Basic Weapon Modding
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A cookie cutter guide to non-retarded builds on generic weapons.

Weapons with augments and unique features will require your own brain power. Consult wiki liberally. Play around with warframe-builder.com, but keep in mind that it doesn't account for status effects, or the crit-headshot bonus, or headshots in general, or accuracy, or falloff, or specific enemy resistances, or overkill, or AoE, or ammo efficiency, so it's quite far from applied damage.

NEVER use the regular(<120%) Impact/Piercing/Slash damage mods and only use a 120% physical damage mod if a weapon does >75% of its damage as that type.

>I don't know shit about damage types.
Use Corrosive + Blast or Corrosive + Fire.
>I don't have X.
Use more 90% eles.
>Shotguns?
Same mods, different names. Get to 100% status if at all possible. Consider Blaze, Seeking Fury, and Chilling Reload.
>Rivens and primed mods?
Yes.

Rifle/Launcher/Sniper/Bow:
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-Start 				Serration, Split Chamber
-Crit >=20%/2x 		Vital Sense, Point Strike
-Works with punch through(ie. not a grenade launcher) and doesn't have it: Shred
-Charge/Spool Up/Big Magazine 	Vile Acceleration (or Speed Trigger)
-Status >=20% 		60% status/60% ele mods
-Status <20% 		60% status/60% ele mods (or 90% ele if out of room)

Use with care: 		Heavy Caliber (-accuracy will cripple applied dps of most guns, test it on the gun in question)

Consider: Augments, Argon Scope, Bladed Rounds
Never Use: Regular Impact/Puncture/Slash Mods, Rifle Aptitude, Continuous Misery, Catalyzer Link


Secondaries:
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-Start					Hornet Strike, Barrel Diffusion, Lethal Torrent
-Crit >= 20%/2x 		Target Cracker, Pistol Gambit
-Small Magazine/High Reload 	Ice Storm(Quick Draw)
-Big Magazine 			Anemic Agility (or Gunslinger)
-Status >=20%			60% status/60% ele mods
-Status <20% 			60% status/60% ele mods (or 90% ele if out of room)

Consider: Augments, Hydraulic Crosshairs, Seeker, Ruinous Extension, Anemic Agility, Pistol Ammo Mutation, Reflex Draw(eg. winds of purity furis), Suppress, 120% Impact/Puncture/Slash
Never Use: Regular Impact/Puncture/Slash Mods, Sure Shot, Perpetual Agony, Magnum Force


Melee:
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-Start				Pressure Point, Condition Overload, Drifting Contact
-Dagger				Covert Lethality
-Wide AoE (ie. broken bull, whips, guandao, etc.) Reach
-Crit >15% 			Blood Rush, Organ Shatter, *Berserker
-Crit <15% 			Fury
-Status >15% 		60% status/60% ele mods.
-Status <15% 		90% ele, True Steel(you better be crit if you don't have status)

*For finisher builds(ie. radial blind, fatal teleport) use Fury over Berserker.

Consider: Augments, Life Strike(keep unranked), Weeping Wounds, Maiming Strike, 120% Impact/Piercing/Slash Mods
Do not use: Regular Impact/Puncture/Slash Mods, Melee Prowess, Lasting Sting, most channeling mods.

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