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Borderlands 3 Amara build guide: Best Siren buildsThe best builds for Phasegrasp, Phasecast, and Phaseslam
The best builds for Phasegrasp, Phasecast, and Phaseslam
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Amara the Sirenis the only playable Siren inBorderlands 3, and with her trio of explosive and spectacular powers, she certainly lives up to the Sirens' fearsome reputation.
In thisBorderlands 3 Amara build guide, we’ve laid out the top-tier builds that you can use in the base game to get the most out of this no-nonsense powerhouse: one forPhasecast, one forPhaseslam, and one forPhasegrasp.
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Borderlands 3 Amara build guide
With anAmara build, as with the other Borderlands 3 characters, there’s a lot of scope for customisation. With each of her three main skill trees you can push for different things.
An extra skill tree is also available in the Ultimate Edition, but for this guide we’ll focus on creating the best Amara builds utilising the following skill trees found in the base game:
The below builds each focus on a single skill tree and Action Skill (Phasecast, Phasegrasp,orPhaseslam) - and therefore a different playstyle. As well as providing a detailed walkthrough of each build, I’ve also included a cheat sheet of the skill trees and skills acquired, as well as stars to indicate which skills would be particularly good to augment with Class Mods.
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If you need a bit of a primer on the Borderlands 3 characters, how classes work, that sort of thing - look no further than ourBorderlands 3 characters & skill treesguide. If not, let’s skip right ahead to theAmara builds!
Borderlands 3 Amara build -Phasecast & Gun Damage. Click to view at higher resolution!
Phasecast & Gun Damage (Borderlands 3 Amara build)
This Phasecast/Mystical Assault-centric Amara build is designed to strike a balance between Gun, Elemental, and Action Skill damage. Many Amara players will gravitate towards a very strong focus on melee and close range prowess (and we’ll cover that with our next build), but this build provides a level of versatility that allows you to play at whatever range you want, with whatever guns you want.
Borderlands 3 Amara build -Phaseslam & Melee/Close Range. Click to view at higher resolution!
Phaseslam & Melee Damage (Borderlands 3 Amara build)
Okay, okay, I hear ya. It’s Amara. Amara likes to punch things. And so do you. Well then, this build is most certainly for you.
It’s pretty easy to see which skill tree you’ll want to invest in for a close-range Amara build: Brawl covers everything from extra gun damage based on your proximity to an enemy to just straight up doubling your melee damage. Your first port of call is most definitelyPersonal Space, which you should level up to max before you move onto anything else. After that you can start to pick from the skills to either side (Root To RiseandClarity) to improve your tankiness, because you’ll need it if you’re always dashing straight towards the enemy.
Keep upgrading through Brawl, and pick up theRevelationAction Skill Effect/Augment once you’ve unlocked it, because that’ll give your Phaseslam a nice damage boost thanks to its Nova effect.Vigorwe’re not so worried about, but upgrade pretty much everything else in the tree to maximum until you reach theBlitzcapstone, which is where you really start to become overpowered (pfft, as if you weren’t already).
Once you’re satisfied with your Brawl tree, it’s time to round off your build with a few pickups from the orange tree:AnimaandTempestwill give you greater power with elemental damage and status effects, whileIlluminated Fistwill up your melee damage even higher and convert it to your Action Skill element. Punchy punchy.
Borderlands 3 Amara build -Phasegrasp & Crowd Control. Click to view at higher resolution!
Phasegrasp & Crowd Control (Borderlands 3 Amara build)
Phasegrasp is probably the lesser used of Amara’s three Action Skills. Phaseslam and Phasecast are much flashier and their immediate and high damage potential makes them a little more enticing. But with this CC-centric Amara build, you’re likely to have more fun with Phasegrasp than any of them.
This time we’re putting absolutely nothing into Brawl, because we want to get fairly far down both the other skill trees. Start along Fist of the Elements withInfusionandTempest(and theSoulfireperk to boot), which will give you a very nice damage boost for the early game. After this you’ll want to beeline straight to the fourth row of Fist of the Elements, where you’ll pick up bothIndiscriminateand theTies That BindAction Skill.
This is central to our plan with this Amara build. The idea is that you target the biggest and most dangerous enemy in a group, and Phasegrasp them, before blitzing them with your gun(s) until both they and everyone around them is nothing but a collective pile of vaguely sorrowful ash and bones. Because with these two pickups ofIndiscriminateandTies That Bind, you’ll be dealing a tonne of damage to everyone else while you’re peppering the enemy held in your grasp.
This is a flashy and enormously enjoyable Amara build that allows you to feel truly godlike as you eviscerate whole groups of enemies at once. You’ll need to back it up with some decent weaponry (particularly fast-firing weapons such as SMGs and Assault Rifles), but if you’re looking for a playstyle for Amara that’s a little more methodical and tactical than “leap in and punch everything”, or a great build to use for team play with your friends, then it doesn’t get much better than this.
And with that, we’ll conclude our Borderlands 3 Amara build guide. Hopefully one of the above builds suits your playstyle down to a T - and if not, you’ll at least have gained a better idea of how to go about creating your own unique build for Amara the Siren.
If you need more help with Gearbox’s looter shooter, then we’ve got you covered. Check out our pages on theBorderlands 3 Shift Codes, the game’sLegendary weaponsand ourweapons guide. We’ve also got other build guides forFL4K,MozeandZane.
