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Task Manager | Grenade/Melee Status Loveless (LVL 70 TUVH7)

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presentationVisual Paradox Nexus
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By Ratore
Updated on Oct 8, 2026
Oct 8, 2026

Build Overview

Task Manager

In a world where IHATEYOU + Devourer exists, Bash Script is left behind in the off-meta box. However, it excels at one thing: it is damn fun to play with!

Task Manager is a build centered around Bash Script, Unsupported Peripheral, Waterfall Spam, Melee Attacks and Status Spreading. We maximize hit rate, crit chance and the amount of damage instances to reach as many semi-passive triggers as possible of Bash Script, while also weaving in Empowered Melees which trigger powerful skills such as Intrusion.

The Mixologist Maliwan Enhancement is used to power up our Artillety + Ricochet Waterfall by holding a Maliwan Shotgun with Beam Tosser Underbarrel. The Grenade's Ricochet Augment is considered gun damage, and will get a new Mixologist trigger for every new gun-source Bonus Element applied to it. This results in a massive amount of crits and damage instances, all of which can proc Bash Script. Alternative weapon options to use instead of the Beam Tosser stat sticks are also available.

The Empowered Melees close the loop, hitting very hard on impact and also applying powerful Statuses.

Strengths And Weaknesses

  • Excellent Mobbing
  • Good Bossing
  • Absurdly effective on Takedown and other mobbing/mixed bossing gauntlets
  • Visually... intense
  • Relies on specific gear
  • Can cause slowdowns/delayed damage on weaker systems
  • 1v1 Bossing requires some setup/learning
  • Visually... intense

Build Variants

Main variant.


Skill Tree

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Visual Paradox Nexus
5/5

Alternate Autocrit Route

You can go for Intrusion instead of When it Rains for your Crit Chance source, if you prefer.

It changes the playstyle a little bit, since it's mandatory to connect melee hits for Intrusion to trigger, but it has significantly higher peaks at the cost of more clunk and danger due to barrels/etc.

If you'd like to try this, do as follows:

  • Remove all 8 points from When it Rains and It's Super Effective.
  • Remove 1 point from Viral Payload.
  • Remove 2 points from Fusion Friends-y.
  • Invest the points in Storage Upgrade, Power Overwhelming and Intrusion.

Action Skill Visual Paradox Nexus

Bash Script

  • Through our many damage instances and high crit chance, we can trigger this augment a lot.

Notes on VPN Visual Paradox Nexus

  • Grants 25% Crit Damage while VPN is Active.
  • Grants 50% All Damage while in Stealth.
    • This boost is not listed in the Action Skill description.

Equipment

Weapons
Repkit & Ordnance
Utilities

WEAPONS

Main Weapons

Maliwan Shotgun

Beam Tosser Underbarrels, covering all elemental bases: Fire, Corrosive, Radiation/Shock.

  • 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.

These are essential for both mobbing and bossing damage.

  • When mobbing, holding a Beam Tosser will 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, which can then be detonated through Devourer.

Stealth & SeekKatagawa's Revenge

While not as good for the grenades specifically as holding a Beam Tosser, these options have the benefit of you being able to shoot them.

Their projectiles will be an extremely effective source of Bash Script triggers and chaining, alongside Groundbreaker buildup. All this while you still throw grenades as usual.

  • On Stealth & Seek, look for Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader) SMG Mode or Shotgun Mode.
  • On Katagawa's Revenge, use Shock Mode and look for Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory).

Devourer

Absurd bossing weapon for the setup. The Status Effect Detonation has an incredibly powerful formula, making it excellent when paired with Beam Tossers.

  • Ideally, cover each elemental base: Fire, Corrosive, Radiation/Shock.

Maliwan SMGHoneymooner

Railgun Underbarrels. Useful tools, but not mandatory.

  • Can be used with a Primed Potency Maliwan Enhancement for a guaranteed Status application.

Linebacker

Mainly a tool for breaking Bloomreaper Crystals, in case you want to fight that boss. Also a pretty decent weapon for the setup.

  • Pair with a Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement for the increased Splash Radius.

Other Weapons / Fun Options

REPKIT

Font of Life, War Paint and Order Repkit.

Look for these effects:

  • Elemental Affinity (Reactive)
  • Go Go Gadget (Nootropic)
  • Amp (Amplified)

ORDNANCE

Waterfall

Radiation, Corrosive and Fire are the most relevant elements to have variants of on your Waterfall grenades.

  • Artillery + Ricochet + Exacting/Nuke/Express
    • The Ricochets are considered Gun Damage and will therefore benefit from Mixologist.

CLASS MOD

Stat Rolls to look for on any Class Mod:

  • Ordnance Cooldown Rate
  • Elemental Damage
  • Skill Crit Chance
  • Ordnance Critical Hit Chance

Puppetmaster

Enables Symbiosis usage on Visual Paradox Nexus, which grants access to Corrupted Path for new source of Mixologist and Bash Script triggers.

  • +3 Merry Bandwidth; + 4 Overclock or Critically Acclaimed

Hoarder, Plague Engineer and Researcher

Bossing alternatives, good for encounters where you can't really spawn any Clones to make use of Symbiosis.

SHIELD

Watts 4 Dinner

  • Siphon. The Bonus Shock Damage counts as a new instance for Mixologist and Bash Script triggers.
    • Amp is also a valid choice for bossing.

