Motion (work your down to Converge skill when starting a new Maya) *Ward 5:18 (Good for survive-ability. Watch out with shield capacity buffs. With Turtle shields you won’t get the full capacity.) *Accelerate 6:06 (Very good tier 1 skill. Bullet speed is not the same as Vel0city (zero’s skill), some similarity. Some guns like Pimpernel, Bekha, faster bullets affect their bullet pellets. Slight negative but not as bad as Vel0city.) *Suspension 7:35 (Most of the time you’re not going to need this. Can be boosted by class mod. If you’re going to use Sub-sequence then you need this.) *Kinetic Reflection 8:32 (Depends on build. Decent skill but the scaling makes this okay (OP8). Works only with bullets, can take splash, DOT, rocket launcher, grenade damage. Can trigger Cloud Kill and Chain Reaction because they count as your bullets (difficult to see if Accelerate can buff deflected bullet damage) *Fleet 14:02 (Helpful for farming runs. Doesn’t have a good class mod that boost something that energizes with Fleet.) *Converge 15:17 (Must have skill for Maya (derch). A crowd control skill, this is basically a singularity grenade. Makes other skills work well this skill.) *Inertia: 17:23 (Mitigates DOTs at OP8) *Quicken: 20:00 (depends on build, bone of ancient is enough) *Sub-sequence: 21:30 (must be 5/5, longer cooldown if no enemies are around or there’s flying enemies) *Thoughtlock: 25:17 (Alters your action skill. Makes an enemy your ally, good aggro relief. Be wary during co-op. Try it yourself if you will like it) Harmony Tree 30:45 (healing & DPS) *Mind’s Eye- 30:53 (Could be better, but not worth 5/5, good early on. Just one point with class mod) *Sweet Release- 32:37 (Best healing skill. A must if building a new Maya (derch)) *Restoration- 34:20 (Good for co-op. Can heal Axton’s Turret and Gaige’s Deathtrap. 1 point is enough at OP8. 5/5 if doing Nurse Maya) *Wreck- 36:57 (Great dps when enemies are phaselocked) *Elated- 38:10 (good even if playing solo. Mitigates DOTs) *Res- 40:55 (A must if playing co-op. Annoying every time you have to re-spec when playing co-op. Don’t res if teammate is surrounded by enemies.) *Recompense- 43:26 (scales badly. Useful in NVHM, TVHM, and up to OP3) *Sustenance- 45:55 (Immolate does not cancel Sustenance! Mitigates DOT’s.) *Life Tap- 48:36 (scales well. Makes using grog nozzle unnecessary if you have other skills in Harmony tree) *Scorn- 54:11 (Throw it above enemies not at ground level. Can be thrown in FFYL. Great for slagging enemies rather than using Grog Nozzle) Cataclysm Tree *Flicker- 59:48 (increases elemental chance, not DOTs. Decent skill. Great with Life Tap skill. Difficult to see if Scorn works well with Flicker) *Foresight- 1:03:38 (For sure get this one) *Immolate- 1:04:39 (Gun damage that deals, not what’s on the gun card. Not as strong at OP8, but still worth spending) *Helios- 1:07:43 (Decent skill paired up with Sub-sequence skill) *Chain Reaction- 1:11:59 (Best DPS skills) *Cloud Kill- 1:15:05 (Not DOT damage, but can cause DOTs. Very good skill. Worth getting it.) *Backdraft- 1:17:48 (Not that great. Can make this work with the transformer shield. Very specific build) *Reaper- 1:20:29 (Works with guns that have splash damage, but don’t get buffed with grenade damage. Very good skill) *Blight Phoenix- 1:23:47 (good against melee enemies. Not that great. Just put 1 point if you want to use it.) *Ruin- 1:26:57 (Great skill. Great slag skill) -Guns *SMG Sandhawk 1:30:49 Bladed Tattler 1:32:34 Plasma Caster 1:34:19 Bitch 1:35:11 *Assault Rifles Bekah 1:36:44 Ogre 1:38:53 Hail 1:39:44 Kitten 1:40:27 *Pistols DPUH 1:41:22 Lady Fist 1:41:59 Grog Nozzle 1:42:38 *Shotguns Interfacer- 1:42:58 Conference Call 1:43:29 Slow Hand 1:44:23 Butcher 1:45:20 Heartbreaker 1:47:30 Swordsplosion 1:48:07 *Snipers Pimpernel 1:49:23 Longbow 1:50:03 Sloth 1:51:01 Lyuda 1:51:35 *Shields Blockade 1:52:43 Antagonist 1:53:20 Evolution 1:55:15 Bee 1:55:56 Cracked Sash 1:56:56 Rough Rider 1:57:19 *Grenades Quasar 1:59:37 Stormfront 2:01:01 Slag/Shock 0-Negative 2:01:47 *Relics (2:02:37) *Class Mods Legendary Siren 2:04:47 (good. Used when not using sub-sequence skill) Legendary Binder 2:06:55 (use sub-sequence skill) Legendary Cat 2:07:55 (raid boss com. Pure DPS) Legendary Nurse 2:09:04 (Great class mod) Slayer of Terramorphous 2:10:23 (not so great) Leeching Matriarch 2:11:47 (solo nurse com. Solid) Scheming Cat 2:12:34 (great if can’t find a Legendary Cat Class Mod) Cunning Fox 2:13:04 (great for boosting Reaper, get blue for +6 Reaper, +5 Helios. Solid class mod) Angelic Nurse 2:13:52 (great if can’t find a Legendary Nurse Class Mod) Blurred Trickster 2:13:45 (great for chain reaction skill. Great DPS) Bullet Witch 2:18:03 (bad class mod) Cunning Binder 2:19:40 (good if you can’t the Legendary version) Scheming Warder 2:20:08 (solid mod, but get blue version) Unyielding Banshee 2:21:27 (niche builds) Chaotic Evil Cleric (Tiny Tina DLC) 2:22:59 (bad class mod. Bad synergy)
I know this video is over a couple of years old already, but I only recently started playing Borderlands 2 again and I wanted to say that I really appreciate that you made it. Maya was the second character I started playing and the first character that I seriously got into, and I keep coming back to this guide because it's the best resource I've found for learning how to play her better. This video helped me understand the importance of skills that combine survival and DPS, and what I learned from it I apply to the other characters that I play. Before this video, I thought Maya was really only effective as a healer or elemental; after, I fell in love with the survival, minor DPS, and major control play-style of Motion. Thanks so much!
I still havent found a build that isnt viable(for the most part). I respec when I go i to a new area. If im fighting flesh enemies I go mirrored trickster with sub sequence( sometimes thoughtlock). If im going down a lot and dont want to go "nurse" I'll use thoughtlock to get that agro. Since mirrored trickster doesnt work with melee enemies I'll do a more nurse build. I just love how versatile she is.
i just started playing and i quickly learned that this game is all about choices, which gun to keep which one to drop, which gear to equip, which friend to revive and who to let die, when to re-spec and which skills i want.....tough choices sometimes.
wish like hell we could get subsequence, ruin, and scorn. also wish she had more skills at the bottom of her skill trees, too. alos kinda skills in TPS just seem better, as well as wishing anything that couldn't be trapped in a bubble with phaselock, instead of taking damage, maybe get a phaselock DOT unable to trap them, but also make it count as having an enemy phaselocked, because she's got awesome skills that just don't work with some bosses because of no phaselock.
