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CloseProcess | Wyrm Melee/Gun Hybrid Loveless (LVL 70 TUVH7)

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presentationMalignant Construct
End Game
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Updated on Sep 26, 2026
Sep 26, 2026

Build Overview

CloseProcess

CloseProcess is a Melee + Gun + Wyrm Malignant Construct hybrid build for Loveless. The Devourer Class Mod allows us to scale all of those aspects extremely high. It also causes Wyrm and IHATEYOU to deal damage based on the enemy's Current HP %, making for some of the strongest room-clearing capabilities in the entire game, since IHATEYOU Shurikens are considered Wyrm Damage and can itself cause new triggers.

The main factors being relied on here are Devourer Class Mod, Empowered Melee, the Shurikens from IHATEYOU, Wyrm Functions/Executables and a bit of High Data Rate and Groundbreaker, with some extra options available.

  • Build made in collaboration with Rezur and Girthquake.
    • Additional thanks to UnknownPeashooter for the original take and info on the gun-centered spec.
    • You can find us in the Soup Kitchen Discord Server!
  • Check out my Loveshot.exe build if you're looking for a Sniper Loveless setup!
  • Check out Task Manager for a similar approach but using Visual Paradox Nexus instead!

Strengths And Weaknesses

  • Very high damage from both Loveless and Wyrm
  • Extreme area clear potential due to IHATEYOU + Devourer
  • Survivabily vs. enemies is great
  • Wyrm can mob and boss
  • The gun-focused variant has pretty much 0 of the weaknesses. If you care.
  • Melee and Grapple still share a use button. It's been 1 year, and a character with this many melee skills has been released without that being addressed.
  • Barrels, cannisters, gas tanks, centripetal, irritable...
  • Flying enemies can be a not-so-great time

Build Variants

The more melee-oriented version of the build. It's my personal favorite, but not the fastest since guns are still... guns.

Skill Tree

Points Spent 0 / 69
LMB Allocate
RMB Unallocate
Malignant Construct
5/5
1/5
2/5
1/5
5/5
1/5
4/5
1/5
5/5
1/1
5/5
1/5
5/5
1/1
4/5
1/5
1/5

Flexible Points

  • You can skip Neutral Special if you dislike it. It has advantages (larger AoE and Damage) and disadvantages (slower).
  • You can skip Finisher if you don't like maintaining it, but it's a significant damage loss.
    • IDKFA is a good alternative to Finisher. You can also try using both if you want, or even none.
  • Drift Compatible points can be changed to anywhere of your preference, within the amounts necessary to go down the skill tree of course.
  • Feel free to grab 1/5 Neurokinetics if you want some extra sustain.
  • You can skip Great Wyrm for anything else you prefer, it doesn't have too much impact.
  • You can skip Host Privileges if you want, but it is a good chunk of damage for Wyrm.

Action Skill Malignant Construct

Wyrm Augments

All 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. It fully heals Wyrm on use.
  • 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.

Wyrm Capstones

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.

Equipment

Weapons
Repkit & Ordnance
Utilities

WEAPONS

You want most of your mobbing weapons to be in Radiation element, to maximize triggers of IHATEYOU. For bossing, you can make do with different elements, but keep Radiation in mind if you want to cause any amount of Shuriken chain-kills.

Main Weapons

If you want a more melee-centered approach while also commanding Wyrm.

PragmateTempered EssenceMantra

  • The 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.
    • Look for Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory), and SMG Mode/Preference.
  • Tempered Essence is another great option and is more focused on actual shooting if you like it, though the same playstyle fits just as well.
  • Mantra is another solid, well-known choice.

Other Weapons

If you want to shoot a lot more + command Wyrm, while also fitting in some melee.

Literally any of your favorite strong guns in the game. The build has high enough gun stats that it doubles down as a good gun build whenever needed.

Underbarrels

Beam Tosser Maliwan Shotgun and Spread Launcher Jakobs Shotgun underbarrels are worthy backups to have, and useful to handle situations such as Phase 2 Terra in case you can't nuke it with Melee + Wyrm.

REPKIT

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.
    • The orbs can actually heal Wyrm, but mostly 'accidentally', since they don't intentionally track it.
  • War Paint is a great offensive choice and the movement speed is nice.

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

  • Elemental Affinity (Reactive)
  • Enrage (Experimental)
  • Amp (Amplified)
  • Speed (Caffienated)
  • Accelarator (Adrenalized)
  • Hard Hitter (Steroidal)

ORDNANCE

Waterfall, Countermeasure or any Epic Grenade

  • Radiation Lingering + Alchemic + Overflow/Exacting/Express
    • Great roll combination for the purpose of spreading radiation status and filling RAM.
  • Radiation Ricochet + Artillery + Overflow/Exacting/Express
    • Decent roll combination for the purpose of spreading radiation status and filling RAM. The Ricochet can also stack gun skills like Riddle You This.

