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Wukong Prime

The Bare Staff

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A pure Iron Staff red-crit build with passive shield gating

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Wukong Prime
CURATED LOADOUT

CONFIGURATION

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MOD CAPACITY

69 / 745 remaining

Rank 30 · Orokin Reactor · 60 base + 14 aura capacity

AURA 1naramon polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR5
EXILUSvazarin polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
Arcane StrikeArcane Strike
Molt AugmentedMolt Augmented
1vazarin polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR3
2madurai polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
3vazarin polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
4naramon polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
5umbra polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
6UNPOLARIZED
Unpolarized slotR5
7naramon polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
8UNPOLARIZED
Unpolarized slotR5

ABILITIES

Wukong Prime

PASSIVE After taking fatal damage Wukong automatically uses one of his mastered survival techniques. These techniques can only be invoked three times per mission.

1

Celestial Twin

Celestial Twin

Shedding part of himself, Wukong creates a twin to fight by his side. Attack at range and the twin will melee, pull a blade and the twin will lay down covering fire. Use again to command the twin to attack a target with increased damage.

2

Cloud Walker

Cloud Walker

Evaporate into a cloud of mist and float through the battlefield, dazing any enemies encountered, while healing Wukong and his twin.

3

Defy

Defy

Wukong and his twin become invulnerable and defy enemies to attack. All damage is captured, stored, and dealt back in a single furious strike of Wukong's staff. Bonus Armor is then granted relative to the damage captured.

4

Primal Fury

Primal Fury

Summon the iron staff and unleash fury.

CEPHALON FIELD GUIDE

How to play this build.

Tenno. This Wukong drops everything except Iron Staff and survival. Wrathful Advance subsumed gives flat crit for red crits, and Catalyzing Shields plus Fast Deflection plus Vigilante Vigor passively re-gate you. Enter 4, hold light attack.

How it works

The same passive-gate stack as elsewhere (any shield regenerated gives the full 1.33s gate, ~1s recharge delay).

Wrathful Advance subsumed over 1 or 3 gives a flat crit boost to red-crit Iron Staff.

Strength scales Iron Staff.

Helminth

Wrathful Advance over 1 or 3 for the red crits.

Roar as an alternative for a triple-dip on influence procs.

Where it struggles

Bosses take the staff.

Fragile without the gate.

Very forma-hungry for a one-note build.

Variants

The Cloud Staff (#033) is the active Iron Staff and Defy-nuke build; The Idle Staff (#059) is the persistence tank.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strong: instant red crits, strong influence clear, effortless gate.

Weak: one-note, boss-slow, forma-hungry.

Who runs this

Players who want the simplest possible red-crit Iron Staff Wukong.