Mildly curious: Good primary and secondary for Steel Path?

[EmberStar]

I'm just curious what people have found useful for clearing Steel Path.  Not necessarily for hour long (or multi-hour) Endless runs, just for doing the missions once and being done with it.  Melee seems to be basically "Redeemer Prime," although with a far different build than I would normally use.

I've tried the first few missions, and can't seem to find primary or secondary weapons that really do all that much.  I suppose maybe that's because "Melee is King" now?

I'm mostly just curious.  The Operator outfit is nice, but not essential to me.  The extra Mastery might be helpful if I decide to try to increase my MR any higher though, I guess.

[(PSN)NeunDrachen]

I run with:

Melee: synoid heliocor, nikana prime, rakta dark dagger, telos boltace and war. All assigned to a particular frame. Probs a few more but i cant remember em atm

Primary: strun wraith, sobek, synoid simulor, daikyu(fer lifesteal with nikana p). Cant go wrong with ignis wraith or amprex tho.

Secondaries: atomos/nukor(still testing for my build) pyrana prime, and twin grakatas. I use scourge for headshots and that usually melts enemies hella fast

More of a melee guy so i dont rlly bother with guns all that much

[Proscriptor]

dera vandal and akzani

[bibmobello]

41 minutes ago, EmberStar said:

I'm just curious what people have found useful for clearing Steel Path.  Not necessarily for hour long (or multi-hour) Endless runs, just for doing the missions once and being done with it.  Melee seems to be basically "Redeemer Prime," although with a far different build than I would normally use.

I've tried the first few missions, and can't seem to find primary or secondary weapons that really do all that much.  I suppose maybe that's because "Melee is King" now?

I'm mostly just curious.  The Operator outfit is nice, but not essential to me.  The extra Mastery might be helpful if I decide to try to increase my MR any higher though, I guess.

Currently i use secondaries and primaries like an utility for spreading status and get free energy from syndicate weapons like Rakta cernos and synoid gammacor or tysis and mutalist cernos just for status on big enemies.

Kuva nukor is probably the best for that but consider kitguns dealing a bit less damage can use the pax bolt on them, a big buff  for channeling abilities.

Redeemer prime is good but not the best,

kronen prime, venka prime and a balla with the argonak mod and stinging thorn stance(overalls against grineers) shred them easily but you can really use (almost) any melee in steel path but against demolist missions and emissary ... Just use Condition overload and bloodrush.

This doesn't mean you can use just primaries to kill enemies, i use a prisma grakata sometimes but with a riven. Good weapons like kuva chakkur, kuva kohm and bramma continue to kill them easily, you just need a proper build and faction mods help.

[Tiltskillet]

11 minutes ago, (PS4)NeunDrachen said:

strun wraith

Are you using it mainly  to kill stuff, or to apply status and kill with other weapons?

I love the Strun, but it feels pretty lackluster to me as a primary since the shotgun overhaul.  

[(PSN)NeunDrachen]

7 minutes ago, Tiltskillet said:

Are you using it mainly  to kill stuff, or to apply status and kill with other weapons?

I love the Strun, but it feels pretty lackluster to me as a primary since the shotgun overhaul.  

 

To kill things. Tbf, have a riven with a S#&$ ton of cc and cd so that might be the reason it takes me like 5-6 shots to kill a 125 cortupted heavy g. That said, i usually run it on gauss for boosted fire rate and reload speed.

[TheArcSet]

I'm using Quanta_Vandal/Staltha, Prisma_Twin_Gremlins/Tombfinger/Athodia, Caustacyst/Telos_Boltace/stick/Furrax_Wraith/Nikanas/Raktos_Dark_Dagger.

If you mod smartly, most will do.

[844448]

Lato, that's all I need to go with my Vauban and Nyx

[bibmobello]

Just now, 844448 said:

Lato, that's all I need to go with my Vauban and Nyx

Can you use 2 frames at the same time?

[844448]

1 minute ago, bibmobello said:

Can you use 2 frames at the same time?

Bring one of them as specter, 2 frames at the same time

[bibmobello]

Just now, 844448 said:

Bring one of them as specter, 2 frames at the same time

That's cheating!!!! i would like to see what's happened if it was Nightmare SP mission!

[(XBOX)ShadowBlood89]

29 minutes ago, (PS4)NeunDrachen said:

I run with:

Melee: synoid heliocor, nikana prime, rakta dark dagger, telos boltace and war. All assigned to a particular frame. Probs a few more but i cant remember em atm

Primary: strun wraith, sobek, synoid simulor, daikyu(fer lifesteal with nikana p). Cant go wrong with ignis wraith or amprex tho.

Secondaries: atomos/nukor(still testing for my build) pyrana prime, and twin grakatas. I use scourge for headshots and that usually melts enemies hella fast

More of a melee guy so i dont rlly bother with guns all that much

im using my kuva nukor >:U CHAIN DEATH TO ALL FOES

[(PSN)NeunDrachen]

1 minute ago, (XB1)ShadowBlood89 said:

im using my kuva nukor >:U CHAIN DEATH TO ALL FOES

Does the kuva nukor chain enemies like atomos?

[bibmobello]

1 minute ago, (XB1)ShadowBlood89 said:

im using my kuva nukor >:U CHAIN DEATH TO ALL FOES

If only existed a secondary like the scourge!

[kevoisvevo]

try the knell 

[bibmobello]

Just now, (PS4)NeunDrachen said:

Does the kuva nukor chain enemies like atomos?

Yes same for gaze.

