced once Cartel Special Stimm's active duration is over.

There is currently a bug: This talent can be selected even when Hive Scum's Cartel Special Stimm is not equipped in which case the talent does nothing.

While sliding, you count as Dodging against Melee Attacks.

buff keyword: count_as_dodge_vs_melee

Sliding puts Hive Scum into is_dodging state against enemy melee attacks. This effect lasts for the duration of the sliding action and if proccing it is timed accordingly, it is able to also trigger weapon blessings and talents that proc on_successful_dodge like Float Like a Butterfly, Quick and Deadly, and Regained Posture.

+30% Reload Speed for 8s on Close Ranged Kill.

stat buff: reload_speed

Killing an enemy who is within 12.5m to Hive Scum with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) and with the Needle Pistol dart DoT (excluding kills caused by the DoT from Needle Pistol Mk II toxin explosion) increases reload animation speed by 30% for 8s; can be refreshed during active duration. Stacks additively with other reload speed buffs. This also increases the speed of the loading special action of Combat Shotguns.

Killing an Elite Enemy with a Melee Attack infects up to 10 enemies within 4m of the target with 2 stacks of Chem Toxin.

Killing an elite with a melee attack applies 2 stacks of Chem Toxin to up to 10 enemies within a 4m radius of the killed elite; can apply up to 2 stacks max on a target. For details on Chem Toxin, see appendix below.

+40% Weapon Swap Speed. Additionally, gain -10% Recoil and -30% Spread while firing from the hip or bracing.

stat buffs:
wield_speed
recoil_modifier
spread_modifier

This talent does two things:

(1) Increases wield speed by 40%; stacks additively with other wield speed buffs. This reduces the time of wielding actions when swapping item slots (weapons, grenades, stimms, med packs, ammo crates, books, etc).

(2) While firing from hip or while firing with a ranged weapon that is braced, reduces the recoil by 10% and the spread by 30%; stacks additively with other recoil and spread reduction buffs.

'Braced' refers to a specific action keyword in ranged weapon profiles. The weapons in Hive Scum's arsenal that can be braced are Autopistol, Braced Autoguns, Dual Autopistols, and Dual Stub Pistols.

When taking Melee Damage, knock all nearby Enemies around you backwards and gain +10% Movement Speed for 3s. Can only trigger once every 8s.

stat buff: movement_speed

If not on cooldown, upon being hit by an enemy melee attack or blocking an enemy melee attack, this talent does two things:

(1) Creates a non-damaging explosion at Hive Scum's location; can also proc while Hive Scum is disabled or knocked down. The explosion has a radius of 3m and staggers all enemies except for enemy ogryns and monstrosities; Captain/Twins only without void shield.

(2) Increases movement speed by 10% for 3s; stacks additively with movement speed buff from Fervor (Cartel Special Stimm) and Vulture's Mark, and multiplicatively with sprint speed buff from Enhanced Desperado / Desperado.

Note that this talent does not proc on any melee attack from enemies who have the special tag.

+2% increased Melee Attack Speed for each current Stamina.

stat buff: melee_attack_speed

Every 1 flat stamina grants stacks (capped at 30); stack calculation rounds down so stacks are only granted for each full segment of the stamina bar. Accounts for stamina values from Hive Scum's base stamina template, curios, weapon stamina templates, and weapon perks. Per stack, increases melee weapon attack animation speed by 2%; stacks additively with other attack speed buffs.

Enemies you infect with Chem Toxin deal -15% Damage. Monstrosities instead deal -30%.

Any of Hive Scum's attacks that apply a stack of Chem Toxin to enemies also apply a debuff to enemies that reduces the damage of all their attacks against toughness and health by 15%. Against enemies who have the monster or the captain / cultist_captain tag, a different debuff is applied that reduces the damage of all their attacks against toughness and health by 30%. Either debuff lasts for as long as there are Chem Toxin stacks on the enemy. The debuffs do not stack with the same debuffs from another Hive Scum.

Breeds with the monster or the captain / cultist_captain tag: Beast of Nurgle, Chaos Spawn, Daemonhost, Dreg Captain, Pack Master, Plague Ogryn, Scab Captain, Twins

+25% Weakspot Damage.

stat buff: weakspot_damage

Increases the weakspot damage of melee and ranged attacks (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) by 25%; stacks additively with related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

Replenish 30% Toughness over 3s after taking Ranged Toughness Damage. Losing all Toughness cancels the effect.

function: _update_toughness

stat buff: toughness_regen_percent

Taking a ranged hit while toughness is above 0 replenishes 10% of maximum toughness per second for 3s; can be refreshed during active duration. This effect stops immediately when toughness reaches 0. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is not affected by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

Replenish 1% Toughness every 1s for each Chem Toxin infected Enemy within 15m, up to a maximum of 10 Enemies.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

For every single enemy who is affected by Chem Toxin within 15m to Hive Scum, replenishes 1% of maximum toughness per second; checks every 0.2s for toxined enemies. This effect is capped at 10% of maximum toughness per second (i.e. 10 enemies in range).

