The Dakra Prime

[Tevye]

It took a lot of work, but when I finally put my Dakra into production, that was one of the best moments of satisfaction in this game to date. I love it's design, it's speed and multihit ability please me no end. I am however a bit undecided on what sort of build to use. Since I'm not a fan of the rainbow element builds, I"ve been using an abc build for each main enemy type, with the damage vs and element matched as best I can (elect for corpus, fire for infested). What do other people use?

[Angius]

Full dmg = Damage, AP, Speed, Reach, dual mods with AP and DMG. I don't like rainbow builds either, but Ice is a good choice, since it allows you to cut through shields faster.

[michaelwii]

Electric and Ice for Corpus. 

Fire and armor piercing for infested. Add ice for the slow effect

Armor Piercing and Electric for Grineer. Add ice for the rare instances of shield

[Zareek]

I use pure melee. Mostly for infested, but it works like a charm for other factions too. Up to a decent level too. Ive used it on lvl 80-100 enemies. Here is my build:

 

Edited November 7, 2013 by Zareek

[Tevye]

Has anyone tried using the Melee Channel mod?

[LukeAura]

Dakra definitely lends itself more to regular attacks than charged attacks(Even without armor ignoring damage on the regular strikes). 
You could use abc for each enemy type. Although the corpus build will likely be the same for the grineer build(unless you use the faction bane mods). 
Fury + Pressure Point + sunder + rend + shocking touch/molten impact(Corpus/Infested) + north wind 
Spoiled Strike might be useful, low speed reduction in exchange for much higher regular damage. If you don't intend to use max shocking touch Focus energy is superior.
Reach is also good for it. 
Don't bother with crit mods. 
Melee channel is interesting but lends itself better to unleashing a powerful charged attack rather can quickly spamming regular strikes. 

[PenutReaper]

I am a big fan of Beserker/Attack speed builds personally.

[Zarlockk]

Has anyone tried using the Melee Channel mod?

I did, no point of it. If you use big ability all dead or too high llevel for dakra. If you use small ability not that big of a difference in damage. However make it glow is pretty cool =)