BUFF TEST! - D.N.A, SF FORCE, MALAK'S BANE, RIPPER & TECHSPERT Before & After [Borderlands 3]

[@Muckowitch]

I love how the Techspert classmod is made for the Sentinel (blue skill tree) but only buffs green skills.

[@chamacocantones]

Poor Malaks Bane, they buff it just to make fun of it

[@IndigoStorm27]

The Malaks Bane is garbage. Change my mind.

[@badkazex4188]

@@IndigoStorm27 impossible

[@IndigoStorm27]

@@badkazex4188 Reality is often disappointing.

[@badkazex4188]

@@IndigoStorm27 very true

[@benjaminjohnson6936]

I wish the Ripper's special effect worked the opposite way - shoot to debuff, and affected enemies took more melee damage. Closing the distance just to step back again is just awkward. There's no reason to use the Ripper instead of Facepuncher or Psycho Stabber then if you're doing hybrid melee.

[@darthplagueis13]

Agreed

[@Butzebaer]

What I'd also like is it giving you general damage buff to the Ripper's bullets, after melee-ing a fool, instead of only applying the bonus damage to the person you just stabbed.

[@homword]

Dude that's actually a great idea. I'd love to see that change

[@brandonmyers1876]

They could add a melee dash too so it feels more fluid in combat.

[@waterstrik6205]

I feel like ripper should have been a shotgun.

[@cinderblazepokevids8239]

The sf force music notes gives a damage boost to the other element it comes with

[@sadfatdragon9529]

Problem with Zane is Seen' dead exists why keep the drone going when I can effectively turn kill skills into passive?

[@RazorusR3X777]

It should give the Drone increased damage. It would give it a cool niche for a drone damage focused build.

[@he-who-goobs1905]

Not only that but now the spy is a decent contender to seeing dead, and the infiltrator actually can do some strong but niche builds and executor isn't all that bad now so it makes techspert even less useful

[@megagreatgodlywhiteshark2929]

Give us legit raid bosses to test these buffed gear stuff lol!👌🙏🏼😂

[@sonicsucks2961]

@@megagreatgodlywhiteshark2929 We already have 4.

[@cosmic12321]

@@RazorusR3X777 Should boost dmg to Drone to something like 30-50% or allow the drone to drop multiple nades for free. Like 2-3 instead of 1 when its nade skill procs (every 15 sec iirc).

[@palindromeadept7937]

I really hope they buff the Phoenix tears artifact at some point. Imagine if on second wind it doubled your health and shield until you went down again, Or a very cool gimmick idea would be if you go down you would be instantly revived but with less and less health each time until you hit zero and just bleed out right away.

[@sadfatdragon9529]

Personally I'd be happy if they just added a free revive and add a long cooldown to the Phoenix tears, would at least make sense with the name. Other things that'd be nice is perhaps a fire nova when you go down. Really just about any addition would help the phoenix tears its sad a guardian rank perk makes the phoenix tears pointless.

[@katonbot]

@@sadfatdragon9529 there's an artifact from dlc5 that revives you and buffs you for 60 secs lol

[@sadfatdragon9529]

@@katonbot Oh so they gave the effect the phoenix should've gotten to a DLC item........ sure gearbox. Well at least the phoenix can keep its crown of the most pointless artifact in the series.

[@Mattier]

Nothing gonna be as good as Plasma Coil for a while... at least till the next DLC...

[@ubungalungajunga206]

No cap it’s just the best gun in the game

[@matteochiari4645]

Man opq system still the overall most stronger weapon ever seen in bl3, plasma coil cant beat It, im waiting april for it

[@SkylerRapier0]

Oh without question. Im using a while sntnl active gain 100% cryo on it and it just melts.

[@goldenhate6649]

I prefer the boogeyman but only on moze. But dlc 5 weapons are flatout too strong overall

[@SkylerRapier0]

@@goldenhate6649 i think dlc 5 have the best weapons overall.

[@mi6boy]

Dude we need the pitchfork to replace the maliks bane

[@arr0w769]

i just want the pimpernell

[@rangermidjo3948]

@@arr0w769 hell yeah dude that would be awesome.

