Borderlands 4: Skill Tree Guide

Upgrade your skill tree and fine-tune your vault hunters to create an effective build catering to your playstyle.

Borderlands 4 Skill Tree Overview (Image via 2K Games)
Borderlands 4 Skill Tree Overview (Image via 2K Games)

Skill Trees in Borderlands 4 act as the backbone of shaping your Vault Hunters’ style of play and gameplay. These help provide your hunter with unique abilities along with enhanced offensive and defensive or elemental focus. With Borderlands 4, you can equip and modify your action skills based on the skill tree you are looking to build.

In this article, we will explore the Skill Tree in Borderlands 4.

Skill Tree Overview in Borderlands 4

Vex Skill Tree Guide (Image via 2K Games)
Vex Skill Tree Guide (Image via 2K Games)

Each character in Borderlands 4 comes with their own set of three main skill trees. It is around these that their entire build and play style theme is set. You have the choice to decide which skills you would like to give more priority to. What helps more is the fact that you are not locked by a single tree and can mix and match strategies to unlock the stronger Capstones and the most efficient build.

Let us look at the characters and their skill trees in Borderlands 4.

Borderlands 4 CharactersSkill Trees
VexThe Fourth Seal
Vexcalation
Here Comes Trouble
AmonCalamity
Vengeance
Cybernetics
RafaPeople Person
Remote Agent
This Year’s Gimmick
HarloweCreative Bursts
Seize The Day
Cosmic Brilliance

How To Use Skill Points

As you continue to level up your character, you will earn skill points, which you can use to upgrade your passive abilities or other action skills. To further progress down the skill tree, you will need to invest five points to unlock the following tier. It is also important to note that you do not need to keep selecting skills further within the same tier to unlock the next ones. For instance, by investing 15 points within the first-tier skills themselves, you can unlock the tier three skills.

As you progress down a skill tree, you will automatically unlock the Capstone ability, which acts as a game-changer. These provide more personality to the builds, changing the overall behaviour of the action skills and giving you unique play styles. You can only equip one Augment and Capstone to an action skill.

Also Read: Borderlands 4: Amon Onslaught Build Guide (Red Skill Tree)

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