A while back someone posted a screenshot in the discord of a 55k crit plasma pistol execute. This sparked my curiosity, and I set about attempting to find a way to surpass that number that is actually feasible in game. From my findings, I have created this build.
https://underrail.info/build/?HgsNAwMDBwYywokAwqAAAG0AAAAXX1URPzfCoAAARklLbBrCncKtw4grJkUkIEIGKsKHXDxLwoUQMcKzfHrinrAK4qqoBd-_As you can probably guess, this build uses the ripper glove with Serrated Super Steel Armor to inflict the maximum number of bleeds per attack, and uses eviscerate to turn those bleeds into over 3 million damage. The rest of this guide will be on the setup, target, and actions required to achieve something close to this damage in game.
Part 1: Required GearFor this build you will need the following:
High quality Tungsten Dagger (q179 dagger used for calculations)
Rippers Glove
Triple Serrated Super Steel armor (13% penalty with Armor Sloping, nimble, and body weight training)
Tabis of any kind
Doctors Belt
3 Leper Poison Throwing Knives
1 Leper Poison Bear Trap
Toxic Gas Grenades
Super Solider Drug
All In
Adrenaline
Psi Booster
It should go without saying that you should be max level, and have Deep Caverns completed to hopefully get some high quality Tungsten Plates.
Part 2: The TargetIf we are going for maximum damage, we need to pick the right target, as certain feats only work on certain enemy types. Creature is the best enemy type for max damage, since hunter boosts knife damage and we use a knife to eviscerate. We also need an enemy who has enough health to survive our ripper punches and bleeds, so we will have to do this on dominating with a boss creature. Luckily, one of the latest updates added Fatso, a large boar with 2.6k health on Dominating. Additionally, Fatso gains 75% damage reduction while under 75% hp, so he should be able to survive before the eviscerate. Sadly, Fatso also gains immobilization immunity under 75% hp, so you will have to rely on a lucky incap right before the eviscerate or replace a feat with combo and only stun Fatso on the 3rd turn for the opportunist bonus damage. From here on out our calculations will assume that the enemy we are fighting is a hypothetical walking punching bag creature that is susceptible to fear, poison, immobilization, and contamination, and who can’t kill us.
Part 3: Setting up the EviscerateNow that we have all the right equipment, we can start to set up the big number. This maximum damage number will assume that each punch inflicts 6 bleeds, that the eviscerate crits and does maximum damage, that the target is at exactly 1% hp when we eviscerate, and that we never miss. We start out at 25% hp for the fight response and under the effects of All In, and have a gas grenade already spewing toxic gas that is contaminating the punching bag. We have a doorway with a leper poison bear trap blocking it, and we set up a loud noise that the punching bag goes to investigate. We pop a super soldier drug exactly 5 seconds before the creature walks into the leper poison trap, and manually enter combat as soon as the trap goes off. If timed correctly, the creature will be immobilized, fully contaminated, and poisoned with 3 stacks of leper poison for 3 turns, and we will start combat with full AP since the super soldier drug was technically used on the previous turn. We have 100 ap with contraction, adrenaline, and fight response, and we are going to use that to our best ability to stack as many bleeds as possible. Our first turn is pretty simple, as after using adrenaline and contraction we attack with the Rippers Glove 25 times, inflicting 150 bleeds. On the second turn, we punch 18 times, cast frighten on the punching bag, use a psi booster, and then enter stealth for the blindsiding boost, using 99 ap to obtain an additional 108 bleeding wounds. On the final turn, we punch 17 more times, throw 3 leper poison knives to achieve maximum stacks of leper poison, use premeditation, predation, and then finally eviscerate, using 100 ap and bringing our total bleed count to 361, with 360 bleeds from our serrated armor and ripper gloves and 1 bleed from the beartrap. If everything went according to plan, we should have dealt
3,050,124 damage, slightly beating the 55k execute that inspired this guide.
Part 4: Damage Breakdown:Let's talk a bit about how damage multipliers in Underrail work, since understanding them is key to maximizing damage. Our q179 tungsten dagger has a damage range of 11-31, which is our starting damage. We then multiply this by our weapon skill damage bonus, 417%, to get 129.27 damage. We then add the weapon strength modifier, which is 39% of base damage since we have 18 Str from All in, adrenaline, and Super Soldier, to reach 12.09 bonus damage from strength, bringing our total up to 141.36. We also get a 25% damage bonus against organics, bringing our base weapon damage up to 176.7. We then multiply this by our damage bonus from feats and abilities, which is 25% from opportunist, 50% from Taste for blood, 15% from blindsiding, 20% from hunter, 10% from the beast tattoo, and an assumed 40% damage bonus from predation. I say assumed damage bonus because the formula for how predation scales with TC is still unclear, so for now we will assume that at 240 skill predation provides a 10% damage bonus, which is raised to 40% when the attack is melee and the target is feared. This gives us 260% damage from feats, bringing our damage up to 459.42. We then multiply this by the mechanical damage received modifiers, which are 200% from contamination, 30% from infected wounds, and 60% from the leper poison, bringing the damage total up to 1791.738 damage. Now for the main attraction, eviscerate, which grants us 70% bonus damage per bleed stack thanks to specialization. We have 361 bleeds, which means eviscerate deals 25370% of our base damage. This multiplying our already impressive 1791.738 damage takes us to a monumental 454,563.931 damage. That’s already pretty good, but lets say, hypothetically, that our eviscerate crit. This would multiply our 454,563.931 damage by 671% due to the base 270% of the dagger from tungsten, cheap shots, crit power, and ripper at 1% health. This is how we obtain the damage total of 3,050,123.98, rounded to
3,050,124. More realistically, we obtained 90 bleeds from our actions and have the target at about 5% hp, giving us a final damage of 739,079 if we get a max damage stab, which is still quite impressive.
Part 5: Final ThoughtsI set out to make a build that could consistently deal more damage than 55k, and I have succeeded in that regard. You can theoretically obtain higher damage through a couple other methods, but these methods are statistically impossible to accomplish in game. One such method to crank out more bleeds is by using a Skaader sword with specced flurry, which can attack 3 times with flurry for 10 ap compared to 12 ap with the gloves, and doesn't have to worry about armor penalty. The problem with this is that the combo falls apart if a flurry misses, and is thus not obtainable in game. Another option is to use a Torpedo jet ski, which provides a maximum of 202% bonus melee damage, and use the Sea Dog and pirate tattoo feat to boost weapon skill damage and perform the combo against Jet Eater, who has 2.9 k health on Dominating. The problem with this method is that Jet Eater doesn't spawn every playthrough, and Jet Eater cannot be immobilized or poisoned, not to mention the accuracy penalty for fighting on a jet ski. Hercules is an option to free up more stat points, but it only slightly increases the strength bonus damage and lets you increase will to boost predation damage. I left electroshock and energy edge emitters out of the equation because I am unsure how they interact with predation, eviscerate, and some of the damage feats, but they could be used to increase damage even further. With the amount of attacks you make against Fatso with your damage you probably don't even reach 90 bleed stacks before he dies, so the in game obtainable amount is likely much lower than the values listed above. Fatso also becomes immobilization immune after reaching 75% health, so you either need to incap him at the end of your turns and before the eviscerate or you can stack mechanical damage reduction to tank him at 25% hp with +100% crits received. I don’t plan on running this build myself since I don’t have the patience to constantly reload on the quest for perfect damage, but feel free to try it out yourself if you like big numbers.
