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Risk of Rain 2: Drifter Definitive Guide - Alloyed Collective DLC
This guide analyzes in depth Drifter's skills, how temporary items work, the best configuration, and the best items for Drifter, explaining why he is one of the strongest survivors in Risk of Rain 2.
1. 🎒 Drifter's Passive: Trash to Treasure
- ✅ Drifter's passive, 'Trash to Treasure', grants him stacking bonuses for each stack of scrap he possesses.
- ✅ It's important not to confuse scrap with trash.
| Scrap Type | Effect per Stack |
|---|---|
| White | +6% movement speed |
| Green | +3 HP regeneration per second |
| Red | +30% attack speed |
| Yellow (Boss) | +15% skill cooldown reduction |
00:00 - 00:54
1. 🎒 Drifter's Passive: Trash to Treasure
- ✅ Drifter's passive, 'Trash to Treasure', grants him stacking bonuses for each stack of scrap he possesses.
- ✅ It's important not to confuse scrap with trash.
| Scrap Type | Effect per Stack |
|---|---|
| White | +6% movement speed |
| Green | +3 HP regeneration per second |
| Red | +30% attack speed |
| Yellow (Boss) | +15% skill cooldown reduction |
00:55 - 02:58
2. 👊 Drifter's Primary and Secondary Skills: Blunt Force, Cleanup, and Junk Cube
- ✅ Blunt Force: Drifter's primary attack deals 170% damage, with a third hit that deals 350% damage and stuns enemies. Each attack has a 40% chance to generate trash.
- ✅ Cleanup: Throws a barrage of debris that deals 4 x 100% damage, plus a random projectile from his bag. Consumes two trash to avoid cooldown.
- ✅ Junk Cube: With an 8-second cooldown, Drifter throws a junk cube that deals 400% damage on impact to enemies up to three times before exploding for 800% damage. Costs four trash to avoid cooldown.
- ✅ It is possible to have up to four active junk cubes simultaneously. Placing a fifth cube will explode the oldest one.
- ✅ Getting on the junk cube and aiming upwards is useful against aerial enemies.
- ✅ Using the junk cube resets the falling speed, avoiding fall damage.
02:59 - 04:54
3. 🛠️ Drifter's Utility Skills: Repossess and Tornado Slam
- ✅ Repossess: Allows you to grab monsters, interactive objects, or friends. It is used to pick up enemies, hit them to obtain additional trash, and throw them off the stage.
- ✅ The 'Budgeon' skill deals 280% damage per hit on the ground, generating at least one trash. Killing the enemy or object inside grants additional trash.
- ✅ Grabbed bodies escape after three hits, but interactive objects can be retained indefinitely.
- ✅ Repossess can also prevent fall damage.
- ✅ Tornado Slam: Performs a spinning attack that deals 170% damage, which can be canceled or expire to deal 400% damage. Allows you to bounce off heavier enemies.
04:55 - 06:20
4. ✨ Drifter's Special Skills: Salvage and Tinker and Information on Temporary Items
- ✅ Salvage: Consumes eight trash to generate four temporary items with a 30-second cooldown.
- ✅ Temporary items last 80 seconds, each with its own independent timer.
- ✅ Some items cannot be temporary, such as Sail Star, Regenerating Scrap, and Prayer Beads.
- ✅ Void items can be temporary if a temporary item becomes a Void item.
- ✅ Temporary items left on the ground have no timer and do not disappear.
- ✅ Tinker: Has a 30-second cooldown and a proc coefficient of 1.0. It is a shockwave that deals 100% damage and stuns enemies.
06:21 - 08:07
5. ⚙️ Tinker: Advanced Mechanics and Macro Strategies
- ✅ Tinker interacts with multi-shops, 3D printers, Housite shards, and Void potentials, offering special effects.
- ✅ In multi-shops and 3D printers, Tinker can re-roll the items up to two times.
- ✅ On objects on the ground, Tinker creates a temporary version of the object and grants scrap of the corresponding rarity.
- ✅ Tinker works on terminals of multi-shops, 3D printers, cauldrons, and even Aurelionite shards.
- ✅ Tinker allows for more precise build crafting by preventing scrappers from taking all desired items.
- ✅ Macro players can use Repossess to gather multiple 3D printers and multi-shops, allowing them to re-roll the entire map with a single use of Tinker.
08:08 - 08:45
6. 🎯 The Best Configuration for Drifter: Options and Personal Preferences
- ✅ The recommended configuration for minmaxing includes Tinker as special, Repossess as utility, and Junk Cube as secondary.
- ✅ The configuration preferred by the content creator, focused on fun, includes Salvage as special, Repossess as utility, and Cleanup as secondary.
08:46 - 10:08
7. ⭐ Recommended Items for Drifter: Beyond the Common
- ✅ Substandard Duplicator: Grants a temporary copy of the collected item.
- ✅ Bandelier or Lysate Cell: Help generate more items with Salvage or Tinker.
- ✅ Collector's Compulsion: Increases stats when collecting temporary items.
- ✅ Shuriken: Useful for dealing with aerial enemies.
- ✅ Barrier: Very useful for Drifter in any form, boosted by his high maximum health.
10:09 - 12:05
8. 🤯 Drifter's Secret: Infinite Generation of Temporary Items and Game Mastery
- ✅ The combination of Junk Cube and Repossess allows you to obtain infinite trash.
- ✅ With infinite trash, you can generate infinite temporary items.
- ✅ Temporary items are infinite if kept on the ground.
- ✅ Temporary items can be accumulated before fighting a boss.
- ✅ In certain areas of the map where enemies do not appear, temporary items can be generated indefinitely.
- ✅ Although temporary items expire after 80 seconds, only one temporary item from the stack is removed every 80 seconds, allowing them to be maintained throughout the game.