As we approach the May 1, 2019 gameplay reveal of Borderlands 3, new information is coming out about some of the new Vault Hunters you can play as. Thanks to the new Borderlands 3 ECHOcast Twitch extension, fans were able to get a look at the skill tree for two of the new characters, Zane and Amara. Coincidentally (or not), these are the two characters that will be the focus of tomorrow’s reveal event.
The hard-hitting Siren has access to a number of supernatural abilities to take advantage of. From phase shifting to buffing abilities, Amara definitely looks to have plenty of tricks up her sleeve.
Now, Amara’s skill tree is still being parsed through, so more abilities should be uncovered soon. However, as Borderlands 3 is still months out from release, there’s a chance that these skill trees could be tweaked. But as of right now, take a look at the first section of Amara’s skill tree:
BRAWL
Skill Tree
- One With Nature (5): Amara gains increased max health and elemental damage resistance to her Action Skill Element
- Personal Space (3): Amara’s weapon shots do bonus damage based on the distance to her target. The close the target, the greater the bonus.
- Clarity (5): Amara constantly regenerates health. The lower her health, the more powerful her regeneration. After using an Action Skill this bonus is doubled for a few seconds.
- Arms Deal (5): Amara deals increased splash damage and takes reduced splash damage.
- Root to Rise (5): Amara gains increased max health.
- Helping Hand(s) (5): For a few seconds after using her Action Skill, Amara’s arms remain active and grant her damage reduction.
- Mindfulness (3): Whenever Amara takes damage she gains a stack of mindfulness. For every stack Amara gains improved shield regeneration delay and movement speed. Stacks decay after a few seconds.
- Find Your Center (1): Amara gains increased melee damage. Additionally, for a few seconds after using her Action Skill, Amara gains increased melee range.
- Vigor (3): Killing an enemy with Amara’s action skill grants all allies increased movement speed for a few seconds. This effect stacks.
- Samara (3): Whenever Amara deals damage to an enemy with her Action Skill, she adds a stack of Samsara, For every stack Amara gains increased gun damage and health regeneration after a few seconds.
- Do unto Others: Whenever an enemy damages Amara, she automatically throws an energy orb back at them, dealing Action Skill elemental damage.
- Job Cross: Whenever Amara deals melee damage to an enemy she gains increased Action Skill damage and increased weapon damage for a few seconds.
- Guardian Angel: When Amara enters fight for your life, she immediately gains second wind, restores her health, and creates an action skill elemental nova that knocks back nearby enemies. This skill has a long cooldown.
- Blitz: Melee override. Press the melee button to make Amara dash a short distance forward and perform a special melee strike, dealing elemental melee damage. If a Blitz melee attack kills an enemy. Blitz’s cooldown is immediately reset.
Augments
- Phaseslam: Amara leaps into the air and Slams the ground, dealing damage to all nearby enemies and knocking them up.
- Revelation: Amara’s action skill now creates a Nova when it damages enemies.
- Downfall: Amara leaps into the air and shoots an elemental beam below her briefly, followed by a slam.
- Blight Tiger: Converts Amara’s Action Skill to corrosive damage. This does not take effect until after Amara uses her Action Skill.
- Fracture: Amara summons a handful of fists that erupt from the ground, dealing damage to enemies in front of Amara.
- Glamour: Enemies damaged by Amara’s Action Skill become confused and temporarily attack their allies. However, Action Skill cooldown is increased. If Amara targets an enemy with Phasegrasp, enemies near the grasped target are confused as well.
MYSTICAL ASSAULT
Skill Tree
- Do Harm (5): Killing an enemy grants Amara a stack of Rush. Activating her action skill consumes all Rush stacks. For every stack of Rush consumed, Amara’s action skill damage is temporarily increased.
- Fast Hand(s) (3): Amara’s Reload Speed, Weapon Swap Speed, and Mode Switch Speed are improved.
- Violent Tapestry (5): Applying an Elemental Effect grants Amara a stack of Rush.
- Activating her action skill consumes all Rush stacks. For every stack of Rush consumed, Amara’s Elemental Effect Chance is temporarily increased.
- Alactricty (5): Amara gains increased Reload Speed for every stack of Rush. After consuming Rush Stacks, this bonus is increased for a few seconds.
- Transcend (3): Amara gains increased Accuracy and Critical Hit Bonus for a few seconds after activating her action skill.
- Restless (5): Amara gains increased Action Skill Cooldown Rate.
- Ascendent: All Action Skill Augments gain increased effects.
