INTRODUCTION

This is a standard melee build for [Hespar]. All mods that are used will be explained below. This is a combo use, aka E spam.

MODS

[Condition Overload]: Standard, you need +dmg mods on your melee. We do not use [Primed Pressure Point] or [Sacrificial Pressure] with this as it is additive.

[Blood Rush]: Standard, we will be using this to increase crit chance per combo stack. We do not use [Sacrificial Steel] with this as it is additive.

[Weeping Wounds]: Standard, Weeping allows us to apply a multitude of slash procs on enemies, as this is your main form of damage.

[Organ Shatter]: Standard, crit damage is necessary.

Berserker: Standard, you can replace this with [Primed Fury] as well.

[Primed Reach]: Range allows us to hit more enemies with our melee, building up combo faster. If you do not have it, you can replace it with [Spring-Loaded Blade].

[Primed Smite Grineer]: All faction mods double dip on DoTs. This means that they are applied twice in the damage calculation on, with DoTs being heat, slash, electric, gas, and toxin. A regular [Smite Grineer] gives you a 1.69x (1.3^2) final damage multiplier on DoTs, and a [Primed Smite Grineer] gives you a 2.40x (1.55^2) final damage multiplier, much more than another +dmg mod does.

[Carnis Mandible]: [Hespar]'s slash weighting is not the best at base, 48%. With [Carnis Mandible], it is a bit better at 64%.

For Corpus: Swap out [Carnis Mandible] for [Primed Fever Strike], and change faction mods. This will require an extra Madurai polarity on [Weeping Wounds] or [Organ Shatter]. It is not recommended to use a Naramon polarity, as that may lock your build options should something change in the future.

HOW TO USE, STANCE, AND MORE

If the opponent will not go down in two hits, prime using a viral primer (I like Epitaph ), and then kill. Otherwise, you should be fine to keep spamming E. [Galeforce Dawn] is the only stance we can use. Use the neutral combo of [Galeforce Dawn], Stormreaper, for the best multipliers and forced procs. [Galeforce Dawn] can headshot quite often, giving you bonus multipliers on top of what you are already getting.

Additive damage:
Take for example, a weapon does 100 damage. Add [Primed Pressure Point] (+165% damage ) mod and you get 265 damage. Add [Spoiled Strike], a +100% damage mod and you get 365 damage. Now if you compare the first two, yes that’s a 165% increase. However, adding [Spoiled Strike] is only a 38% increase, from 265 to 365, not a 100% increase like the mod says. This is because most mods scale off of base damage, and not modded damage. Because of this, adding more +dmg mods will equal less than it looks like it will.

Now as you keep adding these mods, they will keep adding together. If you use something that is multiplicative such as faction mods, you'll increase your dps much more than additive damage. All faction mods double dip on DoTs. This means that they are applied twice in the damage calculation, with DoTs being heat, slash, electric, gas, and toxin. A regular [Smite Grineer] gives you a 1.69x final damage multiplier on DoTs, and a [Primed Smite Grineer] gives you a 2.40x final damage multiplier, much more than another +dmg mod does.