Hey guys, title explains it:

  1. Does Ore Gaze drop chance even work on the Executioners? I have it subsumed on my Nekros with 70% additional chance; however, wiki specifically says enemies must be petrified for loot chance to be applied. Executioners seem to be immune to petrify to begin with and once they are in strangledome they won't get petrified regardless (I think). I've done a few hours but haven't really noticed any substantial differences and could very well have happened due to chance. If anyone has written down data, or just ran a crap ton of hours and knows that would be great!

  2. I know Amalgam Ripkas True Steel Gore Chance (for desecrate) applies universally to YOUR OWN loadout; but, does this apply to other teammates as well? Do you need to at least assist in the kill for gore to take in effect? Or can you just simply kill if someone on the team has the mod equipped?

  3. Does the Gore Enabled setting make a difference? Does everyone need to have it on?

  4. From the wiki (again, pretty much all my knowledge right now is wiki-confirmed), enemy death by Slash STATUS effects don't cause gore. Since Steel Path enemies are heavily armored, what's the best way to deal with this?

- From my experience (not confirmed), Terrify slows down the run slightly due to enemies running away, so it's not an amazing armor strip. If Ore Gaze turns out to be useless, I'd subsume Tharros Strike. Otherwise, if Ore Gaze does work, I'd have to rely on someone else to armor strip, which honestly while finding party members it's a hit or miss. I'd rather be able to do as much as I can on my own side.

- I could opt to run Amalgam Ripkas, and use an OP weapon like the Laetum to kill and trigger gore at the same time. The Laetum would be annoying to charge incarnon on, however, so other weapon suggestions would be appreciated. I'm looking for around one-shot/one-tick efficiency like when I use my Glaive Prime; obviously, I cannot run both Glaive and Ripkas at the same time.

5) Glaive Prime. Does it Gimp the run? I've been told different things and it's annoying. Without it, runs take 2-3x as long. I've still done hour long runs with 2.5 - 3.3k endo runs (with mod drop booster). Is this significantly bad? I understand death by slash procs aren't ideal for Gore, but people telling me to run Nikana or Kronen is no different (they all suggested status builds).

These questions have been bugging me a lot! Responses will be greatly appreciated. Please also specify if you just have a hunch or if you've confirmed it via testing and other means.

I will get to testing Q2 and possibly Q4 as soon as my Ripkas finish building.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I've pretty much read all Arena farm related posts, but feel free to link them again for extra cross-referencing.