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Gunpowder is Axton's second skill tree, of three. The Gunpowder tree focuses more heavily on medium range explosives and weapon damage. Improves many of Axtons offensive combat stats, and improves the turret mostly as a tactical deploy/distraction. His other skill trees are Guerrilla and Survival.


Skills

Tier 1

Skill Tier Levels Effect
Impact
Impact
1 5 +4% Gun Damage and +3% Melee Damage per level.
Expertise
Expertise
1 5 +14% weapon swap and aim speed per level; +7% movement speed when aiming per level.

Tier 2

Skill Tier Levels Effect
Overload
Overload
2 5 +10% Magazine Size for Assault Rifles.
Metal Storm
Metal Storm
2 5 Kill Skill. Killing an enemy gives +12% Fire Rate and +15% Recoil Reduction per level for a short time.

Tier 3

Skill Tier Levels Effect
Steady
Steady
3 5 +8% Recoil Reduction, +5% Grenade Damage, and +4% Rocket Launcher damage per level.
Battlefront
Battlefront
3 5 +6% Gun, Melee, and Grenade damage per level while turret is deployed.
Longbow Turret
Longbow Turret
3 1 +10000% Turret Deploy Range, +110% Turret Health.

Tier 4

Skill Tier Levels Effect
Duty Calls
Duty Calls
4 5 +5% Gun Damage and +3% Fire Rate with non-elemental guns.
Do or Die
Do or Die
4 1 Allows you to throw grenades while in Fight for Your Life. +10% Grenade and Rocket Launcher damage.

Tier 5

Skill Tier Levels Effect
Ranger
Ranger
5 5 +1% Gun Damage, Accuracy, Critical Hit Damage, Fire Rate, Magazine Size, Reload Speed, and Maximum Health per level.

Tier 6

Skill Tier Levels Effect
Nuke
Nuke
6 1 Deploying your Sabre Turret sets off a small Nuclear Blast.


Axton skills
Sabre Turret
Guerrilla Gunpowder Survival
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