[@extrashifty578]

i want a buzzaxe grenade mod

[@ghostridernz17]

@Zemmy pitchfork is in the game tho? I remember using it

[@grimthedeathlord8998]

@@ghostridernz17 nope. The pitchfork has never been in bl3 before

[@AkagiRyza]

Well from the looks of it, the DNA was surprisingly the one that seemed to perform the best compared to everything else, and it might actually become a good flipper substitute with a good build now

[@sonicsucks2961]

Nope. Shoots random elements and less ammo efficient.

[@doviikin_4117]

@@sonicsucks2961 its a good substitute for people without the dlc or for people who haven't finished the dlc

[@dr6054]

SF force seems like a better option

[@ghostridernz17]

@@sonicsucks2961 but like the persom said. A substitute..

[@moorewa7]

can’t wait to be able to try all these buffs. haven’t been able to play in about a week

[@logangrantham3203]

Number 160!! Been so late lately! Love ya man! I am excited to test the DNA. I really like that gun

[@WitchVulgar]

Just add a version of SNTNL Cryo that works when you switch weapons (maybe a different element, maybe it stacks with the currently existing SNTNL Cryo, too) and the Techspert is buffed into being usable

[@chaosdragon6922]

They should change the ripper to enemys take more damage from all sources be a great debuffing tool

[@megagreatgodlywhiteshark2929]

2:02 So d.n.a is gunna be more stronger then cutsmen lol?

[@serajibrahim1955]

Any realize how fucking great the General Traunt music is after farming the DNA?

[@joshthatpandaguy5025]

Techspert would need a complete rework to be viable in my opinion. With seeing red and swing dead action skills are almost permanent so it gets kinda redundant at that point. Happy they are still buffing thing though.

[@mikehousley757]

Athenas is PERFECT for testing. There are good mobs, stairs, lots of heavies, ziplines, AND a boss at the end. It's money and it doesn't even know it.

[@energeticgorilla]

It’s way to easy in my opinion, I can take a super ball to athenas and shred the enemies

[@alexghazarian1144]

Still boggles my mind till now that GB hasn't touched any of Amara's other class mods. Other than phasezerker, spiritual driver or kensei COMS, her other COMs are utterly useless. I'd love to see what a buffed elementalist class mod could do tbh

[@grimreaper63151]

8:44 I know this video is 6 months old so idk if you've gotten a full-auto version since that point but yeah it can come in full auto. I've gotten a few in the past

[@seantheweirdo1815]

One anointment that I think they should do something with is the Amara specific one that gives rad damage. They probably should change it to something like cryo instead and make it effect ALL damage she does. Action skilll, gun,melee and grenade. They should also give less used guns some love too. Like the quadromizer and such. Not the ones they’ve buffed to high hell and are STILL pretty bad. They should just assign them to a certain enemy and leave them there. If someone wants to try them they can go get them. They don’t need to be. Everywhere ya know

[@alfreddrewes9362]

I think they need to buff the ammo capacity for Sniper Rifles. It feels like having 160 in reserves just isn't enough. Especially with weapons like the Sandhawk which chew through ammo so quickly.

[@theninja2k14]

Laughs in ammo regen moze

[@deepergodeeper7618]

sorry i miss your streams from the past few days been busy can wait for tomorras stream

[@extrashifty578]

if only cartel was open, would be a fun map to test things

[@enyboy123]

Im glad the dna is at least "doing work" now, i like the concept of using a weapon that shoots all the necessary elements... Leaves room for anointments

[@FFF24-7]

The sf force fires se ondary projectiles of the non selected element which do the damage I believe. Hence why selecting corrosive worked better on the shields.

[@ethanfuego9648]

Makes sense

[@truepolar7396]

Usually I watch joltz to know what's changed Then the next day I watch k6 to see how it's changed Can't believe k6 liked me Thx so much

[@Quagomancer]

Gentlement, ladies, and boys were greeted in the intro, but not cats wearing birthday hats. I'm sad

[@Reeses7501]

I want the techspert class mod to focus on sntl damage and be able to spawn 2 drones when u activate the action skill. Replace the 35% reset to targets take 35% more damage from all sources when targeted by sntl drones. Change the skill bonus to skills people actually WANT. Boom, there's our tech summon build.

