Crafting Winning Builds in Borderlands 4: Vex, Rafa, Amon, Harlowe – The Ultimate Class Guide
Uncover the secrets to optimizing your character to reach maximum level and navigate endgame activities with confidence. This guide includes suggestions for active skills and talent branches to allocate your points effectively.
In this guide, we’re providing you with builds for all the characters in Borderlands 4 to help you achieve maximum level with ease. Once you reach the endgame, you may need to respec your character to progress through the post-story activities of the game.
Vex Build
- Recommended Skill: Invocation
Talents
- Talent Tree: Chaos Unleashed!
- Blood Magic: Damage increased based on remaining health
- Haste Demons: Speed and damage reduction for summons
- Intense Order: Reduces cooldown after a frag
- Overprotection: Overshield after a frag
- Mourning: Bonus from fragging abilities
Recommended Weapons
- SMG (Maliwan or Tediore)
- Focus on elemental damage
- Mods that enhance summons and life steal
Equipment
- Shield with regen/overshield
- Artifact granting life steal or cooldown reduction
Rafa Build
- Recommended Skill: Apophis Throw
Talents
- Skilled Hands: Increased shooting speed
- Courage: Bonus damage to weapons + melee
- Recklessness: Increased speed during overload
- All available survival skills
Recommended Weapons
- Assault Rifle (Jakobs or Dahl)
- Crit bonus weapons with high fire rate
Equipment
- Shield with a focus on fast recharge
- Ammo mods and cooldown reduction
Amon Build
- Recommended Skill: Massacre
Talents: Vengeance or Calamity
- Increased ice and fire damage
- Regen for shield/health
- Melee & mobility bonuses
Recommended Weapons
- Shotgun (Torgue or Jakobs)
- Melee weapons with ice or fire attributes
Equipment
- High capacity shield
- Artifact boosting melee/elemental
Harlowe Build
- Recommended Skill: Flux Generator
Talent Trees: Seize the Day / Cosmic Brilliance
- Cooldown reduction & duration of skills
- Bonus cryo & radiation
- Group buffs (shield regen/healing)
- Frag skill: damage to frozen targets, reduced cooldown for the team
Recommended Weapons
- SMG Maliwan (Cryo/Radiation elements)
- Pistol with elemental bonuses
Equipment
- Shield with cooldown reduction
- Mods enhancing support & Cryo effects
