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· This is a build update guide video for Amara in Borderlands 4.
· It features powerful performance even on Mayhem 2.0 difficulty and versatile weapon usage.
· This update particularly focuses on optimizing the skill tree for Mayhem 2.0 Takedowns and utilizing new weapons.

· Green Tree:
· Maximize critical hit damage and weapon damage using skills like Momentum, Neutron Decay, Creative Overflow, and Contemplative Reality.
· Contemplative Reality, in particular, instantly restores action skill cooldown, enabling continuous combat.
· Green Tree Right Side:
· Further increase critical hit damage through skills like Refraction, Accretion, and Excited State.
· Distribution Function helps with shield recovery, enhancing survivability.
· Green Tree Center:
· Enhance ammo regeneration and radiation damage using skills like Certainty Principle, Critical Funding, and Meltdown.
· Green Tree Left Side:
· Gain additional damage through skills like Decoherence, Late in Charge, and Feedback Loop.
· Feedback Loop, specifically, extends action skill duration, but 1 point is sufficient in Takedown environments.
· New Skill 'Runaway Reaction':
· In Takedown environments, attacking enemies with status effects instantly freezes them and activates Contemplative Reality to manage action skill cooldown.
· Cyclone:
· Invest 5 points to increase fire rate, boosting DPS during early action skill usage.

· Lock Jaw:
· Projectiles bounce to up to 4 nearby enemies, making it highly effective against groups.
· While weak against single targets, it performs strongly in the mob sections of Takedowns.
· Juliet Sparkle:
· Deals high base damage and additional damage with a chance to trigger Starfall.
· Synergizes well with Amara's high fire rate, making it powerful against both single and multiple targets.
· Constable:
· A very effective weapon against tough enemies.
· Despite a 4-round magazine, Amara's Critical Funding skill allows for continuous attacks without reloading.
· Swan Song:
· Boasts powerful performance with high damage and multiple palette projectiles.
· Excellent efficiency in both mobbing and boss fights due to overlapping projectile attacks utilizing the ground.
· Other Recommended Weapons:
· Scholes: A good alternative if you don't have the Lock Jaw.
· Marshall's Claw: Shows good performance with its fast fire rate and high damage.
· Hard Dark: Can deal significant damage to bosses at specific ranges.
· Flash Cyclone: Still maintains strong performance.

· Currently the most powerful and consistent single-target weapon for this build.
· 15 projectiles overlap on the ground, dealing massive damage to enemies.
· It's so powerful that the performance difference between Mayhem 1 and 20 is barely noticeable.

· Shield:
· Watts for Dinner - A standard choice with Siphon and Amp effects.
· Artifact:
· Head Ringer: Used for single-target attacks, increasing weapon damage, fire rate, and explosive damage.
· Hattrick: Used with Jacobs weapons, increasing weapon damage, critical hit damage, and projectile damage.
· Slugger: Used with Reaper weapons, maximizing damage with Hard Charger and High Roller effects.
· Class Mod (Phabotamist):
· The 'Sustained Reaction' roll is most important, and securing 3 or more points is recommended.
· 'Unstable Isotope' provides additional cryo damage but may not be very effective against bosses.
· The 'Excited State' roll increases critical hit damage, which is advantageous in boss fights.
· The 'Action Skill Duration' roll makes it easier to maintain action skills.

· Specializations:
· Primarily use 'Best Defense', 'Riddle You This', 'I Am A Gun', and 'Hound Mind'.
· 'One Shot One Kill' is effective with Shalashka for instantly eliminating all enemies.
· Augments:
· Can be changed to 'Contamination' or 'Groundbreaker' for use in specific situations.