For use with my Xata's Whisper Revenant Prime build in the Index.
Rad + Cold deals the most to alloy armor, which most of the enemies in the Index have.
Deadhead over Merciless because the buff from Merciless is unreliably short, and the reload speed buff is negligible because of [Primed Tactical Pump]. Deadhead also synergizes with void status procs on enemy heads, as it will redirect ALL the remaining pellets into the enemies head.
Primed Cleanse Corpus + Primed Point Blank double dips in Xata's Whisper damage buff. An in-depth explanation can be found here.
tl;dr use [Xata]'s Whisper and aim for the head