Don't listen to him. Maya's great for solo, but you have to go into her third skill-tree, Cataclysm. It's specially designed to melt faces with all 4 types of elemental damage. She probably has the biggest DPS of all characters, except maybe for Salvador and his money-shot. That's because she can pretty much apply slag anytime she wants without actually having slag weapons. Your Phaselock slags them and your elemental weapons melt their faces with the status effects that get extra-damage from the slag. Her other two skill-trees are indeed somewhat support-ish, as one is for crowd control and the other's for healing, but even so, she heals herself more than she heals others. Definitely a good choice.
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Zer0 with b0re/max critical ascension can easly out-dps Maya. Gaige with max anarchy can out-dps Maya as well, hellfire or meele krieg can one shot everything and remain invincible with grog nozzle. Salvador is just broken with +6 money shot class mods getting+880% dmg. Maya is your middle-class dps dealer, but she also got alot of crowd control, which makes her fun to play and you can definitely build her to be a monster, for example with chain reaction and pimpernel or fibber (takes a little practise to get used to these guns tho).
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Maya can be good solo, but it's likely not the best.
I'd suggest krieg actually. :P Complete different playstyle. As soon as his middle tree is maxed he is pure rampage. Being always is melee mode, full health on every kill, instant F skill renewal, killing most easier enemies with one hit.
"Why arent my fingers in somebodies eyesockets right now?"
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Krieg can go into "Seizure" mode if you got the right skills and the Flame of the Firehawk shield. Basically he turns into a rampaging fireball when his shields are down.
Really hilarious.
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Actually at the higher difficulties I found it suddenly got insanely good.
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+1 A buddy of mine really enjoyed playing as Maya (he used her on his ~4th playthrough.
Apparently she is the ideal solo character although I can't remember why.
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Because she melts faces with ridiculous amounts of elemental damage. She can apply all 4 elements at once on the same target. The only problem I've ever had with her is in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep because in that campaign there are some enemies like the brittle skeletons that can resist all types of elements. Which was a real bummer for me, seeing how I carried with me ONLY elemental weapons, figuring that that's all I''d ever need on Cataclysm Maya. Silly me :-p.
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Bro, Gunzerker all day every day! He's by far my favorite character. Too bad I can't level my 56 gunzerker anymore because it's impossible to play UVH solo and I got no one to play with but oh well. He's awesome!
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I think Axton is the best solo, the turret is so OP they distracted the enemies and do damage, you can put 2 or 1 wh more damage.
Zero is more Op wh siren, melee attacks, and when you are near to death he can do so much DMG (Kill a boss in 10 melee atacks!!) but probably you die, that's why you need a siren.
Salvador is like a little tank, but is so YOLO, so you can die fast xd
And Maya is like a Support or DPS (skill tree), she can revive/cure and stuffs like that
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I really didn't like Maya. Axton is pretty damn good and pretty damn fun to solo with though.
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Maya - she's a great choice for a solo play, it's been recommended many times for a good reason. In my case: according to the in-game stats feature, I've got well over 78 days with Maya. Probably over 45+ days from which were spent on solo.
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Christ, why's everyone voting for Maya? I'm leaning towards Sal.
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Then play Sal, i'm not a big fan of Sal because i'm more of a sniper/shotgun guy and love Jakobs.
By the way, why don't you buy the GOTY on Steam? It has a 80% discount right now and both Gaige (with her Anarchy skill) and Krieg are pretty fun characters.
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I have most of the DLC except the characters. Seems kind of pointless.
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Then probably it is. ^^
Anyway you should try the DLC vault hunters.
Krieg is a character that forces a suicidal gameplay style based on extreme risk, high reward.
Gaige, with her Anarchy (+1.75% gun damage, -1.75% accuracy per stack, max stacks with a single skill point are 150), explodes enemies if you can hit them (too bad her action skill is a summon and i hate action skills that i can not control, like Axton's turret).
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If you ever get tired of solo, look me up. I have characters at different levels.
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I personally like Axton (Commando). The Turret is super useful as a distraction and added DPS. With later skills, you can drop 2 of them also. He isn't quite the DPS of some of the other chars, but has great survivability and a well balanced skillset.
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From Borderlands series I have played my self a lot of hours with Lilith, Gaige, Salvador, Claptrap, Athena
My preference Athena>Gaige>Claptrap>Lilith>Salvador
If I made a next character in Borderlands 2, I would choose Maya as well, also she has best skins of all games :3
I also would start from level 50, there is not a lot of difference starting game at level 50 than starting from 0 using saves I have and Gib Save Editor, I hate beating games millions of times, and it Borderlands 2 it requires to beat game 3 times with each character + level up to 72, which is a lot of unnecessary effort, considering I played more than 220h. The thing about this is you will spend much more time leveling up characters while beating game tons of times than actually enjoying doing DLCs and farming legendary stuff at last level. I really wish Gearbox could add an option once you beat the game to start from level 25, 50, etc.