The toughness replenishment is inactive while Hive Scum is knocked down. Does not interact with coherency toughness regeneration. The effectiveness of this talent's toughness replenishment is affected by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

+5% Base Damage for each Chem Toxin infected enemy nearby. Up to +15%.

stat buff: damage

Based on the number of enemies who are affected by Chem Toxin within 12.5m of Hive Scum, increases any damage by up to 15%; stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs. Checks every 0.2s for toxined enemies in range. Since each toxined enemy increases damage by 5%, the maximum buff value of 15% is granted when at least 3 toxined enemies are in range.

Reloading your Ranged Weapon grants +2% Ranged Damage for 7s. Each 10% of magazine spent during the duration grants +2% additional Ranged Damage.

stat buff: ranged_damage

After reloading, increases the damage of ranged attacks by 2% immediately, and by an additional 2% for every 10% of max ammo in clip spent within the next 7s; rounds down; can be refreshed during active duration. Can also be procced by the automatic reload from Enhanced Desperado / Desperado. Stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

For example, firing a weapon that has 14 max ammo in clip:

When infecting an Enemy with Chem Toxin, increase their damage taken by +10% from all sources for 5s.

stat buff: damage_taken_modifier

Any of Hive Scum's attacks that apply a stack of Chem Toxin to enemies also apply a debuff to enemies that increases all their damage taken by 10% for 5s; can be refreshed during active duration. Does not stack with the same debuff from another Hive Scum. Stacks additively with damage taken debuffs from Arbitrator's Target the Weak, Ogryn's Hard Knocks, Soften Them Up, and Pickaxe (weapon special), and Skitarius' Artificer Servo-Skull / Servo-Skull; and multiplicatively with other damage taken debuffs, with damage buffs, and with power level buffs.

Replenish +8% Toughness on Ranged Kill. Elites and Specials instead replenish +15% Toughness.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

Killing an elite or special who is within 12.5m to Hive Scum with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) replenishes 15% of maximum toughness; killing any other enemy within 12.5m with a ranged attack replenishes 8% of maximum toughness instead. Can proc multiple times per shot when cleaving. Procs additionally to weapon blessings like Born in Blood, Gloryhunter, and Inspiring Barrage. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Barrage (Cartel Special Stimm) and by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

+25 Toughness.

stat buff: toughness

Adds 25 toughness to Hive Scum's base maximum toughness of 100 thereby increasing Hive Scum's max toughness.

Current max toughness is multiplied by the toughness percentage buffs from curios. For example, at 125 max toughness (Hive Scum's base 100 and one +25 toughness node) with one +17% toughness curio with a +5% toughness perk, Hive Scum's max toughness of 125 is increased by 125×(0.17+0.05)=27.5 to 152.5 toughness (HUD rounds up: 153).

A character's maximum toughness is the base value that is used in toughness replenished calculations of most talents and blessings.

Availability on tree: 1

+5% Critical Hit Chance.

stat buff: critical_strike_chance

Grants 5% additional crit chance to all attacks that can crit; stacks additively with other sources of crit chance.

Availability on tree: 1

+10% Melee Damage.

stat buff: melee_damage

Increases the damage of melee attacks by 10%. This also applies to melee special actions of ranged weapons. Stacks additively with other related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

Availability on tree: 1

+10% Toxin Strength.

stat buff: toxin_power

Increases the power level of Chem Toxin by 10%; stacks multiplicatively with other power level buffs and damage buffs. Note that in Chem Toxin's case, a power level buff increases only the damage dealt because the DoT does neither stagger nor cleave.

Availability on tree: 1

Quick to use Grenade that staggers enemies.

Every 20 Kills at Close Range generates 1 Grenade(s).

5 Max Grenades.

Throws a projectile (flash grenade) that explodes on impact. The explosion deals no damage and applies decent stagger to the target.

Starting version: (Blinder)
• Amount: 3
• Fuse time: 0.2s
• Deals very low direct impact damage
• Suppression radius (explosion): 12m
• Explosion radius: 3.5m (max), 2.25m (epicenter)
• Explosion damage: deals no damage
• Stagger: the explosion staggers all enemies except for Mutants, monstrosties, female Twin (Captains only without void shield)
• Ammo: replenishes all grenades per grenade pickup
• Restores 1 grenade after killing a total of 20 enemies who are within 12.5m to Hive Scum with melee and ranged attacks, explosions, and Needle Pistol dart DoT; kills caused by the following sources do not count: Chem Toxin damage ticks of Needle Pistol Mk II toxin explosion, Bone Saw (default coating), Booby Trap, Coated Weaponry, Pocket Toxin, Splash Damage, Shivs (weapon special); damage ticks of other DoTs (Bleed, Burn, Electrocution); and instakills from Hyper-Critical

Augmented version: (Blackout)
• Same properties as starting version
• Amount: 5

High powered missile launcher.

