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Risk of Rain 2: The Ultimate Drifter Character Guide
This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the Drifter character in Risk of Rain 2, including his skills, gameplay strategies, and tips to maximize his potential. Primary, secondary, utility, and special skills are discussed, as well as the best item and gameplay strategies to optimize Drifter's performance.
1. 📦 Drifter's Passive: Scrap Bonuses
- ✅ Drifter's passive grants him stackable bonuses when picking up scrap.
- ✅ White scrap increases movement speed by 6%.
- ✅ Green scrap grants 3 health regeneration per second.
- ✅ Red scrap provides a 30% attack speed bonus.
- ✅ Yellow scrap reduces skill cooldowns by 15%.
00:00 - 00:30
1. 📦 Drifter's Passive: Scrap Bonuses
- ✅ Drifter's passive grants him stackable bonuses when picking up scrap.
- ✅ White scrap increases movement speed by 6%.
- ✅ Green scrap grants 3 health regeneration per second.
- ✅ Red scrap provides a 30% attack speed bonus.
- ✅ Yellow scrap reduces skill cooldowns by 15%.
00:31 - 01:25
2. ⚔️ Drifter's Primary and Secondary Skills: Damage and Crowd Control
- ✅ Primary: Drifter swings his sack, dealing 170% damage, with a third hit that deals 350% damage and stuns enemies.
- ✅ Each hit has a chance to drop scrap.
- ✅ Secondary 1 (Debris Volley): Launches a volley of debris that deals 4 * 400% damage, plus a random projectile. It has a 6-second cooldown, but can be used without cooldown in exchange for two scrap.
- ✅ Secondary 2 (Scrap Cube): Drifter slams the ground with a scrap cube that deals 400% damage. You can hit the cube up to three times to launch it at enemies, dealing 400% damage per hit. The cube explodes after the third hit, dealing 800% damage. It has an 8-second cooldown, but can be used without cooldown in exchange for four scrap.
01:26 - 02:41
3. 🌪️ Utility Skills: Repossession and Tornado Slam
- ✅ Repossession: Drifter lunges forward and traps a monster or interactive element in his bag, throwing it at enemies or off the stage.
- ✅ While in the bag, you can hit the target to get guaranteed scrap.
- ✅ Enemies can escape after three hits or a period of time.
- ✅ Tornado Slam: Drifter spins forward, dealing 170% damage to enemies hit, with a chance to drop scrap, and then slams the ground dealing 400% damage.
- ✅ Bounces off heavier enemies.
02:42 - 04:45
4. ✨ Special Skills: Salvage and Retouch
- ✅ Salvage: Consumes eight scrap to generate four temporary items every 30 seconds. The items last 1 minute and 20 seconds.
- ✅ Retouch: Consumes eight scrap with a 30-second cooldown. Sends out a shockwave that deals 100% damage and applies a random debuff to enemies, stunning them.
- ✅ Acts as a scrapper and recycler: divides items into scrap and a temporary version.
- ✅ Can be used on multi-shops, printers, and cauldrons to change items twice.
04:46 - 05:56
5. 🕹️ Gameplay Strategies and Recommended Loadout
- ✅ Drifter isn't that strong naturally, but item strategies compensate for this.
- ✅ Preferred loadout: Scrap Cube, Repossession, and Retouch.
- ✅ In the early stages, use the scrap cube to travel faster.
- ✅ Use Repossession on empty chests to get scrap risk-free.
- ✅ Use scrap to scrap bad items and get passive bonuses.
- ✅ Reroll printers to get better items.
05:57 - 07:31
6. 🎯 Weaknesses, Recommended Items, and Additional Tips
- ✅ Drifter's main weakness is aerial enemies.
- ✅ Items like Shuriken or area damage are recommended.
- ✅ Other useful items: Lysate Cell, explosive damage items, focus crystal, and damage reduction items.
- ✅ Use Repossession to move turrets and shrines near the teleporter.
- ✅ Temporary items don't start their countdown until they are picked up, allowing you to load the teleporter with temporary items.
- ✅ Temporary rusted keys can open boxes and give permanent items.
07:32 - 07:46
7. 👋 Farewell and Upcoming Content
- ✅ Viewers are encouraged to share their own tips and techniques in the comments.
- ✅ An upcoming tier list of alloy collective items is announced.