Capacitance Volt | General Use Steel Path/Endurance

by ninjase — last updated 12 days ago

A glorious warrior from the past, Volt Prime features the same abilities as Volt but with unique mod polarities for greater customization.

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APPLY CONDITIONALS

ENERGY: 300
HEALTH: 370
SHIELD: 555
SPRINT SPEED: 1

DURATION: 100%
EFFICIENCY: 100%
RANGE: 100%
STRENGTH: 100%

ARMOR: 135
Damage Reduction: 31%
EFFECTIVE HIT POINTS: 1,277

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Volt Prime builds

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Capacitance Volt | General Use Steel Path/Endurance

INTRODUCTION

General use build for regular starchart or steel path endurance focusing on using discharge primarily for crowd control but also for trash mob nuking, [Capacitance] augment so discharge fills shields to reset shieldgate, while also using [Shock Trooper] to boost weapons with electric (particularly for melee influence), 2 for speed buff and 3 for protection and crit multiplier buff.

Shock or Discharge could both be subsume slots, depending on whether you'd rather focus on nuking low levels with Discharge or buffing your weapons further.

UPDATE APRIL 2025
Shock Trooper has finally been fixed but now it is additive to Elementalist mods and multiplicative to +electric damage mods/shards. This means you would be more inclined to drop the elementalist mods on weapons for other mods since [Shock Trooper] at 200% strength already provides the equivalent of a 200% elementalist mod.

BUILD VARIANTS
Pure Nuke (terrify): https://overframe.gg/build/272289/
Pure Weapon Platform (roar): https://overframe.gg/build/221002/
Pure Speed meme (Molt): https://overframe.gg/build/243697/
Low level fissure Shocking Speed: https://overframe.gg/build/521540/

PLAYSTYLE

Keep 1 augment active as needed, depending on the weapon
Keep 2 active on cooldown for reload buff/melee attack speed buff
Keep 3 active at all times for protection, electricity bonus and crit multiplier boost. If stationary, you can stack 6 shields together for a +300% electricity damage bonus (additive and separate damage instance). If you want to be mobile, pick the shield up to [Protect] your front.
If shields break, roll and cast 4 to regenerate shields and crowd control. Try to always have a Discharge active to constantly regenerate shields and crowd control non-eximus enemies.

BUILD SPECIFICS

Duration
Positive duration is required for the uptime of all abilities so you can adjust this to be higher if you prefer to recast things less.

Efficiency
Energy economy can be maintained at neutral efficiency by the use of [Archon Stretch] + [Equilibrium] (with [Synth Deconstruct]). [Primed Flow] is optional and can be swapped for more range or duration. If you need more energy economy, you can consider adding Arcane Steadfast or Energy.

Range
This is mainly only needed for Discharge, which has a high base radius of 20m. 145% range gives 29m range which is enough to lockdown most areas in the game without affecting other areas, which improves influx of enemies. You can adjust this based on the map e.g. if you want to affect a large map such as circuit, you can add [Overextended] over [Primed Flow]. [Archon Stretch] can trigger off either 1 or 4 and gives a free bit of energy regeneration.

Strength
Strength boosts the [Shock Trooper] buff and Speed buff and affects the damage of Discharge, but does not affect Shield. In higher levels the damage of Discharge falls off quite a bit so strength is primarily needed for your weapon buffs.

Flexible Slots

Aura : growing power gives more strength
Exilus : primed sure footed is ideal to prevent knockdownms, handspring is next best alternative
Rolling Guard : if you don't mind just casting 4 whenever you need to shield gate, can swap this for more range or strength
Natural talent : flexible if you cant run some archon shards.

Arcanes
This is totally up to personal preference:

Molt Efficiency: free 36% duration as long as shields are active, which is easy with Capacitance
Molt Augmented: free 60% strength after 250 kills, good for longer missions
Arcane Steadfast: improves energy economy
Arcane Energize: improves energy economy, but is harder to acquire
Arcane Aegis: backup survivability

Archon Shards

Two amber cast speed: Mandatory for improving cast speed animation of discharge and other abilities
1 Tauforged Emerald +corrosive stack is optional to allow weapons to strip more armor using corrosive status
Two Crimson Strength shards help boost 1, 2 and 4 further

Focus School
Vazarin for i-frames in endurance Steel Path
Zenurik for better energy economy, particularly if you don't own energize
Unairu for shield and armor strip that works on acolytes and demolysts, especially if you decide to subsume Ensnare/Grouping instead of Terrify
Madurai for cascade and boosting strength + cast speed further

HELMINTH OPTIONS

Subsume over 1 if you prefer to keep discharge for nuking/CC and replace Shock Trooper with Augur Reach.
Subsume over 4 if you prefer to keep shock trooper for electric DPS

Nourish - adds viral damage and multiplies energy gained
Terrify - full AOE through walls armor strip and just need to hit 167% strength, doesnt affect acolytes or demolysts
Ensnare - you can use this for grouping to improve kill times and enable certain combos (e.g. weapon-based electric DoT chaining and headshots)
Coil Horizon - alternative grouping with electric theme
Roar - useful for general weapon DPS boost (double dip on DoTs) and also boosts discharge
Fireblast - full armor strip in two casts but requires line of sight, also works on acolytes and demolysts

ARSENAL

Weapons that do well with electric and benefit from shock trooper.

Vadarya Prime (electric): https://overframe.gg/build/889087/
Phantasma (viral elec): https://overframe.gg/build/374667/
Strun (viral electric): https://overframe.gg/build/465699/
Sporothrix (blast/elec): https://overframe.gg/build/816640/
Nataruk (electric): https://overframe.gg/build/279221
Daikyu (electric/blast): https://overframe.gg/build/844685/
Kuva Ogris (electric): https://overframe.gg/build/285976/
Phage (electic): https://overframe.gg/build/252696/
Bubonico alt-fire : https://overframe.gg/build/210444/

A nice loadout option is Argonak with the Amalgam Argonak Metal Auger mod to allow electric/gas daggers to strip armor in an AOE and let a dagger kill with Melee Influence: