Question about Gamma Burst Anointment

Borderlands 3 FL4K the Beastmaster
#1

For the “when gamma burst is active, you deal 65% more radiation damage” on guns. Can i switch weapons once I started gamma burst? I have only 1 item with this anointment and it is not radiation element.

#2

Doesn’t the anointment just add an extra hit as 65% of your gun damage in radiation? Like Gamma burst does for the pets.

#3

I am not sure… I thought it buffed all your radiation damage and not only adding radiation damage to your gun.

#4

I think it works like the anointment that add elemental damage on action skill end.

#5

maybe, its not worded like that tho.

#6

It adds a hit for 65% of your gun damage, doesn’t increase other radiation damage

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#7

Specific to that gun I believe. And all it does is that 65% of the listed gun damage and adds it to every shot.

#8

ok, thanks guys. Gamma burst need more love on every level I think…

#9

Yea it is good when it’s going but is very lackluster compared to any other annointments I guess the handling fade away annointment sucks too

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#10

besides the Gamma anointment, The only one that is really useful is the cooldown reduction one IMO

#11

Yea honestly fl4ks best annointments are rakk attack ones

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#12

Gamma burst gameplay is my favorite tho, even with the lackluster anointement, i do not die 95% of the time now.

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#13

I die here and there my builds kinda a glass cannon and it’s not quite optimized yet. If I had more gamma burst guns that would change that though. I tried proving grounds in mh1 and mh1 is clearly too easy for me lol I have a kinetic picking devastator with the gb annointments and it one its everything lol

GB on fire guns is great though its practically constant radiation novas when you kill enemies

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#14

Along with that, anything that says “on action skill end…” is good. Because Rakk attack is short and therefore it’s quick and easy to trigger “action skill end”.

#15

I think I have to try this annointment. I had been thinking that it would only help things already doing radiation damage. But I think it actually adds additional radiation damage to all your outgoing damage.

#16

It adds bonus radiation damage to your equipped weapon, just like the ASE elemental anointments. It doesn’t matter what the element the weapon is, it will inherit 65% of its damage as an additional hit of radiation damage.

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#17

So trying to run a GB build, I haven’t been very successful in M4 and I think it’s because my shield and grenade combination are not that great. All my weapons have the GB 65% bonus radiation damage on them and I have a pretty good Red Fang as well as a Atom Balm Otto Idol artifact. My shield and grenade have the basic ASE plus 50% elemental damage on them. However, during engagements I find it lackluster damage wise and therefore, because I’m not killing things quickly, I am going down way way more often then with FA or RA.
My question: is there a specific annointment I should be getting for my shield and grenade to help in the damage department? I dont believe I’ve ever seen a specific GB annoitment on a shield or grenade. Or is it just my weapons? I run with a cryo laser sploder, hellwalker, corrosive and cryo heartbreakers, shock cutsman, companion, ion laser and ion cannon. All of which have the GB annointment with 65% bonus radiation damage on them. My build is the typical Gammavore build as well.

#18

Only one of them can have Radiation ASE. The other has to have something else. They dont stack. Maybe, for the grenade, use Shock or Cryo/Corrosive ASE depending on the enemy type you’re fighting? I’ve found it’s fairly easy to vendor farm a decent variety of ASE grenades.

#19

Yeah, I know about the stacking thing, sorry I should have been more specific. I run a BBB with ASE 50% bonus corrosive damage on it and a stormfront with ASE 50% bonus radiation damage on it. I interchange them depending on what map I’m on, like athena I switch out the BBB shield for a purple booster shield that has ASE 50% bonus incendiary damage on it with the stormfront.
But I guess what I was asking is, no shield or grenade has a specific GB annoitment right? Because i do occasionally run a Fastball with the 25% bonus gun, action skill and grenade damage on it but find it underwhelming as well.
Idk, I just feel like M3, I can murder using GB. But M4, it vastly underperforms for me. Every video I see online has a Maggie and Brainstormer with the GB annointment on it. Maybe those are what make the build work, idk.

#20

Not on grenades and shields. With your gear you should be fine though, I run similar stuff and gamma burst works fine for me.