Search this site

Learn how to play the popular Borderlands 3 esport: Djira Ball! DJIRA BALL a hilarious introduction to a super serious esport: What is Djira Ball? Djira Ball is an esport within Borderlands 3 made by myself and CZ47. It consists of throwing a Fastball grenade at a Djira (the small Nekrotafeyo creatures) that has been launched into the air by a melee attack. If the Fastball is thrown just right, the Djira will get launched away from you, potentially at a very high velocity. In this way, a launched Djira could be seen as a sportsball. This interaction between an airborne Djira and a fast moving projectile was discovered when I was testing how damage affects an airborne Djira. When testing grenade damage by throwing a Fastball, a Djira randomly got yeeted. CZ47 jokingly proposed making a sport out of it. I took it seriously. We collaborated on the parameters of said sport, and CZ47 made the arena for it with hotfix modding. It takes place in the Guardian Takedown. Find the Djira Ball hotfix mod on the Modding page How to Play Djira Ball: Unspec all skill points, remove all gear, do not select an action skill or a pet. Perhaps make a separate save file for playing Djira Ball. Minos Prime’s drop pod is now located above Anathema’s arena, which is now the Djira Ball arena. At the drop pod, buy a Fastball from the ammo vendor and a Toboggan at the shield vendor. If the Toboggan has a movement speed passive, save/quit and try again. If you need money to buy these, open the white chests at and above the vending machines for gear to sell. (Designer’s Cut DLC is required for the Toboggan, lest you be at a movement speed disadvantage. Snowdrifts are not allowed, because the snowball itself will send Djira into the air in an unpredictable manner.) At the staging area above the arena, the teams decide which goal to defend: red plants or blue statues. All players drop down into the arena at once, and play begins immediately. Turn on the “Minimap Legendaries” option under Options > Gameplay. When a Djira is scored and dies outside the arena, it spawns a single legendary. The amount of legendaries on the minimap outside each goal counts as the scoreboard. The first team to score 5 Djira on their opponents wins. Own-goals count against you. The “scoreboard” settles all disputes. Djira can get stuck in walls and on various platforms outside the arena. Play continues until there are zero Djira in the arena and in play. If that occurs, take note of the current score, travel out to Sanctuary and back to Minos Prime and resume the game at the previous score with fresh Djira.

About Stone_Swan, creator of countless off-meta Amara builds. About Hi! I'm Stone Swan. I'm an Amara build crafter, making builds since around February 2020. I was originally inspired by Moxsy, and tried to differentiate myself by making off-meta builds. I made a green and blue tree gun build . I made the first Amara slam build with the Spark Plug. I had the goal of making true melee viable in Mayhem 4, which back then was the highest difficulty. I accomplished that goal within a couple months with the original Black Swan build , and thought I was done. Mayhem 2.0 rolled around, and I couldn't make anything off-meta work until Gearbox did a couple major balance changes and introduced mayhem scaling. Soon, the builds started flowing again. A generalist gun/melee/action skill build . A Downfall build that was later converted to Phaseslam and Phasecast to participate in the two End Game Rush community challenges (and got 2nd place for the second EGR ). Old builds were updated, purple tree builds were made , Nimbus was used somewhat successfully . I discovered how the Ice Spiker artifact was tied to Amara's action skills and made my second slam build type . Making full-length build videos was fun and very rewarding, but I continued to have less and less time to dedicate to them. I decided to go out with a bang and put out 9 builds at the same time, covering three of them in depth in my Whiteness of Swans video. That was the end of my YouTube builds, but not the end of build making in general; DLC 6 and level 72 were yet to come. I continued making builds but not making videos for them, only showing them on stream. I made more true melee builds. I got Amara to deal damage over time (dots) from guns (NOT Unleash the Dragon) on a level that erases raid bosses extremely quickly. I discovered that the Victory Rush artifact wasn't working properly, and the community responded loudly enough that Gearbox fixed it. I figured out the radsplosion damage formula , and made countless other small discoveries. I made grenade builds , more slam build types , a Hellfire build , builds using nearly every legendary class mod, and even a couple purple ones. A sniper build. A launcher build. Even builds where you can shoot the Guardian Angel effectively. You name it, I've probably tried it. I accomplished my final goal: a true melee Amara that can punch to death True Guardian Takedown enemies without overly relying on action skill damage (Phaseflare, Ties That Bind) or Unleash The Dragon or other forms of melee damage, while also using tropes from the Mayhem 3 days: Phaseslam, Blitz, Brawler Ward shield. Once that was done, I knew it was time to make this site and share everything. Since this site's launch, I've figured out how Zane's Our Man Flynt skill actually works , eventually leading it to be one of the strongest skills in the entire game . More builds have been added to the site, starting with the resurrection of the White Elephant on true melee builds , making true melee capable of raid bossing . I performed the first Graveward one-punch and the first Mayhem 11 boss kill with the Binary Operator . Shoutout to my friends, acquaintances, and inspirations along my build-making journey, in no particular order: Moxsy, CZ47, Puptea, MadGlenny, lesshandsomejack, tbj_quag, soccerchickTV, LazyData, SomeOldGuyInHawaii, Skkra, Ancient_Rune, xEternalDragonx, Lonemasterino , nino_salvaje, Oh yes 10 FPS, and I'm sure many more I'm forgetting... Much love, Stone_Swan