User:Soma Prime/Best Soma build

Since the Soma has mainly puncture and slash damage, there should only be grineer and infested builds, there are better weapons against the Corpus so i dont have a build for that.

So, with all builds you kind of have to have serration, split chamber, point strike, and vital sense, those are the required mods for the soma, with out one of them it really hurts the build. that just leaves four slots, two of them i have reserved for the combination elements, and the other two can be any other useful mods, but i found that hammer shot and heavy caliber are the "best".



Heavy Caliber
You might think that the accuracy reduction you get from this mod is very undesirable but realisticly the drop in accuracy is only slightly noticable at long ranges, i keep it a rank 5 out of 10, because its not too much and not too little, and damage is everything on the soma, the crits are entirely multiplied off of the base damage and the elemental damage is multiplied off of the base damage, higher damage on the soma is key, Heavy Caliber is worth it.

Hammer Shot
Yes, its that one mod you just cant seem to get, even after doing hundreds of nightmare runs, Hammer Shot. it is extremly useful on the soma, because it basicly increases the damage due to pretty much all of your shots being crits. Now, putting a punch through mod in Hammer Shot's slot can be very impressive against large crowds and that is an alternate way, but i find Hammer Shot helping out more of the time overall.

Use Radiation against Heavy/boss grineer, use gas against light infested, and use corrosive against non-heavy grineer also heavy gunners and commanders and also against all ancients except healers.