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@rapid: I made 6 forma the last few days, just for the bloody thing.

no capability to equip the tennogen sybaris skin yet... I fear for the worst. Makes you think twice to spend money on that.

And damn the dex sybaris stats are dumb in a good way. Red crits here I come.

@belegorm: some frames are hidden behind quests requiring certain resources which are difficult to get for beginners (Mirage).

There are certain frames which make it easier to obtain crafting materials, for instance Frost in defense or excavation missions. Without knowing the text you are referring to, it is hard to make a statement how accurate said text is. I personally recommend to just play and set small scale goals.

If you're in any of the clans ask around in alliance chat. If not; hmm the friends system is really tedious and easy to oversee, but eh send a friend request my way (all the necessary info should be in the main clan forum thread (the one made by rapid). Can probably help with Chroma and possible farming of keys, I am low on certain T3 keys myself, but I am ok with farming t1 and t2 keys. "This evening" I am actually out and about so don't fret if I don't respond immediately.

Dumping my 5 forma sybaris would make a sad panda. Also knowing DE they probably forgot to enable all the Sybaris skins for the Dex Sybaris.

The actual reason to do the 1.000 cuts endurance run is for the chance to get the dual damage/status chance mods for the electricity damage type. They also drop from Hive sabotage loot caches, but well drop chance seems pretty low compared to the alleged 5% you have here. Besides good idea to test some melee weapons in an interesting environment.

@mr_button_press: Tower 2 exterminate yielded some decent chance for forma in the past, but that is anecdotal. So take that with a grain of salt or a whole salt mine.

Anyway on to guns. Note that is is personal opinion and highly anecdotal as well:

Basically a lot of guns are "endgame viable" if you plonk enough forma into it. Thing is, Tonkor supersedes almost all of them if not really all. If you just want "the best" then get a tonkor.

Right I go ahead and vomit some stuff of mine in here

Gallery

First one is my personal choice for valkyr, it is by no means meta nor does it make any sense. It revolves around running around racking up red crits with melee weapons and use ult as a get ouf of jail card or if I have to revive someone. This build also allows me to yell at mobs and then stab 'em in the face with a dagger. I did use a flow instead of that armoured agility a while back, but eh that slight speed buff feels nice. Also my get up from downed animation is so quick it looks kinda dumb.

The second one is a close to "meta" valkyr build revolving around staying in ult for the whole time. Note that if you go with that, your weapon becomes a container for mods to carry over to your exalted weapon (her ult claws). That means you just pick some trash thing and plonk some weird stuff into it that makes sense for her claws. For example I used the machete wraith cause its garbage, so I have a machete wraith with berserker, crit chance and primed reach. It is probably best if you read up on the mechanics for exalted weapons (for example exalted blade) and setup trash gear for that purpose.

Next up is the Sybaris, my current go to gun for all most everything. Pretty standard except the Argon scope I think. The argon scope is the "pick whatever you want slot" You could with another 90% elemental mod, or heavy caliber - I hate how heavy caliber works so I hardly ever use it. The thing about Shred is not the firerate for me but the punchthrough which is enough for most enemies you encounter => makes the gun more ammo efficient.

Next up is the vaykor marelok and why I think its stupid. 4k corrosive damage + punch through? Dafuq? Note that my other setups are radiation/viral and a pure viral build for raids or teams with 4 times corrosive projection. If I run a mission against corpus I take the 4k corrosive build because fuck Bursas (really fuck those things, armoured corpus enemy... great)

Next up ought to be that red crit mios build. Does redcrits around 2.5 damage multiplier. I like the mios because of its stance that has a lot of displacements in its combos (think Mortal Kombat's Skorpion). Not the fastest weapon to get red crits mind you.

The other mios build is the non red crit build. Not much to say, I just weep how I can't install primed reach into the red crit build :<

Dark Dagger builds

Still super unsure what the best one here is. I think I took the build with gleaming blight to the endurance run of the 1.000 cuts alert and had some fun (it really was fun) Thing about daggers is that they are super niche as in: you need covert lethality, otherwise don't bother with em otherwise I think.

Last my tonkor build: Basically one of the standard variations of it (It can red crit with that argon scope and I hate heavy caliber)

As final note:

for mods and weapon setups:

Most of the time you have a core set of mods that are a "false choice" meaning that you have to have them and its not really a choice not to have them, I think the FAQ covers those. Once you have those down well it opens up a little bit, but it always makes sense to mod for a guns strength (crit, status, raw damage) or to try to alleviate certain weaknesses (I have a faster reload speed mod for my akmagnus cause they take ages to reload)

That's it I think...

I'll post some sad things later;

Looks like servers are now less poopy :o

Listing League of Legends for the (MOBA) category instead of the WarCraft 3 DotA, Interesting choice.

yeah knockdown resistance mods sure help out, probably together with a good AoE weapon (aka not the machete)

Though at some point I have to dagger that endurance run just for funsies.