#8

I find phaseslam is kinda more of a trigger for buffs than an action skill, to be honest. It’s a quick powerful attack, but not powerful enough. It’s made worse by the fact that almost all her augments drop damage in return for an effect (revelation -15%, glamour -10%, stillness of mind -25%, allure -20%). It’s only soul sap which doesn’t.
I agree that it’d be good to have at least one augment which boosts damage but prolongs cooldown, or something.

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#9

I’ve seen numerous +300% weapon damage after Phaseslam annoints on guns. It’s probably the reason people use that skill. Other than knocking the shield boys around so you can shoot 'em it’s not good for much else.

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#10

I love phaseslam anointments and the whole tree but being fracture doesn’t even trigger phaseslam anointments and phaseslam is more if a utility I don’t think they intended on us to have our cake and eat it too.

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#11

I have all 4 characters and I go back and forth frequently, but I love Amaras brawl tree. It makes her buff! Slam does need some help, but once we can invest more skill points into mystical assault her action skills will do a lot better! Even then though they need buffed, I agree! They also need to fix fracture, so that it procs ase anointed! I’ve heard it was broken and I still have yet to see anything about a fix, but they may have fixed it. I hope they have!

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#12

Atm working on a slam weapons focused build using the new dlc com to hopefully completly get rid of cool down already got two other amara’s one phase cast weapon user and one grasp damage linker

#13

Was doing exactly the same just yesterday and my performance was so horrible (compared to how I do with cast & grasp) I decided to give up unless I find better slam weapons. Don’t want to go to the trade forums begging for slam Brainstormers, Redistributors, and what-not. (I have +100% ASE versions of these I used but still did terrible.)

#14

It’s gonna take a lot to outdo the pure DPS capabilities of grasp and I’m not sure it’s coded in right now.

Spiritual Driver TTB/Stillness siren with Elemental Projector, three points in Mindfulness, and a Cutsman is almost a Breakneck Banshee BeeHawk that stops time and damages entire mobs.

If you can slam to get the buff then switch to grasp and have the buff still that’d be bananas but not sure how the cool down times shake out or if that’s even possible.

#15

My slam build here

300 Phaseslam Radiation Rowans Call.

Sticky Quasar with Rad ASE

Black Hole Shield with Melee ASE.

Golden Rule with points in Laid Bare and I think some crit bonuses to Jakobs. Idk.

Some kind of melee artifact. I don’t remember.

#16

Yeah but I have the meta grasp build and a phase cast build lol also my build may not compare to those but I’m not going any melee points just survivability and weapon skills plus a few slam augments still need to max this amara all my other amara’s and toons are maxed and thru normal and tvhm will need to tweak this build it’s going to be about my guns purely with slam there to buff me and my weapons will need to mess around a lot with it though lol you can technically snipe with slam as anoints say after phaseslam not after phaseslam damages some one I just need the right guns to suit the play style

#17

Nice yeah mine will not be melee focused at all lol I thought about it but I don’t like melee in this game it’s not real melee krieg has been the only proper melee character in all the bl games for me as he had a custom action melee skill that showed more than just one or two different strike animations

#18

Yeah but I play the way I want lol never even bothered with the spiritual driver com just not fussed nothing wrong with it but I had enough of cookie cutter builds from two years of wow “one of us one of us” lol

#19

Surprised people here agree with me.
Just to clarify I am not saying phase slam should be buffed without sacrificing something. Cooldown, weaker anointments or whatever. They should be aiming for something similar to fists of havoc from destiny 1 IMO. Medium cooldown with a load of high aoe damage. Plus the buffs which frankly I wouldn’t be upset about if they were dropped maybe 50%? Without doing the maths I’m just plucking numbers out the air though.
Good point about the extra skill points we will no doubt get in a dlc that will make her much more powerful but don’t forget the other characters and skill paths will all get that same advantage so relatively she will still be underpowered.
Anyway fingers crossed. I can always play moze instead though.

#20

I’ve tried a Amara melee build with phaseslam. I got killed a lot which is either I’m not used to melee builds, my build is weak or Phaseslam does little damage.

PS. Phasecast could do with a damage buff as well.

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#21

I am with you on that one. At least with the other characters there is some positive indication when you use your “super power” on a boss, not so much with Amara and Phasecast (maybe some sparks are present?). I would like at the least a Phasecast that could freeze a boss in place for say 5 seconds with an aura showing it is working.

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#22

I’ve been working on a pretty successful Splash Damage Build with Amara that “benefits” phase slam. It uses Phazerker & Splash Damage anoints to basically keep scaling action skill damage up after every use.

Splash Focused Allocation

With Samara & Splash Anointments almost any gun shreds through targets on M4. Also for the 8-10 seconds you don’t have an action skill the high health regen and burst damage keep you up and murdering things.

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#23

Imo amara melee just feels lackluster compared to the melee capable characters we had in the old games like Brick and Krieg. Playing a melee Amara just makes me miss those guys.

#24

What exactly are you comparing? Lvl 50 Brick vs Amara lvl 50 or M4? The same for Krieg.
For me melee is very capable and one of her best build. I cleared all the story on M4 without any issues.

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#25

I never said it wasn’t capable its strong but its just again in my opinion not nearly as fun as Brick who would get rid of his weapons and the left and right bumpers where your fists and you start knocking mofos out left and right or Krieg who goes crazy and takes his buzzsaw out and start making mince meat out of enemies. I just wish she had something like that you know.

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#26

IDK, I only liked Athena as melee in previous games, but Amara’s fists are very fun.

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#27

Cool video but I if i had describe the melee of Krieg and Brick its more like moze’s action skill where she hops in her mech it was a mode where it changes the way the character functions a bit more then just press button to melee but lets just leave it to a matter of taste.