History GameBreaker / Borderlands3

* The "Phasezerker" class mod, if combined with Infinity and certain skills[[note]]Samsara, Do Harm, Violent Tapestry, Restless and Infusion - throw in Laid Bare and Wrath for extra damage[[/note]]. Phasezerker is intented to be DifficultButAwesome that gives you extra damage and action skill cooldown if you manage to keep it stacked (it fills your Rush stack every time you use her special, but the stacks also decay now) - but when used with Infinity, Samsara and Infusion, it gets difficult to ''lose'' stacks, since the gun's infinite ammo keeps inflicting Amara's enemies with her chosen element, which causes Violent Tapestry to give you more Rush stacks, each of which adds you 3% gun damage per stack, reduces her action skill cooldown, and adds damage to her next special. [[DisasterDominoes When the skill is then used, it activates Samsara]] which boosts weapon damage ''[[UpToEleven even more]]''. The end result is a woman who never. stops. shooting. and keeps gaining stacking damage bonuses that, while capped at 15 or 25, allow her to take down even anointed in less than a minute. The only problem is that once you wipe out most if the battlefield, you'll have less opportunities to keep Rush stacked, and Phasegrasp (Which has the shortes recharge of her Action Skills) cannot trigger Samsara without a upgrade deep in the red skill tree.

* The Ionic Disruptor from the Director's Cut is 2's Tresspasser sniper rifle ramped UpToEleven. Not only does it bypass enemy shields, but when they're killed by the weapon, they disentegrate Duck Dodgers-style.

* Once you get your hand on the "Seein' Dead" class mod from the Handsome Jackpot DLC, you will never need any other class mod ever again. The mod can activate all of Zane's kill skills by merely DAMAGING an enemy, as well as making the skills 25% stronger (later nerfed to 10%). One kill skill gives an increase to the duration of your active action skills, so you can keep them going almost forever. And since Jackpot-exclusive mods drop in abundance, you'll have near-endless variations to pick from that suit your style/equipment the best.

* The Ember's Purge from ''Handsome Jackpot''. When a projectile hits an enemy, it has a high chance to spawn a lava pool. Said lava pool counts as splash damage, which both ignores elemental resistances, has very good Mayhem scaling, and benefits from splash damage anointments, so this fire-only gun can still slaughter fire-immune enemies almost as easily as any regular enemy. The only real downside to this gun is that it can only be gotten once per character (barring good luck from the diamond armory), so definitely hold off on the statue bombing challenge until you're max level and on your preferred Mayhem level.

* Amara can become an absolute beast thanks to one weapon: The Face-Puncher. Since it shoots your melee damage and Amara has multiple melee buffs, this can potentially deal huge damage. To maximize this, get a two-shot version with a "+200% melee after using phaseslam" anointment and a White Elephant artifact that makes melee apply sticky bombs. The only downside is that combat arenas will really chew through ammo, but a "melee to steal ammo" artifact should take care of that.

* From the Bounty of Blood, we have the Gargoyle, a corrosive pistol so powerful that it not only melts armored enemies but unarmored enemies as well. Its only drawbacks are overheating and breaking (typical of [=COV=] weapons), high ammo consumption, and less damage against shielded enemies. It's a perfect weapon for the Maliwan Takedown, where the two bosses there only use armor under their shields. The Gargoygle can shred their armor like you wouldn't believe. If nothing else, it will drastically lessen the time until a boss kill. A superior SpiritualSuccessor to ''2'' 's Gub.

* A great eridium farm has been found in Voracious Canopy. The bottom of the secret shaft with the dead Claptrap will always have nine eridium crystals very close to each other, some of which will be invisible. It's been found that crystals drop extra if you equip an elemental Stone artifact, a Commander Planetoid artifact (or even better, a Stone Commander Planetoid legendary artifact), and the combination of a weapon with the "extra radiation damage under 50% health anointment and either a Front Loader shield or temporarily putting on a Deathless to lower your health to 1 (so long as your character doesn't have health regeneration). Kit yourself out right and play on mayhem 10 or 11, and all nine crystals will drop a good 200-300+ eridium. From there, go up to the top of the shaft and activate the nearby checkpoint by the vending machine. Now you can just reload the area to respawn the crystals that are just a short jog and drop away. To speed the process up, you can reload the map directly by switching mayhem levels.

* The Lyuda sniper rifle from ''2'' returns and it still sends bosses to their knees. With its high rate of fire, it's treated more like a minigun.

* Once you get your hand on the "Seein' Dead" class mod from the Handsome Jackpot DLC, you will never need any other class mod ever again. The mod can activate all of Zane's kill skills by merely DAMAGING an enemy, as well as making the skills 25% stronger. One kill skill gives an increase to the duration of your active action skills, so you can keep them going almost forever. And since Jackpot-exclusive mods drop in abundance, you'll have near-endless variations to pick from that suit your style/equipment the best.

