Borderlands 3 Zane Skill Tree Calculator

Planning an Zane build in Borderlands 3 requires that you decide which skill tree to use in your character. Your skill points will determine whether or not your Zane builds survives the Mayhem levels. A Zane build is inherently complicated due to the decision of which skill tree to use and which action skills to use with your character.

Zane has four different skill tree that can be used. The Hitman skill tree provide bonuses to the kill skills that you use with your character and provides scaling speed for your character. The Doubled Agent skill tree reward players for utilizing the Digi-Clone ability that your character possesses.

How to Plan a Zane Build in Borderlands 3

The Under Cover skill tree provides defensive bonuses for your character, specifically to the Barrier ability. The Professional skill tree provides bonuses to the MNTIS abilities of your character. Many players will choose to assign skill points to two of these tree rather than just one.

The calculator will ask for several input from the player. The first of these inputs will be your character level. Your character level will determine the number of skill point that you have for your Zane.

With fewer skill points, you cannot pursue two capstone skills at once. Your next input will be your chosen playstyle for your character. This will determine how your skill points is weighted.

A gun-focused playstyle will value the Hitman skill points more than a playstyle that focus on using the Digi-Clone ability. The action skill pair that you choose for your character is another of the input to the calculator. Your class mod is another of the requested inputs, as some class mods will provide better uptime for your abilities than others.

Additionally, there is sliders for kill skill uptime and movement speed that will allow the calculator to adjust to the way that you feel your character should function in-game. The results of the calculator will show you how well your build will fit the chosen playstyle. The fit score will determine if your chosen skill points work well with your playstyle and action skill pair.

The damage multiplier will provide you with a number that tells you how your skills, your uptime of your abilities, and your movement speed will all interact with each other at a specific Mayhem level. Your survivability is shown by the survivability score for your Zane build. Your cooldown flow score will provide you with an estimation of how often you will have access to your abilities.

Cooldown flow is important because you do not want to have a character that cant access its abilities often. The results will not replace your in-game experience with the character, but they will give you an idea of the different tradeoffs that you can make prior to performing a respec on your character. Many people makes mistakes when they create there Zane build.

One of the most common mistake is to treat each of the skill trees as if they provide equal value to the Zane build when they are in the early stage of creating a Zane build. Choosing a defensive skill tree at this point will provide a Zane build that feels as if it is slow in comparison to a Zane that chooses to ignore such a skill tree entirely. Another mistake is to ignore how your class mod will change the value of your kill skill uptime.

A class mod will increase the value of the Hitman skill tree. Some people also chase the capstone skill in two different skill trees. However, it is possible that a player will not have enough skill points to make both of these skill trees online at the same time.

Mayhem levels will change how the Zane build functions. At lower levels of Mayhem, any build of skill points will work. However, at higher levels of Mayhem it is possible that the player will find their Zane build thin in relation to the demands that is made of the character at these levels.

The calculator adjust for the amount of pressure that is placed into the fight during these levels of Mayhem. The reference tables will allow you to see which of the four skill trees will work best for you. Additionally, these tables will allow you to see which capstone skills your Zane build will earn the most value for if you make a heavy investment into these skills.

Use the reference tables as a map of your Zane build. If you find that you are close to a skill point spread that will take you to a breakpoint for a specific skill tree, the numbers will help you to determine whether or not it is worth the loss of skill points in another skill tree. In-game experiences will introduce several variables that the calculator cannot map out.

The number of enemies in a boss arena will change the uptime of your kill skills, thus making the Hitman skill tree less valuable. Your weapon rhythm may work better with another action skill pair. The positioning of your Zane build in relation to the enemies will also change the value of the Barrier ability.

Thus, the calculator is just a starting point for your Zane build; the real test of your build will come in your in-game experiences with the character. Creating a good Zane build requires you to determine which identity that you would like to use for your Zane build. You must accept that the other skill trees will support the main identity that you choose to use, as opposed to one of the other identity providing support to the main identity.

This calculator will give you an idea of how each of the inputs to your build will interact with each other before you commit to your respec. Once you understand the way that each of these inputs works, the numbers will reflect the way that you use your Zane build in-game.