The [Lesion] has been my main hoe since the very beginning, every new player should make it one of their goals to craft it, you get lots of mastery on the way to craft it and it's just a wonderful ugly toxic stick, what's not to love?
Mods Breakdown
[Shimmering Blight] Feel free to change it, I keep it to reduce the cost of forma
[Condition Overload] If you don't have it use [Pressure Point]
[Blood Rush] If you don't have it use True Steel
Organ Shatter goes hand in hand with the previous mod
Weeping Wounds is what gives us that high-status chance -> more procs -> more chance for slash procs -> more damage.
Berserker Fury If you don't have it use Fury. That said, arguably Gladiator Vice would give you more crit chance -> more crit slash procs -> more bleed damage at the cost of less DPS, it's better for bossing and/or if you can't achieve the On Kill conditions of Berserker Fury
Reach if u are comfortable with less, this is optional, that said, more area -> more mobs to hit -> more damage (it does nothing for single target damage)
[Vicious Frost] is our elemental combo slot, swap for heat to get Gas or for electricity to get Corrosive and keep it at rank 0.
[Carnis Mandible] boost slash damage, cheaply, increasing the chance of slash procs. It won't increase our slash procs damage, just the probability of them happening, this is our flex slot.
Elemental Combo
The [Lesion] has this lovely little perk.
"Passive: Gains 15% attack speed and 100% Toxin damage bonuses for 6 seconds upon landing a successful attack with a status proc. Additional Toxin damage added will combine with any primary elements (or secondary elements with Toxin) on the weapon."
Cold + Toxin = Viral
The elemental mod is kept at a low rank to try to keep Viral procs lower -> trying to push Slash procs higher.
Q&A
Why are you not using Prime X version of some of these mods?
The build is for “mid-game” if u have any of them and want to spend the forma to make them fit, go for it.
Why not (Prime) Smite X ?
They do increase your total damage, but as the build says Lazy I won't be swapping mods after each mission, feel free to put one in there if you want.
Closing Words
The damage shown here is not taking into account the dot/slash proc damage which is where most of our damage will come from.
Smite X double dips in our slash procs damage it's highly recommended to swap [Carnis Mandible] for one if you wanna minimax