Derch!!! Come back! Make these type of videos for BL3, please. We need you back, no one else does these in depth analysis style vids like you. Hope you’re well.
Arachnica's Ultimate Guide on Amara & Zane basically fills the same niche as Derchlands' Skill and Gear Guide but for Borderlands 3, although he's not well versed enough in FL4K to do a series dedicated to him.
Listen to this @ work and love your in depth breakdowns of all the classes. Passes the time really quickly and informs about all the skills that are worth it in the beginning and which ones to take on when on UVHM. Thanks for all the insight!
Very detailed. I really appreciate all the information you have on all the characters. I feel like most videos just give very brief descriptions and don’t get into the details and how they will affect gameplay. I’m getting into borderlands pretty late, but I’m definitely enjoying it. Maybe next time wait to do videos until you don’t have a cough though. I could barely get through this video because of all the coughing and how close you sit to the microphone. I’m not trying to be mean. I really like a lot of your videos and I’m playing as Maya and really want to listen to this video, but it’s rough. Other than that I do really appreciate all the detailed information on the skills and equipment and how it all works together.
Thanks Derch! Been waiting for the Maya one, will come in handy when i enter UVHM. Currently doing all the DLC at lvl 50 and having loads of fun with Maya! :D
The video is fantastic I just hit 55 on my siren on the handsome jack collection Borderlands 2 is just all around fantastic the story the Easter eggs the dlc I love everything
I used to always get Quicken until I calculated what Resourceful does for Axton when wearing a Leg. Soldier and a Bone once. Now I don't use it as often anymore. xD
Dｅmｏnｉtｅ Do you have a ps4? i like playing Axton but im not very good at him :( im lvl 43 PSN x-XsLashxX- but i do know you are a pc player just wandering if you had a ps4 so you could start new or something, most of my friend are already b0red of the game... :D
Dｅmｏnｉtｅ wich weapons should i look for as axton? should i do Whoops quest for sandhawk? or is Axton better with other weapons? well just answer The first question xD
This video helped me immensely recently in picking up OP8 in Bl2, although I'm late as hell to the party, but recently I discovered a gun, Little Evie, that I notice you don't mention, but I found to be insanely fun and awesome. With it, and a few other cooldhown boosters Maya has, you can get enough Cooldown rate for Phaselock to be able to pick up every mob on the map. That made Maya feel almost like Nisha! Granted, I love Nisha, and as far as I know - you don't - but still, why is an effect like that isn't worth mentioning?
Derch, great video. Took me awhile to go through the content but well worth it. I now have my Maya to level 70 as of this writting. I have not had a problem in UVHM at all. I still haven't bothered with the grogg nozzel because ruin seems to rock!! immolation is not a skill I put points on. When I die, it's usaully from my stupidity or impatience. Thats my punishment for being careless {dying that is}. Also, I solo mostly so when I die I only listen to my own bitching and move on. Other than that, I've been following more of the dps Maya using the skills that you suggest. If I can nab a leg binder mod I'll try out the subsequence build for fun. I do have a co-op Maya. I only run her when my wife plays {she plays Gaige}. We are doing a full completion runs through all difficulties. I'm most likely going with the scorn build, so I'm hitting your scorn vid next. Thanks for all your hard work bud!! Keep it up!
This video is awesome. Playing thru uvhm lvl 66 and I'm struggling a bit. Been playing on and off since 2014 only maya, so i needed some gear guides to get through the game. Got the bee hawk but i cant get hyperius past 90%hp lol. Will farm some shotguns and a new class mod. Thanks again friend
I disagree with your point at about 53:00 where you say the Grog is a waste of a gun slot. Sure, it can be, especially if you never need it but I disagree with your assessment that you need all of your gun slots as Maya. You really don't, especially if you're rolling with a Bekah and a Twister, of all things. She's right up there with Sal when it comes to not having to swap weapons. We obviously have very different approaches to Maya (flexibility, as you well know, is her strong suit) and for the most part I follow all of your logic but I just can't agree with you about her not being able to spare a weapon slot for pure utility. Hell, I barely even use my 4th slot because I can't figure out what the hell to do with it (between the Bekah and a good sniper rifle I only need 2), and I even carry around Grog in the 1st. Major props though for the excellent explanation of the double-edged sword that is Subsequence. People tend to get set in their opinion on that skill and ignore the other side of the argument. You did an excellent job examining it and avoiding bias. Personally I love it. I don't use Scorn so I find multiple AOE slags per CD to be invaluable and well worth the occasional hangups. As for the COMs I think you were a bit harsh on the Cleric. Great passives you can tailor to your taste (LE is a nice sniping COM but falls second to the Binder and CN/CG can be a ton of fun with a Fleet build and a gun like the Tattler or Butcher) and increased uptime on CR, Elated, and Wreck via Suspension. I agree with you on the Restoration boost being unnecessary and underwhelming (yet you love it being boosted on the Nurse COMs, found that odd) but Life Tap is welcome, and if you leave it at 6/5 (or 7/5 if you get a blue without Restoration) you can do a 20/21/26 Fleet build with a Rough Rider, short cooldown on Phaselock, and a strong health stack. I also feel like you should've mentioned how well suited the Legendary Binder is for sniping with sub-sequence. You can get 4 or more easy pre-slagged headshots on a group of enemies (even more if you use Thoughtlock and are confident with your aim). I figure you missed this because you aren't a huge fan of sub-sequence. Great video. Always enjoyable to listen to someone who gets into skill builds and synergy as much as I do, and even better when they know their stuff and have differing opinions to my own. To finalize this loooong comment I have a question. In one of Fiber's Maya vids (I believe the Interfacer one) he says that extra pellets spawned before the target went below 50% health still get a reaper bonus when they hit. This sounds dubious to me (how/why would the game know the fired shot will hit the enemy until it does?) but Fiber tends to know his shit so I wonder if you have any insight on the validity of that claim. I am quite interested in the answer since, like you, I looooove me some Bekah and this edge case would be applicable to it.
Katedagreat for the grog part i personally dont use a healing weapon on a most characters specially if they have good tank skills like sal or maya (yes i dont use a grog on sal) i just think the gameplay with the grog and most healing weapons are boring i would use a creamer on axton tho because i love the creamer and i dont like his tank skills but yeah thats why i dont like the grog
I agree about the grog but I mainly use it to slag. I get torn between the grog and magic missle as what to slag with. It's nice using the fastball/ grog combo. So to me the healing is just a bonus next to the slag
it was less about the grog being a waste of a slot, more, maya's kinda cool in that she doesn't need to. hell, you could potentially just go into the menu and change shit out as needed. also, this works with all weapons, not just being reliant on weapon swapping, using the grog + a grenade.
Honestly never used a Rubi or Grog for major emergency healing, just transfusion grenades. I dont use Grog for slagging because I am not that good at quick aiming thats why I use Slaga
This was awesome! I've played Aston and Sal thru TVHM, Zero thru NVHM and Maya thru TVHM including a L50 kill of Hector in Sanctuary Fight. Maya will be my UVHM fun so this was a huge help. Thanks!! Just liked your TH grohp, too. So much more to learn....!
