BUILD BREAKDOWN
This vex build takes full advantage of
Vex's high burst damage potential via
Incarnate and very strong health sustain through optimising her
Vexcalation toolkit. This build focuses solely on kinetic weapon damage which makes it highly convenient to build in the early game to level through the entire campaign with speed and ease! It also lends itself very well to
Jakobs Shotgun,
Jakobs Sniper,
Jakobs AR,
Jakobs SMG &
Jakobs Pistol due to the passive synergising superbly with the playstyle and the subtle variations you can utilise during your playthrough.
The strength in this build lies in the fact it is very simple to play, it doesn't rely on the AI of your summons and it ramps up really impressively as you progress through to the latter stages of the campaign. It also allows you to experiment with different weapon types and play it slightly to your own tastes.
The backbone of this builds focuses on the synergy between
Leeching Attunement,
Bloodletter and
Material Components in the early game, then later, this compounds heavily when
Essence Leech &
Blood Is Power come online. Landing critical hits with high damaging weapons is your goal here, huge single shot damage
Jakobs Shotgun and
Jakobs Sniper not only do MASSIVE damage but they also apply bleed through
Bloodletter and since this procs does 30% damage per second rolled off the weapon that applies it, it is in our best interests to get the highest hitting single shots possible! The bleed ticks are huge when they proc so you can land headshots and often forget about the mob you've hit as it will bleed out. The ricochet that Jakobs weapons offer also lends itself superbly to this playstyle.
This also works superbly in terms of keeping us healed up with
Essence Leech and hard hitting weapons. Popping your heal often is helpful to ensure you are getting the massive damage increase from
Blood Is Power.
Use
Incarnate whenever it is off cooldown and you are fighting spam down enemies using your phase explosion and Elditch Blast, weaving shots in between. This becomes incredible when
Heartpiercer is live as you can spam Elditch Blast indefinitely. The phase explosion also heals you fully which is a nice addition.
WITCHY TRIGGER FINGER VS. GRAVE HARVEST
Start with
Energy Vampire but as soon as possible you will need to make the decision between
Witchy Trigger Finger or
Grave Harvest. I've played both and I've come to the conclusion that it's really a matter of taste throughout the campaign. Essentially
Witchy Trigger Finger will give you much tastier damage output where as
Grave Harvest will give you much better sustain and arguably synergises better with
Heartpiercer and of course
Blood Is Power whihc needs max health to keep the +300 damage rolling in. During the levelling process and UHV 1 difficulty, you blow through everything so quickly it does not matter but if you are struggling with survivability definitely take
Grave Harvest. If you're using SMGs or ARs, keep in mind that everytime you use Elditch blast when using
Witchy Trigger Finger your weapon will auto-reload, this feels incredibly solid and can also be felt to a lesser degree with other weapons too.
SKILL POINT ORDER
Nice and simple here folks, all green!
5
Leeching Attunement
Energy Vampire
5
Bloodletter
5
Material Components
Grave Harvest or
Witchy Trigger Finger
5
Grave Vitality
5
Essence Leech
Heartpiercer
3
Blood Is Power
I then chose to go into
Blood Shot for further bleed and kinetic damage synergy but the jury is still out here. I will be exploring with rep kit skills such as
Guns and Needlestoo to see if the syngery between
Blood Is Power and the rest of the build is much better.
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