2 Max Missiles.

Wields a missile launcher. Fires a projectile (missile) that deals high impact damage and creates an explosion on impact.

Projectile:
• Max travel time: 1.5s (the missile explodes after this time if it didn't hit a target)
• Cleave (projectile): 2.5 hit mass
• Projectile impact damage: 1800 base damage; cannot crit; ignores Bulwark/Vanguards shield; projectile impact damage is increased by 'rending' / 'brittleness', by Skullcrusher blessing debuff (while staggered), by Combat Stimm, and by damage buffs from Cartel Special Stimm (Upper Right Branch: power, rending, finesse nodes), Cheap Shots (while staggered), Pick Your Targets, Punching Above One's Weight (against elites and monsters), Quick and Deadly (if within 30m), The Sweet Spot, Toxin Mania, Unload, Virulent Strain, and Vulture's Mark
• Armor damage modifiers (projectile):

Explosion:
• Suppression radius (explosion): 25m
• Explosion radius: 7m (max), 4m (epicenter)
• Explosion damage: 2800 base damage within epicenter radius; 1300 base damage between epicenter and max radius; explosion damage is increased by 'rending' / 'brittleness', by Skullcrusher blessing debuff (while staggered), by Combat Stimm, and by damage buffs from Cartel Special Stimm (Upper Right Branch: power and rending nodes), Cheap Shots (while staggered), Punching Above One's Weight (against elites and monsters), Quick and Deadly (if within 30m), Toxin Mania, and Virulent Strain
• Armor damage modifiers (explosion):

• Stagger: both the projectile impact and the explosion deal very high stagger against all enemies except for Mutants (against Twins/Captains only without void shield)
• Missile backblast: releases a shout at Hive Scum's location when the projectile is fired; against enemies who are within 6m inside a 120° angle behind Hive Scum, deals 100 base damage with average armor damage modifiers across the board, applies 1 stack of Burn, and deals very high suppression as well as high stagger
• Ammo: replenishes all missiles per grenade pickup

Thrown grenade containing a Chem Toxin. The canister breaks open when it explodes, spilling its contents out across an area for 15s.

Enemies standing in the toxic matter receive up to 6 stacks of Chem Toxin over time and explode upon death.

2 Max Grenades.

Throws a grenade that explodes leaving a toxic area that applies Chem Toxin to all enemies within range. The toxic area spreads until it reaches its maximum expansion.

stat buff: hit_mass_multiplier_vs_melee

• Fuse time: 5s (thrown), 1.5s (after impact)
• Max velocity: 30 (aimed, quick throw), 8 (underhand)
• Deals very low direct impact damage
• Initial explosion deals very low damage and minor stagger
• Radius of initial explosion: 4m
• Suppression radius (explosion): 10m
• Toxic area: covers 55 units (cell_size: 1.2) adjusting its spread depending on map geometry; lasts 15s; incentivizes enemies to path around it
• Toxin application: every 0.35s, applies 1 stack of Chem Toxin to enemies (up to 6 stacks) for as long as the enemies stay inside the toxic area; enemies leaving the toxic area receive 1 additional stack; Toxin damage is increased by 'rending' / 'brittleness', by perks of currently wielded weapons, by Combat Stimm, and by the following buffs from: • Hit mass debuff: enemies who are inside the toxic area receive a debuff that reduces their hit mass by 50% against melee attacks; lasts for 1s and can be refreshed during active duration; does not stack with the same debuff from another Hive Scum; stacks multiplicatively with related effects that modify an attack's effective hit mass limit, e.g. buffs from weapon blessings Devastating Strike, Perfect Strike, Savage Sweep, Shock & Awe, Sunder, and Wrath, or enemy buffs from Pox Gas and difficulty mutators
• Toxin explosion: enemies who are affected by the Chem Toxin that was applied by Chem Grenade's toxic area explode on death; the explosion is created only if the enemy dies within 12s after the last stack application; explosion radius: 2.5m (max), 1m (epicenter); 200 base damage within epicenter radius, 100 base damage between epicenter and max radius (decreases to 50 base damage); average armor damage modifiers, low damage against Flak, no damage against Carapace (only in epicenter)
• Ammo: replenishes all grenades per grenade pickup

When an Ammo pickup is collected by you or allies in Coherency, you each replenish Ammo equal to 10% of that pickup.

When Hive Scum or an ally who is in coherency with Hive scum picks up ammo from small or large ammo pouches or from deployable ammo packs, additionally replenishes 10% of the gained ammo amount to Hive Scum and allies who are in coherency with Hive Scum. Does not stack with the same aura of another Hive Scum.

For example, when Hive Scum picks up ammo with a ranged weapon that has 608 max ammo in reserve, a small ammo pouch will replenish 608×0.15=91.2 ammo (rounded up to 92). With Gunslinger Improved, this ammo pickup additionally replenishes 92×0.1=9.2 ammo (rounded up to 10). So, for Hive Scum, the total ammo amount gained from the small ammo pouch would be 92+10=102 ammo whereas allies who are in coherency with Hive Scum would get 10 ammo.

Starting version: (Gunslinger)

Additionally replenishes 5% of picked up ammo.

Augmented version: (Gunslinger Improved)

Additionally replenishes 10% of picked up ammo.

+10% Melee Damage for you and Allies in Coherency.

stat buff: melee_damage

Increases the damage of melee attacks by 10% for Hive Scum and allies who are in coherency with Hive Scum. Stacks additively with other related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs. Does not stack with the same aura of another Hive Scum.

+5% Critical Chance for you and allies in Coherency.

stat buff: critical_strike_chance

Grants 5% additional crit chance to Hive Scum and allies who are in coherency with Hive Scum. Applies to all attacks that can crit. Stacks additively with other sources of crit chance. Does not stack with the same aura from another Hive Scum.

Swaps to and reloads your Ranged Weapon, entering Enhanced Desperado for 10s. For the duration, you count as Dodging against Ranged Attacks, Sprinting costs no Stamina, and you gain +20% Sprint Speed.

While the ability is active, reloading your weapon does not reduce your Ammo Reserve.

Additionally, Enemies within Close Range become highlighted. Killing highlighted enemies with your Ranged Weapon extends the duration by 1s. After 20s, the extending becomes diminished.

Base Cooldown: 45s.

buff keywords:
count_as_dodge_vs_ranged
suppression_immune

stat buffs:
sprint_movement_speed
sprinting_cost_multiplier
fov_multiplier

function: recover_max_toughness

Starting version: (Desperado)
• Base Duration: 10s
• On activation, sets Hive Scum's toughness to 100%
• On activation, forces a swap to ranged weapon, transfers current ammo in clip to ammo in reserve, and grants a special clip with infinite reloads (ammo count in HUD turns yellow); once Desperado's duration is over, the amount of ammo that remains in clip is taken from ammo in reserve; if current ammo in clip and ammo in reserve is 0 when Desperado is activated, the clip with infinite reloads is granted regardless but once Desperado's duration is over, ammo will be set to 0 again
• Slightly zooms in FOV over time
• Base Cooldown: 45s; while active, Desperado's cooldown is paused but its remaining cooldown can still be reduced by using a Concentration Stimm before activation or during active duration; note that the cooldown regen effects from Kalma, Hypex, Klay (Cartel Special Stimm) and from Chemical Dependency are disabled while Desperado is active

Desperado grants a plethora of buffs to Hive Scum during its active duration:

(1) Sets the stamina cost of sprinting to 0.

(2) Increases sprinting speed by 20%; stacks multiplicatively with movement speed buffs from Fervor (Cartel Special Stimm), Street Tough, and Vulture's Mark.

(3) Puts Hive Scum into is_dodging state against enemy ranged attacks which allows for automatically dodging enemy ranged attacks. This effect is able to also trigger weapon blessings and talents that proc on_successful_dodge like Float Like a Butterfly, Quick and Deadly, and Regained Posture.

(4) Grants immunity to suppression.

Augmented version: (Enhanced Desperado)
• Same properties as the starting version
• Adds light blue outlines to all enemies who are within 12.5m to Hive Scum
• Killing an outlined enemy with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) and with Needle Pistol dart DoT (excluding kills caused by the DoT from Needle Pistol Mk II toxin explosion) adds a specific amount of time to Enhanced Desperado's remaining duration: Each valid kill within the first 20s after activation extends the duration by 1s; once 20s have elapsed, the amount of time added per kill decreases to 0.2s and continues to decrease further every 20s;[i.imgur.com]the extension effect can proc multiple times per shot when cleaving

Gain +15% Rending for your Ranged Attacks while Enhanced Desperado is active. Additionally, killing highlighted enemies also grants +3% Ranged Damage, stacking 5 times.

stat buffs:
ranged_rending_multiplier
ranged_damage

This talent does two things:

(1) While Enhanced Desperado is active, always grants 15% rending to ranged attacks (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) boosting damage against armor types Carapace, Flak, Maniac, Unyielding. Only affects Hive Scum's own damage. Stacks additively with other rending buffs ('rending') and with rending debuffs that are applied to enemies ('brittleness').

