Borderlands 4: Amon Overview

Amon was raised in a monster-worshipping cult until the Vault was opened and the creature turned on everyone he loved. As the only survivor, he dedicates his life to finding and killing as many of these beasts as he can.

He's a warrior-poet who is introspective and unflinching to his duty. Despite his hardened appearance, he has a warm attitude, often regaling comrades in arms with stories and advice earned throughout his travels.

As a Forgeknight, Amon uses Forge Drones to create amazing action skills. Whether it be up close and personal, or back at a distance, all playstyles are available to you.

Guns? Easy! Melee? You betcha! Ordnance? You know it! Action Skills? Absolutely!

Note: This guide was written pre-launch, so take everything with a grain of salt.

A Forgeskill acts like a secondary action skill with its own cooldown for either damage or utility. You can activate it by pressing and holding an action skill. Each forge skill is tied to the respective action skill and can be changed or enhanced from the Capstones in their trees.

Molten Slam

Tied to Onslaughter in the Calamity skill tree you have Molten Slam. Slam a Molten Forgehammer into the ground, dealing Incendiary Melee Damage to enemies in a large area.

You can enhance your Forgeskill with Molten Roil which will store your damage dealt and erupt into a flaming pyre. Another option is to replace Molten Slam with Hoarcleave or Stormcutter.

Firewall

Tied to Scourge in the Vengeance skill tree you have Firewall. Deploy a firewall that absorbs enemy projectiles and stores it into Vengeance if Scourge is active. Friendly projectiles that pass through it will gain increased damage and projectile speed.

Enemies near Firewall also take incendiary status damage over time. Ring of Frostfire can empower your Forgeskill to create a big dome. Alternatively, Firewall can be replaced with Glacial Rapture, or Wrathfall.

Double Edge

Tied to Crucible in the Cybernetics skill tree you have Double Edge. Throw a twinned Forgeaxe dealing cryo melee damage to enemies it passes through. Then it returns to Amon, dealing incendiary melee damage on the way back.

Enhancing Double Edge with Conflangarang restores Forgeskill cooldown based on enemies hit or detonations caused. Other choices include Snowmaul and Storm Surge.

Onslaughter - An up close and personal punch for a full-on melee damage build, or combine it with a gun for a hybrid build. Feel like a true Doomguy!

Consider enhancing your fists with Pyroclast, Thermal Diffusion, or Force of Nature to synergize better with your build. Or change it up with Fellfrost for a follow up attack, or Fulminating Fist for a Shock Melee wave.

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Scourge - Equip a shield to protect you from projectiles ahead and absorb the damage to stack Vengeance. Activate your giant whip to consume Vengeance for amazing damage!

You can enhance your whip with Blastchill, Cryonic Thrum, or Eternal Winter to align appropriately with your specific setup. Alternatively, use Stormlance to replace your whip with some spears, or Molten Rebuke to throw your shield just like Athena!

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Crucible - Use your mighty axes to throw or melee enemies for some great melee damage. Damaged enemies will be primed up to detonate on kill or be hit by your Forgeskill. EXPLOSIONS?!?!?! YES!!!!!

Axes can be amplified with Endless War, Axe and Stone, or Searing Cold to match your playstyle. Another option is Hour of the Hammer for some hammers, or Blade Tempest for some swords!

Amon has a lot of cool skills in his trees which makes him very appealing, both in terms of gameplay changes, and potential damage boosts.

Note: After in-game testing is done post launch, the skills listed here are likely to be updated.

Calamity Skill Tree - Themed around close combat with your guns and action skills.

Gut Punch and Maiming Strike - Grants a damage boost and reduces damage dealt by enemies.

Forged In Steel - Grants damage immunity.

Berserk - Gives cryo bonus element and slow immunity.

My Touch Is Death - Chance to activate kill skills from melee damage.

Rimebreak - A nova that instantly freezes enemies. Great for getting the melee damage boost vs frozen enemies, or just easy aggro relief for one point.

Into the Fray - Potentially a great damage boost.

Rearm - Regain ammo with a melee attack to promote a melee/gun hybrid.

Mortal Flare - Combine your weakness skills, Gut Punch and Maiming Strike, to deal a melee explosion on enemy kill.

Catastrophe and Electrical Fire - Combine for constant crit chance and crit damage uptime.

Fists of Stone - Promote Forgeskill spam.

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Vengeance Skill Tree - Focused around affinity skills which at base help your guns, but can also be used to deal more damage with melee, action skills, and ordnance. Very good for a do-it-all playstyle!

Tail of the Comet - Status Effect damage based on Ordnance damage dealt, enhancing your Scourge damage or just any Ordnance.

Bullet Hail - Tons of ricochets with your guns.

Burning Rage - Fire Affinity. Use it to buff your guns DPS, action skill cycling, or for its tied skill.

Worldbreaker - Tied to Burning Rage, promotes a fun melee slam playstyle. Combine with Cooling Mantle to activate it even more.

Icy Rage - Cryo Affinity. Use to buff your guns or for its tied skill.

Winter's Kiss - Tied to Icy Rage, promotes a playstyle with your Ordnance. Combine it with Caroming Shard to get ricochet chance! Remember that Scourge also counts as Ordnance damage.

Caroming Shard - Mentioned above with Winter's Kiss, but should also work with Bullet Hail for even more ricochets.

Thunderous Rage - Shock Affinity. Use to buff your guns and/or anything else that can crit, or to help with its tied skill.

Strike the Anvil - Tied to Thunderous Rage, promotes a playstyle with your Action Skill. Combine it with High Voltage for even more damage.

Smelter - Helps with your Forgeskill uptime.

Blackout - Allows Ordnance to crit. It's especially good if there are any Ordnances that cannot naturally crit, though I'm not sure if the shock part will be any good.

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Cybernetics Skill Tree - Focused a lot on priming enemies for detonation and the forgedrones to help deal damage with you. Lots of explosions and potentially some companion like gameplay available!

Tempered Pyre - Cryo Melee Drone to help deal damage for you.

Twin Tempers - Add a second Drone to Tempered Pyre, but this time in Fire with some reduced duration.

Bolt Action - Possibly a good bonus element with guns you reload often.

Tempered Ice - Cryo Melee Drone to help deal damage for you. Combine it with Ordained Hammer for it to also deal Ordnance Damage, and add more formula to make it even better.

Endless Bombardment - Allows for more uptime on Ordnance Grenades and/or Heavy Weapons.

Blast Furnace - Potentially a great damage boost.

Tempered Lightning - Shock Melee Drone to help deal damage for you.

Honed Point - Combine with all of the drone skills to help spam your action skill more often. You do not need to be focused on drone damage to take advantage of this.

Reactive Armor - Potential for some great Ordnance spam in a Crucible-focused Ordnance build.