Heavy attacks are going to be the new thing once melee mod nerfs take effect, and this set is a simple yet effective way to bulldoze steelpath or any high-level missions. The riven on this build is not necessary, it just reflects my ideal role for what I would want on this build. In its place, you can put a variety of mods. For the quality of life I recommend a speed-increasing mod such as Berserk or if you wish to have a better wind-up speed, [Killing Blow] would work fine. Keep in mind neither of these mods will increase the effective DPS of this weapon by much, however. This build is intended to play to the strengths of the weapon. Slash procs and range are two good things about this weapon that is focused on. With prime reach and a heavy attack, your effective range is around 8-9ish meters in what looks like a 360-degree circle, but really it's more like 270. Directly behind you will only sometimes be hit, it's a little wonky. The heavy attack for this weapon has 4 guaranteed slash procs and with innate viral, it's likely that you will also inflict that as well. This combo is enough to take down most enemies with one heavy attack cycle though you will likely want to just because it's faster and constantly attacking provides health due to [Life Strike]. If you have another preferred way to not die, then I recommend removing the mod and putting in place something that will increase your status chance BUT NOT any other elements as it will further decrease your chances of getting viral. You may however place a cold and toxic mod both on this weapon to increase the innate viral to a level where it will proc more often but in my testing, it sacrifices too much from the build to make a difference. The best would be to take off [Life Strike] and [Primed Reach] to keep the DPS and but you lose the ergonomics of the weapon in the immortality when using it and the very nice range. If you do not have a riven you may also use this slot for a part of the viral set-up but a riven is recommended for at least crit chance or initial combo to make this weapon one-shot most things.