UPDATE MARCH 2025: Arcane slot is for ARCANE ENERVATE

MODS

• Damage: At max stacks, [Galvanized Shot] provides +120% damage per status and Secondary Merciless provides +360% damage. Since [Kuva Nukor] can proc 4 different statuses itself (hidden microwave status doesn't seem to count for nukor itself), the total damage becomes 4x120% + 360% = +840%.
• Multishot: Galvanized Diffusion and Lethal Torrent together gives +290% Multishot, Lethal torrent also provides Fire rate bonus
• Viral/status: [Frostbite] and pistol pestilence create viral procs which boost damage to health (up to 4.25x at 10 stacks) and boost status chance
• Heat : Primed heated charge, boosts heat DoTs which can stack infinitely and refresh prior stacks, doing the bulk of damage
• Crits : [Primed Target Cracker] is used to boost the high base CD, but ONLY when used in combination with a flat crit booster like Secondary Enervate, Arcane Avenger or puncture procs from Encumber. You should NOT slot Primed Pistol Gambit/Crit chance mods due to the abysmal base CC. Secondary Encumber is capable of proccing puncture status, which can give a flat +25% at 5 puncture procs for final 32% cc. Compare this to 20%cc after Primed Pistol Gambit.
• Faction: [Primed Expel Grineer] when fighting grineer, primed expel corrupted when fighting corrupted. Double dips on heat DoTs (2.4x boost). Use regular bane if no primed (still 1.69x DoT boost). If you dislike faction mods, just use Pistol Elementalist.
• Exilus: Primed ammo mutation or normal ammo mutation

ARCANES

-Secondary Enervate allows Kuva nukor to hit red crits to take advantage of the massive critical multiplier

• The new arcane Secondary Encumber is able to proc almost every single status (10 in addition to the 4 from nukor to give 1020% extra damage from galvanized shot, compared to +480% from cascadia flare).
• cascadia flare gives +480% dmg which ramps incredibly quickly
• Cascadia Empowered now gives additional 750 raw damage for every status afflicted. Since [Kuva Nukor] can afflict about 10 to 20 status per second, you can get potentially up to 15,000 raw damage per second in addition to the base beam.
• Cascadia Overchage gives 300% crit chance which is a huge dps boost on nukor due to its huge crit multiplier.
• Secondary Fortifier is nice quality of life

ELEMENT VARIATIONS

For corpus run pure toxin to bypass shields: https://overframe.gg/build/232824/kuva-nukor/kuva-nukor-toxin-magnetic-anti-corpus/
For Murmur run viral electric, just swap [Primed Heated Charge] to [Primed Convulsion]