Guardian Angel

  • Amp. Great choice for bossing.

Honey Badger

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

ENHANCEMENT

Stat Rolls to look out for on any Enhancement:

  • Gun Damage
  • Shotgun Damage / Gun Type Damage
    • These boosts apply to the Mixologist Damage riding on our Gun Damage instances.
  • Gun Equip Speed
  • Gun Status Chance
  • Shotgun / Gun Type Status Chance

Toile Maliwan Enhancement

  • Overall best choice for the build, providing two desirable effects for interactions with Bash Script, Statuses and the Artillery + Ricochet Grenades.
    • An Epic Rarity Mixologist Maliwan Enhancement is also fine if you don't have a good Toile.

Pumper | Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement

  • Great choices for Torgue or Torgue-licensed weapons.

Quintain | Blind Box | Bounce Pass Jakobs Enhancement

  • Good choices for anything Jakobs or Jakobs-licensed.

Firmware

Repkit & Ordnance
Repkit FirmwareSkillcraft
Ordnance FirmwareSkillcraft
Utilities
Class Mod FirmwareGadget Ahoy
Shield FirmwareSkillcraft
Enhancement FirmwareAirstrike

Other Options

  • 1/3 Active Fire
  • 3/3 Bruiser
  • 3/3 High Caliber
    • This can be very nice depending on weapon.
  • 3/3 Reel Big Fist

Specialization

Specialization 1The Best Defense
Specialization 2Fragmentation Payload
Specialization 3A Honed Mind
Specialization 4Groundbreaker

Other Options

  • Contamination
  • Now With Caffeine

Gameplay

Mobbing

  1. Hold a Maliwan Shotgun in Beam Tosser Mode, or a Stealth & Seek (which you can shoot) if you want a more active role.
  2. Activate Visual Paradox Nexus.
  3. Throw your Waterfall grenades into groups of enemies. Shoot Stealth & Seek if you chose to use it.
  4. Use Function: Kusarigama to throw another free grenade.
    • The ensuing DOTs and Crits from all the effects and procs will quickly fill RAM and sustain it.
  5. Use Empowered Melee vs. straggler and tougher enemies who may not die as quickly to the grenades.
  6. Repeat.

Bossing

Two approaches.

Method 1: Simpler

  1. Method 1: Simpler
  2. Repkit for boosts.
  3. Use grenades to take care of adds, BUILD UP Groundbreaker and apply Statuses to the boss.
  4. Use Empowered Melees on the boss.

If that doesn't kill it, or if it's unreachable, then do the following:

  1. Shoot Beam Tossers at the boss.
  2. Swap to Devourer of the relevant element.
  3. Detonate the Beam Tosser DOT.
  4. Finish off with Groundbreaker, if needed.

Method 2: HDR High Data Rate

This method shouldn't ever really be a necessity, and is more of an 'ultimate min-max' option.

  1. Fill your RAM by applying Status Effects and/or hitting Crits.
    • You can set up a guaranteed Status from an elemental gunshot through a Primed Potency Maliwan Enhancement, by simply reloading any Maliwan or Maliwan-licensed weapon, including the Devourer itself or a Railgun Underbarrel on Maliwan SMG.
    • The First Impression can be a useful tool for guaranteed crits.
  2. When RAM is full, Use Empowered Melee to trigger High Data Rate.
    • Do NOT throw grenades after Step 2, as they will steal the HDR proc.
  3. Repkit for boosts and/or Amp.
  4. Shoot Beam Tossers at the boss, which will have a guaranteed DOT application.
  5. Swap to Devourer of the relevant element.
  6. Detonate the Beam Tosser DOT.
  7. Finish off with Groundbreaker, if needed.

Tips for Bloomreaper

Bloomreaper is a bad matchup for this build, because the Vile Crystals cannot receive Status Effects. He can still be fought and platinumed, though, even on True UVH7.

The way around this is:

  1. Throw your grenades as usual.
  2. Use Linebacker + a Head Ringer Torgue Enhancement to destroy the Crystals.
  3. After that, you can just proceed with any of the two bossing methods as normal.

Comments

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bumper21•1d ago

Hey, so during takedowns i'm getting knocked down into second wind constantly and have no clue why. I have the Onion shield equipped which i thought would protect me from any explosions or things like that but I can't for the life of me figure out why I keep getting knocked down. Any ideas?

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Ratore
Ratore
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•20h ago

Loveless has a 'hidden' feature on her High Data Rate skill that sometimes causes you to get an invisible radiation aura around yourself, and it will blow up barrels and instakill you.

Try a x2 Turtle Honey Badger instead of Onion. Watch out for barrels. Throw grenades near them to pre-emptively blow them up.

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Bugga•7d ago

I have a question! Why doesn't the kills with the Waterfall grenade count as grenade kills (for grenade kill challenge)? I tried changing to Slippy and that counts...

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nuttypsycho•1 month ago

omg! thank you for posting this build. Grenade builds have always been my fav in bl games, so when I saw that loveless actually has skills attached to grenades I have been waiting to see a build suggestion for em

gonna give it a try right now

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nuttypsycho•25d ago

update:yuh i should have taken your warning seriously, all the gernades going off along with the melee overdrive stuff did make the game crash on xbox xD

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