People don't know that this is the ultimate form of throwing a brick at someone.

Haemorrhage released in the same update as the epitaph, they were literally made for each other

I distinctly remember when Call of the Tempestarii first dropped and building this funky little arm-mounted blaster. Everyone was raving about it being a fantastic new primer, meanwhile I was having the time of my life blasting fools with 500k red crit headshots. What a beaut, still one of my favourite weapons in the game.

Sup, nerds

"What the CLEM was that?!" May be my new swear of choice

Can't wait to see Sevagoth Prime & Epitaph prime curious..

Okay, hear me out: Full tauforged shards of Secondary Crit Chance. Remove Galvanized Crosshairs. Add even MOAR status procs.

These videos are always the best start to my morning

i see someone has been watching Jordan the stallion

Greetings, I have a...'suggestion'. Uss Saryn with the Grimoire (if you want you can also replace Molt with Ballistic Battery), why? Because Toxic Lash hits are counted separately for ticking down the alt fire, which means the alt fire can charge itself with Toxic lash. Oh and the Toxic Lash interaction also extends to multishot from the primary fire. Jahu canticle also removes the need to use Emerald shards on Saryn because it will fill in the missing armor strip and Xata Invocation allows the constant use of Ballistic Battery, oh and yes the Dots from Grimoire alt fire and Toxic lash will quickly charge up Ballistic Battery casts. It's a feedback loop that only stops if you or all enemies are dead. (even if you die most things around you have no armor so Last Gasp revives become easier to pull off) tl;dr Saryn can charge the Grimoire faster than Dante can charge Noctua in all cases

I’ve been using it like this for awhile now. Glad you’re bringing attention to it

I love the way you do videos, short, simple, funny.

God damn I am early. Epitaph was what got me through very early on in SP. Love it.

Literally got this yesterday and built it today looking for a build, thank you mr youtube man.

Love using this on Valence Lavos with two corrosive shards, epitaph is such a lovely all rounder.

If you want to see crazyness take it to circuit and get a few damage decrees and you can big boom.

People really underestimate these primers.

"Primer" yeah I've gave up using primers when I made a crit nukor and epitaph that could hit harder than my 5 forma dread, good to see more people see builds like this.

Just like with Sevagoth, people sleep on this until you fully try it out and it deals BONKERS damage. The forced cold procs especially were made to have synergy with gloom and the mad headshots for heavy/eximus enemies. Very satisfying combo Edit: Nightmare mode spawns harolds and so do magnetic procs im pretty sure

Interesting find on that energy drain thing.

One thing I love about the Epitaph is that its uncharged shot has enough AoE, fire rate, and status chance to be a good primer, while the charged shot has the crit, fire rate, and forced impact proc to be an amazing kill gun. What’s more, you can build it hybrid so that you can prime them a bit with the uncharged shot, then delete them with the charged shot.

DPS epitaph has always had a special place in my heart, it's nice to see someone else recognize it; it goes even harder with viral and secondary shiver

I've actually used this weapon on Ivara since it was released because of the headshot multiplier on prowl, and every release that comes out with something else that buffs that, like Deadhead, just makes it even more hilarious.

Love the videos in which you test guns in this way!!!! I would like to see the cyanex too!!!!

this has always bin one of those weapons of "why prime when its already dead" for me, i dont run into content that needs priming setups to get to that lvl, but man does it just chunk

For higher levels I’ve always liked running viral and merciless instead of corrosive and deadhead. The charged shot won’t proc the viral, but the Epitath doesn’t have to be “primer OR damage” it can be its own primer and then do its own damage. Doing a quick shot to apply viral to a ton of enemies and then using charged shots to bleed them all to death lets it do amazing damage. Been using it that way since it came out and it honestly keeps up with some of the broken secondaries running around.

O h huh that's a funny looking railgun doing some shenanigans, thanks for the helpful video MC!

Also, you wanna know the real kicker? after protea prime and xaku prime, this weapon is gonna be getting a prime

I didn't realize how much they min-maxed this weapon; It can fit Lethal torrent and be JUST below the threshold for Hemorhhage, which was ALSO released in the same update this gun was released, And due to the projectile nature it gets MULTIPLICATIVE scaling with Galvanized Savvy, AND applies a ton of status, with a force proc COLD so the enemy is slow so its easier to land headshots. It's such a crazed gun and I'm thinking I should use its charged shot mode more...

It literally kills with the quick shots alone and not very inteligent youtubers will have every video telling you to use it as a primer FOR YEARS and people who can't think for themselves blindly follow. Took a while but THANK YOU for properly using this amazing weapon

I use similar build, just with primed pistol gambit instead of crosshairs, status duration instead of lethal torrent then 3 dual stats and Cucumber. Primes just fine as it usually does and when I need the damage I just charge it. It can even 2 tap SP Demo when shot in the head under all those silly icons from all allowed procs in the game.

