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A.M.O.K. lvl 60

Amon

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By GIRTHQUAKE

Updated on Mar 24, 2026

Mar 24, 2026

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Amon Anti Material Ordnance Knight Amon

Have you ever thought to yourself "Man guns and such are cool, but I'd love to actually be throwing massive energy waves made of ice!"

Of course you have. That's why you're playing Amon.

Anti Material Ordnance Knight offers blazing fast mobbing times and shockingly potent bossing. In a game HEAVILY balanced for guns this build stands at the top of Action Skill builds by being able to complete Borderlands 4's hardest content.

Gearbox's newest content release, Legend of the Stone Demon, brought us Ordonite Processors. This is by far the most difficult mobbing content we've seen yet. This Action Skill focused build is able to keep up with the best of the gun builds and COMPLETE TUVH6 ORDONITE PROCESSOR WITHOUT EVER FIRING A SHOT!!!!!

TUVH6 READY!

UVH6 Platinum Bloomreaper capable!

This overview will go over 2 separate variants of the build - a Status Effect version and a Berserk version. After the Stone Demon DLC was released 1 major issue became apparent in that we can't apply DOTs to Ordonite and Vile Crystals. Because of this I've added a variant that leverages Berserk with a Shatterwight Class Mod for crystals.

Gearbox has commented on the issue, but the build already got delayed by it once so until then the Berserk variant is the answer.

Build 1 - Status Effect Variant has faster clear times and higher bossing peaks but stalls out on certain mechanics. This build takes advantage of 3 different class mods depending on the situation.

Build 2 - Shatterwight Variant is not slowed down by crystals but has slower bossing times, especially against Red Bar enemies

ALL YOU NEED TO SWAP BUILDS IS A CLASS MOD CHANGE AND A RESPEC

Gameplay Loop

Status Effect

Shatterwight

The gameplay for both builds is simple! Activate your skills and get to throwing these massive blasts at whatever enemy is unfortunate enough to be on your list of decisions today!

THE ONLY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO VERSION'S GAMEPLAY IS THAT THE SHATTERWIGHT VERSION REQUIRES FIREWALL FIRST AND DOES NOT SPEC Freezer Burn!

Neither version is practically affected by these changes but the notes are needed for optimizations.

Mobbing

Use Firewall in a position that allows you good visibility on the area. Firewall is a pure mult to all projectiles, sending your Forgewaves through gets you a big bump in DPS.
Activate Scourge
Begin swinging your Whips towards groups of enemies
Eternal Winter is mainly what keeps your action skill going in combat, meaning positioning yourself to get multiple hits in at once is both beneficial to DPS output AND uptime of the build. More hits gives better refill and faster clears at the same time, giving your skill duration to clear an entire vault platform. Supplement downtime with Warrior's Cup.
Watts 4 Dinner will count get filled by The Best Defense and Siphon parts, providing extra procs of skills

Bossing

Take advantage of the powerful Bonus Damage offered by Protean Cell
Using the shield makes you extremely squishy AND removes health gate - be careful
Until you get used to Protean - Watts 4 Dinner is your next best bet.
There are 3 categories of utility weapons here:
- Debuff
- Mantra
- Maliwan DOT
I take advantage of all 3 throughout the clips, for peak bossing damage like what I've displayed you will need to swap weapons while juggling dodges, firing, and throwing crit knives
- Yes, it's a VERY involved rain dance. I like it. I understand that not everyone wants a build like this.
- It is not a simple routine, you were warned

Put Firewall where you need it
Pop Scourge
Slam for Protean
Use Repkit while in mid slam to skip the animation
Fire Target Marker Debuff
Swap to Cryo/Fire Mantra
Shoot the boss with the element you need for Freezer Burn
Throw Crit Knives while shooting
Assuming you were able to do all of this within 5 seconds and got all your buffs going - WHIP
Adjust position as needed but always attempt to stay near Firewall and Whip THROUGH it
Firewall will HELP keep you alive through Protean as well as buff your damage.

