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Loveless
Malignant ConstructCloseProcess is a Wyrm Melee + Gun 
Malignant Construct hybrid build for 
Loveless.
Loveless setup!
Visual Paradox Nexus instead!Main variant. Melee/Gun hybrid approach, both damage sources are effective.
Neutral Special if you dislike it. It has advantages (larger AoE and Damage) and disadvantages (slower).
Finisher if you don't like maintaining it, but it's a significant damage loss.
Host Privileges if you want, but it is a good chunk of damage for Wyrm. 
The Sweet Science can be swapped for 1/5 
Biathlon if you want better uptime on the movement speed from Footwork.Malignant ConstructAll can be solid choices, and have their own strengths.
Solid State Destruction is great for building up damage to be used on your Executable of choice.
Intelligent Artifice can be used to increase Wyrm's survival and giving it a Bonus Element, at the cost of no longer being able to teleport it.
Hard Crash is nice when distance is a significant factor or problem.
Dark Web can be great against tightly packed groups or bosses that have adds near themselves.
Giga Bite is maybe the weakest of the bunch, but you can still get some use out of its healing.Both are solid choices, and excel in different scenarios.
barrag.exe is great for single-target boss deletion.
nuk.exe is perfect for area clear and damage, or situations like Bloomreaper's crystals.
If you want a more melee-centered approach.
Pragmate
Tempered Essence
Mantra
Hippo Gun
Pragmate is excellent for the melee approach. Shoot it a couple times and the next Melee Damage instance will get 500% Soup. Wyrm can also make use of this boost.Tempered Essence is another good option and is more focused on actual shooting if you like it, though the same playstyle fits just as well.Mantra is a solid, well-known choice.Hippo Gun has a nice special effect, but it feels a little awkward to use for melee. You can have it with a Spread Launcher underbarrel as a bossing weapon, and the special effect does apply to it.Beam Tosser Underbarrel. Can be used as stat melee/grenade stat stick with 
Toile, and is also an excellent bossing underbarrel.
Kickballer, 
Reminisce and 
Discy Business are farmable options that can drop with Beam Tosser, but they don't peak as high as a Torgue-licensed Purple. They are good temporary choices until you find Purples.
Waterfall grenades through Toile/Mixologist. The Transfuser effect will transfer Gun Card Statuses to other enemies when any kill happens, through any methods.If you want to shoot a lot more, while also weaving in melees.
Literally any of your favorite strong guns (click here for a Tier List by LazyData) in the game. The build has high enough gun stats that it doubles down as a good gun build, so try out anything you enjoy.
Crow-Sourced, 
Decompiler,
Verce, 
Darkbeast, 
Honeymooner, 
Stealth & Seek, 
Lockjaw, 
Triplicate, 
Devourer, 
Juliet's Sparkle, 
Eradication, etc...
Triple Bypass, 
Font of Life, 
Kill Spring and 
War Paint are all good choices of Repkit with their own relative strengths.
Triple Bypass is excellent utility due to 
Now With Caffeine. Font of Life has very long duration and permanent uptime on whichever buff you roll on it.Kill Spring is a good sustain-focused option.War Paint is a great offensive choice and the movement speed is nice.Look for these effects, or combinations of them if applicable:
Waterfall, 
Countermeasure or any Epic Grenade
RAM. The Ricochet can also stack gun skills like 
Riddle You This.Stat Rolls to look for on any Class Mod:
Great choice that allows Wyrm to cause relevant damage, while also boosting your Symbioses effects.
Fusion Friends-y; +2 or +1 
In Memoriam; +1 
Glass 'Em!Excellent option to boost Guns and Gun DOTs, for the tradeoff of Wyrm no longer being a relevant damaging part of the build. You have to play around the special effect.
Consider dropping the point in Neutral Special if you want to use this Class Mod, unless you don't mind the slower stacking.
Wrap Around; + AnyStat Rolls to look out for on any Enhancement:
Quintain | 
Blind Box | Bounce Pass 
Jakobs Enhancement
Pragmate effect, and to help build 
Groundbreaker.Toile | 
Lame | Mixologist Maliwan Enhancement
Maliwan Shotgun.Maliwan Shotgun, and still relatively useful with other Maliwans.Bullet Fabricator Daedalus Enhancement
Any other Enhancements that fit your preferred weapons.
