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Vex Incarnate High DPS Levelling & Early Endgame Build [PLEASE READ]

presentationVex
presentationIncarnate
Leveling
End Game
Creator
Updated on Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025

Build Overview

BUILD BREAKDOWN

This vex build takes full advantage of Vex's high burst damage potential via Incarnate and very strong health sustain through optimising her Vexcalation toolkit. This build focuses solely on kinetic weapon damage which makes it highly convenient to build in the early game to level through the entire campaign with speed and ease! It also lends itself very well to Jakobs Shotgun, Jakobs Sniper, Jakobs AR, Jakobs SMG & Jakobs Pistol due to the passive synergising superbly with the playstyle and the subtle variations you can utilise during your playthrough.

The strength in this build lies in the fact it is very simple to play, it doesn't rely on the AI of your summons and it ramps up really impressively as you progress through to the latter stages of the campaign. It also allows you to experiment with different weapon types and play it slightly to your own tastes.

The backbone of this builds focuses on the synergy between Leeching Attunement, Bloodletter and Material Components in the early game, then later, this compounds heavily when Essence Leech & Blood Is Power come online. Landing critical hits with high damaging weapons is your goal here, huge single shot damage Jakobs Shotgun and Jakobs Sniper not only do MASSIVE damage but they also apply bleed through Bloodletter and since this procs does 30% damage per second rolled off the weapon that applies it, it is in our best interests to get the highest hitting single shots possible! The bleed ticks are huge when they proc so you can land headshots and often forget about the mob you've hit as it will bleed out. The ricochet that Jakobs weapons offer also lends itself superbly to this playstyle.

This also works superbly in terms of keeping us healed up with Essence Leech and hard hitting weapons. Popping your heal often is helpful to ensure you are getting the massive damage increase from Blood Is Power.

Use Incarnate whenever it is off cooldown and you are fighting spam down enemies using your phase explosion and Elditch Blast, weaving shots in between. This becomes incredible when Heartpiercer is live as you can spam Elditch Blast indefinitely. The phase explosion also heals you fully which is a nice addition.

WITCHY TRIGGER FINGER VS. GRAVE HARVEST

Start with Energy Vampire but as soon as possible you will need to make the decision between Witchy Trigger Finger or Grave Harvest. I've played both and I've come to the conclusion that it's really a matter of taste throughout the campaign. Essentially Witchy Trigger Finger will give you much tastier damage output where as Grave Harvest will give you much better sustain and arguably synergises better with Heartpiercer and of course Blood Is Power whihc needs max health to keep the +300 damage rolling in. During the levelling process and UHV 1 difficulty, you blow through everything so quickly it does not matter but if you are struggling with survivability definitely take Grave Harvest. If you're using SMGs or ARs, keep in mind that everytime you use Elditch blast when using Witchy Trigger Finger your weapon will auto-reload, this feels incredibly solid and can also be felt to a lesser degree with other weapons too.

SKILL POINT ORDER

Nice and simple here folks, all green!

5 Leeching Attunement

Energy Vampire

5 Bloodletter

5 Material Components

Grave Harvest or Witchy Trigger Finger

5 Grave Vitality

5 Essence Leech

Heartpiercer

3 Blood Is Power

I then chose to go into Blood Shot for further bleed and kinetic damage synergy but the jury is still out here. I will be exploring with rep kit skills such as Guns and Needlestoo to see if the syngery between Blood Is Power and the rest of the build is much better.

THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT THE GUIDE - THERE IS A VIDEO LINK :) YOU CAN ALSO SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL TO KEEP INFORMED!

https://www.youtube.com/c/PhaseShifter

MORE VEX BUILDS:

Insane Kinetic Deadeye Vex Endgame Build [PLEASE READ] - Borderlands 4 Build Guide

S-Tier Killskill & Firerate Vex Endgame Build [PLEASE READ] - Borderlands 4 Build Guide


Strengths And Weaknesses

  • Very Simple To Build
  • Fun & Active Playstyle
  • Extremely High DPS & Sustain
  • Levelling & Early Endgame Viable
  • Needs Kinetic Weapons To Shine (may be boring for some people!)
  • The Lifesteal Approach May Not Be To Everyone's Taste!

Skill Tree

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