Burn, baby burn! Tiny Tina's Wonderlands features many new and very fun classes to play as. Just like in the Borderlands titles, guns are an extremely important element of this game. However, Tiny Tina's puts much more emphasis on utilizing Active Abilities and spells to take out enemies.

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With so many new elements put in play, there are hundreds of powerful synergies that you can make use of while traversing the Wonderlands. Conversely, all of these new interactions can seem overwhelming at first, and it can be hard to know how to optimize your build. Let's see how to best build a Clawbringer to deal hot and heavy damage.

Updated April 29, 2023: To help you make the best Clawbringer build in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, we've updated this guide for readability.

What Is The Clawbringer?

The Clawbringer class is all about fire damage. This class has a Passive Ability that causes you to be followed around by a little wyvern who spits flames at your enemies.

The damage dealt by this companion scales with your damage, so it is kind of like having a second little gun flying around you.

Best Active Skill For Clawbringer

Every class in Tiny Tina's has access to two unique Active Abilities that can be cast after a cooldown. The Clawbringer has access to the Cleansing Flame and Storm Dragon's Judgement abilities.

Any Active Ability can be switched for another at any time from the pause menu. You are not locked into an ability once you choose one.

Cleansing Flames

This Active Ability causes you to summon a flaming hammer that you bring down to the ground. This causes a large fiery explosion that deals massive fire damage to all enemies nearby.

This is a great choice if you need to create some space. This move also scales with your melee damage, so it shines with a powerful melee weapon.

Storm Dragon's Judgement

This ability will summon a lightning hammer. Your player will then hurl the hammer, and it will stick where it lands. As long as it sticks the hammer will deal your melee damage in a small radius.

Additionally, the hammer can be recalled, damaging any enemy it hits on the way back, and ending the ability early.

For the majority of players, Storm Dragon's Judgement will be the superior ability to take.

Best Hero Skills To Max For Clawbringer

You gain a skill point each time you level up. In this section, we will be looking at what Hero Skills will be most valuable to the Clawbringer.

• Wisdom determines how much damage is inflicted by elemental damage. For someone who focuses on lighting their enemies on fire, this will determine your main source of damage.
• Attunement reduces the Active Skill cooldown time.
• Dexterity increases the rate at which critical hits land. This stat can be powerful since Clawbringers will be relying on their melee and weapon damage as much as magic.
• Strength Increases the damage dealt by critical hits.

These are only suggestions for how to maximize DPS.

If you are finding you need more health, or spells are taking too long to recharge, allocate points where they are needed.

Best Class Stats For Clawbringer

Along with Hero skills, each class has its unique skill tree. This gives you a whopping three skill trees to invest in.

Let's take a look at the Clawbringer tree, and which skills you want to dump points into.

• Oath of Fire increases fire damage for every level invested into it.
• Oath of Thunder Increases thunder damage.
• Dragon Aura increases all elemental that you deal.
• Friend to Flame increases the damage dealt by your wyvern.

Those are the bare minimum most useful stats for the Clawbringer. When we talk about subclasses, we will outline other skills that will benefit those classes specifically.

Best Subclass For Clawbringer

Subclasses are critical to unlocking the true potential of any build. You can choose any of the other classes as your subclass after you blow up the ocean.

Calling it a subclass is a little disingenuous because it is like having a dual class. You can have an Active Ability from either class, and you have access to the full skill tree of both classes as well.

Most other classes only synergize well with one other class, but the Clawbringer can be made powerful in two different ways.

Brr-Zerker

The Brr-Zerker class focuses on freezing enemies and dealing massive damage to those enemies using melee weapons.

Since the Clawbringer's Active Abilities rely on melee damage, the idea would be to freeze enemies with your gun, then shatter them with one of your Active Abilities.

This build has the added benefit of dealing two types of elemental damage depending on the Active Skill you choose.

Here are the Brr-Zerker Skills you should max out to increase efficiency:

• Ancestral Frost increases your Frost efficiency.
• Savagery increases melee damage.
• Ice Breaker makes you deal increased damage to enemies that are slowed.
• The Old Ways cause you to deal more damage the closer you are to enemies.
• Cold Snap further increases Frost efficiency.

If you go the Brr-zerker route, you don't need to put skill points into Oath of Thunder, since you will want to go with the Cleansing Flame Active Ability. This is because Brr-zerkers deal increased damage when they are close to enemies.

If you choose the Brr-zerker route, keep in mind that you are trying to buff your fire damage. That being the case, you need the following skills from the Clawbringer tree in addition to all the ones listed above:

• Firebolt causes the wyvern companion to shoot fireballs that explode and increase gun damage.
• Blasthamut's Favor shoots homing fireballs at enemies when an enemy is killed by a gun.
• Rebuke lessens damage taken from all sources.

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Graveborn

While the ice and fire build can be fun, the Graveborn has several powerful synergies with this class as well.

Graveborns rely on Dark damage to hurt enemies and refill their health. They also have a hidden ability that allows them to deal more damage the more companions you have.

Since the passive ability of both classes will spawn a companion, you have a severe advantage in this tree already, and can further up your damage with the right spells.

Graveborns will need these stats:

• Mortal Vessel increases health and leech efficiency.
• Faithful Thralls increase your damage for every companion you have active.
• Harvest increases the amount of Dark damage a companion deals.
• Dark Hydra makes it so that dead enemies can spawn Hydra companions.

Look out for Hydra brand spell books. These spells often summon companions, thus adding to your total follower count.

As far as additional Clawbringer skills go, just focus on making the companion deal as much damage as possible.

With just the skills listed, you should be very powerful, so use your extra wiggle room to try out some high-tier Clawbringer abilities.

Best Gear To Grind For Clawbringer

The Borderlands series is famous for its randomization. As a result, it is hard to pinpoint a "this gun or that gun" specifically. Instead, we will be giving you a broad idea of what kind of gear you need to be on the lookout for.

Elemental damage is huge for this build, and depending on how you build, you can look for guns with fire damage lightning damage, or both.

Any fully automatic weapon is going to be a good choice for this build, so you can quickly inflict and stack elemental damage.

You will also have to fill out armor, ring, and amulet slots. For armor, look for something that boosts your class damage, and also ups companion damage.

Your other accessory slots should serve to reduce your spell cooldown time and your maximum health.

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