WEAPONS
Solar Temper
Order Sniper
Symmetry
The
Solar Temper is an excellent pick for big one-shots, and can even outdo the Piktun sometimes. Try to find good rolls that cover all elemental weaknesses through the Elemental Override (Shock, Fire, Corrosive.)
- It's not a bad mobbing weapon either.
Piktun is the ultimate 'normal gun' for one-shots of any health bar. Also works well for mobbing, just charge it a bit for the stronger enemies.
- The highest damage is only achievable with a Torgue (Impact Mag) or Torgue (Sticky Mag) license.
- Torgue (Impact Mag) is the usual must-have for this, due to the upfront damage and the fact it also enables double hit pierce strategies with
High Caliber. - Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory) is a good pick for mobbing, and you usually want it alongside Torgue (Impact Mag). It's also not bad for bossing, since the ricochet can hit the ground and hit the grounded boss through the splash radius again.
The
Symmetry is an adequate farmable choice until you find a good
Solar Temper and/or Piktun, but it doesn't have access to any of the good licenses a Piktun has or the raw power of
Solar Temper.
Truck
Great general use sniper, and one of the main choices for mobbing.
- Torgue (Impact Mag) provides a larger mag and AoE, being excellent with an Air Burst (
Pumper) enhancement. - Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader) Shotgun mode is also nice, and can also roll alongside Torgue.
- A pure, no licensed parts version can roll very high damage and feels excellent for traditional sniping.
Vladof Sniper
BIG. ROCKET. BIG ROCKET.
- The Big Rocket underbarrel on
Vladof Sniper can actually spawn with an accessory part for x2 rockets fired! - Inspect your sniper to see if it has two rockets attached to the underbarrel. This makes it an excellent bossing option that stays sniper-themed, since it will count as sniper damage.
- The maximum damage Big Rocket will always have a Torgue magazine. Jakobs is also a great roll for it alongside Torgue, due to the ricochets also hitting grounded bosses.
Order AR
Tediore AR
Drone underbarrels of your choosing. Kill drone on
Order AR, Support drone on
Tediore AR.
- Kill drones can help give a breather during dense mobbing, and you can snapshot Amp +
Blood Shot into them. - Support drones work on you and minions.
Rooker
A powerful underbarrel option.
- The
Rooker Callous underbarrel can annihilate bosses by itself, and also acts well as passive damage during mobbing, since you can use underbarrel then go right back to sniping or even swap to another weapon while the needles do work.
Fisheye
Borstel Ballista
Boomslang
These are other nice Sniper options.
Fisheye is powerful, especially for mobbing, and its projectiles have a large hitbox. This makes it (usually) pretty good at dealing with vile and ordonite enemies. Pair with Order or Jakobs enhancements.
Borstel Ballista has innate piercing and is kind of a sweet spot weapon which can feel very rewarding. Good for mobbing and bossing, though it will definitely hit a bossing ceiling when attempting harder content.
Boomslang doesn't exactly see its full potential realized on Vex, but is still a fun gun overall.
More Weapons
You can also bring any other guns you're comfortable with. I personally like
Hot Slugger, Balor
Jakobs Shotgun,
Goalkeeper and
G.M.R. because they fit in and synergize well with the setup.
Underbarrels
Underbarrels in this game are extremely strong. Here's a list of ones you can try:
REPKIT
Order Repkit,
Triple Bypass and
Kill Spring are all good choices of Repkit with their own relative strengths.
Look for these effects, or combinations of them if applicable:
- Amp (Amplified)
- Enrage (Experimental)
- Reload Speed (Dextrous)
ORDNANCE
'Crit Knife'
Jakobs Grenade is useful at reducing RNG reliance on boss one-shots. It's also a big boost to bleed.
'Ricochet Artillery'
Order Grenade or
Vladof Grenade can be useful for stacking effects like
Contamination or
Riddle You This.
Countermeasure,
Waterfall,
Blockbuster,
Firepot and
Slippy are fun options for mobbing.
A
Torgue Heavy Weapon or
Maliwan Heavy Weapon can also be fine for a panic button.
CLASS MOD
Ideal stat rolls for any Class Mod would be:
- Kinetic Damage
- Skill Damage
- Gun Crit Chance
- Skill Crit Chance
Pick between
Undead Eye and
Teen Witch for mobbing. For bossing, a good Psion will usually be the best choice, followed by
Teen Witch.
The consistent triggers of
Blood Shot and Repkit sustain make for nice QOL, but this class mod does not have the damage peaks of the others. Good mobbing choice.
- +3
Infernal Sum; +3
Guns and Needles; +1
Blood Shot
Undead Eye always rolls one point in
Blood Shot, and a maximum of +3 in
Infernal Sum
- +4
Blood Shot; +3
Guns and Needles - This is also a decent roll option.
Excellent for general use, since it provides good sustain, damage and has great skill rolls. However, won't have the
Blood Shot QoL from
Undead Eye or the bossing peaks of a good Psion.
- +5
Grave Thirst; + Any
Blood Is Magic and
Corporeal. - The highest peaks of mobbing damage due to
Blood Is Power benefitting from the lifesteal. The lifesteal is also great for minion survivability.
- +5
Blood Is Magic or +5
Conjunction; +2
Corporeal - Maximizes passive boosts if you want to keep this class mod on for both bossing and mobbing.
Main choice for boss one-shots, due to the powerful scaling of
Bloodletter. You can also use this for mobbing if you want, just be mindful that you'll have no way to trigger
Blood Shot apart from using your Repkit.
- +5
Bloodletter: +2
Leeching Attunement or +2
Material Components
SHIELD
Guardian Angel
150% Amp. This is the ideal shield when using either Psion or
Undead Eye.
Watts 4 Dinner or Amp Shield
150% Amp. With
Teen Witch, the
Watts 4 Dinner becomes overall best in slot.
ENHANCEMENT
For stat rolls on any enhancement, look for:
- Gun Damage
- Sniper Rifle Damage
- Gun Crit Damage, Sniper Rifle Crit Damage
- Gun Splash Radius, Gun Type Splash Radius
- Radius boosts can be deceptively excellent depending on the strategy employed.
- Great for Air Burst or
Pumper +
High Caliber +
Jakobs Shotgun Spread Launcher or
Vladof Sniper Big Rocket, for example. Also perfect for
Torgue AR Airstrike.
Pumper | Headringer
Torgue Enhancement
- Great for torgue or torgue-licensed weapons.
Pumper is an excellent enhancement for Torgue (Impact Mag) projectiles and can make vile or ordonite enemies a lot easier to deal with. The Air Burst effect is more useful than it seems.- Aiming slightly above crit spots usually allows you to still hit non-chance crits with Air Burst.
Quintain |
Multistrike | Piercer or Bounce Pass
Jakobs Enhancement
- Great for jakobs or jakobs-licensed weapons.
Quintain and Bounce Pass are generally mobbing-enhancing options, which may or may not be better than the Torgue enhancements depending on the weapon. They can have bossing applications if using
High Caliber double hit pierce strategies.
Primadiem |
Ouroboros | Power Shot
Order Enhancement
- Power Shot is excellent for boss one-shots with the Piktun.
Primadiem and
Ouroboros are good for general use of
Order Sniper rifles.