[@Kestila]

This was nice and cozy to watch, very solid!

[@wisemx]

Very much appreciated bro.

[@thepicusfocus]

Me owning a +5 techspert: Happy tears, because of a buff. Me now: Still crying.

[@moorewa7]

um why tho.... just use a seein dead

[@thepicusfocus]

@@moorewa7 I do, it is just that having different options would be cool.

[@energeticgorilla]

@@thepicusfocus then use infiltrator or spy lol

[@ethanfuego9648]

There is a full auto version of the ripper. I have one and it actually does do work for me, even without a good annoint.

[@bonjoev2781]

Just used maleks bane on my frozen zane. It did pretty damn good with the clone having it too actually bad ass than I ran out of ammo.

[@Slightly.Lost.]

Maybe the SF force had a hotfix issue, where one beam is getting the buff, and one beam is not? That would be my only guess as to why the Shock wasn't ripping shields, and the corrosive was melting everything.

[@FFF24-7]

I'm gonna slap on a cutpurse white elephant and rock the Ripper. I always felt that gun was one of the best ideas for a legendary in the game, it was just poorly executed. Hopefully it's now worth using

[@rudrod95_41]

White elephant and kensei Gotta get one for my amara

[@cmdrravenwulff5272]

Cutpurse with facepuncher = infinite ammo

[@FFF24-7]

@@cmdrravenwulff5272 I know but it gets pretty samey after a while. If the Ripper is now usable at high mayhem it adds a whole new dimension to any melee build

[@cmdrravenwulff5272]

@@FFF24-7 I'm all for more melee based weapons, more variety definitely is a bonus

[@Ravenjim93]

The only thing that can save techspert is if they give it CCC. Seeing as Spy has a capstone on, this isnt too much to ask.

[@studentwhoworries]

I think the SF Force in Shock is bugged. There's footage of the DNA also not registering body shots too, so Gearbox still has some fixing to do...

[@hazinithegreat203]

They should bring the 3 Way Hulk to bl3

[@mayabestsiren]

That class mod seems like it would work great with Zane's perk (can't remember the name) that activates kill skills on Action Skill activation, but it needs to boost better perks :/ no point grinding for a good roll if its boosting perks you wouldnt put points in anyways

[@goldenhate6649]

It looks like they buffed the main beam of the sf force but not be alt fire for some reason, so you’d need one of every main color Biggest thing for the ripper, it should do melee damage when the enemies bleeding. Basically a facepuncher smg

[@TheCodemanc4]

The SF Force corrosive beam seems to be the only beam they patched, the Shock beam seems to have the base damage

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Malak's Bane does have one use generating ammo when Moze somehow runs out of Bogeyman

[@NotTeko]

Damn nice video and not streched out for too long

[@BridgitteBaker]

the electric damage on the one gun looks unbuffed compared to the corrosive maybe?

[@talonreiif3707]

In my opinion, the Ripper needs more than just a damage boost. It seems decent, but I think it should have something that REALLY sets it apart as a Legendary gun. There is a ton of potential for a really fun, unique gun here. I'd say give more melee damage bonus, give it a "Bleed" DoT on successful melee hits, and/or even a bit of movement speed boost. Or, make melee'd enemies take more damage from ALL damage sources (gives it a unique utility), or deal substantially more melee damage on successive melee hits (rewards sticking with a melee playstyle, and the risks and dangers of going for melee attacks). Also in my opinion, Dahl legendary guns with Burst should function like the Night Hawkin's Burst fire mode. Just my two cents on a Legendary gun that I've always been interested in.

[@robbob1866]

You missed that the SF Force elemental DoT is 5 times it's original which is the same as the damage increase

[@Pedone_Rosso]

A thought: the Ripper might be quite good when you use it on Fadeaway Fl4k. Good enough to make a build out of it? We'll see about that. Thanks for your videos!

[@ethanfuego9648]

Your thought is correct. I have a ripper and its good with fadeaway

[@ichigosson]

i feel like the sf force's corrosive beam was buffed but the shock one stayed at the previous damage stat just my theory, very likely i'm wrong

[@lazarusguan2388]

Something is wrong with the shotgun mode of Malak's bane after the buff. It was a lot more powerful before the buff coz I use it as a shotgun that consumes sniper ammo along with my other shotguns. And based on how the SF Force worked in this video.... it seems like the hotfix is bugged.

