Right now I’m using Gyre to make it an “AoE” weapon with Cathode Grace/Rotorswell/Cathode Current, since this always crits, but single targets are intended to be killed by slash procs. I’m using a Panzer Vulpaphyla for Viral primer. I stacked base damage for the Hunter Munitions slash procs. I’m using Primary Merciless with the intention of bleed effect kills counting, but I’m not sure if they proc Primary Merciless or not. Incarnon mode feels like it shortens TTK but not by an extreme amount.
The riven’s effects on the current build are visible in the display.
Some specific questions:
Should I be using Hata-Satya here? What would you remove?
Thoughts on what I should subsume over Gyre’s 1? Tharros Strike seems redundant with the concept of slash procs even though it turns things into swiss cheese anyway. Roar is a staple (and I guess it would help rotorswell), but is there something else? Maybe Nourish for viral and using a sentinel companion for the vigilante set’s chance to enhance critical hits? Of course I don’t have Grendel yet so that’ll be a bit of a chore :)
Are there other warframes that might work better to make up for Soma’s single target style?
Should I swap out Critical Delay, since the riven on its own puts me at 93.4% crit (plus Cathode Grace), or is the extra 60% for 7.9x normal/8.8x incarnon worth it?
Is the riven as good as it seems, or would you re-roll? What would you look for?
I don’t think the status is high enough for the new cold procs to help, or I would consider those.
Hata-Satya is not very useful here imo, it is most useful when you don’t have enough critical chance.
I personally subsumed Pillage for my Gyre to give her a bit more survivability. If it’s not your concern, then Roar can’t go wrong. The deciding factor of Nourish for me is whether the frame would run into energy problem, and my playstyle of Gyre won’t so it’s up to you. I would only consider the viral aspect if I find the need for a specific sentinel/pet. Vigilante set also seemed a bit exuberant to me, but more damage is more damage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Right off the back of my head, Mirage seems to be the next best candidate for “AOE” Soma, then Saryn or Grendel since they spread viral on their own. I personally like gunplay with Chroma and Wisp, since both buff guns to stupid levels and allow you to ignore everything else to focus on gunplay.
I’d say It mostly depend on whether you would use the incarnon mode. I quite like it so I have both Critical Delay and critical chance on my riven.
I personally don’t like the -dmg to Corpus, but other than that, it seems pretty good.
The recent cold status tweak is still to young for people to discover it’s potential. If we want to utilize that, we would be building around Frostbite, I recommend this video from Gamble if you want to dig deeper into it.
Putting Pillage on would reduce the reliance on hunter munitions.