Mobbing: Fade away without GITM surprisingly good

Borderlands 3 FL4K the Beastmaster
#1

After the awful nerf, I gave Fade Away without GITM a second chance and I am very surprised. Playing with GITM was so stressful for me, because I always tried to get the most of the (now very short) duration. But without GITM I have a lot of time to line up three perfect shots with my high damage Jacob shotgun. I sneak towards an enemy and then: Boom! With a little bit of planing, it is possible to clear entire rooms because of the Jacobs ricochet.
For me this is more effective than using GITM. And more important: It is much more fun than GITM, because it is not so stressful.
So, if you are like me and the new short duration of GITM gives you tachycardia while mobbing , try out the vanilla Fade Away with a Jacobs weapon.

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#2

Jakobs shotguns and snipers are FL4Kā€™s best friend. With the right build they can 1 shot most mobs and 2 shot most badasses. The only real downside is the the ricochetā€™s homing is a bit bugged and will just randomly fling bullets into walls instead of into other enemies.

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#3

Singularity grenades. Itā€™ll be like playing Bore Zero (Coontailā€™s ā€œThievus Racoonusā€ for any who remember that).

#4

Iā€™m having so much fun with this play style. You do some much burst damage to mobs

#5

GITM always felt awful for survivability tbh; there are a lot of things that Fade Away is really good for (getting health/shields back, reviving your pet etc.) that you couldnā€™t really do with GITM (even pre-nerf) and you donā€™t really need the extra DPS during mobbing anyway

#6

Iā€™ve noticed this as well, even without GITM fade away is still probably Fl4ks best action skill, although I havenā€™t really tested Gamma Burst.

#7

I didnā€™t start playing him until after the nerf. I can already tell the shortened duration hurts GitM greatly. Itā€™s still very powerful but 5 seconds is just nothing. Whatā€™s the point of the movement speed burst and health regen? They are nothing in 5 seconds. Terrible change. If anything make it 8-10 seconds with no crit dmg boost. But yeah without GitM, itā€™s very fun with the 3 shots. Just kills it for some guns iā€™d like to use with Fade Away.