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Proxima the Broodseeker

Ability
Biosampler
Passive
Grafted Armor
Skill nodes
12
Found in
Fainweald

Proxima the Broodseeker is one of nine Shells in Mortal Shell 2 — the body the Harbinger occupies, and the one slot a weapon cannot make up for. Its active is Biosampler. Its passive, Grafted Armor, runs for free. The skill tree holds twelve nodes across four tiers, opened by spending Glimpses at the Shellkeeper. You claim it in Fainweald.

“Purpose gives the soul its shape.”

Abilities

ActiveBiosampler — Proxima fires a hook from her left arm, pulling enemies or herself into range before striking with a follow-up attack that inflicts Lightning.
PassiveGrafted Armor — Proxima has a base 15% chance to mitigate melee or ranged damage. Mitigated damage is reduced by a base 50% and prevents stagger.

Our take

Biosampler is a grapple, and a grapple is a movement tool as much as an attack — it pulls the enemy in or pulls you in, which is the closest thing in the game to controlling the distance of a fight. Grafted Armor's mitigation also prevents stagger, so the chance it rolls does not just cut damage, it saves your combo.

Skill tree

Spend Glimpses at the Shellkeeper to raise this Shell's bond and open the next tier. Every node takes several levels of its own, so the tree is a question of what to finish rather than what to reach — and the last level of a node is usually where its effect changes rather than merely grows.

Tier 1

Attunement

Each level reduces the Resolve cost of Biosampler.

  1. 1Biosampler costs 20% less Resolve
  2. 2Biosampler costs 30% less Resolve
  3. 3Biosampler costs 50% less Resolve

Exoshell

Each level improves Proxima's Grafted Armor.

  1. 1Prima has +100% mitigation chance while using Biosampler
  2. 2Proxima has 25% mitigation chance while aiming
  3. 3Proxima has brief +30% mitigation chance after dodging
  4. 4Proxima has +50% mitigation chance while sprinting

Ampereon

Each level grants a new effect against Lightning.

  1. 1Proxima has +50% Lightning migration
  2. 2Proxima has Lightning immunity
  3. 3Shock damage and Radius are doubled

Tier 2

Biohazard

Each level improves Proxima's Biosampler.

  1. 1Biosampler deals 15% more damage
  2. 2Biosampler inflicts 3 additional Lightning stacks
  3. 3Biosampler deals 180% more damage
  4. 4Biosampler inflicts 5 additional Lightning stacks

Reflection

Each level improves Proxima's Grafted Armor.

  1. 1Projectiles have 15% chance to cause no damage to Proxima
  2. 2Projectiles have 35% chance to cause no damage to Proxima
  3. 3Nullified projectiles have 100% chance to be reflected back to the attacker

Biohunter

Proxima has permanent damage increase against enemies she Biosamples

  1. 1Proxima has 0.5% permanent damage increase per sample, up to 15%
  2. 2Proxima has 0.8% permanent damage increase per sample, up to 20%
  3. 3Proxima has 1% permanent damage increase per sample, up to 30%

Tier 3

Seizure

When Biosampler launches onto an enemy:

  1. 1Biosampler inflicts 20 Stasis stacks
  2. 2Biosampler deals 50 splash damage and 100 Stagger Damage
  3. 3Biosampler deals 80 splash attack and 150 stagger damage

Shellshock

Whenever Grafted Armor mitigates damage:

  1. 1Proxima gains 10 Resolve
  2. 2Proxima gains 15 Resolve
  3. 3Proxima inflicts 10 Lightning stacks to the attacker

Collector

Proxima can harvest Specimens from slain foes

  1. 1Proxima has 20% chance to harvest a Specimen
  2. 2Proxima has 40% chance to harvest a Specimen
  3. 3Proxima has 35% chance to harvest +2 Specimens

Tier 4

Discharge

Each level improves Proxima's Biosampler

  1. 1Biosampler knocks back the struck enemy and triggers a Lightning storm that lasts for 6s
  2. 2Biosampler knocks back the struck enemy and triggers a Lightning storm that lasts for 9s

Fortress

Each level improves Proxima's Grafted Armor

  1. 1Mitigated damage effectiveness increased by 110%
  2. 2Mitigated damage effectiveness increased by 115%
  3. 3Mitigated damage effectiveness increased by 112%
  4. 4Mitigated damage effectiveness increased by 133%

Energize

When reviving Proxima

  1. 1Grafted Armor always mitigates damage for 8s
  2. 2Proxima releases a shockwave that inflicts 15 Lightning stacks
  3. 3Proxima has 30% chance to fully restore Resolve

Where to find it

The route to it passes through:

Marrow Keep

Elsewhere in the wiki

Named on

Arrival