Borderlands 3 character and build guide - FL4K Tamer class

Borderlands 3 is the brand new action RPG-first person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software. As in previous installments in 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.

FL4K Tamer class

His three skill trees are: Stalker, Hunter, and Master. Also, while at a safe distance in sniper mode you can send any of your three pets to help which are Jabber Sidekick, Spiderant Centurion and Guard Skag. Pets change depending on the tree you choose and have different abilities. You get Jabber Sidekick for the Stalker tree, Centurion Spiderant for Hunter and Guard Skag for Master. Each tree will allow you to switch to two different evolutions of each animal. Each new animal you unlock has a new ability, and the new version will replace the one you had equipped at that time.

STALKER

Skills: Fade away, Fl4k becomes invisible and can fire 3 critical hits, increased movement speed and increased health regeneration
Critical hit damage faded: + 200%
Invisibility Movement Speed: + 25%
Health Regeneration: + 3% maximum health per second
Cooldown: 45 seconds
Skill Duration: 15 seconds
Matching pet: Jabber Sidekick
Characteristics: armed with a pistol, launches barrels of radiation at enemies, increases the movement speed of Fl4k by + 5,0%

Level 1
Skills: Self-repairing system
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases maximum health and constantly regenerates health
Rank 1: Max Health + 6%, Health Regeneration 0,3% Max Health per second
Rank 2: Max Health + 12%, Health Regeneration 0,6% Max Health per second
Rank 3: Max Health + 18%, Health Regeneration 0,9% Max Health per second
Rank 4: Max Health + 24%, Health Regeneration 1,2% Max Health per second
Rank 5: Max Health + 30%, Health Regeneration 1,5% Max Health per second
Skills: Sic 'em
Gender: passive
Effect: Cooldown for lowered attack command and increased damage
Rank1: Command Damage 10%, Command Recovery -10%
Rank 2: Command Damage 20%, Command Recovery -20%
Rank 3: Command Damage 30%, Command Recovery -30%
Ability: Furious Attack
Gender: passive
Effect: Hunter skill, after shooting an enemy Fl4k gets a furious attack. For each of them handling damage and fire damage are increased, decay stacks after a few seconds.
Rank 1: Manipulation + 1,0% per stack, Gun damage + 0,4% per stack, Furious Attack Stacks 10, Furious Attack Duration 4
Rank 2: Manipulation + 2,0% per stack, Gun damage + 0,8% per stack, Furious Attack Stacks 10, Furious Attack Duration 4
Rank 3: Management + 2,9% per stack, Gun damage + 1,2% per stack, Furious Attack Stacks 10, Furious Attack Duration 4
Rank 4: Management + 3,8% per stack, Gun damage + 1,6% per stack, Furious Attack Stacks 10, Furious Attack Duration 4
Rank 5: Manipulation + 4,8% per stack, Gun damage + 2,0% per stack, Furious Attack Stacks 10, Furious Attack Duration 4

Level 2
Skills: Guerrillas in the Mist
Gender: Increased Action Skill
Effect: Fade continues after attacks at the cost of critical hit damage and reduced fade duration
Duration: 8 seconds
Critical Hit Damage: 50%
Skills: Eager to impress
Gender: passive
Effect: Killing an enemy reduces the cooldown of the ability. When a pet kills an enemy the cooldown of the skill is further reduced and the cooldown of the attack command is updated
Rank 1: Pet Kill Cooldown Time -0,5 seconds, Fl4k Kill Cooldown Time -0,25 seconds
Rank 2: Pet Kill Cooldown Time -1,0 seconds, Fl4k Kill Cooldown Time -0,50 seconds
Rank 3: Pet Kill Cooldown Time -1,5 seconds, Fl4k Kill Cooldown Time -0,75 seconds
Rank 4: Pet Kill Cooldown Time -2,0 seconds, Fl4k Kill Cooldown Time -1,0 seconds
Rank 5: Pet Kill Cooldown Time -2,5 seconds, Fl4k Kill Cooldown Time -1,25 seconds
Skills: All my BFF's
Gender: passive
Effect: Allies share a portion of Fl4k's total health regeneration. A pet shares double the amount of health regeneration.
Rank 1: Allies share 17% of Fl4k's health regen
Rank 2: Allies share 33% of Fl4k's health regen
Rank 3: Allies share 50% of Fl4k's health regen
Ability: Overclocked
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases the rate of fire after reloading
Rank 1: Fire Rate After Reload - 2%, Fire Rate + 2%, Overclock Duration 4 seconds
Rank 2: Fire Rate After Reload - 4%, Fire Rate + 4%, Overclock Duration 4 seconds
Rank 3: Fire Rate After Reload - 6%, Fire Rate + 6%, Overclock Duration 4 seconds
Rank 4: Fire Rate After Reload - 8%, Fire Rate + 8%, Overclock Duration 4 seconds
Rank 5: Fire Rate After Reload - 10%, Fire Rate + 10%, Overclock Duration 4 seconds

