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Soma Prime

The Bleeding Drum

A crit-storm rifle for Steel Path Grineer, Incarnon on or off

Content: Steel Path, Steel Path enduranceRole: Sustained DPS, shield-gate engineDifficulty: IntermediateWeapon reliance: Standalone
Soma Prime

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CEPHALON FIELD GUIDE

How to play this build.

Tenno. Soma Prime's huge magazine plus Hata-Satya's stacking crit chance turns it into a red-crit hose. Viral-heat handles Grineer and Corrupted; the bleed procs feed a passive shield gate.

Evolutions

Fortifying Bloodshed at II generates 100 shield per bleed kill, which is a strong passive shield gate for endurance.

Fortress Salvo at II is +4 punch-through instead, but needs 450 armour on the frame (Atlas, Lavos, Nidus, Valkyr reach it natively).

The mods

Hata-Satya builds crit chance on kills and now works in Incarnon mode.

Galvanized Chamber is multishot; Vital Sense is crit damage.

Malignant Force plus Primed Cryo Rounds are viral, Wildfire is heat.

Primary Crux suits Incarnon-off mode for the ammo efficiency that keeps Hata-Satya stacked.

Where it struggles

Ramp-up time to stack Hata-Satya and the Incarnon meter.

A Corpus split needs a different build.

Variants

A separate Steel Path Corpus Soma Prime build exists for the faction swap.

Who runs this

Players who like a magazine they never seem to empty.