Goal:

This build is set to play against ground based targets with a medium HP pool that would take 3 shots to kill no matter what. It can be used to move quickly to harass slow tanks as well.

The basic goal of playing the WYRM Jets gold card is to weave in and out quicker. While it doesn't provide as great a boost as it used to, it can still make a difference when diving and it will generally be more useful than fusillade against targets with more health as they require 3 shots to kill anyway.

Cards:

Rain of Fire 5 is important to keep distance from ground based targets for a longer period of time as you will need to get 3 hits on a target to kill them.

Propel 4 is a great card and Drogoz's most useful card to have against slow or ground based opponents letting you quickly dive onto a target that is a bigger distance away, chase down someone with a movement ability, flank over high walls and it can sometimes be used to escape if you find yourself far from safety

Similarly Survival 3 pairs well with these two cards if you are having an elongated fight and lose out on fuel. Drogoz will be at a disadvantage on the ground so this card will reset the thrust cool down and can come in clutch against a Moji or Bomb King.

Thrill of the Hunt 2 should give you a rest on thrust after a kill on a grounded target since the battle will be a bit prolonged (unless you are forced to use Survival). With the cool down reset you can either dive to the next target or run to your team for heals or cover.

Fuel Tank is good to keep yourself hovering for a longer period of time and should be used over Apex Predator here since you should not be as worried about taking as much damage against ground based players. Staying higher up will actually help you take less damage anyways.

Perks:

Nimble is really the only must as you are playing for speed.

Haven is useful if you are fighting against hitscan enemies that can shoot you out of the air.

Life Rip is generally strong in prolonged battles and should be used interchangeably or in tandem with haven if you often find yourself dying to an enemy who is one shot.

If you find a teammate that dives with you and focuses a target well Kill to Heal will be better than Life Rip. But if you find yourself not getting many heals then you will want to get both Kill to Heal and Life Rip.

Cauterize is generally great, but take a look at the opponents team sometimes Deft Hands will be a better choice or multiple defensive perks.

Illuminate is a great perk for Drogoz in the Strix and Skye match ups. Although depending on the map you may want to consider a more ground based build and avoid Strix all together. Though it is important to remember if you can get directly above a Strix he will be an easy target since he has no mobility at all.

Perks that you should not pick:

Blast Shields should not be needed. If you find yourself dying to AoE attacks you are probably playing with bad positioning or at a bad range.

Resilience would be similar to blast shields. Drogoz should almost never be getting stunned by Furia, Maldamba, Bomb King, Jenos, Raum, Pip, Evie, Inara, Tyra, Khan, Seris or IO. Only possibly by Buck, Grover or Grohk ult.

Wrecker or Bulldozer could be ok to get, but this build is not really meant for fighting tanks or their shields. Rather you should be able to move around them.

Goal:

While a Drogoz should not be the one who is fighting hitscan characters directly sometimes the role does fall upon you. If you find yourself in that situation you will want to be able to provide strong burst damage and sustain yourself while approaching these ranged characters.

The purpose of using Fusillade here is to do as much damage to hitscan characters as possible to either kill them as quickly as possible if you are in close range or to put pressure on them at a distance so they get to cover and stop shooting you for a moment. Even one hit with Fusillade will do about half of their health (generally a small amount less than half) but it will always guarantee a 3 hit kill or 2 hits if your teammates are helping you.

In any case you will not want a prolonged fight in this situation so we will focus our build around that.

Cards:

While Apex Predator, Propel and Thrill of the Hunt remain the same intended purpose as before, this time we are using Thrill of the Hunt 3 because it is quite impossible to get out of a fight against a hitscan character with full health or not dead. So if you find yourself killing the hitscan before they can kill you, it is always smart to reset your mobility option that you should be using to approach them quickly so that you can get back to your team to get heals. If your team is doing a great job diving, however, it can of course be used to push the advantage and jump another target.

