Borderlands 4 Theorycrafters Have Found Another Broken Build, This Time For Harlowe

Borderlands 4 Theorycrafters Have Found Another Broken Build, This Time For Harlowe

From TheGamer (Written by Jack Coleman) on | OpenCritic

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There's been a near constant stream of broken builds emerging from Borderlands 4 since release, and Gearbox has no intention of stemming the flow, encouraging players to continue experimenting.

We've already seen broken builds for Amon and Rafa, but Harlowe the Gravitar has a broken build of her own. As ever, this build was highlighted by the content creator Moxsy and discovered by Chadly, both incredible resources for Borderlands 4.

This build hinges on a skill in Harlowe's Cosmic Brilliance (Green) tree called Nuclear Winter, which deals bonus cryo damage to enemies when Harlowe is within the radius of her Flux Generator, and bonus nuclear damage when she's outside this radius.

Both of these effects can be active at the same time, but the real basis of the build is that this bonus damage is considered action skill damage. With this in mind, you can combine Nuclear Winter with Excited State. The latter is another green skill that guarantees a critical hit on Harlowe's next shot after her action skill damages an enemy.

With the bonus damage constantly ticking, this combination essentially guarantees that every shot is a critical hit. Better yet, the ability Flash Freeze (Blue) gives Harlowe a...