If you want to make Maya really good, fill out her whole elemental skill tree, then go far enough into the crowd-control tree to get Converge and Inertia. Sweet Release and Wreck are great adds too. Elemental doom for all!
I've watched this video twice now, because Maya is that much fun. And this video is awesome. Great point about the legendary class mods kind of forcing you to choose them. I mean, it makes sense I guess, so they're worth the farm, etc. But the fact that Maya has a blue com or 2 which can really shake that up is fantastic, and something they should go all in on. The tricksters are really specialized on some really fantastic skills, and when you can get 11 points in either KR or CR, things get really fun. I like the idea of legendaries being able to give really solid all-around boosts to key points in general play-styles (aka, smg queen, and nurse), but then have the blues able to really turn certain skills literally up to 11 to where you can change your game completely around them. They leaned into this idea pretty well with the tricksters, but I don't feel like the others (not sure about other characters' coms) stood on their own very well. 11 points into Ward or Helios or even Foresesight just doesn't really change things, but having nearly every bullet reflect off enemies or 100% off yourself+healing you is just really freaking cool. Or imagine if Recompense actually did work. O_o I'd love to see more care put into these possibilities. Even just the few Maya has makes things so much more interesting.
One thing i haven't heard mention about the blight Phoenix skill is that it'll catch a krieg character if they took the skill that allows them to take damage from friendlies. Found that out the hard way when i popped into my son's game and he came up to me right after it activated and dropped like a rock.
thank you for this comprehensive guide. i learned much useful info! so, if i'm making killer Maya build designed to maximise damage (leg. cat/leg. siren) - green-tree and red-tree are more important. the only blue-tree musthave skill is wreck (and maybe mind's eye) . everything phaselock-related except trouglock is musthave. everything damage-related musthave. element-related musthave is cloud kill and ruin and maybe some ricochet-relating skill, some kill skills, some other maybe some heal if perks will be enough thank you again!
Healing skills like lifetap do help damage because you can keep your big guns out and do damage rather than run for cover or swap to a healing gun. Also scorn being a second slag skill to ruin let's you debuff more to do more damage
@@Derchlands sweet release and life tap best healing skills. so, some perks to them is good. it's another moment. ruin is musthave and most of green-tree musthave. it might be not enough for scorn (witch is good too) and even life tap
Maya is the most accessible character in my opinion. At the same time though, her skills are very complex and you can do so much with Maya. As of now she is the only character I care to play.
Finally, after two years of swearing by Gaige, I finally started a Maya, and oh my god I love her. Gaige is still more fun with my haphazard jump-into-the-mass-of-bodies playstyle, but dear lordy is Maya also a blast! Thanks so much for these videos, I think I might finally know how to do a decent build for her now! Although, if anyone else is watching this now, I really want to have both Scorn (especially with the UCP 10-second cooldown) and Ruin, so I can't go terribly far down the Motion tree. In general, what skills should I pick, and should I go for as many 5/5 skills as I can, or try to split points between them with some 2/5 and 3/5?
Very useful! Making a new Maya, and basically going down Cataclysm to get Cloud kill, and then probably gonna go down Harmony to get some healing/Res stuffs. Level 21 right now and Cloud Kill is carrying me lol
Another cool thing about Maya is that she is the only character who has inherent access to all the useful utility effects you can get from grenades. 1. Transfusion - check 2. Singularity - check 3. AoE Elemental - check 4. Slag on demand -check Other characters have these capacities to an extent, but nowhere near as comprehensive or as easy as it is with Maya. So I love using the Fastball on her to shore up what I feel is the only area she naturally "lacks" in which is single target nuke. She has unimpeachable crowd control built into her kit, so the only times I really *need* grenades is to whip out some Fastballs for Badasses or other priority targets I just don't want to deal with.
Super old but I love coming back. Sub-Sequence would be amazing if it was a one point game changer, gave you wreck/chain reaction/etc even while searching a new target and immediately looks for a new target after phase locking an enemy who can't be picked up. Even if it wasn't one point I'd dump all five in just to get wreck on boss fights.
Was playing the tiny tina one shot adventure with Maya and 2 quests were almost impossible to do due to cloudkill had to repec to do those quests. The grog nozzle and where you have to kill the 3 npc's in the graveyard.
Rewatching this as I consider another Maya run on stream lol. I got Zer0 to OP10 but tbh I missed my Maya crowd control the entire time lol (Maya main).
I have what may be a dumbquestion. Skills like Sweet Release specifically say, "when YOU kill an enemy," presumably that means my partner can't get the kill and have them proc. Am I wrong?
You can just put 1 point into fleet and carry a banshee classmod in the backpack so if you wanna get somewhere fast or farm sth with a long way to it you can still get a 70% Speed boost which is still huge and you only have 1 point wasted from your overall build Thats what i usually do when leveling up a new maya But with the new lv 80 cap i usually end up with 5/5 in fleet anyways cause i get the 2 slag capstones inertia and could pretty much only invest in quicken or some lower tier stuff then and since im running bone and legendary siren in most combat the diminishing returns of further cooldown buffs make quicken less of a priority for me
Maya has always been my favorite character to play in BL2. I’ve used Zero a few times too but Zero seems way better when you are into TVHM cause that when you can get the throwing knives without it hindering you kinda. Most people go sniper or melee first play through and then in TVHM and UVHM is where he really shines. I usually use the sniper tree cause of Bore my first time through.
people always list all the gear that can be good but what is your actual loadout whole playing? do you always take a rocket launcher with you? do you use one of the healing pistols?what elements do your guns have? i mean it sure would be stupid to have 4 smgs with you, so how do you actually fight?
there is one tiny Tina class mod that boost magazine size immensely to above 60% I don't know if it was the same with different passives but I like using that one just to chuck enemies to death once in awhile
it'd be also cool if the "instant damage on non-phaselockable enemies" was instead a phase based DOT, that way her phaselock skills can be used on those foes as well, rather than being either useless or wasted on another enemy.
Hi all, new to BL and i am eyeballin Maya. But as stated there are issues with phaselock not applying to many monsters. What percent of monsters does this apply to? Doesnt this make her a wasted character (especially solo)?
Saw your vid with the modded slayer trickster. Would doing something similar and mixing the fox and chaotic evil be too over the top for a lege? Just curious, love those kinds of things.
Because of the very low pellet count, the prefix on the butcher matters a LOT more than for most other shotguns. A standard butcher only has 3 pellets, the Practicable Butcher (with the vertical grip accessory) has 5 pellets, a huge DPS increase, and that's the one you are demonstrating. Just saying. Some of those other Hyperion shotguns, that prefix has about a +10% impact on DPS, but for the butcher it's a +66% impact. It's like it's a totally diferent gun.
hey Derch. ive been watching your vids for a while now and I just want to say good job, man. you're so great and I love what you do. I was wondering if I could make a request actually... can you make a build for deathtrap gaige. its something ive been working on. what I mean is a build where deathtrap is the main source of damage. the only guns really should be for healing and slag. could you possibly do that for a video?
pretty much put on a hide and let him loose, I don't think I would do a video on it because its not something i'm that interested in. I think poka has some
If you want to crank up the damage even further, you could grab Make It Sparkle and Robot Rampage. I'm pretty sure the damage bonus from Make it Sparkle inherits roid damage.
