Amara The Siren - Melee Build

[Fort Yves]

Right now I'm playing Amara and I tried her Melee Build but it's really boring.

I can't help but compare it with Krieg from Borderlands 2. Krieg was really fun just going on a rampage smashing everyone.

On the other hand with Amara, I actually have to lower the enemy's HP or else her Melee Override goes on cooldown and her Action Skill is kinda meh.

EDIT: I remember they advertised her as the "Melee Siren" which I got excited but now I'm disappointed.

EDIT #2: Also, Ava is crap.

[Darth Cannabis]

I would compare her melee as a balanced point between Zero and Brick so far. (had to remake her due to corrupt save).

She doesn't do that millions of damage out of stealth blitz that Zero does, nor is she as purely non stop punchy punch as brick, but she does seem to have that balance to both blitz and pummel at a more middle of road variety.

Also where as they got most of their melee damage purely from the melee tree, Amara will want more of a multiple tree balance, when it comes to the melee. It becomes highly advisable to not just develop that brawl tree, but also get elemental up enough for the additional element added to melee and an extra 75%. You may want to get the blue tree up enough for ascendent and sap (which will make the action skill trigger 50% lifesteal, as well as being the one modification to the active, that doesn't lower its base damage).

Also, don't forget to use cryo weapons on melee builds. Remember, frozen enemies take more melee damage. Freezing, before blitzing on the melee attack, makes it that much more assured that the blitz is lethal and instantly recharges.

[eyeC]

At level 47, I just finished the story with an Amara melee build. I loved it. Basically, it was a build suggested in a Rock Paper Shotgun article, except that I went at it in a slightly different order than suggested. Starting in the green tree, I respecced as soon as I had 6 skill points in order to get to Illuminated Fist in the red tree. Thereafter, I made a green beeline to Blitz, being sure to pick up Guardian Angel on the way. Mindfulness was also important to get. I passed it up at first, but then decided to respec once more on my way down to Blitz in order to pick it up. It made a pretty big difference. After Blitz, I started backfilling the green tree to pick up some skills I'd skipped over in my mad rush to the bottom, and I added 5 more points to the red tree. The meat of the build was done by the time I reached Blitz, though.

At first, I had to depend on guns quite a bit; but later on, I seldom used a gun except for bosses and flying targets. I started carrying the Psycho Stabber as soon as I got it, for the +120% melee. Blitz was not on cooldown very often, though some super badasses were tough to melee. I liked to soften those up first with the Face-puncher or a Porcelain Pipe Bomb.

Early on, I used Phaseslam quite a bit and liked to mix up its element to match the targets. Later on, though, Phaseslam wasn't very important. I seldom used it and never bothered changing its element.

Anyway, that's my Amara story. Good times.

[toruvinn]

I'm playing around with melee, but boy is the melee unreliable in this game. I mean, sometimes you swing in the air and nothing happens, other times you mash the button like stupid and... Amara's like "eh, nah, too lazy".
It's basically as bad as meleeing eridium crystals, I usually swing like an idiot once or twice with normal melee before the game recognizes OH IT'S ERIDIUM WE NEED THIS DIFFERENT ANIMATION!

Wish they fixed it, but I doubt they will. This is gearbox after all.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by toruvinn:

I'm playing around with melee, but boy is the melee unreliable in this game. I mean, sometimes you swing in the air and nothing happens, other times you mash the button like stupid and... Amara's like "eh, nah, too lazy".
It's basically as bad as meleeing eridium crystals, I usually swing like an idiot once or twice with normal melee before the game recognizes OH IT'S ERIDIUM WE NEED THIS DIFFERENT ANIMATION!

Wish they fixed it, but I doubt they will. This is gearbox after all.

Ya I wish they would've just made it to where your melee weapon just gets some kind of new Eridium looking "upgrade" on it instead of an entirely new melee weapon thing.