How to play:

- weapon 1 trevonator in shock mode is the bread and butter of the build, other 3 weapons are for special cases

- you always want to be shooting as close to enemies as possible or shooting the ground so the splash damage hits you. several things happen when you are hit with your own splash damage (ground or enemy):
1) you heal your shields (transformer)
2) you heal your hp (sustainment)
3) you regenerate ammo (transformer)
4) you gain speed and reduce shield regen delay (mindfulness stacks, 25 max)
5) you damage enemies near you which gets you even more hp
6) close to enemy you gain 29% damage resist (Breaker class mod) and +72% damage buff (personal space)
7) you put a shock effect on yourself for extra 90% damage buff (elemental projector artifact)

- make sure to use phasegrasp/ties-that-bind action skill without a target (by looking at ground or somewhere w/o targets) often to
1) increase weapon damage every 10 seconds by 100% (weapon anointments)
2) increase damage reduction by 40% (helping hands)
4) add additional 50% cryo damage (shield anointment) - cryo is only one that doesn't put a DoT on you which can kill you at low hp
5) increased resists increase amount of healing you get from your gun (minimize damage from cryo, infuse, forceful while keeping healing same)

- when encountering a difficult boss with a red bar, weapon 2 fire cutsman (or fire tediore) with 100% on action skill anointment is available
- when encountering a difficult boss with a yellow bar, weapon 3 corrosive cutsman (or corrosive tediore) with 100% on action skill anointment is available
- grenade can be thrown to debuff bosses to take 20% more damage and increase your damage by 25% for 6 sec, safe to use close up (anointed grenade)
- when encountering a group of enemies deal shock and cryo damage to all of them via weapon 4 brainstormer with 100% on action skill anointment. shock/cryo chain between enemies for a few seconds and give you back hp during that time (from sustainment, does not heal shields)
- if desired additional group damage, use brainstormer with ties that bind action skill on a target to spread higher damage but might have to deal with action skill cooldown including some seconds where the buffs above won't be accessible

- class mod offers splash damage, weapon damage, and bonus damage resistance (18%) on top of breaker's proximity 29% damage resistance
- artifact offers 23% elemental resistance, increased mag size, and aoe damage buff (helps weapon 1 a lot)

- easiest way to buff yourself with the gun is to shoot the ground 1 or 2 times and then hit action skill button before looking up, use speed to get close to enemies and chainsaw through them. your damage resistance and self healing of both bars are best in game and should be able to cut through almost everything like a chainsaw with trevonator shotgun. if you're close enough you will never have to reload. every 10 seconds might make sense to look away from target to hit action skill on the ground to gain the damage and resist buffs and repeat.

- if you are low on shotgun ammo for some reason (like using brainstormer too much), just shoot the ground until you are maxed out
- if hard to see enemies through explosions and shock chains, use targeting button (x by default) to outline them in red

If all else fails, like when rezzing someone else under fire, there's guardian angel on top, but I rarely see it.

Enjoy

update 1.1 : added tediore shotguns to throw (by reloading) when cutsman smg isn't enough damage or boss too far, but must evade mirv yourself as too easy to kill self. put cryo 50% damage on shield, and added grenade to debuff/buff for extra 45% damage. added video link to show this build used to kill m4 tvhm boss traunt.

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