This is a basic build for [Ash]. It requires 0 forma, and can be used in daily missions. In the empty spots, you can add any mods of your choice like [Streamline] for easier ability management, Stretch for an increase of range on Blade Storm, or any mod of your preference.

Abilities:

• Shuriken: This ability fires 2 shurikens to the closest enemy, and does slash damage which is good for flesh based targets. This also applies slash status which does slash damage overtime to enemies for 9 seconds. With the [Seeking Shuriken] augment mod equipped, the 2 enemies hit by those shurikens have their armor stripped by 70% (at 100% power strength) for 8 seconds (at 100% power duration). After 8 seconds, the enemies affected by the shuriken have their armor restored.

• Smoke Screen: This ability makes you invisible for an extended duration while staggering enemies nearby.

• Teleport: This ability allows you to instantly teleport to the enemy you are aiming at.

• Blade Storm: This ability allows you to mark enemies to send 2 clones of yourself to attack enemies via finisher attacks. To mark enemies, you simply aim at them to highlight them, and you recast the ability to launch the attack which goes on until all marked enemies are dead. When marking enemies, you will use 12 energy (100% power efficiency) per enemy marked. If you recast the ability while no enemies are marked, no energy will be consumed and the ability will be turned off.

• Passive: When you apply a slash status effect while using ash, the damage from slash status does 25% more damage and has 50% more status duration for slash status.

Tips:

• To make armored units easier to take out, use shuriken to completely strip their armor.

• When using blade storm, you can also use teleport to send yourself into the blade storm assault. Blade storm's attacks scales with melee mods, so if you have a melee weapon with fast attack speed and high damage, the clones will attack faster and deal more damage than normal.

• When you are invisible, marking enemies with blade storm will consume 50% less energy than normal.