Bask 2 is great since using Salvo is generally your best approach option against a hitscan character. At a far range your missiles are not as likely to hit do to the travel time. If you approach with normal shots you are likely to both get hit and indirectly hit your target. Using Salvo will counteract this downside since it has a bigger AoE and with Bask you can heal back some of the damage you just took while approaching.

Hot Swap 5 is extremely important as finding yourself with no ammo against a ranged character will mean a more likely death the longer you find yourself open. So the quicker you can apply pressure and damage the target the more likely you are to win the fight.

Perks:

Against hitscan, Haven and Life Rip are a must have otherwise you will find yourself dying as you approach quite often. Generally you should be approaching at a flank or at least with cover so that you can minimize the damage you take while you close the gap, however you will still likely take some damage so these perks will help minimize and counteract it.

Cauterize is generally the go to here otherwise as you want to make sure your hits to kill the target remain 2-3 missiles. Wrecker can be strong against a Vivian as well.

In general you will want healing, defensive, sustain, and counter sustain perks here. Nimble can be used as well.

You might even want to double up Blast Shield and Haven if they are stacking another teammate on their Hitscan to protect them from you that has AoE damage.

Perks that you should not pick:

You will generally not want anything besides Haven, Life Rip, Cauterize, Nimble, Wrecker or Blast Shield against a hitscan character so any other perk you pick here should be used specifically to counter a tank. Generally it is better to just get Haven/Cauterize/Life RIp 3 as soon as possible instead of a 4th perk.

Goal:

When you choose Combustible it should be specifically to fight against a grouped up team. So if you see a Grohk, Grover, Healing Skye or Two Point Tanks it will be strong. It can be useful against a Ying or IO as well to get rid of summons while damaging players at the same time. Specifically against many tanks it can be a strong way to get damage over a wall or a shield.

Another reason why you should choose Combustible as Drogoz is if the enemy team is running a hitscan character and it is not your role on the team composition to even engage with them in a 1 on 1 fashion. If you have a flanker who can distract or kill the long ranged enemy character then Drogoz will be much more useful dealing his high DPS output into the enemy tanks and shields to that your team can contest point.

Combustible itself is a way to get opponents off the point so if your role is to spam damage onto point to apply pressure, not only will the opponents be worried about standing on point, but even if they do you will knock them off.

Cards:

For the level of each card here it really doesn't matter so much as it would on the above builds. But the cards themselves are what is important. The only really important card to have a high level on is Masterful.

This deck uses Masterful 4 for the specific reason that spit has an 8 second cooldown. Generally you will be hitting an average of 2 people in a good spit explosion. Which means!!! every 5 seconds, the cooldown of spit will be 4 seconds. This makes it so Masterful synergies perfectly with spit and will almost always reduce it's cooldown timer.

Now because spit allows you to poke around walls easily by shooting the spit ball over cover, you should not be taking high amounts of damage, only a little bit of poke damage here and there from a ranged enemy. For this reason, Lung Capacity 4 is used. So that when you hit the enemy tanks you will gain the health back from the poke damage you just took.

Now if you expect to be flanked or dove on, it might be better to use Thrill of the Hunt 4 or Rain of Fire 4 instead of Lung Capacity and Survival instead of Hot Swap. So that in the scenario where you end up killing the person flanking you, you can easily use thrust to get to your team and push the advantage to obtain the point. If there are two people diving you it can be even better now. If you manage to kill one of them you could potentially get away from the second person. Or if you don't end up killing the flanker, survival can help you get away for long enough for a healer to help you win the fight. You would want to use Rain of Fire over Thrill of the Hunt if you are exacting to be playing into a Moji/Zhin/Koga/Skye etc.

Propoel 3 and Apex Predator are used as generally cards that are strong for Drogoz as explained above, feel free to experiment with different cards for a spit deck based on your own play style. If you find yourself getting shot down from the air (which should be more common the higher skill level your rank is) then you may want to not use propel at all on this build.

