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BLOODWIRE | Remnant Minion Vex (LVL 60 UVH6)

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Phase Phamiliar

By Ratore

Updated on Apr 9, 2026

Apr 9, 2026

Build Overview

BLOODWIRE Minion Vex!

Story Pack 1 is REQUIRED for this build.

Build made in collaboration with Iserrot.
Blood Rift Remnants Explained & Tips
Questions are welcome anywhere you can find us, like in the Soup Kitchen Discord Server!

Bloodwire Phase PhamiliarDead Ringer

The main setup, 100% centered around minion usage through Vex's Configuration Class Mod and the Deadwire skill. You can quite literally watch them do all the work, if you want.

No U Dead Ringer

This variant is a vast gameplay change from Bloodwire. It mixes Melee + Gun + Skill + Minion with a lot of player involvement. Rewards high actions per minute and delivering as much damage as possible within the window of Groundbreaker.

Strengths And Weaknesses

Actual Minion Build
Good damage scaling due to almost full gun formula access
Full Minion Variant and Hybrid 'Random BS Go' Variant

Gear-dependent
Requires Story Pack 1

Build Variants

Bloodwire | PP

Bloodwire | DR

No U

Phase Phamiliar Bloodwire. Pure Remnant Minion focus.

Action Skill: Phase Phamiliar
- Augments: Violent Outburst + Unsealed
- Violent Outburst is a quick way to spawn Configuration Blood Rifts, and Unsealed helps Trouble stay alive.

Skill Tree

Bloodwire | PP

Bloodwire | DR

No U

Points Spent 0 / 59

LMB Allocate

RMB Unallocate

3/5

5/5

2/5

5/5

1/5

Action Skill Phase Phamiliar

Augments: Violent Outburst + Unsealed
- Violent Outburst is a quick way to spawn Configuration Blood Rifts, and Unsealed helps Trouble stay alive.

Here Comes Trouble

Grave Sustenance and Enchantment (or Blood Is Magic)

Grave Sustenance grants us nice uptime on Phase Phamiliar, which enables our Blood Rift Remnants to benefit from Enchantment.
- Enchantment is a nice bonus element on this setup because, unlike other bonus elements, it cannot steal your Deadwire procs.

Mourning

Increases the percentages of every single one of our kill skills, including Grave Current which applies to Deadwire.

Keen Fiends

The Crit Chance from Keen Fiends applies to both the Blood Rift Remnants and Deadwire

Grave Current and Deadwire

The Bonus Shock from Grave Current stacks up to massive amounts, up to 312% at six stacks due to Mourning and Grave Power. It applies to Deadwire.
Deadwire is one of our main damage dealers here, carrying a lot of bossing potential and resulting in great bleeds.

Grave Thirst

Kind of a 1-point wonder for Trouble to help him survive Violent Outburst usage.

Vexcalation

You can grab a point in Guns and Needles if you want better Repkit cooldowns.

Grave Sights, Grave Implements, Grave Power and Mortal Terror

Kill Skills provide a massively higher peak of damage than going without any, as long as one has the means to use them effectively.
Mortal Terror grants us that effective way to trigger Kill Skills during bossing.

Bloodletter and Keen Mind

Bloodletter is excellent since it is a way to funnel excess soup into a new source of damage, which both out Blood Rift Minions and Deadwire can trigger.
Keen Mind is some very welcome skill crit chance that will apply to Deadwire and Bloodletter.

Equipment

Bloodwire | PP

Bloodwire | DR

No U

Weapons

Repkit & Ordnance

Utilities

WEAPONS

Torgue ARFleabagPotato Thrower IV

MAIN STAT STICK. With the Airstrike Underbarrel, which reaches up to 129k Base Damage at level 60, these are the best-in-slot to hold while spawning the Blood Rifts. You must have the underbarrel mode active while doing so.

The second best-in-slot stat stick is Knife Launcher Underbarrel Jakobs Shotgun.

You can also Repkit for Amp and shoot the actual Airstrike Underbarrel on Crystal enemies to help your minions handle them. Just remember to also carry another Airstrike in this case, otherwise when it goes on cooldown you won't have the underbarrel available to spawn strong Blood Rifts with.

Order ARGoalkeeper

Kill Drone Underbarrel. Fits perfectly with the minion theme and is something you can (optionally) swap to and shoot out after you already activated Blood Rifts with the Torgue AR.

Preferably find versions with Torgue (Impact Mag), since that has more damage and enables the Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement damage boost. It also lets you shoot the actual gun at Crystal enemies somewhat effectively due to the splash damage, helping your minions against them.

The Goalkeeper cannot roll Torgue (Impact Mag), making the Epic Order AR the strongest option of the two if you find one.

Tediore PistolTediore AR

Attack Drone Underbarrel. Another thematic fit, and is something you can (optionally) swap to and shoot out after you already activated Blood Rifts with the Torgue AR.

These drones are comparatively much worse than the Order AR Kill Drones, but they have Splash Radius on their hits. This can be somewhat useful against Crystal enemies.

Support Drone Underbarrel Tediore AR can be decent utility.

