Fairly new to BL3, but I love Amara and I love Jakobs, so seems that for me Sheriff is the way to go, the question is WHICH version, There seems to be one by Derchlands https://youtu.be/U-h19ge5tTM?list=PLZOpqns2WSKMgHZdVhqBv6AdrOE0hTYys
one by Joltzdude https://youtu.be/7xUUTss3CP0
and one by Chadley https://youtu.be/QbS4UvJD--k
Which is the best to go with? Is there a ‘best’ order to get skills?
I’m a Jakobs fan too, for Jakobs on Amara it depends on what you want to do, you can either go with TtB if you’re into Crowd Control and OP damage.
Or you can try something new with a Phasecast build and hope we get a bit of a cooldown reduction soon cause you get decent damage from the Phasecast itself while also having the benefit of 250% Weapon Damage anoint.
You have posted 3 outdated builds, we’re up to level 60 now and there are 3 DLCs with different decent Jakobs weapons.
Here’s a decent build for both cases anyhow: https://bl3skills.com/siren#0300000000000052113510331310355021310501
In Blue Tree you can also switch the 2 points in fast hands and put them into Alacrity, you’ll be using Phasezerker as everyone does, but you can also generally use Golden Rule and would want 3 points on it to Laid Bare. if using Phasezerker you’d want as many points into Clarity. You’ll still be healing a lot with infusion/forceful expression/sustainment when Jakobs are not all elemental in themselves.
Next you can either go the regular Pearl of Ineffable knowledge route or go into Cryo and/or Radiation with Ice Breaker Victory Rush with as much bonuses to Cryo Damage as possible, a combination of both Cryo and Radiation on Shield/Grenade anointment ASE would be good.
With Golden Rule/Laid Bare you’ll be debuffing enemies you hit for up to 50% (multiplicative… since it’s a debuff).
Good weapons to use:
Clairvoyance
Bloom (very underrated gun! It’s top tier on Gamma Burst FL4K, Moze makes use of it as well, Amara can definitely use it, haven’t tried it on Zane yet, but I’m sure will also work)
Maggie
Dakota (Very good).
Well there are a lot of Jakobs weapons, if you’re a fan you should know them, use whatever Jakobs you like. But Anointments are either Next 2 Mags/Consecutive Hits or Phasecast 250% Weapon Damage. The build I posted will allow you to use both Phasecast and Ties that Bind effectively for Jakobs.
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One more thing I forgot to mention is which shield to use, to reduce cooldowns you’ve got the All-In shield from DLC1 which you can use to lower cooldown further for Phasecast and for Mayhem modifiers you want the modifier on Hard for either Chain Gang or the other one that puts the chains on you when close, forgot what it’s called…
Amara doesn’t have problem with Holy Crit Very Hard Mayhem modifier if you’re using Ties that Bind, but for dealing with Phasecast you might want something else.
For easy modifier I don’t recommend the Big Kick Energy because of the penalties, they are not good for Jakobs.
Edit: And lastly, for Phasecast use Reverberation augment with matching elements, you’ll mostly be keeping it on Shock because on Mayhem 10 you’ll see them more often than not, you can line up enemies with shock first, the enemies afterwards don’t matter which element since it’s gonna be taking the damage from the first enemy and multiplying it.
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Cheers, yeah sadly I haven’t been able to find recent builds for those, guessing the insane damage from other builds are shadowing them.
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I’ve edited the second post for a bit more indepth on Phasecast, though I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
The part about Radiation is that when they explode, they deal a lot of damage (I’m not exactly sure how this is calculated, but it seems to me like based on thet damage that killed it, because it does more damage for sure than several times the status damage as stated in borderlands fan wiki at times it just completely destroys things around it, kinda like bloodsplosion if you know what I mean) and you will still have a ton of Crowd Control with that, that’s why I’ve also recommended Victory Rush Atom Balm because it increases the radius and what not… if you also don’t have problems with cooldowns you can try Old God shield if you’re going the Cryo route.
Edit: Uhm, sorry my bad, Ice Breaker Atom Balm doesn’t exist, but you can get Atom Balm with Victory Rush which will be fine as well, but best just have Ice Breaker Victory Rush because that would buff your damage after you kill a badass/boss/etc… for 60% seconds multiplicative and you also get up to 42% multiplicative damage to frozen enemies, and you increase that further by having Cryo damage on the stats which can roll at the very least up to 2 times the stat (I’ve had it happen on Incendiary damage at the very least with having a something like 42% extra incendiary damage on the artifact… so Cryo should work as well) + Old God shield which increases element damage by 20% so a lot of stuff is happening here in terms of adding to the damage on Cryo if you’re going this way.
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Great build, but I find myself bouncing back and forth from this and something more elemental, against groups Sheriff is insane, just lacking vs bosses, but then again I haven’t finished it just yet, we shall see…