Borderlands 3 - Amara Siren Class Character and Build Guide

Borderlands 3 is the brand new action RPG-first person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software. As in previous installments of the series, Borderlands 3 features four playable characters known as Vault Hunters. Their names are: Amara, a vigorous Siren-class huntress capable of summoning six mighty arms with which to attack enemies; Moze, a young huntress capable of spawning and driving armed vehicles; Zane, an elder hunter who can create a hologram of himself; FL4K, an extraordinary android who always brings one of his three loyal pets into battle to improve stats and attack enemies.

When choosing the character to play, know that each of them has three skill trees, and many customizations to better suit your style of play.

Since the choice is vast and interesting, in this guide we have made a summary of the opportunities you will face. Keep in mind that if you want to change your character's abilities, you can do so at any time, as long as you're not completely broke.

Amara Class Sirena

Its three skill trees are: Brawl which focuses on increasing the amount of damage you will do on the battlefield, Mystical Assault is all about speed and astral projection ability to accelerate actions, Fist of the Elements is based on elemental effects damage and status effects.

BRAWL

Skills: Phaseslam, leaps into the air and slams to the ground, deals damage to all nearby enemies and throws them into the air
Cooldown: 35 seconds
Damage: 98

Level 1
Skills: Root to Rise
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases maximum health
Rank 1: Maximum Health +8
Rank 2: Maximum Health +16
Rank 3: Maximum Health +24
Rank 4: Maximum Health +32
Rank 5: Maximum Health +40
Skills: Personal space
Gender: passive
Effect: The weapon's hits deal bonus damage based on the distance to its target, the closer the target the greater the bonus
Rank 1: Damage bonus up to 12,0% damage per rank
Rank 2: Damage bonus up to 24,0% damage per rank
Rank 3: Damage bonus up to 36,0% damage per rank
Skills: Clarity
Gender: passive
Effect: Constantly regenerates health, the lower its health the more powerful the regeneration.
Rank 1: Health Regeneration up to + 1,00% missing health per second, duration 5 seconds
Rank 2: Health Regeneration up to + 2,00% missing health per second, duration 5 seconds
Rank 3: Health Regeneration up to + 3,00% missing health per second, duration 5 seconds
Rank 4: Health Regeneration up to + 4,00% Missing Health per second, duration 5 seconds
Rank 5: Health Regeneration up to + 5,00% Missing Health per second, duration 5 seconds

Level 2
Skills: Arms deal
Gender: passive
Effect: Splash damage increased and takes reduced Splash damage
Rank 1: Splash Damage + 4%, Splash Damage Reduction + 12%
Rank 2: Splash Damage + 8%, Splash Damage Reduction + 21%
Rank 3: Splash Damage + 12%, Splash Damage Reduction +28%
Rank 4: Splash Damage + 16%, Splash Damage Reduction + 35%
Rank 5: Splash Damage + 20%, Splash Damage Reduction + 40%
Skills: Samsara
Gender: passive
Effect: When you deal damage to an enemy, you gain a stack of Samsara. Each stack increases pistol damage and health regeneration for a few seconds
Rank 1: Gun Damage + 1,7% per enemy damaged, Health Regeneration + 1,7% Max Health, sec. per stack, maximum stacks - 5, duration - 20 seconds
Rank 2: Gun Damage + 3,3% per enemy damaged, Health Regeneration + 3,3% Max Health, sec. per stack, maximum stacks - 5, duration - 20 seconds
Rank 3: Gun Damage + 5,0% per enemy damaged, Health Regeneration + 5,0% Max Health, sec. per stack, maximum stacks - 5, duration - 20 seconds
Skill: Helping Hand (s)
Gender: passive
Effect: For a few seconds, Amara's arms remain active and grant her damage reduction
Rank 1: Damage Reduction + 12,0%, Duration 15 seconds
Rank 2: Damage Reduction + 21,0%, Duration 15 seconds
Rank 3: Damage Reduction + 28,0%, Duration 15 seconds
Rank 4: Damage Reduction +35,0%, Duration 15 Seconds
Rank 5: Damage Reduction + 40,0%, Duration 15 seconds
Skills: Blight Tiger
Genre: action skill element
Effect: Converts the ability into corrosive damage

