Forum:Oren the Alchemist

Oren is a potential DLC Alchemist class character in Borderlands 2.

Background
Oren started out as a nobody on Promethia, constantly tormented by Atlas lackeys. One day, after seeing several Lance tormenting his friends, Oren decided to fight back, but being so frail, he was easily over powered and shot in the heart. Fortunately, Promethians have two hearts, and Oren survived. He picked up a gun he saw lying around and shot at the Lancemen. That gun was a Maliwan. The Lancemen were engulfed in flames as Oren watched in fascination. He became enthralled by elemental modification and studied hard to become a researcher for Maliwan. His dream soon came true, and he was eventually promoted to head of R&D at Maliwan headquarters on Eden-6. However, living on only one heart was a great strain on him, so he started using company resources to build himself a new heart. None of his prototypes worked, and he had almost given up hope until the sudden appearance of Eridium on Pandora. Seeing Eridium as the key to his new heart, he tried requisitioning samples from Maliwan higher-ups, but was denied, since Hyperion had a stranglehold on the Eridium market. Oren made the decision to outfit himself with the latest of Maliwan tech and travel to Pandora personally. His mission: steal as much Eridium as he could get his hands on, not only for his own heart, but for furthering Maliwan elemental research while simultaneously destroying one of Maliwan's top competitors: Hyperion.

Action Skill
Philosopher's Gun

Oren's action skill attaches a modified E-Tech barrel to his gun that adds Slag to it in addition to whatever other element it has, and allows it to fire two shots for every one round used. Every enemy killed explodes into ammo, money, and guns of varying rarity, though never purple or orange.

Maliwan Loyalty
Oren's Loyalty tree enhances elemental skills, modifies all Maliwan guns he wields, and even allows him to find higher rarity Maliwan guns.

Transmute
The Transmute tree is a very unique tree that adds little to combat, but changes how Oren interacts with enemies, loot, and ammo. He can turn enemies into gold statues that he can either hide behind or gather for cash, turn one type of ammo into another, or even upgrade the rarity on his loot...that or turn iit into a pile of useless slag. You never know.

Elixir
Oren's heart is giving out, so he needs the Elixir skill tree to keep him alive. Extending his Fight for your Life time, shield regen whenever an enemy is electrocuted, or even gaining health from elemental attacks.