Amara “Relentless Fisting” Build

Borderlands 3 Amara the Siren
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The Relentless Fisting Build is a grasp + gun build, leveraging synergies between The Eternal Fist + Allure, and skills which provide benefit during or after Action Skill or Grasp.

In lieu of a full write up, here are some synergies at play:

  1. The Eternal Fist + Allure maximizes CC.

  2. The Eternal Fist + Restless = 15 second cooldown. 15 seconds also happens to be the duration of Helping Hand(s), so Amara can have perpetual damage resistance by Fisting at every opportunity. Note: Helping Hand(s) is triggered by Action Skill use, so this works vs Grasp immune targets.

  3. Amara gains increased Clarity after Fisting everybody, and understands her true purpose. Note: Clarity’s boost is triggered by Action Skill use, so this works vs Grasp immune targets.

  4. Infusion + Tempest + Forceful Expression, elbow deep in Personal Space, warms Amara’s heart by fueling health further via Sustainment. This life steal works vs Grasp immune targets.

  5. Dread + Indiscriminate = shoot the Grasped target, get your free reload, repeat.

A big focus here was survivability in boss fights, by way of on-demand or always-on damage + regen + life steal + damage resistance. In boss fights with adds, it will only get more silly.

Here is the level 50 build link:

https://borderlands.com/en-US/characters/amara/#t=%22as__335451024___cb__2768336927___p__2412358943-3_476948369-2_3653546161-5_2888777445-3_2421835975-5_466974429-5_335451024-2_1013120097-1_2136538075-3_3314723340-1_1889856087-5_3380637792-1_946253125-3_2855324264-5_3602128734-4___e__89168977-2246762740_1572227138-2784015595_3806476316-3547096573%22

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#2

Dunno if it’s me or something else but that link takes me to the empty skill tree.

#3

Sigh

It didn’t work the way I assumed it would. Excellent. I’ll get a better link up.

#4

Tbh I’m just glad that someone is interested to play/make builds of Amara… All I can hear in last days is Fl4k, Fl4k and Fl4k :confused:

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#5

Fl4k looks very appealing, but I’m leaning toward main Zane, with Amara possibly being a second. Moze doesn’t have enough health regen to satisfy my irrational attachment to red bar maintenance, and Fl4k … well, they look simply awesome and inevitable. I’ll wind up running all 4 to max level, eventually. I’m silly that way.

#6

I’m leaning toward main Amara with Moze second. Could change to Moze first if I find someone to play coop with. At last can always try that matchmaking but playing with randoms not always is fun :frowning:

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#7

I play solo, or with my youngest daughter (now 14). Consequently, all of my builds tend to focus on being self sufficient and lots of always-on or on-demand effects. I love the Borderlands series for being so co-op or solo flexible.

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#8

True, true. That’s what most games have problem with. I played BL1, 2 and PS with my sister, but since BL3 will most likely have higher requirments so she won’t be able to run the game smoothly. Still replayed recently bl1 and enjoyed it solo.

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#9

Great build. I really, really like this point distribution, I might have to steal it for my first Amara run. I may shuffle around the points in the Fist of the Elements though, to get some more status effect skills. I can’t get out of my head the idea that there will be bonkers synergy between this tree and cryo. Cryo + elemental effect chance from Rush + status effect damage & duration + constant ricochet chance. On top of Eternal fist. Like how is anything going to move?

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#10

You had me at “relentless fisting”.

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#11

That’s just Allure doing it’s thing.

#12

Do we have any confirmation on how long eternal will last? As in phaaegrasp is 7 seconds so does the timer reset with each new grasp? It did not in borderlands two and this greatly inhibited subsequence. (But on the opposite end people argued it would be broken if it resets timer)

#13

I wish I knew the answer to that.

#14

From what I saw on a stream each new grasp adds 3.5ish seconds

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#15

Excellent! Thank you.