Hello and welcome to the ninth chapter of the Metronomicon!

in this chapter we will be taking a look at [Octavia]'s signature primary weapon; Tenora Prime!

(Check out chapter 8 for a Octavia build that focuses on utilizing her signature weapons)

No matter what or how you build [Tenora Prime], you will always want [Serration] (or [Amalgam Serration]).
[Vital Sense], [Point Strike] and Split Chamber.

Point Strike will set critical chance to 75%, which is really good for a machine gun.

The first, most popular build is the "Viral + Slash" combo build.

Viral is the best status effect in the game, a viral stack applied on an enemy amplifies damage to the health of the target, increasing damage it takes by 100% for 6 seconds, additional stacks adds 25%, up to a maximum of 325% (10 stacks).
Slash benefits from this too, which is why we want as many slash procs as possible;

[Hunter Munitions] has a 30% chance to apply a slash proc on every critical hit.
With 75% crit chance, that makes roughly every fourth bullet apply a slash proc,
and remember that we have [Split Chamber]'s 90%multishot.

[Primed Cryo Rounds] and [Malignant Force] are to create Viral.
Use [Infected Clip] instead of [Malignant Force] if you want higher status damage, but lower status chance.
If you do not have Primed Cryo Rounds, use Rime Rounds or normal Cryo Rounds instead.

The seconds popular build is "Corrosive + Slash".

Corrosive reduces targets armor by 26% for 8 seconds, additional stacks adds 6%, up to a maximum of 80% armor reduction (at 10 stacks)

[Infected Clip], *'[Malignant Force], [High Voltage] and [Stormbringer]** are your options to create Corrosive.

Corrosive is better than Viral in very, very few cases... barely any cases to be honest.

Viral is sadly currently the best option.

Last mod slot is optional;

Vile Acceleration is highly recommended, increasing fire rate by 90%, and lowering damage by -15%.
Fire rate is super good on most machine guns, definitely with [Tenora Prime] since it has a 200 Bullet Magazine.
And even more with the helminth ability Energized Munitions
And faster fire rate applies more Viral (or corrosive) stacks and more slash stacks faster..
[Primed Shred] is a fantastic replacement to [Vile Acceleration], adding 55% fire rate and 2.2 Punch Through.
(But [Primed Shred] is really hard to obtain, which is why [Vile Acceleration] is recommended instead)
But consider using a diffrent mod if you are using Arcane Acceleration

[Argon Scope] is fantastic, giving 135% critical chance while aiming for 9 seconds when you land a headshot.

[Bladed Rounds] is also a good mod, increasing critical damage when aiming by 120% for 9 seconds on kill.

Vigilant Armaments increases multishot by 60%.
Combined with [Split Chamber], the total multishot now is 2.5, meaning that you now have a 50% chance to fire 3 bullets instead of 2, which is quite good, giving you a higher chance to apply viral and slash stacks.

[Hammer Shot] increases Critical Damage by 60%, and status chance by 80%.
Quite good, but not better than the previously mentioned mods.

Avoid Heavy Caliber, while 165% damage sounds nice, the -55% accuracy is painful, and makes the gun not fun to use in medium to long ranges.

Exilus Mods:

Recommendations:

Vigilant Supplies or [Primed Rifle Ammo Mutation]; both converts unused ammo pickups into rifle ammo, [Primed Rifle Ammo Mutation] doing this more effectively, whilst *'Vigilant Supplies also has a 5%** chance to "enhance" critical hits.

[Twitch] increases holster speed by 200%, which can be useful.
However, [Twitch] is quite useless if you are using Vigorous Swap, since that mod already increases holster speed.

Tactical Reload is... "cute", reloading the magazine by 20%/second while holstered (fully reloading the gun in 5 seconds)
This mod kinda makes sense since Tenora Prime's reload time is 2.5 seconds.

Rivens.

Don't.

Currently they are less effective than normal mods. (Unless you have a godlike riven, but even then i would suggest selling it for a boatload of platinum instead)

[Tenora Prime] is not only one of the best machine guns in the game, but it is also one of the most beautiful guns too (in my opinion)

If you have Octavia, check out Chapter 8 for a build that focuses on utilizing her signature weapons:
https://overframe.gg/build/138337/octavia-prime/metronomicon-chapter-8-fun-with-guns/

If you want a Pandero Prime build, go to Chapter 10:
https://overframe.gg/build/138713/pandero-prime/metronomicon-chapter-10-destructive-iron/

Have Fun

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