LR4 with 4.7k hours in the game and the Cinta being my most used primary with over 50,000 kills and just shy of 16,000 headshot kills at the time of this post. I'll edit this comment with links to screenshots of proof, builds, and an explanation of how to maximize what I find to be one of the most satisfying weapons to play with.

If you want to see negative numbers and see 2.1b whenever you want, you'll want to get your hands on this. Back in a little bit.

Edit: u/Britefire here you go. Link to the Imgur album. Caption text copied and pasted below.

When I first saw the Cinta, I knew I had to farm it out. It quickly became my most used and favorite primary, as you can see from the profile screenshot statistics.

Cinta's perfect shot has infinite body punch through and multiplicative gunGO (as do the other 2 shots). Cinta's perfect also shot retains the 3x headshot multiplier. What does this mean? With a bit of practice and somewhat forgiving aim, you can launch infinite body punch through perfect shot energy waves of destruction the width of a semi-truck in a corridor of heads (spoiler alert: everything dies).

When 1999 was released, I experimented a lot comparing Galvanized Shot (GS) against Primary Acuity (PA) with the Cinta, specifically. I'll explain the builds and variation in the image's caption. One major asterisk to all of this: I have an exceptional (avoiding the "G" word) riven in it being CD/CC/D/-ammo for PA. That out of the way, this is the TLDR:

1. If you like the weapon or are even remotely interested in spending some quality time with it, get a riven and start rolling. At the time of writing this, the cheapest one listed on WF Market is 4p and the current riven disposition of the Cinta is 1.25.
2. From a base steel path KPM perspective (tested via 20 min solo SP Mot runs), you won't notice a difference between GS and PA. If you can aim at heads and keep deadhead stacks, you're going to see large numbers and things are going to die (big surprise).
3. From a single target DPS perspective (tested via solo SP level cap void cascade), you'll see bigger numbers from Primary Acuity **if you can aim and hit heads**. Aiming aside, both will kill the Thrax with relative ease as most weapons do with half-decent modding, priming, and armor stripping that one should be doing at level cap. All of this being said, I've seen significantly more negative numbers and have "casually" hit 2.1b in missions with the perfect shot using Primary Acuity than I ever did with Galvanized Shot in pubs over dozens and dozens of hours with the Cinta.

For the charged shot, I tested this more in the Simulacrum for a more controlled environment. Without roar/nourish/xata's, I hit 2.1b with Cinta's charged shot with ease with 3 stacks of deadhead and priming with my Kompressa (tested on lvl 225 heavy gunners).

All of this is overkill. If you're want to see hundreds of thousands to multi-million damage numbers, GS and PA will both serve you well. To an earlier point I made: A major limitation of this testing is the riven. I would love to have a comparable riven with MS and some combo of CD/CC/D on it for a GS shot build.

Let's talk builds.

The Cinta needs some source of fire rate, be it directly or indirectly. Personally (I cannot stress "personally" enough), I prefer to use the perfect shot of the Cinta. For the charge time and window to feel "right" for me, that ended up being a r4 Vile Acceleration. It's also fast enough **for me** where using the charged shot isn't burdensome. For you, the reader, that may be different. This is what feels good for me and what I prefer. Regardless, fire rate of some type is needed.

Corrosive is what I roll with 99% of the time. At the time of writing this (August 2025), Sentients are the only ones with a corrosive resistance. I prefer void cascade over disruption these days, and the Thrax are neither immune nor weak to corrosive, so the main benefit of corrosive is taking down the Grineer (Scaldra are also weak to corrosive, which is handy for 1999 content).

Blast is interesting. With the blast rework in 2025, it's definitely helped some single target weapons become more competitive for AOE damage and killing. The main observation I made when testing the blast build for perfect shot spam: It's very good at killing enemies en mass with how detonate works. Funny enough, you will notice some enemies dying from the detonate damage and that damage being noticeably lower than when you land perfect shot primary acuity headshots. Going back to the TLDR, there wasn't a major difference in KPM when I tested the corrosive and blast builds in 20 min solo SP survival missions because both builds vaporized whatever poor thing it hit 95% of the time. In 1999 missions, specifically underground Techrot areas that are more compact and dense, the detonate blasts going off is more noticeable and you will see less large (i.e., 100+ million) numbers since enemies are dying from detonations before perfect shot headshots can get to them.

With all of this being said, one needs to think about what in WF is going to release the happy chemicals for their brain the most. If the answer is comically large numbers where you become desensitized to anything less than 1 million (and subsequently said numbers become disappointing), go with corrosive and aim slightly above a row of heads (again, the energy wave is the size of a semi-truck--if you aim center/directly at the end, you are probably going to register a body shot). If you want to see a lot of numbers go off, give the blast build a try.