Toxic Lash

Info = Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.
 * Buffs melee weapon, dealing 25% / 40% / 60% / 75% additional melee damage as damage over the course of 10 / 13 / 17 / 20 seconds.
 * Additive damage bonus is affected by Power Strength.
 * Duration is affected by Power Duration mods.
 * Has a ~1 second cast time
 * The damage is also increased by mods that alter the base damage of melee weapons (Killing Blow, Pressure Point, Rending Strike, Smite Corpus, Smite Grineer, and Smite Infested), i.e. it's calculated like other elemental damage.
 * The extra melee damage is added to all melee attacks including, but not limited to, normal attacks, channeled attacks, thrown attacks (such as the Glaive's and Kestrel's), jump attacks and slide attacks.
 * Contagion grants innate Toxin damage to the weapon and will combine with existing elements on the melee weapon. The innate property means it is last in the mod slot priority.
 * Gives Conclave rating of 20 / 20 / 45 / 70 each level.
 * -|Tips & Tricks =
 * This is a good candidate for Narrow Minded since there is no Power Range,
 * To calculate total damage addition, use the formula:
 * Contagion x (1 + Power Strength) x 100.
 * For example with Contagion at 75%, Intensify at 30%, and Blind Rage at 99%:
 * 0.75 x [1 + (0.3 + 0.99)] x 100 = 0.75 x 2.29 x 100 = 171.75%.
 * Contagion is an invaluable ability for players who were not able to collect a Melee Toxin mod or not capable of equipping such on Melee weapons, in which the ability becomes a suitable replacement for those in need of direct health damage or requiring certain Toxin combinations such as and.
 * Players can also use this ability as a switch between and  procs if ever these elementals are required.
 * Against Infested using pure damage to be quite effective against all the units and then switch to  using Contagion can be a proper way for dispatching crowds of ennemies, especially with a single-target weapon with/or good status chance instead of Channeling.
 * -|Maximization =
 * Maximized Power Duration increases duration to 51.4 seconds.
 * Has no negative effect on this ability.
 * Maximized Power Efficiency reduces cost to 12.5 energy.
 * Reduces duration to 8 seconds.
 * Maximized Power Range has no positive effect on this ability.
 * Reduces damage to 30%.
 * Maximized Power Strength increases damage to 171.8%.
 * Increases cost to 77.5 energy.