[@artius2993]

The Shock mod on the SF Force looked like it wasn't shooting a laser.

[@Svydnar]

Would love to see the melee damage on the ripper get a buff. Meleeing enemies to shoot them feels just so clunky to do with the delay between those actions.

[@angeleyes5186]

You had the techspert mod on the whole time?! That’s it I’m watching joltz’ video.

[@UnusHonorabilis]

Lol Joltz would never make this mistake

[@BreitheNua]

Yeah even just looking at the buff the Malak's Bane got, I had a feeling it wasn't going to be enough with how bad it was. It definitely needs something more, you're right. The question is, what? Speaking of weapon buffs, why haven't GB just given all non-anointable weapons the ability to be anointed? So many cool weapons that are just useless at endgame because they can't be anointed (Seventh Sense, Amazing Grace, Ice Queen, Brashi's Dedication [yes it's a blue but the effect is cool and I wanna see what it can do], etc).

[@toast8294]

Hey this looks familiar

[@BenG6509]

Does anyone know where I can find a Zane class mod that has to increased weapon damage and health regen? I already have one, but I’m looking for a stronger one

[@thee_morpheus]

I thought they would send the Bane through the roof, still pretty weak

[@connorleonard6075]

just a heads up there is a full auto version of the ripper and i think with the buff it will be exceptional obviously not the best but exceptional

[@badkazex4188]

On kronencker here's stream on twitch we discovered a cool interaction with the ripper dunno know if anyone else knows of it, but on Zane it's crazy

[@rayandopayne5500]

Fishslap

[@badkazex4188]

@@rayandopayne5500 and stinger

[@juncho1977]

When you said meme gun during the Hotfix video, I thought you were talking about the Superball! 🤣

[@scruples]

I got a Cor/Rad SF Force, and the weapon deals four times the damage when Cor mode is active (even against shields). The weapon might be bugged.

[@Ki11ersix]

Yeah we’ve reported it

[@michaelfourie2534]

Techspert: change skills and add +50% SNTL damage on cool-down??(Or some additional buff along with the cool-down)

[@anirbansen5755]

k6 you didn't notice SF force weapon damage is also increased. Before SF force has 52% weapon damage & now it has 662% weapon damage.

[@MarcelloForTheWin]

i wonder if the stinger nova applies the bleed of the ripper. Bloodthirsty build incoming?

[@Epideme16]

Doesn’t the ripper have an alt fire mode? As he’s talking about the burst fire, I see the option to take it off burst fire XD

[@theredpillneo2296]

Idk if you’ll see this but can ps5 and ps4 play together and if yes how cuz I have no idea and it doesn’t seem to work

[@dillonlaney1520]

Hey K6 looks to me the notes and orbs have hidden damage values. Could possibly have splash bonus’ of some sort.

[@joseorellana2014]

Do you think they should increase amount of sniper ammo we can carry too?

[@kargando8482]

They should make the shotgun on Malak’s Bane explosive giving birth to explosive, like the swordsplosion from BL2

[@johnsohn8972]

I purpose additional Malek's bane buff -increased projectile speed on both modes -shotgun mode has percentage chance of returning sniper ammo instead of consuming ammo from main magazine -Uses Dahl AR scopes -shotgun shots now penetrates like sniper shots -sniper shots are now full auto idea is to malek's bane to behave like battle rifle rather traditional sniper rifle and swap between the modes to keep ammo going and pls tell me who the hell is malek is I am 100 hrs into the game and still has no idea what this gun is referencing.

[@cathywulf7398]

If you see this gearbox up the fire rate give a bit more damage and a 2 bullet variant and more mag

[@falltea4816]

The only use I’ve found for the m bane is with warden using the shotgun mode with crit Fl4k. Was still bad ....

[@yoavziv69]

Great video. At the same time it is not clear to me why you use zane if everything is good on him?