Level 3
Skills: Fracture
Genre: Action Skill
Effect: Summons a handful of punches that detach from the ground, dealing damage to enemies in front. Cooldown: 28 seconds
Damage: 88
Skills: Mindfulness
Gender: passive
Effect: Whenever he takes damage he gains a stack of Mindfulness improving his respawn delay and movement speed
Rank 1: Shield Regeneration Delay -9,0%, Movement Speed ​​+ 1,4%, Maximum Awareness Stacks 25, Duration 5 seconds
Rank 2: Shield Regeneration Delay -17,0%, Movement Speed ​​+ 2,8%, Maximum Awareness Stacks 25, Duration 5 seconds
Rank 3: Shield Regeneration Delay -23,0%, Movement Speed ​​+ 4,2%, Maximum Awareness Stacks 25, Duration 5 seconds
Skills: Find your center
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases melee damage and range for a few seconds
Melee Damage: + 100%
Duration: 20 seconds
Melee range: + 75%
Skills: Vigor
Gender: passive
Effect: Kills an enemy granting all allies increased movement speed for a few seconds
Rank 1: Squad Movement Speed ​​- + 3,3%, Duration 8 seconds
Rank 2: Squad Movement Speed ​​- + 6,7%, Duration 8 seconds
Rank 3: Squad Movement Speed ​​- + 10,0%, Duration 8 seconds
Skills: Revelation
Genre: Action Skill Effect
Effect: Creates a Nova dealing damage to all nearby enemies
Duration: -15%
Nova damage: 18

Level 4
Ability: Downfall
Genre: action skill
Effect: Leap in the air and shoot an Elemental Beam directly below her followed by a Slam
Cooldown: 47 seconds
Damage: 95
Beam Damage: 14 per second
Ability: One with nature
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases maximum resistance to health and elemental damage
Level 1: Max Health + 5,0%, Elemental Damage Reduction + 12,0%
Level 2: Max Health + 10,0%, Elemental Damage Reduction + 21,0%
Level 3: Max Health + 15,0%, Elemental Damage Reduction + 28,0%
Rank 4: Max Health + 20,0%, Elemental Damage Reduction + 35,0%
Rank 5: Max Health + 25,0%, Elemental Damage Reduction + 40,0%

Level 5
Skills: Do unto others
Groan: passive
Effect: Whenever an enemy damages Amara, she automatically throws an energy ball at them dealing elemental damage
Cooldown: 8 seconds
Skills: Jab Cross
Gender: passive
Effect: Whenever you deal melee damage, action skill damage and weapon damage increase for a few seconds.
Rank 1: Gun Damage + 3%, Action Skill Damage + 15%, Duration 10 seconds
Rank 2: Gun Damage + 6%, Action Skill Damage + 30%, Duration 10 seconds
Rank 3: Gun Damage + 9%, Action Skill Damage + 45%, Duration 10 seconds
Rank 4: Gun Damage + 12%, Action Skill Damage + 60%, Duration 10 seconds
Rank 5: Gun Damage + 15%, Action Skill Damage + 75%, Duration 10 seconds
Skills: Guardian angel
Gender: passive
Effect: In Fight for Your Life, Amara immediately gains a Second Wind and creates an Elemental Nova that repels nearby enemies
Maximum Health: 100%
Cooldown: 120 seconds
Skills: Glamor
Genre: Action Skill Effect
Effect: Damaged enemies become confused and temporarily attack their allies and the cooldown will be increased. If Amara targets an enemy with Phasegrasp, enemies close to the Grapsed target will also be confused.
Confusion Duration: 8 seconds
Recovery: + 20%
Damage: -30%

Level 6
Ability: Blitz
Gender: passive
Effect: Melee Override. Amara lunges a short distance forward and performs a special melee attack, dealing elemental damage. If the enemy is killed, the cooldown is immediately reset.
Cooldown: 8 seconds
Melee Damage: + 100%

MYSTICAL ASSAULT

Ability: Phasecast, sends an astral projection of itself and deals damage to everything in its path
Cooldown: 28 seconds
Damage: 92