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Dangit, now I have to add a replay of this to my backlog. Humbug!
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I actually started a new game today with couple friends (picked Gaige). But my main is Maya and I played the game through solo and it was so fun! Honestly, the amount of CC Maya has is insane and makes even larger fights like a walk in a park.
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If you dont have it I strongly suggest picking up Tiny Tina's DLC, its the best DLC in BL2 my leagues and well worth the money
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Maya is really fun actually. Since shes the sort of supportive character , playing her solo can be quite a challenge sometimes , and it makes the game more enjoyable :)
Tho Gaige seems cool choice aswell .
I dont really like the other ones :|
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A lot seem to like Maya not a bad choice by any means she is one the best for co-op but myself i prefer Axton as for me i think he is better balanced for offline and online,I have played so much online now i just mostly offline and not often i am borderlands out.
The only down side to Axton is online his torrents can causes issues with other people seeing what they are doing.I save the turrets if i am about to go down or i need to distract to revive someone.Though i did name him Asston instead of Axton.
I would have a different opinion on this but since you only have the base game no need to say what i think is best for UVH mode.
i would get the goy and UVH2 as the game has so much more to offer as almost a crime to not own it with as much playing time as you have put into it.
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True, Axton is excellent in decoy. Just drop the turret and you're free to do whatever you want. The missiles rocks though :3
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Yeah and if you have two on your team double the fun,i played one game where 3 of us where Ax,and you want to talk about chaos and tearing it up.It was like world war III with the missile perk!
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I'm playing alone too. I tried to begin with Zer0 but it was too hard to be really fun. So I wait for a sale and buy the mechromancer. I'm playing her with a snipe and when it's becoming too hard, I'm helped by the robot. This gameplay makes me enjoy a lot Borderlands 2 :)
If you don't have the DLC characters, just wait for a sale, I bought it for less than 2$.
Edit : you can have it for 3.5$
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Mechro is kinda OP I think. Regen ammo and shield plus the robot is very tanky.
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Yep :) But it can be more dangerous (and funnier for some people) to upgrade the Ordered Chaos tree : no regen but you deal a lot of damage, even if it decreases your weapon's accuracy. As I'm playing with a snipe, it's clearly not my first choice but it can a be a very interesting and complex gameplay.
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I didn't really knew the exact details of her skill tree but based on how my buddy plays with her character, Mechro is definitely way better than my siren (Although he can't beat me one on one :p )
I might give Mechromancer a shot if I'd ever decided to start another playthrough :)
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This is the best skills I found IMO, may not work for you, you need lots of GOOD electrical stuff to make it work, with an Electrical Shotgun(Conference Call) + electrical grenade(like Storm Front or Bouncing Bonny, second one is very dangerous, I practically never use it, it just kills everything, including myself :( ) (I also need an electrical Shield, the Black Hole, but I don't have it :( ), also you need an electrical Launcher(Norfleet that gives The Warrior is great), an electrical or elemental damage class mod, and an electrical relic(obtained from loot midgets at high level)
Electrical grenade + slag weapon works very good against everything, makes tons of damage, a way better than using slag + acid weapons against robots or slag + fire against living stuff, just electrical for almost everything.
Also you just stay in one of this parts that this grenade throws and when it explode it makes depleted your nova shield, and when you kill someone with that skill from order chaos you just regain 100% of your shield again, and you are ready to make it depleted again :) Also you Deathtrap has the same shield as you, so when his shield goes to 0, it makes a nova blast too.
This are the skills I use click, and how they look click, the only thing I miss there is the Interspersed Outburst which slags an enemy if you don't shot for some time, at level 5 + 5 points from class mod it works really good, but oh well other skills are more important, and no points left for it, and it works just in one enemy at time anyways.
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Wow, that's an amazing explanation ! Thank you very much for all those details. Clearly, I had no idea how to use the Ordered Chaos tree, it was way too complicated. Now I want to give it a try :)
I've never really focused my gameplay on elemental weapon, it's time to change this. I guess it could be funnier to use all these abilities. And thanks for the list of skills, it gives me a clear idea on how I'm gonna spend my skill points :)
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Go with Maya! She's awesome solo and in group. You can take the cataclysm skill tree and really wrecked havoc!
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You should try the Gunserker, is fun to play and the name of some skills are classic gold D:
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Maya's the first char I used, solo most of the time while my co-op char was Axton. Maya was fun. Axton was alright. I haven't put a whole lot of time into Sal or Zer0 though.
Sorry to hear you don't have Gaige or Krieg -- they're both pretty fun too.
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Which character should I play as? I want someone fun to play as. Salvador seems like a lot of fun and very tanky.
I've beaten the game as Zer0 and he's hardly fun at all.
I'm playing this game alone.
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