Jakobs ShotgunMaliwan Shotgun

Spread Launcher Underbarrel Jakobs Shotgun to nuke Crystal enemies. They are a major weak point of the build and since they deserve no sympathy at all anyway, just nuke them.

Beam Tosser / Energy Disc Underbarrel Maliwan Shotgun are also good options, through they don't deal with Crystals as well.

Other Weapons

You can just bring any weapon you like along.

Hot Slugger, Darkbeast etc. They won't perform very well, but should be competent enough if you ever need them.

REPKIT

Triple Bypass is excellent for overall utility and somewhat spammable for mobbing.

Order Repkit can roll two offensive rolls or one utility + one offensive, making it versatile and the usual best for boss burstdowns.

Kill Spring is alright if you have sustain issues.

War Paint and AF1000 have long buff durations, which can be nice,

Look for these effects, or combinations of them if applicable:

Accelarator (Adrenalized)
Enrage (Experimental)
Splash Damage (Explosive)
Amp (Amplified)
Leech (Parasitic)

ORDNANCE

Crit KnifeJakobs Grenade

Inescapable DPS increase for the minions, and utility for Mortal Terror

Lingering + Exacting or Artillery Grenades

Can be somewhat helpful for Mortal Terror

Heimdahl

Fire and forget, behaves in drone-like manner. Fits thematically.

CLASS MOD

On Class Mod stat rolls, look for:

Gun Crit Chance or Skill Crit Chance
Kinetic Damage or Gun Damage

Configuration

+5 Deadwire; +Any

All the other skill rolls are pretty lackluster compared to Deadwire.

SHIELD

Watts 4 Dinner

With Siphon rolls. Good and easy-to-use boost for bossing. Can steal Deadwire procs though which sometimes means it can be a disservice.

Protean Cell

Can provide the largest bossing boost, however is not realistically sustainable due to the drain. Fun for performing a boss melt.

Firewerks

Excellent for mobbing.

Defensive Shield Options

Onion, Hopscotch, Cindershelly and Pandoran Momento are all decent choices for a more defense-oriented approach.

ENHANCEMENT

On Enhancement Stat Rolls, look for:

Gun Damage
Gun Type Damage
Weapon Equip Speed

Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement

Unnegotiable damage boost that applies to the Blood Rift Remnants. Access to three stat rolls.

Firmware

Bloodwire | PP

Bloodwire | DR

No U

Repkit & Ordnance

Repkit FirmwareSkillcraft

Ordnance FirmwareSkillcraft

Utilities

Class Mod FirmwareHigh Caliber

Shield FirmwareSkillcraft

Enhancement FirmwareHigh Caliber

3/3 Skillcraft | 2/3 High Caliber

Most comfortable and easiest to use firmware setup since it works without extra steps and the boosts are good.

3/3 Daed-dy O | 2/3 Skillcraft

Most potential damage firmware, but requires playing around the Daed-dy O damage boost. It only must active while you spawn the rifts, so it snapshots into them.

Specialization

Bloodwire | PP

Bloodwire | DR

No U

Specialization 1Riddle You This

Specialization 2Contamination

Specialization 3I Am A Gun

Specialization 4A Honed Mind

Other options include:

The Best Defense in place of Riddle You This

Can be better upfront damage

Now With Caffeine in place of Contamination

Excellent for mobbing

Gameplay

Bloodwire | PP

Bloodwire | DR

No U

Mobbing

Have your Airstrike Underbarrel Torgue AR in hand and make sure it's on the underbarrel mode.

Use Phase Phamiliar. This will spawn a Blood Rift. Use Violent Outburst to spawn further Blood Rifts during Phase Phamiliar.

Keep a watchful eye on Trouble's health. If he dies, you'll have to spam Triple Bypass + Now With Caffeine to use Phase Phamiliar and revive him, or wait.

Pick good spots for the Blood Rifts. Give them line of sight and avoid spawning them close to walls.
Remember you can only have two Blood Rifts at once, so do not spam Violent Outburst relentlessly, that will end up just nuking Trouble. Use it for smart repositioning of Rifts.

Bossing

Have your Airstrike Underbarrel Torgue AR in hand and make sure it's on the underbarrel mode.

Use Phase Phamiliar. This will spawn a Blood Rift. Use Violent Outburst to spawn further Blood Rifts during Phase Phamiliar.

Throw Crit Knives to help your Mortal Terror trigger rates, since Trouble does not have excellent procs rates for it.

Keep a watchful eye on Trouble's health. If he dies, you'll have to spam Triple Bypass + Now With Caffeine to use Phase Phamiliar and revive him, or wait.

Notes

Blood Rift Remnants Explained

Only two Blood Rifts can exist at once. Do not spam relentlessly or you'll just waste your cooldowns. A new Rift will always replace the oldest.

The Blood Rifts spawned from Configuration inherit some On-Shot gun modifiers and benefit from On-Hit gun modifiers.

Their initial damage is based on half the held weapon's card damage during the time of summoning, meaning we can hold an Air Strike Underbarrel Torgue AR while spawning the rifts for maximum damage! Through this we can achieve massive damage from Deadwire which in turn translates into powerful bleeds from Bloodletter.