allansramblings

I finally got the ceramic dagger Incarnon and am in the process of forma'ing it for my Gara. I'm curious on Rivens and Critical Damage interaction. If the Incarnon base 30% crit gives shattered lash the ability to crit, will that mean you can also increase it's crit damage through Rivens, or will it still be capped at the 1.0x multiplier? I have a Ceramic Dagger Riven that gives 44.4 initial combo and 143% crit damage and as I play lazily and don't manage combo at all, the 74 starting combo would be amazing to have. However, if the critical damage is wasted then I may as well keep rolling the Riven.

I did not know that Ceramic Dagger Incarnon allowed Gara to crit. I'll have to try that out. I thought Tenet weapons were good for Gara because of Riven Dispositions etc. But I could be working on outdated information.

Even for Gara? 'Cause I pretty much only play Gara as far as the pseudo-Exalted frames are concerned. As I intend to subsume Dispensary over Spectrorage for energy, I won't really have a good way to group enemies. Edit: I do have a Riven for my Zenistar which is +23 initial combo, +133.5% melee damage. At the moment it's my best performing melee that I know of.

With the release of Kullervo, I see potential in things like the Xoris/Tenet Livia, etc. Using Rauta to proc melee combo counter (as the Rauta increases melee combo per shot hit, stacking multishot = more pellets, more pellets = more combo counter), while having the Xoris/Tenet Livia, etc holstered. I was planning on using this on Gara. While it sounds good in my head, it's probably overshadowed by other things. Assuming if you're fast enough you could just use another weapon that has better riven disposition etc. But I generally don't use a combo build even though I know the potential is higher because I'm lazy with upkeep. Rauta would allow me to circumvent that. I'd love to hear others thoughts on the idea. EDIT: Did some very light testing. Zenistar is currently my best non-combo stat stick because of a Riven I have for it and I get about 21k~ for each cast after the first (For some reason the first cast is 32k~). The Xoris using a sub-optimal build (it only has one forma and I'm using Blood Rush to track combo counter) and Rauta to stack combo to 11x cap I was getting about 35k~ every cast. There's probably some inconsistency because of Primary Blade Charger.