BORDERLANDS 3 FULL SIREN ALCHEMIST BUILD
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I had a ton of fun playing with the Alchemist with Fl4k, so I wanted to put together an Amara build with it. With the Alchemist you can pull 3 elements at once, more if you get an anointment. Borderlands 3 has a lot of fun synergies to explore with loot and skills. - Hry
"Who needs alchemy, when I've got them?"
*gestures at blood path, now*
We’re on the blood path now.
Correct
I really dig this build with a Flesh Melter artifact, works pretty well in big mobs because the Corrosive damage gets boosted so much it doesn't care if it's matching elements or not haha
Im currently running through normal with my siren and I will absolutely use this build thanks for the unique build
Favorite gun in the because of how unique it is and the awesome reference. I made a really cool build with it for my amara the other day
One of *many* things I love about your content is you don't edit out deaths. I really appreciate that.
We all go down, we all have struggles and we learn from them and get better. Why hide it?
@@Derchlands I agree completely. It also makes your material more trustworthy.
I definitely run corrosive with this build. Especially for TVHM Mayhem 3, with loads of hardened badasses. You're not speccing into infusion, so corrosive isn't affecting with your regular damage, it's just added on. And the gun itself definitely doesn't need extra fire/shock help. Unless you get truly awful modifiers, this build is really versatile.
This was so fun to watch. It's a really fun build to play. You picked up on it pretty quickly - the managing your reload for healing and getting that sixth sense for when "enough is enough" and to let the stickies finish off a smaller enemy are part of the learning curve. Pretty dope anointment on yours, too. 👍👍
I you watch to the end I swap to corrosive
@@Derchlands I saw, just throwing the reasoning out there. I had to figure that out myself too, after running the Slaughter Shaft in those rounds where half the enemies are sporting triple health bars. Lol
Nice build using a singular weapon. I’ve made a rather powerful one chump pump build with Amara.
It’s good fun one shoting most enemies tho I do limit my play level to tvhm mayhem 1 as that’s my ideal difficulty for my abilities.
Stuck gyrogets increase damage by 9% each. That is why when you stick up certain targets you see instant explosions on the first pop. I use this with Moze to farm graveward with infinite ammo setup. Just quickly stack 30 or so on the initial critspot and he just pops.
I actually did watch someone who had done a decent amount of testing with the Luck modifier of 12.67% and the Loaded Dice (which seemed to have about the same amount) and a Loaded dice with the additional 12.67% and with one of the modifiers there seemed to a jump in the amount of legendaries he got so it does seem to have somewhat of an impact on loot.
I'm also excited to build a Siren at some point in the future that has this sort of idea and I'm definitely going to build it on my own and possibly compare with your to see what I do differently once that happens.
I got one with cryo terror anointment so with corrosive amara I get four elements, so sick
You can easily drop the entire green tree for more dps with Violent Tapestry and Transcend and by not going down green you also get access to Laid Bare and Wrath which will up your damage and elemental damage which with Sustainment will more than make up for any healing you lost from the green tree. Throw in the Fist of the Elements capstone and your build will do more damage and have more sustain than by gimping your build with any points in the Brawl tree.
Ive gotten a anointited re charger from a fridge and a fire butcher from a grog lol. Funny how you never know whats going to drop
We're on the blood path now. We're on the blood path nooow...
With corrosive added to it, you could run a flesh melter relic, stack shots on a tough enemy and then kill some smaller enemies with the base shots to proc the bonus before detonating
Watch till the end, I do just swap it to corrosive and leave it
Jesus this build is nutty Gunna have to give this a go thanks for the idea mate.
Edit: there's a corrosive/fire tourge pistol (thorns I think) that would eliminate the assault rifle modifier problem since it still allows triple elements and U can't have a penalty to both ars and handguns unless U get both in which case I think they just cancel out?
Running now Moze shield of retribution/demowoman build with double penetrating alchemist, grave artifact and transformer. You just melt all. Like tink tank dies from single magazine on neutral mh3.
Anointed alpha drops a pretty cool Atlas pistol.
Thanks for the tip, this weapon is really amazing. However, you are missing some potential by not going down the blue tree. It would give you a lot of reload speed and thus, absolute control over the damage and the healing. Also, much more more DPS against linked foes.
I want to do something different
Besides the Alchemist, are there any other weapons that cause self-DOT? I used to play a lvl 50 Amara where I’d use a lvl 26 Sellout pistol to self-DOT and then an Elemental Projector to grant huge damage bonuses.
I no longer play that way, kind of forgetting about, but don’t recall ever having an Alchemist at that time. Would make that build a serious fire damage juggernaut.
We are in the Holder's path now
I wonder if the alchemist/transformer combo has any workable synergy with Zane. Especially if going with the skill that resets the duration of action skills when freezing enemies when the shields and health is full. It could be a good way to rebuild a shield quickly, or in general this could work well with Zane's skills that rely on having full shields.
maybe, but presumably you'd want more a cryo weapon, maybe. also, since you're that far into the barrier tree anyway, not too hard to just go with the barrier skill and probably avoid a lot of damage anyway.