Hey man new to the channel, what you recommend as a solid solo character to enter end game with I am pretty new to the game and just killed jack for the first time with axton. I'm not sure if I should keep playing or start over as a new character to power to 72 with. Thanks for your time.
All characters are perfectly viable and capable of taking you to 72/op8. It's really all down to personal preference and who you enjoy playing as the most.
Stick with Axton. He's a solid choice for a first character. He's well-rounded and can work with a variety of gear and playstyles, and doesn't have too much idiosyncracies and learning curve beyond being good at fps gaming. He doesn't really break or cheese anything but he doesn't have real weaknesses, so you get to appreciete and understand the game best with him.
just one thing, don't shamfleet, and don't go using the "shock storm front" (I would like to have a fix for those grenade)I know its tempting but those two thing really ruin the game in my opinion and prevent new player from getting better at the game.
Damage over time. Elemental damage is both impact damage from the bullet if it hits, splash damage if the gun has it, and the damage over time effects that can proc on an enemy
How come you use fire damage on most of your guns? Just curious because every time when I play, it seems like every enemy in the game is resistant to that elemental type.
@Derch and I will add that in borderlands 2 shield dont resist that much so between a quasar/storm front, ruin and the slag fire element is the best choice on Maya, unless the ennemy resist it (like pyto pete or the loader-bots)
Derch in fact you have talked a lot about that (by the way I find that she more than anybody else in the game only need singularity) but @bleak didn't seem to know of that so I added that info to your first response on his comment.
+Derch Alright, I have to ask. My friends and I just tried UVHM and got turned off at about the Tundra Express. We actually don't find it very 'challenging' just very annoying. The varkids for example, I phase locked the super badass, scorned it to slag it. I stress that, it was slagged and locked. Had Wreck and Reaper maxed out, then emptied my sniper mag into the crit spot. Got 24 crits with the best sniper available for the job. Didn't even break 20% of its hp bar. It's not that we're dying: it's that the fights are extremely tedious and drawn out and leaves us just feeling exhausted and annoyed. Does this just keep happening or are we missing something?
Edit: I just tried it Solo in Tundra Express. Just got through all of "A Train to Catch" without dying a single time and only went into FFYL once due to a Goliath that caught me by surprise while I was tunnel vision so it was my fault. However I got back up anyway... are the hp tables just screwed up in coop on UVHM?
Motion (work your down to Converge skill when starting a new Maya)
*Ward 5:18 (Good for survive-ability. Watch out with shield capacity buffs. With Turtle shields you won’t get the full capacity.)
*Accelerate 6:06 (Very good tier 1 skill. Bullet speed is not the same as Vel0city (zero’s skill), some similarity. Some guns like Pimpernel, Bekha, faster bullets affect their bullet pellets. Slight negative but not as bad as Vel0city.)
*Suspension 7:35 (Most of the time you’re not going to need this. Can be boosted by class mod. If you’re going to use Sub-sequence then you need this.)
*Kinetic Reflection 8:32 (Depends on build. Decent skill but the scaling makes this okay (OP8). Works only with bullets, can take splash, DOT, rocket launcher, grenade damage. Can trigger Cloud Kill and Chain Reaction because they count as your bullets (difficult to see if Accelerate can buff deflected bullet damage)
*Fleet 14:02 (Helpful for farming runs. Doesn’t have a good class mod that boost something that energizes with Fleet.)
*Converge 15:17 (Must have skill for Maya (derch). A crowd control skill, this is basically a singularity grenade. Makes other skills work well this skill.)
*Inertia: 17:23 (Mitigates DOTs at OP8)
*Quicken: 20:00 (depends on build, bone of ancient is enough)
*Sub-sequence: 21:30 (must be 5/5, longer cooldown if no enemies are around or there’s flying enemies)
*Thoughtlock: 25:17 (Alters your action skill. Makes an enemy your ally, good aggro relief. Be wary during co-op. Try it yourself if you will like it)
Harmony Tree 30:45 (healing & DPS)
*Mind’s Eye- 30:53 (Could be better, but not worth 5/5, good early on. Just one point with class mod)
*Sweet Release- 32:37 (Best healing skill. A must if building a new Maya (derch))
*Restoration- 34:20 (Good for co-op. Can heal Axton’s Turret and Gaige’s Deathtrap. 1 point is enough at OP8. 5/5 if doing Nurse Maya)
*Wreck- 36:57 (Great dps when enemies are phaselocked)
*Elated- 38:10 (good even if playing solo. Mitigates DOTs)
*Res- 40:55 (A must if playing co-op. Annoying every time you have to re-spec when playing co-op. Don’t res if teammate is surrounded by enemies.)
*Recompense- 43:26 (scales badly. Useful in NVHM, TVHM, and up to OP3)
*Sustenance- 45:55 (Immolate does not cancel Sustenance! Mitigates DOT’s.)
*Life Tap- 48:36 (scales well. Makes using grog nozzle unnecessary if you have other skills in Harmony tree)
*Scorn- 54:11 (Throw it above enemies not at ground level. Can be thrown in FFYL. Great for slagging enemies rather than using Grog Nozzle)
Cataclysm Tree
*Flicker- 59:48 (increases elemental chance, not DOTs. Decent skill. Great with Life Tap skill. Difficult to see if Scorn works well with Flicker)
*Foresight- 1:03:38 (For sure get this one)
*Immolate- 1:04:39 (Gun damage that deals, not what’s on the gun card. Not as strong at OP8, but still worth spending)
*Helios- 1:07:43 (Decent skill paired up with Sub-sequence skill)
*Chain Reaction- 1:11:59 (Best DPS skills)
*Cloud Kill- 1:15:05 (Not DOT damage, but can cause DOTs. Very good skill. Worth getting it.)
*Backdraft- 1:17:48 (Not that great. Can make this work with the transformer shield. Very specific build)
*Reaper- 1:20:29 (Works with guns that have splash damage, but don’t get buffed with grenade damage. Very good skill)
*Blight Phoenix- 1:23:47 (good against melee enemies. Not that great. Just put 1 point if you want to use it.)
