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Despair Incarnon

The Delayed Blade

Thrown blades that detonate for a pure-heat area

Content: Steel Path, Steel Path enduranceRole: Area DPS, crowd clearDifficulty: BeginnerWeapon reliance: Standalone
Despair

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CEPHALON FIELD GUIDE

How to play this build.

Tenno. Despair's Incarnon projectiles explode on a short delay for roughly 160 base heat damage in a 4m area with falloff. Viral-heat and multishot turn a handful of throws into a room clear.

Evolutions

Fatal Affliction at II adds +50 base and a pseudo Galvanized Shot effect (+40% per status, on the initial hit only).

Swift Deliverance at III for projectile speed.

The mods

Hornet Strike is unconditional base damage; Galvanized Diffusion is multishot; Primed Pistol Gambit plus Primed Target Cracker are crit; Pistol Pestilence plus Frostbite plus Primed Heated Charge build viral and heat.

Where it struggles

Throw arc and detonation delay.

Heat only, no viral multiplier on the primary damage without a primer.

Who runs this

Players who like a throwing knife that blows up.