We're on the bloodpath now
This gun will shine with infinite ammo terror setup.
Yup I'm farming away
@@Derchlands Me too.. I have the setup (not perfect but working), not the gun though.
Why would you want infinite ammo in this gun? You want to reload lightning fast as many times as possible.
@@gomezdemembrillera To clarify: it's not literally infinite, maybe I shoud say ammo regen terror setup, wich refills your clip with a pace depending on the capacity of the clip. Smaller magazines are refilled slower, so you may fire much more sticky bullets and still be able to reload, easily.
@@pkurylov Still, reloading is a big part of this weapon DPS. You are much better off going down the blue tree, reloading super fast and using any other anointment.
Im still learning a lot about borderlands so forgive me if i make a stupid statement. However, your death at 7:50 may have been caused by one what i believe may be a glitch or intended penalty due to the conflux skill you are spec'd into. I ran into this issue once where i kept dying over and over even though all enemies were dead and regen wasn't able out do the damage i recieved. After a lot of looking around i found a post about conflux working against amara as much as it does for her. Sorry if im being redundant i didnt read the all the comments before posting.
Have you ran though how force full expression works? It is phrased like Maya's Immolate but is always active. It seems like it should be an insane damage buff if it works like Immolate.
no without a target dummy its hard.
I love the Alchemist. When I first got it I didn't realise it did self damage because I was already wearing the transformer. A happy accident I guess.
I know this is off topic but does fl4k take extra damage from corrosive like claptrap did in the pre sequel? i feel like they don't
An interesting thing would be to reduce corrosive on armor to 50%, then give corrosive a debuff effect like slag but only 30% ish extra damage.
Also that one annointed guy that respawned drops the Clockwork.
Really want an Alchemist with the Terror-Two Fang ability.
i always see you pick up purple guns but i never see you use them maybe you could do a video showing off the power of purple guns in mayhem
I'm actually working on a few of those ideas. I've been doing some tests
@@Derchlands cool
Would phasezerker com be better with only anima and clarity?
I have this build lol a terror version with more crit on my alchemist the reason he not doing is because it gain damage per stuck also your relic could be better I have grolls for my build with terror as well like the Regen terror make it so u get way more dmg from the weapon
Hey Derch, not sure if you noticed but the stickies explode on reload. If you keep auto reloading from dread the bombs don't proc til a real reload. Loving the vids, can't wait to see you do Moze
Yeah I manually reload a lot in the video to explode them
@@Derchlands Cool, noticed you wondering why a badass tink didn't explode earlier on, but then you mentioned healing on reload about 3/4 of the way thru.
EDWARD Elric haha. I heard your brain working overtime to remember "Elric" :P
Also dat thumbnail doe
Hey Derch, I am on the blood path!!!!!!
This is a very nice build. I also like the Alchemist. It was one of my first lvl 50 legendaries and I used it too farm Chupacabratcha quiet a bit. I am not an Anime Fan, though so the reference itself isn't that interesting for me but that doesn't make the gun bad.
Maybe a Brawler Com would be better on this build than the Phasezerker. The Brawler is quiet nice, because it boosts Personal Space, Arms Deal and Samsara. I guess a Brawler with +5 in Arms Deal or +3 in arms Deal and +2 in Personal Space and some nice passives could make the gun even better than the Phasezerker.
I still like the Phasezerker but it is too good so everybody is using it for gun builds atm and I am a bit sick of it to be honest.
SO maybe you should look out for Brawler COM, they are regular purple AMara COMs.
I'll check it out
Bahahahaha your intro was to deadly
I have a question - if the Rush stacks from Do Harm increase action skill damage, how does that synergize with Ties That Bind, which shares weapon damage between targets?
I know it does but not 100% on the math behind it
Ok, got it. I'd been playing under the assumption that Rush stacks didn't really benefit Phasegrasp builds since you generally don't use Phasegrasp to deal damage.
@@beetlo66 it doesn't for everything, though. hell, i had ties that bind and something that made using my action skill nova, it still wouldn't trigger samsara. so presumably there's more than one kind of action skill damage (or it's just designed to work with the burst dmg from the other two, and maybe the nova)
Another thumbnail worthy of the BLOODPAAAAAAAAATH
Now or later?
@@Derchlands blood path waits for no one derch
Will you be making in depth skill tree videos for BL3?
Yes but I need time to learn them in depth
Wouldnt Remnant be good in this build? All that overkill from the torgue reload damage would be nice.
Not because the torgue hits in many small hits. Also it would not be worth giving up other things to get it.
@@Derchlands ahhh that makes sense
Will this build work in slaughter shaft? Seems like it might not do enough dps? Every time I’ve tried the alchemist, I felt like it kills too slow
I'm going to tweak it and try it
I was killing the anointed pretty quick
Full metal alchemara
Derch, i feel like you are falling in love with the siren again.....
