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Borderlands 4 Build

Green Tree Leveling

Amon

Crucible

Leveling

Creator

By AncientRune

Updated on Sep 12, 2025

Sep 12, 2025

Build Overview

DISCLAIMER: This is all theoretical without any experience in the game. This is focused on using all things in a playthrough. If you find a gun or an ordnance or action skill that you really like then you can adjust things to focus more on that.

This leveling build is all about using Crucible with all of its augments and capstones. As well as using all tools for damage including guns, melee, ordnance, and action skills.

I am looking forward to using Hour of the Hammer and Snowmaul but that is just personal preference.

Skill Tree

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IMPORTANT: Move all points of Vital Organs into Gathering Storm. As of 9/3 there is a bug where you need 5 points into T3 skills to go to the branches so that's why it's like that.

Because of its focus of the Forge Drones with this skill tree, the build will be slightly more melee damage focused. This is also assuming the Forgedrones also do good damage. We do not go full Forge Drone damage as you will see with Masterwork and Escalation just going 1 point to continue.

If the Forge Drones lack in damage while in a playthrough then points can be moved elsewhere but you will want at least 1 point in each drone still as we also take advantage of Honed Point to get our Action Skill cooldown back faster.

Incase of lack of damage with Forge Drones:

Move 4 points of Tempered Pyre into anything that looks nice. If you reload a lot then Bolt Action looks promising. Destruction Engine also looks promising. I wouldn't go Vital Organs as you can mainly just hit the crit spots with your guns right now. Bellows might not be worth it if you cannot spam your Forge Skill enough.

Remove points from Ordained Hammer and Masterwork as well as 4 points from Tempered Ice. Put those points into Cacophony and Endless Bombardment. You will 1 have skill point left when reaching the capstone. Either put that into maxing one of the skills mentioned before OR put it into Honed Point.

Move 4 points from Tempered Lightning and max out Blast Furnace then put the rest of the points into either Lightning Rod or Armor of Contempt. Lightning Rod seems to have a long cooldown for what it does so it might not be worth it so going Armor of Contempt could be better.

Flexible Skill Points:

Endless Bombardment is just something that seems potentially cool with the Ordnance return but not a must have.

Permafrost may not be worth it if you cannot consistently freeze enemies. Wildheart, Freezer Burn, and Reactive Armor are all great alternative choices.