*Ruin- 1:26:57 (Great skill. Great slag skill)
-Guns
*SMG
Sandhawk 1:30:49
Bladed Tattler 1:32:34
Plasma Caster 1:34:19
Bitch 1:35:11
*Assault Rifles
Bekah 1:36:44
Ogre 1:38:53
Hail 1:39:44
Kitten 1:40:27
*Pistols
DPUH 1:41:22
Lady Fist 1:41:59
Grog Nozzle 1:42:38
*Shotguns
Interfacer- 1:42:58
Conference Call 1:43:29
Slow Hand 1:44:23
Butcher 1:45:20
Heartbreaker 1:47:30
Swordsplosion 1:48:07
*Snipers
Pimpernel 1:49:23
Longbow 1:50:03
Sloth 1:51:01
Lyuda 1:51:35
*Shields
Blockade 1:52:43
Antagonist 1:53:20
Evolution 1:55:15
Bee 1:55:56
Cracked Sash 1:56:56
Rough Rider 1:57:19
*Grenades
Quasar 1:59:37
Stormfront 2:01:01
Slag/Shock 0-Negative 2:01:47
*Relics (2:02:37)
*Class Mods
Legendary Siren 2:04:47 (good. Used when not using sub-sequence skill)
Legendary Binder 2:06:55 (use sub-sequence skill)
Legendary Cat 2:07:55 (raid boss com. Pure DPS)
Legendary Nurse 2:09:04 (Great class mod)
Slayer of Terramorphous 2:10:23 (not so great)
Leeching Matriarch 2:11:47 (solo nurse com. Solid)
Scheming Cat 2:12:34 (great if can’t find a Legendary Cat Class Mod)
Cunning Fox 2:13:04 (great for boosting Reaper, get blue for +6 Reaper, +5 Helios. Solid class mod)
Angelic Nurse 2:13:52 (great if can’t find a Legendary Nurse Class Mod)
Blurred Trickster 2:13:45 (great for chain reaction skill. Great DPS)
Bullet Witch 2:18:03 (bad class mod)
Cunning Binder 2:19:40 (good if you can’t the Legendary version)
Scheming Warder 2:20:08 (solid mod, but get blue version)
Unyielding Banshee 2:21:27 (niche builds)
Chaotic Evil Cleric (Tiny Tina DLC) 2:22:59 (bad class mod. Bad synergy)
Thanks for the short cut!
Damn. Must have taken a while to do this. Thanks though
I know this is an older upload and comment, but how does this not have more likes?
You fucking maniac, thanks for taking the time
You’re greatly appreciated
some heroes do not wear capes, instead they upload super high detailed content on youtube for their audience to see
+Emo Jesus however I do wear a cape
So if pants hinder gaming, do capes help it?
Only if you throw the Cape over the chair so the fan can blow it around behind you. Sitting on capes is just no good...
thor4506 Yeah, sitting on the cape is like semi-wearing pants.
Emo Jesus is that referring to RUclips heroes?
Skills
0:00:54 Action Skill
0:01:01 Phaselock
0:05:02 Motion tree
0:05:18 Tier 1 - Ward
0:06:05 Tier 1 - Accelerate
0:07:36 Tier 2 - Suspension
0:08:31 Tier 2 - Kinetic Reflection
0:14:02 Tier 3 - Fleet
0:15:12 Tier 3 - Converge
0:17:21 Tier 3 - Inertia
0:19:58 Tier 4 - Quicken
0:21:26 Tier 5 - Sub-Sequence
0:25:14 Tier 6 - Thoughtlock
0:30:42 Harmony tree
0:30:52 Tier 1 - Mind's Eye
0:32:21 Tier 1 - Sweet Release
0:34:19 Tier 2 - Restoration
0:36:57 Tier 2 - Wreck
0:38:07 Tier 3 - Elated
0:40:53 Tier 3 - Res
0:43:24 Tier 3 - Recompense
0:45:55 Tier 4 - Sustenance
0:48:34 Tier 5 - Life Tap
0:54:09 Tier 6 - Scorn
0:59:24 Cataclysm tree
0:59:40 Tier 1 - Flicker
1:03:38 Tier 1 - Foresight
1:04:38 Tier 2 - Immolate
1:07:43 Tier 2 - Helios
1:11:56 Tier 3 - Chain Reaction
1:15:05 Tier 3 - Cloud Kill
1:17:46 Tier 3 - Backdraft
1:20:28 Tier 4 - Reaper
1:23:47 Tier 5 - Blight Phoenix
1:26:54 Tier 6 - Ruin
this is the only youtuber who i will spend 2 hours listening to talk about a video game character
captain calvin : And I'll watch all his similar videos of him talking for hours on all BL2 and pre sequel characters. That's what, 12 videos.
I know this video is over a couple of years old already, but I only recently started playing Borderlands 2 again and I wanted to say that I really appreciate that you made it. Maya was the second character I started playing and the first character that I seriously got into, and I keep coming back to this guide because it's the best resource I've found for learning how to play her better. This video helped me understand the importance of skills that combine survival and DPS, and what I learned from it I apply to the other characters that I play. Before this video, I thought Maya was really only effective as a healer or elemental; after, I fell in love with the survival, minor DPS, and major control play-style of Motion. Thanks so much!
I love Maya, but she frustrates me because I want ALL of her skills
I still havent found a build that isnt viable(for the most part). I respec when I go i to a new area. If im fighting flesh enemies I go mirrored trickster with sub sequence( sometimes thoughtlock). If im going down a lot and dont want to go "nurse" I'll use thoughtlock to get that agro. Since mirrored trickster doesnt work with melee enemies I'll do a more nurse build. I just love how versatile she is.
i just started playing and i quickly learned that this game is all about choices, which gun to keep which one to drop, which gear to equip, which friend to revive and who to let die, when to re-spec and which skills i want.....tough choices sometimes.
wish like hell we could get subsequence, ruin, and scorn.
also wish she had more skills at the bottom of her skill trees, too.
alos kinda skills in TPS just seem better, as well as wishing anything that couldn't be trapped in a bubble with phaselock, instead of taking damage, maybe get a phaselock DOT unable to trap them, but also make it count as having an enemy phaselocked, because she's got awesome skills that just don't work with some bosses because of no phaselock.
@@ZEROmg13 I just started being alive and I quickly learned that everything is all about choices...whoa what brilliant insight!
@@le_royal987 I ,just just just, like right now when I read ur comment ,found out that I was a sarcastic douche 🤣🤣🤣
Derch!!! Come back! Make these type of videos for BL3, please. We need you back, no one else does these in depth analysis style vids like you. Hope you’re well.
Arachnica's Ultimate Guide on Amara & Zane basically fills the same niche as Derchlands' Skill and Gear Guide but for Borderlands 3, although he's not well versed enough in FL4K to do a series dedicated to him.
Listen to this @ work and love your in depth breakdowns of all the classes.
Passes the time really quickly and informs about all the skills that are worth it in the beginning and which ones to take on when on UVHM.
Thanks for all the insight!
Very detailed. I really appreciate all the information you have on all the characters. I feel like most videos just give very brief descriptions and don’t get into the details and how they will affect gameplay. I’m getting into borderlands pretty late, but I’m definitely enjoying it. Maybe next time wait to do videos until you don’t have a cough though. I could barely get through this video because of all the coughing and how close you sit to the microphone. I’m not trying to be mean. I really like a lot of your videos and I’m playing as Maya and really want to listen to this video, but it’s rough. Other than that I do really appreciate all the detailed information on the skills and equipment and how it all works together.
I just started playing Borderlands 2 today after a somewhat lengthy break, so I really need this video haha.
Love this channel, you're the only guy that still uploads awesome borderlands stuff so thanks
Crying Seal Demonite i also really good, he makes a lot of axton conten
Crying Seal RIP
Crying Seal dude he rambles way to much and joltz dose better content
Crying Seal stereotype
Kodiak Dunne 100% agree
Thanks Derch! Been waiting for the Maya one, will come in handy when i enter UVHM. Currently doing all the DLC at lvl 50 and having loads of fun with Maya! :D
The video is fantastic I just hit 55 on my siren on the handsome jack collection
Borderlands 2 is just all around fantastic the story the Easter eggs the dlc I love everything
Love this. I've been getting into BL2 and you happen to upload the exact guide I need. subbed
okay okay. Derch of all people didn't ramble about the twister for five minutes? AND IT WAS IN HIS INVENTORY. Lmao
+M Mathers I figured you guys knew about it I've only done 100 videos on it :)
Honestly though I just forgot about it somehow
Haha it's all good we know your love of it xD
2 and a half hours? Awesome! Now I have something to watch while leveling up in UVHM! 👍
THAT'S THE VID THAT I WANTED :DDDD
Thank you Derch !
