Which melee weapons go well with Inaros?

[Teejayx6]

Since I'm using a lot of Desiccation, I'm looking for weapons with fast finisher animations...or do all finishers have the same speed?

Right now, I'm using the Nikana Prime. Would a dagger with Covert Lethality deal greater damage? How about a Rakta Dark Dagger?

Any help is appreciated!

[M4tt]

Hirudo. Best melee for him overall.

[Wintermute]

The moment you strapon covert lethality on a dagger it doesn't matter which one you use.

Also, daggers suck.

[Cype9k]

Ceramic Dagger + Primed Fury + Covert Lethality = finishers for days .

[Jmthebigman]

rakta dark dagger with the dark dagger mod and covert lethality
enjoy immortality :)

[Ext3h]

Orthos P + Rage + Life Strike (+ Primed Fury/Berserker + Primed Reach).

Just bind quick melee to the mouse wheel, and keep spinning (literally). Damage you take feeds your energy, energy feeds Life Strike, Life strike feeds your health.

At about 2-3 attacks per second, it would require you to take more than 10k damage per second in order to die. That's even far beyond sortie-level, especially considering Inaros armor.

[Indal]

Originally posted by M4tt:

Hirudo. Best melee for him overall.

[fun time hippie]

i would say hirudo or a dagger with covert lethality(only for really high level enemeis)

[JKGames]

If you are using desecation a lot, the natural choice is a Dagger with Covert Lethality, of which the best dagger is the Rakta Dark Dagger (even though its syndicate effect is kind of finicky to trigger). The Karyst Dagger will perform fine as well if you can't get your hands on the Rakta Dark Dagger and some people prefer it because of its higher status chance, though it has a lower attack speed than the Rakta Dark Dagger/Ceramic Dagger. Due to the way daggers work with finishers, you can still use them even if you don't have Covert Lethality on the dagger, but it will work best with covert lethality since that guarentees the kill on high level enemies. If you add Fury/Primed Fury onto the Rakta Dark Dagger, it attacks extremely quickly in quick melee as well, though as with all daggers these are not great weapons for most situations.

That's only really for Sortie level enemies or higher though. For most missions that you run, you can usually do better using a standard melee weapon with Life Strike or Healing Return (Healing Return more for status builds on long range weapons like Orthos Prime). Weapons with decent speed still perform fine as finishers if you give them attack speed and will knock out basically everything on the star chart.