Venka (Claws) Build

[Roasting]

Hello, I know Venka is super underpowered apparently but I was just curious what would be the best mods to put on it? I still love this weapon and would love try to bring its max potential. Would appreciate any advice.

[GinKenshin]

pressure point, fury, focus energy, killing blow, 4 90% dmg elements 

[Yinglong]

You build it almost exactly the same way you would like a Blind Justice Dragon Nikana. Both have identical status chance, crit chance, crit damage, base speed (though speeds vary between stances), and obviously being slash based.

 

Avoid channeling builds like the plague especially for fast and short ranged weapons which burn through energy for a minimal increase. Hell, avoid them altogether, period. In practice, channeling builds fall off faster than your standard types, so it's better to have consistent damage whether channeling or not.

 

 

What you're seeing here is for Infested. For the other Factions, alter the last 3 mods accordingly. Elementals are the standard 90% ones.

 

Grineer: Radiation + Smite or Poison

Corpus: Magnetic + Toxic

Void: Corrosive + Cold

4 Corrosive Projection Grineer/Void: Buzz Kill + Viral

 

If you don't have Buzz Kill, go with Jagged Edge or Fire. Obviously Fire would go in the last mod slot if you lack Jagged Edge as well.

 

underpowered

 

 

You can say that again. This is the highest recorded crit damage I've gotten. Though to be fair, this is an Infested unit so they're fairly squishy. It pains me to say that I've done more in a single hit with other weapons without any combo multipliers. Even attacking at full speed, the TTK is pretty poor comparatively versus the other available offerings. Buff? Maybe someday, maybe.

[MechaTails]

Here's a fantastic topic: https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/418064-venka-vidi-vici/

 

 

Buff? Maybe someday, maybe.

 

They wont get buffed, instead we got a "higher tier" version in Ripkas

Edited April 10, 2015 by DarkTails