(2) Killing an outlined enemy with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit and Needle Pistol DoT kills within 1s after projectile hit) grants stacks (up to 5); stacks last for 3s, can be refreshed during active duration, and are dropped one by one. Per stack, increases the damage of ranged attacks by 3% (up to +15%); stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

Killing highlighted Enemies restores 0.5s Ability Cooldown. Elite and Specialist kills instead restore 1s. 5s Max Cooldown restored.

function: reduce_ability_cooldown_time

Killing outlined enemies reduces the maximum cooldown of Enhanced Desperado by 1s per elite kill or by 0.5s for any other kill; procs alongside Combat Ability Regeneration from curios. This max cooldown reduction effect can proc multiple times per shot when cleaving and stops once a total of 5s has been removed from Enhanced Desperado's max cooldown by the talent.

Replenish all Toughness and enter Rampage! for 10s. For the duration, gain +50% Melee Power, +20% Melee Attack Speed and +25% Damage Reduction, as well as becoming Stun and Suppression immune.

Melee Strikes extend the duration by 0.3s. After 20s, the duration extension granted by each hit is reduced.

Base Cooldown: 30s.

buff keywords:
stun_immune
slowdown_immune

stat buffs:
melee_power_level_modifier
melee_attack_speed
damage_taken_multiplier
fov_multiplier

Rampage:
• Base Duration: 10s
• On activation, forces a swap to melee weapon and sets Hive Scum's toughness to 100%
• Slightly zooms in FOV over time
• Base Cooldown: 30s; while active, Rampage's cooldown is paused but its remaining cooldown can still be reduced by using a Concentration Stimm before activation or during active duration; note that the cooldown regen effects from Kalma, Hypex, Klay (Cartel Special Stimm) and from Chemical Dependency are disabled while Rampage is active

Rampage grants a plethora of buffs to Hive Scum during its active duration:

(1) Increases the power level of melee attacks by 50%; stacks additively with other power level buffs, and multiplicatively with damage buffs. 'Power level buffs' increase the base power of attacks which benefits damage, stagger, and cleave (where applicable).

(2) Increases melee weapon attack animation speed by 20%; stacks additively with other attack speed buffs.

(3) Reduces both toughness and health damage taken by 25%; stacks multiplicatively with other damage reduction buffs.

(4) Grants immunity to stuns and slowdowns from both melee and ranged attacks.

(5) Hitting an enemy with a melee attack adds a specific amount of time to Rampage's remaining duration: Each melee hit within the first 20s after activation extends the duration by 0.3s; once 20s have elapsed, the amount of time added per melee hit decreases to 0.15s and continues to decrease further every 20s.[i.imgur.com]The extension effect can proc multiple times per swing when cleaving.

Heavy Attacks while Rampage! is active have +25% Rending.

stat buff: melee_heavy_rending_multiplier

Grants 25% rending to heavy melee attacks boosting damage against armor types Carapace, Flak, Maniac, Unyielding. Only affects Hive Scum's own damage. Stacks additively with other rending buffs ('rending') and with rending debuffs that are applied to enemies ('brittleness').

Melee Strikes against Elites and Monstrosities extend the duration of Rampage! by 1s. Additionally, the time before extending becomes diminished is now 30s.

This talent does two things:

(1) Increases Rampage's base cooldown extension effect on melee hit from 0.3s to 1s when hitting elites, specials, monsters, or Twins/Captains.

(2) Increases the time threshold after which extension effects diminish from 20s to 30s.

There is currently a bug: Does not proc on hits against Dreg Captain.

+50% Cleave while Rampage! is active.

Additionally, gain +2.5% Melee Power for every second spent with the ability active, up to 10 times.

stat buffs:
max_hit_mass_attack_modifier
max_hit_mass_impact_modifier
melee_power_level_modifier

This talent does two things:

(1) Increases the maximum hit mass limit of melee and ranged attacks (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) by 50%, thereby allowing attacks to cleave more enemies; stacks additively with related buffs from Battering Momentum, Battering Strikes, and from weapon blessings Devastating Strike, Savage Sweep, and Wrath, and multiplicatively with power level buffs. Note that this talent affects both damage cleave and stagger cleave.

(2) Every second while Rampage is active grants stacks (up to 10). Per stack, increases the power level of melee attacks by 2.5% (up to +25%); stacks additively with other power level buffs, and multiplicatively with damage buffs. 'Power level buffs' increase the base power of attacks which benefits damage, stagger, and cleave (where applicable).

When Rampage! is activated, unleash a powerful Shout that staggers Enemies and increases the time between their attacks by +50% for 5s.

When Rampage! runs out, shout again.

