Pistol builds that utilize status effects can sometimes be incredibly dangerous using these weapons for damage or primers can benefit greatly from Galvanized Shot.
This mod enhances your pistol’s status chance while also causing enemies to take more damage from you based on the amount of status effects they suffer from.
It is built for secondary weapons that apply multiple elemental effects quickly, allowing pistols to scale heavily during sustained fights.
How To Get Galvanized Shot?
Galvanized Shot is obtained through the Arbitration Honors vendor located inside the Arbiters of Hexis room accessible from any Relay station in the game.
It costs twenty Vitus Essence, which is earned exclusively from completing Arbitration missions that rotate through high level endurance based activities such as survival and defense.
Because it is tied to a fixed vendor system, progression depends entirely on repeated Arbitration farming rather than random drops or enemy loot tables.
Galvanized Shot Effects
Galvanized Shot increases status chance for pistols, allowing secondary weapons to apply elemental and physical procs more consistently across rapid fire engagements.
On kill, it grants a temporary buff that increases direct hit damage based on how many unique status effects are currently affecting the target enemy.
This bonus can stack up to three times, significantly increasing damage scaling when multiple status types are maintained during sustained combat encounters.
The effect specifically applies to direct hits rather than area damage, making it most effective on precise pistol fire or single target focused secondary weapons.
This can be useful when combining multiple status types such as Viral, Heat, or Corrosive, since each additional effect increases overall damage scaling potential.
Galvanized Shot Stats
Rank | Status Chance | Damager Per Status Effect | Max Bonus Damage | Capacity |
0 | +7.3% | +3.6% | +10.8% | 2 |
| 1 | +14.5% | +7.3% | +21.9% | 3 |
2 | +21.8% | +10.9% | +32.7% | 4 |
| 3 | +29.1% | +14.5% | +43.5% | 5 |
4 | +36.4% | +18.2% | +54.6% | 6 |
| 5 | +43.6% | +21.8% | +65.4% | 7 |
6 | +50.9% | +25.5% | +76.5% | 8 |
| 7 | +58.2% | +29.1% | +87.3% | 9 |
8 | +65.5% | +32.7% | +98.1% | 10 |
| 9 | +72.7% | +36.4% | +109.2% | 11 |
10 | +80% | +40% | +120% | 12 |
Verdict
Galvanized Shot is a strong scaling secondary mod that allows you to destroy your enemies by flooding them with status effects, which works even better when you have multiple damage types.
It performs best on pistols that can rapidly apply multiple elemental procs, allowing its stacking damage bonus to ramp consistently during fights.
However its effectiveness drops on low status or burst focused secondaries, making it far more valuable in sustained combat scenarios than quick engagements.
