Talk:Ash/@comment-175.213.179.246-20170120025628/@comment-21056945-20170202001735

I'll level with you; his abilities suck without proper modding.

My Ash is built around combos and cutting apart anything in his way with the Nikana Prime.

Strength - 130%

Efficiency- 160%

Duration- 148%

Range- 58%

Shuriken: I spam the hell out of it with Seeking Shuriken to drop enemy armor, as this is what messes with your damage capabilities.

Smoke Screen: I use Naramon for Shadow Step and high crit chance, so this is really just a placeholder until you get it. The duration I have is for the Corrosive effect on Seeking Shuriken. Shadow Step isn't cancelled by Nullifiers.

Teleport: I use it to deal with anything powerful enough to actually take more than two or three seconds to hack apart. I have yet to meet such enemies in anything but raids and extremely long endless missions. You can also use this to close large distances, as even with low range it has pretty fucking big range. Revive teammates or keep your combo meter building.

Bladestorm: Rising Storm. I use it to extend the combo counter between fights or snipe enemies that are somewhere I don't feel like climbing.

Hemorrhage: More slash damage from longer lasting procs means Corpus get fucked by the Nikana, and bleed procs will do massive damage over time if inflicted with a crit, which with Bloodrush is easy after a while. So stack the bleed damage, and nothing will stand in your way for long.

This is my build, and the most effective way I've found to play Ash. You could use other frames for a melee build, but the extra bleed damage, on demand armor strip, mobility and combo extending Bladestorm make Ash my favorite to use it with.