DRONEMANCER | Underbarrel Blood Shot Vex (UVH6)

Weapons

The original main loadout here consists of with the Kill Drone Underbarrel, alongside a Torgue (Impact Mag) part so it nets you access to Torgue Head Ringer for a completely passive on-shot boost.

• Torgue (Impact Mag) is preferred over sticky mode. This is because it allows you to deal with vile crystals on enemies by simply shooting the Order AR, and then the drones finish off the enemy.
• The Goalkeeper AR can spawn with Kill Drones, although it doesn't seem to get Torgue parts. It's still more than enough until you replace it with a perfect purple.
• Tediore Pistol Attack Drones are just okay and can spawn with torgue-licensed parts. They don't last as long though. They have splash on their bullets, which can be somewhat useful against vile crystals. Their targeting is kind of horrid though.

You can bring any other good weapon you enjoy using for actual shooting or just dealing with vile crystals. Options include Balor Jakobs Shotgun, Hot Slugger, Darkbeast, Stray, Piktun Order Sniper, Truck and the many other good guns available in the game.

You can and should bring other underbarrel choices with you. The list includes:

• Torgue AR/Potato Thrower IV with Airstrike. BLOOMREAPER CRYSTAL DESTROYER
• Maliwan Shotgun with Beam Tosser. BLOOMREAPER MELTER
• Rooker for the Needle underbarrel. You can shoot the needles and swap back to anything else while they're active.
• Vladof SMG with Taser.
• Ripper SMG with Shrapnel Cannon.
• Jakobs Shotgun with Spread Launcher or Knife Launcher.
• Oscar Mike with Space Laser if you just want something to disappear.
• Vladof Sniper or Jakobs Sniper with Big Rocket.
• Torgue Pistol with Turbine Cleaver.
• Torgue AR with Sticky Shotgun.
• Order Pistol with Energy Blast.
• Any other Underbarrels you find interesting and have high synergy with the gameplay cycle.

Repkit

Triple Bypass with Amp is the highest consistent Repkit synergy we can get for this, since it's a gigantic on-shot damage boost.

Order Repkit with Amp + Enrage is perfect for bossing. Bleed double dips Enrage's damage boost.

Ordnance

Here you mainly want something to deal with Vile Crystal enemies, or increase bossing damage.

'Crit Knife' Jakobs Grenade is free damage for bossing.

Slippy, Waterfall, Blockbuster, Skully or any other grenade you like and/or that is useful against vile enemies.

Heavy Ordnances with high base damage can be alright, since you can Repkit for Blood Shot and open with a high damage shot. A Torgue Heavy Weapon or Maliwan Heavy Weapon are nice for that.

Class Mod

Good stat rolls to look for on any class mod:

• Skill Damage; Kinetic Damage
• Skill Crit Chance; Gun Crit Chance
• Status Effect Chance

Teen Witch

Provides the most consistent damage boost and protects our Blood Is Power boost.

As for skill rolls, Blood Is Magic (which is actually Skill Damage) gives the most consistency, since it simply passively boosts the damage of Blood Shot.

Grave Thirst can provide bursts of damage through Blood Is Power, however it will fall off on most bosses since this setup does not use Mortal Terror.

Psion Vex Class Mod

Possibly the best and most consistent for bossing with many of the underbarrel options. Shines even more on bosses that have accessible crit spots depending on the underbarrel you use.

Ideal Skill rolls would be:

• +5 Bloodletter: +2 Leeching Attunement or +2 Material Components

FiredancerVex Class Mod

If you have Groundbreaker on... this can do things. Great choice for bossing in that case, but can be used in any scenario.

Ideal Skill rolls would be:

+5 Reverburnations; +2 Fell Inscriptions

Transistor Vex Class Mod

A bit of a gimmicky bossing choice, but cool and effective. The Drones, Tasers, Space Laser and Spread Launchers can trigger Deadwire quite well. A well-rolled version of this class mod is great for many of the underbarrels.

Ideal Skill rolls would be:

• +5 Deadwire; +2 Target Prescience

Undead Eye

Wanna do some sniping? This works excellently for mobbing due to the Blood Shot uptime it provides. Not particularly great for bossing.

Ideal Skill rolls would be:

• +5 Blood Shot or +5 Infernal Sum; +2 Guns and Needles

Shield

Guardian Angel with 150% Amp is the best choice for using Psion or Transistor Class Mods.

Watts 4 Dinner with 150% Amp is the general best for Teen Witch.

Protean Cell is another offensive option, although mostly workable with Teen Witch, unless you're quick enough with the others.

Enhancement

For stat rolls on any enhancement, look for

• Gun Damage
• Gun Type Damage
• Gun / Gun Type Crit Damage
• Weapon Equip Speed (for ease of use of the Underbarrels)
• Splash Radius boosts can be situationally useful

Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement

• This is the usual main choice whenever a weapon has a torgue license attached or is torgue-manufactured. The exception usually being when the underbarrel you're using is attached to a Vladof weapon.
• A Gun Splash Radius or AR Splash Radius roll can be enough radius to destroy the orbs during the first phase of the Bloomreaper using Torgue AR with 'Airstrike', without needing to slot the firmwares that boost radius.

Quintain; Blind Box; Bounce Pass Jakobs Enhancement

• Spread Launcher.

Dog Movement; Underdog Vladof Enhancement

• If you want to focus on Tasers, or if the underbarrel you're using is attached to a Vladof weapon.

3/3 Daed-dy O; 2/3 Skillcraft or 2/3 High Caliber

• Overall strongest firmware setup. Requires a bit of involvement and conscious activation of Daed-dy O's boost, but it is snapshotted and very powerful.

3/3 High Caliber; 2/3 Skillcraft

• This allows you to shoot through enemies and at the ground with a spread launcher (and any other splash underbarrels that also get the piercing effect) for doubled hits.

2/3 Deadeye; 2/3 High Caliber; 1/3 Skillcraft

• Completely passive boosts for big damage instances, like Spread Launcher, Big Rocket, Knife Launcher etc.

3/3 Deadeye; 2/3 High Caliber

• This is an option when using weaponry that can continuously damage a weak spot, like Tasers.
• A bit niche compared to just using something more generalist, but it's fun.

Dronemancer

We’re grabbing everything that will directly or indirectly boost our Blood Shot and underbarrel damage.

The Best Defense; Riddle You This; A Honed Mind; I Am A Gun

• This is my preferred setup when purely spamming drones. You could slot in Contamination or Bullet Train in place of A Honed Mind if you prefer.

The Best Defense; Contamination; A Honed Mind; In The Zone

• Great setup for certain underbarrels that you can set up for big hits, like Spread Launcher and Space Laser.

The Best Defense; Contamination; A Honed Mind; Groundbreaker

• Suddenly, you can melee things because of Groundbreaker. Stack it with the Kill Drones, Spread Launcher, Space Laser or anything else. Deliver through melee attack or slam. Groundbreaker is a skill can and trigger its own bleeds from Bloodletter. Blood Shot into Groundbreaker into Bleed is a natural skill damage triple dip.