Why do we use?

Encumber - This is basically mandatory on the [Nukor], as well as continuous weapons in general, there are just too many upsides to consider anything else.

Not only do we generate Viral, but also Corrosive, Magnetic, Gas, Blast, Etc. which all supremely benefit Heat as a status in their own way.
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When we combine Encumber with GS, we end up with a potential 1680% base damage increase.

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In order to calculate how long it will take for Encumber to generate all 13 of its unique status effects, see below;

• First line calculates Harmonic Series, basically saying, “To what power must e be raised to equal x”

• Second multiplies estimated Harmonic Series with number of probabilities (13)
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  *This says how many total encumber generated instances needed to generate all 13 effects, which is around 42 times. (This result is constant for ALL secondaries)

• Third calculates how many Encumber Status we generate per second

• Fourth divides them which tells us how long it takes to generate all 13 status, which happens to be 1.84 seconds

You can reverse fourth equation and multiply by status effect duration in seconds to find out how many procs you will average before stacks begin to decay. For Viral this happens to be 3.26 stacks

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Some additional things to note, only one encumber effect can be generated per instance of time, that means even if your beam chains to 3 targets, only 1 enemy can activate Encumber per tick of damage ( this is so AOE status effects like gas and electric aren't obscenely broken )
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However, the opposite is also true, it one damage instance does NOT activate encumber, the enemies that the beam chains to has an additional chance until one hits.

This means that Encumber has a hard cap, and in a [Vacuum], will [Reach] its cap of generating 13 unique status effects in exactly one second This value can ONLY be exceeded with Fire Rate.
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Multishot, Status Chance above 100, AOE, and Punch Through do NOT count.

[Pistol Elementalist] is a Multiplicative status damage increase separate from Expel and applied to modded Elemental Damage

How Multishot Works on Continuous Beams:

If a continuous weapon has a multishot of 1.5, its basically a 50% chance to apply a dealt instance of damage twice. It will take the final damage result of a shot and essentially ‘copy and paste’ that value onto itself. Compare this to traditional multishot, which is more like rolling 2 damage die instead of one.

Additional beam multishot also increases the status chance of an individual tick, if we generate a ‘2’ multishot with 60% sc, that instance will be copied and pasted onto itself for 120% sc, for 3 multishot thats 180% sc, and so on.

Not only that, but status damage from SINGLE elements like toxin are applied twice on top of increased status chance, basically all continuous weapons have an innate faction multiplier for base elements.

A single damage tick consumes 0.5 ammo instead of 1.

Should you choose: [Kuva Nukor] vs [Tenet Cycron]

Kuva nukors crit stats are so abysmal its not even worth modding for, so in this department [Cycron] takes a massive lead

[Cycron] is a battery making it a more efficient primer as it will always have full ammo when you swap back to it

[Nukor] has a 10% status advantage at 50%, but when you account for fire rate, the gap closes to 10 vs 9.6 procs per second barely in nukors favor.

[Cycron] does 1.5 more damage per shot and deals 4 tick of damage more per second

[Nukor] has a hidden ‘microvawe’ status effect making this weapon the best on paper primer in the game.

[Cycron] has innate heat and will proc significantly more heat stacks per second than a [Nukor] of the same build

Overall, The [Cycron] seems to be designed around pure elemental dps while [Nukor] was designed for priming, therefor, i have to give the overall best option to the [Ocucor] >:P