Skillcraft
Action Fist
Airstrike
Reel Big FistNow With Caffeine
Bullet Train
A Honed Mind
The Best DefenseRiddle You This
CQCCQC and 
Flurry.Shoot Pragmate to build its effect (or your weapon of choice), then deliver it through Empowered Melee.
Use your choice of Wyrm Function to help it kill and/or survive.
Use Wyrm Executable on Bosses or large groups.
For bossing, your Empowered Melee will be able to trigger 
High Data Rate through 
Corrupted Path being applied to Groundbreaker for a massive Radiation DOT. You can choose to whiff this Empowered Melee (i.e not actually hit an enemy) if you'd rather trigger High Data Rate with an underbarrel such as Beam Tosser.
Devourer if you wish.Gearbox removed this from the game on the Oct 22nd patch. You now also lose all Symbiosis stacks if you go down into FFYL... lol.
While at the Encore Machine for a boss (or any area with Health Vendors, like Takedown), you can pre-stack some Symbiosis by doing the following:
Malignant ConstructIn MemoriamIn MemoriamMalignant ConstructIn MemoriamHigh Data RateOct. 22th - Updated to reflect the changes and nerfs from the patch. You no longer need to use only Radiation weapons/damage since we are dropping 
IHATEYOU. The mob clear is inevitably slower due to the nerf.
Oct. 5th 2026 - Added Symbiosis pre-stacking tips to Gameplay.
The Jailbroken Gatling Pearl works insane under a specific condition:
Main element has to be Radiation and the second element has to match the enemies healthbar: Red-Fire/Blue-Shock/Green-Corrosive.
You will proc both elements on the enemies and the Melee seem to pop off double the damage
Been using this build for current starting from 1 playthrough and been having a blast with it! So thank you for the build!
Are you planning on making videos on Loveless? I noticed you haven't been uploading since the DLC dropped :(
Thanks! I'm trying to muster the will and 'discipline' to youtube again, been dealing with some IRL stuff and the game had also kinda lost my interest for a while. But we'll see :)
Still got a few god rolls and pieces to grab for this to be perfect but this build is comically easy for mobbing with the Stealth & Seek, absolutely rips!
Bossing can feel a tad squishy unless you're running in with stacks (I think) but I've also had dramas with the devourer being inconsistent when it's popping the Rad DOT for big damage, not sure if I'm doing something wrong/out of order but this build is Hella fun for the takedown
Where is survivability coming from? Antivirus and IDDQD are the only skills I see that do anything survival related, and they don't really do much.
Onionand T2 
Bruiser.
You can also grab a point in 
Neurokinetics like the guide says, if you want.
Optionally also use Kill Spring but it's not exactly needed.
Why not add a Maliwan Enhancement into the recommendations. Specifically synthesizer and transfuser/mixologist, with gun splash and status damage if lucky since those can apply to our skills if holding a Maliwan weapon with splash damage.
Gun Splash and Gun Status from Enhancement no longer work on non-gun Status Effects anymore. I'm still finishing up the writeup but yes those enhancements will be added.
What stats do we want on the com (melee damage?) and shields?
Melee Damage or Skill Crit Chance or Skill Damage. All pretty good.
Aww man! the VPN build got abandoned?
Unfortunately it doesn't even come close to Wyrm.
Hey, do u have the older version of the Skill tree a day before the update? My gf was so happy with this tree and her game bugged and the Skill points are away. So she have to reset everything! Is there any chance, that u show me the version before, because she is sad
Sure, I don't recall it exactly 100% but I added it back for now.
Depending on why you wanna use the Maliwan Shotgun, if it's for mobing, i'd recommend the Decompiler. Been using it with this build and it's been cracked so far. Not at max lvl though, so there might be some better options.
I initially had it there as a Beam Tosser to use with Mixologist + Artillery Ricochet nades and Transfuser, but the build has changed a lot since then because of the discoveries regarding IHATEYOU.
I will still be revisiting those ideas though, because it felt even more melee-centric. Anyways, I did add Decompiler and generalist gun recommendations too. Thanks!
add puppetmaster mod with 3 in the clone skill and 4 in critically acclamed and give the clones the target pratice skill and bossing is alot easier
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