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by ninjase — last updated 4 months ago
A weapon that reaches for its next victim even as it kills. With each takedown, this pistol spawns an energy tendril that reaches for a nearby target.
ITEM RANK
3060 / 60
APPLY CONDITIONALS
[Ocucor] is a beam weapon that creates up to four homing tendrils that appear upon getting kills. Normally these disappear and need to be rebuilt upon reload, but having the new augment [Sentient Surge] should allow you to indefinitely maintain your magazine without reloading, thereby maintaining maximum tendrils while also gaining bonus crit and status chance.
[Galvanized Shot]: Mandatory +120% dmg per unique status, i.e. +480% dmg after proccing puncture, radiation, heat and viral.
[Galvanized Diffusion]: Mandatory +230% multishot at max stacks. Double dips status damage on beam weapons like [Ocucor]
[Sentient Surge]: Mandatory augment, allows you to maintain four tendrils without reloading and increases both CC and SC by up to +240% at 4 tendrils active.
Primed Target Cracker: For crit damage. this is flexible for Primed Expel Grineer/Corrupted. This may be ideal in endurance runs against one faction. Note: with Puncture changes, [Ocucor] can now give itself +25% flat crit chance after 5 puncture procs, which makes [Primed Target Cracker] about 3% better than Primed Expel even without Arcane Avenger. If you run external crit damage eg [Dagath]'s Grave Spirit or [Tenacious Bond], Primed Expel would give higher DPS.
[Lethal Torrent]: Mandatory for fire rate and additional multishot which double dips status damage. If you run external fire rate eg [Wisp]'s Haste mote, [Harrow]'s Penance, Arcane Velocity or [Reinforced Bond], Primed Expel would give higher DPS.
[Pistol Pestilence] + [Ice Storm]: Gives both status chance and viral status which boosts all health damage by 4.25x at 10 stacks. [Ice Storm] increases the amount of ammo reloaded per kill.
[Primed Heated Charge]: Boosts raw DPS and heat status DPS, which is your main source of damage. Heat procs have infinite scaling because they do not have a limit on most enemies.
Exilus: Either [Ruinous Extension] to [Extend] beam length or Primed Ammo Mutation if you have ammo issues.
For corpus or murmur enemies, you can consider swapping Primed Heated Charge for Primed Convulsion to make Viral Electric since certain corpus/murmur enemies take bonus damage to electric. You will also need to chance Cascadia Flare for Merciless.
The ideal riven is MS, CD, FR with tox/dmg/cc as secondary options. Having CD allows you to replace [Primed Target Cracker] which is the weakest option in the build. Having tox on the riven allows you to replace [Pistol Pestilence].
Cascadia Flare: Easiest to maintain +480% dmg, you lose all stacks if it expires but you can build it back up to max in seconds
Secondary Encumber: Theoretically gives 13 unique status effects after 2-3 seconds, meaning you get +1560% dmg from [Galvanized Shot] (1080 on top of the innate statuses), but only after a ramp up. Note however, only one enemy out of the initial target + four tendrils can be affected by encumbers status proc at any one instance so the overall effectiveness is reduced. This is a good option on single target applications in endurance where enemies take longer than 2-3 seconds to kill.
Secondary Merciless: Third best option, giving +360% dmg which decays every 3s