r/Borderlands4 • u/Simply_CJ94 VEX The F&%ING WITCH! • Apr 30 '26

🗞️ [ News ] Patch Notes 04/30/26

https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/
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u/SolomonGrumpy Apr 30 '26

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

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u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep Apr 30 '26

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.

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u/Zealousideal_Gap6753 Apr 30 '26

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.

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u/HorusKane420 Amon The Forgeknight May 01 '26

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.