Discover everything you need to know about the best Rafa Leveling build in Borderlands 4, including best weapons, skills, and gear.
Rafa’s leveling build in Borderlands 4 focuses on crit damage and ricochet chaining for mobs. This setup helps you clear enemies with crit ricochets. Start scaling survivability from level 20-35 to keep pushing forward aggressively. Our Rafa leveling build includes skills like Peacebreaker Cannons, Sitiar, Confeti, and Beam Team, allowing you to become a formidable character in the game. If you want to deal one shot damage check my Vex Bleed Build.
Trickshot and Goojfc are the best specializations for this setup to deal additional critical damage and increase skill cooldown. Whiskey Foxtrot and Golden Gun are the best weapons to pick while running this build to deal massive damage in combat. In this guide, we’ll discuss the Rafa leveling build in Borderlands 4, including the best tips and tricks to run this setup.
Rafa Leveling Build Skills
Use your Peacebreaker Cannons while running this setup to dominate the enemies in combat. Avoid the hits and deal critical hits to keep Peacebreakers up for a longer time. Use this build to have your Action Skill active for the time in fights. Instinto is the augment that we will use the whole time. The reason for this is that it has the kill skill.
You essentially receive a 10% duration restoration upon kill. Pressing F while Peacebreaker is active causes them to gain critical hit damage, while also causing their action skill duration to drain faster.
| Skill | Effect |
|---|---|
| Peacebreaker Cannons | Activates two shoulder-mounted turrets that shoot at enemies for a duration. |
| Sitiar | Gain increased 25% Gun Damage. |
| Deft Hands | Rafa and his Peacebreaker Cannons gain 20% increased Fire Rate. |
| Juerga | Restore Action Skill Duration by 15% when Rafa critically hits enemies. This has a 4-second cooldown. |
| Instinto (Augment) | Peacebreaker Cannons gain 25% Critical Hit Chance. Activate Action Skill again while Peacebreaker Cannons is active to double their crit chance and gain increased Critical Hit Damage while also causing Action Skill Duration to drain faster. When Rafa kills an enemy, Action Skill Duration is restored by 10%, but it also drains faster. |
| Confeti | Rafa’s Ordnance deal bonus damage based on his current gun’s element. |
| Concentrated Build Up | Aiming down sights makes Rafa’s guns deal bonus Shock damage. Dealing damage while aiming increases the bonus Shock damage until Rafa stops aiming. |
| Beam Team | Peacebreaker Cannons now shoot Corrosive and Shock beams that can target enemies independently. Every time Rafa applies a Status Effect, he gains bonus Action Skill damage. |
| Asymmetric Warfare | Increases the damage of Indirect Projectiles by 45%. Indirect Projectiles include all Action Skill weapons, Thrown Guns, and any projectile not fired from your gun. |
| Errant Spark | All Indirect Projectiles deal bonus Incendiary damage. If the Indirect Projectile already deals Incendiary damage, double this bonus. |
| Hostile Acquisition | Rafa’s Indirect Projectiles have 50% Lifesteal |
| Inspirado | When Rafa inflicts a Status Effect on an enemy, he gains an increased Action Skill Cooldown Rate and reduced Action Skill Duration Rate. This effect stacks. |
| El Alacran | Targets hit by Peacebreaker Cannons have an increased chance to receive Status Effects. |
| Resiliencia | Rafa gains increased Damage Reduction when Overdrive is active. |
Best Specialization For Rafa Leveling Build
For your specialization, I strongly recommend rushing into Daredevil as fast as possible. This is going to give you an increased action skill cooldown rate. You can also pick up Now With caffeine, which gives you a 25% action skill cooldown whenever you use repkit. I Am A Gum is also the best choice in this case because the action skill damage is 50% of increases to gun damage.
Note that we have 100% increases in gun damage in one node. A Honed Mind gives you active skills, another 5% crit chance, and 50% more crit damage. Bullet Train allows the Vault Hunter to hipfire while sprinting and gain damage the faster they move.
Best Firmware for Rafa Leveling Build
Below are the best firmwares for the Rafa leveling build in Borderlands 4.
| Firmware | Bonus |
|---|---|
| Trickshot | Gun Reload Speed is increased by +5% Gun Critical Damage is increased by +10% Critical Hits have a 50% chance to refill 1 Ammo to the currently-equipped Gun’s Magazine. |
| Goojfc | Action skill cooldown rate is increased by +10% Action Skill damage is increased by +15% Action Skill cooldown rate is increased by an additional +20%. |
The Trickshot allows your critical hits to have a 50% chance to refill one ammo in your gun’s magazine, helping you just keep firing. At 2/3, the gun critical is up by 10%. As well as reload speed from one. The action skill cooldown rate is a more important thing here to keep your gun cannon going.
Best Gear For Rafa Leveling Build
Below are the best gear for the Rafa leveling build in Borderlands 4.
| Gear Slot | Item | Bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Shotgun | Golden God | While overheating, Bulletforge doesn’t break, but increases ammo use. [x4] |
| Assault Rifle | Whiskey Foxtrot | Underbarrel Shotgun debuffs enemies to take more damage. |
| Armor Shield | Heavyweight | Melee depletes a segment for +100% Melee Dmg. +50% while empty. |
| Energy Shield | Pandoran Momento | +15% element resist & +50% resist to last dmg type received for 5s. |
| Enchantment | Cyclopean Steward | On kill, Guns with Daedalus – licensed parts have a 40% chance to refill your magazines. |
| Ordnance | UAV | Spawns a bomber drone that carpet bombs in the direction thrown. |
| Class Mods | Esgrimidor | Melee gains +10% crit chance. Crits with Melee restore +5% Action Skill Duration. |
| Repkit | Pacemaker | Passively gain HP over time, increasing in rate when HP is low. |
Look for the Class Mod that provides bonus stats like Ordnance Damage, Action Skill Duration, Action Skill Damage, and Gun Damage. Look for CYA (Red Tree), Arriba (Blue Tree), El Soldado (Blue Tree), Brain Dump (Blue Tree), Midnight Oil (Green Tree), and El Borracho (Green Tree).
Tips and Tricks For Rafa Leveling Build
Below are the best tips and tricks for the Rafa Leveling build in Borderlands 4.
- Invest first in skills that boost gun damage, crit damage, or ricochets.
- Use utility grenades to bunch enemies, then ricochet them down.
- Use slides and mantles to reset cooldowns.
- Headshots are your bread and butter while leveling.
- Rafa’s Action Skills are best used on mob packs and bosses.
- Use the skill that synergizes with the current game’s condition.
- Pair your skill with the weapon to deal additional damage in combat.
