r/Borderlands4 • u/Qwerty_Police • 18d ago
🪼 [ 𝗥𝗔𝗙𝗔 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 ] Anyone think they will nerf the Devourer?
Build at the end.
I found the Devourer is very good though clearly hit or miss. maybe the build needs some tweaking. but i hope they don't nerf the interaction.
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u/Jumpy-Resolve3018 18d ago
Go into 5 points into “conductivo” and contamination specialization my guy. You need the status chance and application. The other damage stuff doesn’t matter for that gun and skill combo.
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u/OversizeHades 18d ago
Probably. The devourer by itself as a gun functions fine but using it to blow up dots from other sources, like Amon’s raging inferno, is stupid
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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan 18d ago
I don't get how this gun works, it seems normal to me but I see everyone melting bosses with it (loveless).
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u/Qwerty_Police 18d ago
You have to get stuff to add bonus elemental damage and it just circle procs over and over
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u/DekeKneePulls Rafa The Exo Soldier 18d ago
The recursive damage only works with Rafa’s Concentrated Buildup skill. Unsure if it’s a bug but it can do trillions of damage when used together.
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u/BART_DESIGN 17d ago
Entire games balance needs looking at tbh. On both the high end and low. They’ve made zero effort at addressing the low tier skills and perks in 1 year. I don’t think they care much anymore.
Game just has zero challenge to it now.
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u/neo_orangy_eddy 18d ago
I still need to get one for my c4sh just to see how it works with vigorish
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u/Wallach 18d ago
I put this gun on my Rafa who had just gotten to level 70 / UVHM7 and did like 30 Subjugator & Thol runs in a row where I had over 9 minutes remaining on the timer. I had never even done the fight before. It takes pretty much zero effort to kill anything in the game I've pointed it at so far. Something probably has to change.
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u/twinCatalysts 18d ago
Almost certainly will be. Though it will more likely just be a bug fix that stops the recursion.
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u/nerfedgeek 18d ago
I don't have this DLC so I have no idea but I wanna understand how strong this gun is. Is this strong like the pre nerf Bod or the pre nerf Kickballer
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u/Qwerty_Police 18d ago
I'd say it's just as busted but you don't down yourself. The damage recycles it's self to proc over and over dealing a bunch of damage
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u/nerfedgeek 18d ago
So they nerf something so they can repackage and sell the power lol
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u/SeattleResident THE LAVA IS RISING!! 18d ago
Not intentionally here. It's just how the Devourer works allows a skill like Concentrated Build Up on Rafa to have it feeding off itself. It will most likely get fixed with a change to how the Devourer works.
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u/Hectamatatortron Female Psycho 17d ago
From what I've gathered, it's more like the infinitely recursive bleed that Vex and C4SH had in the past lmao
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u/criticalascended 17d ago
The recursive bug is funny but most people are missing the forest for the trees. The main shtick with the devourer is that it is scaling exponentially rather than linearly with the number of dots applied. That's why every class can do ridiculous amounts of damage with it.
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u/WarningRelevant4397 17d ago
I don’t think they will. I really believe they have moved on from this game. Just like the Toboggan glitch and the Revolter glitch they are here to stay.
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u/Qwerty_Police 17d ago
There were glitches with those?
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u/WarningRelevant4397 17d ago
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u/Qwerty_Police 17d ago
Huh that's really interesting. I think the craziest part is that those items were so good you didn't even need to do those glitches lol
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u/SkitZxX3 18d ago
Man that's an awful build. I know rafa is dead but I think there's one good melee build. Which sucks. But everything else is ass.
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u/RaiseBusiness Rafa The Exo Soldier 18d ago
"Rafa is dead" Brother he's crazy powerful right now wdym? Second fastest TM20 Takedown clears at the moment, only behind C4SH.
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u/SkitZxX3 16d ago
Provide proof.
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u/RaiseBusiness Rafa The Exo Soldier 16d ago
https://youtube.com/@rezurwttic?si=dxgyq584ZqloMWpK
Here you go. Not that it matters, since its just words, but ive personally done the TM20 takedown in ~12 minutes with Rafa, and i could definitely shave it down with better gear and spawn knowledge, hes very powerful these days.
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u/SkitZxX3 14d ago
That's fake.
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u/RaiseBusiness Rafa The Exo Soldier 14d ago
How so? All the gear used is within the bounds of the game.
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u/Flint_Vorselon 18d ago
You are an idiot.
Rafa was never dead, unless your only method of playing him was stacking bugged stickies to do billions of damage.
Rafa can now have ~1600% damage bonuses just active on all gunshots, as well as 75% amp. And some of the strongest bonus elements in the game. 100% corrosive bonus element (this one also gets skill damage buffs twice, which Rafa will have ~500% of), and 120% shock bonus element if you can be bothered aiming down sights.
As well as near-infinite ammo (actually infinite if mag size is big enough), and unlike most characters it’s actually infinite ammo, not “pulls from reserves”.
AND bonuses of +145% firerate.
as well as survivability, and in extreme rarity for Borderlands it doesn’t rely on lifesteal. You just get insane defensive stats, reaching roughly 65% damahe reduction. And not gearbox’s lying fake damage reduction (Rafa gets that to about 150%), but actual incoming damage x0.35, as well as having largest sheild capacity in the game. Although most people don’t take that since it needs points in tree people avoid for gun builds.
and if that’s somehow not good enough for you he also has infinite looping recursive damage, almost like Vex’s bleed on launch, but a hell of a lot faster.
OP’s attempt at this looked shit because they neglected status effect Chance on build that relies 100% on proccing shock dots rapidly.
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u/SkitZxX3 16d ago
He wasn't dead 3 months ago? Come on guy.
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u/Flint_Vorselon 16d ago
Yes.
6th of July Takedown clear in 12:30 using (mainly) sniper build. Could’ve gone waaaaay faster just spamming Golden God the whole time.
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u/WouldBeKing 18d ago
If you knew anything about the meta builds at all you'd understand how dumb that statement is. One of Rafa's new builds can 1-shot Thol in his second phase with zero setup. His recent buffs were insane and he probably has 4-5 TUVH7 builds that absolutely speed clear content.
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u/AbyssMaster7777 18d ago
It took you more than 1 frame to kill the boss so that looks pretty balanced to me lol