How to build a xoris for radiation and toxin?

[VillainOfMyStory]

As the title suggest i would like to know how to mod that weapon for that element. I have tried many different placements and it gives me gas and electric or is it not possible at all to build for the titled elements?

[NinjaZeku]

21 minutes ago, VillainOfMyStory said:

As the title suggest i would like to know how to mod that weapon for that element. I have tried many different placements and it gives me gas and electric or is it not possible at all to build for the titled elements?

You use Mods for Elec + Heat, then Toxin.

Innate elements like the Elec on Xoris (detonation) get added last, basically as if they were in a 9th Mod slot,
so you have to establish Radiation first which that Elec can then get added to at the end.

[PollexMessier]

Element mods are prioritized form left to right, top row then bottom row. Reading order, basically.

With 3 elemental mods, the first two mods in that order get merged, and the last one doesn't. Putting them in order of: Heat, Electric, Toxin; Or Electric, Heat, Toxin; Will get you Radiation and Toxin.

Heat, Toxin, Electric; or Toxin, Heat, Electric; will get you Gas and Electric.
Electric, Toxin, Heat; or Toxin, Electric, Heat; Will get you Corrosive and Heat.

You can't have certain element combinations on some weapons that have an elemental type on them be default. But Xoris doesn't.

[Traumtulpe]

Long story short, if the weapon has an innate element, and you don't want it to combine with your mod (Toxin in this case), you need to force it into a combined element (like Radiation) to get it out of the way, and you can only do this by using a mod of the same element (in this case Electricity) + another mod (in this case Heat).

Basically, by modding the weapon for Radiation, you force the innate Electricity *also* into this combination, leaving your Toxin mod free to do it's thing.

You cannot get Radiation + Toxin without using both an Electricity and a Heat mod, despite the innate Electricity, because innate elements always go last in the mod order (unless you also have a mod of that element on the weapon), and thus you'd get Gas + Electricity if you don't add the Electricity mod to the Heat mod.

[Traumtulpe]

By the way, on weapons with 2 innate elements it gets even more complicated, because both of those elements go last, but which of the two goes before the other depends on the elements in question - Heat > Cold > Electricity > Toxin.

Also, elements from abilities work exactly the same, meaning you cannot get Viral + Heat damage by using both the Heat and the Cold buff from this mod: