Best Build for Magnus?

[Gardol]

It's LVL. 30 and I have 30 space capacity for mods.

[Low Key Snail]

1 - it has.
2 - u need a catalisator. one atleast.
3 - craft another one magnus
4 - make akmagnus
5 - polaraise it to 2 dash polaritys and 4 V polaritys. you need to grind alot for it.
6 - be owsome.

[Fendelphi]

引用自 FaUST_RUS：

1 - it has.
2 - u need a catalisator. one atleast.
3 - craft another one magnus
4 - make akmagnus
5 - polaraise it to 2 dash polaritys and 4 V polaritys. you need to grind alot for it.
6 - be owsome.

Wouldnt the catalyst be lost when you make the Akmagnus(if you put a catalyst in a magnus, then using it to craft the Akmagnus)?

Anyway, Akmagnus seems quite good. Lots of possibilities(good status and crit capabilities, decent mag size, accuracy and firerate).

Also, it doesnt need that many formas to be effective. Espeically not if you already have a catalyst in it.


On topic:
As for the Magnus, it is(also) pretty forgiving on the mods that you add. It has good status chance and crit chance, along with good crit damage(200%).
So it actually depends on which mods you have available and what you need it for.

1 thing I would recommend, is to reduce it's reload speed(give it a faster reload) and/or increase mag size. The reload speed is fairly long, which severely reduces your sustained dps.
There are 2 dual mods(nightmare) that seems to utilize this quite well:
Ice Storm; Increases mag size and adds cold damage(synergizes well with your good status chance)
Stunning Speed; decreases reload time(faster reloads) and increases status chance(further boosts the chance of status effects).

Cold damage can be combined with Electricity to make Magnetic damage, which is very effective against corpus shields(which synergizes with the good impact damage of the Magnus).
Blast(cold+heat) is great for CC'ing enemies and Viral(cold+toxic) is great at reducing the health pool of high health targets(especially grineer).
Or you could stick to the cold damage, which will slow them to a crawl.

In the end, it depends on what you want with the gun.
You could ignore most damage mods and instead go for high status chance and shots fired, to create a CC weapon(low damage but able to apply lots of effects), or go for some heavy burst damage, but with reduced sustained damage.

Lots of possibilities with this weapon.

[Morty2989]

I remember keeping mine as a magnetic shield buster. Was amazing on Corpus. For whatever reason, I also recall regretting turning it into an akmagnus. Two of something isn't always better.

[Fendelphi]

引用自 Palmer_Eldritch：

I remember keeping mine as a magnetic shield buster. Was amazing on Corpus. For whatever reason, I also recall regretting turning it into an akmagnus. Two of something isn't always better.

Probably increased recoil and reload times(3 seconds at base). Also, I believe the Akmagnus is missing the polarity slot, making it harder to fit mods without using forma.