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Class
Weapons
Curios
Talent Tree
Stimm Lab
Description
The lowest priority nodes that can be swapped are:
- Pick Your Targets,
- Calling for a Timeout,
- In Your Face.
Double Barrel (DB) - Reload speed perk perk can be safely swapped, +25% Unyielding/Maniac will be ok, crit chance perk gets diminishing returns if you proc scattershot a lot.
Scattershot + Manstopper blessings are mandatory, it halves horde clear times on H40 from 40s to 20s.
Any melee weapon that allows you to kill bosses will be ok, Devil Claw is an ultimate self defense weapon with parry and ok horde / mutie damage. DC VII has the best TTK on Muties and this is why I pick this mark.
Chem Dependency and stimm for cooldownmaxxing because desperado is the most reliable way of spamming the DB, and shotgun spam is way more ethical than any full auto build.
Rending from stimm doesn't seem that impactful because DB is not able to kill H40 crushers, crit chance is not that good because we already have scattershot. Reload speed stimm could be ok, but CDR stimm will give us more DPS over the whole mission.
I guess some might consider Slippery customer + jittery unethical, and they are right, but I won't be changing that title now xdd
If you don't want to run Bazooka, you can swap to blinders, then replace Extra Pouches with (G)Coated Weaponry, but blinders are a self defense tool to get some space in tight situations, or to suppress gunners. Both can be done with DB, which makes them redundant.
Main advantage over full auto desperado builds is the amount of stagger DB dishes out, waves of elites will be constantly staggered and suppressed which will slow the rate the team has to give up the ground when kiting.
Off-meta, for fun.