Orthos Prime: Maiming Strike Build (Shadow Debt Mod Set)

We all love the Orthos Prime for it's insane range, One of it's biggest drawbacks is the damage. This caused players to look elsewhere to get their fix of stealth slide kills... until the new mods came out.

Shadow Debt was a unique event that gave the chance to drop one of the new mods that was added in Update 18.4.1. Most of these new mods were odd, but there were a hand full of gems, including a lot of great melee mods.

This build uses some of these new mods to boost it's damage output per slide attack.  Blood Rush and Body Count give a boost to the damage multiplier and Critical chance. Maiming Strike will drive this up by 90% guaranteeing yellow crits per slide attack with a chance to do red crits.

The Build

This particular build is focused on Grineer and per slide damage (stealth kills/one hit). This is the reason why I did away with the Attack speed mods like Berserker.  I also opted to remove True Steel and instead add Spoiled Strike, which will add more damage compared a small increase to the critical chance.

Since you are making use of 2 slots for elements, you can easily change the elemental combo. the only restriction is that you can only have 1 elemental combo.

Executing High Damage Slide attacks

Once you're done with the build, you can start by just slide attacking everything. With the immense reach of Orthos Prime with Primed Reach, you can safely clear clusters of enemies while maintaining the damage multiplier from stealth.

Be careful with heavy units. you might want to channel to kill them safely and avoid breaking your stealth bonus streak. Once you have a high enough multiplier you can just slide attack them as normal.

I usually use this to farm focus with Loki. in Ceres (Extermination or Sabotage). After a few days of farming, I can say it's easier than using War or Tonkor and breaks the stealth bonus streak less frequently.

Shadow Debt: The Rise of Naramon

Naramon's Shadow step has never been in such a wonderful position. Prior to this update, Naramon had very tempting options related to melee attack crits and invisibility. Now, with a reliable source of crits (maiming strike and any melee weapon with at least a 10% Critical chance will proc crits 100% of the time), you will just need enemies and you will get 10 seconds of invisibility that is resistant to nullifiers.

Luckily, Orthos Prime is such a weapon with a 10% Crit rate. Now slide attacks with amazing range now comes with a 100%  Crit chance.