One of the strongest weapons in the game currently. The primary fire feels like a lex prime but hits a truck. Getting 12 headshots charges up it's Incarnon mode (can be shortened to about 3-4 shots with multishot). Switching to Incarnon mode with alt-fire makes it feel like a pocket [Acceltra] with small AOE on impact but with significant damage. This build is a Devouring Attrition single target focused [Hemorrhage] build to create slash procs that bypass armor. This scales higher with armor compared to raw viral heat, but does not really become relevant until well into the level 1000-5000s.

Evolution Choices

• Evolution I - Incarnon mode

• Evolution II - Rapid Wrath: +20% Fire rate. Can use recoil perk if you don’t use one of Secondary Deadhead or Steady hands.

• Evolution III - Lethal Rearmament: +90% reload speed on headshot at 3 stacks, and increases transformation animation time. Currently the Feather of Justice perk is bugged in that it applies to other weapons too, but I expect this will get patched

• Evolution IV - Elemental Excess +20% status, -10% crit chance. Reducing crit chance increases the likelihood of Devouring Attrition boosted shots.

• Evolution V - Devouring Attrition: 50% chance to do 2000% damage on non-critical hits. This is currently multiplicative to base damage mods such as [Hornet Strike] and double dips the void damage instance of [Xata]'s Whisper, as well as increases the 750 flat damage of Cascadia Empowered to 750 x 21 = 15750 damage per status afflicted.

Mod Breakdown

• [Galvanized Diffusion]: +230% multishot at max stacks, meaning you get at least 3 bullets per shot with a 30% chance for 4. This allows you to basically do 3x more damage AND charge incarnon mode 3x faster.

• [Galvanized Shot]: +120% dmg per status. In incarnon mode, this build procs Impact, Slash, Viral and Radiation giving +480% dmg after only 1-2 hits.

• Primed Expel: A further 1.55 multiplier to hornet strike/deadhead and Devouring Attrition and double dips on slash DoTgiving them 2.4x multiplier. Use regular expel mod if no primed version as it is still a 1.3 or 1.69x multiplier.

• [Lethal Torrent]: Brings multishot to 3.9 so 90% of shots give 4 bullets, and gives fire rate (combined Rapid Wrath gives +80% fire rate total)

• Viral 60/60: Gives status chance and viral procs. One viral status gives a 2x multiplier on all subsequent hits, adding up to 4.25x multiplier at max 10 stacks.

• Steady Hands: Combines with recoil perk for -100% recoil for laser point accuracy. Lethal momentum is an alternative but this requires changing polarity.

• Cascadia Empowered: This is only used because currently, Devouring Attrition's 2000% Multiplier also applies to Cascadia Empowered's 750 flat damage, giving a 50% chance to create instances of 15,750 damage every status proc. Assuming approximately 4 multishot at 80% status chance, each shot creates approximately 3-4 statuses or potentially up to 63,000 extra raw damage per shot, in addition to approximately 50,000 damage from [Laetum] itself on each Devouring proc. This will fall off very quickly against armor, which is where the slash procs continue to shine. if this gets patched, then switch Arcane to Secondary Merciless.