Just wondering what relics people generally favor.
For me, when I started playing BL2 I was hog-wild in getting health increasing relics, I thought that increasing my health was the best thing to do. Of course, after playing a few hundred hours I realized this was not as important as I thought and started looking at others.
For me (as Maya) I generally opt for Stockpile relics. I use her primarily as a sniper/SMG Queen, and have accumulated great relics for that. My fav is a purple Stockpile that gives me 65% more sniper and SMG ammo.
Of course, in the Peak or on raid bosses I do switch to the appropriate Bone of the Ancients for cooldown and extra damage. Would still love to use my stockpile, but doesnât work out well.
What do you use?
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Both Maya and Gaige use Bones, mostly for the cooldown buff; Maya usually uses a corrosive to help with Cloud Kill, Gaigeâs is shock 'causeâŚShock Gaige.
Sal uses a Blood otA to boost both shotgun and pistol ammo capacity.
I donât need stockpile relics much because I keep different weapon classes in each slot and manage my ammo that wayâŚI use BOTAâs (or Proficiency relics when leveling) with Maya and Zer0 as they are heavily dependent on their action skillsâŚwith Krieg, you go down so much, I use tenacity relics while leveling and a Heart of the Ancients usually at max levelâŚThese are general use, obviously thereâs niche stuff for bosses and raid bosses or certain areas
Usually always have a bone relic on, occasionally swap it out for a blood relic that boosts whatever ammo Iâm going to be needing a lot of.
Most of my kills are done with either pistols or shotguns so 99% of the time Iâm using the best Sheriffâs Badge I haveâŚ
I use a Blood of the Seraphs that regenerates health most of the time
I use a bone a good majority of the time, but there are occasions I change things up.
Deputyâs Badge almost all the time on Deputy Sal which is how I play Salvador most of the time. Sometime Axton will use it too as his primary weapon is usually a shotgun of some sort. More often though, Axton will use an explosive relic as he favors Torgue weapons.
If Iâm using a Jakobâs sniper, sometimes will use an allegiance relic that calms the recoil.
Lately Zer0 has been using a Shadow of the Seraphs relic on occasion. Stacked with 2Fang and a KillerCOM itâs a 100% chance for a double shot. This turns guns like the Maggie, Bekah and Thumpson into machine guns.
That said, Zer0 still uses a shock bone most the time for the cooldown and to buff Unforseen(which I almost always spec into).
Bones for Maya, melee Zer0, Axton, Gaige, and sometimes sniper Zer0 and Hellborn Krieg. For the last two, i also do like stockpiles because they can go through a lot of ammo (especially when Zer0 is only using a sniper rifle). For Sal, bones, deputy badge or an explosive damage boosting relic, depending on how he is set up.
- Zer0 : Bone. Otherwise Jakobs relic for my allegiance guy.
- Gaige : shock BoA but for the damage rather than cooldown.
- Maya : BoA or Strength relic for melee & Scorn cooldown rate.
- Krieg : health / Blood of the Aâs w/ AR, SG and/or pistol. Explosive on occasion.
- Axton : BoA, explosive, Bandit allegiance and Jakobs allegiance.
- Sal : Deputyâs Badge, explosive, BoA, Jakobs allegiance.
I really only play Maya, and for her, i just stick with Proficiency Relics, then upgrade to Bones at end-game. Stockpile Relics are fine, but Iâve never had any issues with ammo. Even my current Sniper Maya has no real issues with ammo, and I have run the beginning portion (pre-Sanctuary) twice. Just make sure that you loot all containers, and you should have plenty of ammo to get you by. Just make sure that youâre hitting those Crits, though.
Sure. But Iâm lazy. Having 173 sniper rounds means I can just run and gun non-stop without ever thinking about ammo.
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Gaige, Maya, and Axton get proficiency relics while leveling and Bones later on. Sal starts with proficiency relics and then moves to vitality/blood/or badge relic. Krieg gets vitality relics and then moves to blood or situationally appropriate elemental relics, Zer0 got vitality relics leveling and now uses bones. I guess I generally like cooldown bonuses.
No arguments from this quarter. I should probably widen my repertoire a bit. But Axton and Gaige I think will always default to cooldown relics of some sort.
With Gaige, itâs almost a requirement.
Sal; sheriffâs badge with dpuhgrog, skin of the ancients, bone of the ancients
Gaige = shock bone/sheriffâs badge with fibber &no DT
Krieg = fire bone
Maya; shock/fire/corrosive bone, skin of the ancients.
Axton=nope⌠just nope. The only character that i left at 72.
I hardly use deathtrap at all, besides as a quick distraction when things get rough. In fact I only spare a single skill point for UR, everything else goes to gaige solely.
The cooldown bonus on my shock bone is DTâs only help from me essentially, if a bit of dubious usefulness as Iâll wait way more than a minute between summons and UR keeps him up through the fight.