Perks:

For this build you should be primarily focused on buying and red perk, Cauterize, Wrecker, Bulldozer, Deft Hands, depending on what tanks the enemy team has on it and the amount of healing characters it has (Khan, Moji, Zhin, Buck included).

If you do not need to get more than 2 or 3 red perks against the enemy team then getting morale boost can be strong since your role is to kill tanks or getting a defensive perk like Haven, Life Rip or Blast Shields can be good depending on how much pressure you are receiving. Since you might be on the ground more often Resilience may sometimes be good as well.

Perks that you should not pick:

You should really not need Cronos, since you will already have a reduced cooldown. Illuminate, since you will be using mostly large AoE damage.

Anything else can be optional depending on the map and enemy team really.

Goal:

A salvo deck is the way to get the largest amount of burst damage out of Drogoz. Combining a non-combustible spit with salvo is a gigantic amount of damage. With combustible for a gold card it will be even greater, BUT harder to hit all of your salvo missiles before the fire spit knocks the enemy away. So be careful which gold card you choose.

Any of them can be used here. WYRM Jets to get behind enemy lines quicker to surprise burst damage them with a salvo + spit combo. Combustible if you are highly skilled and can time the shots so that the fire spit explosion happens after all or most of the salvo missiles land. Fusillade if you just want to get the most damage out of salvo and have generally stronger weapon shots.

Remember, combining both Salvo and Fire Spit will be able to one shot burst damage most characters as base Fire Spit deals 900 and Salvo deals a maximum of 1500. A minimum total of 2400 before gold cards in the best case scenario.

Cards:

Spit Fire 5 is our most important card here. The plan of the deck is to deal burst damage to reducing the gigantic 20 second cooldown of salvo is what we want the most. If you hit one person with all 6 shots the cooldown becomes 13 seconds.

Bask 4 is fairly important here since you generally want to dive on a target if you want to deal the most damage. Remember, the closer you are, the more missiles are most likely to land to do travel time. And the closer you need to get, the more likely you are to be out of cover and take damage on your way towards the target.

Propel 3 is a must as well since we are diving. You might even want to go up to Propel 4 on a bigger map or if your aim is very good you can take a point off Decimate 2.

Decimate 2 is good here since we have several cards that rely on hitting multiple enemies with Salvo. The bigger the AoE the more likely it is to hit more enemies. So the 30% AoE boost will help.

Finally Hot Swap is very important since before activating Salvo you need full ammo to do full burst damage. If you use Salvo with only 4 missiles loaded then you will only shoot 4 missiles with Salvo. Hot Swap should probably be combined with Deft Hands perks for maximum reload.

Thrill of the Hunt can be a great option here as well if you do not need Hot Swap/Bask or Decimate. But Spitfire and Propel are mostly a must have.

Perks:

Deft Hands is very preferable on this deck. Many times even over Cauterize since the burst damage potential is so high. If you can one shot a target by dealing 2400 damage then it is pointless to reduce the healing. That being said Cauterize can still be very usefull if you find yourself not hitting every Salvo shot or fighting tanks who have more than 2400 HP.

Besides that Cronos is good here since there will still be a large cooldown on Salvo. Other red perks can be good depending on the tanks.

Kill to Heal can be good here as well if you want to jump from target to target.

Perks you should not pick:

Life Rip is generally worse than Kill to Heal on this build due to the burst damage one shot play style. Cauterize is optional depending on the enemy team as well. For the rest of the perks use your best judgement.

This version of the salvo deck is meant for players who are learning how to aim direct shots still. Or shots on moving targets. Decimate and Follow the scent will make it easier for you to land hits with Salvo and Fire Spit. You might not be able to get the one-shot combo burst potential all the time of Salvo and Fire Spit so Cauterize and Life Rip will help you in the fight after using Salvo.

This version of the salvo deck is meant for players who can lands all or almost all of their direct shots and time Salvo perfectly with Fire Spit. The full burst potential of the combined abilities will be enough to one-shot any non tank character so here Cauterize and Life Rip will become much worse than Deft Hands and Kill to Heal.