This Build
- Reliant heavily on headshots and conditionals
- Damage scales up but requires a few kills first
- Able to OHKO level 160 Corrupted Heavy Gunners after 1-5 kills on headshot
- No Bleed procs, reliant on instant damage
- The first kill may take a few shots
Conditionals (as best I understand them lol)
- Proc Corrosive Status (66% chance)
- Deal Critical (4.4x damage multiplier at 90% chance)
- Critical Headshot (2x damage multiplier)
- Multishot (80% chance for an additional shot)
- Max Zoom (+60% headshot multiplier = 3.2x damage multiplier on headshot)
- Proc Bladed Rounds (+120% critical damage multiplier = 6.8x) (1 kill requirement)
- Proc Galvanized Chamber (+150% chance for an additional shot = 230% chance for additional shots) (5 kill requirement)
- Proc [Galvanized Scope] (+320% critical chance = 6.8x damage multiplier at 186% chance) (86% chance for double critical damage multiplier = 13.6x) (5 kill requirement)
- Proc Primary Deadhead (+360% raw damage) (3 kill requirement)
- Sniper Shot Combo at 5 kills (2x 2.5x multiplier) (includes multishot)
Why use Primary Deadhead over Primary Merciless?
- Deadhead has a duration of 24 seconds, which is much more forgiving to find new targets to keep your conditionals up
- Build requires headshots, which synergizes well with Deadhead's requirements
- Only requires 3 kills to gain maximum effect, which works on precision weapons like this one, as opposed to Merciless needing 12
Other Builds
Bane Mods
- Separate +55% damage multiplier
- Swap out Serration
- Requires swapping Bane Mod to correct faction (not good for missions with multiple factions, this is why I don't use them despite the extra damage, personal preference)
(damage with conditionals)
- Total damage - 18,116
- Average Hit - 213,554
- Burst DPS - 427,108
- Sustained DPS - 238,973
Viral + Hunter Munitions
- More reliant on Bleed procs rather than direct headshot kills, which means Galvanized Scope will not proc
- Replace High Voltage for Rime Rounds and Bladed Rounds for Hunter Munitions
- Replace [Galvanized Scope] for [Galvanized Aptitude] for increased status chance and damage (or Argon Scope for increased critical chance(which only procs on headshot, not headshot kills))
- For max damage out of this replace Serration for Bane Mods
- Usually requires multiple headshots, and waiting for the Bleed proc to take effect
- Can swap [Rime Rounds] and [Malignant Force] for Primed Cryo Rounds and Infected Clip for increased raw damage at the cost of only 54% status chance as opposed to 90%
- Viral and Bleed procs ignore enemy armor, provide damage over time and a damage multiplier
(damage with conditionals)
- Total damage - 30,719
- Average Hit - 124,720
- Burst DPS - 270,668
- Sustained DPS - 181,137
