Amara (Siren) Elemental Ricochet BiS Gear and Stat Priorities (2024)

Last updated on Nov 29, 2019 at 11:26by Kat4 comments

Welcome to the gear page of our Amara Elemental Ricochet build,where you will find the best-in-slot gear for that build and the stat priority you need to follow for each slot.

This Amara Elemental Fist Over Matter build guide is split in 3 different pages.The other 2 pages are the build overview and the skills, which you can access by clicking the buttonsbelow.

For this build, you should look for weapons with high Elemental Damageeffects, most of which belong to the Maliwan manufacturer. The primary gun toaim for is Projectile Recursion. Its high Elemental Damage combined with itsricochet effect allows it to stack with the ricochet from Indiscriminate to spread your damage even faster. An alternative gun ofchoice is the Hellshock pistol which also has high Elemental Damage,with a lesser ricochet effect.

The aforementioned guns are excellent at taking down groups of enemies,but lack damage when it comes to taking down single enemies. For your second gunslot you should look for a weapon with strong single-target damage to helpfill this gap in your arsenal. This will help you finish off any remainingenemies out of a group, or deal the single-target damage needed to finish offan enemy when you need a second wind. Laser-Sploder andRowan's Call are great choices for this.

If you wish to kill bosses with this build, you can look for a high-damageweapon that benefits from critical hits for your third gun slot. TheKing's Call/Queen's Call pistol are ideal for this as theyprovide huge amounts of damage when hitting the weak spots of enemies.Alternatively, the Lyuda sniper rifle is also a strong second choicedue to its high amount of burst damage.

For Class Mods, Elementalist naturally fits this build the most,providing yet another way to spread your damage amongst enemies whenGrasping enemies with Ties that Bind. Alternatively,Phasezerker is also a reasonable alternative that will help youkeep up your Rush stacks and also provide a small boost to them.

Electric Banjo is the only Artifact of importance when it comes toElemental Ricochet builds. The ambiguously worded effect of the weapon givesyou a 20% chance per bullet to generate lightning that arcs between enemies.This takes advantage of your elemental skills, especially Tempest, todeal further elemental damage to enemies in the area. Alternatively you canlook for the Last Stand Epic Artifact or any Legendary Artifact withLast Stand as part of its effect. This will greatly increase yoursurvivability by giving you 5 seconds of invulnerability when your Health dropsbelow 50%, with a 40-second cooldown.

In this build, shields are used purely for defensive purposes to help yousurvive, but can be used in different ways. With optimal gearing, yourbest choice is Rough Rider. This will give you a natural reduction toall damage and an increase to your Health pool to take advantage of the Life Steal from Sustainment, with the drawback of having no rechargeable shield.The second option, The Transformer, gives you complete immunity toall Shock damage. This allows you to completely negate all damage from one ofthe elements, which can add up a lot when facing a large group of enemies.The last shield option is Stop-Gap, which will provide you withtemporary immunity each time your shield is fully depleted, and can workalongside the effect of Last Stand to give you further immunity. Thiscan be a better option while you are still building up your gear and do nothave optimal damage to utilise your Sustainment skill.

The last gear slot, Grenade Mods, are non-essential for the build, but canadd a little bit more damage in niche situations. The most useful part ofGrenade Mods is that most options inflict good Elemental Damage, allowing youto make use of skills like Tempest to boost your damage. The idealchoice of Grenade Mod is Hex, due to its ability to linger around anddeal good amounts of Elemental Damage over time. Another storng alternative isQuasar that will draw enemies in, similar to your AllureAugment, making it easier to group up and damage enemies. The last option isTran-fusion, which can be used purely for survival purposes as its120% lifesteal effect can sometimes keep you alive in tough situations.

Anointed rolls are special additional effects that can appear on weapons andshields at higher levels. The special effects relate to the use of actionskills and provide powerful temporary buffs.

For this Elemental Ricochet build, there are no build-definingAnointments available, but most options are reasonable. Of the optionsavailable, the 'On Action Skill End, Weapon Status Effect Damage & Chance areincreased by 75% for a short time'. This will give a nice boost to yourdamage overall, but it is unfortunately not in effect until after your Ties that Bind has ended.

Alternatively, there are a bunch of anointments that will boost yourweapon damage after your Action Skill has ended. These include 'On Action SkillEnd, Weapon Damage is increased by 100% for a short time', 'On Action SkillEnd, Deal 125% more Weapon Damage to Badass, Named, and Boss enemies for ashort time' and 'On Action Skill End, the next 2 magazines will have 50%additional bonus Element damage'. While weapon damage boost may not be idealfor this build, any boosts will still give bonus Elemental Damage via Infusion.

There are a few mission rewards throughout the game to support elementalbuilds, but they are significantly weaker than end-game Legendary weaponsand often only marginally better than Rare and Epic drops with goodElemental Damage. However, there are still a couple of suggestions you canpick up throughout your playthrough of the game.

While progressing through Eden-6, in the boss fight againstAurelia Hammerlock in the Blackbarrel Cellars, she has the chance to dropThe Ice Queen sniper rifle. This gun has good overall damage andwill ricochet two cryo bullets on critical hits, getting you well on yourway with your ricochet build.

While on Skywell-27, you can complete the Space-Laser Tag side mission.Doing so will reward you with the Refined Starkiller pistol, whichwill shoot a continuous laser beam of incendiary damage at your opponents, forgood amounts of Elemental Damage.