Level 1
Skills: Do harm
Gender: passive
Effect: Killing an enemy gives a stack of Rush, activating it consumes all the stacks, and for each one consumed the damage is temporarily increased
Rank 1: Maximum stacks 10, skill damage + 0,9% per stack consumed, duration 20 seconds
Rank 2: Maximum stacks 10, skill damage + 1,8% per stack consumed, duration 20 seconds
Rank 3: Maximum stacks 10, skill damage + 2,7% per stack consumed, duration 20 seconds
Rank 4: Max Stacks 10, Skill Damage + 3,6% per stack consumed, Duration 20 seconds
Rank 5: Maximum stacks 10, skill damage + 4,5% per stack consumed, duration 20 seconds
Skill: Fast hand (s)
Gender: passive
Effect: Improved reload speed, weapon change speed, and mode change speed
Rank 1: Reload Speed ​​+ 7%, Weapon Switch Speed ​​+ 16%, Mode Switch Speed ​​+ 16%
Rank 2: Reload Speed ​​+ 14%, Weapon Switch Speed ​​+ 28%, Mode Switch Speed ​​+ 28%
Rank 3: Reload Speed ​​+ 19%, Weapon Switch Speed ​​+ 36%, Mode Switch Speed ​​+ 36%
Skills: Violent tapestry
Gender: passive
Effect: Applying a Status effect gives Amara a stack of Rush and for each stack consumed, the Status chance is temporarily increased
Rank 1: Max Stacks 10, Effect Chance + 0,6% per stack consumed, Duration 20 seconds
Rank 2: Max Stacks 10, Effect Chance + 1,2% per stack consumed, Duration 20 seconds
Rank 3: Max Stacks 10, Effect Chance + 1,8% per stack consumed, Duration 20 seconds
Rank 4: Max Stacks 10, Effect Chance + 2,4% per stack consumed, Duration 20 seconds
Rank 5: Max Stacks 10, Effect Chance + 3,0% per stack consumed, Duration 20 seconds

Level 2
Skills: Alacrity
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases the reload speed for each stack, after consuming the stacks this bonus is increased for a few seconds
Rank 1: Reload Speed ​​+ 0,4% per stack, Reload Speed ​​+ 0,6% after using the skill, duration 8 seconds
Rank 2: Reload Speed ​​+ 0,8% per stack, Reload Speed ​​+ 1,2% after using the skill, duration 8 seconds
Rank 3: Reload Speed ​​+ 1,2% per stack, Reload Speed ​​+ 1,8% after using the skill, duration 8 seconds
Rank 4: Reload Speed ​​+ 1,6% per stack, Reload Speed ​​+ 2,3% after using the skill, duration 8 seconds
Rank 5: Reload Speed ​​+ 2,0% per stack, Reload Speed ​​+ 2,9% after using the skill, duration 8 seconds
Ability: Transcend
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases accuracy and critical hit damage for a few seconds
Rank 1: Accuracy + 17%, Critical Hit Damage + 9%, Duration 12 seconds
Rank 2: Accuracy + 29%, Critical Hit Damage + 18%, Duration 12 seconds
Rank 3: Accuracy + 38%, Critical Hit Damage + 27%, Duration 12 seconds
Skills: Restless
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases the recovery rate
Rank 1: Reload Rate + 5%
Rank 2: Reload Rate + 10%
Rank 3: Reload Rate + 15%
Rank 4: Reload Rate + 20%
Rank 5: Reload Rate + 25%
Ability: Soul Sap
Genre: Action Skill Effect
Effect: A portion of the damage caused by the ability increases the health of Amara or a nearby ally
Life Steal: 30% of all damage dealt

Level 3

Skills: Deliverance
Genre: action skill
Effect: When Astral Projection hits an enemy or object, it releases elemental projectiles which trigger the Elemental Effect action on enemies
Cooldown: 28 seconds
Damage: 86
Elemental Bullets: 3 per enemy hit
Skills: Ascendant
Gender: passive
Effect: Upgrades of all abilities gain greater effect
Next Rank: Soul Sap Lifesteal + 20%, Allure Radius + 100%, Glamor Duration + 50%, Stillness of Mind breaking 0,75 seconds after being damaged
Damage of the Apocalypse: + 25%
Skills: Stillness of Mind
Genre: Action Skill Effect
Effect: Damaged enemies are gradually blocked until they are deteriorated or until the duration ends. The cooldown of the skill is increased. If Amara targets an enemy with Phasegrasp, enemies near the target are blocked in stages
Maximum duration: 6 seconds
Cooldown: + 15%
Damage: 25%

