Vex specializes in elemental damage and applying statuses to enemies with her Action Skills. This guide will help you maximize Vex’s potential damage for both the leveling experience and endgame. These builds can help you survive Ultimate Vault Hunter mode and farm up on the best guns in Borderlands 4.
Vex Leveling Build 1-50
This build uses Phase Phamiliar as the Action Skill, and most points will be spent on this skill tree with a few points in the Dead Ringer tree. This build focuses on buffing up your Ordnance, whether for grenades, throwing knives, or heavy weapons. The build will also grant you plenty of survivability with overshields with the help of your Phase Phamiliar.
Skill Point Investments
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Skill Name |
Passive Effect |
Points Invested |
|---|---|---|
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Grave Sustenance |
Kills restore a percentage of the Actiob Skill duration |
2 |
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Hasty Fiends |
Vex and her Minions gain increased movement speed and damage reduction |
3 |
|
Grave Command |
Kills restore a portion of Troubles Command Skill cooldown and respawn cooldown |
3 |
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Overprotective |
Kills grant Vex and her Minions Overshield |
2 |
|
Claw and Bang |
Vex and her Minions gain increased Melee and Ordnance Damage |
5 |
|
Beast Mode |
Press and old the Action Skill button to command Trouble to enter Beast Mode, becoming immune to all damage and gaining increased attack and movement speed. Kills extend Beast Mode’s duration. |
1 |
|
Icy Attunement |
While Vex has a Cryo weapon equipped, killing an enemy restores ammo and Ordnance cooldown. The effect lingers for 6 seconds when switching to a different element. |
5 |
|
Blast Rites |
On activating an Ordnance, Vex gains Overshield and an increased fire rate for a duration. |
5 |
|
Blasted Fiends |
Vex gains increased Ordnance damage. A portion of Vex’s current Ordnance damage is added as bonus Minion damage. |
5 |
|
Corporeal |
Vex and her Minions gain increased maximum Overshield capacity and duration. While she has an Overshield, she and her Minions gain bonus damage |
3 |
|
Trouble Bubble |
Trouble gains Overshield whenever he deals damage. While he is active, he gains an Elemental Aura, dealing Ordnance damage over time to enemies near him. |
1 |
|
Shiver |
Vex gains increased Cryo damage and status effect damage. |
5 |
|
Fell Inscriptions (Dead Ringer skill tree) |
Vex and her Minions gain increased melee damage and max Health. |
5 |
|
Portents of Suffering (Dead Ringer skill tree) |
Vex and her Minions deal increased Status Effect damage |
5 |
Gear Builds
If you have no elemental Legendary weapons, any Maliwan weapon will be good for swapping out Elemental Attunements with Vex. However, the best in slot Legendary weapon is Rainbow Vomit, as this weapon grants 3 different element types without using the alt-fire.
Vex Endgame Bleed Build for UVHM
This build utilizes the Penetrator augment for the Throwing Knife ordnance, allowing interactions with critical hits to loop itself. The build uses Bloodletter as the basis for massive DPS that ramps up exponentially.
Skill Point Investments
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Skill Name |
Passive Effect |
Points Invested |
|---|---|---|
|
Leeching Attunement |
While Vex is Attuned to Kinetic, she gains bonus Lifesteal and reload speed. This effect lingers for a duration upon switching to a different element |
5 |
|
Grave Sights |
Kills grant Vex increased critical hit damage and weapon handling. |
5 |
|
Bloodletter (important) |
Gun and Skill critical hits have a chance to apply Bleed, dealing Kinetic damage over time. Bleed counts as a Status Effect and is affected by status effect chance. |
5 |
|
Energy Vampire |
Vex deals Staus Damage over time to nearby enemies and grants her Overshields per enemy. Killing an enemy while Incarnate is active grants her a stack of Energy Vampire, which increases Status damage. |
1 |
|
Grave Implements |
Killls grant Vex and her Minions gain increased Gun damage |
5 |
|
Material Components |
Vex gains increased Kinetic damage and Kinetic Status Effect damage |
5 |
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Grave Power |
Vex’s Kill Skills gain increased maximum stacks |
3 |
|
Ars Arcana |
Vrx gains increased Skill damage |
5 |
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Essence Leech |
Vex gains Lifesteal. This effect doubles when an Action Skill is active. |
5 |
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Blood is Power |
Vex gains bonus Kinetic Damage with Guns based on her current Lifesteal when her health is full. |
3 |
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Grave Sustenance |
Kills restore a percentage of the Action Skill duration |
5 |
|
Hasty Fiends |
Vex and her Minions gain increased movement speed and damage reduction |
3 |
Gear Builds
Kinetic weapons are important for this build as Bloodletter only triggers its Bleed effect from that damage type. Hot Slugger is the best weapon, as not only does it have high damage per shot, but the intrinsic Jakobs magazine gives it ricochet shots on critical hits.
- Ordnance: Throwing Knife with Penetrator augment
- Source: World drop
- Legendary weapon: Hot Slugger
- Source: Callous Harbringer of Annihilating Death, Craven’s Nook
- Legendary weapon: Lutty Madlad
- Source: Mimicron, Tipping Point
- Repkit: Any Repkit with Amp
- Source: World drop
