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Epitaph Prime

The Charged Spike

A charged raw-damage one-shot with Surging Shot burst

Content: Steel Path, Steel Path endurance, Level capRole: Single-target one-shotDifficulty: AdvancedWeapon reliance: High. Wants a viral primer or Nourish
Epitaph Prime

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CEPHALON FIELD GUIDE

How to play this build.

Tenno. Epitaph Prime's charged shot fires a heavy bolt with an area. Built raw for damage rather than pure priming, with Secondary Surge for a burst on reload, it deletes level-cap single targets.

The mods

Hornet Strike is unconditional base damage; Galvanized Shot is damage-per-status; Galvanized Diffusion is multishot; Primed Target Cracker plus Galvanized Crosshairs are crit.

Primed Heated Charge plus Primed Convulsion plus Pistol Pestilence build the elements; use Nourish for viral-corrosive-heat, or a primary primer for the maximum.

Where it struggles

Charge time.

One target per shot.

Needs the priming pairing.

Variants

The Quick Primer (#262) and The Heat Seed (#281) are the support-only Epitaph builds.

Who runs this

Players who want the Epitaph as a hand-held sniper.