Volt Prime

Patch 35.0

Patch 35.0

Volt Prime - Capacitance Volt | General Use Steel Path/Endurance (Patch 35.0)

PATCH VERSION 35.0
MASTERY REQUIRED 0
FORMA REQUIRED 3
ENDO REQUIRED 187,350

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Capacitance Volt | General Use Steel Path/Endurance

Introduction:

General use build for regular starchart or steel path endurance focusing on using discharge primarily for crowd control but also for trash mob nuking and [Capacitance] augment so discharge fills shields to reset shieldgate, while also using 2 for speed buff and 3 for protection and crit multiplier buff. Shock is generally the subsume slot, for either AOE armor strip such as Terrify/Fireblast/Pillage, or grouping such as Ensnare/Airburst/Larva/Coil Horizon.

Playstyle:

  1. Ideally replace 1 with something like ensnare and use frequently for grouping or terrify for armor strip. You can target enemies for ensnare easier after you have stunned them with discharge. Cast 4 followed by grouping or armor strip as your main source of crowd control and ability DPS.
  2. Keep 2 active on cooldown for reload buff/melee attack speed buff
  3. Keep 3 active at all times for protection, electricity bonus and crit multiplier boost. If stationary, you can stack 6 shields together for a +300% electricity damage bonus (additive and separate damage instance). If you want to be mobile, pick the shield up to [Protect] your front.
  4. If shields break, roll and cast 4 to regenerate shields and crowd control

Build Specifics:

We keep overall balanced stats with positive duration, efficiency and strength around 130%+ but very high range. This is mainly so discharge has a wider range of crowd control and if you subsume ensnare, ensnare has a wider range. Discharge is mainly used for crowd control in steel path endurance rather than damage as it falls of against armor, and shield does not scale off strength. Note that Molt Augmented pushes strength to 180% at max, which is plenty.

Flexible Slots

Archon Shards

Focus School
Vazarin for i-frames in endurance Steel Path
Zenurik for better energy economy, particularly if you don't own energize
Unairu for shield and armor strip that works on acolytes and demolysts, especially if you decide to subsume Ensnare/Grouping instead of Terrify

Helminth Options:

Arsenal:

No real weapon synergies exist, however electric DoT based weapons have a matching 'theme' and also thrive as electric DoTs chain in groups and can headshot when enemies are ensnared (rather than ragdolled like in larva/airburst). Some fun electric options:

Another fun loadout option is to use Argonak with the Amalgam Argonak Metal Auger mod to allow electric/gas daggers to strip armor in an AOE and let the daggers kill quickly:

Tenet agendus is another electric grouping based melee weapon:

Alternatively, because Electric Shield increases crit damage, some good crit based weapons to use include:

Companion
Any sentinel running [Mystic Bond] for free casting
[Nautilus] for free grouping.
[Deconstructor] with [Vicious Bond] for free armor strip.
[Dethcube] for more energy.