And weapons like it.
I have a Kuva Zarr and a hard time getting ahold of new equipment at my MR. So, I’ve got more Forma than sense and figured I could squeeze a little more MR from it with some Forma. The problem is that it’s a pain in the ass to use.
10 rounds total and the worst pump-action style reload in the game IMO. I know it used to be good then got beaten down with the nerf bat but it’s still suppose to be usable, right?
So far I’ve got Semi-Rifle Cannonade on it for a lot of up-front damage and Gal. Chamber & Scope for the extra firepower and like that it can kill pretty decently but I can’t keep the thing supplied with ammo. I’ve tried Ammo Mutation and the set mod that does the same thing… hell I’ve got both on it atm and it’s not helping much.
It’s still pretty good. Try not to spam fire too much. Primed firestorm for room clears, go crit with forced slash procs. Shoot once and watch them die slowly. Also a warframe that can resist the stagger.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try.
I’d be careful with viral HM nowadays. HM is only very rarely useful due to the armour cap basically balancing it with elements. Shotguns never even want to run HM now due to their powerful primed electric mod. Additionally, Blast is your new generalist element as it does both high radial damage and also bypasses enemies with status caps (as it hits the cap and the stack detonates, allowing a new stack to set).
The ammo/explosive nerf was done fairly poorly, especially for the Zarr whose rifle mode was never an issue. You can try infusing Energized Munitions onto your warframe if you want to play around with ammo efficiency, or go to extremes with Arcane Pistoleer for infinite ammo. (Eclipse/Roar might save you ammo too if you have some way to reliably get rifle ammo drops)
For warframe choices, a loot warframe is probably the best, Nekros if you’re more mobile (Shield of Shadows augment provides stagger immunity + Despoil) , and Khora/Hydroid - Both Strangle Dome and Tentacle Swarm tend to spread enemies apart, so they might not be the best choice. (or Protea/warframe with dispensary subsumed) if you’re playing the majority of the mission in a small area. Grouping abilities can also help you avoid damage loss from fall radial fall off.
Not sure how good Galvanized Scope is on the Zarr in cannon mode, if you aren’t having issues getting headshot kills keep it, otherwise, I would swap it for Critical Delay.
If you buff the damage enough, it should break even with ammo mutation. I’ve used it with Banshee, and it’s monstrous on Funnel Clouds Zephyr, especially if you build it for raw Blast and Elementalist. Any frame with Xata’s Whisper also turns the Blastementalist build into a nuke, and actually this is a generic strategy for any weapon, even single target weapons and even middle of the road ones like the Kuva Karak. The “bitey avenger” Arcane Avenger/Biting Frost Frost build is also a great generalist weapon buffer.
One more thing that helps with ammo economy is to bring a melee you like and run Primary Dexterity. Tenet Grigori and Tenet Livia both have combo storage, and Grigori has a projectile on the slide heavy and second standing heavy. If you have them, the incarnons Furax, Okina and Ack & Brunt all have combo storage too. Xoris needs frame support to really work, but it can do some numbers with Influence builds, and also has combo storage.
Breaking away from combo storage, Pathocyst is also a more attractive option now that we have very high initial combo through Galvanized Reflex, and it has respectable status chance with Weeping Wounds + Galvanized Elementalist which was its only real weakness before.
