HUNTRESS | Melee Hybrid Gun Vex (LVL 70 TUVH7)

WEAPONS

Any good guns are worthy. The ones below are just some recommendations.

Mantra

Get as many variants as you can find to cover all elemental bases.

• Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory) is very strong: it enables ricochets and access to powerful enhancement effects.
• Ripper (Charge Mag) is an extreme DPS boost, but is generally reserved for bossing due to the charge time and ammo inefficiency. The more fire rate PARTS a Mantra has, the quicker it will charge-up the Ripper magazine.
• • Mantra can also roll both of the above licenses at once, though it's not always desirable due to losing out on some stats.
• An additional license roll that can be somewhat useful is Tediore (Throw on Reload), which enables usage of the Recycler Tediore Enhancement in case you want better ammo sustain.

Crow-Sourced

Cool option that actually slots in pretty well for a hybrid-style gameplay with Haruspex + Groundbreaker + Reverburnations.

• Use it as a backup choice, or as main weapon with 3/3 Active Fire.

Crazed Earl

Another fun option for a hybrid-style gameplay with Haruspex + Groundbreaker + Reverburnations.

Other Weapons

The only other significant weapon choices are bringing powerful underbarrels like Jakobs Shotgun Spread Launcher with you, which can be used in a panic or to better deal with crystal enemies.

REPKIT

War Paint, Order Repkit, Triple Bypass, Kill Spring and Vitae are all good choices of Repkit with their own relative strengths.

Look for these effects, or combinations of them:

• Enrage (Experimental)
• Hard Hitter (Steroidal)
• Elemental Affinity (Reactive)
• Accelarator (Adrenalized)
• • Enrage is highly recommended if you're looking to maximize damage, since it will apply to all damage and be double and triple dipped by Reverburnations into Bloodletter, and can go even further if you decide to use Groundbreaker.

ORDNANCE

The 'Crit Knife' Jakobs Grenade is a powerful bossing tool that can reliably up DPS and the damage of skill procs.

Slippy is a powerful all-around choice that boasts great power on Melee Vex setups, having good mobbing applicability and boss damage. The boss damage does tend to fall a bit short due to the limited charges.

CLASS MOD

For stat rolls on any class mod, look for:

• Melee Damage; Skill Damage; Gun Damage
• Skill Crit Chance; Melee Crit Chance; Gun Crit Chance

Teen Witch

This Class Mod is the staple choice: permanent Amp uptime is nigh-unbeatable as a feature on gun builds, and the item itself also has available skill rolls that benefit the setup.

+5 Grave Thirst; +2 Corporeal

• I recommend rolling some points (at least +1) on Grave Thirst. It will allow Specters to sustain themselves a lot, and keep on triggering Mortal Terror for you.
• • If you really want the max damage rolls, +3 Corporeal and +4 Blood Is Magic is the play.

Firedancer Vex Class Mod

It won't make Mantra as powerful as Teen Witch does, but it can come situationally close.

+5 Reverburnations; +2 Fell Inscriptions or +2 Burning Attunement

• As much Reverburnations as possible. It's the unnegotiable sole reason to even use this.

SHIELD

Watts 4 Dinner

• 150% Amp. Unsurprisingly, this is best in slot.
• • The 25% Shock it provides can cause its own Reverburnations procs and helps trigger Mortal Terror.

Cindershelly

• 150% Amp. Great choice with a defensive benefit.
• • Can be easier to farm due to having lower part variance.

Super Soldier

• Great choice if you're looking to try another Class Mod.

ENHANCEMENT

For stat rolls on enhancement, look for:

• Gun Type Damage; Gun Damage
• Gun Type Crit Damage; Gun Crit Damage
• Gun Type Mag Size; Gun Mag Size
• Gun Equip Speed
• • Gun Equip Speed is basically mandatory if playing the Punch To Go! build variant.

Quintain | Bounce Pass | Piercer

• Very good choices with high general applicability.
• Multistrike and Sequencer are also good, just beware that Specters can mess up the Sequencer effect.

Evolver | Primadiem | Power Shot Order Enhancement

• Excellent picks for Crow-Sourced.

Entropic | Devourer | Hard Charger | Free Loader | Short Circuit Ripper Enhancement

• Some of these can be extremely powerful, however the RNG and overall inconsistency can be an annoyance. Experiment to your liking.

3/3 Skillcraft | 1/3 Reel Big Fist | 1/3 Active Fire

• Setup focused on the Mantra and maximizing its damage per mag.
• The skill damage and crit chance from Skillcraft are great for Dead Ringer, Reverburnations, Bloodletter and Groundbreaker.

3/3 Active Fire | 2/3 Skillcraft

• Setup focused on the Crow-Sourced.
• The skill damage and crit chance from Skillcraft are great for Dead Ringer, Reverburnations, Bloodletter and Groundbreaker.

3/3 High Caliber | 2/3 Skillcraft

• Piercing shots allows for double hits from the splash damage when aiming at the ground through the enemy, and can have great utility, one example being vs. Bloomreaper Crystals.
• • It's not useful against all bosses, but extremely powerful where it works.

Other Options

• 1/3 Heating Up
• • Reload speed is a welcome boost.
• 1/3 High Caliber
• • Projectile speed can be useful.

Riddle You This | I Am A Gun | Bear Arms | Groundbreaker

• Groundbreaker setup. Works with any of the weapon choices.
• Consider swapping Bear Arms for The Best Defense or A Honed Mind if not using the Mantra.

The Best Defense | Riddle You This | I Am A Gun | Bear Arms

• No Groundbreaker. This setup that looks to maximize damage per shot of the Mantra while also boosting our skill damage sources.

Other Specialization Options

• A Honed Mind
• • Can be helpful for increased crit rates and is a nice damage boost on Reverburnations and Groundbreaker.
• Contamination
• • Useful for Bloodletter.
• CQC
• • Mantra and Reapers trigger this on hitting an enemy.