I used to always get Quicken until I calculated what Resourceful does for Axton when wearing a Leg. Soldier and a Bone once. Now I don't use it as often anymore. xD
Dｅmｏnｉtｅ You still play bl2?
Yeah
Dｅmｏnｉtｅ Do you have a ps4? i like playing Axton but im not very good at him :( im lvl 43 PSN x-XsLashxX- but i do know you are a pc player just wandering if you had a ps4 so you could start new or something, most of my friend are already b0red of the game... :D
Nope I only play on PC, sorry. Feel free to ask any questions regarding Axton though.
Dｅmｏnｉtｅ wich weapons should i look for as axton? should i do Whoops quest for sandhawk? or is Axton better with other weapons? well just answer The first question xD
This video helped me immensely recently in picking up OP8 in Bl2, although I'm late as hell to the party, but recently I discovered a gun, Little Evie, that I notice you don't mention, but I found to be insanely fun and awesome.
With it, and a few other cooldhown boosters Maya has, you can get enough Cooldown rate for Phaselock to be able to pick up every mob on the map. That made Maya feel almost like Nisha! Granted, I love Nisha, and as far as I know - you don't - but still, why is an effect like that isn't worth mentioning?
You don't even need anything else for cooldown. Just use the lil evie glitch and get it back instantly.
Derch, great video. Took me awhile to go through the content but well worth it. I now have my Maya to level 70 as of this writting. I have not had a problem in UVHM at all. I still haven't bothered with the grogg nozzel because ruin seems to rock!!
immolation is not a skill I put points on. When I die, it's usaully from my stupidity or impatience. Thats my punishment for being careless {dying that is}. Also, I solo mostly so when I die I only listen to my own bitching and move on. Other than that, I've been following more of the dps Maya using the skills that you suggest. If I can nab a leg binder mod I'll try out the subsequence build for fun.
I do have a co-op Maya. I only run her when my wife plays {she plays Gaige}. We are doing a full completion runs through all difficulties. I'm most likely going with the scorn build, so I'm hitting your scorn vid next.
Thanks for all your hard work bud!! Keep it up!
This video is awesome. Playing thru uvhm lvl 66 and I'm struggling a bit. Been playing on and off since 2014 only maya, so i needed some gear guides to get through the game. Got the bee hawk but i cant get hyperius past 90%hp lol. Will farm some shotguns and a new class mod. Thanks again friend
I disagree with your point at about 53:00 where you say the Grog is a waste of a gun slot. Sure, it can be, especially if you never need it but I disagree with your assessment that you need all of your gun slots as Maya. You really don't, especially if you're rolling with a Bekah and a Twister, of all things. She's right up there with Sal when it comes to not having to swap weapons.
We obviously have very different approaches to Maya (flexibility, as you well know, is her strong suit) and for the most part I follow all of your logic but I just can't agree with you about her not being able to spare a weapon slot for pure utility. Hell, I barely even use my 4th slot because I can't figure out what the hell to do with it (between the Bekah and a good sniper rifle I only need 2), and I even carry around Grog in the 1st.
Major props though for the excellent explanation of the double-edged sword that is Subsequence. People tend to get set in their opinion on that skill and ignore the other side of the argument. You did an excellent job examining it and avoiding bias. Personally I love it. I don't use Scorn so I find multiple AOE slags per CD to be invaluable and well worth the occasional hangups.
As for the COMs I think you were a bit harsh on the Cleric. Great passives you can tailor to your taste (LE is a nice sniping COM but falls second to the Binder and CN/CG can be a ton of fun with a Fleet build and a gun like the Tattler or Butcher) and increased uptime on CR, Elated, and Wreck via Suspension. I agree with you on the Restoration boost being unnecessary and underwhelming (yet you love it being boosted on the Nurse COMs, found that odd) but Life Tap is welcome, and if you leave it at 6/5 (or 7/5 if you get a blue without Restoration) you can do a 20/21/26 Fleet build with a Rough Rider, short cooldown on Phaselock, and a strong health stack.
I also feel like you should've mentioned how well suited the Legendary Binder is for sniping with sub-sequence. You can get 4 or more easy pre-slagged headshots on a group of enemies (even more if you use Thoughtlock and are confident with your aim). I figure you missed this because you aren't a huge fan of sub-sequence.
Great video. Always enjoyable to listen to someone who gets into skill builds and synergy as much as I do, and even better when they know their stuff and have differing opinions to my own. To finalize this loooong comment I have a question. In one of Fiber's Maya vids (I believe the Interfacer one) he says that extra pellets spawned before the target went below 50% health still get a reaper bonus when they hit. This sounds dubious to me (how/why would the game know the fired shot will hit the enemy until it does?) but Fiber tends to know his shit so I wonder if you have any insight on the validity of that claim. I am quite interested in the answer since, like you, I looooove me some Bekah and this edge case would be applicable to it.
Katedagreat for the grog part i personally dont use a healing weapon on a most characters specially if they have good tank skills like sal or maya (yes i dont use a grog on sal) i just think the gameplay with the grog and most healing weapons are boring i would use a creamer on axton tho because i love the creamer and i dont like his tank skills but yeah thats why i dont like the grog
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I agree about the grog but I mainly use it to slag. I get torn between the grog and magic missle as what to slag with. It's nice using the fastball/ grog combo. So to me the healing is just a bonus next to the slag
it was less about the grog being a waste of a slot, more, maya's kinda cool in that she doesn't need to. hell, you could potentially just go into the menu and change shit out as needed.
also, this works with all weapons, not just being reliant on weapon swapping, using the grog + a grenade.
Honestly never used a Rubi or Grog for major emergency healing, just transfusion grenades. I dont use Grog for slagging because I am not that good at quick aiming thats why I use Slaga
Man, you crack me up sometimes. Your informative videos make my day. I wish you had more subs. Thanks for your content.
Just made my first Maya character, perfect timing ayyyyy
Great video! Really appreciate you making a truly in-depth video helps newer players like me to figure out Maya.
This was awesome! I've played Aston and Sal thru TVHM, Zero thru NVHM and Maya thru TVHM including a L50 kill of Hector in Sanctuary Fight. Maya will be my UVHM fun so this was a huge help. Thanks!! Just liked your TH grohp, too. So much more to learn....!
I found you again!
I was trying to find your channel for so long because I thought this build was great.
Huzzah! Subbed so I don't lose you again.
I just wanted to say, I really appreciate these videos! Keep up the good work :)
i had no idea this game was so deep. just started 3 weeks ago and its awesome
What's the guitar track being played in the background called?
If you want to make Maya really good, fill out her whole elemental skill tree, then go far enough into the crowd-control tree to get Converge and Inertia. Sweet Release and Wreck are great adds too. Elemental doom for all!
I've watched this video twice now, because Maya is that much fun. And this video is awesome.
