The [Afuris Prime] is clearly a status pistol

If low base critical chance and an average crit multiplier is not a good enough sign, there is the high base status of 30%, 12.5 fire rate, IPS (impact/puncture/slash) for [Galvanized Shot], and access to both [Lethal Torrent] and cascadia flare.

To put this build into perspective

Every bullet including multishot (3.9 with [Galvanized Diffusion] stacked up) has a 108% status chance to proc a status with a fire rate of 20 shots a second. Mathematically speaking that's an average of 84.24 status procs on a target in a second. Only 40 of those status procs need to be heat to max cascaia flare's 480% bonus damage. This is pretty consistent if the target lives with 187.2 of the weapon's damage being heat and 183 being viral plus IPS (impact/puncture/slash). Viral, which is the best status type to pair with dot damage for the buffing per damage tick, triggers a little more than the total IPS (impact/puncture/slash). This is an amazing balance to get majority heat procs, the max 10 stacks of viral procs, and a few normal IPS (impact/puncture/slash) procs just for [Galvanized Shot] bonuses.

Why not crits?

With a base 16% chance to crit and a 2x multiplier I view critical mods as building towards the weapons weakness. Why use valuable mod slots doing that when there are clear strengths to take advantage over. Honestly the average damage per raw shot is actually just slightly higher than a critical build because of all the raw elemental, BUT that's without considering the massive difference in the number of status procs, viral buffing the damage, the bonus of [Galvanized Shot] easily stacking up with a healthy ratio of different procs, cascdia flare's extra 120% damage over other arcanes, and the ton of big heat procs from all of this put together.

What are some preferences

Hornet Strike --> Bane Mod This is more damage with the double dipping mechanic of dot damage, but doesn't work against everything
Exilus Mod This is really whatever feels the best, but doesn't feel needed