DRONEMANCER | Blood Shot Vex (LVL 70 TUVH7)

WEAPONS

Order ARTediore Pistol

The original main loadout consists of four Order AR 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, Crow-Sourced, Darkbeast, Stray, Piktun Order Sniper, Roulette, Mercurious, Truck and the many other good guns available in the game.

Underbarrels

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

• Fleabag/ Potato Thrower IV with Airstrike.
• Maliwan Shotgun with Beam Tosser.
• Oscar Mike with Space Laser if you just want something to disappear.
• Sunspot with Energy Burst can be the highest single instance of damage in the game
• Rooker for the Needle Underbarrel. You can shoot the needles and swap back to anything else while they're active.
• Vladof SMG with Taser.
• Jakobs Shotgun with Spread Launcher or Knife Launcher.
• Vladof Sniper with Big Rocket.
• Torgue Pistol with Turbine Cleaver.
• Any other Underbarrels you find interesting and have high synergy with the gameplay cycle.

Debuff/Buff Weapons

Some weapons can be used for achieving a little extra damage through Debuffs or Buffs, such as:

• Ripper Sniper with Target Marker.
• Tediore AR with Support Drone.
• Silver Sliver which applies a stacking Debuff on hit .
• • You don't have to use any of these, I'm simply including them as possible options you may want to consider.

REPKIT

Triple Bypass and Order Repkit are the main choices.

Look for these effects:

• Amp (Amplified) on Triple Bypass
• Amp (Amplified) + Enrage (Experimental) on Order Repkit.
• • Note: 'Leech' (Lifesteal) Repkits do not apply to Blood Is Power.

ORDNANCE

Crit Knife Jakobs Grenade

• Main choice for bossing. Vex's Crit Chance is not very high, making this very strong.

Heimdahl

• Great choice that fits the build's theme. You can introduce it on your damage cycles as basically an extra Drone, and it does benefit from Repkit Amp + Blood Shot.

CLASS MOD

Good stat rolls to look for on any class mod:

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

Teen Witch

Provides the most consistent damage boost and massive utility.

• +5 Grave Thirst; +2 Blood Is Magic or Corporeal
• +5 Blood Is Magic; +2 Corporeal

Both of these rolls are nice. The first is the overall more useful, and has a lot of added mobbing damage due to Grave Thirst feeding into Blood Is Power

The second roll is more tailored specifically to bossing, though it will also work on all scenarios, but can be noticeably weaker against mobs. I recommend going for the Grave Thirst roll and then just keeping an eye out for this other variant should you want to try it out.

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.

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

Firedancer Vex 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.

• +5 Reverburnations; +2 Fell Inscriptions

Transistor Vex Class Mod

A bit of a gimmicky, highly specialized 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.

• +5 Deadwire; +2 Target Prescience

SHIELD

Watts 4 Dinner

• 150% Amp. Overall strongest potential. It does have downsides though:
• • The Bonus Shock Damage causes its own weaker Bleeds and can make you reach Bleed cap quicker, with it overriding some potentially stronger Bleeds. This only matters if you would reach maximum or close to Bleed cap to begin with.
  • The Bonus Shock Damage can trigger Deadwire using its own weaker hit as base damage, causing the skill to go on Cooldown.
  • If you'd like to avoid these downsides, consider the other options below.

Cindershelly and Pandoran Momento

• 150% Amp. Good choices with defensive benefits that can still roll Amp.
• • Cindershelly has lower part variance and is an easier shield to get 150% Amp on.

Guardian Angel

• 150% Amp. Great when using non-Teen Witch Class Mods. Nice defensive effect.

ENHANCEMENT

For stat rolls on any enhancement, look for

• Gun / Gun Type Damage
• Gun / Gun Type Crit Damage
• Weapon Equip Speed
• Gun / Gun Type Splash Radius
• • Radius boosts can be deceptively excellent depending on the strategy employed.
  • Examples: Air Burst or Pumper + High Caliber + Jakobs Shotgun Spread Launcher or Vladof Sniper Big Rocket. Also perfect for Torgue AR Airstrike.

Pumper | 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 High Caliber

• Overall nice setup. Requires a bit of involvement and conscious activation of Daed-dy O's boost, but it is 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.

3/3 Active Fire | 2/3 Skillcraft

• Niche setup for chargeable underbarrels or if you want to use a Crow-Sourced.
• • To make sure non-Order chargeable underbarrels get properly boosted, swap from an Order Weapon directly to the underbarrel you wish to boost before firing.

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 Riddle You This.

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.