** The Dowsing Rod from selfsame DLC is nothing home to write about, until you switch to its alt-fire mode which fires six grenades at cost of 1 ammo. Moze can make the best use of the Dowsing Rod, as she has many skills in the Demolition Woman tree to enhance the lethality of the grenades, and her ammo generation skills such as Forge and Redistribution can allow her to fire grenades for much longer than normal. A [=Fl4K=] with Megavore and Fade Away can also turn enemies into gooey chunks with this weapon as well.

* The Frozen Heart and Frozen Snowshoe shields have the effect of freezing all enemies in your vicinity when broken. Combined with a "action skill shields break effects" anointment, this means you can flash-freeze mobs at will. A melee-build Amara in particular benefits from this since frozen enemies take more melee damage.

* From the Bounty of Blood, we have the Gargoyle, a corrosive pistol so powerful that it not only melts armored enemies but unarmored enemies as well. Its only drawbacks are overheating and breaking (typical of [=COV=] weapons), high ammo consumption, and less damage against shielded enemies. It's a perfect weapon for the Maliwan Takedown, where the two bosses there only use armor under their shields. The Gargoygle can shred their armor like you wouldn't believe. If nothing else, it will drastically lessen the time until a boss kill.

* The Free Radical, a Maliwan pistol that fires homing bullets that decimates enemies, shielded or not and in terms of raw damage can put both Jakobs and Torgue pistols to shame.

* Do you miss the Swordplosion? Then check out its SpiritualSuccessor the Blade Fury! An aftermarket Jakobs Assault Rifle from The Bunker Masters Vault Card, it fires knives that deal both weapon and melee damage. A godsend for those who want the melee damage cash bonus in the Circles of Slaughter.

* The Hellwalker, a Legendary Jakobs aftermarket shotgun, has the added the added bonus of inflicting incendiary damage to nonfire-immune flesh-based enemies. As mentioned in [=Fl4k=]'s entry, they can do serious damage with their Megavore and Fade Away skills when equipped with this weapon. A Zane with a Hellwalker can also bring deep hurting with his Seeing Double skill.

* The MNTIS cannon means Zane can join Amara and FL4K in having a spammable action skill that can take great advantage of all "action skill start/end" anointments.

* The Handsome Jackpot [=DLC=] has the [[{{BFG}} Ion Cannon]]. Holy skagballs, the Ion Cannon. With the right character builds, a fully charged Ion Cannon can decimate regular enemies even if they are armored and/or shielded, make short work of the aforementioned Anointed enemies, and can take big chunks out of a boss's lifebar. Unfortunately a mid-January 2020 hotfix nerfed its usefulness by making the cannon consume most of its ammo, relegating it to Moze builds with high ammo regen that allow you to constantly fire it even if you only have 1 shot in the chamber. For anyone else, they'll have to find either an absorption shield or a cutpurse artifact or both to regain lost ammo as rocket launcher ammunition is extremely rare and expensive. It still has amazing firepower and is worth using on tough bosses. And with the current level cap and [=FL4K=]'s "Fade Away", it can go up to 8-9 million in damage! And the recent mayhem 2.0 updated its damage to go further beyond!

** Globetrottr is a DifficultButAwesome counterpart to Yellowcake made as compensation for Yellowcake being left out in the recent level cap. It fires elemental sawblades that bounce up and down. When used properly, it can clear out a room full of enemies in seconds like Yellowcake.

* From the Bounty of Blood, we have the Gargoyle, a corrosive pistol so powerful that it not only melts armored enemies but unarmored enemies as well. Its only drawbacks are overheating and breaking (typical of [=COV=] weapons), high ammo cosumption, and less damage against shielded enemies.

* The Loaded Dice is one for the sake of item farming, as it massively boosts the player's luck in exchange for a huge health penalty. Those who maximize their shields or simply intend to dodge as much as possible will benefit from this artifact's rewards the most. The Schlooter artifact (obtained from the ''Tales from the Borderlands'' themed Vault Card) boosts legendary drop rates upon killing an enemy for a brief time, but enough time to make places such as the Slaughter Shaft a gold mine for legendary gear, without compromising the player's health points.

* Arms Race itself becomes way easier when playing during an event. The special targets will spawn there, including ones with a chance to drop high-end or even legendary loot. Hard to lose when you're suddenly toting a Hellwalker and Destructo Spinner.
** Sadly, this has been massively nerfed. Ghosts and cartel members do not spawn, and hearts only appear for one run before you need to quit the game entirely to make them reappear.

* The Loaded Dice is one for the sake of item farming, as it massively boosts the player's luck in exchange for a huge health penalty. Those who maximize their shields or simply intend to dodge as much as possible will benefit from this artifact's rewards the most.