Talk:Pox/@comment-76.170.226.141-20170425185117

So ive been reading up on pox builds and comments etc as i have been using this as my go-to secondary for a while now. and ive been seeing alot of confusion on how this weapon works/ how it should be modded. so this is my corrosive blast and gas electric builds. These are 4 forma builds but without a riven i believe you can fit them in with 3.

CORROSIVE BLAST BUILD:

Hornet Strike 220% damage

Barrel Diffusion 120% multishot

Lethal Torrent  60% multishot and fire rate

Pox Visitron Riven 45.3% corpus damage 234.6% damage and -19.4% magazine capacity (can be substituted for Pathogen Rounds if you dont have a riven increasing the innate toxin proc damage of the pox)

Pistol Pestilence 60% toxin damage and status chance

Jolt 60% electric damage and status chance

Heated Charge 90% heat damage

Frostbite 60% cold and status

with this build you will have 100% status chance of pox and your blast proc will happen about 75% as often as your corrosive proc does. if you want to shred more armor you can substitute the heated charge with scorch to lower the chance of blast procs a small bit at the cost of a bit of damage. not sure at what level grineer that would be a viable move but its not really a bad one. still makes this weapon quite effective at dropping groups of grineer all at once. its also not bad against infested as the tankier higher threat enemies of infested are weak to corrosive damage and neither corrosive nor electric have negative multipliers vs any infested enemies.

GAS ELECTRIC BUILD:

Hornet Strike 220% damage

Barrel Diffusion 120% multishot

Lethal Torrent  60% multishot and fire rate

Pox Visitron Riven 45.3% corpus damage 234.6% damage and -19.4% magazine capacity

Pathogen Rounds 90% toxin damage

Pistol Pestilence 60% toxin and status

Scorch 60% Heat and status

Jolt 60% electric and status

This build is mostly for corpus and tweaking this one is quite viable as the ratio for electric procs to gas is only 1:6ish. meaning you will need to throw 2 or 3 shots before expecting to actually hold any enemies down with the electric proc, even with multishot 180%. which with my riven is kind of a pain cuz i only have 3 clip. XD although if you have a riven with multishot the chances of hitting an electric proc will increase giving you better CC. but the double toxin damage mods and base damage increases give your gas procs the maximum toxin damage during the gas proc making the toxin damage cut right through everything. and while the toxin procs  dont do as much to robots, bypassing the shields and doing damage straight to their low HP still kills them very quickly.

Lemme know what you guys think and i hope these 2 builds help some of you pox haters see that these are amazing end game weapons as well as fun colorful death. :thumbsup: