(WIP) Moze Shrieking Devil Build

Borderlands 3 Moze the Gunner
#1

This build is inspired by Moxsy’s Flame of the Firehawk Build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhPHkwzqnY&t=642s

It is also a work in progress and could use some recommendations from all of the seasoned Moze players out here.

Will add pictures later…

Bare Bones Requirements:
Shrieking Devil in Shock
The Transformer shield

My Current Build: https://bl3skills.com/gunner#500311110000050030000000000055350103501
Current COM: Blast Master - perhaps the best COM for higher dps with this build
Current Relic: Deathless w/ 33% AOE damage, 40% Mag size - Deathless is a must

With this current build, I ended up with spare skill points and so I threw 1 into Scorching RPM’s, 1 into Tenacious Defense and 1 into Experimental Munitions

Basically, how the build works is between the reaction of the Shrieking Devil shotgun and The Transformer. The SD shoots a close range nova explosion that can hurt the player. However, if you get the SD in Shock, then couple that with the transformer, you heal your shield as you shoot your SD.

The idea is to get up close and personal with enemies and blast them away with the SD while keeping yourself alive with it. This build makes you impressively difficult to down but lacks some damage capabilities currently.
What is also nice about this build is that you don’t need to use a bloodletter or vampyr to maintain your shield.

from testing with the weapon, its damage counts as gun damage, AOE damage, and splash damage so relics/coms that boost these are a +. However, I don’t believe that it is capable of hitting a crit and so it may be wise to avoid skills like redistribution, for example.

Perhaps one of the most important skills for this build in order to keep it fun and playable is Rushin’ Offense. Because the Shrieking Banshee is a Maliwan Shotgun, it has a charge up time that helps increase the damage. However, by charging the weapon, you move at walkling speed, which is irritating because you need to be almost point blank for this weapon to work. Use this skill.

With neutral modifiers, this build can be used to clear SS TVHM M3 but is iffy at that and is not good against bosses and anointed enemies. It is also important to point out that armor drastically slows down the ttk of this build but is not impossible by any means.

I am considering finding a shrieking banshee anointed with 50% additional cryo or corrosive in order to make this build work better overall. The added damage will help increase time to kill and will make targets with armor easier to deal with.

Any recomendations to help improve this build? Additionally, are there other weapons that also heal the transformer? Let me know!

[Guide] Build Master Collection - Moze the Gunner
#2

If you go transformer then you cannot dot yourself with electricity. You wont take damage to apply the dot. To increase dps try an alchemist. The self damage is electric and you will heal yourself, but its small. You can also go big boom blaster shield, use alchemist, pray for +75% hp + Shields anointment, and then the small ■■■■■ damage from alchemist has a 60% chance to proc a 60% shield heal pick up. Sitting at a cool 50k shield with a big boom blaster is awesome. Also free grenade too. The SD will have the same chance to proc the shield booster as well, but the alchemist hurts you less and does far superior fire/AoE dam. The alchemist is a reload all the time weapon to detonate grenades, so master blaster is out.

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#3

Good to know about not being able to dot yourself with the transformer. Changing it to a BBB takes away from the build a bit but the alchemist might be worth a try. You can also trigger the alchemist by switching weapons I believe. However, I do not know if this affects the master blasters bonus at all.

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#4

As soon as I saw the moxsy video I immediately thought of using this gun as a heal for moze with transformer. However, when I use this with moze the shooting it does heal me but it it also sets me on fire which depletes my shields and kills me. I’m not running on 1hp build though. If you’re running that set up maybe the fire wouldn’t matter.

#5

i Thinks it’s either experimental munitions or fire in the slag den causing that

#6

I recommend the deathless relic for that reason as well. With such a massive shield that you can keep healing, you don’t need any health regen and getting lit on fire doesn’t hurt as much.

#7

It was that one skill making me catch on fire. without that it works perfectly

#8

…you can totally get a shock dot with the transformer

#9

Does cloud of lead also cause you to catch on fire? I know Fire in the Skag Den would. I think this gun would fit perfectly on a blast master moze (assuming you’re running transformer)

#10

Tenacious Defense doesn’t work with 1hp builds, 99.99% of the time you take enough damage to immediately put you into FFYL. You need an hp pool for Tenacious defense to have a chance to trigger.

#11

If you run Tenacious Defense, you can put on a Loaded Dice (Last Stand Loaded Dice if you want to be extra tanky). Then no more than 2 points in Thin Red Line will give you some damage from Desperate Measures, but also maintain protection from health gate.

Look for 149 hp regen on the Blast Master, artifact, or both, then while you’re regening your shield with the gun, you regen hp as well. The smaller health pool will allow you to get over 50% hp a lot easier.

Avoid Fire in the Skag Den, Experimental Munitions, and Cloud of Lead. Every 4th shot would set you on fire, plus splash and crits would set you on fire too.

Maybe skills along the lines of this:
https://bl3skills.com/gunner/#005314155010100000000000000055230023200

Should prevent having to reload, plus you get 5 seconds of no ammo use on ASE. Mix in other 50% bonus elements on your grenade to help with health or armored enemies.

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#12

If you see you’re getting crits often enough, maybe run the Mind Sweeper class mod instead. Best with 1 Redistribution and 4 in Torgue Cross Promotion.

Now we’re getting healed from the gun and the grenades both. And the grenades can crit and spawn more grenades.

Maybe something like this:
https://bl3skills.com/gunner/#005311154010000535030100000055000000000

If that gun never crits though, no point even trying the Mind Sweeper mod.