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Burrowers is difficult to handle. I figured out I could throw grenades at them, but that seem kinda expensive.
I'm only at page 5 on Helldivers Mobilize warbond, but I can see that there's an assault rifle with medium armor penetration on page 6, so that's what I'm gonna work towards!
I'm using the R-63 Diligence, but that's not powerful enough. Only got light armor penetration.
In that case if you specifically want to build up for the burrower strain missions, you should get the Democratic Detonation warbond as your first warbond (besides, 95% of the playerbase says it's the best one).
It has a grenade pistol with 6+1 shots, which is generally kinda weak (imo), but it can destroy holes/fabs/ships AND poke burrowers, as long as you can hit the ground without the grenade bouncing away.
If a secondary is not enough for you, it has a mini-rocket primary with heavy penetration and shrapnel, and an explosive crossbow with comparable damage but medium pen; the former hits hard (bugs and helldivers alike), the latter is one-handed and you can expect to survive when using it in CQC. Kind of.
The Gas-Harpoon also gets them up if shot at the ground. AND continues to do it's thing for a bit when they come up.
But yeah, you want some medium AP on your primary. It'll make you life a lot easier against bugs.