Table of Contents
Class
Weapons
Bloodletter
14 Bleed Stacks from Special Attacks.
Shred
+4% Bonus Critical Chance on Chained Hit. Stacks 5 times.
Full Bore
+20% Strength for 5s when every pellet in a shot hits the same enemy.
No Respite
Up to +20% Damage on Hit (Staggered Enemy), scaling with Stagger.
Curios
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Description
Lean all the way into your animal companion.
Tactics
If you aren't siccing your dog on taggable enemies at literally every opportunity, you're doing it wrong. Chainsword heavy spam into hordes, sniper shottie (refer to affectionately as "the Bitch") for most other things. Will one-tap many of the more annoying enemies, particularly if you reload frequently to take advantage of Withering Fire. I like having the slug special to know that I can absolutely hit one thing very accurately if I need to, but any other combat shottie will probably work. Flame special might be the closest this build gets to anything meta, YMMV.
You obviously struggle a little with armor, but bleeds from Razor-Jaw Augment and chainsword special will quickly add up, Voltaic Mandibles Augment will turn a single enemy off on pounce, and Remote Detonation will help with groups of bullshit. The rev also has surprisingly good monstrosity DPS. Spam light attacks into captain shields until they go down, then rev into them.
Pop Nuncio-Aquila if you lose a bunch of toughness at once, and enjoy not giving a shit. The extra revive speed is also very helpful if someone goes down.
Probably don't take this into Havoc. Haven't tested it, but I imagine it simply doesn't keep up. Such is the price of flavor.