BL3 Blog 202012 - 202102 Guardian Takedown

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Published on February 15, 2023 9:07:48 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMl1H2tkku8

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Borderlands 3 (2019)

Duration: 6:01

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FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING
There's nothing particularly special about this video compared to others with this warning; BL3 is just a very flashy game.

Some audio has been removed in an attempt to filter out background noise or awkward volume adjustments from switching to a different output device.
FFMPEG mysteriously mishandled synchronizing the audio this time, as well.

As usual, all builds shown are my own, and all content is played on the hardest difficulty, except perhaps a few clips where griefers started a quest before I could turn on "True" mode. For those few clips, the tactics shown are known to still apply to "True" mode.

The 1st clip in this video is a quick demonstration of my ability to edit the crystal charge amounts using Cheat Engine using an auto assembler script I wrote.
The next few clips are just...wacky stuff that resulted in me getting launched. I ascend to godhood even when I don't mean to, apparently.
Everything after that is just me dunking on the takedown at the level 65 cap with no DLC gear or skills are used, as I didn't have them available to me at the time.

Here's a quick summary of what's happening:

- White Elephant and HHB anoint not nerfed yet
- Overkill damage from White Elephant and Hollow Point explosions (which are from White Elephant or Remnant headshot kills) goes into Groundbreaker
- White Elephant damage boosted by "crit swapping" to an Unforgiven pistol
- Groundbreaker damage is enough to one shot piles of enemies with slams, or distant things with a Face-puncher shot, or nearby things with a regular melee, including raid boss health segments
- Hollow Point itself is also erasing raid boss HP segments
- Groundbreaker can also be filled with DOT damage, and the damage from the anoint that makes DOTs explode, which can be very high when a Stinger is used with an Unleash the Dragon (shown vs. Scourge, as Amara)
- Fl4k can spam freeze to more easily headshot, while also getting melee vs. frozen bonus for White Elephant
- Zane's Brain Freeze could help similarly, but might interfere with dipping into the HHB anoint twice if follow up shots to frozen enemies were made
- Fl4k's Gamma Burst makes pets invincible, so his He Bites! skill makes pets reflect Anathema's nova damage back into the boss, ending its phases instantly
- Moze can Hollow Point hard with railgun headshots, ending boss phases easily with it

Also, the White Elephant nerf was really not justified, which I mention in the link below.

Here's a link to a more in depth explanation of what's happening in these clips:

https://pastebin.com/9mFuSLaB

YouTube is really being dishonest with their character limits. It says it's out of 5000, but only allows around 3500. Stay evil, Google, I guess?

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