7.5-15% Weak Spot Damage. Weakspot Kills also ignore Enemy Hit Mass.
Hitting an enemy gives them 1-4 stacks of 2.5% Brittleness. Debuff lasts for 5 seconds and can have a maximum of 16 stacks.
18-30% Strength for 5s when every pellet in a shot hits the same enemy.
10% Critical Chance for every 0.2-0.35 second while aiming. Stacks 10 times. Discharges all stacks upon firing.
Gameplay - Indomitable is where it's at! Get in their yah big lunker! Shovel and Kickback your way to glorious victory!
Shovel alt attack for any pesky big boys, gets over the top of crusher shields too! Kickback for making muties faceplant the ground hur hur. Heavy attack with the shovel for excellent crowd control and keep those Heavy Hitter stacks up.
**Note** - You could grab the No Push Over or Bruiser passives but I just don't get much out of them, so we've opted to grab more toughness and the Brutish Momentum keystone modifier.
Melee - We're running the MK V shovel for its great sweeping, crowd control heavy attacks but also for its head-splitting alt attack. You can 1-2 shot crushers with this.
Alternatively, you can run the Borovian Pickaxe for a similar weak spot hit effect at just a little bit less crowd control efficiency.
Gun - The kickback is a special/elite killing machine with a decent range. It's hard to pass up.
Grenade - Frag Bomb to kill a nasty patrol or panic button out when you need it.
Survivability - Running 30% Toughness damage reduction and as many extra toughness nodes as possible for a total of 80 extra toughness. Splash in some sniper damage reduction or whatever else you have trouble with if needed.
To add to this we're running 3 toughness curious and even more %5 toughness perks within those and run some gunner damage reduction too. The goal is to be a toughness beast.
Happy shovelling!