Day 12 of Cinder posting till it gets an Ultimate Edition

yo WHAT is up with these conversion prices pixonic this is diabolical

Introduction:

For some reason, this titan hasn't seem to have taken the servers by storm like previous hits have such as Princeps, Newton and Mauler. I was confused by this since mine seems completely unstoppable, easily taking on 2 or 3 damage dealer titans at once and emerging the victor, time and time again. All the answers came rushing to me at once as soon as I started paying attention to how others play and build their Siroccos. I hope this guide will get you the same level of success as I found.

Part 1: Weapons Loadout:

The best option by a long shot is easily the "native" weapons, Barq A+Barq Bs. They provide great sustained firepower with the added benifit of hitting multiple targets at the same time as well as some annoying stealth and invisible targets, while also applying stacks of slowdown to keep them from escaping too easily, effectively locking them in an unavoidable duel to the death with you.

I have also experimented with Venire+Vencires as well as Veyron+Evoras and while they have their advantage in terms of burst damage, that isn't neccessarily benificial with how the Sirocco ability mechanics work which we will dive into later on.

Part 2: Specializations:

I don't think you will be surprised to learn that the Brawler spec with Titan Repair Amplifier and Titan Anticontrol is the way to go. However there were some suggesting me to try the Defense Specialization path due to the nature of Sirocco's secondary ability (again, more on this later) but it was disapointing to say the least from my attempts.

I also prefer selecting the Singular Reactor from the base Specialization Path over Titan Armor Kit, since, as the pilot skills will skew heavily towards defense, you will find yourself lacking in firepower (fear not, you Sirocco will still spawn in with approximately 1.7M Hitpoints without that Armor Kit).

Additionally as alwaus, it is advised, if within your capabilities, to at least unlock the Attack and Defense paths completely as this will net you a gain of 12% in hitpoints and 12% in damage, which is not at all insignificant.

Part 3: Pilot & Pilot Skills:

As it always is these days with TItan Pilots, you will always want to go with the Renard Aurel. 15% Extra defense points and damage on the ending phase of Mirage, 10% extra net hitpoints and most importantly adding a 5 second EMP effect to the primary "Sandstorm" ability are indispensable.

Now that that's out of the way we get to pilot skills. It is important to note than people may have varying ideas on what is most important when it comes to titan skills, I have invested over 20,000 memorium into this Titan's pilot trying a multitude of combinations and I believe that I have found the perfect combination that will let your Sirocco do what I described in the intro. I will try to list them in order of importance below the image of the completed skills:

1. Deft Survivor (Secondary)
2. Stubborn Warrior
3. Cautious Pilot
4. Tough Guy
5. Defense Expert (Secondary)
6. Armor Expert
7. Mechanic
8. Titan Slayer
9. Destroyer (Primary)
10. Ferocious Guardian (Primary)

If you have troubles charging your titan with your first 1 or 2 bots usually, you can consider using TItan Master, additionally if you feel that closing the gap with your Mirage ability isn't always as easy as you wish, Engine Expert (Secondary) is also viable. Another top pick would be Defense Expert (Primary) for even more defense points. There are other decent skills that are okay to use if you want to be more economical with your Memorium such as Defense Expert (Primary), Road Hog and Master Gunsmith. Others fall below even this threshold and are less advised unless no other option is available. In any case the top 5 skills in the inital list are of UTMOST importance. Make sure you get those!

Part 4: Gameplay & Tips:

Let's start with the titan abilites and what they exactly do.

Sandstorm (Primary): Sirocco dealts true damage (bypasses defense points) in an approximate 150m area of affect surrounding it. Additionally it applies rust to enemies hit by it with a 90% effective heal block affect. Renard Aurel grants the additional 5 second EMP effect.

Mirage (Secondary): Upon activation, the Titan cleanses all negative effects and gains a massive speed boost for the duration it remains in the "Roamer" state. Upon leaving the Roamer state, either by expiration or manually deactivating it by pressing the ability for a second time, the titan gains Defense Mitigation Immunity for a short while. Now here's the kicker; The earlier you leave the Roamer state, the longer the duration of this Immunity.

This explains why we choose to use Defense Expert (Secondary) since you'll be facing a lot of Titans when you're in your titan, and they mostly ignore defense points unless you're currently Immune to Defense Mitigation which you are when you exit the Roamer state for a fairly long duration of time.

This titan excels in crowd control, it can quite easily completly quash a large enemy push on it's own, to the same measure, it's a formidable Spawn Raider and Spawn Camper. It will, and can take out multiple enemies at the same time or pick them off one by one if must. Learn how to position your Sirocco in a way that forces multiple enemies to take damage at the same time from it's Built In Weapon and Barqs.

Best practices you should learn when mastering abilities:

1. Always try to completely empty your weapon magazines before entering the Roamer state.

2. If you're in range of enemies and your weapons are reloaded, leave the Roamer state at once. The longer you have Defense Mitigation Immunity, the higher your chances of winning a particularly tough battle. Exceptions are when you are waiting out a powerful enemy ability such as Princeps' Nullfield and Mauler's Darklight.

3. Countering Princeps' Push: Always keep your eye out for enemy Princeps, these titans will do everything in their power to keep you as far away from them, and where applicable will attempt to yeet you off the map to end your party. Learn to get as close as possible to them while remaining behind cover, and then entering roamer state to close the gap. Once you are within touching distance, posisition yourself in a way that you're always back against an obstacle so the princeps can't push you far away.