Level 3
Skills: Not My Circus
Gender: Increased Action Skill
Effect: After the end of Fade Away a pet will provoke itself by drawing the attention of all enemies in a huge radius, after which for a few seconds the pet gains a powerful damage reduction
Pet duration: 6 seconds
Pet damage reduction: + 80%
Skills: Lick the wounds
Gender: passive
Effect: When Fl4k is dying the pet will attempt to revive it
Skills: Turn tail and run
Gender: passive
Effect: While moving Fl4k constantly regenerates health and gains damage reduction. While stationary, he gains pistol damage and rate of fire.
Rank 1: Damage Reduction While Moving - 6,5%, Health Healing While Moving - 0,3% Max Health Per Second, Gun Damage While Stationary + 8,3%, Rate Of Fire While Moving is stationary + 4,0%
Rank 2: Damage Reduction While Moving - 12.3%, Health Healing While Moving - 0,6% Max Health Per Second, Gun Damage While Stationary + 16,7%, Rate Of Fire While Stationary + 8,0%
Rank 3: Damage Reduction While Moving - 17,4%, Health Healing While Moving - 0,9% Max Health Per Second, Gun Damage While Stationary + 25,0%, Rate Of Fire While Moving is stationary + 12,0%
Skills: Beefcake Jubber
Gender: pet
Effect: Jabber evolves into Beefcake and gains a shotgun and summons a melee weapon to attack and repel enemies. Fl4k's movement speed and maximum health are increased.
Movement Speed ​​- 5,0%
Max Health + 10%

Level 4
Skills: Until you are dead
Gender: Increased Action Skill
Effect: Fade's health regeneration and movement speed persists for a short time after the ability has ended.
Post coat duration - 10 seconds
Skills: The Fast and The Furryous
Gender: passive
Effect: When over half health, gun damage and movement speed increase
Rank 1: Gun Damage + 8%, Movement Speed ​​+ 3,3%
Rank 2: Gun Damage + 17%, Movement Speed ​​+ 6,7%
Rank 3: Gun Damage + 25%, Movement Speed ​​+ 10,0%
Ability: Hidden machine
Gender: passive
Effect: When an enemy has no target or is attacking a different target, Fl4k deals more damage against them.
Rank 1: Damage + 6%
Rank 2: Damage + 12%
Rank 3: Damage + 18%
Rank 4: Damage + 24%
Rank 5: Damage + 30%
Ability: Gunslinger Jabber
Gender: pet
Effect: Jabber's evolution is Gunslinger, increases Fl4k's movement speed and critical hit damage. On an attack command Gunslinger will use a rocket launcher to attack the target
Movement Speed ​​5,0%
Critical Hit Damage + 5,0%

Level 5
Skills: Unblinking eye
Gender: type of skill
Effect: increased action skill, subsequent hits on the same target increase Fl4k's critical damage with each hit. Unblinking Eye resets every 3 hits
Critical hit damage + 75% per hit
Skills: Rage and recover
Gender: passive
Effect: After killing an enemy, Fl4k and the animal regain health for a few seconds
Rank 1: Health Restore + 1,6% missing health per second, Rage, and 3 second cooldown duration
Rank 2: Health Restore + 3,2% missing health per second, Rage, and 3 second cooldown duration
Rank 3: Health Restore + 4,8% missing health per second, Rage, and 3 second cooldown duration
Rank 4: Health Restore + 6,4% missing health per second, Rage, and 3 second cooldown duration
Rank 5: Health Restore + 8,0% missing health per second, Rage, and 3 second cooldown duration

Level 6
Skill: The power inside
Gender: passive
Effect: Fl4k and the pet both have increased damage when Fl4k activates an ability. If Fl4k is at full health, the increased damage is doubled.
Damage 25%
The internal duration of the power 15 seconds

HUNTER

Skills: Rakk attak !, bombs enemies with more charges
Cooldown: 18 seconds
Damage: 35
Matched Pet: Spiderant Centurion that will charge enemies and Fl4k constantly regenerates health
Health Regeneration: + 1,0% of maximum health per second

