Basically, they buffed Maya. Congrats. She deserved it. Now lets take a look at a few other things that honestly…don’t stack up.
1: The ENTIRE Brawn Tree: This isn’t even funny. I barely see anyone even put value points into brawn for anything. You only get it for joke builds.
2: Nuke: It’s wimply. It’s sad. Fix it.
3: The Turret in general: Yeah. It’s really really pathetic.
4: Okay fine, just Axton in general. Besides throwing guns and torguemando, there’s not alot of stuff going for him. He’s okayish, but honestly, the turret sucks and axton in general needs some work.
5: The Nukem: Just, why is a MALIWAN the best rocket launcher? Come on people, it’s a NUKE, it’s supposed to hit like fifty trucks.
6: Deathtrap: Okay, not nearly as weak as turret, but again, pet damage is like all non-gun damage in borderlands at the momment. Sad.
7: Non-elemental weapons: Some of us simply don’t like elemental weapons. Is that really enough to damn us?
The Turret’s good for slagging things, or as a distraction, but it still really falls flat in terms of actually being a gun that hurts things itself.
Maybe have one of the two barrels fire regular rounds while the other fires slag would help.
And yeah, making turret more accurate isn’t really enough to validate the skill
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I agree about the health regen, it is pretty good, but saying that the entire tree is bad is a gross overstatement. There are plenty of good skills in there, notably Bus, asbestos, and incite. Additionaly, Chuck’s Deputy build goes pretty deep into brawn and it is most certainly not a joke.
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Not realy an axton player, but I’ve heard it’s pretty good for crowd control.
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Again, not really an axton player, but you can get two of them and they can slag for you for free, so there is that.
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There’s actually an entire thread about this on the axton boards, you should check it out.
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I assume you’re refering to the Norfleet here? Well I’m here to tell you that the norfleet is not the best launcher in the game. I would gladly take a Badaboom or Topnea over it, while neither of them put out the same upfront damage as the norfleet, they are both much more ammo efficint (remember that you only get 21 rockets, this is very important) and their damage is not nearly as far behind the norfleet as you probably think. Also, while the nukem does have it’s problems, it is far from bad.
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I don’t know what exactly you’re smoking over there. DT does insane damage. Just spec into SiC and pop on the biggest, baddest roid shield you can find and get carried.
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Again, not really sure what you’re talking about, NE weapons are insane. Jakobs weapons aside, they are very powerful, being a neutral element and having ~20% higher base damages over elemental weapons (not including shotguns). (something interesting: percentage increases to base damage like this function the same way as multiplicative damage increases)
1: The point is, the tree really doesn’t let you Tank, Asbestos being a weaker version of Axton’s forbearance, Bus is utility mostly, but yeah. My point being, you don’t really feel much tankier and Brawn overall just can’t compete.
2: Again, damage, That’s what it’s missing.
3: Yeah. That’s pretty useful, but it’s damage…just tickling the enemies
4: Eyup.
5: I’m mostly looking at it from an OP8 POV, the Norfleet is arguably the best RL not as a main weapon, that’d be the Topnea or Badaboom, but as a “Pull out and spam for getting up” gun. It’s pretty fire and forget. The Nukem just…doesn’t feel as powerful as it should honestly.
6: I’ll give you his melee damage, but his other abilities, explosive clap, the stare, one two boom, and his regular
eyebeam seem to be more of downgrade skills at some points.
7: This one was largely an afterthought to be honest. Elemental weapons did a whole 40% more impact damage on the “Right” element, except shock which did double, and there isn’t a competition on shotguns at all. And then you add DoT damage. Just hard to compete with when you want to just do straight-up damage without relying on some ipod gun.