[EmberStar]

43 minutes ago, bibmobello said:

Currently i use secondaries and primaries like an utility for spreading status and get free energy from syndicate weapons like Rakta cernos and synoid gammacor or tysis and mutalist cernos just for status on big enemies.

Kuva nukor is probably the best for that but consider kitguns dealing a bit less damage can use the pax bolt on them, a big buff  for channeling abilities.

Redeemer prime is good but not the best,

kronen prime, venka prime and a balla with the argonak mod and stinging thorn stance(overalls against grineers) shred them easily but you can really use (almost) any melee in steel path but against demolist missions and emissary ... Just use Condition overload and bloodrush.

This doesn't mean you can use just primaries to kill enemies, i use a prisma grakata sometimes but with a riven. Good weapons like kuva chakkur, kuva kohm and bramma continue to kill them easily, you just need a proper build and faction mods help.

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind.  I don't really use Rivens.  Most of the handful I have are from devstreams or alert rewards, and randomly generated for weird weapons.  (I've got one for Phage, I think.)  I've actually gotten two as random gifts - was in a mission using an odd weapon like the Glaxion, and someone just offered me a riven for it.  I guess maybe they wanted the slot freed up.  (This was before Riven Transmuters, so it was give it away or melt it for endo I suppose?)

in any case I mostly just don't pay attention to rivens.  The ones I have aren't worth selling, and I since I don't want to deal with Trade Chat I couldn't afford one worth having.

As far as using primary/secondary as utility, I guess that means I should remember that the Miter + Nullifier popping mod exists.

[bibmobello]

26 minutes ago, EmberStar said:

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind.  I don't really use Rivens.  Most of the handful I have are from devstreams or alert rewards, and randomly generated for weird weapons.  (I've got one for Phage, I think.)  I've actually gotten two as random gifts - was in a mission using an odd weapon like the Glaxion, and someone just offered me a riven for it.  I guess maybe they wanted the slot freed up.  (This was before Riven Transmuters, so it was give it away or melt it for endo I suppose?)

in any case I mostly just don't pay attention to rivens.  The ones I have aren't worth selling, and I since I don't want to deal with Trade Chat I couldn't afford one worth having.

As far as using primary/secondary as utility, I guess that means I should remember that the Miter + Nullifier popping mod exists.

A venka prime can melt the emissary SP in 5 minutes without a riven, few weapons can do better even with a riven. The miter mod is just useless, you just need a good beam secondary weapon like synoid, nukor or gaze because thank god the bubble health doesn't increase with levels.

Rivens help(a lot) if you like to go further on missions instead to spend just 5 minutes.

[EmberStar]

2 minutes ago, bibmobello said:

A venka prime can melt the emissary SP in 5 minutes without a riven, few weapons can do better even with a riven. The miter mod is just useless, you just need a good beam secondary weapon like synoid, nukor or gaze.

You must be using a different stance and build than I have equipped then.  Since the stance rework Venka Prime for me has been slow and awkward to use, with way too many weird animations.  Grabbing the air and underhand punching nothing seems to happen quite a lot.  It *looks* like it should be a finisher, but it seems to lead the combo.  😞  Sort of like the Gunsun stance and that bizarre "fans face" animation that interrupts the main combo.  In my opinion that *should* be an idle animation, not part of the fighting moves.  But whatever, no one at DE asked my opinion on it.

[bibmobello]

19 minutes ago, EmberStar said:

You must be using a different stance and build than I have equipped then.  Since the stance rework Venka Prime for me has been slow and awkward to use, with way too many weird animations.  Grabbing the air and underhand punching nothing seems to happen quite a lot.  It *looks* like it should be a finisher, but it seems to lead the combo.  😞  Sort of like the Gunsun stance and that bizarre "fans face" animation that interrupts the main combo.  In my opinion that *should* be an idle animation, not part of the fighting moves.  But whatever, no one at DE asked my opinion on it.

You use tysis to spread status and a venka with gas+bloods rush CO berserk, reach and primed bane of infested. The best stance are vermillion storm and malicious raptor, don't remember which one i used because i change them very often but i prefer malicious raptor.. Arcane strike helps too but it's already a fast weapon.

He is not(totally) immune to status and he is weak even against slash damage  so slash weapons are faster.

[(PSN)Madurai-Prime]

Maybe try putting more than 2 forma in something? 

[EmberStar]

2 minutes ago, (PS4)Madurai-Prime said:

Maybe try putting more than 2 forma in something? 

Thanks for making wild and patronizing assumptions.  Not that it matters, but I think my Venka Prime is forma'd enough to equip the Sacrificial Mods (in addition to fully ranked everything else) with about 17 capacity to spare.

Ignoring you now, so feel free to do whatever you want.

[Alpha_Tango]

Synapse (high CC riven), Viral/Corrosive/Hunter's Munition

Kuva Nukor (Dmg, Stat Chance riven), adjust element accordingly

[Butterfly85]

I've pretty much dumpstered my guns for sp. Melee is just so much more efficient. Kronen prime with heat/viral and CO, a Guandao with riven and set for toxic for Corpus and my Mewan zaw tend to be weapons of choice.

Chakurr gets a mention because I use it on demolysts for headshots. Other than that I'm using corrosive Ignis for cc and armour strip for some of the tanker Grineer before carving them up.

As for  Archwing, Kuva Ayanga relieves itself over anything that isn't Jordas Golem

[wtflag]

7 forma Amprex with hunter munitions is one of the more effective primaries.