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3-Tree ASE

Fratricide with Benefits, Easy Access to ASE’s without Purple Tree

by JoeForLong, Ancient Rune

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The Professional

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Trapper

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About

This build offers Zane easier access to “Action Skill End” anoints (without MNTIS) through a unique interaction. Focusing on Fractal Frags to make Digiclone throw a grenade and kill itself as well as using Calm, Cool, Collected (CCC) to reset Digiclone’s cooldown for solid uptime on said ASE anoints. Don’t worry Digiclone’s fine with this endless cycle of torment. Recommended to play on Mayhem 10 for the Speed Demon easy modifier.

Augments

Barrier

All Rounder to protect from chip damage that can prevent CCC from activating. Shock Deterrent field can stagger enemies when you run into them, as well as being one of the few things that can interrupt Guardian Takedown Guardians. Alternatively, Charged Relay is another option for faster movement speed while Barrier is grounded.

Digiclone

Which One’s Real for aggro draw, incentivizing enemies to rush down your Digiclone, potentially killing it for ASE’s. Doppelbanger for the nova on Digiclone’s death along with the option to kill Digiclone yourself if he refuses to throw grenades correctly. Alternatively, you can use Binary System for the extra Nova upon repositioning Digiclone.

Weapons

Splash guns and/or guns with high fire rates that you can aim with while moving at incredible hihg speed are going to be your go-to’s for this build since a lot of our damage is based on Violent Momentum, critting, and ASE uptime. Typically you’ll aim for 125% Splash ASE but N2M 100% is also an option for those guns that can’t roll Splash anoints. A few guns we recommend are:

Able to easily clear endgame content:

Able to clear endgame content with some investment:

Prompt Critical
Hellwalker
Trevenator
Backburner (also deals friendly fire damage hehe)
Gargoyle
Hornet
Rebound
Breath of the Dying
Beacon

Shields

For this build, we focus on a few shields to have good uptime on Calm, Cool, Collected

Band of Sitorak with ASE 50% Elemental

Lowest capacity, not a huge issue with Barrier
Insane recharge rate, practically full shield thanks to Survivor (Blue Tree) Guardian rank skills such as Shield Reboot
Favorable parts of Fleet rolls for extra movement speed when shield is empty (FFYL, Maliwan Bridge) or when Barrier ends (thanks to Distributed Denial)
Nova parts can work well too

Frozen Heart with ASE 50% Elemental

Worse “Topped Off” uptime but ability to instantly recharge Digiclone’s cooldown through CCC
Digiclone will throw a grenade, killing itself and proccing the Frozen Heart nova, which will reset Digiclone’s cooldown if your health and shields are full
Nova provides great damage through you and Digiclone, helping chunk enemy HP bars.
Good synergy with icebreaker artifacts.

Other low capacity, high recharge rate shields include Red Suit and Big Boom Blaster

Grenades

The main purpose of grenades in this build is to, aside from giving us the ASE 50% Elemental anoint, is for Digiclone to throw them and kill itself in the splash radius.

Burning Summit

Consistently kills Digiclone via Fractal Frags
You merely need to sacrifice 20 enemies to the Obvious Death Trap from the Sellout Quest. This includes yourself, pets, and enemies. You can only get one per save file but you do get two different grenades for doing this.

A few other grenades good grenades include:

Tina’s Hippity Hopper, Surge, Core Buster, Porcelain Pipe Bomb, Fungus Among Us

Class Mods

Ideal passive rolls

Splash Damage, Generic or Manufacturer Crit, Weapon Type Damage, Weapon Charge Speed

Seeing Dead, Top Rolls don’t matter, but prioritize points in Violent Violence

Best in slot for Kill Skill Uptime and FFYL Damage
Provides solid uptime on Playing Dirty’s double-shot effect, really useful for high automatic fire single-pellet weapons.
Fun synergy with Fractal Frags (which is a Kill Skill) for more chances for Digiclone to throw more grenades, thus more chances for it to blow itself up. Less needed if using Burning Summit with proper Digiclone positioning.

Executor, All skills are generally useful to have.

Very good crit damage amongst many other useful bonuses.
Increases cryo damage and efficiency, great for helping to proc CCC.

Antifreeze, Prioritize points in Violent Momentum

More damage from moving quickly, useful against cryo enemies.

Artifacts

Ideal passive stat

Area of Effect Damage, Elemental Damage, Weapon Type Damage, Magazine Size, Movement Speed
AoE Damage in the second or third slot also gives Splash Radius and is preferred for many setups.

Snowdrift/Ice Breaker Victory Rush

Snowdrift for repositioning and damage for bossing via Violent Momentum.
Ice Breaker for mobbing is also a good option, allowing you to freeze enemies faster.
Victory Rush is the best suffix for Zane’s damage.

Pearl of Ineffable Knowledge

Conditionally useful against bosses that cannot be frozen nor spawn badasses for Victory Rush.
Benefits multiple weapon types and incentivizes weapon swapping.