Gearbox’s September 3rd DevCast has finally ended, and with that, we finally have a detailed look at Borderlands 4’s newest Vault Hunter: Loveless the Hacker, her Action Skills and all three skill trees, along with other details.
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Loveless Basic Details
- Hacker Vault Hunter Trait: RAM
- When Loveless inflicts a Critical Hit or applies a Status Effect she gains RAM. When RAM is filled, her Melee Attack will be Empowered, gaining increased Damage Dealt, but consuming all RAM.
- RAM is lost over time when none has been gained recently.
- The more filled RAM is, Loveless gains increased Gun Damage.
- How to get: Requires Super Deluxe Edition or a separate purchase.
- Backstory and description: Two minds exist inside Loveless, forming a synchronized set of lethal skills that strike as one. Through a symbiotic melding of the biological and digital, this ex-Anshin hacker-turned-assassin has become a superior lifeform. Equipped with the highest-end cybernetics, Loveless shares her psyche with a digital virus of her own creation, which can digistruct into a physical Wyrm form to act as a deadly extension of her shared, perfection-seeking will.
- Loveless’ abilities are aggressive and agile, using a cybernetic arsenal to cut down enemies with Corrosive and Radiation damage. Throw her Plague Star shuriken to slice through mobs while spreading a withering Contagion, outsmart opponents with the stealthy misdirection of her Visual Paradox Nexus that can cloak Loveless and spawns a decoy in her place, or sic her Malignant Construct on targets and watch your symbiote Wyrm companion eradicate them with its tail whips and toxic breath. Loveless’ Action Skills have added utility through low-cooldown power spikes called Functions and high-impact finishers called Executables.
Loveless Action Skills
Similar to the other five Vault Hunters in Borderlands 4, Loveless also offers three unique Action Skills, each with their own Skill Tree. These are:
- Malignant Construct – Manifestation Skill Tree
- Visual Paradox Nexus – Hack/Slash Skill Tree
- Plague Star – Virology Skill Tree
Malignant Construct – Manifestation Skill Tree
- Press Action Skill to Summon a digital Wyrm to fight by Loveless’ side.
- Function: Press Action Skill while Wyrm is out to order them to Teleport towards an enemy, dealing Radiation Damage in an area around them.
- Executable: Press and hold Action Skill while Wyrm is out to order them to use a powerful Breath Attack on an enemy, dealing Radiation Melee Damage.
- When Loveless summons Wyrm, she gains Symbiosis Stacks, allowing her to benefit from Symbiosis Effects. Symbiosis Stacks deplete over time.
- Loveless gains Symbiosis when Wyrm kills an enemy or by using certain Passives.
Visual Paradox Nexus – Hack/Slash Skill Tree
- Loveless activates her Visual Paradox Nexus (VPN) for a Duration, increasing Movement Speed and Critical Hit Damage. Killing an enemy while VPN is active causes Loveless to enter Stealth for a brief Duration and creates a Clone at the location of the killed enemy. Only one Clone can exist at a time.
- Function: Press Action Skill to Slash nearby enemies with a Kusarigama, creating a wave of Radiation Melee Damage. If Loveless is in Stealth, the Kusarigama will Critically Hit and ends Stealth.
Plague Star – Virology Skill Tree
- Loveless throws a digistructed Shuriken, dealing Corrosive Damage to enemies it passes through, and inflicts Contagion, which deals Corrosive Status Effect Damage over time for a Duration.
- If an enemy suffering from Contagion dies, it spreads to up to 3 new enemies and inflicts them with half of the Contagion Stacks of the killed enemy.
- Executable: Press and hold Action Skill to Detonate all active Contagion, consuming them, to deal Corrosive Damage in an area.
