Incarnon [Strun] is a Slash based AOE weapon. The perk elemental balance allows the incarnon mode to achieve 400% status per shot. The incarnon mode has a base 50% slash weight, meaning we can use status to create multiple slash procs per hit at a 100-200% rate. This is far stronger than [Hunter Munitions], which only has a 30% rate per crit.

[Strun Wraith] VS PRIME?

[Strun Prime] has approximately 16% more slash status DPS using this specific build.
[Strun Wraith] has approximately 2% more raw elemental DPS without counting viral procs.

EVOLUTIONS

EVOLUTION II : Blazing Barrel - gives multishot

EVOLUTION III : Rapid Reinforcement gives +60% reload speed to the insanely long base reload speed of the non-incarnon form of 4.6s. Stacks with +30% from Primary Merciless so the final reload speed is 2.4s. Reload speed also affects the transformation speed into incarnon mode.

EVOLUTION IV : Elemental Balance gives +11.3% status chance to EACH pellet on the base form. Since [Strun Prime] has 12 innate multishot, you end up with a total base status chance of 46 + 12*11.3=182% upon transforming since the incarnon form only has 1 base multishot. This means with just two 60% status mods, we can hit 182 x (1+0.6+0.6)=400.4 % status chance, i.e. guaranteed FOUR status effects per shot, before multishot. With 3 multishot we basically get TWELVE guaranteed statuses per trigger pull. At approximately 40% slash bias, we can get approximately 4 to 6 slash procs every fire.

MOD BREAKDOWN

• Galvanized Hell: Mandatory for multishot

• Critical Deceleration: Mandatory for Crit chance, setting final CC to 144%. Blunderbuss is your alternative.

• Primed Ravage: Mandatory for Crit damage, setting final CD to 7.1. The average crit multiplier is 1+144% X (7.1-1)=9.78x. Normal Ravage or Shrapnel Shot are alternatives

• Shotgun Barrage: More fire rate = more DPS and helps offset the -fire rate from critical deceleration

• Primed Cleanse Corrupted/Grineer: MULTIPLICATIVE to primary merciless and double dips DoT like slash for a final 2.4015x multiplier. If you don't want to use faction swap this out for Primed Point blank, Shotgun Savvy, Motus Setup

• [Frigid Blast] + [Toxic Barrage]: Makes viral which boosts slash proc damage by up to 4.25x at 10 stacks, and boosts status chance by +120%. Use MAX RANKED virals if running Sweeping Serration. Use UNRANKED virals if NOT using sweeping serration.

• [Sweeping Serration]: Needed to bring the natural slash weight of incarnon form back up so you get more frequent slash procs rather than viral procs. This is a FLEXIBLE SLOT for motus setup, shotgun savvy, galvanized savvy, primed point blank

• Primary Merciless: This is the main source of your base damage, stacking to +360% after 12 kills

FLEXIBLE/ALTERNATIVES

• Motus Setup provides more potential DPS than sweeping serration but requires you to bullet jump every 4s.
• Shotgun Savvy provides status chance which increases overall slash and viral procs, but does not boost the weighting.
• [Galvanized Savvy] gives slightly less status chance than [Shotgun Savvy], but provides +80% dmg for each status when using BASE FORM ONLY. Galvanized Savvy does NOT apply to the AOE of the incarnon form. You can use this if you like using both forms.
• [Hunter Munitions] provides an extra 30% chance per hit on crit to create a slash proc, which is worse than relying on natural slash status.

ELEMENTAL VARIATIONS

• Toxin for corpus: Swap Sweeping Serration and Frigid blast out for Contagious Spread + Primed Point Blank/Motus Setup/Galv Savvy
• Viral Electric for Murmurs or with Grouping: Swap Sweeping Serration for Primed Charged Shell (and make sure to reorder electric mod to last slot)
  

RIVEN
Ideal riven roll would be +CD/MS/CC/status chance/FR. Slash would be a good roll too for a dedicated grineer/corrupted biuld