Borderlands 4 Vex Build Guide: Top 3 Siren Skill Trees For Max Damage
In Borderlands 4, Vex is a playable Siren class. She's pessimistic yet compassionate, possessing many interesting abilities, making her a beloved character in Borderlands 4.
Vex builds are imaginative, allowing players to create their own builds based on their preferences. Players can summon giant felines to attack enemies or deploy wings resembling demonic wings.
Borderlands 4 offers a wealth of skill options, but the diverse skill trees and item combinations can make choosing the right item a bit challenging. Let me now explain some Vex build options, allowing you to choose based on your preferences.
Vex Skill Trees
Players can choose from three skill trees: Red, Blue, and Green.
- Red Skill Tree: In the early stages of the game, to ensure your survival in boss battles, focus on Red skill tree. When facing enemies, you can summon your familiar, Trouble. With Trouble, you can face enemies with greater ease.
- Blue Skill Tree: If you crave a more intense combat experience and prefer to control the tempo of battle, Blue Skill Tree is your first choice. It allows Vex to summon minions, and upgrading them with Borderlands 4 money can help you defeat enemies more quickly.
- Green Skill Tree: When you're comfortable handling the game and ready to push the limits, Green Skill Tree is the answer. Lighting up Green Skill Tree grants powers that strengthen Vex, allowing you to face numerous enemies alone and experience the thrill of defeating numerous bosses on your own.
Of course, a single skill tree isn't the only way to play Borderlands 4, and you can also unlock new possibilities by combining your abilities.
Combining the power of Trouble and Red Skill Tree increases Vex's base stats and gun damage. If you're looking for even higher damage, you can also use Borderlands 4 money to redeem higher-damage weapons.
When Blue skill tree reaches a certain level, it grants Vex buffs, making combat smoother. It also reduces enemy health, providing powerful support and suppression for the team.
Focusing on Green skill tree allows players to combine skills with the power of their guns to maximize Vex's offensive power.
Gun & Overshield Build
In the early stages of the game, Vex's core build strategy is to leverage the synergy between her electric guns and shields, while also utilizing passive skills to enhance her offensive power and deliver powerful damage.
Thanks to passive skills like Overheal, Vex increases her health regeneration while overshielded. Furthermore, while overshielded, Vex's passive skill, Corporal, significantly increases her own and her minion's damage. This sustained attack buff makes every shot she fires pack a punch, like a truck crash.
It's worth noting that Borderlands 4's fast-paced gameplay makes it easy to run out of ammunition, requiring players to use Borderlands 4 money to replenish their ammunition inventory.
To further enhance this Vex build, you can add skills like Shocking Attunement. When Vex uses a gun with impact damage, it not only increases her gun damage but also increases her movement speed, allowing her to move faster to dodge damage and defeat enemies.
It's important to note that this build's damage output relies primarily on Vex's own gun damage, rather than Trouble. Players must master Trouble to trigger passive skills and gain increased gun damage bonuses.
Elemental Spectre Build
For players who prefer to master the details of combat and achieve victory by stacking buffs on enemies, Elemental Spectre build is a great choice.
With this build, you apply elemental status effects to enemies and rely on sustained damage to finish them off. This build is based on Blue Skill Tree and allows you to summon another Vex to attack enemies as a helper, stacking more elemental status effects on them.
It's worth noting that while the Elemental Spectre build doesn't rely on any specific item, it does require players to have a diverse collection of elemental guns to deal with various boss types for maximum damage output. To complete this build, you can use Borderlands 4 money to speed up your progress.
To maximize the devastating effects of these damage-over-time attacks, Elemental Spectre build utilizes Portents of Suffering to amplify status effects, increasing their damage output. Keen Suffering triggers increased damage from status effects, potentially dealing significant damage to enemies.
Additionally, using Prismatic Ichor when Vex or minions apply an elemental status effect can help you apply a random status effect.
Blood Shot Build
Unlike the previous two more independent builds, Blood Shot build relies on specific equipment, but this one-hit lethality build is definitely worth trying.
Based on Green skill tree, Blood Shot build focuses on consistently triggering Vex's passive ability, Blood Shot. This passive ability converts damage dealt by Vex into kinetic damage, dealing additional damage based on her current health.
Blood Shot build revolves around using a high-rate sniper rifle, taking advantage of the damage bonus provided by Blood Shot. While Blood Shot typically triggers only when using a repkit, special tools can be used to increase the chance of triggering the skill.
Undead Eye is the primary legendary class mod for Blood Shot build, requiring players to spend a significant amount of Borderlands 4 money to acquire. However, this mod is crucial to Blood Shot build. Killing an enemy in combat triggers Blood Shot, and landing a critical hit increases the chance of triggering Blood Shot, creating a cycle of kills, increased chances, and more kills.
In addition, to fully utilize Undead Eye mod, you'll need a key weapon: a Bod shotgun with All-Arounder affix, such as Aramid Bod or Ballistic Bod. Every shot from this weapon has a chance to trigger Undead Eye class mod, dealing a burst of Blood Shot damage.
In general, there's no single best build for Vex. Whether it's the beginner-friendly Guns and Shields build, the sustained damage-focused Elemental Spectre build, or the ultimate burst-forward Blood Shot build, each build offers powerful potential in different situations.
Choosing a build depends on your preferences and gear availability. You can adjust it to your specific situation. With mastery, you'll be sure to make Vex the most powerful Siren warrior.
