Equipment Drone

Equipment Drone
Health	250 (+75 per level)
Health Regen	5/s (+1 per level)
Damage	10 (+2 per level)
Speed	10 m/s
Armor	0

The Equipment Drone is a drone. Unlike most drones that cost gold to repair, an Equipment Drone is repaired by having the player give it the equipment they currently hold. The drone automatically activates the provided equipment when it sees an enemy, if its equipment is off cooldown.

Additionally, the Equipment Drone spawns with hidden items that reduce its equipment cooldown to 20.589% of the normal time, allowing it to activate its equipment almost five times as frequently as a player could.

Skills & Behaviors

The Equipment Drone has no skills and its behaviors are exactly the same as those of the Gunner Drone, except that when the Gunner Drone uses its primary, the Equipment Drone activates its equipment.

Notes

• The player cannot exchange the equipped item once it has been used to activate the drone.
• If the drone is destroyed, the equipment it was carrying will be lost. Repairing the drone requires a new equipment item.
• The Equipment Drone can carry and activate any equipment, but has no other items or abilities (aside from its cooldown reduction). Thus, giving it items like Fuel ArrayFuel Array
  Looks like it could power something. EXTREMELY unstable..., Milky Chrysalis60sMilky Chrysalis
  Gain temporary flight.
  Sprout wings and fly for 15 seconds. Gain +20% movement speed for the duration., a consumed Survivors of the Void - DLC Content
  Trophy Hunter's Tricorn is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
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  This content is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
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  Execute a large monster and claim its trophy. Consumed on use.
  Execute any enemy capable of spawning a unique reward, and it will drop that item. Equipment is consumed on use., Forgive Me Please45sForgive Me Please
  Throw a cursed doll that repeatedly triggers your 'On Kill' effects.
  Throw a cursed doll out that triggers any On-Kill effects you have every 1 second for 8 seconds., Ocular HUD60sOcular HUD
  Gain +100% Critical Strike Chance for 8 seconds., or Survivors of the Void - DLC Content
  Executive Card is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
  Click for more info. Executive Card0.1sSurvivors of the Void - DLC Content
  This content is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
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  Gain 10% cash back on all purchases. Multishops remain open.
  Whenever you make a gold purchase, get 10% of the spent gold back. If the purchase is a multishop terminal, the other terminals will remain open. will have little effect. The Equipment Drone also has no gold, so it cannot use The CrowdfunderThe Crowdfunder
  Toggle to fire. Costs gold per bullet.
  Fires a continuous barrage that deals 100% damage per bullet. Costs $1 per bullet. Cost increases over time..
  • If the player has Survivors of the Void - DLC Content
    Spare Drone Parts is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
    Click for more info. Spare Drone PartsSurvivors of the Void - DLC Content
    This content is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
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    Your drones fire faster, have less cooldowns, shoot missiles, and gain a bonus chaingun.
    Gain Col. Droneman. Drones gain +50% (+50% per stack) attack speed and cooldown reduction. Drones gain 10% chance to fire a missile on hit, dealing 300% TOTAL damage. Drones gain an automatic chain gun that deals 6x100% damage, bouncing to 2 enemies., the Equipment Drone gains its own weapons. This can result in some previously-useless equipment becoming usable for it.

