The Live Wire

Cathode Grace (3) extends its own duration on kills up to 60s, so after ~13 kills you never recast it, and with Archon Stretch it regenerates about 300 energy/min.

Cathode Current does the same for Rotorswell (4).

Conductive Sphere adds 75% base electric damage (additive to elementalist for status, multiplicative with +electric mods) and a forced electric proc per shot.

Arcane Circumvent strips 50% of armour, shields and overguard on a dash.

1.

Press 3 (Cathode Grace) with enemies around to kill and lock its duration.

2.

Press 4 (Rotorswell) once you have energy; kills keep it up.

3.

Press 2 (throw orb, tap again to group) when a crowd is near.

4.

Press 1 to shield gate and shoot through the orb for the Conductive Sphere buff.

Spam it to cover the map.

Passive shield gating: Fast Deflection plus Vigilante Vigor drop the recharge delay to 1s, and Rotorswell's electric procs stun to bridge it; Arcane Aegis gives 12s of immortality on proc.

Or active gating off tap 1 with Catalyzing Shields.

Arcane Circumvent gives a full gate whenever you dash through Corpus enemies.

Neutral Duration (only Cathode Grace's 8 to 10s initial window matters).

Efficiency at 45% because Cathode Grace plus Archon Stretch makes ~300 energy/min and 3 and 4 never recast.

Range for the Rotorswell aura and Coil Horizon grouping.

Strength for the electric discharges, Cathode Grace's crit and energy, and the Conductive Sphere boost.

Blind Rage is the Strength.

Overextended, Archon Stretch set the Range, with Archon Stretch feeding energy.

Catalyzing Shields, Fast Deflection, Vigilante Vigor are the passive-gate package.

Cathode Current is the Rotorswell extender.

Corrosive Projection helps electric against armour.

If you skip passive gating, drop Fast Deflection and Vigilante Vigor for Rolling Guard, Primed Flow, Equilibrium or more Strength.

Reverse Rotorswell plus Adaptation for a base-Steel-Path tank.

The exilus is open.

Pick one.

Subsume over Arcsphere (2) or Coil Horizon.

- Nourish over 2 for viral on weapons plus an energy multiplier (~800 energy/min with Cathode Grace and Archon Stretch).

- Omamori over 2 for lazy passive survival.

- Roar over 1 for pure ability DPS, double-dipping the electric DoTs.

- Tharros Strike for a cheap full strip that works on Acolytes, paired with Coil Horizon grouping.

- Sickening Pulse to multiply stacked electric status 10x into a group.

Arcane Aegis for the passive-gate immortality, Arcane Circumvent for the dash strip.

Molt Augmented or a weapon arcane as swaps.

Any.

Vazarin Sling as a backup.

Madurai for Strength and cast speed.

Conductive Sphere wants high multishot and mandatory +electric mods: Kuva Hek, Cedo, Strun Incarnon, Amprex, Fulmin Prime, Vadarya Prime.

Violet primary electric-damage shards multiply the electric status hard.

Projectile melees gain forced influence through the orb.

The passive gate plus Rotorswell and Coil Horizon crowd control.

It fails to toxin and to a burst in the sub-1s recharge window.

Cathode Grace plus Archon Stretch.

A non-issue once 3 is locked.

Rotorswell damage falls off hard in Steel Path, so the weapon carries.

Bosses.

A cold start before Cathode Grace is locked (do not cast it with no enemies around, or you eat a long cooldown).

A pure ability DPS Mecha build.

An active-gate platform build.

A Gloom persistence-tank build.

Strong: strong electric weapon buff, self-sustaining energy, passive survival, a dash strip, cheap forma.

Weak: weapon-carried at high levels, boss-blind, cold-start cooldown risk on 3.

Players who want a low-maintenance electric weapon platform that strips and survives while dashing around.