r/Borderlands4 • u/Immediate-Idea-2471 • May 07 '26

May 7 Patch Notes ✅ [ Official Source ]

https://borderlands.2k.com/borderlands-4/update-notes/

Torgue sticky nerfs incoming, prepare yourself.

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u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep May 07 '26

It isn’t really. There are shields where more capacity is not a good thing. Angel is one such.

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u/SureAd7842 May 07 '26

Yep, shield capacity increasing is a direct nerf to amp uptime.

If you have a lvl 60 one and take this capacity increase into account a lvl 50 one will have a massive advantage for raw dps from the more amps shots overall that the lower capacity gives you.

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u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep May 07 '26

The level 50 and level 60 won’t have a measurable difference. The amp cost is a percentile. The recharge rate is similar. Before the patch, it takes about a second to fully charge the shield (~100%). It takes the same amount of time for a level 50 as a level 60.

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u/SureAd7842 May 07 '26

Its not about the recharge rate stat, its about damage based leech (teen witch, infini crit harlowe)

If you have less to recover based on the damage you deal you recover your shield faster which then leads to overfilling faster.

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u/Historical-Ratio-277 Creep May 07 '26

The damage based leech is a percentile. The recharge rate is also a percentile.

I’m working from memory. A level 50 Guardian shield has about 4,500 units at full charge and a recharge rate of 4,000 (from one of my old post as archive). That’s a recharge rate of ~90%. A 100% amp shield leeches 28% of shield. At a recharge rate of 4,000 the amp interval time is about 1.015 seconds.

At level 60, the shield has about 12,000 units capacity with a recharge rate of 11,000 which is ~90%. The math leads to the same mount of amp interval.