This talent does two things:

(1) Enables Rampage to release a shout around Hive Scum on activation. The shout has a radius of 4.5m and forces a heavy stagger against enemies if the shout's base stagger strength fails to successfully stagger the target; forced stagger lasts for 2.5s and does not apply to enemies who are already staggered; Captains/Twins can only be staggered without void shield. The shout repeats when Rampage ends.

(2) The shout (including the second one when Rampage ends) applies a debuff to enemies. This debuff lasts for 5s and increases the time between animations of enemy melee attack actions (including kicks, punches, Bulwark shield pushes, etc) by 50% which effectively reduces their attack speed. Note that this also affects the timings related to recovery animations of enemies after an attack has been blocked by the player. Does not stack with the same debuff from another Hive Scum; stacks additively with the related debuff from Arbitrator's Fear of Justice.

Deploy a refitted Medi-Pack on the ground, bolstering you and your allies for 20s. Operatives breathing the Pack’s gas heal up to 40 Corruption over time and become immune to it.

Additionally, if you have a Stimm equipped, Stimm Supply will copy its contents and disperse them into the air, granting its effects to any nearby allies.

Base Cooldown: 60s.

Deploys a custom med crate that creates an area of effect ('stimm field') which buffs all players in range. Players leaving the stimm field receive a 1s grace period during which they keep applicable buffs.

stat buff: corruption_taken_multiplier

function: reduce_permanent_damage

Stimm Field:
• Radius: 3m
• Duration: 20s
• Grants corruption damage immunity to all players in range; if an enemy attack has a corruption ratio specified (e.g. Poxwalker), the corruption damage portion of the attack is negated and only the regular health damage portion is taken
• Removes 0.5 corruption damage every 0.25s for all players in range; heals corruption damage up to the next health segment
• If Hive Scum has a regular stimm equipped (Celerity Stimm, Combat Stimm, Concentration Stimm, or Med Stimm), Stimm Supply consumes the stimm and the stimm field spreads the respective stimm buff effects to Hive Scum and allies who are in range; note that the stimm buff effects of Celerity Stimm, Combat Stimm, and Concentration Stimm are applied to all players in full and that the heal effect of Med Stimm is applied only once per activation
• If Hive Scum has the Cartel Special Stimm equipped, Stimm Supply consumes the stimm charge, the Cartel Special stimm goes on cooldown, and the stimm field spreads the respective stimm buff effects to Hive Scum and allies who are in range; note that the stimm buff effects will not be spread if the Cartel Special Stimm is already on cooldown when Stimm Supply is activated; also note that the toughness replenishment effect of Barrage is applied only once per activation
• Base Cooldown: 60s; while the stimm field is active, Stimm Supply's cooldown is paused but its remaining cooldown can still be reduced by using a Concentration Stimm before activation or during active duration; note that the cooldown regen effects from Kalma, Hypex, Klay (Cartel Special Stimm) and from Chemical Dependency are disabled while the stimm field is active

The duration of Stimm Supply is shortened to 5s, but its effects linger after leaving its area for 15s.

This talent does two things:

(1) Reduces the base duration of the stimm field from 20s to 5s.

(2) All timed buffs that were applied by the stimm field to Hive Scum or allies now last for 15s when the stimm field disappears or when a player leaves it. Note that this linger effect does not benefit from the 5s extension provided by Long Lasting.

There is currently a bug: While the Cartel Special Stimm is active or on cooldown, the stimm field can still apply the stimm buff effects to Hive Scum after leaving and reentering the stimm field (which also allows to stack the respective buff effects).

Once its duration ends, Stimm Supply explodes, infecting nearby Enemies with 7 stacks of Chem Toxin.

When the stimm field disappears, an explosion is created at the location of the med crate that applies 7 stacks of Chem Toxins to all enemies damaged by it. The explosion has a max radius of 3m and deals 200 base damage with average armor damage modifiers.

For details on Chem Toxin, see appendix below.

Once a Stimm becomes available to use (collected or otherwise), Stimm Supply instantly becomes ready for deployment.

function: reduce_ability_cooldown_percentage

Stimm Supply's cooldown is reset immediately when Hive Scum picks up a stimm, is handed a stimm by an ally, or when the Cartel Special Stimm comes off cooldown. Note that this talent cannot be procced while the stimm field is active; also does not proc when a stimm is already equipped and swapped out by picking up a different one.

Killing a Special or Elite enemy with a ranged weapon grants you a stack of Vulture's Mark for 8s (Stacks 3 times).

Each stack grants +5% Ranged Damage, +5% Ranged Critical Strike Chance, and +5% Movement Speed.