[@curitycamera4909]

Wait how do you have level 65 dna (if it's possible to get still I didn't know)

[@lazerbeam9900]

Seems more like some stuff would be ok if you got it as world drop early on just how ive seen them when i used them

[@extrashifty578]

nooo we were not suppose to pick up the Malak's bane when it drops

[@smashk8987]

Who woulda thought we’d be saying that the D.N.A is actually good

[@SherpaOfSkunk]

burst fire guns only playthrough on bl2?

[@IndigoStorm27]

Sometimes I wonder, how does K6 get these screenshots prior to the buffs? Does he have a man on the inside? Does he travel to the future to get his info? Does he just screenshot all his weapons info just on the chance some of them get buffed? Now I'm curious.

[@darthplagueis13]

Generally speaking the patch notes are released hours before the patch comes out and creators in the partner program sometimes get them early. Plus, you could still just play offline to get a picture of the values without any hotfixes.

[@IndigoStorm27]

@@darthplagueis13 I thought there would be more of a mystery. Instead I got mundane. Curse you random KZbin goer.

[@Neotrinity7]

I feel like shock 'laser beams' are just bugged in that they tried to design it like an actual electric shock instead of a thick beam and it just doesn't scale to mayhem mode the same way that other elements with the thicker beam...

[@marvinscheer1028]

It's not just shock, it's the second element that doesn't work I just got a cryo/fire and it's the same

[@zacharylona]

Not sure they coded both modes to get the damage increase with the SF Force.

[@not-tsukiyomi5330]

The primary element on Sf Force got the 400% damage boost

[@chrislively9230]

the sf force may be bugged where the secondary firing mode isn't affected by the buff

[@evenjared5762]

Ripper on jabCross Amara?

[@1nsane89]

the sf force not doing damage with the other element, might be a bug where the buff only affected the main element.

[@azzrinickthegamingangel9121]

Idk why but I'm not a fan of the plasma coil. Remember when, "zane being zane" didn't exist cause he hadn't realized his full potential. Dna now on par with backburner and monarch. Maybe the sd force is like that because the buff only goes for the one firing mode and not the other?

[@patricktalbot6725]

Is the stinger + ripper combo working ?

[@Svydnar]

Techspert just needs a redesign. There's other better ways in Zane's skill trees alone that reset or add duration to STNL drone that makes this classmod irrelevant no matter how high you buff that number.

[@DELUXEmenu]

So sf force only got buffed on first mode...

[@tylerhippensteel9727]

I could see the ripper doing work on amara especially with personal space

[@frankiecedeno3724]

If you gotta make like 10 disclaimers about how broken Zane is maybe use Fl4k? Also the biggest meme is the Tunguska. Can’t even use it in normal mode, I’ve tried.

[@davidguerrero941]

It's been almost a year since Cartel Event. Who wants to farm a 65 OP Q System?

[@borderlandsdude3543]

I dont have any of the weapons in stash... I need to get me a few

[@begollyawm8439]

I wonder how the ripper would do on a clone melee build.

[@nicokappeller]

Does the ripper passive work when u shoot the facepuncher and THAN the ripper?

[@darthplagueis13]

That doesn't seem very practical. You'd have to shoot the facepuncher and swap to the ripper to maybe get the debuff applied and I think even with perfect timing it might be near impossible to pull off.

[@Ms.miragev1]

has the sf forces buff been applied to the secondary firing mode?

[@Ki11ersix]

Nope

[@Muckowitch]

What if you gave Zanes clone a Facepuncher and use a Ripper? Would that work?

[@Ki11ersix]

Nope.

[@Muckowitch]

@@Ki11ersix Too bad, it might have made it usable.

[@theundeadsquirrel9153]

theres a full auto ripper but i dont think it has x2 damage

[@Aderon]

You know it's bad when a gun isn't fun on Zane: The Malak's Bane just isn't a serviceable sniper, there's nothing it does that other snipers, including most Vladov epics can't do better.

[@ghostridernz17]

Then again he was using techspert if he had seeing dead it prolly woulda been uhhhh ok lol

[@isildurfour]

i think most green snipers are gonna outperform the bane

[@RazorusR3X777]

Yeah the alt fire on the SF force is bugged I guess and doesnt get the damage buff. If they gave the Maleks more projectiles it be a little more interesting.

[@darthplagueis13]

I think they forgot a 0 when entering the damage buff for the MB