- From Rest (3): Amara gives improved Fire Rate and Charge Time.
- Laid Bare (3): Enemies take increased damage from all sources for a few seconds after being damaged by Amara’s action skill.
- Wrath (3): Amara gains increased Gun Damage. This effect is increased after she activates her Action Skill for a few seconds.
- Remnant (3): When Amara kills an enemy with a Gun or Action Skill, she creates a homing projectile that seeks out a new enemy dealing her Action Skill Elemental Damage. Any Overkill Damage is added to the projectile’s damage.
- Awakening (3): Amaras Rush stacks gain increased effectiveness.
- Avatar: Amara’s action skill can be activated while it’s cooling down. This skill may only be used once per completed cooldown. Additional, increases Amara’s Max Rush Stacks.
Augments
- Phasecast: Amara sends forward an Astral Projection of herself, dealing damage to everything in its path.
- Soul Sap: A portion of all damage dealt by Amara’s Action Skill is returned to her or a nearby ally as health.
- Reverberation: Amara sends forward an Astral Projection of herself, dealing damage to everything in its path. Astral projection deals increased damage for every enemy it hits.
- Stillness of Mind: Enemies damaged by Amara’s action skill become phaselocked until they are damaged or the duration ends. However, Action Skill Cooldown is increased. If Amara targets an enemy with Phasegap, enemies near the Grasped target are phaselocked.
- Deliverance: Amara sends forward an Astral Projection of herself, dealing damage to everything in its path. Whenever Amara’s Astral Projection hits an enemy, it releases honing Elemental Projectiles that trigger her Action Skill Elemental Effect on enemies.
- Tandava: Amara sends forward an Astral Projection of herself. When it hits a target, it explodes, damaging all nearby enemies.
FIST OF THE ELEMENTS
Skill Tree
- Anima (5): Amara’s Elemental Effects deal increased damage over time and have increased duration. Her Action Skill Elemental Effect deals further increased damage.
- Steady Hand(s) (3): Amara gains increased Weapon Handling and Accuracy.
- Infusion (5): Convert a portion of damage dealt by Amara’s weapons into her Action Skill Element.
- Tempest: Amara deals increased elemental damage. Shock damage is further increased.
- Illuminated Fist: Amara gains increased Melee Damage and her Melee Damage is converted to her Action Skill Element.
- Wildfire: Whenever Amara applies an Elemental Effect to an enemy, it has a chance to spread to a nearby enemy.
- Dread: Amara’s Gun Damage is increased for a few seconds after an enemy is grasped. Whenever any player kills a Grasped enemy, their current weapon is instantly reloaded.
- Indiscriminate: Amara’s bullets that damage enemies have a chance to ricochet and deal decreased damage to other nearby enemies. Ricochet Chance and Damage are increased if the target is currently affected by Phasegrasp or Stillness of Mind.
- Deep Well: Amara gains increased Magazine Size with elemental weapons.
- Catharsis: Whenever Amara triggers an elemental effect on an enemy, when that enemy dies that enemy explodes, dealing her attuned element damage along with any other element that is currently afflicted upon that enemy. This skill has a short cooldown.
- Sustainment: Amara gains Life Steal whenever she deals Elemental Damage with her weapon.
- Conflux: Whenever Amara applies an Elemental Effect to any enemy, she gains a chance to randomly Electrocute, Burn, or Melt that enemy.
- Forceful Expression: Amara’s guns deal Bonus Elemental Damage, based on her Action Skill Element.
Augments
- Phasegrasp: Amara summons a ginat first that bursts from the ground and locks the targeted enemy in place for a few seconds. Some enemies are immune to being Grasped and take damage instead.
- Soulfire: Converts Amara’s Action Skill to Fire Damage. This does not take effect until after Amara uses her Action Skill.
- The Eternal Fist: Amara summons a giant fist that bursts from the ground and locks the targeted enemy in place for a few seconds. Whenever the Grasped enemy is killed, up to 3 new targets can be grasped and filled.
- Allure: Amara’s Action Skill creates singularities that pull in enemies.
- Ties that Bind: Amara summons a giant fist that bursts from the ground and locks the targeted enemy in place for a few seconds. Enemies near the Grasped target are linked, and any damage dealt to a linked target is shared between all other linked targets.
- Fist Over Matter: Amara summons a giant fist that bursts from the ground and locks the targeted enemy in place for a few second. After Grasping the targeted enemy, large firsts appear and constantly smash the area, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
Borderlands 3 will release on September 13, 2019 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
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