Great point about the legendary class mods kind of forcing you to choose them. I mean, it makes sense I guess, so they're worth the farm, etc. But the fact that Maya has a blue com or 2 which can really shake that up is fantastic, and something they should go all in on. The tricksters are really specialized on some really fantastic skills, and when you can get 11 points in either KR or CR, things get really fun.
I like the idea of legendaries being able to give really solid all-around boosts to key points in general play-styles (aka, smg queen, and nurse), but then have the blues able to really turn certain skills literally up to 11 to where you can change your game completely around them. They leaned into this idea pretty well with the tricksters, but I don't feel like the others (not sure about other characters' coms) stood on their own very well. 11 points into Ward or Helios or even Foresesight just doesn't really change things, but having nearly every bullet reflect off enemies or 100% off yourself+healing you is just really freaking cool.
Or imagine if Recompense actually did work. O_o
I'd love to see more care put into these possibilities. Even just the few Maya has makes things so much more interesting.
I know I’m late but i love in depth analysis this is awesome, subscribed.
One thing i haven't heard mention about the blight Phoenix skill is that it'll catch a krieg character if they took the skill that allows them to take damage from friendlies. Found that out the hard way when i popped into my son's game and he came up to me right after it activated and dropped like a rock.
thank you for this comprehensive guide. i learned much useful info!
so, if i'm making killer Maya build designed to maximise damage (leg. cat/leg. siren) - green-tree and red-tree are more important. the only blue-tree musthave skill is wreck (and maybe mind's eye) . everything phaselock-related except trouglock is musthave. everything damage-related musthave. element-related musthave is cloud kill and ruin
and maybe some ricochet-relating skill, some kill skills, some other maybe some heal if perks will be enough
thank you again!
Healing skills like lifetap do help damage because you can keep your big guns out and do damage rather than run for cover or swap to a healing gun. Also scorn being a second slag skill to ruin let's you debuff more to do more damage
@@Derchlands sweet release and life tap best healing skills. so, some perks to them is good. it's another moment. ruin is musthave and most of green-tree musthave. it might be not enough for scorn (witch is good too) and even life tap
Maya is the most accessible character in my opinion. At the same time though, her skills are very complex and you can do so much with Maya. As of now she is the only character I care to play.
Maya is my favorite class thanks for the guide
Finally, after two years of swearing by Gaige, I finally started a Maya, and oh my god I love her. Gaige is still more fun with my haphazard jump-into-the-mass-of-bodies playstyle, but dear lordy is Maya also a blast! Thanks so much for these videos, I think I might finally know how to do a decent build for her now!
Although, if anyone else is watching this now, I really want to have both Scorn (especially with the UCP 10-second cooldown) and Ruin, so I can't go terribly far down the Motion tree. In general, what skills should I pick, and should I go for as many 5/5 skills as I can, or try to split points between them with some 2/5 and 3/5?
Very useful! Making a new Maya, and basically going down Cataclysm to get Cloud kill, and then probably gonna go down Harmony to get some healing/Res stuffs. Level 21 right now and Cloud Kill is carrying me lol
The time has come.
And the video is more than 2 hours. I'm okay with this.
I wasn't shocked when I put them all together and it was about 2 and a half hours
+Derch Glad you didn't just phone it in and told us to watch your Maya Top Gear videos and such
Another cool thing about Maya is that she is the only character who has inherent access to all the useful utility effects you can get from grenades.
1. Transfusion - check
2. Singularity - check
3. AoE Elemental - check
4. Slag on demand -check
Other characters have these capacities to an extent, but nowhere near as comprehensive or as easy as it is with Maya.
So I love using the Fastball on her to shore up what I feel is the only area she naturally "lacks" in which is single target nuke.
She has unimpeachable crowd control built into her kit, so the only times I really *need* grenades is to whip out some Fastballs for Badasses or other priority targets I just don't want to deal with.
Excellent guide and duscussion! Thank you cuz it was very helpful for a newer player like me.
I don't understand why I'm not able to phaselock Jack's Doppleganger. Jack himslef I understand, but his Doppleganger?
Will you remaster for lv 80 OP 10?
and here is Derch to save the day!
The fact this guy clears his throat every 2 minutes makes this hard to watch but the information is good
Super old but I love coming back. Sub-Sequence would be amazing if it was a one point game changer, gave you wreck/chain reaction/etc even while searching a new target and immediately looks for a new target after phase locking an enemy who can't be picked up.
Even if it wasn't one point I'd dump all five in just to get wreck on boss fights.
i used your gearbox forum siren guide to gear up but this a nice build. i rarely see non beehawk maya builds
Res is really good i helped a friend get to op8 for the first time with a level 30 siren cuz i could res whenever i could see him
Was playing the tiny tina one shot adventure with Maya and 2 quests were almost impossible to do due to cloudkill had to repec to do those quests. The grog nozzle and where you have to kill the 3 npc's in the graveyard.
Fleet is great for getting out of tricky situations. Even as powerful as Maya is she can get overwhelmed rather easily.
This guy is a "Energy Vampire," much like Collen Robinson on what we do in the shadows....
Like the reference, but I don't mind listening to him talk. At least he's not vinylicpuma.
Rewatching this as I consider another Maya run on stream lol. I got Zer0 to OP10 but tbh I missed my Maya crowd control the entire time lol (Maya main).
I used kinetic reflection and it got amp damage with the bee shield, so i think it gets buffed by her skills
4th pistol could have been the Hornet :)
How have I never thought of this... and here I am trying to believe a Maggie is decent at the cost of using a Bone of the Ancients
I have what may be a dumbquestion. Skills like Sweet Release specifically say, "when YOU kill an enemy," presumably that means my partner can't get the kill and have them proc. Am I wrong?
You can just put 1 point into fleet and carry a banshee classmod in the backpack so if you wanna get somewhere fast or farm sth with a long way to it you can still get a 70% Speed boost which is still huge and you only have 1 point wasted from your overall build
Thats what i usually do when leveling up a new maya
But with the new lv 80 cap i usually end up with 5/5 in fleet anyways cause i get the 2 slag capstones inertia and could pretty much only invest in quicken or some lower tier stuff then and since im running bone and legendary siren in most combat the diminishing returns of further cooldown buffs make quicken less of a priority for me
Too bad this build didn't save her from the Calypso twins
If maya watched this video she would've survived
Maya has always been my favorite character to play in BL2. I’ve used Zero a few times too but Zero seems way better when you are into TVHM cause that when you can get the throwing knives without it hindering you kinda. Most people go sniper or melee first play through and then in TVHM and UVHM is where he really shines. I usually use the sniper tree cause of Bore my first time through.
Could you use the chinuck (sp?) with the selfslag for the recompense perk instead of the grog?
song at 32:25 plx?
people always list all the gear that can be good but what is your actual loadout whole playing? do you always take a rocket launcher with you? do you use one of the healing pistols?what elements do your guns have?
i mean it sure would be stupid to have 4 smgs with you, so how do you actually fight?
Why would someone farm Flint? ... I'm all for pyros but he is more of a pyro lamiac.. unless I am missing some reason he is worth farming?
Great vid,love the way you go into so much detail,but what is a dot ????.
Damage over time. Like for example being set on fire
can I coin the term "unlisted bullets" for the butcher?
