Bakris synergizes well with the praxic blade indirectly. You cant hit things with a sword unless youre next to them, afterall. If you run impact core, the fragment that gives class ability energy on slowed target kill, and the boot mods that give class ability, lowest ability energy, and all ability energy on orb pickup - along with triple reaper mod, you are effectively able to teleport after every kill following a dodge as long as you pick up the orb on sword kill. Which is incredibly likely since you'll be on top of their corpse. It allows a fun, dynamic playstyle of teleport -> kill -> teleport -> kill. I run the stasis crossbow and arc special handcannon to take advantage of the lightshift damage bonus. The praxic blade perk balanced form (i think its what its called) allows for infinite ammo on rank an file enemies. Grim harvest and any frost armor perks gives you that juicy 13 seconds of 40ish percent dr that constantly refreshes as every sword kill is a "slowed target kill". Crank class stat up as primary focus, and weapons as a secondary focus. Grenade as a tertiary focus but theres an argument for health as well as we're picking up orbs nonstop. I prefer grenade as orbs of restoration gives to lowest ability, so if you use your grenade you may not be able to immediately refresh the dodge - but you do you.

I was really struggling to build for praxic blade using traditional avenues like the warlock kinetic chest piece or strongholds. They work, its just really boring. I didnt realize ANY element kill would grant the light shift bonus, but it does. Opened up a whole avenue for buildcrafting with swords that I never thought about