Good ranged Vet build?

[WarheroJango]

I've been trying to get back into my Vet and it feels like specing right down the middle tree is just the strongest option to bring to the table.

[Sang The Racc]

I've been having fun and success with a build that mainly goes the sharpshooter route (active ability) but dabbles in the middle tree down the bottom as well. But the key to the build is the ammo aura, an Accatran VId Recon lasgun, the passives that give extra crit chance, and the passive that gives crits a chance to not cost ammo. You become a beam of death to elites and the upcoming update is only gonna make the build better.

[Wakipai Pero #PLAYGG]

If you don't really need Executioner to see all the baddies, stealth is better to help you consistently take down high value targets right now. Mostly because there's no guarantee someone will peel for you when you're trying to take out some gunners during a fight.

Stealth though? See a sniper while knee deep in a horde? Pop stealth, pop the sniper, get back to chopping down poxwalkers.

[Snobby Hobo]

What are you hoping to achieve? Min-maxing? I'll keep it brief.

Support Veteran is OKish (taking the middle tree). Almost all Vet tree builds don't make it to the last passive (red outline) because they're all mediocre. The Veteran is not an active-heavy class like Psyker or Zealot. Veteran has a mediocre melee path as well when speccing into the right on the last quarter.

Veteran has the easiest skill tree to reach breakpoints (i.e. reducing the amount of hits needed to kill) for marksman weapons like the Stub Revolver, Kantraels and Helbore. Assuming your team plays with you this is your strongest build. The Veteran has access to a lot of stacking Rending perks, which can make the Recon Lasgun a very powerful pick.

[Çhêêkï ßrêêkï]

Strongest ranged options that I've used so far are either the vld recon with a crit build, or more generally a helbore with the charge time blessing. The helbore mk2 with a good charge time stat roll and the blessing charges insanely fast while having good damage(even against carapace) and really good ammo economy. Bonus is it doesn't need the talents the vld does so you have a bit more room for points. Only problem is it takes longer than others to pull out(which can be mitigated by using executioners stance to take it out), and charging shots is more annoying than using a fullauto. Of course you can always use any vet weapon and be fine, these were just the two I found to be statistically most effective. In the next patch both the plasma gun and some of the lasguns are getting a buff, so they might be quite good soon too. Also exploit weakness(the talent the vld crit build uses) is getting nerfed to be 2 stacks of 10% instead of 16 stacks of 2.5%. Meaning it is more viable for other guns, but in total can only apply 20% brittleness rather than 40%

[Brother Bigot]

Get recon las
Get 5% crit chance on it
Get t4 infernus on it

Get every perk that has the word crit in it

Congratulations you have a meta ranged build