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by kilvorian — last updated 3 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
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Hi there, This build is something that was cooked up when I was trying to figure out how to pump up my damage even further on Mesa. But will work on any frame assuming you follow these important steps.
TL:DR- use [Ceramic Dagger] incarnon for easy secondary outburst stacking, use melee crescendo on another melee weapon for higher stacks but a more annoying path to build those combo stacks.
Another recommendation here but not mandatory is to run orange Archon shards(Increase Secondary Critical Chance by 1% every time you kill an enemy affected by heat. Max 50%) in whatever frame you're using as this will quickly stack up and start giving you consistent orange and even red crits since the main status here will be heat.
If you don't have or don't want to run Secondary Outburst Cascadia Flare is a good 2nd option.
The reason this all works so well is the [Sentient Surge] mod. This allows you to never need to reload(ideally) which also means you will have max tendrils out most if not all of the mission, and so with 4 extra tendrils out that home in on whatever is in the direction you're aiming you're getting +240% status and critical chance. Also Secondary Outburst gives you +180%-200% crit chance and crit damage on top of this with a stacked [Ceramic Dagger](you can get to 10x) I know what you're thinking... well why wouldn't I just put [Primed Pistol Gambit] or [Creeping Bullseye] in then and give myself even more crits? The answer is, you can do that if you want but it won't be as strong. You lose a status effect which hurts the other mods in this build([Galvanized Shot] and [Sentient Surge])
You can swap out [Primed Pistol Ammo Mutation] for [Ruinous Extension] if you wish but I personally find having the extra ammo pickup to be more beneficial. Again you're thinking but if I never have to reload why would I need [Primed Pistol Ammo Mutation]? the answer there is you never have to reload in perfect situations. Situations are not always perfect. sometimes you press x to pick something up and accidentally reload, sometimes you get unlucky with a really beefy eximus, Sister, or Lich. End of the day you don't want to have this awesome weapon sitting there with no ammo.
You can swap out [Jolt] for [Pistol Pestilence] if you want to change magnetic to viral.
I could go deeper here but I'd rather just get this out there. Just know if you're thinking it, I probably have as well and already tested it out and decided this is da wei! Enjoy friends!