I realize why people like Phasegrasp, but for me, if I wanted to play as Maya, I’d pick BL2 back up. I’m Also not a huge fan of Melee, so Phaseslam doesn’t appeal to me. I’m therefore interested in a build that focuses on Phasecast. Unfortunately, the only build that uses it says that it’s more interested in spamming the Overkill balls than using Phasecast, so I’m not sure how viable it is if I ignore that part of it.
How should a Phasecast Amara be built? The only thing I know for sure is that I want the Phasezerker COM, but I haven’t had one drop, and don’t know where to farm it.
Why the Hell did you pick Amara? She’s a BRAWLER, she’s all about melee, in your face punch people with her fists. I currently have her OP and she KO everyone with a punch, phasegrasp is maddenly helpful to grab on to badasses and eliminate them instantly. I like phaseslam but I only find it useful if I have a lot of splash otherwise it’s not as useful since it’s aim at groups and everyone scatters about. Phasecast is perhaps the only skill I don’t use because it’s so linear and enemies are constantly moving. I think you picked the wrong VH
Phasecast is quite good. Not as good as Phasegrasp in general but it’s decent and it works a lot better than Phasegrasp in boss fights. Remnant rank 1 is more than enough. You don’t have to focus on it. It’s just a nice bonus. You could use the following build as a baseline:
Or you go full Mystical Assault and share points between Brawl (some additional survivability) and FotE (more damage). It’s mostly personal preference.
No. It depends how you build her. She KO punches my enemies more damaging than any gun. I could waste bullets or I could just punch them once. It’s how you build her. I’m playing to her strengths and her trees. It’s like saying you can make her into a sniper. She won’t be a failure but it’s a waste of her class and potential.
Constructive criticism like your inaccurate information of guns being stronger? LOL Good lord.
Sure, I played both melee and guns in TVHM Mayhem 3 with all the good legendary anointed stuff. Melee wasn’t even close to gun gameplay when doing bosses or running Proving Grounds / Circle of Slaughter. Standard TVHM or Mayhem 1 is a breeze with melee, though (guns are still faster).
If you give Amara an elemental Lyuda with annointed ability to increase weapon damage at action skill end…she becomes a sniper. Give her an annointed hellwalker she becomes a one shot god. Give her a hellfire she spreads DOTs all over the place. Give her a Crossroads and bosses melts instantly.
Amara is not a brawler…she can be a brawler. So please stop saying Amara has to be played 1 way…its annoying.
I’m getting sick of all these endgame information when people are honestly asking during their first playthrough. Your VH will go through many changes that are set to game content. What is useful will be useless later and so on and on.
You’d think they would have things figured out by the time mayhem mode comes around. Why do you think they’re asking for advice? Cause they’re in mayhem mode and have done zero experimentation? But sure provide mayhem mode content cause that’s where they’re at. That’s some logic mate.
The OP made it clear that melee isn’t in their interest and sure they can pick whoever they want it’s their game after all but it’s clear that an entire tree dedicated to brawl will go amiss, making Amara not being used to her full potential, that’s a fact and that’s constructive criticism. The OP can do whatever with that information.
You do know you can pick things in the brawl tree (personal space, samara, helping hands, root to rise, guardian angel, etc) and not be melee correct? If you dont want to help then dont say anything.
Do you think I haven’t gone through all of this process? I sure did and gun gameplay was always superior. This has also nothing to do with the tree you’re using. In the first few hours, I invested heavily in Brawl for good defence and decent gun damage.
Btw, the devs emphasize in pretty much every interview, dev-stream, etc. that every VH has multiple options to be built which is definitely true. By saying something like “Amara has melee talents and therefore she is primarily a melee character” you’re limiting yourself. But hey, if you enjoy it that way, go for it, more power to you.
Amara is a brawler. An entire tree dedicated to it. She can be whatever you want her to be, sniper like you said, go fight with the developers who design her that way but it’s not her full potential.
I’m not in MM so my build is currently where I want it to be and it surpasses guns by miles. I’m sure I’ll change it later on. I just wanted to correct you when you said that guns where superior when they’re not in my case.
Fixating one tree only isn’t the way to play a VH. Mine is mix in all three. But like I said earlier, it’s their game and play as however you want to. Finding out that ppl who pick Fl4k not care about the pets would be interesting considering that’s the main reason ppl picked him.
Does Amara not have a brawler tree? Does it not focus on melee among other things? Did the OP made it clear that he doesn’t want to do melee? Wouldn’t it make that tree pretty useless with the exception of some skills? Wouldn’t that limit her potential? Just because I said something you don’t like doesn’t change it from being true but whatever
So your saying you “have to” melee if your in the Brawl teee. So using Samara with Fist over Matter for Constant 25% health regen isnt using Amara to its fullest potential?
It seems to me you play Amara 1 way and think everything else is inferior when it’s the furthest from the truth.
