Battle Lust is a character enhancement card in Back 4 Blood. It is a Defense Type Card with Brawn Affinity. The card can be used in both PvE and PvP game modes.
Card Ability
Gain +10% Damage Resistance while you have Temporary Health.
Numb is a great card to help the owning player fill the tank role and absorb even more damage. This card’s effect is conditional on the player having temporary health. Because of this, players using this card should have pain pills and/or cards that add Temporary Health.
Card Playstyle
Numb will most likely be played in the middle or towards the bottom of the player deck since it usually needs at least 4-5 other cards before it to work well. Players can also opt to use it at the beginning of the deck with Pain Pills but not recommended.
There are 3 types of cards that a player can take advantage of to give themselves Temporary Health in the middle of a mission:
- On melee kill: Face Your Fears & Vanguard
- On shotgun pellet hit: Buckshot Bruiser
- On fire damage kill: Pyro
Numb is usually best played as a melee tank role that swings in the middle of the horde with cards that improve melee damage and heal with melee kills.
Because it’s suited more for melee, Evangelo and Holly tend to be the best characters for this card since their attributes compliment a melee playstyle.
Card Synergies
Because Numb synergizes well with other cards that give Temporary Health, it synergizes well with cards the give Temporary Health and cards that help those activate.
Cards that increase melee damage or shotgun damage will help those cards give Temporary Health more often.
Face Your Fears – In order for Numb to activate, Face Your Fears can give 2 Temporary Health for each melee kill to keep your damage resistance up and health topped off.
Vanguard – Similar to Face Your Fears, Vanguard increases Temporary Health by 1 for each melee kill but it also gives it to your nearby teammate. A great way to increase the survivability of the whole team.
Adrenaline Fueled – Face Your Fears and Vanguard both need stamina to fuel melee damage. Adrenaline Fueled will keep player stamina up to melee almost indefinitely by giving 10 stamina each melee kill with another 10 stamina over 5 seconds.
Buckshot Bruiser – For players who want to gain Temporary Health through shotgun damage.
Chemical Courage – For players who plan to use Pain Meds often, this will give you +25% bonus damage for 60 seconds. It could be an absolute game-changer for some boss fights.
