The Best Harlowe Build Borderlands 4

Harlowe The Gravitar is a class in Borderlands 4 that utilizes Maliwan technology during battle. Whether it’s with her flux generator, HALO Accelerator, or her CHROMA Accelerator, Harlowe specializes in covering the most ground on the battlefield through elemental and skill damage. In past Borderlands titles, this type of role is usually paired with the Siren class; however, this upbeat scientist is taking up that mantle, while this year’s Siren Vex utilizes companions instead. With 3 different Action skills, each with its own class, gamers might be overwhelmed with how they would like to level up Harlowe. While being capable in both offense and defense, here is the best Harlowe build in Borderlands 4

Vault Hunter Trait: Whenever Harlowe uses her action skill on enemies, those enemies become entangled. This means that enemies share a portion of gun damage and skill damage with all other entangled enemies.

Creative Burst

Using her CHROMA Accelerator, Harlowe fires an unstable energy pocket that passes through enemies while dealing cryo damage. Pressing the action skill will explode the unstable energy pocket and deal heavy radiation damage in a large area.

Capstone Abilities

• The Shattering Light – CHROMA Accelerator gains Charges as Harlowe keeps it readied for the Duration of CHROMA Accelerator or until all Charges are used. Holding the Action Skill ends The Shattering Light early and refunds a portion of the Cooldown for every Charge remaining.
• Demon Core – As Harlowe’s Unstable Energy Pocket travels, it shoots Radiation Darts at enemies. Whenever Harlowe Entangles an enemy while her Action Skill is active, automatically Irradiate that enemy.
• QBall – Harlowe’s Unstable Energy Pocket bounces as it travels and can no longer be manually detonated. Each time it bounces, it creates a Radiation Explosion. Whenever it strikes an enemy, it changes direction and bounces towards another enemy.

Reccomendation

When looking at the Creative Burst skill tree, it’s a no-brainer that this tree’s main focus is heavily on radiation and status effect damage.  To fully capitalize on the damage that this tree offers, it’s best recommended that when upgrading Harlowe gamers invest their skill points into the augment Neuron Capture.  With this augment, all of the damage from Harlowe’s unstable energy pocket dealt to enemies is stored. When it explodes, a portion of that stored damage is transferred to Harlowe’s Gun. This allows her to deal additional radiation damage. While it is beneficial to use a radiation weapon, all of Harlowe’s gun damage will produce heavy amounts of radiation damage to enemies. Paired with a quality SMG, just imagine shooting tiny nukes at enemies.

While it’s up to gamers to decide how they would like to allocate Harlowe’s skill points, here is a recommended list of which augments and passives to fully invest in.

• Neuron Capture
• Demon Core
• Mains Hum
• Neutron Decay
• Cyclotron
• Elementary
• Glow Up
• Poisoned Sun
• Periodic Table Flip (Seize the Day skill tree)
• Parallel Circuit (Seize the Day skill tree)

Seize The Day

Harlowe uses her HALO Accelerator to place an enemy in stasis for a duration. If any enemies are immune to the stasis, they will take damage instead. Using the ability again will cause the enemy in stasis to be slammed into the ground, creating a small explosion.

Capstone Abilities

• Falling Bodies – Pressing Action Skill places an additional enemy in Stasis at the cost of Action Skill Duration. When Stasis ends, automatically slam all enemies straight down.
• Cold Plunge – Whenever Harlowe Slams an enemy, create a Singularity on that enemy, followed by a Cryo Explosion.
• Ground State – Every time Harlowe Slams an enemy, gain increased Slam Damage and Slam Damage Radius. Enemies in Stasis take Decreased Damage. Press Action Skill to Slam all enemies in Stasis straight down.

Reccomendation

Although it’s not as flashy or as useful as Creative Bursts and Cosmic Brilliance, Seize The Day is very similar to Maya’s action skill in Borderlands 2. It’s best to pair this ability with a cryo weapon to maximize its full potential. This, paired with her entanglement vault hunter ability, allows Harlowe to literally freeze the competition. Peer Review, as a selected augment, gives decreased action skill duration rate and increased action skill cooldown rate for a duration. Cold as Ice.

While it’s up to gamers to decide how they would like to allocate Harlowe’s skill points, here is a recommended list of which augments and passives to fully invest in.

• Peer Review
• Cold Plunge
• Ripple Effect
• Pulse Drive
• Periodic Table Flip
• Flash Freeze

Read More: All Borderlands 4 Character Skill Tree

Cosmic Brilliance

Harlowe throws her flux generator in front of her, and in turn, it projects an energy field. The energy field deals cryo damage over time, entangling enemies. Any allies who are caught inside the energy field won’t be damaged but instead will gain overshield. If players use the ability again, they can pick up the flux generator and toss it again.

Capstone Ability

• Potential Transference – Whenever Harlowe relocates her Flux Generator, it teleports to a location in her crosshairs, consuming a Charge and creating a Shock Burst that deals Shock Damage to enemies inside it, grants a free Second Wind to allies, and Heals allies within the Flux Generator.
• Violent Horizon – Harlowe’s Flux Generator occasionally shoots Radiation Projectiles at nearby enemies outside of its radius. If these Projectiles Irradiate an enemy, the Flux Generator then drags them within its radius. Harlowe’s Flux Generator creates a Singularity burst on retrigger that drags in nearby enemies and increases Action Skill Power.
• Group Study – Harlowe spawns a HALO Sidekick for each ally instead of her Flux Generator. HALO Sidekicks automatically fly to each ally and hover near them, granting increased Gun Damage, Fire Rate, and Reload Speed. On retrigger, Overload Harlowe’s HALO Sidekicks to increase their effects. This effect stacks. While Overloaded, Harlowe’s Action Skill Duration drains faster.

Recomendation

When taking a look through the Cosmic Brilliance skill tree, players will notice that this tree is more meant for cooperative play than single player. This build focuses heavily on increasing Harlowe’s Gun Damage to entangled enemies while at the same time boosting her allies as a quality support role.

While it’s up to gamers to decide how they would like to allocate Harlowe’s skill points, here is a recommended list of which augments and passives to fully invest in.

• Coronal Mass Ejection
• Violent Horizon
• Momentum
• Neutron Decay
• Confirmative Reality
• Decoherence
• Feedback Loop
• Annihilation
• Critical Funding
• Refraction

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