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In this guide we will take a look at some interesting options you may try with your characters.
It's my personal builds im playing with and it's main purpose - stay fun and fair balanced on True Vault Hunter Mode with 11 Level of Chaos and character Level 72. I've choosed this difficulty because without it game is really, like extremely easy and i want some challenge instead of oneshot anything with my sight.

Builds also kinda immersive, fits characters well and not like most overpowered or anything.
We're not talking about speedrunning and oneshot everything today, we just want to enjoy our looting-shooting here. And if you always wished to try maximum possible difficulty but enemies looks really heavy to you - try my ideas here. It may work well or even give you your own ideas how to make your heroes even better.

But you should know - Directors\Designers Cut is not included since i don't have it.

Thats how we should assign our skill points
And thats how we will use our Action skills.
You may actually choose different ones but be pretty much sure you have same weapons in both Iron Bear hands. Also be aware that you will have to find anointment bonuses and Class Mod for your weapon of choise. And im just stick with this frozen miniguns because im personally using em :D

Your tactic is pretty much simple - just shoot things and stay alive. Your skills will help you with that as possible. No matter if you in Iron Bear or just on your feet - you will be deadly enough for any task.
Also your Bear will cooldown quickly if you leave it before it ends and just let him kill stuff for couple of seconds.

So let's talk seriously now.
If you wish really high damage WITHOUT Bear - You need some equipment combo for that.
You have to find yourself this things:

• CLASS MOD | BLOODLETTER[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• ARTIFACT | DEATHLESS[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SHIELD | FRONT LOADER[www.lootlemon.com]

With this combination you will got only 1 HP but lots of Shield.
And because of skills you will have greatly increased weapon damage.
I'm playing like that on 11th Chaos and nobody can actually kill me because of the shield capacity.

Now some usefull tips to make it perfect. Try to find DEATHLESS artifact with the increased damage to frozen enemies if you use freezing miniguns. Also find yourself any desired weapons with freeze effect. That way you will annihilate anyone who frozen by finger snaps.
if you choose different weapons for bear - please adapt all my tips above for choosen elemental effects. Feel free to experiment with options!

There is some weapons i can also recommend and using em on myself.
You still can use any you like but whatever, there is my choices as some example:

• PISTOL | HORNET[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SMG | KAOSON[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SHOTGUN | BUTCHER[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• ASSAULT RIFLE | KAOS[www.lootlemon.com]

At the end im also recommend you to choose Class Mod and Artifact with really specific bonuses, which is listed below on its infocard. If you use assault rifle for example - go for artifact\class mod which gives you assault rifle damage. And don't forget about anointment bonuses on weapons, shield and grenades! If you got perfect ones - your Iron Bear weapons will be much more deadly. That will make large difference for your damage, especially on 11th chaos level.

Have fun!

Thats how we should assign our skill points
And thats how we will use our Action skills.
I'm recommend you to set up your Clone as a main skill, and the Barrier as a grenade.
Your main tactic is kinda complicated but easy at the same time.
You have to run with your barrier on you and freezing the enemies as often as possible and switch with your clone from time to time. Because of your skills if you have full heath and shield and you freeze someone - your clone and barrier will reset immediately.
That means you can use your skills all the time withought cooldowns!

But only if you freeze someone with full health and shield. Thats why you need barrier on you all the times.

Now lets talk about equipment.
That's also important part of the builds, right?

This build is actually pretty much universal about that.
You can wear whatever you want and there is nothing specific about that.
Just notice that you HAVE to freeze enemies as effective as possible and of course you have to deal damage.

So thats what i'm recommend - go for weapons, grenades, artifacts and shield with Freeze element. Me personally prefer DAHLs so im wearing its Pistol, SMG, Assault and Sniper rifles.
But you may wear anything you like if it deals damage on 11th Level of Chaos.
Point is that one of your skills will freeze enemies with ANY weapons by the Critical hits.
Your clone will have same weapon as you have when you summon it, but he will not freeze enemies that way, skill works only for you as i recon but im not entirely sure about that, maybe he do too. Also your clone will toss your grenades sometimes and your barrier will have the effects your shield have, just to know.

