This build is designed around getting your damage high enough to power through even the steel path

Recommended Loadout:

• Primary: something with Primary Dexterity
• Secondary: something with Secondary Dexterity
• Melee: Scindo with Manticor Skin -or- Venka Prime
• Companion: Panzer Vulpaphyla -or- Chesa Kubrow
• Exalted Companion: Venari - Viral Armor Shred
• Focus: Naramon
• Archon Shards: 3-4x Ability Duration, 1-2x Melee Critical Damage

Mod Analysis

• Brief Respite - With Catalyzing Shields, Khora only has 75 shield. Brief Respite + Augur Message allows us to refill this easily for shield gating.
• Augur Message - helps us with our shield gating and gives some needed ability duration. Simply cast 4-strangledome to refill shields.
• Fleeting Expertise - Important to keep Strangledome's cost down and allow us to spam Whipclaw.
• Overextended + Cunning Drift - Helps max Whipclaws AoE and give us a huge area on our Strangledome
• Accumulating Whipclaw - Additive bonus to ability strength, meaning that it negates negative strength and gives 290% extra damage. Average 1 million damage per hit.*
• Pilfering Strangledome - Helps with the process of farming.
• Equilibrium - Thanks to Strangledome and our companion, its actually fairly easy to get lots of health orbs and thus Energy with this mod.
• Rolling Guard - Helps remove status effects and keep us safe between shield gating intervals.
• Catalyzing Shields - Lets the whole build work.

*note - max combo counter + Ensnare + maxed [Accumulating Whipclaw] gives over 1,000,000 damage per hit on average. This scales up to 1,800,000 on average when you factor in Arcanes, making this Steel Path viable.

*note 2 - Companions: Panzer Vulpaphila can consistently feed [Equilibrium] for [Khora]. [Chesa Kubrow] has a [Nekros] effect, though it isn't very effective. [Djinn] with [Reawaken] + [Spare Parts] can help farm rare resources, though that set up is so simple I didn't include a build.