Borderlands 3: Zane Best Builds (Builds)

Butcher79

5 October, 2019

When it comes to creating a Zane build, the only aspect that remains constant is its distinct brand of Irish charm. Everything else is completely up in the air because - more than any other character - you can customize it the way you want it to suit your play style and your needs by mixing and matching the following skill trees:

Payed assassin revolves around using multiple assassination skills to make Zane more powerful and increase his damage output with every life he or his SNTNL drone gains. If you want to build a high damage Zane, you need to at least partially invest in the Hitman skill tree.
Double Agent gives you many ways to improve the usefulness of Zane's Digi-Clone Action Skill, and also increases the benefits of using two Action Skills. Synchronization in particular is a must-have skill for almost any Zane build.
Under Cover is the route you can go if you want an incredibly tanky and survivable Zane build to play with. Your Barrier Action skill will become more powerful (both defensively and offensively) as you move up this tree.
Due to Zane's nature, each below focuses on a pair of Action Skills (Digi-Clone/SNTNL, Barrier/Digi-Clone and Barrier/SNTNL), each offering a different way to upgrade and play as an Operative. In addition to a detailed walkthrough for each build, I've also included a cheat sheet on skill trees and acquired skills, as well as stars to indicate which skills would be particularly useful to augment with class mods.

Digi clone, SNTNL, high damage (Borderlands 3 Zane Build)

Main skill tree: Double Agent
Build Focus: sustained high weapon damage
Best Skills for Class Mods: synchronicity (highly recommended), Donnybrook, trick of the light, violent speed, violent momentum

For those looking to take Zane down the ultra-high damage route, you'll probably want a build like this one, which invests heavily in the Doubled Agent skill tree as well as the Hitman tree. By using Digi-Clone and SNTNL as our Action Skills, we miss out on the agility provided by Barrier and the Under Cover skill tree, but in return we get two damage-based skills that can grow to be incredibly powerful.

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You have some great early skill pickups on both skill trees to boost your damage: namely the duo Violent Speed и Violent Momentum , which starts a snowball with increasing damage depending on the movement speed; and especially Synchronicity , which is definitely a skill you want to prioritize on cooldown with a good class mod. After that, you can push through the Doubled Agent tree by maxing out Donnybrook . Your goal is to get to Supersonic Man , Tricks of the Light and finally Kapston, which is Double Barrel , because your damage will be much higher than the curve when you follow this route.

Going back to the Hitman skill tree, you'll want to collect and drone delivery, и Death Follows Close (both of which are only indirect methods to further increase your damage potential) and then invest your last points in Playing Dirty for an extra ammo. chance. All of this will unlock some great skill upgrades for your fighting skills: Boomsday и Almighty Ordnance is the obvious choice for boosting your SNTNL damage to pretty rocky levels, while for Digi-Clone I decided to go for one defensive and one offensive. increase. gloatBesides being a great term that makes me smile every time I hear it, it's a great way to increase your survivability a bit; but the real star of the series - Doppelbanger , which deals absolutely insane damage if you blow up your Clone very soon after summoning it.