String Theory: A Puppetmaster's Guide *NEW*

The pet only gets the acc macc (racc?) augs

*** Ouch. Cmon SE..Taeon is *** old..

Ill readjust any Augments on this gear now and keep goin on the Trust set for the time being. Thanks.

A Ranger automaton (sharpshot head/sharpshot frame) would not benefit from any pet haste or pet double attack gear, correct? Would it care about any pet stats aside from racc/ratk/stp/tp bonus?

And the old wiki indicates Barrage Turbine has a 3 minute cooldown but I've also found mentions of that potentially being changed when it was updated from consuming maneuvers to adding burden. Would anyone happen to know? I'm inclined to think the cooldown isn't worth the attachment slot if it's that long.

if you mean it's only doing ranged attacks then it's all STP/ratk/racc, but usually you're better off keeping it in melee range where DA/Haste/etc usually applies since even at its lowest ranged attack rate itll fall behind just normal swinging.

BT cooldown hasnt changed afaik, you just wont lose all your maneuvers now so typically not worth the slot, though I havent done a pure ranged SS build to say what that setup looks like but still think there's probably better uses for the slot.

Yeah I was thinking of trying full ranged at first but left it valoredge head/sharpshot body initially. Just trying to find a setup for soloing in Limbus that wasn't so restrictive on gear for the PUP / had more freedom for damage attachments. Going heavy on ranged was alright, it felt like the ranged auto damage contributed meaningfully and there were some decent arcuballistas but the TP gain was indeed pretty poor without much haste/DA.

Its admittedly maybe the least intrusive "hybrid" for phys dmg, could rep turbo chargers with drum magazine/repeater(11 second ranged delay with 35% double shot), run 2x wind 1 fire and either just have it spam shatterer or load an inhib and have it occasionally close with whatever. Dont need pet haste or pet dt, can use mpaca gloves/duty body to boost ranged/ws dmg without hampering you much at all.

Not sure its going to keep pace with even a melee frame with basic turbo chargers and no gear haste, but its something?

Suppose a theoretical attachment setup for pure ranged would be something like

sharp head/body
truesights
drum magazine
repeater
attuner
inhibitorII
flame holder
magniplug II
tension Spring III
Target Marker
Stabilizer V(though both can be played with depending on where acc sits)
OF 1/2

Completely squishy and can probably drop 1 or both thunder attachments for a ARK or AP, but think that about maximizes what the ranged puppet could contribute. Could possibly drop the OFs too depending on maneuvers selected you may not get as much out of those as you would in a melee setup, least in this setup i think its only boosting inhibII/TSIII/Stabilizer