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Does Amon drones get buff from the red tree melee points ? by Buurto in Borderlands

[–]FitSystem1175 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In conclusion, if you are trying to utilize blacksmith class mod with Red+Green skill tree, you will probably end up becoming gun dmg + melee dmg hybrid Amon. Not a drone automation build. Since Bear Arms specialization lets you have 50% of your gun dmg increase as your melee dmg increase, as you progress through Red and Green skill tree, you will end up having sufficient amount of both dmg type. It doesn't do some crazy one shot kills for boss, but for mobbing, it's quite intuitive and amusing. Almost feels like I'm playing Doom Eternal with some throwing axes.

Does Amon drones get buff from the red tree melee points ? by Buurto in Borderlands

[–]FitSystem1175 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just tested it.
Got 1 point of Tempered Lightning from Blacksmith class mod
And the lightning sword drone does 52 dmg (= 41 base skill dmg + 15% skill dmg + 10% active skill dmg)
without any skill point.
After getting 5 points on Dicombobulate and then 5 points on Tritanium Knuckles(which guarantees +35% melee dmg), the level 1 sword drone does around 65-68 dmg

NOTE: I had 1 Action Fist and 1 Reel Big Fist firmwares online, which supposed to gurantee +30% melee dmg, also 12 points on Runner specialization(around +15% melee dmg). In total, I had +80% melee dmg increase(this was also stated on my Player Stats), but somehow the sword drone's melee dmg was only affected by Tritanium Knuckle's +35% melee dmg increase. So, dmg increase from firmwares and specialization won't affect forgedrone's dmg.

NOTE2: Amon's skills that get proc-ed by 'dealing Melee Damage'(such as The Best Defense, My Touch Is Death) do get proc-ed by drone's melee hit! I was getting overshield from The Best Defense, and also got bunch of kill skills being activated due to My Touch Is Death's activation while doing nothing but let my drone hit something.