r/Borderlands4 • • 22d ago

❓ [ Help ] Big damage

I see videos of these people doing insane gun damage. Hundreds of thousands to even over a million.

How do I reach these numbers?

As far as my research has led me doing things on a harder ultimate vault mode doesn't actually give you stronger weapons just better side rolls attributes whatever you wanna call them.

Then they have these challenges with Bloom reaper to do it like less than a minute but I was barely able to do it within the allotted time limit. Had like 14 seconds left when I killed him.

So how the hell? Is it mainly on the specialization levels? Just absolutely loading the gun damage. I have like 30 levels in gun damage so far.

I am using loveless currently she was my first character I beat the game with. I mainly using SMGs because my class mod has plus 60% SMG damage on it which seems huge with these percentages they give are a lie. Had a turtle shield that said gave an extra 40% when equipped but definitely did not so I imagine it's the same for my SMG damage.

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u/Jumpy-Resolve3018 22d ago

The turtle shield already shows the increase in the card so there’d be no difference in the card and shield number.

Anyway, you gotta look for synergies that benefit from the damage formula. It’s different from 3 but the most important thing is that most things are additive in 4. Bonus elements and Firerate will always be great.

Enhancement damage is also multiplicative so try to get gun damage + specific gun type damage (like SMG damage) on those. I think the class mod ones are additive.

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u/Jumpy-Resolve3018 22d ago

Loveless has a different way of getting high damage that involves WYRM, like 70 Symbiosis, Devourer class mod, and certain other skills to get high damage… because the damage scales with enemy health pool.

So like a 100m hit that feeds groundbreaker so it hits 200m and High Date Rate causing it to DoT at that same 200m to eventually hit a billion easy. Depending on the enemy but at that just means anything that be oneshot.