If you bought Borderlands 4 at launch, you've probably already leveled up all four Vault Hunters and are farming legendary weapons. But let's say you bought it recently thanks to the Black Friday sale, you're probably working your way up the ranks and still have a lot of skills to unlock.
Borderlands 4 is a live service in single player clothing
The similarities go deeper than first-person shooting.
The way Borderlands 4's skill tree is built, you have to spend enough points on one level to advance to the next and finally to the most powerful skills at the bottom. Unfortunately, this system requires you to waste a bunch of points on skills you don't really want or need. However, it seems that someone has found a glitch that allows you to get these skills and the climax of the game without spending on unnecessary ones.
Borderlands 4 Skill Tree Glitch Explained
YouTuber Joltzdude139 revealed how you can unlock skills you still don't have access to. Using the Amon's Calamity skill tree, they explained that you'll typically need to invest 26 skill points to get to the bottom where the strongest skills are. But with this glitch, you only need to invest one point in the skill you want.
To begin, you must invest enough points into the skill tree to unlock the desired skill, in this case Amon's Electrical Fire passive. Make sure you invest two points less than the point limit when doing so: so if it's five, don't invest more than three. Once they unlock Electrical Fire and Stormcutter, the next step is to remove the points you invested to get there.
You only need to have one skill point available for this step. If you have extra, you can dump them in one of the other two skill trees. With this in place, go to the skill just above the one you want to unlock, in this case Judgement, and use the option to dump any remaining points into the skill (hold spacebar on PC). Then simply press 'Back'.
This is where the error mainly occurs. Instead of going down to three points after canceling, you'll drop to two, but the Electrical Fire skill will remain unlocked even if you don't have enough skills in the tree. Then just repeat the whole process all the way to the top. At the end of it, you'll have your strongest skill unlocked without spending any extra money to get there.
Sure, this glitch takes time and a few skill points to work, but with it you can really customize your build without spending points on unnecessary skills.
- Released
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September 12, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ / Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Crude Language, In-Game Purchases, User Interaction
