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All Bounty Pack 5: Amara and The Vile Shadows Items Mechanics, Licenses & Best Rolls

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Updated on Sep 19, 2026
Sep 19, 2026

Overview

This guide is a work-in-progress.

The Borderlands 4 Bounty Pack 5: Amara and The Vile Shadows features 6 all-new Legendaries for players to find, and 4 rerollable Legendaries from Vault Card 5. Alongside this, there's also a new Pearlescent weapon in the Bounty Pack itself!

In this guide, I'll be breaking down the effects, acquirable licenses and the best rolls for each of these new items!

Many thanks to...

Girthquake, Grace, Iserrot, JoeForLong, Lango, Sinfector, wrw713, Nepta, Steveo, Mattmab, Jack and Leo for their contributions to the Gearology guides.

Weapons

AeroDramatic Torgue Shotgun

AeroDramatic

HA! BOOM BABY!

BOOM BAM - Shoots 2 rockets that explode after flying for few meters. Each rocket spawns 4 homing rockets.

Mechanics

  • Homing Rockets
    • Don't cause or benefit from On Hit Gun Damage... yet again.
    • They do benefit from On Shot Gun Damage and Amp.
    • They deal 1x Card Damage.

Rolls

  • Can be Kinetic.
  • Can be Elemental.

Note: COV gun rolls have specific useful synergies on certain characters' builds, namely C4SH and Rafa.

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

Vile Grasp

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

COV (Unlimited Mag)

Ripper (Charge Mag)

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

Atlas (Dart Underbarrel)

Atlas (Grenade Underbarrel)

Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader)

Maliwan (Element Switch Underbarrel)

  • Jakobs
  • Jakobs + Ripper
  • Jakobs + COV
  • Jakobs + Atlas
  • Jakobs + Daedalus
  • Ripper + Daedalus
  • Ripper + Atlas
  • COV + Daedalus
  • COV + Atlas
  • Maliwan + Preference

Clarity Maliwan Sniper Rifle

Clarity

It all makes sense now.

Epiphany - On fire, regain +10% of Shield Capacity

Mechanics

Rolls

  • Elemental only.

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

Vile Grasp

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

COV (Unlimited Mag)

Ripper (Charge Mag)

Atlas (Dart Underbarrel)

Atlas (Grenade Underbarrel)

Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader)

  • Jakobs
  • Jakobs + Ripper
  • Jakobs + COV
  • Jakobs + Atlas
  • Jakobs + Daedalus
  • Ripper + Daedalus
  • Ripper + Atlas
  • COV + Daedalus
  • COV + Atlas

Enumeration Ripper Submachine Gun

Enumeration

Let me count the ways...

Finite Set - Reloading refunds 50% of the magazine's spent ammo.

Mechanics

Rolls

  • Can be Kinetic.
  • Can be Elemental.

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

The Reject Prototype

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

COV (Unlimited Mag)

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

Atlas (Dart Underbarrel)

Atlas (Grenade Underbarrel)

Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader)

Maliwan (Element Switch Underbarrel)

  • Jakobs
  • Jakobs + COV
  • Jakobs + Atlas
  • Jakobs + Daedalus
  • COV + Daedalus
  • COV + Atlas
  • Daedalus + Preference
  • Maliwan + Preference

Flash Fuel Jakobs Assault Rifle

Flash Fuel

It's not the - it's the humidity.

Hot Flash - Damage scales with Heat. When Heat is greater than 50%, convert element to Incendiary.

Mechanics

  • The weapon receives up to 100% On Shot Gun Damage depending on Heat
  • At around 50% heat, the element is converted to incendiary.

Rolls

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

Vault Card 5

N/A

N/A

Pragmate Daedalus Shotgun

Pragmate

I'll guide this dagger into the heart of my enemy.

Praxis - On Hit, gain a stack of Praxis that increases the next instance of Melee Damage by +25%. Stacks up to 20 times.

Mechanics

  • Adds up to 500% (at 20 stacks) On Hit Melee Damage (Soup) to the next Melee Damage instance.

