SWEEPER | Haruspex Melee Vex (LVL 60 UVH6)

WEAPONS

You want weapons that have Maliwan (Element Switch Underbarrel). Ideally, have these be many flavors of the Mantra.

Licensed Parts

• Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory) is very strong: it enables ricochets and access to powerful enhancement effects.
• Ripper (Charge Mag) is an extreme DPS boost, but is generally reserved for bossing due to the charge time and ammo inefficiency. The more fire rate PARTS a Mantra has, the quicker it will charge-up the Ripper magazine.
• • Mantra can roll both of these licenses at once.

Avoid most bladed weapons, except maybe for Bladed Maliwan Shotgun/Mantra. Those currently apply an extra 82.5% Melee Damage boost to your Melee Attack. However, they do have long recovery frames, which still makes them pretty meh to use.

Equip the weapons in the order most comfortable to you, and organize their modes in a way that has all your elemental matchups covered for Dead Ringer summoning, Phase Covenant attuned melee attacks and Groundbreaker.

Other Weapons

A Ripper Sniper with 'Target Marker' can be useful due to the significant debuff it provides.

If your 'melee philosophy' is open to experimentation, you can also use heavy-hitting underbarrels to build up Groundbreaker, like

• Maliwan Shotgun 'Beam Tosser'
• Jakobs Shotgun 'Spread Launcher'
• Oscar Mike 'Space Laser'
• And others...

REPKIT

Order Repkit, Triple Bypass and War Paint are all good choices of Repkit with their own relative strengths.

Look for these effects, or combinations of them:

• Enrage (Experimental)
• • Enrage is highly recommended if you're looking to maximize damage, since it will apply to all damage and be double and triple dipped by Reverburnations into Bloodletter, and can go even further if you decide to use Groundbreaker.
• Hard Hitter (Steroidal)
• Elemental Affinity (Reactive)
• Accelarator (Adrenalized)
• Amp (Amplified) on any of these Repkits can be situationally useful if your self-imposed melee rules allow usage of heavy-hitting underbarrels for Groundbreaker.

ORDNANCE

Slippy

The Slippy gives us another way of accessing melee, and is excellent at building up Groundbreaker. It is also a safe way to burst Vile crystals enemies and some other types that you find to be very dangerous when at close distance. It will be attuned to Vex's current held element due to Phase Covenant.

It gets its own triggers of Reverburnations.

• The bonus shock from Watts 4 Dinner gets its own Reverburnations, as does Infusion.

Look for a variant that has any of

• Crit Chance
• Nuke
• +1 Max Charge

Then pick your preferred one.

Jakobs Grenade

The 'Crit Knife' Jakobs Grenade is great if you're choosing to lean more on the Mantra for your damage, since it helps it access crit damage alongside the boost from Coven + Specters during bossing.

'Supermassive' Jakobs Grenade or any other singularity-type grenade you like can be legitimately useful for grouping up enemies and enabling line-of-sight for the Misericorde ricochets.

CLASS MOD

For stat rolls on any class mod, all of these are acceptable:

• Melee Damage; Skill Damage
• Melee Crit Chance; Skill Crit Chance

Misericorde

Main class mod. Nice mobbing capabilities, turning Haruspex into a decently effective area-clearing tool. It also has some niche bossing applications due to its ricochets.

• +5 Haruspex; +1 Reawakening; +1 Grave Sights
• +5 Haruspex; +2 Reawakening or +2 Grave Sights

A Hunter Vex Class Mod with +5 Haruspex; +2 Recurrence or +2 Grave Assault is also a valid option or filler until you get a Misericorde.

Firedancer Vex Class Mod

This is excellent for bossing, and also more than adequate for mobbing.

• +5 Reverburnations; +2 Fell Inscriptions or preference
• This is usually the best damage you can get, but somewhat RNG-reliant. It's a nice swap-in for bossing if you prefer other class mods for mobbing.

Teen Witch

This is another excellent general use option. Enables perma 150% Amp Watts 4 Dinner for Mantraand doesn't need Siphon rolls. It sustains both damage and survival excellently through its very powerful legendary effect.

• +3 Corporeal; +4 Blood Is Magic or +4 Grave Thirst
• • Pure damage from Blood Is Magic (it's actually Skill Damage) or some sustain for yourself and minions through Grave Thirst. The sustain can be helpful for overall action skill uptime.

Commander Vex Class Mod

Great general use choice. Infusion is a powerful skill and lets you double down on element-matching and enabled additional trigger sources of Reverburnations and Bloodletter.

• +5 Infusion; +2 Any

Psion Vex Class Mod

Bleed is bleed. It can result in very high peaks and a lot of added damage.

• +5 Bloodletter; +2 Material Components

SHIELD

Watts 4 Dinner

Siphon variant is the main shield choice for all the non-Teen Witch class mods.

Amp variant is the main shield choice if using Teen Witch.

• This shield's bonus shock damage inherits the source type, and will apply to our melee damage sources. This means that on melee damage instances, including Haruspex, Slippy and Mantra, the Reverburnations skill can be triggered on your base damage and on the bonus shock from Watts 4 Dinner.
• The minion drain from Dead Ringer can trigger the Siphon part of shields for you.

ENHANCEMENT

For stat rolls on enhancement, look for:

• Shotgun Damage; Gun Damage
• Weapon Equip Speed; Shotgun Equip Speed
• Shotgun Crit Damage; Gun Crit Damage
• Shotgun Splash Damage; Gun Splash Damage
• Shotgun Mag Size; Gun Mag Size
• • The 'Gun Damage' and 'Shotgun Damage' boosts are very powerful for the Mantra.
  • The 'Shotgun Equip Speed' and 'Gun Equip Speed' boosts will stack, affect your melee recovery rate and also the speed of Maliwan mode switches.
  • The 'Shotgun Splash Damage' and 'Gun Splash Damage' boosts work on Melee Attacks and Groundbreaker, as long as you hold a weapon that fits the requirements. AVOID using both boosts together, they can cause weirdness and cancel each other out. While they're a relatively weak boost, I'm listing them here anyway since they're one of the few enhancement stat boosts for melee damage.

Quintain | Bounce Pass | Piercer Jakobs Enhancement

• Very good choices with high general applicability.
• Multistrike and Sequencer are also good, just beware that Specters can mess up the Sequencer effect.

Entropic | Devourer | Hard Charger | Free Loader | Short Circuit Ripper Enhancement

• Some of these can be extremely powerful, however the RNG and overall inconsistency can be an annoyance. Experiment to your liking.

Lame | Mixologist Maliwan Enhancement

• The weaker options of the bunch, but still serviceable.

3/3 Skillcraft | 2/3 Reel Big Fist

• Specters stack Skillcraft very quickly. The skill damage and crit chance are welcome benefits to Dead Ringer, Haruspex, Reverburnations, Bloodletter and Groundbreaker.

Melee Focus

I Am A Gun | A Honed Mind | Bear Arms | Groundbreaker

• Access Groundbreaker for high bursts of damage.
• Riddle You This is a valid alternative to A Honed Mind.

Riddle You This | I Am A Gun | A Honed Mind | Bear Arms

• Bigger focus on boosting the damage of the minions, Bloodletter and Haruspex.
• Contamination or The Best Defense are good alternatives to Riddle You This.

Mantra Focus

Riddle You This | I Am A Gun | A Honed Mind | Bear Arms

• Contamination or The Best Defense are good alternatives to either of Riddle You This or A Honed Mind.
• CQC is an option you can play with since the Mantra and Reapers trigger it.
• Groundbreaker is also another option in case you want to perform a big melee hit after mag dumps.