Yess!!! Disruption epitaph is underrated lmao, probably the best prime+burst damage secondary in the game. Yes, gun co is multiplicative so with hornet strike + bane the damage output is just insane

I like taking this thing into sp circuit with Citrine, it's super easy to get the crystal beaming everything with it

I unironically was using the charged shot for eidolons a week after it's release

I rarely use different secondary... It's good for demos on disruption as well. Epitaph is when you put a Railgun and BFG in the same weapon...

I had thought about building this like this but haven't gotten around to it yet... might have to give it a "shot" with my crappy low end mods

I feel like this was the way the weapon was intended to be used, everybody focused on the priming so much we forgot how good the charge shot was, it never got nerfed and now we have even stronger mods and arcanes for it.

This is my favorite secondary in the game by far. It can prime, oneshot high level stuff and turns any frame into a nuke frame in low level.

I remember using the arcane that gives you a million crit chance on headshot after a roll to get some absolutely silly numbers. But yeah this is just a fantastic all rounder that more people need to give a shot beyond priming, also side note with the cold changes they wanna do shown on the latest devstream using this to prime and then hitting them with its charge shot is gonna be WILD since they'll get fully frozen AND take more crit damage

I know it’s not a “old” or “non-meta” weapon but could we get a video on the Cedo. It would be great to see if you could some some funky stuff to it, plus it would make me chuffed to bits

this weapon self primes too. throw on viral with dual stat mods and galva shot and can see some pretty spicy numbers. Personally, I prefer shot over crosshairs. I like the hybrid aspect of this weapon immensely

personally i like running silencer on the exilus, its great for stealth gaming

with riven does auto red redhead crits. Never used for priming anything.

The reactions were gold in this one! 😆

Why are you becoming my favorite daily youtuber?

This weapon was born to railcannon forced to prime

Might even use this with Qorvex for that punchthrough.

Slap that on a Lavos or Chroma and see funny numbers

well thats an interesting interaction neat

Yeah, epitaph is kinda underrated as a damage dealing weapon. I never build around charge or crits, just uncharged shots already do ridiculous amount of damage. And I don't run a single base damage mod on my epitaph, just galv savy and I use arcane tht does 750 damage when I proc status on enemies.. on uncharged shots the hit and explosion apply status separately, my multishot is beyond 4 and I have 250% status chance. It just works, tho I don't get 6 digit slash procs :D

I love the epitaph for duvuri

As with more or less every secondary; Needs more Ceramic Dagger Incarnon and Secondary Outburst! :D

Oh boy, this thing is gonna be real good now.

Ive been using the epitaph for its damage since I got it. It gets crazy in the circuit and regularly hits damage cap. I prefer to build for full crit tho

Im surprised you didnt use it with secondary encumber. Personally I run that with galvanized shot and is still does good damage while also priming a billion status effects.

Could be fun with Cucumber too

Secondary Encumber goes hard in tandem with Galvanized Shot on this too from what I'd experienced! I manage to pull 2M headshots on SP single targets after priming lol

im so glad i got this for free from the alert last year

I've been running a Hybrid Crit Status Hemmorhage build on this weapon for YEARS so I'm surprised this came as such a shock to you. I JUST KNEW when the weapon first came out that it was a perfect vehicle for this brand new Hemmorhage mod with that 2.4 Fire Rate and I figured Viral + Slash Procs was gonna be very damned good. I was not at all disappointed. These days my Epitaph is a 5 Forma Build with 3 Seperate builds. Hybrid Viral Crit Hemmorhage Standard Primer Build And if you want something *really* spicy Mr. KZfaq Man, try dropping both Status Mods for Sharpned Bullets and Hydraulic Crosshairs; Rocking a Ceramic Dagger Incarnon, and using Secondary Outburst for *even more crit* then use the Cedo Alt Fire to Prime targets. The damage output of the Slashes on that setup is beyond ridiculous, especially with a Rhino Roar or Eclipse behind it. That's when it hits Levelcap Destroying territory which is entirely unnecessary but extremely funny when this wrist mounted Slab Launcher deletes literally anything you point it at without fail.

Can't wait until prime sevagoth and epitaph later this year

I've been saying this to my clan for years, and honestly like half of them use it for killing now too. It's my most used weapon in the game, I rock it on xaku, with xatas, enemy bullets can't even hit me cuz they're all void bubbled. Cascadia Empowered makes for an insane quick shot killing build, Encumber is my go to for a charged build, I invest in status, quick shot to stack every element rq, then galv shot carries the dmg just fine.

