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Best Tesla Gun Build in Abyssus
Chain lightning arcs between enemies and — crucially — each arc counts as an individual hit for Blessing triggers, making it the king of elemental builds. Easiest top-tier weapon to use; no perfect aim needed.
Best for: Crowded arenas & solo runs — effortless room control
Recommended Tesla Gun build
The fastest fire rate in the game turns every chain into stacked status procs. Run Fortune (Goldburst) and it scales infinitely with your gold — players report 800+ gold deleting the final boss in under a minute.
⚑ Best Aspect
Goldburst (Fortune) — or Chain Lightning
✦ Key Blessings
- Exponential Gold + Golden Skin (Fortune) for infinite scaling & tankiness
- Chain Lightning arcs for pure AoE
⚒ Ancient Forge mods
- Diffusion Mod (status jumps to nearby enemies on death)
- Status Spread / Effect Duration
- Reload Speed
◈ Recommended Charms
- Gold Lure
- Golden Ticket
- Gold Converter
➤ Ability
Smiting Spear
Pros / Cons
- ✔ Best beginner S-tier
- ✔ Dominant solo pick
- ✔ King of elemental/status builds
- ✘ Lower raw single-target than Revolver
- ✘ Wants clustered enemies
Depth 30 variant
Golden Skin keeps you alive while Exponential Gold does the damage; pair with ice Blessings to freeze rooms when overwhelmed.
Tesla Gun fire modes
Pick one primary and one secondary fire mode at the Workbench. Each weapon has three of each.
Primary fire
- Electrical Beam — Continuous beam of electricity.
- Charge Beam — Overloads targets on Weakspot hits.
- Unstable Coil — Locks onto nearby enemies.
Secondary fire
- Spark Orb — Slow orb that zaps nearby enemies.
- Charge Orb — Explodes on impact and deals damage over time.
- Magnetic Storm — Charge a storm of electricity.
Tesla Gun Ancient Forge upgrades
Weapon-specific Forge mods that reshape how the Tesla Gun plays.
- Spark Gap — Increase fire rate the longer you fire without letting go of your Primary.
- Streamlined Transistor — Increase damage the longer you fire without letting go of your Primary.
- Compact Transformer — Secondary charges twice as fast.
- Larger Battery — Secondary can be charged an additional 2 steps, increasing its effect.
- Wireless Transmitter — Your Secondary's duration is increased by 20% for each active Secondary effect.
- High Voltage — Deal 20% more Primary damage to enemies currently being hit by the Secondary.
- High-Frequency — Increases range/radius of your Secondary by 50%.
- Backup Battery — Increase magazine size by 50. Killing enemies grants 10 stacks of Backup Battery. When you run out of ammo, stacks of Backup Battery are consumed to instantly refund 1 ammo per stack.
How to unlock the Tesla Gun
Act 2, Stage 2 (Depth 6): defeat the miniboss at the stage conclusion.
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