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The sharpshooter excels at dispatching priority targets quickly and precisely. In this build, the Veteran’s main role is to be upfront, in the middle of the fight, utilising close range assaults with both melee and range weapons alike. The weapon choice for this build is focused on melee, and surviving during main engagements while your team supports from the rear.
My favorite choice is the Power Falchion, it’s reliable enemy clearing, strong perk choice, and effective alternative attack mode. You could also use the Power Sword, as it’s alternative attack power charge is very powerful. For range weapons, the new Godwyn-Branx Bolt Pistol is a great mid to close range weapon to use against elites, and other ranged enemies. The skills in this build are heavily weighed towards your melee combat efficientcy, but you can always hold your own if you need to, thanks to your active ability to stay alive, revive allies, and your choice of range weapon to deal with alternating situations. This is a great build that will be of great help to your team and deviates from the typical Veteran class builds.
This weapon comes recommended thanks to hits wide range of coverage with small enemies, armored enemies, and elites.
The 2 perks on the Power Falchion help increase its offensive capabilities, and effectiveness at dealing with hordes. Cranial Grounding will reduce heat buildup and increase weakspot damage for a short duration when hitting multiple weakspots in short succession. This effect stacks, and whith the ease of getting weakspot hits, you should have a constant stream of reduce heat and weakspot damage. Wrath increases cleave with every hit, stacking up to 250% increase. These skills combine for added damage and increased cleave are a potent combo to try out.
Carapace and Unyielding enemies are going to be your pain points as the range weapon of choice dosent effectively remove them from the field. Choosing to do a bit more damage to them makes the most sense.
The Godwyn-Branx Bolt Pistol is recommended with this build since you’ll be playing within melee range of enemies whenever possible, so having a weapon you can quickly swap to and pick off key targets, or cause an explosive to enemies around you, your choice.
Lethal Proximity and Execution play into one another very nicely. With Lethal Proximity, shooting enemies within melee range will cause an explosion in addition to the bullet damage. This explosive will have a larger radius, and more importantly, do splash damage and stagger enemies nicely. Execution has a very nice damage increase against staggered enemies, which, you should be able to cause with the exact same weapon when using it at close range. Alternatively, if you have allies alongside you, you can take advantage of them staggering enemies as well.
The perk choice is pretty open to your desires. I chose Flak and Maniac damage increases for the range weapon. Since both of these are relatively easily handled with the melee weapon, being able to deal more damage to them with your range weapon, rather then needing to swap back to your melee when you might not want too seemed like the best choice.
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Curios are really flexible, with only a couple perks that really benefit builds. In this case, Toughness can be substituted for Health if required, but toughness is still recommended. You might want at least 1 Curio to have 1 Wounds on it, wounds increase the amount of health bars you have. This is beneficial, especially on higher difficulties, as it allows some leeway if mistakes happen, or you get overwhelmed.
Stamina Regen is really important and should be the only modifier you go for one each Curio you use. Damage resistance vs Gunners is one of the best types of resistances to have, as Gunners can come in groups of multiples and can easily eliminate members of your team. Sprint Efficiency, especially for a melee build, is another fantastic choice, as it keeps you mobile during engagements. Paire with enough stamina regen, you should have no issues moving around the battlefield as needed.