Rolls

  • Can be Kinetic
  • Can be Elemental

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

Hybrid Thresher

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

COV (Unlimited Mag)

Ripper (Charge Mag)

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

Atlas (Dart Underbarrel)

Atlas (Grenade Underbarrel)

Maliwan (Element Switch Underbarrel)

  • Jakobs
  • Jakobs + COV

Shield Overflow Daedalus Pistol

Shield Overflow

NOW EAT THIS SUCKA!

Overclock - On Hit, gain a small amount of Overshield

Mechanics

Rolls

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

Vault Card 5

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

COV (Unlimited Mag)

Ripper (Charge Mag)

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

  • Jakobs
  • Jakobs + COV
  • Jakobs + Ripper

Tempered Essence Vladof SMG

Tempered Essence

A patina of raw power.

Aura - Has a chance to fire a Fist that deals Melee and Grenade Damage.

Mechanics

  • Fist follows Card Damage as its base.
    • Benefits from On Shot Gun Damage, but not Amp
  • Gets Melee and Ordnance Soup, and can trigger effects that call for Melee/Ordnance.
  • 10% chance while firing to trigger a Fist.
    • Fist has a 5x pure multiplier to its damage.
  • Cannot trigger from underbarrel (tested on Zip Rockets only).
  • Jakobs Ricochet doesn't Ricochet Fist procs.
  • Fist can't double hit with T3 High Caliber.
  • Splash radius increases (at least from Enhancement) do not seem to increase Fist radius.

Rolls

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

Vault Card 5

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

Torgue (Impact Mag)

COV (Unlimited Mag)

Ripper (Charge Mag)

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

Atlas (Dart Underbarrel)

Atlas (Grenade Underbarrel)

Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader)

Maliwan (Element Switch Underbarrel)

  • Jakobs
  • Jakobs + Torgue
  • Jakobs + Ripper
  • Jakobs + COV
  • Jakobs + Atlas
  • Jakobs + Daedalus
  • Ripper + Daedalus
  • Ripper + Atlas
  • COV + Daedalus
  • COV + Atlas
  • Daedalus + Preference
  • Maliwan + Preference

Triplicate Vladof Assault Rifle

Triplicate

Did you actually aim for that?

Tripled - On hitting enemy gain stack of 'Tripled'. For each stack, spawn 1 Explosive Projectile near the hit enemy. Tripled stacks up to 20, each stack lasts 3s.

Mechanics

  • Explosive projectiles deal x0.75 Card Damage.
  • Jakobs Ricochets can spawn Explosive Projectiles.
  • No interaction with Tediore parts or Underbarrels.
    • Explosions don't seem to work with Torgue projectiles and the Fire Rate Underbarrel.

Rolls

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

The Reject Prototype

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Jakobs (Ricochet Accessory)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

Torgue (Impact Mag)

COV (Unlimited Mag)

Ripper (Charge Mag)

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

Atlas (Dart Underbarrel)

Atlas (Grenade Underbarrel)

Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader)

  • Jakobs
  • Jakobs + Preference

Wind Skimmer Jakobs Sniper Rifle

Wind Skimmer

The sky and the winds are mine.

Higher Ground - Shot cost reduced to 1 while in midair.

Mechanics

Rolls

Drop Source

Available Licenses & Parts

Best Rolls

Hybrid Thresher

Hyperion (Gun Shield)

Tediore (Throw on Reload)

  • Tediore reload variants

Hyperion (Accuracy Grip)

Atlas (Dart Underbarrel)

Atlas (Grenade Underbarrel)

Daedalus (Underbarrel/Multi-Loader)

  • Daedalus Shotgun

Ordnance

Alignment Order Grenade

Alignment

All in agreement?

Coordinated -

Mechanics

Rolls

Drop Source

Best Rolls

Vault Card 5

Preference

Repkits

Outburst Torgue Repkit

Outburst

You did what?!

Flare Up - On use, each Torgue Sticky immediately deals X Damage and provides additional Healing

Mechanics

Rolls

Drop Source

Best Rolls

Vile Grasp

Preference

Comments

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