Heavy weapons are your best way around those little buggers. Compound levels are so annoying and the itty bitty enemies do SO MUCH DAMAGE in large numbers.

Crowd control.
The larger the attack range, the better.
GF fits that criteria.
Blast bombs have an even larger attack range.
Blast bombs make compounds too easy. Nitronome OP.

Oh come on, the glop drops aren't bad at all. You just need to bring some sort of area of effect item to take care of them... The real terror is that the level takes a while and doesn't have boxes, so it feels like a waste of time after you complete it.

Dust Bunnies are pitiful. Glop Drops are surprising, but easy to kill with bombs. But those Scarabs, those stupid Scarabs. A line of them rushing down the hall with more behind is almost unstoppable unless you have a full team of Brandish spammers; otherwise they just get pushed back a little and keep charging. THE HORROR.

I don't know man, they try so hard that I just can't help but let my guard down at how adorable they are.

This just in, Tier 1 monsters have devastated the Vanguard army and have slain the whole of the Hall of Heroes. Snipes seem to be the only creature capable of nullifying the cuteness-scale. Meanwhile, the sole survivor of the Vanguards has single-handedly destroyed all of Tier 3. We'll keep you live and pos-awww a little bunny, it's so cute. It could hurt me, could it? Now nOWWWWWWWWWW!

Dust Bunnies have got sharp pointy teeth. Best handled with Dark Briar Barrage, but a sword like Flourish or SUUUUUDAAAAA can do the job as well.

Some vortex bomb + Sword charge attack/biohazard/Neutralizer pretty much curbstomp compounds. If only most of the player base just decided to have a taste of something else other than the average chaos loadout. Oh well.

...Vortex+Neutralizer + Chaos are part of my main FSC loadout lol.

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@Arcknightdelta:
Heavy weapons are definitely useful for them. If you're using a max CTR loadout and have a max-level Nitronome, you can actually bomb in-place and they won't be able to reach you at the center of the blast, provided that you maintain the rhythm. Nitronome was pretty much key for me soloing Grinchlin Assault: it's so safe, it's great lol.

Actually, almost all the bombs are amazing against those mobs. I actually smiled a bit when they first came out because even though bomb DPS couldn't match the other weapons in small groups, the swarm monsters provide the perfect kind of situations where bombs have their niche. It's kind of along the lines of some game design ideal I had in mind, where weapon balance is determined more from their situational applications than just their DPS.

Have you ever felt the satisfaction of killing a dozen Glops in a single Acheron charge? Combuster or Voltedge works just as well for Scarabs.

You will surely hate Scarabs far more than Glop Drops when Apocrea comes back.

Any pure gunners out there? What's your setup for these Glop Drops?
Biohazard, Umbra driver.

Catalyzers are good for mobs that clump together (aiyoooo glop drops), Alchemers are good for monsters that are starting to come together but aren't together (because then you can shoot between them and get ricochet action).

Storm Driver is a decent other choice (if they're not shock themed), because not only does it stop their movement periodically, but shock's effectiveness multiplies with more enemies touching each other.

I don't think the pulsar lines will be good for them as sheer numbers can block the shots before they become big.

Then again, I don't bring guns specifically for that monster, but to deal with the level theme (and if it's a clockworks stage, I'll bring more variety, because danger rooms tend to troll you and pick a theme that's opposite of the effective type on that stage >:{ )

Fehzor:
Biohazard suffers from the classic blocked charge shot issue at times (where the one you charged happens to be behind the ones that aren't charged), so I'd rather just umbra driver them.

Sort of.

The charges can detonate each other (though it's a little flaky in that the charge balls need to be pretty close to each other), so as long as you can get one, an explosion can either trigger or set them apart to let you walk in and detonate the others.

Also, for general use (because of teammates and all), you generally shouldn't be trying to charge more than twice in a row.

Vortex>Combuster charge>2 crowns from killing 50 minis.