Hey man very informative thanks for making this detail ed videos
the comment about wanting to murder things.... had a spit take on my phone... thanks... you get a sub!
What is a skill that boosts "comms"?
love the music in the background
there is one tiny Tina class mod that boost magazine size immensely to above 60% I don't know if it was the same with different passives but I like using that one just to chuck enemies to death once in awhile
true neutral cleric
Does the deflection stack with a shield that also deflect with kinetic deflection?
No really stack but it creates 2 seperate chances to deflect instead of adding the chances together
The Veruc is another good assault rifle. Works really well with chain reaction
It would be cool if you could just hit the button again and make phaselock disappear and start the cool down instead of it just floating away
it'd be also cool if the "instant damage on non-phaselockable enemies" was instead a phase based DOT, that way her phaselock skills can be used on those foes as well, rather than being either useless or wasted on another enemy.
I think it would have been really cool to see Melee Damage/Melee Override Cooldown came on a "Ancients" Relic
Totally worth me subscribing
again man some good info. hats off too you sir
Hi all, new to BL and i am eyeballin Maya. But as stated there are issues with phaselock not applying to many monsters. What percent of monsters does this apply to? Doesnt this make her a wasted character (especially solo)?
Saw your vid with the modded slayer trickster. Would doing something similar and mixing the fox and chaotic evil be too over the top for a lege? Just curious, love those kinds of things.
Does recompense work with gee and his dots too?
so barrels fuck me up, but I love Life Tap and Blight Phoenix and just running up on people and watching them fall.
Can KR and the antagonist stack together for 1080%
How about Maggie? It's a gun I find myself frequently using as maya.
Is the background music from the Pulp Fiction Sound Track?
+Gabriel González nope
Derch oh, then what is it? It sounds super familiar
+Gabriel González just some free tracks on a music service. Nothing famous
Derch oh, sounds cool though
+Derch which Maya skin are you using in this vid?
Hey, what mods are you using for graphics?
Salvador and gaige didn't like that video
super super late, but anyone know, does the Antagonist stack damage with KR?
Because of the very low pellet count, the prefix on the butcher matters a LOT more than for most other shotguns. A standard butcher only has 3 pellets, the Practicable Butcher (with the vertical grip accessory) has 5 pellets, a huge DPS increase, and that's the one you are demonstrating. Just saying. Some of those other Hyperion shotguns, that prefix has about a +10% impact on DPS, but for the butcher it's a +66% impact. It's like it's a totally diferent gun.
+TheDougkiwi the slow hand goes from 1 to 3 as well as the swordsplosion. I talked a lot about yhose points in my GBU. Videos
Derch ah good point. I've never had a Slow Hand or Swordplosion, but I have had butchers.
"Immolate is definitely the best fight for your life skill in the game" *says this when down not out exists*
I still stand by it, the damage immolate adds let maya wreck raids pre op8
Derch In terms of effectiveness, down not out will help you get up more than immolate will (presuming you are using the staple grogharold)
+Mcsteveberry sorry I just disagree
Derch Well you have put more hours into the game so I believe you :P
+Mcsteveberry it's the fact you can get double buffs out of it. Maybe I'll make a video explaining it one day
hey im kind of new ro borderlands what are moxxi guns?
Joshua Collins they are guns that heal you when you do damage
I got cloud kill my first time in wildlife, made it through the rest of the game the very same day (I was very new)
hey Derch. ive been watching your vids for a while now and I just want to say good job, man. you're so great and I love what you do. I was wondering if I could make a request actually...
can you make a build for deathtrap gaige. its something ive been working on. what I mean is a build where deathtrap is the main source of damage. the only guns really should be for healing and slag. could you possibly do that for a video?
pretty much put on a hide and let him loose, I don't think I would do a video on it because its not something i'm that interested in. I think poka has some
alright. that's basically what I was doing... except sometimes id switch to the deadly bloom if I was using the buck up glitch.
If you want to crank up the damage even further, you could grab Make It Sparkle and Robot Rampage. I'm pretty sure the damage bonus from Make it Sparkle inherits roid damage.
Hey man new to the channel, what you recommend as a solid solo character to enter end game with I am pretty new to the game and just killed jack for the first time with axton. I'm not sure if I should keep playing or start over as a new character to power to 72 with. Thanks for your time.
All characters are perfectly viable and capable of taking you to 72/op8. It's really all down to personal preference and who you enjoy playing as the most.
Stick with Axton. He's a solid choice for a first character. He's well-rounded and can work with a variety of gear and playstyles, and doesn't have too much idiosyncracies and learning curve beyond being good at fps gaming. He doesn't really break or cheese anything but he doesn't have real weaknesses, so you get to appreciete and understand the game best with him.
just one thing, don't shamfleet, and don't go using the "shock storm front" (I would like to have a fix for those grenade)I know its tempting but those two thing really ruin the game in my opinion and prevent new player from getting better at the game.
If this was a different channel the 3 comments above me would say Axton sucks. But thankfully Derch knows how to create a good informed community. :)
2 hrs and 27 mins... I dont have time for this man... i gotta play...
Very informative video, thank you.
what are "dots" - elemental damage?
Damage over time. Elemental damage is both impact damage from the bullet if it hits, splash damage if the gun has it, and the damage over time effects that can proc on an enemy
hey thanks!
Whilst I appreciate these videos and the detail you put into them, god you talk slowly. Watch it on x1.25 ladies and gents!!
Ryan McDonald praise be unto you, I only saw this almost half way into the video though unfortunately
A Goat In A Coat haha it shaves a good 20-30 minutes off
How come you use fire damage on most of your guns? Just curious because every time when I play, it seems like every enemy in the game is resistant to that elemental type.
+Creatively Simple fire on flesh and most the game is fleah
@Derch and I will add that in borderlands 2 shield dont resist that much so between a quasar/storm front, ruin and the slag fire element is the best choice on Maya, unless the ennemy resist it (like pyto pete or the loader-bots)
Did I not mention that? I know I've talked a lot in the past on how she loves shock grenades so she can focus on fire/corrosive.
Derch in fact you have talked a lot about that (by the way I find that she more than anybody else in the game only need singularity) but @bleak didn't seem to know of that so I added that info to your first response on his comment.
+DD107 oops I didn't see you were responding to someone, studio is bad at showing thay
I wish Helios was just a part of ruin since ruin already has 3 elements and give Maya a dot damage or gun damage idk
+Derch
Alright, I have to ask. My friends and I just tried UVHM and got turned off at about the Tundra Express. We actually don't find it very 'challenging' just very annoying. The varkids for example, I phase locked the super badass, scorned it to slag it. I stress that, it was slagged and locked. Had Wreck and Reaper maxed out, then emptied my sniper mag into the crit spot. Got 24 crits with the best sniper available for the job. Didn't even break 20% of its hp bar. It's not that we're dying: it's that the fights are extremely tedious and drawn out and leaves us just feeling exhausted and annoyed. Does this just keep happening or are we missing something?
Edit: I just tried it Solo in Tundra Express. Just got through all of "A Train to Catch" without dying a single time and only went into FFYL once due to a Goliath that caught me by surprise while I was tunnel vision so it was my fault. However I got back up anyway... are the hp tables just screwed up in coop on UVHM?
Natalia Valkyria enemies are stronger with more ppl