0 forma. One shot steel path mobs. Any level, works on lvl9999 mobs. No Primer.

Build Explanation:

Slash procs ignore armor and deal enemy max hp % damage. We use the viral elemental combo to help boost your slash proc dmg to the enemy hp by 325% at it's max of 10 stacks (this doesn't work on enemy shields tho, just hp).

-You MUST run both Virulent Scourge and Vicious Frost at rank 0 in order to proc slash procs more often than viral procs. If you put even a single upgrade to these mods you will boost the proc chance of the viral status and effectively lower your damage output since we are killing the mobs by bleeding them to death, not with our raw damage. Upgrading these two mods only increases our raw damage output but has 0 effect on our Slash bleed damage. If your argument is going to be "but we also get extra status chance", no, you don't care about that either since with Weeping Wounds you'll be reaching over 100% status chance (114% to be exact) at max (x12) combo counter. That means that you will be procing GUARANTEED one status proc and since we're going even above that, you might proc TWO status procs on one auto attack! Upgrading the two viral mods will only bump our status chance to 132% which is insignificant compared to how many slash procs we will now be lacking, aka again resulting in a damage loss.

• I run Shimmering Blight because I prefer to be able to move around freely and just E spam rather than locking myself in an animation and not being able to aim up BUT that e spam has 526.3%/s dps while Twirling Spire has 600.0%/s dps when pressing E while blocking and not moving. Twirling Spire also provides a wide aoe attack animation that does a knockdown on the 3rd attack. So when choosing between these two stances, remember this and choose on your own personal preference.

• Primed Reach is a must, giving range to your weapon will allow you to cover the room more and help yourself maintain your combo counter. With [Primed Reach] we're reaching 6m range which will allow you to damage flying mobs such as shield ospreys. If you don't have Primed Reach then you should run Spring-Loaded Blade and if you don't have that either well...normal Reach it is.

• Condition Overload is a must, it is our bread and butter source of damage. It boosts the damage that we deal with our slash procs and it stacks for every status effect that we apply onto the enemy. So lets say you are just using this weapon and nothing else, you will then apply 5 status effects. Slash, Viral, Impact, Puncture and Knockdown (yes, knockdown and lifted altho not showing an icon on the enemy also count as a status effect, they cancel eachother out tho). That's a wooping 400% bonus damage which amplifies your Slash bleed proc damage!

• Weeping Wounds and Blood Rush are also our standard mods that scale based on our combo counter. Weeping allows us to [Reach] over 100% status chance so that we can proc our slash procs and [Blood Rush] allows us to [Reach] the territory of orange crits. Why do we care about crits? Because critical hits are also something that amplifies our Slash bleed proc damage. The more we crit, the better. The higher our crit chance, the better. The higher our crit damage...well, you get the point.

• Berserker Fury this one is tricky. This is our source of attack speed, you must run one attack speed mod since they allow us to auto attack more often which results in us having a higher damage output. The problem with [Berserker Fury] is that it gives 0% attack speed unless you kill something first. This can be really troublesome and having to upkeep this buff is annoying so there is a really strong argument of running Primed Fury instead of it, even if it gives 15% less attack speed than a fully stacked [Berserker Fury]. Sadly I don't have this mod yet so this is my choice for now. If you don't have these two mods then Quickening, Gladiation Vice or normal Fury are your way to go. (PS: You will have enough mod capacity to run Primed Fury over Berserker Fury if you have access to it ^^)

• Gladiator Might is our crit damage mod. I had to choose this one over Organ Shatter simply because it allows us to [Reach] the red crits area. Yup, red numbers. With full combo counter stacked we are at 208.1% crit chance which means we'll have 8.1% chance to red crit. We lose out on 30% crit damage which is a lot and it will effect our overall dps a lot but I had to simply because I wanted to see those red crits. I've done the testing and I'll be completely honest with you, seeing the red crits pop up is completely worth it. I advise you to run an Adarza Kavat for the extra +60% additive crit chance (not multiplicative!!) which will result in you having 268.1% crit chance aka 68.1% chance to red crit! If you run a Smeeta Kavat and she procs her Charm crit buff, it will hard lock you at 200% crit chance which means no red crits :(.

The only problem this build is facing is the combo duration but you can always fix that by running the Naramon focus school's Power spike skill, Dexterity arcanes in your primary/secondary weapons or fitting in combo duration mods like Gladiator Rush/Drifting Contact in case of having a Riven for this weapon.

Lastly this build is meant for players that don't have a primer. If you don't know what a primer is, it's a weapon that can apply status effects on enemies for you, and it does it fast. The current best primers in the game are [Kuva Nukor], [Tenet Cycron] and [Epitaph] with the [Kuva Nukor] being the best since it also applies a status effect called Microwave which is hidden. Microwave is the 16th status effect in the game that you can apply on an enemy. If you do have a primer I strongly advise you to go check out my 2 forma Guandao Prime build here: https://overframe.gg/build/222950/ . It has no viral mods since we'll be applying viral with our primer. This in turn allows us to run Organ Shatter and Gladiator Might for extra crit damage as well as bane mods that are the last way for us to increase our Slash bleed proc damage.