Level 4

Skills: Reverberation
Genre: action skill
Effect: Increases the damage dealt per enemy astral projection hit
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Damage bonus: + 50% per enemy hit
Damage: 88
Skills: From rest
Gender: passive
Effect: Improves rate of fire and reload time
Rank 1: Fire Rate + 4%, Charge Time + 21%
Rank 2: Fire Rate + 8%, Charge Time + 34%
Rank 3: Fire Rate + 12%, Charge Time + 44%
Skills: Laid bare
Gender: passive
Effect: o Enemies take increased damage from all sources for a few seconds after being damaged
Rank 1: Damage increase - 8,3%, duration 8 seconds
Rank 2: Damage increase - + 16,7%, duration 8 seconds
Rank 3: Damage increase - 25,0%, duration 8 seconds
Skills: Wrath
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases the damage of the pistol for a few seconds
Rank 1: Pistol Damage + 6,7%, Pistol Damage + 6,7% after use, duration 8 seconds
Rank 2: Pistol Damage + 13,3%, Pistol Damage + 13,3% after use, duration 8 seconds
Rank 3: Pistol Damage + 20,0%, Pistol Damage + 20,0% after use, duration 8 seconds

Level 5
Skills: Remnant
Gender: passive
Effect: When you kill an enemy with a weapon or ability, it creates a projectile that searches for a new enemy to deal elemental damage to. Any overload damage is added to the damage of the projectile.
Rank 1: Residual Damage 9
Rank 2: Residual Damage 18
Rank 3: Residual Damage 26
Ability: Awakening
Gender: passive
Effect: Amara's Rush stack gains increased effectiveness
Rank 1: Stack Effectiveness + 10% per rank
Rank 2: Stack Effectiveness + 20% per rank
Rank 3: Stack Effectiveness + 30% per rank
Skills: Tandava
Genre: action skill
Effect: Astral Projection explodes hitting the target damaging all nearby enemies
Cooldown: 35 seconds
Damage: 91

Level 6
Skills: Avatar
Gender: passive
Effect: The ability can be activated while it cools and can only be used once per complete cooldown. It also increases the maximum stacks and if its ability kills an enemy it recharges half
Bonus stacks: +10

 

FIST OF THE ELEMENTS

Ability: Phasegrasp, summons a giant fist that explodes from the ground and locks the target in place for a few seconds, some enemies immune to Grasped immediately take damage
Skill Duration: 7 seconds
Cooldown: 16 seconds
Damage to immune to Grasp: 28

Level 1
Skills: Soul
Gender: passive
Effect: Status effects increase damage over time and increase duration. Its Action Skill Status Effect deals additional damage
Rank 1: Action Skill Status Effect + 8%, Damage + 4%, Duration + 20%
Rank 2: Action Skill Status Effect + 16%, Damage + 8%, Duration + 40%
Rank 3: Action Skill Status Effect + 24%, Damage + 12%, Duration + 60%
Rank 4: Action Skill Status Effect + 32%, Damage + 16%, Duration + 80%
Rank 5: Action Skill Status Effect + 40%, Damage + 20%, Duration + 100%
Skills: Steady hands (s)
Gender: passive
Effect: Increased weapon handling and accuracy
Rank 1: Management + 14%, Accuracy + 13%
Rank 2: Management + 24%, Accuracy + 23%
Rank 3: Management + 32%, Accuracy + 31%
Ability: Infusion
Gender: passive
Effect: Converts a portion of the damage dealt by Amara's weapons into the ability
Rank 1: Damage Converted 8%
Rank 2: Damage Converted 16%
Rank 3: Damage Converted 24%
Rank 4: Damage Converted 32%
Rank 5: Damage Converted 40%

