Borderlands 4 CloseProcess | Wyrm Melee/Gun Hybrid Loveless (LVL 70 TUVH7)

WEAPONS

Melee-Oriented Weapons

If you want a more melee-centered approach.

PragmateEradicationTempered EssenceMantraHippo Gun

• 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 Daedalus SMG Mode or Maliwan Elemental Switch.
• The Eradication with a Grenade Launcher underbarrel is a great choice, just beware of self damage.
• The 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.
• The Mantra is a solid, well-known choice.
• The 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.

Maliwan Shotgun

Beam Tosser Underbarrel. Can be used as stat melee/grenade stat stick with Toile, and is also an excellent bossing underbarrel.

• The 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.
• When mobbing, holding a Beam Tosser can provide a lot of additional damage to our Artillery + Ricochet Waterfall grenades through Toile/Mixologist. The Transfuser effect will transfer Gun Card Statuses to other enemies when any kill happens, through any methods.
• When bossing, the Beam Tosser itself can be shot to inflict very high damage Status Effects on the enemy.

General Weapons

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, Swan Song, Constable, Honeymooner, Stealth & Seek, Lockjaw, Triplicate, Devourer, Juliet's Sparkle, Eradication, etc...
• Pair them with any relevant Enhancements for their licenses or manufacturer.

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

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

Crit Knife Jakobs Grenade

• The ever-useful Crit Knife remains a great pick for this build and can be nice for bosses where Intrusion downtime is a factor, due to distance etc.

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

Great choice that allows Wyrm to cause relevant damage, while also boosting your Symbioses effects.

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

Hoarder

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.

• +5 Wrap Around; + Any

SHIELD

Honey Badger

• Turtle or Amp. Excellent defensive choice that helps you survive barrels and other dangers related to self damage.

Firewerks

• Nice offensive option for mobbing, just beware of self damage.

Watts 4 Dinner

• Siphon or Amp. Good offensive choice.

Super Soldier

• Great offensive choice with good boosts all around.

Onion

• Great defensive choice, very safe but can't protect you from barrels unless the invulnerability was already active beforehand.

Exfoliatrix

• Good defensive choice with a quite decent offensive benefit.

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 any Jakobs or Jakobs-licensed weapons.
• Nice options 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 powerful while holding a Beam Tosser Underbarrel Maliwan Shotgun.
• Kills on enemies that are suffering a Status of the same element as you Gun's Card will transfer the Status Effect of your Gun's Card to other enemies, when using Transfuser. Powerful while holding 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.

Other Options

• 2/3 or 3/3 Skillcraft
• 2/3 Action Fist
• 1/3 Airstrike
• 3/3 Reel Big Fist

Other Options

• Now With Caffeine - Mandatory if you skipped UUDDLRLRBAS.
• Bullet Train
• A Honed Mind
• The Best Defense
• Riddle You This
• CQC
  • Wyrm can trigger CQC and Flurry.