Salvester Chases OP8-ey Bird

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

It stinks being a gunzerker piloted by an inept mythical being who’s gaming is casual at best. Someone help this fool. Please.
-Salvester

Meet Salvester.

I affectionately call his build “Part-Time Police Auxiliary”, because I think it’s relatively close to the Brawn version of the Deputy build. Basically, he rocks an off-hand shotgun (Striker when he expects surveyors, Blue Quad or Purple Coach for things that run around) with a Grog Nozzle in one pair and a slag Rubi with his Harold in the other. He’s currently wearing a Legendary Berserker com, a Blood of the ancients for pistol and shotgun ammo, a 72 Neogenator, and packing a ×2 magic missile. He unlocked OP1 and OP2 easily enough, but was stopped three times on the way to OP3. He has a purple Chaotic Good Monk com that he is considering trying on his next attempt. Any thoughts?

[Piemanlee (Goodbye friends and not friends, it's been a fun ride)]

After looking at your build i suggest a classmod change.
Legendary gunzerker
Or
A monk class mod, preferably with the +6 to money shot.

I know they can both be a pita to farm, but they will help you greatly

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

I think my Monk has +4 or +5 to Moneyshot as well as bonuses to Sexy Rexy and Asbestos, and I do have a legendary gunzerker with ~46% cooldown in the bank. Do you think one is better than the other? Should I just take the plunge and Deputize Salvester, or do you think a simple com change could tip the scales in my favor?

[Piemanlee (Goodbye friends and not friends, it's been a fun ride)]

I wanted to give tips without an entire build change, but once you play deputy sal to it’s 5max potential it’s hard to go back.

Either com works imo. If you need more gunzerk uptime use leg gunzerker, if you need more damage use the monk

[Jefe (བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ)]

That build looks suspiciously similar to my Jakobs build.

Ditch the Quad : a Coach or Triquetra will do way better. In fact, they will both outperform the Striker too ( as much as I like it ).

Get yourself a Rough Rider : Kurt and I swear by it ; Chuck swears by the Neo - compare for yourself.

Those points in Asbestos : put all but one ( keep one point for a Monk COM ) into Incite and Hard to Kill.

That one point in Just Got Real is wasted.

All that is considering the L Berzerker. If you go with the Monk or L Gunzerker, use a Deputy build.

For running the Peak, I’d recommend the L Gunzerker and the Peak variant of the Dep build. There’s nothing worse than having your GZ run out.

Also consider trying another relic : cooldown or BoA ( only for the Peak ) or a Deputy’s Badge. The Blood is still good for your purposes though.

You shouldn’t need Magic Missiles as the Grog is a great slagger : I recommend either singularities or teslas for control and/or healing.

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

Funny thing happened on my way to the Peak. I got a Triquetra at 72 thinking I wouldn’t be trying the peak, because why would I torture myself? I was mostly using the Striker for surveyors and it was working at a pretty handy distance, would I need to close the gap a little more to hit them with my coach gun? I’ll definitely grab a Rough Rider to try that out (Kriegtopher needs a new one anyway, I’ll just grab a second while I’m there), and I’ll update the Neo while I’m at it, just in case I prefer that. I have a lobbed slag singularity, is that good or would a different element/delivery be more advantageous? And I still have the Lynchwood quests open, so I’ll grab that too. I’m gonna try one more time, and then, win or lose, I’m gonna start tinkering.

[Jefe (བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ)]

If you can get any DoT dealing grenade, that’s great for healing. The problem with Deputy is you only get healing the moment you hit something. If you’re getting eaten , it’s great to have DoT healing to bridge the gap.

[Piemanlee (Goodbye friends and not friends, it's been a fun ride)]

A good storm front or pandemic could be very helpful for healing

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

I’ve probably got some level 72 options in someone’s backpack. Good enough, or time to get back into the fields?

[Piemanlee (Goodbye friends and not friends, it's been a fun ride)]

Good enough for now, grab a new one around op5 if it’s working for you, but starting to fall off

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

Sweet. I’ll let y’all know how that goes when I get back to Pandora tomorrow.

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

That was an accident, actually. But now that I look at it, your Striker Salvador feels good and I’ll probably ape it more than a little bit going forward. Progress is made standing on the shoulders of giants, after all.

[DeputyChuck (Sheriff)]

Agreed, Quads are garbage. Totally overrated

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

@DeputyChuck, I didn’t think I rated that much of a rescue.

Actually, it’s already been vendored. It didn’t help me keep enough distance for my liking. I decided to farm for a new neogenator and a Rough Rider now to compare the two before I hit the peak again. I’ll let y’all know how that goes when it happens, but it looks like RNGsus is gonna make me wait a while. Good things come to those who wait, praise RNGsus . Thank you.

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

Salvester caught OP3 this morning. He only shifted 1 skill point, so now his Pandora Academic Record reads thusly:

He put on a Neutral Good Monk Com with +5 Moneyshot, +4 Sexy Rexy, and +3 Asbestos. He got updated shields from Kriegtopher (RR) and Maytastrophe (Neogenator), and put on the Neogenator. And he borrowed Kriegtopher’s Level 70 Storm Front for extended engagements. Stayed with the pair one Rubi+Harold and pair two Purple Coach+Grog. I love it when a plan comes together. Thank you @Jefe, @Piemanlee, and last but not least @DeputyChuck for your input. I suspect I will be issuing these thanks and many others 5 more times, but I don’t really mind repeating myself.

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

Here we go again. Took Salvester to meet the OP4 unlock today. It felt easy, too easy. No, really. He traipsed along, flattening what came at him with an OP1 purple Huntin’ coach gun/Grog and Harold/Rubi poking Constructors right in their beady little eyes. And then the Assassins arena. I guess I just didn’t kill Reeth McBurny fast enough, because FFYL looking at him. Switched to the old Harold Rubi and came within millimeters of coming back before the timer ran dry. Feels like a pacing/operator error problem to me. So, I’ll go back at it tomorrow. Practice practice practice, and that Moneyshot Minuet will be perfect before I know it.

[DeputyChuck (Sheriff)]

You’ll get those a lot, but since you are realizing it, you’re on the right path. Pacing is key with that build.

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

Thank you for the pep talk @DeputyChuck, it feels good to know I’m on the right track.
Took another stab at it. Again, it almost felt easy on the run up to the Assassins. Still operator error with possible pacing concerns, but improving. This time I packed a corrosive cloud grenade for healing purposes and spanked Reeth with the swiftness. However, playing tag with Routh while running from Oney didn’t go so well. I think I want to try again with Storm Fronts for healing instead. I think that might turn the tide in my favor with the better AOE coverage.

[DeputyChuck (Sheriff)]

Storm front is what I’m using personally

[paulothead (AN awkward, not THE Awkward, Yeti)]

I took the first Storm Front I got, which was rubberized. Oh well, back at it. Double Your Fun+rubberized Storm Fronts= interesting dodging routine. It worked though, and I stepped onto the back half of the peak for the first time. Still not quite successful, the next to last area showed me that I was too eager by slapping me with Centurions. I feel like if I can get that spawn behind me I’ll be good. I’ll take another shot at it tomorrow.