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The idea here is to use various generic damage buffs along with crit chance and attack speed to scale the knife base damage and DoT from bleeding/electrocution. Ideally, you want to use Chordclaw Strike every 10 seconds or less to upkeep Moebian Conductor and get more value from Voltaic Restoration.
Mk VI knife has decent horde clear, but Axial Slash significantly improves clear against dense/mixed hordes. Knife also lacks crowd control, which Axial Slash provides. The stun-on-crit provided by Electro-Strike Conduit is excellent with the knife and is one of the key factors making Skitarius a strong user of the weapon.
System Shock applies 10% brittleness per Electro-Strike Conduit proc up to 40% max. Combined with 7.5% rending from Foe-Render Creed and 15% from Branx Mk XI Phosphor Blast Pistol debuff, this gives you up to 62.5% rending and works on both your DoT and direct damage.
I was initially using Sequenced Charge for extra damage scaling, and it is good. Due to Skitarii's below-average stamina recovery, it's easy to run out of stamina when using push attacks on a regular basis, so I find Evasive Servo Recovery more useful after a good amount of time playing with the build. Going that direction also allows us to drop Residual Current Buffer (which is decent, but better with Redline Capacitors) and take Ablative Wards for better survivability against poxbursters, pox gas, and other sources of corruption. Having Ablative Wards is often the difference between going down or getting killed if you get hit by a burster, so I've come to value it a lot.