If we're doing 24m headshot damage now, imagine what we'll be dealing once the armour changes come out in June

The meta Painting epitaphs primary out of the picture like Stalin is A CRIME

I've been running it as a primer for Nekros (I mean, the name, come on...), but since he's usually hacking into things I slapped Secondary Dexterity onto it. It can get some pretty nice damage going with that!

Got damn that chunky slash damage

If you quick shot to prime them before charge shotting them, since it's not hitscan you get multiplicative GunCO instead of additive Edit: nvm you figured that out 30 seconds after I said this, I should have waited lol

It may be one of the best secondaries in the game. It primes and detonates so good, give it to Yareli, equip full crit mods on the Epitaph and it will be nuts.

I already knew the pawa of this, but, now it is in eye of DE, may pablo have mercy on us.

If viral and cold can be used simultaneously in the aoe shot, shiver might be a good arcane for it, effectively giving more viral stacks

Yeah when I first got epitaph I used it for damage. I think ive hit 42mil with it on nourish chroma.

MCGamerCZ where are you streaming?

I run Gal Diffusion, Gal Shot, Hornet Strike, Pistol Gambit, Pistol Pest, Frostbite, Scorch, and Primed Heated Charge, with Cascadia Flare. Heat Shreds the Armor increasing damage taken, Viral for the Damage Multi, the quick shot basically full stacks Flare, the Heat Procs kill the random trash mobs, then you Execute the tougher things with a charged shot. The weapon is just not ok XD

Also cold getting buffed soon, soon the epitath will be a pocket frost 4 if you mod corrosive lmao.

i love the mechanics of this weapons, but am more of a melee freak so going around trying to land headshots is what i dont like amazing video tho... am gonna have to do some research on my epitaph hmmmm

If the infested ancients drain your EN with their rope grab it procs duplex bond too.

Friend, I am confused. Why no Primed Pistol Gambit? Why just crosshairs? Drop corrosive and put in Primed Heated Charge for single element heat. The cold isn't actually on the weapon, so it shouldn't combine for Blast (and if it does, hell, put on toxin for viral, but I don't think it does).

Tip: Take off Deadhead, throw on Cascadia Overcharge, take off one of your elemental mods, put on Hornet Strike, take off the remaining elemental mod, put on the new Secondary Elementalist mod. Your damage will multiply a good couple times.

And to think. Sevagoth Prime is within the next 3 Primes. Ergo, _Epitaph Prime_ will be, also.

Prime Epitaph will shake the Earth

epitaph is goated on the wrist

Now you know how I feel when I expect a weapon to be ok to good and then it goes straight up berserk.

As an Epitaph enjoyer... Using this with Viral+Radiation+Deadhead+GunCO (Multiplicative, btw) and watching the base 300 get absolutely B U F F E D to become 10.6M per headshot is so satisfying. It's like dropping a perfectly round pebble from super high up and watching it make the biggest splash in the water way below.

It's so strong that I kind of worry if it's good for the game. The prime can't possibly be much better without it being alarming

I'm one of the 2 people who use this weapon's charged attack, especially when I use it with Sevagoth.

Hmmm.... Ok, so this build is focused on the high damage charged shot, but I'd imagine that it would be possible to run a kind of hybrid build with.... Viral or Corrosive I guess? Wherein you soften them up with the uncharged shot and then go for the charged one. Edit: Oh you did it already. Nevermind.

Well, I guess the Epitaph I finally got from that event for all its and Sevagoth's parts should be put to good use. The Prime version that will come with Sevagoth Prime will crush the game, won't it?

Damn, these new age primers hit different Back in my day, primers sucked at being actual weapons

It sometimes shocks me that people don't realize that Epitaph is actually just a crazy damage dealing gun. It just so happens to also be a really good primer, but it has crazy damage output with hemorrhage, and has multiplicative scaling on galvanized savvy (which also pairs well with its priming ofc)

Welcome to the brick club.

Why don't you go for pure heat and cascadia flare?

Finally someone mentions the ridiculous damage potential of the epitaph!

honestly i feel the charge shot is overlooked but of course it would be because it involves too many variables that people are too lazy to want to tolerate

Not sure what am I doing wrong but I copied the same exact build but I am nowhere near this damage.

Secondary shiver is also multiplicative and you don't have to mod for cold

Believe it or not I use Afuris Prime to prime enemies and it’s so fun 😂 Thing is sometimes just a few stacks of viral is enough, so i just do a quick spray and it works so well due to the fire rate. Way more fun to me than epitaph tbh

I've said this here once before, but pair Epitaph with Yareli and you WILL be deleting anything that comes in front of you. Even more so with the power of red archon shards. Such a great weapon

Do the Kompressa please.

With the upcoming buff to cold... oh boy.

I use it for raw headshot damage on my Shadow Haze Sevagoth loadout. I do not like it for priming

my epitaph ( on yareli ) deals 40 mil on headshots 💀( yes it one shots eximus on steel path too )