Tips

• Equipment that does not require timing or much thought to use are typically better to use with the Equipment Drone. Examples include the Disposable Missile Launcher45sDisposable Missile Launcher
  Fire a swarm of missiles.
  Fire a swarm of 12 missiles that deal 12x300% damage., Royal Capacitor20sRoyal Capacitor
  Call down a lightning strike on a targeted monster.
  Call down a lightning strike on a targeted monster, dealing 3000% damage and stunning nearby monsters., Radar Scanner45sRadar Scanner
  Reveal all nearby interactables.
  Reveal all interactables within 500m for 10 seconds., Gorag's Opus45sGorag's Opus
  You and all your allies enter a frenzy.
  All allies enter a frenzy for 7 seconds. Increases movement speed by 50% and attack speed by 100%. and The Back-up100sThe Back-up
  Call drones for back up. Lasts 25 seconds.
  Call 4 Strike Drones to fight for you. Lasts 25 seconds..
  • Remember that the Equipment Drone does not benefit from the player's items, so giving up a damaging piece of equipment may be a loss depending on how many items the player has.
  • Similarly, if the player has many cooldown-reducing items ( Fuel CellFuel Cell
    Hold an additional equipment charge. Reduce equipment cooldown.
    Hold an additional equipment charge (+1 per stack). Reduce equipment cooldown by 15% (+15% per stack)., Soulbound CatalystSoulbound Catalyst
    Kills reduce equipment cooldown.
    Kills reduce equipment cooldown by 4s (+2s per stack)., or Gesture of the DrownedGesture of the Drowned
    Dramatically reduce Equipment cooldown... BUT it automatically activates.
    Reduce Equipment cooldown by 50% (+15% per stack). Forces your Equipment to activate whenever it is off cooldown.), it is likely not worth giving up their equipment.
• The Equipment Drone is a good candidate for the Helfire Tincture45sHelfire Tincture
  Burn everything nearby... including you and allies.
  Ignite ALL characters within 15m for 12s. Deal 5% of your maximum health/second as burning as damage. The burn is 0.5x stronger on yourself, 0.25x stronger on allies, and 24x stronger on enemies., since the drone uses the ambient run level (not the player's level) and the Tincture deals damage based on the holder's maximum health. The drone is always continually leveling up and increasing its health at the same rate as enemies, meaning it will always deal a respectable amount of damage to monsters even as the run progresses. This strategy does have drawbacks, unsurprisingly:
  • Since the drone is always leveling up and dealing more damage with the Tincture, it will also hurt the player much more, as monster level surpasses player level very rapidly.
  • The drone will constantly be on fire when enemies are nearby (since the Tincture lasts 12 seconds, but the cooldown will be reduced to about 9 seconds), meaning that it will always be at risk of hurting the player. It will also be at extremely low health, since although the Helfire Tincture cannot kill the holder, the drone has no good way to heal and so it will likely be vulnerable to dying to any amount of external damage.
• Another similarly risky but rewarding strategy is giving the Equipment Drone the Glowing Meteorite140sGlowing Meteorite
  Rain meteors from the sky, hurting both enemies and allies.
  Rain meteors from the sky, damaging ALL characters for 600% damage per blast. Lasts 20 seconds., which will have its cooldown reduced so much that there will only be 8 seconds of downtime between activations. The caveat about the drone's damage continually increasing applies to this strategy as well, making the drone liable to severely hurt or even kill the player late in a run.
• The Equipment Drone is a very good distraction for a mass of enemies if there are extra equipment that the player does not wish to take. Simply putting a piece of equipment on it, no matter how helpful (or unhelpful), will allow it to draw enemies' attention.
• Elite equipment has varying levels of utility when given to the Equipment Drone. While some provide immediate value like N'kuhana's RetortN'kuhana's Retort
  Become an aspect of corruption., Spectral CircletSpectral Circlet
  Become an aspect of incorporeality., or Survivors of the Void - DLC Content
  His Reassurance is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
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  This content is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
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  Become an aspect of earth., others require Survivors of the Void - DLC Content
  Spare Drone Parts is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
  Click for more info. Spare Drone PartsSurvivors of the Void - DLC Content
  This content is part of the Survivors of the Void DLC. It is only available if the DLC is enabled when starting a run.
  Click for more info.Spare Drone Parts
  Your drones fire faster, have less cooldowns, shoot missiles, and gain a bonus chaingun.
  Gain Col. Droneman. Drones gain +50% (+50% per stack) attack speed and cooldown reduction. Drones gain 10% chance to fire a missile on hit, dealing 300% TOTAL damage. Drones gain an automatic chain gun that deals 6x100% damage, bouncing to 2 enemies. to be put to good use as the provided chain gun and missile attacks will apply the equipment's on-hit effects.

Version History

PC Patch v1.0.1.1 (Build ID No.5440050)

• Gameplay Changes
  • Now recharges equipment much faster, approximately 5x as often. We don’t expect Equipment Drones to suddenly become super strong, but there may be a few cases where it is now worthwhile.
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix Gorag’s Opus45sGorag's Opus
    You and all your allies enter a frenzy.
    All allies enter a frenzy for 7 seconds. Increases movement speed by 50% and attack speed by 100%. not working on Equipment Drones

PC Early Access Patch (Build ID No.4233443)

• Bug Fixes
  • Fix Equipment Drone not firing their equipment

Early Access Scorched Acres Content Update

• Major Content and Changes
  • Added New Drone: Equipment Drone