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LazyData's Kill Skill Vex Build

presentationVex
End Game
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presentationIncarnate
Updated on Jan 5, 2026
Jan 5, 2026

Build Overview

A gun focused Vex build for strong DPS output, maximum DPS consistency, and strong health regen.

Scroll down for a leveling guide.

Strengths And Weaknesses

  • Very High DPS
  • Nigh immortal
  • High consistency, and longevity through future updates
  • More DPS oriented, less 1 shot potential.

Build Variants

Skill Tree

Points Spent 0 / 49
LMB Allocate
RMB Unallocate
Incarnate
1/3
5/5
5/5
5/5
3/3
5/5
5/5
5/5
5/5
3/3

This build is all out DPS. Maximising Vex's strong weapon oriented kill skills for maximum damage.

Gaining an unearthly amount of fire rate, using Target Prescience we can gain a large amount of crit chance to feed into Mortal Terror consistency. Mortal Terror gives us our kill skill stacks for hitting critical hits, so now we don't need kills to stack them up, a strong single target will do. The kill skills gained then feed into our fire rate and damage output.

With most damage multipliers being additive now, the importance of fire rate bonuses because ever greater, as fire rate will remain a functionally multiplicative damage bonus.

1 point in Grave Sustenance provides monumental uptime for Incarnate!

Equipment

Weapons
Repkits & Ordnance
Utilities

Weapons:

Prioitise weapons with high pellets per second output in order to maximise Mortal Terror consistency and kill skill stacks.

Darkbeast - New S tier weapon for both mobbing, viles, and Bossing.

Stray - S tier for Mobbing.

Wombo Combo- Destroys Vile enemies.

Bod- Primary bossing tool. Very high damage. Stickies or no. We have lots of Gun damage to leverage it's odd damage quirks.

Ohm I Got- Teen Witch lets us maintain it at full strength.

Seventh Sense- A great pistol back-up. Daedalus Shotgun ammo for high single shot damage.

Goalkeeper - Can 1 Burst most mobs.

Convergence- Ripper Shotgun that creates projectiles on hit. Very consistent damage. A high fire rate roll will have a minimal charge time.

Sweet Embrace - A good shotgun as a backup when ammo gets low.

Complex Root - Roll with Atlas Tracking and Jakobs Ricochet for one of the best bossing weapons in the game.

T.K's Wave - With Stickies is another top bossing weapon in the game.

Weapon choice for this build is very versitile, if it's good, it's good here. Star Helix, Kaoson, Birt's Bees, Whiskey Foxtrot. etc etc.


Rep Kit:

You rep kit will want to be spammable for fire rate uptime and movement speed. Accelerator passive is comfy.

War Paint - Thanks to Guns and Needles we can maintain 100% uptime on this Repkit, making it best in slot for general play.

Triple Bypass paired with Now With Caffeine can be used to immediatly recover your actionskill, allowing for alternative passives such as: Engrage, splash damage, go go gadget etc.

Classmod:

Teen Witch- Legendary option, use with an amp shield to maintain Amp shots.

Prioritise 3 points in Grave Thirst.


Shield:

Any AMP shield. Up to 150%. Even Purple shield is good.

Watts 4 Dinner - Rolls AMP, and gives an extra 25% bonus element for damage and Mortal Terror procs.

Firewerks - No AMP so less damage, but funny missiles.


Ordnance:

Slippy with the CQC Specialisation for peak DPS.

Torgue Heavy Weapon or Maliwan Heavy Weapon. Heavy Ordnances paired with High Caliber Tier 3 and sustained Witchy Trigger Finger can be some of Vex's Highest Boss DPS vs non flying enemies. Jump up and shoot through the enemy to hit the floor behind them.

Jakobs throwing knife- Ideal parts: Enemies take 15% more damage. Hit enemies guarantee crits for 5s.

Firepot- Great grenade that launches torgue stickies.

Any good mobbing grenade to pick up add kills in boss fights or general gameplay.


Enhancement:

In general pair with your primary weapons. 'Gun Damage' is the best passive stat.

Jakobs Enhancement With stacking damage on crit, or extra ricochet.

Vladof Enhancement of course. Either Gain 30% chance to fire an extra projectie or Gain 20% fire rate and 20% mag size. Or both if you get a lucky legendary!


Firmwares:

High Caliber 2

Deadeye 2

Bullets to Spare 1 / Heating Up 1 / Deadeye or High Cal Tier 3.

If using Atlas parted weapons use Atlas Infinum.


Specializations

Specialization 1Riddle You This
Specialization 2Bullet Train
Specialization 3Now With Caffeine
Specialization 4CQC

Other great options include:

The Best Defense

Groundbreaker

In The Zone




Gameplay

Pop incarnate, use your rep kit and spam as many bullets as you can! Use Eldritch Blast to refill your mag so you never reload. Once Incarnate ends again use your repkit off cooldown to maximise the cooldown rate uptime.

Notes

The listed action skill is Incarnate. This gives access for Whitchy Trigger Finger for more gun damage and free gun reloads, and access to the capstone skill Vibe Check. It massively improves our DPS especially vs bosses. It can also restock ordnance weapons on the fly too!

Leveling

Leveling is pretty simple, you can choose your skills in any order, though starting with Blue tree and Idle Hands is a great place to start.

Then start on Green Tree and get Witchy Trigger Finger. Non-unique Vladof SMGs will be your bread and butter. Jakobs weapons will also serve too.

Changelog

1/1/26 - Catching up on fine tuning

Small skill tweaks for comfort, largely inconsiquential, can still stick to older specs with Grave Assault.

Weapon selection update to more closely match modern metas.

9/10/25 - Major overhaul.

Grabbed Life steal and Blood Is Power for Bonus Element.

Updated Firmwares for better damage Formula.

Added Slippy for CQC synergy.

Added various weapons.

Removed Dead Ringer alt-action skill.

Video Guide

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