Synergistic Upgrades — Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor Guide

Master synergistic upgrades in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Prioritize weapon damage, AoE, and critical hit chances to create powerful artifact builds.

The key to powerful builds lies in identifying and prioritizing synergistic upgrades. For example, if you're using a Cryo Cannon, prioritize upgrades that boost Cryo damage, AoE, and potentially critical hit chance (as frozen enemies often take more critical damage). If you have multiple weapons that deal Fire damage, focus on Fire damage upgrades to boost all of them simultaneously.

• Status Effect Builds: Combine weapons that apply different status effects (e.g., Corrosive Sludge Pump + Colette Wave Cooker) and then pick upgrades that boost 'Status Effect Damage' ('Freezing hot acid' at 2,500,000 Status Effect Damage).
• Crit Builds: Pair high crit chance weapons (like the DeepCore GK2) with crit damage upgrades and luck upgrades ('Feeling lucky punk?' for 5 luck upgrades).
• Projectile Builds: For weapons that fire many projectiles (e.g., 'Lead Storm' Powered Minigun), prioritize 'Projectile Count' and 'Fire Rate' upgrades ('Count em!' at 150,000 projectiles).
• Defensive Builds: If playing a tankier class like Gunner, prioritize Max HP ('Delicious BLT'), Armor ('Why so Salty?'), and Damage Reduction.

Always consider how your chosen weapons and utilities interact with each other and with the available upgrades. A well-synergized build will always outperform a collection of individually strong but uncoordinated upgrades.