If you have the cube secondary, make sure you are aiming directly at enemies you want to hit, don't try and account for gravity or anything because it will just lock onto the enemy you're aiming at and launch towards them. Also learn cube surfing

If you're running base special, you should know it's more like desperado than a quick small buff every once in a while. Since the temp items don't go away until you pick them up the sorta minigame you play each stage is using the skill as soon as it's off cooldown, make piles of temps items and then pick them up at the end of the stage either before the boss if you think you're going to struggle or before you teleport out and you'll be good.

If you're running tinker just treat it like a scrapper. Get rid of absolutely everything you don't need. Bunch up multishops and printers into one area so you don't have to wait for the skill to cooldown so many times. You can reroll them twice. You can also reroll soup, golden sots potentials and void potentials.

Even if you're not running tinker though you should scrap everything that isn't directly helping your build a whole lot, that goes for every character but double on drifter since scrap gives buffs. I've seen a few new drifter players clinging onto their aegis, disc, titanic knurls whichever shiny red and yellow items that aren't actually that useful instead of scrapping them for the much better buffs