4. Sandstorm Timing. Timing is everything with the relatively short EMP duration. You will always want to save it for the last possible second, whether that be right before the enemy gains an ability charge from Deft Survivor at 50% HP or to stop the regular cycle of abilities (prime example of this is to EMP enemy Siroccos right before they regain their Mirage ability to deal as much damage to them as possible during their lack of Defense Mitigation period).

5. Identify regular robots that are real threats before they get to you. This includes Harmattan, Iaraghu and even ARM builds. These builds to not care if you are immune to defense mitigation, they'll deal identical or near identical damage regardless. It's easy to get tunnel visioned on enemy Titans and then lose those fights because one of those builds ruin your day, sometimes you need to abandon your Titan duel and quickly eliminate those threats before returning to the Titan.

Post Script:

I hope you enjoyed this post and you found it informative, I hope to keep writing these up weekly or biweekly and add some off-meta or otherwise fun build deep dives. If you have enjoyed I'd appreciate an upvote and comment as this does take quite a bit of effort and research (I try to give many different combinations of pieces of the build a try before giving my verdict) and I'd like this to be pushed to as many people as possible so they too may take away something from this.

If you have any questions, complaints or other ideas, I'd be happy to adress them or try your suggestions to the best of my ability in the comments below.

Additionally, all my builds that I plan on posting here will be posted to the community wiki, if you want a clean simple overview of what choices and paths you should take. Here is my full Sirocco build for your pursual.

Have a great day/evening my fellow Pilots, and as always, keep battling!

ID: HZ19J9

I just need 3000 more components for velos to be able to put all of them on dagon, or do I keep the weapons on dagon

A few seconds prior to recording there was an atlas who wanted my ass BAD (also props to the Bjorn for not going outside my range when I needed to fall back)

people complain about the shoggy and void weapons. Well im here to tell you there alot worse. Just did a champion match with shoggy and yes 4 Laraghi weapons. One shot delete and bot is gone three shots and say goodbye to your titan. Insane power

Brooo 5k gold for one hangar, man genuinely why?

Like holy sh* every game I play I see the new weapons and they rail me. 1m hp ammit one fucking taped. Tanky raptor build - no u don't have a chance also one tapped I can't wait for the nerf

since the reset ive been noticing huge chunks of my hp dissapearing, no visual effects, no sound effects, the bot just takes damage from seemingly nowhere, everytime its happened its been in a match with players who kill players unusually fast, I’ve seen regular damage cheats before but to never this, anyone else experience this or am i schizophrenic?

not sure if this matters but usually when you loose health you can see the health you lost recently is a dulled green color and ticks down, this doesnt happen and my hp +sheilds if i have one just ticks down by around 40%

I can usually get 4-5 bots destroyed before I get popped

I'm very low on upgrade tokens 💔

I'm a mobile player, and I've been playing for a while now, as I've been playing this game, I've come to notice one particular issue that I get using these certain robots, and their abilities.

All these robots have one thing in common; a throwable inside their ability. Mars and Sirius throw out their turrets, Bagliore throws its translocator, and Dedopali launches its drones to attack wherever you are looking at.

When activating their abilities, there should be an orange icon of arrows, indicating that you're able to throw them at will, whenever you feel like it is necessary. However, for me (and this has happened all the time, no matter what), it forcibly activates the abilities without giving me the chance to use them.

So, for example, if I were to be using Mars, and throw it's turret on a beacon to flank, it won't throw the turret, and instead, drop it in front of me with a weak throw to that of an undeveloped toddler, same thing with Sirius, and Bagliore. Dedopali's ability however, makes it so that when I press the ability, it simply just launches the drones, and that's it, no time to throw them wherever.

It ONLY happens with these mechs, and I still do not understand why.

1. Seraph : honestly it feels like a god or something when flying and those electric current typa things make it look 10× more magnificent , the wings and forcefield r true stars

2. Honestly fafnir feels like a bird when playing and it's plates while flying feel like feathery wings , maybe not for u but it feels great to me

3. Raijin is the most iconic robot , and the first thing i would expect from a robot's war game

4.its golden armor and those red eyes look good to me also it's walking style is pretty cool

Give ur opinions👇,should I do titans too?

At one point during the battle, I got stuck in a permanent phase-shift, which is why I was the only one who survived against those three hackers: two Anaksores, one with infinite abilities and overpowered healing, and another with infinite abilities plus invulnerability and a Hastatus with infinite abilities and boosted damage.

This game is crazy with the hackers, and nothing is being done about it.

Hey everyone,
I recently came back to War Robots after about 2 years away, and I’ve been playing again for the past few weeks. I got pretty lucky with some chest and data pad openings and managed to get my hands on some of the current meta robots.
The thing is, I know how this game tends to work. New robots get released ridiculously overpowered, everyone invests in them, and then they eventually get nerfed into the ground and become a shadow of what they used to be.
Since I’ve been away for so long, I’m not really up to date with the current balance situation or Pixonic’s recent nerf/buff history.
My question is: which of the current meta robots are actually worth investing in for the long term? Are there any that seem likely to remain viable even after future balance changes, or is it generally safer to avoid spending too many resources on newly released robots?
I don’t mind investing in something that’s strong, but I’d rather not dump months’ worth of resources into a robot that becomes useless after the next few updates.
For those who’ve been playing consistently, which robots would you personally invest in right now, and which ones would you avoid upgrading because they’re likely to get nerfed?
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

I made a meme video about nerfs in War Robots!

I matched fallen superheroes from the iconic 'Kronos Unveiled' scene in The Incredibles with heavily nerfed robots and titans based on their abilities.

Please check it out :)

I have all three. I'm leaning toward Kevin O'Reilly.