Level 2
Skills: Tempest
Gender: passive
Effect: Deals increased elemental damage. Shock damage is further increased
Rank 1: Shock Damage + 4,0%, Elemental Damage + 6,0%
Rank 2: Shock Damage + 8,0%, Elemental Damage + 12,0%
Rank 3: Shock Damage + 12,0%, Elemental Damage + 18,0%
Rank 4: Shock Damage + 16,0%, Elemental Damage + 24,0%
Rank 5: Shock Damage + 20,0%, Elemental Damage + 30,0%
Skills: Illuminated fist
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases melee damage which in turn is converted into its Action Skill Element
Melee Damage + 75,0%
Ability: Wildfire
Gender: passive
Effect: Whenever Amara applies a status effect to an enemy, she has a chance to propagate it to another nearby enemy
Grade 1: probability 8%
Grade 2: probability 16%
Grade 3: probability 24%
Grade 4: probability 32%
Grade 5: probability 40%
Ability: Soul Fire
Genre: elemental
Effect: Converts the ability into incendiary damage

Level 3
Skills: The eternal fist
Genre: action skill
Effect: Summons a giant ground punch that locks the target enemy in place for a few seconds. If the enemy is killed a new punch will appear to block another
Bonus target up to +4
reload - 20 seconds
Grasp Immune damage - 28
Skills: Dread
Gender: passive
Effect: Gun damage is increased for a few seconds after an enemy is blocked and each time a player kills a blocked enemy the current equipped weapon recharges immediately
Gun damage 15%, duration 8 seconds
Skills: Allure
Genre: skill effect
Effect: Creates a singularity that attracts enemies
Skill Damage -20%
Duration 2,5 seconds

Level 4
Skills: Indiscriminate
Gender: passive
Effect: Bullets that damage enemies have a chance to ricochet and deal reduced damage to other nearby enemies. Ricochet's chance and damage are increased if the target is currently under the effect of Phasegrasp or Stillness of Mind.
Rank 1: Ricochet Chance 10%, Ricochet Damage -50%, Ricochet Chance 20%, Ricochet Damage -25%
Rank 2: Ricochet Chance 20%, Ricochet Damage -50%, Ricochet Chance 40%, Ricochet Damage -25%
Rank 3: Ricochet Chance 30%, Ricochet Damage -50%, Ricochet Chance 60%, Ricochet Damage -25%
Skills: Deep Well
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases magazine size with elemental weapons
Magazine size: + 20%
Skills: Cartharsis
Gender: passive
Effect: Whenever Amara activates an elemental effect on an enemy, it dies by exploding, dealing element damage that is conformed to any other element currently dealt to that enemy. It also has a short recovery time
Rank 1: Damage 4, cooldown 8 seconds
Rank 2: Damage 8, cooldown 8 seconds
Rank 3: Damage 13, cooldown 8 seconds
Skills: Ties that bind
Genre: Action Skill
Effect: Enemies near the selected target are linked and any damage dealt to a target is shared among all others
Link Damage: 35% of the damage dealt
Cooldown: 18 seconds
Grasp Immune Damage: 34

Level 5
Skills: Fist over matter
Genre: action skill
Effect: Summons a giant punch that blocks the enemy for a few seconds. After selecting the enemy, large punches appear which repeatedly hit the area dealing damage to nearby enemies
Cooldown: 28 seconds
Damage: 35
Grasp Immune Damage: 39
Skill: Sustainment
Gender: passive
Effect: He recovers life points every time he inflicts elemental damage with his weapon
Rank 1: 4% Life Recovery per damage dealt
Rank 2: 8% Life Recovery per damage dealt
Rank 3: 12% Life Recovery per damage dealt
Rank 4: 16% Life Recovery per damage dealt
Rank 5: 20% Life Recovery per damage dealt
Skills: Conflux
Gender: passive
Effect: Whenever a status effect is applied to an enemy, Amara gains a chance to randomly electrocute, burn, or melt that enemy
Rank 1: Extra Effect Chance 7%
Rank 2: Extra Effect Chance 14%
Rank 3: Extra Effect Chance 21%
Rank 4: Extra Effect Chance 28%
Rank 5: Extra Effect Chance 35%

Level 6
Skills: Forceful expression
Gender: passive
Effect: Weapons gain an elemental damage bonus based on its skill element
Bonus Elemental Damage: 18,0% of damage dealt