User:Cyanninja/Gaige - Perfect Anarchy

Perfect Anarchy
In my opinion, everyone showing Gaige builds on this wiki has missed a trick. Anarchy means Gaige can deal out more damage and faster than any other class only at the cost of accuracy. I so far have only reached level 20 but I am certain that my projections are lethal, especially as at level 25 I am confindent enough to stop caring so much about what skill points went too.



Levels 1 to 20 - Ordered Chaos
Level 5 - Deathtrap - If i'm honest I've never liked the activated move of any borderlands character, this one is no exception. I don't want the game played for me so a bonus friendly AI? No thanks, he's used as a distraction on bosses, otherwise I don't want/need him.

Level 6 - Anarchy - This is a must have for any Gaige spec, bonus damage for a little accuracy loss for most specs but for my spec it is key. I will go into detail on Anarchy strategy later.

Level 7 to 10 - Smaller, Lighter, Faster - Improved Reload Speed for Smaller Clips sounds a little crazy at first but when combat reloads get you anarchy its a must. You also have the same total bullets so you arn't loosing anything there. Also you have no choice but to take to get to the next 3 skills.

Level 11 to 15 - Blood Soaked Shields - As your anarchy goes up, your accuracy goes down so if you want to fit anything you're going to have to get close, dive into the fray. This means you will take more hits but with blood soaked shields you'll have constant shield protection as long as you are killing quickly (which is made easier by your increasing damage output).

Level 16 - 20 - Preshrunk Cyberpunk -  More Anarchy means more damage, simple as that. I'd like to point out that if you are stuggling to get kills fast enough between levels 11-15 or you feel regening 80% of your shields is enough for you for now then take a Preshrunk Cyberpunk point just to improve your damage.

For now you are done in this tree, whats left looks like it will work well with your current set up but I will assure you later that they are a waste and produce relatively small improvements for you compared to other trees. If you are having a problem loosing your anarchy stacks by reloading or dying take discord now and forever regret it.

Level 20 to 30 - Best Friends Forever
In this tree I suggest ensuring more bullets are hitting targets and you are firing more bullets, nothing else in this tree is worth your time unless you enjoy having your computer shoot at computers.

Level 21 to 25 - Close Enough - This means 50% of the bullets that do 0% damage do 50% instead. With 400 stacks of anarchy and therefore -400% accuracy this is a must have to ensure you continue to do damage when you don't have Gaige's face pressed up against an enemy.

Level 26 to 30 - The Better Half - This is only really useful if you are spamming enemies to death with automatic weapons (You should be if you aren't already). This is the point at I start to say, is something else even a little better? Honestly I don't think so, I'd call this the last definitely useful to my strategy skill.

Level 30+ - Work in Progress
At this point you have two choices, in my opinion, left for you both of which aren't optimal.

1) Pick up some remaining Ordered Chaos skills to improve gun damage.

Level 31 to 35 - Typecast Iconoclast - If you want further down this tree you'll need this as all other skills in this tree are Distractiontrap related or not usefull to the spec. This skill will help you get to 400 anarchy stacks faster 30% faster, which is pointless when you already have 400 stacks. Your other choice is to invest in Death From Above, which is disfavoured due to using up your stacks of anachy. This is the main reason for not investing any more points in Ordered Chaos.

Level 36- to 40 - The Nth Degree - This would be a useful skill if it weren't so far down the tree. if you are firing loads of bullets (You should be) then every 5th bullet richochetting into someone else is effectively a bonus 20% damage. Pitiful by comparison to your mightly +500% but every little bit counts right?

Unless you are slightly crazy there is nothing else of value in the tree. Rational anarchist saves you 10 kills and 15 reloads which is nothing in the grand scheme of things. If you need extra melee damage, its only +300% on your melee which is a lot untill you consider you reload crazy fast and shoot +500%, you are playing this spec wrong and Deathtrap sucks, don't even bother.

2) Pick up some Little Big Trouble skills in order to gain some fuddy duddy moves that might do more damage.

Level 31 to 35 - Myelin - 15% extra sheild. Whoop. Nothing else to say. Choosing this over Pep because your rate of fire should be high enough to compensate for even the tiniest elemental effect chance.

Level 36 to 40 - Shock Storm - Bonus damage on crit kills to surrounding enemies, I would like to note you will be close enough to consistently get crit kills even with little to no accuracy. I would also note that I haven't tested this skill yet and they're is a chance the nova could damage yourself, rewrecking the shields you just recovered from the kill. Research says it does pitiful damage due to enemies not standing close enough to each other for it to really work

Level 41 - Shock and "AGH!" - Again I haven't checked if this does enough damage to be worth picking up but considering you'll be close to enemies and reloading frequently it could work. Taking this skill could mean the skills Electrical Burn and Wires don't Talk could increase damage marginally, realitive to anarchy damage, this si probably a little too small to count.

Like I said skills stop being effective at level 30.