Borderlands 2 The 10 Best Builds For Gaige The Mechromancer Ranked

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Borderlands 2 The 10 Best Builds For Gaige The Mechromancer Ranked

This hulking mass of metal and destruction is a powerful ally - but he's not the only tool in Gaige's arsenal! Everything is better with friends - and that includes popular looter-shooter , which is immensely fun to play with others. But maybe, for whatever reason, you find yourself playing it alone sometimes - whether due to conflicting schedules, not enough friends with the game, or other reasons. Borderlands 2 provides for just such an experience with Gaige the Mechromancer, a character who brings along her own friend, the killer robot Deathtrap. This hulking mass of metal and destruction is a powerful ally - but he's not the only tool in Gaige's arsenal! Here are the 10 for Gaige the Mechromancer. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY

The AFK Build

First up, players can of course simply invest heavily into their buddy Deathtrap and let him do all the hard work. Skills like Upshot Robot, Made of Sterner Stuff, and 20% Cooler let you extend his duration, his survivability, and decrease his cooldown time. The best skill for this build, however, is Sharing is Caring, which grants Deathtrap a copy of the player character's shield. While this can simply offer him more protection in some cases, certain legendary shields can achieve ridiculous power levels when there are two of them on the field.

Anarchy Forever

Besides Deathtrap, Gaige's core ability is the Anarchy skill, one of the early abilities in the Ordered Chaos tree. This skill grant Gaige one stack of Anarchy whenever she kills an enemy or empties her gun completely. Anarchy stacks grant a minute damage bonus and a small accuracy reduction, but given that you can collect up to 150 of them, these percentages can quickly spiral out of control. Whether you to focus on this mechanic as the basis of your character or just supplement another build with it, Anarchy forms the foundation for much of Gaige's gameplay.

Elemental Allies

The only thing better than bullets is bullets that are on fire. Or acid bullets. Or electric bullets. With the Little Big Trouble tree, you can toy with elemental effects to your heart's content as many skills let you enhance their efficacy. More Pep flatly increases your chance of applying elemental effects. Evil Enchantress lets you increase the damage you deal with elemental weapons after killing an enemy. Finally, Make it Sparkle lets you shoot Deathtrap with an elemental effect to apply that element to his melee attacks.

The Best Offense Is A Good Defense

Gaige also has a lot to offer to players who don't necessarily want to take all that much damage and will focus on defending themselves. Cooking up trouble gives you health regeneration when your gun's magazine is full and Fancy Mathematics improves your shield's recharge delay and recharge rate. Of course, there are also just the flat out health and damage resistance buffs offered by Potent as a Pony and Made of Sterner Stuff respectively. With these skills under your belt, nothing on Pandora will be able to take you down.

Lightning Reflexes

While we already covered Gaige's elemental build, she does have a particular affinity for electrical damage, being a Mechromancer and all. Many of her skills deal specifically with this element and can be used to enhance this playstyle. Myelin gives her shock resistance, while Shock and "AAAGGGGHHH!" causes an electrical explosion whenever she reloads her gun. Wires Don't Talk simply increases your shock damage and gives Deathtrap the ability to shoot an orb of lightning that, if you shoot it in midair, will explode for incredible damage.

Numbers Numbers Math Math Math

While a lot of Gaige's skills are pretty chaotic, you can also play her in a delicate balancing act. Combining Cooking Up Trouble with The Better Half lets you switch between healing and increased fire rate, while Unstoppable Force can let you zip around the battlefield. Discord is the real gamechanger with this build. This skill causes you to slowly lose Anarchy stacks when you prematurely reload, granting bonus fire rate, accuracy, and health regeneration. It can be stopped by reloading again, and you'll need to balance Anarchy's damage with Discord's effects to be effective.

Spray And Pray

This build focuses on guns that can fire multiple bullets at once and that have ridiculously high fire rates. Combining Anarchy stacks with Close Enough, which can cause bullets to ricochet back into enemies even if you miss, Gaige can take out an entire psycho base without having to actually hit anyone. Also very useful to this build is The Nth Degree skill. This ability causes certain bullets that hit enemies to then ricochet again and hit another enemy. It fits the chaotic vibe of the build and can be used to get an extra bullet for your buck.

Discordant Daredevil

The Discordant Daredevil, as you might be able to tell, focuses on the Discord skill while largely ignoring the benefits provided by Anarchy. A useful tool for this build is the Rational Anarchist, which grants you 25 stacks of Anarchy when starting from zero. This build wants to spend Anarchy stacks rather than accrue them, so Discord can be used to burn through the initial 25 stacks and regain some lost health. Alternatively, Death From Above consumes Anarchy when firing while in midair and causes Digisplosions that deal extra damage.

The Slasher

Guns? What guns? is all about using your bare hands to deal with your foes. This is a bit of a higher risk build, so it's worth investing into Deathtrap, since he can provide an invaluable distraction and buy you time. Explosive Clap and Robot Rampage both fit the theme of melee attacks. The real core of this build is With Claws, which turns your normal melee attack into a powerful claw swipe. The damage scales with Anarchy, so it's worth investing in the various stack-building skills. With enough of the stuff, you can destroy your enemies with nothing but a well timed strike.

Up Close And Personal

Finally, our pick for Gaige the Mechromancer's best build in 2 is another high risk, high reward strategy. This one requires you to go hard in Anarchy, investing into Preshrunk Cyberpunk until you can achieve 400 stacks. Smaller, Lighter, Faster is also useful as it increases reload speed and decreases clip size. With these skills in place, pick up a shotgun and get to work. After all, it doesn't matter how inaccurate you are if you fire from point blank range. Weapons that fire multiple bullets are very useful here and can be used to one hit kill nearly every enemy you encounter.