Modern Warfare 3 has hundreds of attachments (with many being virtual lookalikes that essentially do the same thing slightly differently), which makes building guns an incredibly confusing process! Looking up class setups online can be clouded by tons of clickbait and low-effort junk, so if you're looking for highly-researched and performance-tested class setups from an actual Call of Duty expert, you are in the right place! In this guide, we'll take a look at the best loadout and attachments for the JAK Shadow Titan on 6v6 maps.
Best Bruen Mk9 (JAK Shadow Titan Conversion Kit) Build & Attachments
The JAK Shadow Titan Conversion Kit has just released with Season 3 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for the Bruen Mk9 LMG! This post will share its stats, a great build, and the fastest way to unlock it!
This kit is definitely worth unlocking and does a great many things – at least five attachments worth of power. In short, it gives you significantly enhanced: mobility and handling (No Stock), Hipfire & TacStance performance (Bruen Bastion Angled Grip), an ammo conversion (.300 Blackout), swaps the base box magazine for a lighter one (60-Round Magazine), and finally... adds an integrally suppressed short barrel! That’s an impressive amount of value out of one attachment!
Now, let’s dive into the details: It significantly reduces your Damage Range by a massive 30% - but don’t despair, Damage Range doesn’t actually matter on this gun since it can maintain the same TTK at any range. The mobility and handling is impressively boosted: Movement and Sprint by +11/10%, Strafe by a massive +17%, quickens the ADS by -14%, and every other mobility stat in lesser but still valuable numbers. The Gun Kick and Vertical Recoil stats are reduced by 15 and 13% respectively (good), but the Horizontal Recoil is increased by a massive 12% (very bad).
Since you’ve dropped the big box magazine for the lighter 60-Round Magazine, your reload time is also cut in half. You’ve also loaded that slim mag with Subsonic .300 Blackout rounds, a quieter ammo type which hides bullet tracers and does not show kill skulls for the enemy team, allowing you to become a super stealthy assassin. Finally, swapping to a lighter ammo type does not reduce your damage, but it does increase your rate of fire, giving the JAK Shadow Titan Conversion Kit a superior 284ms TTK over the standard 316ms of the base version.
I’ve carefully tested and optimized the following build. Let’s review the attachments:
- Conversion Kit: JAK Shadow Titan
- Optic: JAK Glassless Optic
- Stock: FT Ironbar Stock
- Rear Grip: Stip-40 Grip
- Underbarrel: Bruen Heavy Support Grip
| Base | New | Base | New | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Range | ∞ | ∞ | Total Recoil | 69.58° | 57.07° |
| ADS | 410 ms | 330 ms | FAS / AIS* | 0 / 0 | +2 / -2 |
| Sprint to Fire | 250 ms | 207 ms | Movement | 4.4 m/s | 4.9 m/s |
| Strafe | 2.4 m/s | 3.2 m/s | Sprint | 5.1 m/s | 5.7 m/s |
*Firing Aim Stability & Aiming Idle Sway
The base version of the Bruen Mk9 suffers from pretty significant visual recoil, so the JAK Glassless Optic is our first step against that, adding Firing Aim Stability – we need to replace the unusable Ironsights anyway. While the Conversion Kit already does wonders for our mobility, adding the FT Ironbar Stock can enable this build to reach AR-level Strafe Speed. The Stip-40 Grip is added as zero-cost recoil control, and finally the Bruen Heavy Support Grip counters the Kit’s extreme penalty to Horizontal Recoil.
The end result is a beautifully mobile and very accurate (just visually shaky) hybrid that hits like an LMG but runs like an AR. I hope you enjoy using this build – to further improve your Season 3 experience, please be sure to check out our Mathematically Optimized™ builds of the brand-new FJX Horus SMG and MORS Sniper Rifle!
Our Testing Process: What does "Mathematically Optimized" mean?
It means that I have personally conducted over 30 hours of dedicated testing across the entire MW2 & 3 attachment set, endlessly consulted high-quality external resources and databases, and tirelessly tested performance across separate attachment combinations to produce what I believe to be the optimal build of a weapon for a specific purpose. Weapons are carefully crafted considering every possible detail - attempting to deliver the mathematically best possible performance in every category - mobility, handling, recoil, range, and accuracy.
With my builds, I believe you should see creative, never-before-seen uses of attachments that create incredible weapons. Do keep in mind that these weapons will not do the work for you - while they have all been precision-crafted to reduce horizontal recoil as much as possible, some of them still have quite noticeable vertical recoil, and it is on you to manage that vertical recoil correctly. I sincerely hope you enjoy reading about this build and every other build I have to offer on Fanbyte!
DISCLAIMER: If you test these in the Firing Range, please note that the Firing Range is currently glitched and shows more visual recoil and different damage performance than actually experienced in-game; it is best that you test these in a custom match or online.
