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Class
Weapons
Haymaker
+4% to Instakill human-sized enemies on Chained Heavy Hit. Stacks 5 times. Note that other potential triggers will not be activated on Instakill.
Thunderous
Hitting an enemy gives them 4 stacks of +2.5% Brittleness. Debuff lasts for 5 seconds and can have a maximum of 16 stacks.
Explosive Offensive
+15% Strength bonus for 6 seconds after hitting multiple enemies with your weapon special explosion.
Shattering Impact
Target receives 4 Stacks of 2.5% Brittleness on direct projectile hit. Debuff lasts for 5 seconds and can have a maximum of 16 stacks.
Curios
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Description
"Brunt's Basher" Mk IIIb Bully Club has infinite chain of cleaving heavy attacks, perfect to trigger Haymaker on every attack, it rolls the instakill chance separately on each enemy you hit with your heavy attacks, so increasing cleave targets with Great Cleaver significantly increases mixed horde clear when paired with Haymaker. Especially since it works on Mutant, Scab Mauler and the new shielded vanguards even through their shield. Thunderous is still better than Skullcrusher when you go against Crushers, you just can't stun them often enough nor keep them stunned long enough for the 2nd attack to actually benefit, so the Brittleness ends up giving more DPS against Carapace for this weapon.
The "Brunt Special" Mk I Bully Club could be used instead, but it's not that much better against Crushers, while being a lot worse against hordes.
Most talents not only improve your Bully Club but also the Blastoom Mk III Grenadier Gauntlet! Especially when you Trample through a horde, into a Monster and use the Gauntlet's special attack to do thousands of damage per ammo spent, it's also a Heavy Melee attack, benefitting from Heavy Hitter nodes. This ends up being pretty much just as good Monster DPS as a Lorenz Mk VI Rumbler with the added bonus of having the Indomitable Charge ult and the quicker anti-special response time of the Gauntlet, since it can shoot 5 times before reloading. Still reload speed is important. The Gauntlet Special attack explosion can ALSO CLEAVE THROUGH SHIELDS, which no melee weapon can!
Curio setup maximizes Toughness, revive speed, ability cooldown, and allows you to tank gunfire for TWICE as long, due to how effective HP calculation works with multiplicative sources of damage reduction. Meaning each extra stack of the same type of damage reduction on curios will give you more eHP than the previous stack, not less like most people believe.
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