Level 1
Skills: Interplanetary stalker
Gender: passive
Effect: Whenever Fl4k kills an enemy, it gains a different interplanetary stack depending on the type of enemy killed and for each of them receives a bonus for all damage dealt. Each bonus can be taken up to 3 times, expiring shortly thereafter
Rank 1: damage + 2% per stack, human bonus + 3% skill damage per stack, robot bonus - 1,5% corrosive damage per stack, animal bonus + 2% movement speed per stack
rank 2: damage + 4% per stack, human bonus + 6% skill damage per stack, robot bonus - 3,0% corrosive damage per stack, animal bonus + 3% movement speed per stack
Rank 3: damage + 6% per stack, human bonus + 9% skill damage per stack, robot bonus - 4,5% corrosive damage per stack, animal bonus + 5% movement speed per stack
Rank 4: damage + 8% per stack, human bonus + 12% skill damage per stack, robot bonus - 6.0% corrosive damage per stack, animal bonus + 6% movement speed per stack
Rank 5: damage + 10% per stack, human bonus + 15% skill damage per stack, robot bonus - 7,5% corrosive damage per stack, animal bonus + 7% movement speed per stack
Skills: Leave no trace
Gender: passive
Effect: Making a critical hit could add 1 ammo to the magazine
Rank 1: Ability to add ammo + 12%
Rank 2: Ability to add ammo + 24%
Rank 3: Ability to add ammo + 36%
Skills: Second intention
Gender: passive
Effect: When Fl4k kills an enemy it increases the reload speed, bonus for each critical kill
Rank 1: Reload Speed ​​+ 3%, Reload Speed ​​with Critical Kill + 6%, Reload Duration with Critical Kill - 5 seconds
Rank 2: Reload Speed ​​+ 6%, Reload Speed ​​with Critical Kill + 11%, Reload Duration with Critical Kill - 5 seconds
Rank 3: Reload Speed ​​+ 8%, Reload Speed ​​with Critical Kill + 15%, Reload Duration with Critical Kill - 5 seconds
Rank 4: Reload Speed ​​+ 11%, Reload Speed ​​with Critical Kill + 19%, Reload Duration with Critical Kill - 5 seconds
Rank 5: Reload Speed ​​+ 13%, Critical Kill Reload Speed ​​+ 23%, Critical Kill Reload Duration - 5 seconds

Level 2
Skills: Rakk open a cold one
Gender: Increased Action Skill
Effect: Converts Fl4k's Rakk to cyro elemental damage
Ability: Hunter's Eye
Gender: passive
Effect: Earn bonuses by fighting different types of enemies
Rank 1: Critical Hit Damage + 3% vs Human Damage, Armor + 6% vs Robots, Damage Reduction + 5,3% vs Animals
Rank 2: Critical Hit Damage + 6% vs Human Damage, Armor + 12% vs Robots, Damage Reduction + 10,1% vs Animals
Rank 3: Critical Hit Damage + 9% vs Human Damage, Armor + 18% vs Robot, Damage Reduction - + 14,4% vs Animals
Rank 4: Critical Hit Damage + 12% vs Human Damage, Armor + 24% vs Robots, Damage Reduction + 18,3% vs Animals
Rank 5: Critical Hit Damage + 15% vs Human Damage, Armor + 30% vs Robots, Damage Reduction + 21,9% vs Animals
Skills: Head count
Gender: passive
Effect: When Fl4k makes a critical hit there is a chance that the cooldown of the ability is reduced
Rank 1: Cooldown Time Reduction Chance + 10%, Cooldown Time - 2s
Rank 2: Cooldown Time Reduction Chance + 20%, Cooldown Time - 2s
Rank 3: Cooldown Time Reduction Chance + 30%, Cooldown Time - 2s
Skills: Ambush predator
Gender: passive
Effect: When no enemies are nearby, Fl4k's weapon handling and critical hit damage are increased
Rank 1: Critical Hit Damage + 4%, Management + 17%
Rank 2: Critical Hit Damage + 8%, Management + 29%
Rank 3: Critical Hit Damage + 12%, Management + 38%
Rank 4: Critical Hit Damage + 16%, Management + 44%
Rank 5: Critical Hit Damage + 20%, Management + 50%

