Theorycrafting a healbot/All My BFFs build

Borderlands 3 FL4K the Beastmaster
#1

I’ve been playing around with the idea for a co-op focused healer/support style build for awhile and would love to get some input and suggestions from the community here.

My current build: https://bl3skills.com/beastmaster#5050301330200000000000000535110033131, Action Skill is Rakk Attack with extra rakk and health return augments. Pet is Scorcher Spiderant. I don’t know where to put those 3 extra skill points we got today, I guess I’d max out Rage & Recover for thematic purposes.

For gear I’ve got:

COM: Friend-bot with +3 Barbaric Yawp and +2 All My BFFs, +weapon damage and some other ok perks–ideally would have a com with +5 BY but for now this is what I’ve got (and it
Relic: Elemental Projector Victory Rush with +149 HP/s and…other stuff I can’t remember WHOOPS
Shield: Brawler Ward with ASE +50% Radiation damage
Grenade: It’s Piss with OGT +25% anoint, sometimes swapped out with Tran-fusion grenades with ASE +50% elemental damage since I often forget to throw grenades at all lol
Weapons: S3RV3-80S-EXECUTE (ASE +50% Cryo damage), Zheitsev’s Eruption, Alchemist (for keeping shield depleted) 4th weapon is whatever I feel like using at the moment but if I’m being serious I put something like the Maggie or Dictator in case something needs to die fast.

I’ve only been able to run this for a few sessions but here are my impressions after playing through a few M4 Slaughter Shafts with a buddy:

  • It’s really hard to go into FFYL with this build and even if you do your pet can also tank through almost everything to revive you. My friend went down for something silly early in Round 5 so I figured I’d just wipe so we could start over and I had to crawl away from my pet because she was surviving literally everything they were throwing at her. lol

  • I am not sure what gets shared with your pet & allies. I THINK, from very limited use, that health gained from lifesteal is not shared with allies but might apply to your pets (???) But I haven’t really paid enough attention or tried to isolate various health regen types to say anything definitive, although my buddy says he lives through a lot more when he’s duoing with me lol.

  • I use Rakk Attack b/c I can switch to a solo bossing/MT build by swapping out the com and weapon selection, but I might switch to Fade Away since that triggers a flat health regen boost and piling on (consistent) health regen is the approach I’ve been taking. The variability of when Falconer’s Feast kicks in makes a bit tricky to apply when you want/need it.

  • I might try swapping to shield with an ASE +5% health regen instead of one with ASE +50% elemental damage, but I think the hit to DPS will be too much to make it viable (unless you want to be immortal maybe???)

Thanks for reading my wall of text. I wish I could give y’all some actual numbers or hard information on how health regen applies to your pet/allies but I am not a big fan of testing things properly, lol.

#2

Have you tested if the gamma burst healing augment affects allies that arent standing in it. I know they can stand in it and heal but can u stand in it and they heal as well. Also I do think gamma burst could be better for survival because of that perk and the gammaburst annointment boost helps alot

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Get a brainstormer with lifesteal, red fang, go to work. Disco ball on the enemy and run into it so you and your pet tank and taunt, fire non stop, heal non stop. Perfect tank support build with spiderant

Shield backham with fire damage ase, nade with radiation, elemental otto idol so your constantly in rad damage to get 90% boost

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#4

Wouldnt really want a brainstormer since they wanna heal all allies more than just pet so they would want friend bot for extra points in all my bffs. I think if u get the extra 3 points allies heal for 100%of your regen which is dope

#5

I think 50% is enough since disco ball really gives you super regen, enough to out heal a badass or two on m4. Reason i say brainstormer is to keep the heals up to tank more.

#6

I’m working toward a hybrid radiation/healbot build I like to call Radioactive Nurse Droid.

https://borderlands.com/en-US/characters/fl4k/#t=%22cb__2759216193___p__2158073648-5_117127705-5_1740990601-3_4171864922-1_2927115417-3_848128962-5_1474023286-3_2030200031-1_2818453945-2_2675403350-3_814334668-3_2555484897-5_37164101-3_1226621728-5_2581189346-1_2694263575-3___e__1618958551-3114692079_403040056-2701689408_1825536534-2041327099_772024924-2841879906%22

Not settled on weapons yet but definitely will use Red Suit and Red Fang. Mostly avoiding kill skills because it is primarily a support build and thus not killing as often as rest of party.

#7

I run a rakk healing build with friends occasionally and it can solo the scaled down takedown easily, the level cap hit me before I could try true Takedown with them unfortunately but they just needed to swap a gun for the execute. I tried testing it in matchmaking and it seemed like lifesteal, rakk hits and transfusions were either not healing or it was extremely hard to notice.

If you’re on PS4 and still trying to test how much you can heal other players and what actually heals them I may be able to help. I’ve had this build since before m4 and still can’t figure it out exactly. Btw if you are PS4 I think I got that shield you need at lvl 45 though.

#8

Yes gamma burst does give an extra boost to your teammates compared to if you were just in it with all my bffs.

#9

How do you share builds from that website to this one?

#10

copy paste the link.

#11

If using BL3Zone, you can generate a link to copy and paste here.

#12

But with +6 in BFFs they heal the full 20% per second, so you don’t have to blind a team mate to heal them.