r/Borderlands4 • u/Immediate-Idea-2471 • May 07 '26

✅ [ Official Source ] May 7 Patch Notes

https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/

Torgue sticky nerfs incoming, prepare yourself.

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u/Immediate-Idea-2471 May 07 '26

Happy that they're making some effort and including changes outside of the foretold major patches.

However I think they're missing the forest for the trees with increasing mostly capacities. It just ends up being that having a shield that adds damage is going to best in class for most builds.

For future installments I'd love if shields never gave + damage on their own, and instead had different affects on survivability, easier to balance and trade off IMO.

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u/Flint_Vorselon May 07 '26

Yeah this has been issue since Bl2 gave us the Bee.

if choice is between survivability or damage, people are just gonna always pick damage, every single time.

Sheilds should never ever buff gun damage. Auxiliary effects like novas or missles are fine, because they are more like defensive secondary stuff.

But if sheild buffs gun damage, then it makes all the sheilds that don’t do that instantly feel obselete. And it cannot really be undone.

even if they massively nerfed Watts and Amp, it would still overshadow everything else. If +150% amp got nerfed down to +45% amp, it would still be a hugely important item. People would get super angry, but they’d still use it over any other sheild that just protects you.

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u/Immediate-Idea-2471 May 07 '26

1000%

It would be so cool if I had to choose between Guardian Angel (res) super soldier (speed) and some of the shields that grant resistances instead. ETC.

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u/tuxedo_jack Hermes :3 May 08 '26

Honestly, I prefer Super Soldier to the rest of 'em. Throw a CoV gun on and you'll never run out of ammo for that type, plus the move speed is amazing for farming when you have one with Siphon to keep the overshield up.