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Class
Weapons
Shred
+4% Bonus Critical Chance on Chained Hit. Stacks 5 times.
Riposte
+16% Critical Chance for 4s on successful Dodge.
Crucian Roulette
+6% Critical Chance for each expended round in your weapon (resets on reload).
Infernus
5 Burn Stack(s) on Critical Hit to a maximum of 15 Stack(s).
Curios
+13-17% Toughness
+1-3 Max Stamina
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Description
Build Summary
This is a Frontline build with a focus on carving your way through heretics and having the Damage Reduction to back it up. Your goal with this build is to thin the hordes or target dangerous elites, Chordclaw Strike is both your engagement and your "get off me" tool. The Branx Mk XI Phosphor Blast Pistol is mainly your support tool, used to weaken bosses and apply 15 burn stacks to them or snipe Specials/Elites that your Artificer Servo-Skull can't while under the effects of Noospheric Command. When the skull isn't killing elites and is helping you thin the hordes it also buffs you with both Superior Defence Engrams and Hybrid Combat Covenant giving free toughness regeneration and melee damage.
Alternative: Voltaic Emitter
If you are not a big fan of Chord Claw and prefer Voltaic Emitter then remove all skills up to Voltaic Restoration and swap Channelled Motive Force for Sequenced Charge, then with your remaining points choose System Shock and Retribution Conduit, then spend your last talent point on the buff of your choice for Voltaic Emitter. However if you want to get more mileage out of your voltaic emitter I would recommend Wolfnacht's "Meta Voltaic Mauler" build instead.
Alternative Blessings:
Some other options for blessings for the Branx Mk XI Paired Transonic Blades would be to exchange Riposte for either Perfect Strike or Superiority.
For the Branx Mk XI Phosphor Blast Pistol, if you want to fully commit on this weapon being your Special/Elite sniping tool use Opening Salvo and Surgical.
Flex Nodes
I decided that Enhanced Capacitance Protocols would end up getting more mileage as it would keep one of our main offensive tools at max charges and the extra 5% capacitance really didn't feel like it was pulling its weight enough.
Hydraulic Impact can be replaced for Adaptive Combat Engram
If you want more survivability swap Hybrid Combat Covenant for Threat Detection Imperative
Lastly if you wish to take the Medicae skull instead of Noospheric I would recommend swapping your Phosphor pistol blessings to the one above