An effective weapon buffing platform setup for [Oraxia] – focusing on snapshotting Ability Strength for her 4th, energy economy, and weapon synergy. It’s not a summoner setup – the Scuttlers are mostly used for Arcane stacking and distraction. Your weapon (Kuva Sobek) is the main damage source, with Silken Stride enhancing both survivability and damage. I'm using omni-forma for flexibility during testing – feel free to forma it exactly as shown. Focus school is Madurai for Sling Strength, which snapshots into her 4th.

Scuttlers are just a tool for stacking Arcane Camisado. Your damage comes from weapons, buffed through snapshotting ability strength onto her 4th. Raw toxin damage is her only hard counter – beware. If DE revisits Scuttlers in future patches, Summoner builds could become viable.

• Survivability comes from:

  • Passive wall-latch invisibility
  • I-frames from Mercy’s Kiss (1st)

• Weakness: Raw Toxin damage. Her HP boost during 4th helps, but high-level enemies can still one-shot you without Overguard.

❌ What to Avoid

Summoner’s Wrath

• Don't use it. Scuttlers are currently underwhelming due to their implementation.
• Better analysis here: Reddit breakdown

Arcane Bellicose (?)

• Doesn’t snapshot into 4th.
• Scuttlers don't scale with Strength.
• Will buff other base-kit abilities (e.g. the Toxin damage), but those don’t deal meaningful damage.
• Will buff Webbed Embrace damage vulnerability, but it's subsumed off
• Only worth considering if your subsumed ability benefits from Strength

Arcane Choices

• Arcane Camisado: Stack strength from Scuttlers, then snapshot into 4th
• Molt Augmented: Optional. Helps with long-term Strength scaling, but is flex slot

Key Synergies

• Equilibrium + Mercy’s Kiss: full energy loop
• Arcane Camisado + Molt Augmented + Sling Strength + Energy Conversion: stackable strength snapshots onto Silken Stride
• [Stretch] (Flex slot): swap for set mods or augments as needed such as Mecha Pulse and Strain Consume – Oraxia's base range is sufficient for her base kit

Archon Shards

• x5 Tauforged Green (+Toxin Status Damage)
  • Buffs Kuva Sobek.
  • If not using Sobek, consider:
    • Tauforged Red: (+ Ability Duration)
    • Tauforged Green: (+ Increase max stacks of Corrosive)

Ability Usage

1st: Mercy’s Kiss

• Main utility skill
• With Equilibrium, instantly refills Energy and sustains Blind Rage’s negative efficency drain
• Use to trigger Energy Conversion and snapshot ability strength
• Can revive your companion if running Restorative Bond
• Parazon Mods ([Power Drain] & [Out Of Sight]) can add bonuses, but are inconsistently triggered (requires enemies to be vulnerable to Parazon finishers to trigger)

2nd: Nourish (Subsume)

• Applies Viral to your weapons (main reason it's used)
• Applies Viral to Scuttlers (minor benefit).
• Energy multiplier helps reduce reliance on 1st.
• Replaces Webbed Embrace – a low-impact ability in practice (from my testing).

3rd: Widow’s Brood

• Spawns Scuttlers for:
  • Arcane Camisado stacking
  • Drawing enemy aggro – added survivability utility
  • Applying forced Impact procs to set up Mercy’s Kiss
  • Spreading Viral and applying Toxin/Corrosive (via Archon Continuity)
  • Underwhelming damage, but excellent synergy utility

4th: Silken Stride

• Your main ability focus
• Snapshotted strength scales:
  • Bonus Health
  • Weapon Toxin damage
• Kills cause Toxin explosions at base 5m radius
• Works beautifully with Kuva Sobek + Acid Shells for massive room-clearing chain explosions

Weapons & Companion

• Primary: Kuva Sobek
  Acid Shells chain synergy with Toxin explosions from 4th = room nukes
  Add faction mods (Oraxia can't use Roar with Silken Stride)

• Secondary: Sporelacer
  For Acolytes. Bypasses damage attenuation.

• Melee: Praedos
  Just for parkour velocity. Melee is disabled during Silken Stride.

• Companion: Hound
  Best status primer. Actually kills enemies.
  Pair with [Link Vitality] for huge HP boost in Silken Stride
  [Restorative Bond] + Mercy’s Kiss likely = instant revive