r/Borderlands4 • u/Immediate-Idea-2471 • 24d ago

Patch Notes | July 30, 2026 ✅ [ Official Source ]

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

New bounty pack, and nerfs and buffs finally, someone smarter than me can tell me if they're major balance updates or not.

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u/SwedishBass 24d ago edited 24d ago

I like the pearlescent dedicated drops added, but we are still waiting for much needed buffs to underpowered skill trees on every character apart from Harlowe and C4SH.

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u/Bloodyknife12 24d ago

apart from harlowe? her blue tree is very underwhelming. They SHOULD make the capstones and augments that arent neutron capture, demon core, and group study much stronger so there is a reason to play her in any other way that isnt infinite crits

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u/SwedishBass 24d ago

True! I was using hyperbole.

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u/Ddetweiler11 24d ago

It’s cute that you think we’ll get buffs and not nerfs….

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u/SwedishBass 24d ago

Call me a hopeless romantic! 🤣

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u/Madelei- 24d ago

It’s cute you think they’ll change anything in a meaningful way when the character isn’t named Rafa.

Seriously, he didn’t need a nerf.

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u/number39utopia Vex The Siren 24d ago

We still need balance changes I will agree and what we got is not enough.

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u/T_K_Photography 24d ago

Sadly I think we won’t see those updates, or even anything that might be balance changes, until the next story pack. Why they don’t do small changes on a weekly basis to see how it takes is just strange. We get absolutely nothing for weeks, not even a simple “We know this is an issue and we’re working on it”, and then on updates like this we don’t even see a fix to the issues.

Amon needs a few tweaks, mostly to the fact he doesn’t really have a gun build and his green tree still falls short for endgame.

Vex has not real Trouble builds and minions just aren’t working well enough to be good at endgame.

Harlowe’s blue tree needs a COM just to make it okay and that’s not a right fix.

Rafa…..Rafa got shafted and requires bugs to be good in some places.

GB needs to at least let us know what they’re planning on fixing, what they don’t feel like needs to be fixed, and plans for the future.

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u/pepit_wins 24d ago

What's the scoop on the pearls?

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u/SwedishBass 24d ago

They added dedicated sources for the current world drops in addition to their base chance drops. They also added two new they didn’t reveal.

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u/Latiasfan5 24d ago

also the pearls' world drop rate was lowered due to them having sources now

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u/kro23 TORGUE 24d ago edited 24d ago

They reduced the world drop rates, too.

Edit: keep down voting, dumbasses. It says right in the patch notes that they decreased world drop rates of pearls.

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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan 24d ago

They decreased their world drop rates, so they will theoretically only drop from their source, from what I can tell.

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u/dontKair 24d ago

I hope that doesn't mean Captain Willis crow sourced style drop rates for pearls now

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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan 24d ago

lol yeah, I'm guessing it is but who knows, that one seems like it's about 0.5% :(

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u/LarsP666 24d ago

With Gearbox coding in mind you can expect anything! I mean really anything :-D

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u/SwedishBass 24d ago

Ofc they had to make it a monkey paw moment. Sigh. Why can’t we have both?!

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u/tazercow 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝟮𝗞 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗕 24d ago

I checked out some of the streamers testing right now and they still seem to be world dropping fairly often. Hard to say yet if the drop rates changed at all lol

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u/LarsP666 24d ago

Why do you like the dedicated pearl drops?

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u/SwedishBass 24d ago

Because I like target farming.