Demoltionist is the first, and newest "Premium" class avaliable. It's a very strong DPS class with a lot of AoE and Area of Denial. It promotes heavy explosive gameplay but lacks a general sense of survivability.

Pro's:

• High damage
  
• Great AoE
  
• Massive Area of Denial
  
• Decent Single Target damage
  
• Easily the best trash clearer

Con's:

• Low Survivability
  
• Lack of movement
  
• Terrible support options

There are currently a few ways to unlock the class, you can even unlock this class if you're free-to-play (it just takes a while)!

Method 1:



Commendations. Commendations are earned by doing Story Quests (roughly ~500), Earning Achievments, & doing Daily/Weekly Missions for rep factions once you're level 50. Doing some quick maths it will take roughly ~75 Days (two-and-a-half-months) to unlock this class from 0 - 1,000 commendations just doing Daily/Weekly quests.
Location: The Crater
Cost: 1,000 Commendations
Includes: Demolitionist Class

Method 2/3:








Buy off Steam Store or Trion Worlds website. Simply find the DLC on Steam, or visit the Trion Worlds website -> Login -> Account -> All Games -> Click Defiance 2050 -> Should be listed below.
Location: Steam Store, Trion Website.
Cost: $20 (USD)
Includes: Demolitonist Class, Exclusive Skin/Tint, "Demoltionist" Title

*My thoughts: Steam is your safest bet, with refunds as an option if you're ever wrongfully banned there is a slight chance you could get a refund. If you are rightfully banned don't you dare do this.

Demolitonist comes equipped with a lot of talents to increase the amount of explosions you can make. It deals a MASSIVE amount of damage and can cripple just about any faction. Below we will go over talents by tier, and my suggestions as well as objective facts.

Checkmark = Great choice, best option.
Question Mark = Alright choice, up to you to run this, not a bad option.
X Mark = Bad option, feel free to use if you think it's fun, bad option compared to the rest.

*Please note: Play the way you want to, this game is about having fun so feel free to expirement with talents and pick the ones that best suit your playstyle.

*Another note: PRIMARY GRENADE refers to your basic grenade thrown by using "G".

Tier 1:


- 3/3 - Satchel Charge - Max this ability out as it is your only option. This ability does MASSIVE damage to just about every faction except the Volge.





Tier 2:

- 5/5 - Long Boom - Max this ability out, this is honestly the best ability Demolitonist has. Increases blast radius as well as inner radius. Gives room for error while providing great AoE.


- 0/5 - Blast Shield - Blast Shield is honestly pretty useless, you shouldn't be getting hit with your own explosives anyways to mitigate the damage you take due to low survivability.


- 0/5 - Fast Blasts - This ability honestly isnt terrible, it just has a MASSIVE cooldown, and lowish uptime. It is just honestly outclassed at every level by LONG BOOM.


Tier 3:


- 3/3 - Flashbang - This ability isn't actually terrible, it's just this role is built for DPS not Utility. Feel free to take htis ability if you really want. It scales pretty well on the stun duration.




- 3/3 - Hatchling Spawner - This ability is great fun to use, it also increases your DPS by a solid amount. Originally I thought the damage was lackluster, but it scales amazingly at level 3..





Tier 4:
*This tier is up to you on your playstyle.

- 5/5 - Rocket Reflexes - This tier is honestly completely up you you. Rocket Reflexes is pretty good for slow reloading rocket launchers. I'd say Detonator Excelerator preforms better, but if you like Rockets and use them this is the best option if you current launcher doesn't already have reload speed rolled on it.

- 5/5 - Detonator Accelerator. This ability is actually really damn good. It increases the overall DPS by quite a large amount. Take this if you use Deotnators but only if your current Detonator doesn't have fire rate on it.



- 5/5 - Grenadier - Grenadier does increase your DPS by a decent amount, it's the best option if you have a Detonator with fire rate/a rocket launcher with reload speed already. It's a pretty boring option however.



Tier 5:

- 0/5 - Disorient - This ability honestly is pretty awful, it scales poorly (55%) and has to long of a cooldown. It's honestly a shame as it's a pretty cool passive.



- 1/5 - Drop and Roll - This abiltiy is actually really cool, but it practice doesn't live up to the hype. It might be worth it for you to drop 1 point in this however, just for the additional AoE. it is just severly outclassed by ODD MAN OUT.


- 5/5 - Odd Man Out - This is the best passive in the game in my opinion. A class designed for AoE has a single target ability, just insane imo. Take this to 4 or 5 for massive burst DPS on bosses and big mobs.



Tier 6:

- 4/4 - Cluster Projectiles - Amazing ult, this ups your burst DPS by a MASSIVE (and when I say massive, I mean MASSIVE) amount, pair this with ODD MAN OUT and you can burst bosses/elites pretty efficently. *This ability has some weird interactions. It works on all explosives used DURING the ability. So if you set up a Grenades that you manually detonate from grenade launchers for example and the duration runs out it will still work, I think it's a little bugged as sometimes the ability just wont go off, so honestly it's hard to completely identify how this 100% works.




- ?/4 - Grenade Barrage - This is a questionable ultimate ability, but it does have its uses. You can deal a large amount of damage with it, just honestly it's pretty bad compared to CLUSTER PROJECTILES, but if you find it fun go for it!

Honestly use whatever explosive weapon fits your playstlye. ROCKET LAUNCHERS and DETONATORS (Grenade Launcher) are obviously your best options. You also have grenades, which you should know about (default button is "G").


Bonuses - Every weapon rolls with 3 bonuses, you can reroll 1 talent on each weapon, below I will go through top tier choices for *Explosive Weapons*.

Explosive Weapons:

Tier 1:
• Damage
  
• Min Damage
  
• Blast/Damage Radius effects

Tier 2:
• Fire Rate
  
• Reload Speed
  
• Crit Multiplier
  
• Other stuff I forgot that's not accuracy/recoil related

Tier 3:
• Everything acurracy/recoil boost

Mastery Bonuses:
Honestly only 1 bonus is super important in my opinion, it's honestly not to important compared to Stats, but still can add a boost.

Demolitonist is a great addition to the class roster. It's raw burst and sustained DPS is pretty insane, which might seem a little overpowered at first, but you really lack a lot of suvivability.

Is it worth $20? That's entirely up to you, I personally think it honestly is if you're impatient like me.

Finally, feel free to leave comments on what you think below!

I'll see you in-game and thanks!

-BlueSpider/Selendis (PC-NA)

Last Update: 8/8/2018


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