There is still some recommendations of weapons im using:

• PISTOL | BLANC[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SMG | NIGHT HAWKIN[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• ASSAULT RIFLE | KAOS[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SNIPER RIFLE | AUTOAIME[www.lootlemon.com]

And some some of my equipment also:

• CLASS MOD | EXECUTOR[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• ARTIFACT | VICTORY RUSH[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SHIELD | FAULTY STAR[www.lootlemon.com]

So yeah thats your main gameplay:

• Keep your barrier on you
  
• Swap with your clone for better positions
  
• Keep your Health and Shield filled as possible
  
• Freeze enemies

That way you will stay with your clone and barrier on the field all the time!

Have fun with that, when you figure out how it works - you will enjoy it :D

Thats how we should assign our skill points
And thats how we will use our Action skills.

Our skills allow you to use our main action skill twice and everytime you do it - you will steal enemy HP.
Your main tactic is phaselock enemies and hurt them real bad. Any other enemies who is close to the target will be linked to him and share his pain. And pain is better when its fire. So as you can see - we will use fire as our main elemental damage with our gear.

There is lot of possible equipment you may combine together and you may try to find something cool by yourself and test it out.

And there is some equipment im using myself and can recommend:

• CLASS MOD | ELEMENTALIST[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• ARTIFACT | OTTO IDOL[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SHIELD | EMBERS BLAZE[www.lootlemon.com]

With this combination you will damage people with fire near you and steal their health. Also when enemies will hurt you your action skill cooldown will be reduced. Please try to find OTTO IDOL with healing effect for melee hits.

You pretty much should choose desired weapons with fire, my only recomendation for you is to find a FACE PUNCHER[www.lootlemon.com] as your main Shotgun. It's really powerfull on 11th Chaos level and also good for melee.

Have fun!

Your main tactic is to be far away from enemies and shoot them precisely with criticals from the distance. Invisibility will make you more deadly for 3 shots, even more deadly if you can do 3 critical shots at the same target in a row. So yeah, its all about hunting and sniping.

Thats how we should assign our skill points
And thats how we will use our Action skills.

You may command your pet to attack anytime its available to do so, it will help you decoy enemies and focus on their heads while they are busy with your dog. You can choose another pet actually, its not really important so feel free if you prefer another one. I'm just using that horned one and kinda like it more than others. Monkey with SMG is great too, but kinda annoying :D
So try to get high and far ground all the time, look for sniper nests, go dark and splash the heads.


As always this build is pretty much universal about the equipment, you can try some interesting ways to help yourself with sniping and dealing high criticals, but anyways thats what im using and can recommend:

• CLASS MOD | DE4DEYE[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• ARTIFACT | OTTO IDOL[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SHIELD | RE-ROUTER[www.lootlemon.com]

Now some guns i can also recommend and using myself.
You can try other ones as you wish but give a try to these ones:

• REVOLVER | COMPANION[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SHOTGUN | HELLWALKER[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• ASSAULT RIFLE | CLAIRVOYANCE[www.lootlemon.com]
  
• SNIPER RIFLE | MONOCLE[www.lootlemon.com]

As always i'm recommend you try and find as much class mod and artifact bonuses as possible for you. It should contain something for Jacobs damage or for better criticals. action skill damage and sniper rifle damage should work too. Find perfect combination of this bonuses and also check your anointment bonuses on other equipment. That perfect combo of bonuses is your most helper if you think your damage is not high enough. Oh and also if you really using the RE-ROUTER[www.lootlemon.com] - try to shoot only when your shield is full. It's only one shot so make it worth and then try to wait for another one.

Good hunting!

Thank you and good luck with the best items!