"Born ready" Scout

A bit of inspiration for your next build

What is this.

This is a small bit of inspiration for your next scout build, something that may make it better.
Still, this is not meant to be great, just showing off something that can happen with your scout.

The weapons.

We should all know of the perk born ready (if you don't check it out), it reloads our weapons when unused. It is a very powerful perk that is worth bringing if one of our guns can be reloaded. The boomstick is the only weapon that has this ability "built-in" as a mod. This is what this "guide" meant to highlight.
This mod used to be a useless one until the Drak came around.


This is the one and only scout primary that uses the overheat mechanic instead of reloading. This means that born ready now only affects one of our weapons (more later), one that has a mod to do the do the same effect, so we can try to opt for a replacement for that perk.

The exact build here does not really matter, only that we go with these 2 guns, and the auto-reload mod for the full combo.

Advantage/drawbacks

The primary advantage we get is that we can free up 1 perk slot from born ready. This does not sound much as it is a great perk, but using it still limits our options. We can't put anything else into that slot.

I use those 3 perks for this scout build, I used to sacrifice thorns (extremely powerful to get rid of swarmers, something that a scout can struggle with), or deep pockets (I focus on mining as a scout so it is a no-brainer to have) for born ready, but I only cared for reloading my boomstick after switching to drak.

This build has the following caveats I know of:

• T5 in the boomstick is genuinely made out of good options, I used to go for fire before I went for this.
  
• Born ready also reloads the flaregun, we are missing out on that. This can be hard-ish to get used to, if you already used born ready before.

I will extend this section from the comments.