Level 3
Ability: Falconer's feast
Gender: Increased Action Skill
Effect: When a Rakk damages an enemy a portion of Fl4k's health is restored
Health returned - 7% of maximum health
Ability: Two F4ng
Gender: passive
Effect: Chance to fire one more bullet per shot
Rank 1: Extra Bullet Chance + 5%
Rank 2: Extra Bullet Chance + 10%
Rank 3: Extra Bullet Chance + 15%
Rank 4: Extra Bullet Chance + 20%
Rank 5: Extra Bullet Chance + 25%
Ability: Spiderant Scorcher
Gender: pet
Effect: Spiderant evolves into Scorcer and can inflict incendiary damage to nearby enemies and at the attack command will charge enemies. Fl4k constantly regenerates health and gains elemental resistance.
Health regeneration + 1,0% of maximum health per second
Elemental damage + 10,0%

Level 4
Skills: Flock 'N Load
Genre: skill increase
Effect: Adds a Rakk
Skills: Big game
Gender: passive
Effect: Skills become more effective, with longer duration
Rank 1: Hunter Skill Effectiveness 10%, Hunter Skill Duration + 33%
Rank 2: Hunter Skill Effectiveness 20%, Hunter Skill Duration + 67%
Rank 3: Hunter Skill Effectiveness 30%, Hunter Skill Duration +100%
Skills: The most dangerous game
Gender: passive
Effect: When Fl4k kills a Badass or stronger enemy, it gains increased critical hit damage, gun damage, and handling for a while. He also receives a cash prize
Rank 1: Gun Damage + 8%, Critical Hit Damage + 3,3%, Handling + 14,3%, Duration 120 seconds
Rank 2: Gun Damage + 17%, Critical Hit Damage + 6,7%, Handling + 25,0%, Duration 120
MAIN CORSE
Rank 3: Gun Damage + 25%, Critical Hit Damage + 10%, Handling + 33,3%, Duration 120 seconds
Skills: Spiderant Countess
Gender: pet
Effect: Spiderant evolves into Countess. Fl4k constantly regenerates health and gains damage reduction, At the command of attack, Countess will hide underground and emerge to deal corrosive damage
Health regeneration + 1,0% maximum health per second
Damage reduction + 5,0%

Level 5
Enable: Rakkcelerate
Gender: Increased Action Skill
Effect: The ability has a higher cooldown rate and gains an additional charge
Reload rate + 20% of
Skill Charges - +1
Skills: Galactic shadow
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases critical hit damage and enemies are less likely to attack Fl4k
Critical Hit Damage + 15%
Ability: Grim Harvest
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases Gun Damage and Skill Damage
Rank 1: Gun Damage + 3%, Skill Damage + 5%
Rank 2: Gun Damage + 6%, Skill Damage + 10%
Rank 3: Gun Damage + 9%, Skill Damage + 15%
Rank 4: Gun Damage + 12%, Skill Damage + 20%
Rank 5: Gun Damage + 15%, Skill Damage + 25%

Level 6
Skills: Megavore
Gender: passive
Effect: Can score a critical hit with weapons against any part of an enemy
Critical Hit Chance + 20%

MASTER (MPS)

Ability: Gamma Burst, creates a shift towards a target, teleporting the pet to deal radiation damage to nearby enemies. It will revive the pet with 30% health and skill cooldown time
Skill Duration: 20 seconds
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Recovery if the pet is dead: 60 seconds
Damage: 56
Matched Pet: Guard Skag that will spew acid on enemies and increase the damage inflicted by Fl4k
Damage: + 5,0%

Level 1
Skills: Ferocity
Gender: passive
Effect: The pet inflicts more damage.
Rank 1: Pet Damage + 10%
Rank 2: Pet Damage + 20%
Rank 3: Pet Damage + 30%
Rank 4: Pet Damage + 40%
Rank 5: Pet Damage + 50%
Skills: Persistence hunter
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases the gun damage and duration of the skill
Rank 1: Gun Damage + 4,0%, Skill Duration + 15%
Rank 2: Gun Damage + 8,0%, Skill Duration + 30%
Rank 3: Gun Damage + 12,0%, Skill Duration + 45%
Skill: Go for the eyes!
Gender: passive
Effect: A pet's first melee attack is an automatic critical hit that deals increased damage
Rank 1: Pet Critical Hit Damage + 15%
Rank 2: Pet Critical Hit Damage + 30%
Rank 3: Pet Critical Hit Damage + 45%
Rank 4: Pet Critical Hit Damage + 60%
Rank 5: Pet Critical Hit Damage + 75%

