Grounding Field

Discharge has a 20m base radius; 145% Range gives about 29m, enough to lock down a room without pulling in neighbouring areas and choking your spawn flow.

Capacitance turns the damage Discharge deals into shields, so a live Discharge is a continuous shield-gate refill.

Shield stacks up to six times when stationary for a +300% additive electric damage instance, separate from Shock Trooper's additive electric bonus.

Strength scales the weapon buffs and Discharge damage but not Shield.

1.

Keep Shock Trooper up (hold 1), depending on your weapon.

2.

Keep Speed up (tap 2) for mobility, reload and melee speed.

3.

Keep Shield up (tap 3) and walk through it for protection, the electric bonus and the crit multiplier.

Stack six while camping.

4.

Cast Discharge (4) whenever it lapses.

Always have one active on at least one enemy for the shield refill and the crowd control.

Positive Duration for buff uptime; swap Transient Fortitude for Umbral Intensify plus Duration shards if you want to recast less.

Efficiency stays neutral because Archon Stretch plus Equilibrium covers it.

Range is tuned to lock one room, not the map; add Overextended over Primed Flow for open tiles.

Strength is for the weapon buffs, since Discharge damage does not scale into high levels.

Transient Fortitude is the Strength for the buffs, with Primed Continuity buying back its Duration.

Archon Stretch is Range plus passive energy when it procs off 1 or 4.

Primed Flow is the pool, and it is a flex slot for Range or Duration.

Equilibrium converts orbs.

Shock Trooper is the weapon electric bonus.

Capacitance is the shield engine.

Rolling Guard is the status cleanse for the moments Discharge is down.

Rolling Guard becomes Range or Strength if you are content casting 4 to gate.

Natural Talent for cast speed if you skip cast-speed shards.

The aura and exilus are both open: Growing Power for Strength, Primed Sure Footed for knockdowns.

Pick one.

Subsume over 1 (keep Discharge for nuke and crowd control, replace Shock Trooper) or over 4 (keep Shock Trooper for weapon DPS).

- Nourish for viral and an energy multiplier.

- Roar for weapon DPS and a Discharge boost.

- Pillage for armor strip plus shields plus status cleanse.

- Ensnare for grouping to enable electric DoT chaining and headshots.

Arcane Concentration for Duration, Molt Augmented for the Strength the weapon buffs want.

Swap either for Molt Efficiency, Arcane Steadfast or Arcane Aegis.

Madurai for cast speed and Strength.

Vazarin for endurance i-frames.

Zenurik for energy without Energize.

Unairu for a shield and armor strip that works on acolytes and demolysts.

Electric or viral-electric crit weapons that also want reload speed: Phantasma, Strun, Fulmin Prime, Bubonico alt-fire.

For melee, only certain projectile melees benefit from all three of Shock Trooper influence, Speed's attack speed and Shield's crit multiplier: Innodem, Ceramic Dagger Incarnon, Syam, Hate Incarnon.

The Capacitance shield loop plus Rolling Guard.

It fails against Eximus that ignore the stun, in the gap if you let every Discharge lapse at once, and to toxin.

Archon Stretch plus Equilibrium at neutral Efficiency.

Add Arcane Steadfast or a Grimoire Xata Invocation if it runs thin.

Discharge damage is a low-level nuke only; past a point it is pure crowd control and the weapon does the killing.

Open maps dilute the radius.

Bosses ignore it.

A pure weapon platform with Roar or Nourish.

A pure Discharge nuke with Terrify.

A speed meme with Molt.

Strong: reliable room lockdown, self-sustaining shields, strong electric weapon buffs, cheap and forgiving.

Weak: ability damage does not scale, weapon-dependent at high levels, radius is tile-sensitive.

Players who want a crowd-control frame that also survives forever and turns an electric weapon into a nuke.