I'm Fluffehjuju and im making this guide to hopefully help some perform a bit better as Elsa for g3 in both solo and group play

I'm currently the rank 1 Elsa and got there playing her as a DPS role in groups, our comp used in the time seen is Bronte + Elsa + Liner.

Bronte providing the Shock + Buffs Via her Bionic Pulse
Liner some extra damage
Elsa Beam Build + Def - 100% as the nuke

I use these relics for both group and solo in G3, The early game damage is a little lacking but picks up once you get defence reduction and tip damage on both ice wave and beam.

Both Status Effect Target and Shock Target provide big dps increases and burst damage for your beam during Shock windows (which will be always)

Special Charge Module helps with beam resets and worm resets and with the ice wave upgrade to cause it to do damage on use, it may also reset that too (unlikely tho)

Ace of Spades to help provide a little more early damage and tankiness for the earlier planets.

i run this on every breaker / build,

Focus on getting the strategic tree situated as with that + Gold Rich Toy worker you'll start your run with 150 bonus currency to help you

Then go for the defence tree, the added health and health regeneration will help off set any damage you may take from dots and even the self harm relics.

lastly get the offensive tree for a little more damage on weapons but also the penetration.


If solo as elsa i suggest taking 5 from the weapon power instead of maxing it, and putting it into movement speed, the extra speed makes quite a bit of difference during the life steal phase of planet 7, if you're fast with reactions and movement economy you don't even need to blink and risk healing the boss, use worm for the iframe and to tank the boss and you should be able to walk out of the charge while hes aiming it as long as you don't shoot during.

Only Two real weapon choices for Elsa to be honest, but ideally you'll want to find a weapon that has +100% Skill Power
or
+ 50% Damage towards targets under a status effect (or 50% to shocked targets)

If you can get a SHOCK weapon with these effects on them, it is your best dps increase (ideally you'd have both)


Indras are a fast fire rate handgun which means, yep, more up time on shock
you'll do more damage the closer you are to the target while firing, but thats not why we take them.
use these in solo as a Stat Stick and apply shock for your combo.



Broker Cannon is our biggest damaging weapon that can also apply shock, its shock up time will be less than Indras, but in group play you'll hopefully have someone else maintain up time

Because of the way we do our starter relics, we thankfully have the flexibility to go into skill related builds or weapon, so if you're not seeing beam upgrades you can take weapon power increase via work / fire rate from wave and go weapon build instead



This is a must in every build, it effects both yours and your teams overall dps and will be kept on the boss as much as possible and must be on the boss before every beam rotation.


Helps with the above


yes, even in a weapon build. status immunity is really strong, prevents knockdowns, fire and poison dots, and even freeze on arctic gear if you miss position
You can reload to cancel beam at any point and will still get the buff, so in weapon builds where the beam does next to no damage, you can press beam and in the same frame reload and have instant access to the buff while resuming gun dps

Grab Defence suit of retaliation when it presents itself


Including the above upgrades, these below will be specifically for the beam build i try to run as much as possible, this build can result in a surprising amount of damage.


although bosses eventually immune freeze, the extra dps provided by this during ice-wave windows can not be ignored



Wouldnt be a beam build without beam damage :)


Although not required, the upgrades for longer beam and cool down aren't needed for the build, just nice if available to take without losing out on any of the above choices



Also Including the upgrades in the Must Have Upgrades section


Attack Speed for your whole team, faster broker charge, faster indras (more shock uptime)


Attack Speed and damage while near the worm (ideally you'd have to place this out the way so it doesn't aggro bosses towards you, or you're going to be spending more time out of the circle than actually in it)


More Beast up time means more weapon power / attack speed up time


Two Beasts means you can bounce between the zones if you get aggro or have one beast in melee for your melee breakers while one positioned a little away from the boss for yourself and other ranged


guns go brrt

For beam build

Status target > Skill Power > Attack Power > Crit Damage > Cool Down > Weapon Power


For Gun Build

Status Target > Weapon Power > Attack Power > Crit Damage > Attack Speed


I wont be making a "relics to grab in the run" Section as following these stat priorities will make the relic choices obvious, Take the stats that will impact the most for the builds when offered, throw defensive relics in where needed

As you enter the boss room the rotation will be as followed

Get in range to shoot
Apply Shock with indras (if shock is applied from someone else skip to next)
Ice Wave
Beam
Worm
Fix positioning
Repeat


Teleport into range
Apply shock via indras (or broker cannon)
Worm
Ice-wave
--If you have defence suit of retal with 200% defence beam, beam then reload to cancel
shoot
repeat


Watch for boss patterns, every boss has moments where it will drop status effects from itself and this will hinder your damage DO NOT blow your load on a non shocked boss, the results will only make you sad

Elsa is my most enjoyable breaker and i will continue to try and push her to the limits she can stretch to, adding to this guide as things in my play style or in any balance changes she may receive

if you've made it this far thank you very much for taking your time to read this :) and good luck out there

If you have any questions feel free to ask me

i can be found quite actively on the official Anvil Discord

Discord Link - https://discord.gg/E3ggXCXuHT