CLASS MOD

Stat Rolls to look for on any Class Mod:

  • Elemental Damage
  • Melee Damage
  • Damage Dealt
    • The Damage Dealt roll on Legendary Class Mods is currently broken, but you can still keep it any good ones you find in case it gets fixed.
  • Skill Crit Chance
  • Skill Damage

Devourer

This is by far the best choice this specific build, due to its legendary effect working on IHATEYOU, and it rolling Fusion Friends-y for increased Symbiosis stacks.

  • +5 Fusion Friends-y; +2 or +1 In Memoriam; +1 Glass 'Em!

SHIELD

Honey Badger

  • x2 Turtle. Excellent defensive choice that helps you survive barrels and other dangers.

Onion

  • Main defensive choice, very safe.

Super Soldier

  • Excellent offensive choice with good boosts all around.

Exfoliatrix

  • Good defensive choice with a quite decent offensive benefit.

Watts 4 Dinner

  • Siphon. Decent offensive choice for specialized bossing. Not particularly recommended for mobbing due to low sustain and the Bonus Shock Damage being able to steal IHATEYOU triggers.

Hopscotch or Little Sister

  • x2 Turtle. Great defensive choices.

ENHANCEMENT

Stat Rolls to look out for on any Enhancement:

  • Gun / Gun Type Fire Rate
  • Gun / Gun Type Damage
  • Gun / Gun Type Magazine Size
  • Gun / Gun Type Splash Damage
  • Gun Status Effect Damage
  • Gun / Gun Type Equip Speed

Quintain | Blind Box | Bounce Pass Jakobs Enhancement

  • Great for stacking the Pragmate effect, and to help build Groundbreaker.

Toile | Lame | Mixologist Maliwan Enhancement

  • Good choices for the Maliwan or Maliwan-licensed weapons.
  • Allows Artillery + Ricochet grenades to benefit from the bonus damage and status application coming from Mixologist, especially if holding a Beam Tosser Underbarrel Maliwan Shotgun.
  • Kills on enemies that are suffering any Status will transfer the Status Effect of your Gun's Card to other enemies, when using Transfuser. Powerful with Stellium/Beam Tosser Underbarrel Maliwan Shotgun, and still relatively useful with other Maliwans.

Bullet Fabricator Daedalus Enhancement

  • Excellent for sustaining ammo of Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader) Firing Modes, including Shotgun Mode.

Any other Enhancements that fit your preferred weapons.

Firmware

Repkit & Ordnance
Repkit FirmwareBruiser
Ordnance FirmwareBruiser
Utilities
Class Mod FirmwareReel Big Fist
Shield FirmwareReel Big Fist
Enhancement FirmwareBruiser

Other Options

  • 2/3 or 3/3 Skillcraft
    • This can be nice for Wyrm/Shuriken Crit Chance and damage.
  • 2/3 Action Fist
  • 1/3 Airstrike
  • 3/3 Reel Big Fist

Specialization

Specialization 1Now With Caffeine
Specialization 2I Am A Gun
Specialization 3Bear Arms
Specialization 4Groundbreaker

Other Options

  • Bullet Train
  • Riddle You This
  • Contamination
  • A Honed Mind
  • I Am A Gun
  • The Best Defense
  • CQC

Gameplay

General Gameplay Loop

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.

  • You can select Wyrm's target before commanding it by pinging/tagging. Works semi-reliably.

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.

  • Finally, you can pop that DOT using Devourer if you wish.

Comments

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Bagdart•10d ago

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

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Hope•12d ago

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 :(

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Ratore
Ratore
Author
•12d ago

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 :)

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The_Djentleman•14d ago

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

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DeadlyFlower•15d ago

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.

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Ratore
Ratore
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•15d ago

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.

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PapiGuapi•15d ago

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.

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Ratore
Ratore
Author
•15d ago

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.

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Enjoy_Skooma•16d ago

What stats do we want on the com (melee damage?) and shields?

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Ratore
Ratore
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•16d ago

Melee Damage or Skill Crit Chance or Skill Damage. All pretty good.

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KekBurr•16d ago

Aww man! the VPN build got abandoned?

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Ratore
Ratore
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•16d ago

Unfortunately it doesn't even come close to Wyrm.

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Phil•17d ago

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

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Ratore
Ratore
Author
•17d ago

Sure, I don't recall it exactly 100% but I added it back for now.

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anbuagent12•17d ago

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.

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Ratore
Ratore
Author
•17d ago

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!

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BrichRich•20d ago

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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