About the Kensei:
The Kensei is a Legendary item in Borderlands 3 and is part of the Designer’s Cut DLC. This legendary Siren class mod turns every weapon into a facepuncher.
Special Weapon Effect:
“Train until your weapon is an extension of your self”
After activating her action skill Amara deals 10% Bonus Melee Damage of her attuned element type with her weapons for the next 6 seconds.
How to get the Kensei?:
The Kensei Class Mod is an Arms Race exclusive Legendary. It can randomly drop from any suitable loot source within the Stormblind Complex located on Pandora. However, it has an increased chance to spawn in the red chest located at section C.
Kensei Drop Rates
- Dreadnought Drydock Loot Room: 16.7% – 23.5%
- Heavyweight Harker: 5.6% – 6.1%
- Rival Bandit Revenant (x3): 25% – 37.5%
- Cofferant or Chubby Skagg: 30%
- Air-Drop Chests: 15%
- Red Chest: 5%
- Badass Enemies: 3% – 4.5%
- White Chest: 1.5%
- Other Enemies: 0.5% – 0.75%
Skill Bonuses
Variants of the Kensei Class Mod randomly grant a total of 5 Bonus Skill Points over the following Passive Skills in Amara’s Skill Tree:
| Bonus Skill | Max Points | Skill Description |
|---|---|---|
| No Mistakes in Nature | +5 | Whenever Amara inflicts a Status Effect on an enemy, she gains increased Melee Damage for a short time. Melee Damage: +13% Duration: 12 seconds |
| Unweave the Rainbow | +3 | Amara deals Bonus Damage of her attuned element whenever she deals Melee Damage or Splash Damage to frozen enemies. Bonus Damage: 11% of damage dealt |
| Joyful Freedom | +5 | After activating her Action Skill, Amara gains increased Melee Damage for a short time. Melee Damage: +14% Duration: 12 seconds |
- Best Roll: 5/5 “Joyful Freedom”
Notes:
- The Bonus Elemental Damage doesn’t count as Melee Damage and therefore won’t trigger other skills or melee artifact augments.
- The name of the class mod is an honorable title given to a warrior with legendary swordsmanship skills. The Red flavor text is an extension of this.
Dylan
This class mod does not add “melee damage” to your weapons damage, and therefor doesn’t really turn every weapon into a facepuncher. It adds 10% bonus damage that gets increased by melee mayhem scaling and passive melee damage bonuses from skills, artifacts, annointments etc, but won’t activate any melee artifacts like the White Elephant, Knife Drain, Cut Purse, etc or skills/annointments that are activated by melee kills or dealing melee damage like Ebb and Flow, Jab Cross, “melee attacks have chance to activate terror” annoitment, etc. It’s disappointing that it doesn’t work like many of us had hope upon reading the item card, especially when hearing about it weeks before the game mode was released, but in practice it has the potential to be amara’s highest damage class mod.