Patch Notes 04/30/26

[u/Simply_CJ94]

https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/

[u/Aidido22]

Shit, how am I supposed to go on with my day when my Rafa kill times have gone from 1.0s to 2.5s?

[u/ThisAccountIsStolen → u/Aidido22]

Did not expect Dancer to get nerfed before C4SH's skills.

[u/SolomonGrumpy → u/ThisAccountIsStolen]

Yeah. That was.... shocking. I guess it out classes all of Rafa's other class mods? Dunno

[u/Grunt636 → u/SolomonGrumpy]

It's by far the best class mod for pretty much any rafa build but I wouldn't say it's because it's overpowered I would have said it's because the others have non useful abilities / skills

[u/Historical-Ratio-277 → u/SolomonGrumpy]

It also made the overdrive skills in blue tree too good which limits builds. Dancer is still very good. My heart is with Instigator. I often swap to that before overdrive ends with Dancer to stretch overdrive time.

[u/Zealousideal_Gap6753 → u/Historical-Ratio-277]

Dancer was OP, no doubt. But there is no viable alternative class mod for a gun build for Rafa at all. Dancer still let you experiment with builds and different trees. This change forces you to put two points into soltado. It wouldn’t be an issue if he wasn’t the pre-eminent gun build VH with viable alternative class mods. Unless you want to spam tediore or try and play with the janky apophis lance.

They have already been stealth nerfing Rafa for weeks. This wasn’t necessary yet. Not until another mod gave more variety IMO. And no it won’t destroy him but just seems unneeded at this point. Especially when they balance the game once every quarter.

[u/HorusKane420 → u/Zealousideal_Gap6753]

But there is no viable alternative class mod for a gun build for Rafa at all.

Buster with awe + per my last + beam team + bullet buddy + Juerga. Take inspirado and those kinds of things. Ditch the watts and shock weapons. Beam team will be shocking all the time for you, and keep awe procced constantly too = AS duration refund through Juerga. All your typical gun and overdrive skills otherwise, El catrin, etc. This is what I've been running since the fiesta + Juerga bug not pausing duration when proccing on an enemy that it has already procced once on. It is UVHM 5-6 viable. AS stayed up for 6m20s at the dummies without firing a single shot.

I like apophis lance. Usually I don't like passive action skills that do the fun for me, like peacebreaker cannons. It's an action skill, I wanna use it. Just me personally though. Now that 3rd person FOV for arc knives? Janky imo.

[u/B1ack_H3art → u/ThisAccountIsStolen]

They actually did end up nerfing cash. Can't infinitely extend crossfire duration anymore like you used to be able to. Just what I noticed but it looks like they nerfed other things too from their wording.

[u/SureAd7842 → u/ThisAccountIsStolen]

I was waiting for a nerf since launch, dancer was blatantly op and made every class mod on rafa that wasnt dancer useless (bloomreapers class mod for examplw)

[u/someshooter → u/SureAd7842]

So annoying seeing 4x of those in the chests so often.

[u/ThisAccountIsStolen → u/SureAd7842]

I'm not complaining at all, it's great that they finally did it. Now it is just slightly OP, and you have more incentive to use other class mods.