NOTES

The Mantra will also double Executioner so you don't have to wait for Forgedrones to reach the boss, the Forgedrones will then sustain the effect
You can throw Crit Knives while shooting
Try and aim Forgewaves down through enemies when they're close - but don't give up Firewall to do so

Skill Tree

Status Effect

Shatterwight

Points Spent 0 / 59

LMB Allocate

RMB Unallocate

2/5

5/5

2/3

5/5

4/5

5/5

Vengeance

Scorched Kairos soup for Forgewaves

The Thrill is a strong healing skill

Tail of the Comet is a double dipped DOT

Warrior's Cup is used with a Triple Bypass to keep your actions kill going

Blackout is a 2nd double dipped DOT

Cybernetics

Executioner Crit Damage from skill tree gets multiplied by 1.5 from Fragmentation Payload. At 5/5 this is 120% soup on a crit with FP

Calamity

What Burns Within soup for RI

Wield the Storm soup for all DOTs

Gut Punch debuff soup

Tritanium Knuckles moving down the tree - small soup

Forged In Steel keeps you alive in bossing with Protean

Catastrophe Global Crit Chance and big crit soup

Crackling Aegis behaves as a double dip. effectively 54% soup for DOTs

Electrical Fire more dot for your DOT

- notes on Electrical Fire

The single instance numbers for this skill can be impressive, but its 2 second Internal Cooldown is sometimes detrimental on Ordnance builds. Whips in particular will get an EF proc on almost every DOT though since their rate of....fire? is low enough that you'll at a minimum get more DOT every other crit. Since crit rate isn't 100% realistically you get an EF DOT every crit.

When you have both Raging Inferno and Blackout specced Electrical Fire will always trigger off of the Raging Inferno DOT

Equipment

Status Effect

Shatterwight

Weapons

Repkit & Ordnance

Utilities

Repkit Triple Bypass

With Accelerator!!!

The Triple Bypass is by far the most important piece of gear in the build. Not only does it allow you to abuse Warrior's Cup, but it lets you use Now With Caffeine to be back in Scourge almost immediately. If you Farm a Triple Bypass with Accelerator on it you can be back in Scourge in 3 uses.

Class Mods

Because of Action Skill scaling in BL4 we need to take advantage of everything we can to make Skill builds viable. We have 4 gun slots available but only 1 com, that makes skill builds at a disadvantage right off the bat when it comes to different health bar types.

Luckily this build takes advantage of Status Effects in all 3 elements to get around that. The class mod isn't make or break for the build but Optimizing boss kills does depend more on it.

Equip the class mod that best fits the boss you're fighting. All 3 DOT skills specced can be pushed up to 10/5, so using your better judgement is best.

Grenadier with +5 Blackout

Best pick when the boss has at least half shields. The crit chance from Blackout also benefits your other DOT skills too so this COM is a bit more Flexible. Unless Shield only makes up a small portion of the health bar this will USUALLY be the go-to COM. Inceptus is fastest with 10/5 Blackout.

Icebringer with +5 Tail of the Comet

Typically used on fully Armored Bosses as well as Radix.
Status Chance can also be helpful for Tail of the Comet

Furnace with +5 Raging Inferno

Best used against Flesh bosses such as Sol, Backhive, or Bloomreaper
Ideal 2nd passive roll is Skill Damage
Raging Inferno's crit chance will benefit your other DOTs as well

Class Mod Passives

Skill Damage
Elemental Damage
Status Damage
All Damage
Ordnance Damage
Action Skill Damage
Status Chance
Skill Crit Chance
Ordnance Crit Chance

Enhancements

Enhancements are entirely for guns but due to some jank this build can actually take advantage of some specific passives and rolls on MALIWAN ENHANCEMENTS SPECIFICALLY

Transfuser - the star of the mobbing show

When you kill an enemy under the effect of a DOT that matches the element of the Maliwan gun you're holding it this Enhancement will spread your gun's DOT to 3 nearby enemies
Both Blackout and Raging Inferno can be used in combo with this
Since shock DOTs on guns are substantially higher this is best used with a Shock Stellium

Synthesizer - some gravy

It gives all of your DOTs 25% soup when you hold a Maliwan gun. It's just nice.

Primed Potency - saves your ass

If you go down having a Primed Potency on with Stellium or Sweet Embrace makes getting back up MUCH easier

Enhancement Passives

Gun Splash Damage - is very funny and applies to most things when you hold a splash weapon, including your DOTs
- The only thing it doesn't apply to is Forgewaves specifically
- But Lances and Molten Rebuke DO get it
- Is a double dipped passive on everything but Forgewaves
Gun Status Damage - applies to your 3 skill DOTs as well, same as Synthesizer
- Specific Gun Status such as Shotgun or Sniper DOES NOT
Weapon Handling - makes the rain dance easier

Weapons

Using the same tech leveraged in my DOT shot build you can get away with minimal investment in guns while still having a DPS option for the few seconds of downtime.

STELLIUM - NON UNIQUE Maliwan shotgun with abnormally high DOT

Debuff weapon underbarrel - either a Ripper Sniper or Jakobs pistol

Mantra - used to activate Freezer Burn on and Smelter on their respective variants