In Remnant From the Ashes, you need to lay waste to the innumerable Root, with two more seeming to take the place of everyone you dispatch. To turn the tide, you are going to need to make use of weapon mods.
There is a large variety of mods in the game, each with its own effects and attributes. Let’s take a look at how the system works, and how you can increase your arsenal to take on anything you might encounter.
How to Get Mods in Remnant From the Ashes
Mods can be purchased from merchants, but the vast majority of them must be crafted using materials dropped by the games monstrous bosses.
Once you obtain one of these materials, return to Ward 13 and speak to McCabe, the surly mechanic that resides on the bottom floor beside Rigs, the arms vendor.
In exchange for the unique boss material, some scrap and the requisite amount of Lumenite Crystals, she will fashion for you a powerful new weapon mod.
So, to recap:
- Obtain special material
Certain bosses will drop rare crafting material once they are defeated. These will be one-off items, and you can check them in your inventory, where they will clearly say whether they are to be used for crafting a weapon or a weapon mod.
- Speak to McCabe to craft a mod
She is located on the bottom floor of Ward 13, beside Rigs the arms vendor. In exchange for scrap, some Lumenite Crystals, and the required boss material she will craft for you a weapon mod.
- Equip the mod to a weapon and inflict damage with it
Once you have equipped your mod to a weapon, using that weapon enough will allow you to use the attached mod.
How to Use Weapon Mods
Weapon mods function as your special abilities, and they can be slotted into weapons that have an open mod slot. Some weapons have their own unique mods built-in, and this can’t be changed.
With a mod equipped, you need to inflict a certain amount of damage before the mod is charged and available to use. Once you have a charge, use it with R1/RB.
They have a variety of uses, from simple offensive buffs like Hot Shot which will imbue your ammunition with Fire for 30 seconds, and cause your targets to burn. Radioactive Volley, meanwhile, launches bouncing projectiles that can be used to clear a hallway.
Flicker Cloak surrounds you with a magical shield, absorbing damage up to a certain threshold, while Mantle of Thorns reduces the melee damage you take while also reflecting it back upon your opponent.
Some of the most useful mods summon allies, like Seed Caller or Beckon, which will attack your foes and divert some of the attention away from you.
There are mods for all occasions, dozens of them in fact. You will need to replay the game multiple times to get them all, and some are hidden so deviously you might never encounter them at all.
All Mods and Their Effects
| Flicker | Surrounds the caster with a magical shield for 30 seconds, absorbing up to 200% of their max health in damage from incoming attacks. |
| Mender’s Aura | Creates a healing pool that heals 10 Health per second for 10 seconds. |
| Rattle Weed | Shoots a projectile that spawns a Rattle Weed upon impact with 224 Health and draws aggro on all enemies within 10 meters. Lasts 10 seconds. |
| Mantle of Thorns | Reduces Melee damage taken from enemies by 50%, reflects 200% of Melee damage taken and reduces stagger on hit. Lasts 60 seconds. |
| Hot Shot | Imbues ammunition with Fire for 30 seconds increasing damage dealt by 20%. Shots also have a chance to set the target on fire, dealing 100 damage over 10 seconds. |
| Hunter’s Mark | Marks all enemies within 40 meters for the caster and their allies for 60 seconds. Critical Hit Chance against marked enemies is increased by 15%. |
| Seed Caller | Summons a Root Hollow minion with 150 Health that deals 56 damage per hit and lasts 30 seconds. |
| Radioactive Volley | Fires a volley of 6 Radioactive projectiles that bounce off of the environment and deal 56 RADIATION damage each. |
| Breath of the Desert | Discharge 7 radiation particles that will seek towards enemies within 20 meters and deal 80 RADIATION damage each. |
| Veil of the Black Tear | Creates a 5-meter energy field that absorbs up to 300 incoming Ranged damage. Heroes standing inside the energy field can shoot outward. |
| Skewer | Fires a large spike that deals 125 damage, 300% additional stagger damage, and applies BLEEDING effect dealing 150 damage over 15 seconds. |
| Song of Swords | Projects an aura that moves with the caster. All heroes standing within that aura have their damage dealt increased by 30%. Lasts for 30 seconds. |
| Corrosive Aura | Projects a 10-meter aura that moves with the caster. Enemies which enter the aura are Corroded, reducing their defense by 20%. Lasts 30 seconds. |
| Blink Token | Teleports the caster forward up to 13 meters and creates an electrical blast that deals 140 SHOCK damage within 3 meters. |
| Swarm | Unleash insects that will seek after enemies within 20 meters and repeatedly attack dealing 5 Corrosive damage per hit. Lasts 20 seconds. |
| Storm Caller | Conjures an electrical storm centered around the caster which unleashes lightning strikes that deals 40 SHOCK damage to nearby enemies within 35 meters. Lasts 12 seconds. |
| Beckon | Summons a Wasteland Skull which shoots projectiles that deal 15 damage per hit. Lasts 60 seconds. |
| Hive Shot | Fires a hive projectile that deals 20 damage upon impact within 2.5 meters and releases a cloud of deadly insects. |
| Undying | After charged, if the caster dies they will be revived with 33% health. The wielder will also take 25% less damage and be immune to Status effects for 10 seconds. |
| Static Field Shot | Fires a projectile that deals 40 SHOCK damage and applies the Overloaded effect. Overloaded enemies will explode when they get close dealing 200 Shock damage within 4.5 meters blast radius. |
| Howler’s Immunity | Projects a 20-meter aura that moves with the caster and reduces incoming damage to all heroes standing in the aura by 30% Lasts 30 seconds. |
| Flame Thrower | Spews flames that will ignite targets with the burning effect dealing 150 Fire damage over 10 seconds. |
| Iron Sentinel | Summons a full automatic Turret that shoots at 5 rounds per second and deals 3 damage per hit. Lasts 20 seconds. |
| Explosive Shot | Fires an explosive round that upon detonation will deal up to 180 damage to enemies within 3.5 meters. |
| Wildfire Shot | Shoots an arcing fireball that deals 40 FIRE damage and ignites targets with the BURNING effect within 1.9 meters, dealing 240 FIRE damage over 15 seconds. |
| Tentacle Shot | Launches a projectile which will spawn a TENTACLE upon impact. The tentacle will attack nearby enemies dealing 60 Shock damage per hit. Lasts 30 seconds. |
| Spore Shot | Fires an explosive round that upon detonation deals 50 rot damage to all enemies within 2.6 meters and will leave a deadly gas cloud that lasts for 7 seconds. |
| Gravity Core | Fires a concentrated gravity core which upon impact deals 50 damage and opens a black hole pulling enemies towards it for 5 seconds. Overflowing from the enemy drawn in, the black hole will become unstable and explode dealing 250 damage within 5 meters. |
| Banish | Fires a projectile that banishes the target into another dimension for 8 seconds. When they return, they’ll take 1.5x the damage from the primary fire of the Repulsor weapon for 10 seconds. |
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