Table of Contents
Class
Weapons
Brutal Momentum
+15% Weak Spot Damage. Weakspot Kills also ignore Enemy Hit Mass.
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.
Surgical
+10% Critical Chance for every 0.3 second while aiming. Stacks 10 times. Discharges all stacks upon firing.
Hand-Cannon
+60% Rending on Critical Hit.
Curios
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
+13-17% Toughness
Talent Tree
Description
The Melee Meatgrinder (Rashad Axe + Mastiff Debuffs)
Your melee combat revolves around exploiting the targets your dog softens up. When your Cyber-Mastiff engages, it applies severe stagger, electricity, and bleeding via Voltaic Mandibles and Serrated Maw.
This sets up the damage multiplier via Target the Weak. Because the target is status-afflicted, the Rashad Axe hits with catastrophic power. Aim strictly for the head; the moment you secure a weakspot kill, Brutal Momentum activates, allowing your subsequent axe swings to slice through multiple targets without stopping, transforming a single-target weapon into a horde-clearing blender.
The Ranged Execution (Zarona Revolver + Hand-Cannon Crits)
Your revolver is not a weapon for clearing trash mobs—it is a scalpel for immediate threat removal. By pairing the Surgical blessing with your Terminus Warrant keystone modifiers (Obstinate, Terminal Decree, Writ of Judgment), your aimed shots become highly precise, high-crit delete buttons.
When a critical hit lands, Hand-Cannon triggers, ignoring the target's armor values. This allows you to one-tap structural threats like Maulers, Snipers, and Crushers straight through their heaviest plating, instantly refreshing your offensive momentum via Ruthless Efficiency.
Combat Mechanics: The Execution Loop
Playing this build requires aggressive situational awareness. Do not wait for the enemy to come to you. You dictate the pace of the room.
Follow this mechanical sequence in every major engagement:
1. Survey and Target Selection
As you enter an arena, bypass the common horde and use your high-priority passive talents (Street Smarts, Target Priority) to visually isolate high-value targets—specifically Elites, Specialists, or Monstrosities.
2. Sic the Mastiff
Do not engage with your gun first. Deploy your combat ability to send the Cyber-Mastiff charging into your selected high-value target via Kill Order. The dog acts as your vanguard, instantly pinning the target, disrupting their attack animation, and applying your offensive debuffs.
3. Close the Distance
The moment the hound leaves your side, sprint directly toward the pinned target. Utilize your high Stamina Regeneration from your Curios to close the gap rapidly. If enemy gunners open fire, do not retreat—your stacked Gunner Resistance allows you to run straight through their fire lines without losing your footing.
4. Deliver the Melee Execution
Approach the staggered target and execute heavy overhead weakspot swings with the Rashad Combat Axe. Thanks to Strike Down and Target the Weak, your damage against the dog's target is heavily amplified. Once that elite's head leaves its shoulders, your axe will have infinite cleave for a brief window, allowing you to fluidly transition into light-attack sweeps to clear out any surrounding chaff.
5. Ranged Snapping
If an elite is positioned too far away, or if a Monstrosity enters the fray, immediately swap to the Zarona Stub Revolver. Bring up the sights and hold your aim for a fraction of a second to let Surgical stack your critical chance. Fire directly into the weakspot. This triggers your capstone keystone multipliers, punching straight through Carapace armor and instantly dropping the threat from across the room. Swap back to your axe and repeat the loop.