Talk:Braton/@comment-95.211.174.70-20140929112233/@comment-71.193.80.246-20141008083036

Consider using Serration, Split Chamber, and Shred and/or Metal Auger (I think Metal Auger would be ideal). Throw on Rifle Mutation so you can replenish ammo more easily, otherwise take Shred to increase your DPS and the ability to tear through crowds more effectively and then run ammo packs.

Then for each of the respective factions...

Grineer:  Radiation (Heat+Electricity) and Viral (Cold+Toxin)

Corpus:  Magnetic (Cold+Electricity) and Toxin (Stack with Malignant Force if you can, otherwise use the Anti-Corpus mod to deal an extra 30% damage ot Corpus or use Speed Trigger to kill Corpus units faster)

Infested:  Blast (Cold+Heat) and Corrosive (Toxin+Electricity) in order to deal with the Ancients. You can take Gas (Heat+Toxin) on your secondaries and melee weapons to deal with the chargers and leapers. But the former is meant for taking out the Ancients which will arguably pose a greater threat with their relatively high health and pull attacks. Otherwise, taking Gas damage and stacking either cold or electricity damage with the anti-infested mod will allow you to plow through swarms of infested with your punch through effects on your gun.

Corrupted:  Blast and Corrosive again. This allows you to maximize damage against most of the corrupted that matter, namely the Heavy Gunner, Ancient, MOA, and the Ospreys. The Braton's high rate of fire and hitscan nature means you can quickly run around and neutralize these targets from a distance or while using a high speed frame like Volt with his second ability. While Ferrite armor takes 25% less damage from Blast damage, it will still take 50% damage from Corrosive, and the Blast will allow you to smash apart the robotic enemies much more quickly.

However, maxing out a Braton is quite costly. You will need 1 potato and 8 forma, which will run you about 180 platnum which is about 20 dollars if I remember right. This is not taking into account maxed out mods which will take you considerable time and credits  However, with just 3 Forma and 1 Potato (easily farmable), you can max out the Braton with Serration, Split Chamber, and all elemental mods while having enough to slap on Rifle Ammo Mutation or Ammo Drum/Split Magazine/Speed Trigger or any 8-point mod you desire. Additionally, you can limit your elemental mods to level 3-4 to save on mod capacity, since a lot of your damage will come from maxing serration.