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Revision Log:

v 1.X.X >> Build identity changes / Complete build overhaul

v X.1.X >> Central idea stays; only mod order changes / or Major guide rework

v X.X.1 >> No change in setup; Minor guide edits only

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Why do we use?

This is a raw crit / corrosive cold seup with Secondary Acuity. Slow / freeze targets around us while they take increased crit damage and become more damage vulnerable, and strip their armor as we go.

COLD PROGEN / COLD DETAILS

Cold progen means 60% raw cold damage on our weapon, this also helps contribute to keeping cold stacked on targets alongside cold spores, slowing them down, applying a flat crit bonus 0.1x~1.0x per crit tier and stacking additive base damage from Secondary Shiver.

Cold got buffed with [Jade] Shadows which increased max stacks to 10x, and this also meant Secondary Shiver got a boost to 450% max damage at 10x cold stacks. Like Flare, Shiver also doesn't require any “on kill” effects to work, and we just have to apply cold.

SECONDARY SHIVER

Shiver works like CO but for cold, this includes all of the negatives that come with CO like ignoring radial damages, but also all the positives like being multiplicative where CO is. Because Shiver does nothing to radial damage, we don't see this arcane very often, but Torxica is one of the better users of it.

Torxica passive spreads cold spores that inflict 1 cold per second for 20 seconds, this normally caps at 6x because of cold's intrinsic duration, but multiple spores can hit the same target which can continue to stack cold ~10x, for priming and potentially maxing Shiver for us. 20s spore duration means Shiver will be active basically always.

This is a super rare opportunity where Secondary Shiver is actually useful, it may not be optimal, but it changes the pace for once in a positive way, so, why not consider it?

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ACUITY -- Since we dont really have any AOE, bullet spread, or big status chance to work with, Acuity blends better together with Torxica's raw cold damage playstyle. We are slowing down or outright freezing targets with increased crit damage, and making them more dmg vulnerable, so headshotting individual targets or even mowing down crowds at head level with punch through is an effortless task..

G CROSSHAIRS? – Galvanized crit to boost us potentially over 200% for tier 3 red with a single mod after Acuity.

• This also affects cold bonus, which gives a flat 1.0x crit bonus per crit tier at 10x stacks, for 3.0x flat crit damage on red crits.

• [Spry Sights] in exilus helps us move faster while we are often ADS for Crosshairs

PTC + GUNFIGHT – For 155% bonus crit damage and necessary punch through

G SHOT -- 120% base damage per status type additive to Shiver. Also gives considerable 80% status

• Since cold will always be spread to targets around us, this does mean 120% pre-primed base damage on top of S Shiver, potentially ~570% x1.5 damage being self-primed for us.

P PESTILENCE + C CONVULSION -- 225 Raw corrosive and considerable status chance for raw DPS + partial stripping power. Corrosive + Cold have the best set of faction type modifiers for a raw crit setup, and the only targets with EHP high enough to worry about are armored.

• Can be paired with emerald shards to potentially full strip with corrosive

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