The Basmu is getting a new lease on life with a Nightwave augment, but how should you build for it?
The Basmu has always been a little slept on in Warframe. This Sentient rifle looks great, and fires inherent Electricity rounds that will explode, doing Heat damage on impact. While it also has an alternative fire mode that acts as a beam weapon, that is not what we will be building into today.
The best Basmu and Dreadful Killshot build in Warframe
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The Dreadful Killshot build was added…
The Basmu is getting a new lease on life with a Nightwave augment, but how should you build for it?
The Basmu has always been a little slept on in Warframe. This Sentient rifle looks great, and fires inherent Electricity rounds that will explode, doing Heat damage on impact. While it also has an alternative fire mode that acts as a beam weapon, that is not what we will be building into today.
The best Basmu and Dreadful Killshot build in Warframe
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The Dreadful Killshot build was added in the most recent Nora’s Nightwave, and gives a damage and status chance bonus that scales off your Warframe’s health. While you will want a total health of 1350 on your Warframe to get the full 360%, you will match the benefit of a full-ranked Serration mod at just 600 health.
While you should feel free to run the Basmu with any Warframe, it is obviously recommended to run it with a Frame that can meet that upper health value, as there is little reason to leave additional damage on the table. Now, for this build I am focusing in on a low-cost option, as I feel this will easily carry you through Steel Path for just a single Forma, which is hard to pass up.
Also, for an Arcane, I am running Primary Crux to add more ammo economy and status chance, but you should really just run the one that you have full maxed between Crux, Merciless, and Deadhead.
| Mod | Effect |
|---|---|
| Critical Delay | If you don’t have this mod, just go with Point Strike as a variant. Critical Delay gives a large boost to critical chance at the cost of some fire rate. I dislike the overall impact on DPS, usually, but we will compensate for it later in the build. |
| Galvanized Aptitude | If you don’t have this, use Rifle Aptitude. Galvanzied Aptitude allows you to take advantage of what is called “Gun CO”, where you get a multiplicative damage increase based on how many status effects an enemy has on them. |
| Magnetic Capacity | Adds Magnetic Damage, one of the best types in the game, while also increasing our magazine capacity. |
| Vital Sense | A vast improvement to our critical damage. |
| Malignant Force | Consider this element slot one, which combines with the next slot to give Viral, essentially the most valuable elemental damage type in the game. |
| Rime Rounds | Consider this element slot two, which combines with the previous slot to give Viral. |
| Dreadful Killshot | Provides a 20% damage and status chance buff for each 75 points of health your Warframe has, capping at 360%. |
| Galvanized Chamber | This provides us with multishot, so essentially, additional rounds for each round fired. Switch with Split Chamber if you don’t have it. |
The above weapon does rely on some form of outside Corrosive priming against enemies with a lot of armor, so consider a secondary or companion option for that. A good Diriga or hound build will do wonders.
Now, where things get really interesting is when you are able to outsource the Viral damage. If you have Nourish as a Helminth option, you can replace the Viral mods with Corrosive instead, or Blast if you have great grouping, or anything else you desire. Here are some ways that I enjoy running this weapon.
- Frost - while my Frost build doesn’t meet the health cap, it does get a big benefit from the Dreadful Killshot mod, and I have full armor strip on my fourth ability, and a subsumed Nourish to add Viral. This has been a lot of fun in Void Cascades.
Now, what makes this weapon and mod combo so interesting is that it will work very well for players who like to health tank, which are usually newer players, and you only need one Forma for the build, making it very economical. The weapon won’t get close to the meta weapons when you are pushing for level cap, but it doesn’t need to. It can be a low-investment weapon that will easily scale into Steel Path for people who want it.
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