So, I’m under no delusions as to my skill level. I know I’m not even close to the best BL2 player out there…but son of a bitch, I’m getting reamed.
I’m on TVHM in Sawtooth Canyon, and I don’t think I’ve ever had this much trouble on TVHM with any other class than I have with Krieg. I’m getting downed what feels like every second, my guns don’t do jack, and I’m always popping my Action Skill at the worst time. I’m dreading the Circles of Slaughter, to say nothing of UVHM!
Needless to say, I’m not having fun with him, which is a shame, since I’ve heard he’s one of the funner classes. I’m almost considering dumping him and starting up a Gaige playthough.
What is the focus of your (intended) build, melee or gunplay? elemental weapons or explosive?
Your problem is that your build doesn’t focus on synergies, instead it has points thrown everywhere.
Don’t give up yet. A change in point distribution and you will be cracking skulls in no time. Easiest way to fix this and play to Krieg’s mobbing potential is to max out the Mania tree and venture down into either Bloodlust or Hellborn depending on if you want greater boom boom potential or want to set the world on fire.
Once you have Release the Beast (RtB) your cooldown for Rampage will automatically reset if you wait until your health is below 33%. So if your timing is good or gets better, you can effectively go into Rampage, heal completely, and gain from the damage resistance buffs that are inherent in Krieg’s skills.
Damage resistance and health stacking is really important with Krieg. If you can get your hands on a Rough Rider and Vitality relic your chances of survival are much improved. Also, try to find a Sickle class mod. This will boost your melee damage potential considerably. Last, make sure you have a go to form of slagging. I prefer a Slagga, but a Slag Bouncing Betty (low-level) will work wonders both for stacking Bloodlust or Self Ignition. The key is to do it in between RtB activations.
I’d stay away from StV until the OP levels and use a roid shield instead. StV is best left to those who are used to Krieg’s quirks because smacking yourself in the head four times in a row can be very off-putting to a newcomer.
-Basically, Bloodbath is the main point here since it adds a great deal of weapon damage while it’s active and even more if using a class-mod that enhances it like a blister or a legendary reaper.
-I’m not sure what is the most important point here since all skills here have their utility somewhat at the same level but if I were to pick one it would be Elemental Empathy, on the later levels of tvhm you’ll be able to get a lot of health regen with it.
That is simpy not true. Krieg has some of the best gun skills in the entire game. I mean, just look at bloodbath. It gives a ludacris amount of damage (250% gun damage unboosted).
You can run a bloodlust/hellborn build that is totally gun centic, and its generaly regareded as the superior hellborn build (as opposed to Hellborn/mania).
side note: there are elemental weapons that can proc BB, IIRC the Hornet, and PCs (don’t quote me on those). there are others, I just don’t remember them.
Actually, Krieg is fairly well balanced in a sense that any two combination of his trees will be equally as viable (at least outside of raiding) if played correctly to it’s strenghts, the downsides you get from unspec’ing from either Bloodlust or Hellborn will for the most part be compensated by the bonuses you get from Mania.
About elemental weapons that can proc BB, I know some can but if you want to maximize you chances of proc you want to minimize the number of damage sources that can’t activate it, i.e., a weapons with *splash, impact and dot damage will most of the times be harder to activate BB than a weapon with only splash and impact while the same being true if compared with something that is pure splash like the carnage
*assuming that the splash on all three weapons can activate bloodbath.
