Someone explain to me how Amara's skills work....

[GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R]

Maybe my English is too poor to understand, but these few skills honestly doesn't make much sense to me. I mean I understand what it means, but it's like the affect doesn't apply to it.

Phasegrasp

1) Anima: Amara’s Elemental Effects deal increased damage over time and have increased duration. Her Action Skill Elemental Effect deals further increased damage.

I thought her Action Skill only only grabs enemy and that is it ?? What Element Effects ??

2) Steady Hand(s): Amara gains increased Weapon Handling and Accuracy.

Ok pretty straightforward, but what exactly is Weapon Handling ?? Better reload ??
Less recoil ?? Swap weapon faster ?? Lol ???

3) Illuminated Fist: Amara gains increased Melee Damage and her Melee Damage is converted to her Action Skill Element.

Ok increases Melee damage and then.....what.....???? What the hell did they meant by
" Melee Damage is converted to her Action Skill Element "
Again, her Phasegrasp is just holding enemies in place, what Element ??? What damage ??

4) Soulfire: [Augement] Converts Amara’s Action Skill to Fire Damage.

Same as above....so she Phasegrasp now grabs enemy with fiery effect ??
But it doesn't do damage...what's the point ?

The rest of Skills actually make sense, only these 4.....I've played BL 1 , 2 and never had any issues understand any of the Character's Skills.
BL3 is just straight up confusing.

[Saint]

Originally posted by GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R:

Maybe my English is too poor to understand, but these few skills honestly doesn't make much sense to me. I mean I understand what it means, but it's like the affect doesn't apply to it.

Phasegrasp

1) Anima: Amara’s Elemental Effects deal increased damage over time and have increased duration. Her Action Skill Elemental Effect deals further increased damage.

I thought her Action Skill only only grabs enemy and that is it ?? What Element Effects ??

2) Steady Hand(s): Amara gains increased Weapon Handling and Accuracy.

Ok pretty straightforward, but what exactly is Weapon Handling ?? Better reload ??
Less recoil ?? Swap weapon faster ?? Lol ???

3) Illuminated Fist: Amara gains increased Melee Damage and her Melee Damage is converted to her Action Skill Element.

Ok increases Melee damage and then.....what.....???? What the hell did they meant by
" Melee Damage is converted to her Action Skill Element "
Again, her Phasegrasp is just holding enemies in place, what Element ??? What damage ??

4) Soulfire: [Augement] Converts Amara’s Action Skill to Fire Damage.

Same as above....so she Phasegrasp now grabs enemy with fiery effect ??
But it doesn't do damage...what's the point ?

The rest of Skills actually make sense, only these 4.....I've played BL 1 , 2 and never had any issues understand any of the Character's Skills.
BL3 is just straight up confusing.

All her action skills deal elemental damage when they deal damage. Try a different action skill, she has 3 at Level 2.

Weapon handling is swap and ADS speed.

Her action skills deal elemental damage.

Yes, when you equip that modifier, its damage changes to Fire. The standard is Electric, and there's another that converts to corrosive.


BL3 isn't confusing, you just haven't been paying attention to the damage types.

[GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R]

Her Phasegrap have Element ?? If that's true I seriously didn't notice at all...
Because I felt it doesn't do anything at the moment, just like Maya's Phaselock.

Maya's Phaselock is pretty useless till quite late game which once you learn all those damage / elemental affect, you really can create mayhem.

I feel like maybe I should use other Action Skill instead, at the moment for me being a low level.
I feel Phasegrasp is kinda useless...

[GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R]

Originally posted by Kaith:

Originally posted by GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R:

Her Phasegrap have Element ?? If that's true I seriously didn't notice at all...
Because I felt it doesn't do anything at the moment, just like Maya's Phaselock.

Maya's Phaselock is pretty useless till quite late game which once you learn all those damage / elemental affect, you really can create mayhem.

I feel like maybe I should use other Action Skill instead, at the moment for me being a low level.
I feel Phasegrasp is kinda useless...

Phasegrasp 100% has an element, you can see the color of the fist and orb change to show that. Though it looks like I was incorrect about it doing a small amount of damage at the end so the element is purely aesthetic.

Personally I think you're right, I like the other action skills more for early game. Though some of the later phasegrasp abilities are really fun to play with. Especially with augments. I highly recommend experimenting with it once you level up to the point you are able to freely. You can make some really fun combinations, even more so than with the other skills in my opinion.

I've saw the higher level ones some of them are rather powerful, like one of them that when an enemy is dead during the Phasegrasp, it will spread to others, there is also a Singulairty effect upgrade as well.

But the current Tier 1 - Tier 2 feels damn weak....

[Geldric™]

Phaseslam is really fun esp once you get a 300% phaseslam weapon and to confirm the elemental augment affects all her action skills. In addition it is also applied in the top right red capstone so even a Jakob’s weapon will deal a %elemental dmg

[Ficelle]

All Amara action skills are tied to an element
Light by default
You can unlock fire and corrosive (in red and green tree)...and switch as you want

Phasegrasp doesnt do any damage unless the target is immune to being held on...(bosses...)
Some variations of it do damage, like the fist one

Anima doesnt do anything for the basic phasegrasp...but phasegrasp isnt the ony Amara action skill


Illuminated fist

Makes your melee elemental instead of kinetic (light by default unless you changed it)
Good if you match element (fire agaisnt flesh for example...) for another damage multiplier...but bad if you dont as you will do less damage than expected in melee



Phasegrasp early on isnt that useful...because there isnt that much strong targets to lock on
But the more you progress the more it becomes amazing (mostly the updates...)
Also, low cooldown to trigger these annointed effects

[Leto]

doesnt illuminate fist gives +150 melee damage anyway ?

[Ficelle]

It adds 75%
Dont know if additive or multiplicative

[GR|M " 死神 " Reap3R]

But as I know, any skills will work on any of the three Action Skill, I guess that's a great idea from Gearbox. Maybe if I were not to even go down the Phasegrasp path, those Elemental skills on that specific path maybe useful for other Action Skill.

I guess it does make sense if this is a possible play style.
Pick an Action Skill from another skill tree, but level your skills through another skill tree lol...

[LazärheaD]

I'm wondering if Illuminated Fist + Combo Breaker actually works. As melee dmg would instead count as cryo? Well, I will see soon. There is always respec...

[Kobeth]

Read Phasegrasp's description again, it clearly states that it deals damage. Plus, if you keep going down the red tree path you'll eventually unlock Ties that bind which is a better phasegrasp that deal tons of AOE damage and is arguably Amara's best action skill.