Borderlands 2 skill calculators released

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  Awesome. Axton has a skill that lets you place his turret on walls and ceilings. : Rehevkor
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    maybe i missed it but I don't see a turret healing ability which is pretty lame. was the best part of th... : dantastic
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      Hmm, looks like you're right. There is a turret shield skill at least. : Rehevkor
      • down a tree that doesnt seem to increase damage much at all. all defense no damage except for your turre... : dantastic
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      It looks like they shifted the team heal abilities over to the Siren. She has 2 or 3 of them. : riptyde
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        awww she picked up the shooting friendly players heals them skill. god damn, i loved that playing comman... : dantastic
        • It was awesome as shit with a shotgun : riptyde
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      Maya now has A LOT of healing abilities, i think axton is now more of a dps/nuke champ : CrazyRussian1989
      • In that he has a skill which gives you a nuke. : Vincent Grayson
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      it seems they spread out those abilities :( gunzerker can regen ammo o_O I miss the supply part a LOT m... : Downforce
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        yeah the more i think about it, the more i'm not seeing the appeal of that class anymore : dantastic
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          That's what a friend and I are thinking. The commando class looks pretty tame and boring compared to the... : shinseitom
          • i think you are right, In borderlands 1 you had soldier as an ultimate support, no other class could do ... : CrazyRussian1989
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  Considering a melee assassin build. Are there randomised melee weapons? I think there might be nowhere ne... : hyperwired
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    No, it's always the same sword. I'd be melee too of it had random swords. : ArtilleryMarker
    • But then it would be Diablo with swords instead of Diablo with guns. Full circle! : Rehevkor
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    man, i bet that would be so slow going. so you're pretty fragile going up against huge groups of dudes a... : dantastic
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      if you go down bloodshed tree, last skill give you the awesome ability = if you kill an enemy you deploy ... : CrazyRussian1989
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        but for a large portion of the game you won't have that skill : dantastic
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          but the damage from melee will be massive, they made it into it's own skill tree so that means that they ... : CrazyRussian1989
          • You can' t know that for sure though... : ArtilleryMarker
    • There are a couple of skills to buff you up for this. Health on attack, health on kill, shield regen on k... : the_burd
  • One of the bonus attributes that guns can receive is bonus melee damage. So you can find a gun that does... : Lemming4242
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  I don't even care anymore just give me the game. : Gwyndion
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    ack, hit refresh and a quarter of the thread vanishes! : InfoBiter
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      it's for the best : dantastic
      • Usually is : InfoBiter
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      Oh? Guess I missed something... : Gwyndion
      • nope. : dantastic
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  Nice! Interesting to hear that Siren gets the ability to heal teammates by shooting them (Though I do mis... : No2Rancor
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    1. Assuming you get 1 skill point per level, level 50 is the max. 2. Pretty sure merchromancer isn't e... : the_burd
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      it's october 16th for mechromancer i think. if you want the exact date search the news items for it. i ... : dantastic
      • Yep you're right, guess I misread it the first time around, thanks! : No2Rancor
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      Yeah, seems like Level 50 is the cap like in the first game, still good though! : No2Rancor
      • the calculator linked in the article shows max level is 50 so that is pretty much confirmed : dantastic
• Hmm, I was going to choose Gunzerker, but reading his skills it sounds like too many of them only apply w... : Milleh
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  C'mon what? Game related subthread vanishes. News at never. : AxeMan808
  • I like that for some reason, I'm gonna start saying that. NEWS AT NEVER : gaplant
• Hmm how will picking a healing spec'd siren effect xp gain? or will healing give enough xp to offest the ... : InfernoAblaze
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  Yowch. 47 points to max out a tree. They really want you to min/max a single tree, don't they? I wish ... : Wadmaasi
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    I think you can get the terminal skill in a tree and get to the 4th tier of another tree, that's pretty g... : Lemming4242
    • Hmm...I'm not seeing that on the Assassin calculator, anyhow. : Wadmaasi
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    You don't have to max every skill in a tree to get to the bottom of the tree. : Rehevkor
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      No, but you've got to use ~35 points. You're only going to get the terminal ability in 1 tree. : Wadmaasi
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        By design I guess. If you could get most of the "good" abilities in one go there wouldn't be any build di... : Rehevkor
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          That's a valid point (build diversity). I guess I'll just have to keep playing the DLCs when they start bumping the level caps.

          Sep 10, 2012 11:19am PDT
          That's a valid point (build diversity). I guess I'll just have to keep playing the DLCs when they start ... : Wadmaasi
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        Was about the same in B1. You were much more limited at launch then you were after the DLCs added a ton ... : riptyde
        • In BL1 my builds got me all except one or two top tier skills in each of the three trees (w/o DLC Skillpo... : AxeMan808
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    You can reset/re-spend your characters talent points at almost any time, for just a bit of cash. : eskimo spy
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      O RLY?? I'd missed that part, that's nice/fun. : Wadmaasi
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        They did that in the first game. Re-specing was only a few thousand bucks. : deject
        • Been so long since I played. : Wadmaasi