While at max stacks, Special and Elite Ranged Kills restore 15% Toughness to you and Allies in Coherency.

stat buffs:
ranged_damage
ranged_critical_strike_chance
movement_speed

function: recover_percentage_toughness

Killing an elite or special at any distance with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit) or killing an elite or special who is within 12.5m to Hive Scum with the Needle Pistol dart DoT (excluding kills caused by the DoT from Needle Pistol Mk II toxin explosion) grants stacks (up to 3); stacks last for 8s and can be refreshed during active duration.

Per stack, does three things:

(1) Increases the damage of ranged attacks by 5% (up to +15%); stacks additively with other damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

(2) Grants 5% additional crit chance to ranged attacks (up to +15%); stacks additively with other sources of crit chance.

(3) Increases movement speed by 5% (up to +15%); stacks additively with movement speed buff from Fervor (Cartel Special Stimm) and Street Tough, and multiplicatively with sprint speed buff from Enhanced Desperado / Desperado.

Only while at 3 stacks of Vulture's Mark, killing an elite or special with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit, excluding DoTs) replenishes 15% of maximum toughness to Hive Scum and allies who are in coherency with Hive Scum. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Barrage (Cartel Special Stimm) and by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

Killing Elite or Special enemies with Ranged Attacks knocks all enemies around you backwards.

Killing an elite or special with a ranged attack (including Boom Bringer projectile hit, excluding DoTs) creates a non-damaging explosion at Hive Scum's location. The explosion has a radius of 3m and staggers barely anything.

Ranged Critical Strikes makes you count as Dodging against all Attacks for 1s.

buff keywords:
count_as_dodge_vs_melee
count_as_dodge_vs_ranged

Critical hits with ranged attacks put Hive Scum into is_dodging state against enemy melee and ranged attacks for 1s; can be refreshed during active duration. If proccing this dodge effect is timed accordingly, it is able to also trigger weapon blessings and talents that proc on_successful_dodge like Float Like a Butterfly, Quick and Deadly, and Regained Posture

Duration of Vulture's Mark is extended to 12s.

Increases the 8s base duration of Vulture's Mark stacks to 12s.

Melee Hits grants you a stack of Adrenaline. Critical Melee Hits grants +1 additional Stack. Not gaining a stack within 2s will remove a stack instead.

At 30 Stacks, remove all stacks of Adrenaline and gain Adrenaline Frenzy.

Adrenaline Frenzy grants +10% Attack Speed and +25% Melee Damage, lasting 10s.

stat buffs:
melee_attack_speed
melee_damage

Hitting an enemy with a melee attack grants stacks of Adrenaline (up to 30); can generate multiple stacks per swing when cleaving. Critical melee attacks generate 1 additional stack per enemy hit. These Adrenaline stacks last for 2s and are dropped one by one. When 30 stacks of Adrenaline have been reached, all stacks are dropped at once and Adrenaline Frenzy is granted for 10s; can be refreshed during active duration.

Note that revved up attacks from chain weapons generate stacks only on the initial hit, the individual sawing damage ticks do not generate stacks.

Adrenaline Frenzy:

(1) Increases melee weapon attack animation speed by 10%; stacks additively with other attack speed buffs.

(2) Increases melee damage by 25%; stacks additively with other related damage buffs, and multiplicatively with power level buffs.

Weakspot Hits now grants +2 additional stack of Adrenaline. Regular Melee Hits grants none.

Enables melee weakspot hits to generate 3 stacks of Adrenaline per enemy hit (instead of just 1). Prevents non-weakspot melee hits from generating stacks of Adrenaline; non-weakspot melee hits that are critical still generate 2 stacks.

Killing Blows now grants +4 additional stacks of Adrenaline. Elite Killing Blows grants +10 additional stacks. Non-Killing Blows grants none.

Enables melee kills to generate 5 stacks of Adrenaline per enemy killed; generates 15 stacks of Adrenaline per elite killed (1 less stack each if the target dies to damage instances of a sticky attack). If the attack is critical, generates 1 additional stack of Adrenaline per enemy killed. Prevents any melee attack that does not kill a target from generating stacks of Adrenaline.

Increase the duration of Adrenaline Frenzy to 20s.

Increases the 10s base duration of Adrenaline Frenzy to 20s.

While Adrenaline Frenzy is active, you replenish 5% Toughness each second.

function: recover_percentage_toughness

Replenishes 5% of maximum toughness per second during Adrenaline Frenzy's active duration. The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is affected by Barrage (Cartel Special Stimm) and by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

Increase the duration of Adrenaline to 4s.

Increases the 2s base duration of Adrenaline stacks to 4s.

Using a Stimm grants you a stack of Dependency for 90s.

For each stack, gain +10% Ability Cooldown Reduction.

Up to 3 Max Stacks. Stacks decay one at a time.

stat buff: combat_ability_cooldown_regen_modifier

Using any stimm (Hive Scum's Cartel Special Stimm, Celerity Stimm, Combat Stimm, Concentration Stimm, Med Stimm) on self or on an ally grants stacks of Dependency (up to 3); stimms consumed by Stimm Supply also grant stacks. Stacks last for 90s, can be refreshed during active duration, and are dropped one by one.