Level 2
Skills: Atomic aroma
Genre: skill increase
Effect: When Gamma Burst is active, Fl4k's pet is surrounded by atomic aroma that constantly damages nearby enemies
Radiation damage 4 per second
Skills: Who rescued who?
Gender: passive
Effect: When a pet deals damage, Fl4k regains health for a few seconds. When Fl4k deals damage, his pet's health is restored for a portion of the damage dealt
Rank 1: Converts + 1,0% of damage dealt to Health Regeneration, Pet Health +0,4 Max Health per second
Rank 2: Converts + 2,0% of damage dealt to Health Regeneration, Pet Health +0,8 Max Health per second
Rank 3: Converts + 3,0% of damage dealt to Health Regeneration, Pet Health +1.2 Max Health per second
Rank 4: Converts + 4,0% of damage dealt to Health Regeneration, Pet Health +1,6 Max Health per second
Rank 5: Converts + 5,0% of damage dealt to Health Regeneration, Pet Health +2.0 Max Health per second
Skills: He bites!
Gender: passive
Effect: When a pet takes damage, the pet returns some of the damage to the attacker
Rank 1: Damage Reflected + 5%
Rank 2: Damage Reflected + 10%
Rank 3: Damage Reflected + 15%
Skills: Frenzy
Gender: passive
Effect: When a pet deals damage, Fl4k gains a Frenzly stack. Each stack increases damage and decays after a few seconds.
Rank 1: Damage + 0,8% per stack, max Frenzly stack 10
Rank 2: Damage + 1,6% per stack, max Frenzly stack 10
Rank 3: Damage + 2,4% per stack, max Frenzly stack 10
Rank 4: Damage + 3,2% per stack, max Frenzly stack 10
Rank 5: Damage + 4,0% per stack, max Frenzly stack 10

Level 3
Skills: Empathic rage
Genre: skill increase, for the duration of Gamma Burst, the damage dealt by Fl4k is increased
Damage + 20%
Skills: Psycho head on a stick
Gender: passive
Effect: When Fl4k kills an enemy, its pet increases movement speed and damage for a few seconds
Pet Movement Speed ​​- 12%
Pet damage + 10%
Duration 8 seconds
Skills: Hive mind
Gender: passive
Effect: When Fl4k is damaged, a part is shared with your pet
Rank 1: Shared Damage - 5%
Rank 2: Shared Damage - 10%
Rank 3: Shared Damage - 15%
Skills: Great horned Skag
Gender: pet. Skag increases Fl4k's damage and gun damage, at the attack command Skag attacks enemies by making them go airborne
Damage + 5,0%
Pistol Damage + 10,0%

Level 4
Skills: Endurance
Genre: skill increase. Gamma Burst extends when an enemy is killed and also increases damage with an effect that can increase up to 5x
Skill Duration +3 seconds per kill
Damage + 10% per kill
Skills: Barbaric Yawp
Gender: passive
Effect: Increases the power of pet bonuses
Rank 1: Pet Bonus + 20%
Rank 2: Pet Bonus + 40%
Rank 3: Pet Bonus + 60%
Rank 4: Pet Bonus + 80%
Rank 5: Pet Bonus + 100%
Skills: Mutated defenses
Gender: passive
Effect: When a pet has low health, it gains damage reduction and regenerates health
Damage reduction + 30%
Health regeneration + 40% d
Recovery time 15
Skills: Eridian Skag
Gender: pet
Effect: Skag evolves into Eridian Skag and increases FL4K's damage and rate of fire, when FL4K from an Eridian attack command lures nearby enemies generating a Singularity
Damage + 5,0%
Fire rate + 0,5%

Level 5
Skill: Burst aid
Genre: skill increase. After using Gamma Burst, Rift remains for the duration of the ability. While near Rift, Fl4k and allies regenerate health
Health regeneration + 20% of maximum health per second
Skills: Pack Tactics
Gender: passive
Effect: All damage dealt and maximum health for Fl4k are increased
Rank 1: Pet Damage and Fl4k + 5%, Maximum Pet Health and Fl4k + 5%
Rank 2: Pet Damage and Fl4k + 10%, Maximum Pet Health and Fl4k + 10%
Rank 3: Pet Damage and Fl4k + 15%, Maximum Pet Health and Fl4k + 15%
Skills: Shared spirit
Gender: passive
Effect: When Fl4k is low on health, some of the damage it takes is shared with the animal
Shared damage + 50%

Level 6
Skills: Dominance
Gender: passive
Effect: Melee Override Ability. An enemy is transformed into an ally for a short time. If the enemy is a beast, the duration is double. The target will constantly lose health until it dies or the effect ends. The enemy can be dominated one at a time and only once
Domain duration 12 seconds
The target loses 2% of maximum health per second