User:MushaConvoy/Gaige - Pets are for the Weak

First article (yay me), of an untested build for Gaige. All this talk of Deathtraps, yet not enough focus on her. So here is my build - Pets are for the weak.

Best Friends Forever

Cooking Up Trouble - 2 points. Get this early, then forget this skill tree. Some health regen is better than none and this helps negate the penalty of Blood Soaked Shields

Ordered Chaos

Next tree focus is Ordered Chaos.

Anarchy / Smaller, Lighter, Faster - No choice in the matter.

Blood Soaked Shields - 1 point - 20% increase is tasty at high levels.

Preshrunk Cyberpunk - 4 points (+1 later on) - mostly to reach Discord, also increases Anarchy and its bonuses.

Discord - 1 point. Primarily for when I accidentally reload, it doesn't cost me all of my Anarchy. Handy to use for those situations when a lot of Anarchy to spare.

Typecast Iconoclast - (up to 5 points) - as you see fit. More Anarchy is good, but can wait until after Little Big Trouble. Handy for recovering Anarchy quickly after using Discord.

Forget any other skills in this tree. Forget melee, forget ricochet and forget that pet. Could always swap one Typecast for Rational... but the idea is not to run out of Anarchy - thats what Discord is there to prevent.

Little Big Trouble

Here is primarily for increasing your elemental damage to compliment the vast damage increase to guns from Anarchy. Save for later in the game where more damage is needed and elemental weapons are more commonplace.

More Pep - 5 points - its only an extra 10% chance to trigger elemental, but leads to more skills.

Shock Storm - 5 points - extra damage when killing with a critical. Can't say no and leads to more skills.

Electrical Burn / Evil Enchantress - 5 points each - inflict burn damage ontop of shock damage, with a further 30% damage bonus ontop. This is bread and butter.

Shock and agh ! - 1 point - shock damage while reloading.

Wires Don't Talk - 5 points - even more shock damage increase.

At max character level, if you make it to the full 400 stacks of Anarchy, you'll have a 700% bonus to damage with 0 Accuracy. This just screams out for a shock elemental shotgun. Accuracy will already be low putting you in the front line. Reloading to deal further shock damage while close to an enemy. Clip size is often small enough that you'll reload automatically often enough giving even more Anarchy. Quick kills will ensure shield and health say up.

Forget the pet.