blands

[delephantz]

new game coming out
jin n i were talkin bout it n others may want to not see it in box / read full convo

pros:
not a lot of burch writing
skill trees make the chars look pretty fun, movement skills on nisha and athena. a LOT of stack based skills
oxygen not a big deal

cons:
still borderlands
still have to play the game twice for each character (and more down the line)
still has tiny tina
still 60 bux


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athena looks like she has the most relevant movement buffs. both nisha and athena have 20% max on kill skill and 20% max on using action skill; difference is athena's action is 11 secs long / 14 cooldown, nisha's is 6 secs long / 16 cooldown.
despite this, i'll probably go with nisha since she's all about not having to aim. leveling her up the first run thru i can just go straight down the first tree; i wanna try the pickpocket skill with non-auto pistols which is obviously what they intended that tree to be about.

wilhelm looks quite fun. but i will prob try nisha/athena before. 
note i got almost nowhere with my alts on blands2

:(

[Noble Cactus]

Less Burch = better game

This is fact.

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Making builds is actually somewhat tough this time because most of the skills look good:

www.kharamell.com/blcalc/athena.html#0550101505150551510101000000000000

Is what I'm thinking about right now. I might also make an elemental build because that's probably the closest I'm going to get to having a Siren in this game.

Unless the 6th DLC character is a Siren.

Which wouldn't surprise me.

Those bastards.

[delephantz]

kharamell.com/blcalc/athena.html#0505101100050501014051410510010000
this would be my lv50 athena

lv25 nisha
www.kharamell.com/blcalc/nisha.html#0000000000005005141500100000000000

lv50 nisha for dps?
www.kharamell.com/blcalc/nisha.html#2100000000005005141500105550010051

lv50 nisha with more survivability + the law & order melee/gun combo gameplay
www.kharamell.com/blcalc/nisha.html#4151014150215005141500100000000000

[Jin]

Give me level 72 so I can make some broken ass builds

[delephantz]

gotta wait for a year and play thru the main story line like 18 times tho

[Noble Cactus]

I like how I'm still in the mindset of abilities not scaling properly and am wary whenever one of them doesn't give a clear idea of how much an attack does or is increased.

I also like how Ceraunic Storm is basically Ordered Chaos except all of the skills are useful.

I'm iffy on Fury of the Arena. I can see it being really useful against large crowds, but with no way to proc an AoE bleed on them, it might be very situational. The buff/stack also goes away when the enemy dies, so to get any significant use out of it, you'll have to keep at least three enemies bleeding at a time. The one time where I can see it being reliably useful is against a boss and you have a com that boosts the % bonus from Fury of the Arena. Even better if the boss spawns lots of adds.

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I wish Nisha didn't have the fashion sense of a 15 year-old girl.

[delephantz]

the general idea i had was blood rush a couple enemies, then use the buffs to kill enemies. though tbh the buffs are sort of an after thought to me, i just want to go fast, as usual.

the other skills available don't seem all that enticing, maybe the more dmg if their health is half
maybe kharamell.com/blcalc/athena.html#0505101100050541015001410510010000

[delephantz]

i have blands tps. i got a lv9 athena and i started a playthrough with a friend w/ nisha and aurelia. probably should have picked not nisha. lol.

anyway, writing isn't as annoying. landscapes are nice. i like having to manage Oz. I don't like how big the maps are still. New weapons are cool. I have a white spray fire laser that seems to do pretty nice DPS on flesh.

[delephantz]

welp found a farm spot at lv 18-20 at research and dev

[delephantz]

started a jack. trying to put a nova shield on em. not sure what's gonna happen.


i have a bonus package on my athena that i suppose i'll port to jack so that he can throw hella bonus packages eventually

[delephantz]

blands level progression is so bad


i did like 5 side quests to get up to level to fight zarpedon, then IMMEDIATELY I AM UNDERLEVELED FOR THE NEXT SECTION WHy

[Noble Cactus]

www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/142162-Lionsgate-Picks-Up-Borderlands-Movie-From-Gearbox

y u c k

Just watch the new Mad Max if you want a Blands movie. It does everything a Blands movie could hope to do sans Claptrap, and I think we're okay with no Claptrap. It even gets a social justice message across better than anything Anthony Burch craps out in the morning.

Funny how things come full circle.

[delephantz]

mad mox

[Noble Cactus]

beyond blunderdome

[Jin]

[delephantz]

i haven't turned on this game since the last post i made...

[Jin]

[delephantz]

that mad max game looks like a 3rd person not crazy cel style blands

the environments r v similar

[delephantz]

the voice acting is similar too smh

[delephantz]

i fought zarpedon again and she dropped 1 orange

it was a skin for enforcers

i dont have an enforcer

[delephantz]

k i beat the first playthru yeay

[delephantz]

time to farm last boss for moonstones

[delephantz]

dang. i got a legendary athena mod and i'm liking my other mod that does increase shock damage more...

[delephantz]

recommended lvl for beating first playthru is 26. i am lv 30 bc i have been farmin.
havent gotten any legendary weaps. do i have to do the INVINCIBLE version..?

also looking for an upgrade for my tesla grenade. im using a lv18 one and it's good at killing the first form of the boss but im lv 30 and still havent seen a new one like come on.

(my current strat is use a shield that is immune to electricity, then throw the grenade at him, then shoot at him with my shock weapon. he parries the shock weapon back at me but stays in the grenade which keeps hurting him for whatever reason)


not sure what oz kit to use. currently using the vladof one that buffs midair reload speed and fire rate. it is helpful vs the boss b/c i jump a lot vs the second form. second form i switch to an adaptive shield, dunno if i need to but it is helpful vs the 3rd stage (corrosive puddles)

idk. kind of want the bulwark for laser dmg or i might do the stupid dalek mission to get the EDDIE? i don't even remember if the eddie is a shield.

might just start the second playthru OR the DLC expansion...

[Jin]

If you want legendaries you farm vending machines.
I am serious.
I am sorry :(