The Epitaph is an interesting weapon, offering Warframe players two different shooting modes. Quickly hitting the trigger will fire a projectile that explodes, inflicting status damage on enemies within the explosion radius. Fully charging the weapon will fire a high-damage projectile that can do immense single shot damage.

The best way to build the Epitaph is to take advantage of its incredibly high critical stats, providing more than enough damage to take out almost anything in the game.

Epitaph Stats

  • Fire Rate – chargedAccuracy – 80Magazine Size – 1Max Ammo – 60Reload Time – 0.6Total Damage – 300 (120 Impact, 45 Puncture, 135 Slash)Crit Chance – 48%Crit Multiplier – 2.6xStatus Chance – 4%

Epitaph Build

  • Hornet Strike – general damage increasePrimed Pistol Gambit/Pistol Gambit – improved critical chancePrimed Target Cracker/Target Cracker – improved critical damageBarrel Diffusion – multishot increaseLethal Torrent – improved firing and charge speedAugur Pact – improved overall damageMagnum Force – massively increase overall damageExilus – Lethal Momentum to increase projectile speed

This leaves a final slot which is open to player preference. Hemorrhage can be a good idea, as both firing modes do guaranteed Impact procs, giving a chance for Slash procs to also occur.

The weapon is also suitable for Condition Overload Priming, where players stack status effects from different weapons before engaging for melee combat to massive increase their damage output.