Are there any? Other than heavy attack weapons like gunblades and glaives
Only valkyr’s claws and excal’s blade i guess and that’s just because you cant abuse the gladiator mods like on Baruuk and cant use combo mods
The mods that make melee good scale with combo. Assuming you mean not using heavy attacks: My Telos Boltace and Nikana Prime can shred enemies in the right circumstances using status/crit hybrid builds. Any weapon with good crit and status stats could work. Use a frame like Wisp who has a lot of survivability and easy access to blinds for the damage bonus. You could replace Wisp’s tickle beam with Nidus’s helminth ability to group enemies up if you’re not using the Telos Boltace.
They don’t even come close to my Glaive Prime though.
The only alternative that comes to mind are Exodia Contagion zaws. On bullet jump or double jump your aerial attack while aim gliding will ‘throw’ a projectile shaped like your weapon in the direction you’re looking.
The projectile travels in a straight line but is affected by gravity, so it’s not homing like a glaive and falls down eventually. It also explodes on contact in a very generous AoE and can embed itself into an enemy if it hits one to deal DoT after the initial explosion.
There’s a 400% damage bonus after the projectile flies for over 30 meters.
It’s a bit weird to use at first but it is extremely powerful. We’re talking possibly millions of damage here, especially if you use the distance bonus.
Edit:
Here’s a quick example I made in Simulacrum against lvl 190 Gokstad Officers without the distance bonus.
“Good” for mid star chart? For Sortie 3? For starting the steel path? For level cap? Please explain what “good” means to you.
For base level steel path grineer mostly. Everything starts to feel slugish there when I’m not using a build that needs 12x combo
Is using Corrupt Charge “relying on combo”? I don’t think so. If you do too, then:
ANY glaive except Kestrel or Halikar. Heavy attack build for Pennant, or maybe any 2h Nikana Any slashy Zaw built for crit-status (which means slow) with both the fully ranked Sacrificial mods
Other than heavy attack weapons like gunblades and glaives
There goes my suggestions, uhh i use the skiajati with a killer riven and it works okay without combo, mainly because its pre-umbral formaed and would be a waste to madurai to get the combo mods on it