Oh yeah
When? Now.
Damn, these have been some top notch thumbnails.
Thanks, I worked hard on them
I still think that all the double-penetrating guns (the "2 pellets per shot" prefix) should have increased magazine size (like +25% or so). The lowered damage per bullet plus the same magazine makes those guns worse than the other counterparts in almost every way. A higher mag would make them much more comfortable to use at least and increase their DPS.
Edit: People think "Steady Hand(s)" is bad because VinylicPuma said so. And we all know how accurate and knowledgeable Puma is (hint: He is not).
Farming Warden be like:
SO LONG HOLDER! SO LONG HOLDER! SO LONG HOLDER!
They really need to fix that playing every goddamn time... :/
I just play with dialogue turned off, once I’ve played through the game once I don’t need to hear anymore of the writing lol
If they turn it off I might quit playing
Star Guardian build... Tank, and MELTER
8:00 your own dot downed you I think
yeah, that's usually the issue i have with amara, if i DOT myself, i'm FUCKED with a FotE build, usually.
Also I'd really like to understand Wildfire.
Somehow it seems to just not work as advertised, but maybe I'm doing something wrong?
It's rather simple and does what it says. Every time an elemental status effect (DoT) is applied to an enemy, there is a chance for that elemental effect to be spread to a nearby enemy. What makes that skill seem less efficient than it actually is might be the fact that you often spread DoTs of fire to an enemy with shields, which won't do much damage. Other than that there is just the range to get down, which is tricky, but overall it has an ok range to spread, but you won't spread DoT's across a big room unfortunately.
Its got a shit range, so unless enemies are close you may not notice it ever going off especially when you may already set everyone on fire before it even works.
I guess the culprit will be absolutely dismal range, like little more than arm's reach.
Sometimes I see this beam thingy connecting from the enemy I shot to another close enemy, but only *rly* close and when trying to reproduce it feels more like 5% chance tops.
At least with me using the Companion all the time you'd think I'd see the effect more but nope :(
@@subjecttochange9320 My experience is that it has a range of around 3 meters, which is pretty mediocre, but becomes much more usable with "Allure" at ideally increased reach. Still, DoT's are just too weak to be a viable build option, not even for basic Mayhem 1.
@@narfd.8837 I just googled about it and apparently same element DoTs don't even stack?
I had suspected it but didn't test, I thought it'd just stack to a max cap but apparently you can only have one DoT of each type active on one enemy but not multiples of one element :(
Only on like Bass zealots does it even matter with the companion but I always thought the stacked DoTs should deal more dmg... Total bummer.
At least now I'm smarter and also I see why Radiation is an appealing element, especially with Amara because you can procc 4 different DoTs with conflux.
Anyway hopefully they'll revamp how DoTs work sooner rather than later
One thing I like about DP variant on Amara is the burst is a little better when I've got ties that bind up on a bunch of dudes. I need to play around a bit and watch the shield healing on DP vs. single shot too though I don't think it'll be that notable. Overall, I still prefer the single shot as well.
how are you phase locking multiple enemies
In Amara's blue tree, he has her second action skill augment equipped, "Stillness of Mind". This makes it so that when Amara phasegrasps an enemy, nearby enemies are phaslocked as well.
That
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You get love
I really hoped to see a build without the Transformer but Max Mindfulness, running around at mach speeds constantly screaming with all your arms out has got to be the most fearsome sight to behold xD
Amara could've easily converted all the Psychos to her side, Tyreen has nothing on her in terms of intimidation ^^
Yeet
Try crit swapping with an unforgiven. It absolutley melts.
I don't like crit swapping, feels like cheating
@@Derchlands Gocha. Side note, my favourite annointment for the alchemist has to be the additional projectile w/ terror, it gets you increased dps without the extra ammo cost and reduced damage per projectile of the double penatrating variation.
BTW do we even officially know how LUCK works in this game?
No not yet, it took a ton of people pouring data into bl2 to figure it out
@@Derchlands I would like for the developers to make it more clear. And also what does "greatly increases" or however it's worded on the Loaded Dice even mean when it comes to the numbers. I'm not a fan of it being so ambiguous. Is it better than the 12 percent luck increase on other items? How would we ever know? lol
What's the Bloodpath?
We're on it now....
The best side quest in the game
Now
@@Derchlands I've never heard of it
@@Derchlands ye I'm kinda confused still
@@Derchlands Its what happens when unnamed you tubers swipe your builds without credit!
Don't really like the build. Ties that bind ends before your stickies detonate. Seems to me you'd miss out on a lot of damage that way.
He should stick, grab and THEN reload but I don't think Derch cares about min-maxing his builds. After all, his skill setup, relic and shield are all pretty mediocre. You'd think a "build" focused on one weapon would have more synergy with it.
That's... Not very effective. It takes to long to kill most of the basic mods.