Reason behind skill allocations.
Barrage:
Coal Launch: +25% damage to Vent skills (from T2) and used as back up vent in case Vortex Bomb is unusable.
Sonic Pulse: Use on cooldown (might be worth putting 6 points in and remove Spinning Blade).
Blood Drinker:
Spinning Blade: 3 points for 10% passive proc. No room on action bar to manually use, but typically I want max uptime on Blood Seekers.
Blood Letter: A few points to increase chance to bleed in addition to the +45% from my shield. Can be moved to Sonic Pulse also if you have a high enough chance from gear.
Blood Seekers: Almost 100% uptime, 25% more damage and infinite heals (basically).
Rupture: Extra passive DPS.
Energizer: Needed to maintain Blood Seekers (in addition to gear bonuses).
Dance of Death: Nice spike damage as it also applies bleeds.
Brawl (+1 to all skills from Legendarium):
Rapid Strike: +20% damage to Brawls skills from T2, plus back up heat generator if Cyclone Mode is unusable.
Vortex Bomb: Primary vent skill with nice damage mitigation bonuses, use 100% (unless it gets electrified and unusable). Cooldown is just over 4 sec which gives almost constant uptime on the double armor bonus. Also helps to group up enemies for max aoe.
Ramming Robot: 3 points for an additional charge.
Cyclone Mode: Primary heat generator which also gives additional healing on brawl skills.
Legendarium:
MKG: Stacks two times, gives 20% crit rate for more damage.
Unstable War Arm: Buffs Vortex Bomb, which is the vent we use 100% of the time.
MKH: +1 to all Brawl skills, which frees up 4 points to spend on other skills.
Pet Skills:
Defense Aura for survivability, Battle Cry, Defensive Posture and Healing Friendship for additional damage boost/survivability.
Gear:
Capped defense (68% for now, since it is bugged and starts going down if you go above 68%).
Stack block and evade after that.
Flat damage on weapon.
Increased Cyclone Mode damage on chest, shoulders and wheel.
Increased Blood Seeker duration on hatch and gloves.
Bleed chance on shield.
Relic Energy Generation on chest gun.
Dryad's neckband on pet for extra healing.
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