Forum:Roland - hear me whine

So I finally finished Eridian Promontory in PT 2 as Roland and figured I was as good as finished since the Destroyer is obviously not much of an obstacle for anybody with ammo regen. The game crashed just as I hit the portal into the Vault :( ... When I restarted I was at the beginning of Eridian Promontory and I just don't think I can stomach another run through there with this guy. The other characters are so much easier...

I finished my first 2 playthroughs with Mordecai, and with the Trespass ability I was shooting the guardians down like clay pigeons... I _literally_ didn't realize they were supposed to be any challenge. I thought they were just there for color!

Then I did 2 more PTs with Lilith and suddenly realized the guardians had mega shields but with the phasewalk 'get out of jail free' card the whole thing was still pretty much cake; the biggest problem is getting in position for the (guaranteed!) critical melee hit when PW ends. With a Tempest mod her static savior could burn down even an arch guardian in 2 or 3 clips while taking minimal damage.

So I try out Roland ... PT 1 was a little painful but I thought it was because my luck on drops was truly garbage. I muscled through the Zombie DLC just for more drop opportunities, started PT 2, and honestly kind of struggled the whole way through even after I finally got some good stuff like a Hellfire (I had to switch from combat rifles (29 proficiency) to SMGs (24) because there were _no_ good combat rifles dropping, ever). At the end of PT 2 my best static weapons were still taking 2-3 minutes to kill a single arch guardian, and I had to spend several minutes sniping the flying guys down just to get up to each one (although for those guys I was practicing proficiency with a pretty good Eridian sniper gun).

For background I play on PC so essentially there's no multiplayer. I had all the 'on-kill' abilities for healing and shield regen but very few turret abilities. I experimented with the turret skills through my PTs but honestly the thing seems kind of useless, especially considering its excessive cooldown. I just never saw any 'OMG wow' skills in any of this guy's trees. I usually had a Heavy Gunner mod in but experimented with several and they just didn't seem to make as much difference to him as the other classes' mods.

So is Roland severely underpowered? I'm curious what people think of him; is he just for co-op, is it my playstyle, or do I just suck?

71.111.79.20 05:21, January 27, 2010 (UTC)