Per Dependency stack, increases Hive Scum's base combat ability cooldown regen rate of 1s per second by 10% (up to +30%); stacks additively with itself and with the related cooldown regen effects from Kalma, Hypex, and Klay (Cartel Special Stimm).

Each stack of Dependency additionally grants +5% Critical Hit Chance.

stat buff: critical_strike_chance

Per Dependency stack, grants 5% additional crit chance to melee and ranged attacks (up to +15% or up to +20% with Maxed Out Chems); stacks additively with other sources of crit chance.

Using a Stimm replenishes 50% Toughness. Additionally, each stack of Dependency grants +5% Toughness Damage Reduction.

stat buff: toughness_damage_taken_multiplier

function: recover_percentage_toughness

This talent does two things:

(1) Per Dependency stack, grants 5% toughness damage reduction; the buff stacks multiplicatively with itself, up to 14.26% at 3 stacks (1-0.95³=0.1426) or with Maxed Out Chems up to 18.54% at 4 stacks (1-0.95⁴=0.1854), and with other damage reduction buffs.

(2) Using any stimm (Hive Scum's Cartel Special Stimm, Celerity Stimm, Combat Stimm, Concentration Stimm, Med Stimm) replenishes 50% of maximum toughness. Procs additionally to Barrage and Regain (Cartel Special Stimm). The effectiveness of this toughness replenishment is not affected by Barrage and is affected by certain player debuffs like toxic gas.

Each stack of Dependency now instead lasts for 60s, but Max Stacks are increased to 4.

Reduces the 90s base duration of Dependency stacks to 60s and lets Hive Scum generate up to 4 Dependency stacks instead of 3.

+50% Dodge Distance.

stat buff: dodge_distance_modifier

Increases dodge distance by 50%; stacks additively with related buff from Fervor (Cartel Special Stimm). The effective distance a dodge can move a character depends on the dodge template of the currently wielded weapon or item.

Dodge Speed is increased by +25%, and time considered Dodging by +0.15s.

stat buffs:
dodge_speed_multiplier
dodge_linger_time

This talent modifies dodges in two ways:

(1) Increases dodge speed by 25%; stacks multiplicatively with related buff from Fervor (Cartel Special Stimm). This modifies the velocity during dodge.

(2) Adds a flat 0.15s bonus to Hive Scum's base dodge linger times thereby increasing them to 0.4s against melee attacks and to 0.15s against ranged attacks respectively. 'Dodge linger time' refers to the time window in which Hive Scum is still considered to be in is_dodging state against a melee or ranged attack after a dodge has technically ended.

1

11.66

 

12

140

 

23

268.33

2

23.33

 

13

151.66

 

24

280

3

35

 

14

163.33

 

25

291.66

4

46.66

 

15

175

 

26

303.33

5

58.33

 

16

186.66

 

27

315

6

70

 

17

198.33

 

28

326.66

7

81.66

 

18

210

 

29

338.33

8

93.33

 

19

221.66

 

30

350

9

105

 

20

233.33

 

10

116.66

 

21

245

 

11

128.33

 

22

256.66

 

Bone Saw
(default coating)

1 (on hit)
+1 (if critical hit)

2.6s

every 0.35s

7 (on explosion hit)

2.6s

every 0.35s

1 every 0.35s (up to 6)

• permanent (in AoE)
• 2.6s (left AoE)

every 0.35s

1 (on critical melee hit)

2.6s

every 0.35s

Needle Pistol Mk VI
(default mode)

6 (on hit)
+2 (if weakspot hit)
+2 (if critical hit)

2.6s

every 0.35s

Needle Pistol Mk VI
(special active)

2 (on hit)
+2 (if weakspot hit)
+2 (if critical hit)
+1 (in 0.825m radius)

2.6s

every 0.35s

Needle Pistol Mk II
(default mode)

6 (on hit)
+1 (if weakspot hit)
+1 (if critical hit)

2.6s

every 0.35s

Needle Pistol Mk II
(special active)

2 (on hit)
+1 (if weakspot hit)
+1 (if critical hit)
+1 (in 0.825m radius)

2.6s

every 0.35s

Needle Pistol Mk II
(toxin explosion)

1 (in 2.2m radius)

2.6s

every 0.35s

3 (on Blackout explosion)
6 (on Boom Bringer explosion)
10 (on Chem Grenade explosion)

2.6s

every 0.35s

Shivs
(weapon special)

4 (on hit)
+2 (if weakspot hit)
+2 (if critical hit)

2.6s

every 0.35s

2 (on elite melee kill)

2.6s

every 0.35s