As an honorable mention, I might put the slayer of terramorphous class mod. It's the only class mod that boosts preshrunk cyberpunk, which increases the amount of anarchy stacks you can have. Potentially with this class mod you can get up to 650 stacks of anarchy.
I always found it weird why she had hots for hammerlock, untill i realized when looking at cosplay conventions, that her attire is basically the token female steampunk character just like how hammerlock is the male steampunk dude
The thing about Gaige is that she works best in solo play. because: 1- other people can steal kills from you, severely halting your anarchy stack gain. 2- once you get enough anarchy stacks there wont be shit left for the other players kill. 3- if you are not the host suffering a disconnect and losing all stacks can be heartbreaking.
Another thing, If You’re in a lobby with a Gaige, steam rolling through UVHM and all a sudden she goes AFK, I find that less experienced players suffer because it’s becomes much harder to kill baddies.
Personally, I like using Gaige's Slayer of Terramorphous class mod, if only for the boost to Preshrunk Cyberpunk so I can have a maximum of 600 Anarchy. Word of warning, though - playing with that much Anarchy kinda makes bullets behave... weirdly. ESPECIALLY if the gun has low accuracy to begin with. I'm talking bullets going sideways, zig-zagging, missing at point blank, and (if you have Close Enough), missing the guy two feet in front of you only to rebound and hit some jackoff trying to snipe you from behind.
CovenantArch 882 Over here, my sweet meats, your prince of justice and genocide has something to say: Gone are the days of the tentacle and the age of the gods and mercy is far away... We are fighters of the middle, the second act in the three-part MEAT play, AND I WILL WIN BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR!
This is my favorite song! Dance to the drum beat of the _ballistic, fetishistic, sadistic piss-stick!_ Let the bullets scrape me clean and never, ever, ever flash a sassy eye at the good doctor!
You’re gonna scream, just like she did; Open mouth, open heart, blood and noice forever piercing my skull, poisoning me with it’s psychopatic purple liquid. We watched it all, and felt the knife edge split down the middle... CAN YOU HEAR ME!
Gaige at 600 anarchy with the twister is like the most hilarious spectacle to ever lay your eyes upon. The twister is about half the height of Gaige and as wide as two Ellies, and as they travel they begin to spread out making this wall of shock orbs. Sure shotguns with the bee are not great, but at the same time, pairing it with the bee, some decent cover, and Deathtrap to distract enemies, you'll be like "Ye Gods, what accuracy?"
You could even run Blood Soaked Shields WITH the Bee to shoot the Twister, get shot by said enemy, Annihilate the enemy, and gain back the shield. Rinse and Repeat
huh... Am I the only one who just walked through the entire game with the infinity pistol spraying forever letting my anarchy ruin everything in my path?
@@grandduelslover3055 yeah I know I was just saying that throughout the game I speced into smaller lighter faster to get through the tree to get to other skills. I was confused why you would go the entire time without specing into the tree
1.Twister 2.Grog nozzle 3.electric sandhawk 4.Norfleet Legendary Anarchist class mod. Sham shield. Longbow quasar. cool down relic with electric dmg+. That's what I run in OP8.
The Sandhawk and the quasar are good weapons but not as good with Gaige.. Tattler and Florentine are better smgs for her (Gaige is not a great smg user tought), and for the grenade I prefer Stormfront, Crossfire (slag version) or Chain Lightning, Get a Fibber barrel 3 and a Conference call (Or Butcher maybe) too, they work fuckin great with Gaige, and the Sham is good with rockets launchers but it's also good to have a nova shield with her, like hide of terramorphous (sorry for my english)
For Gaige, all you need is a Bee Shield, Storm Front, Grog for Healing and a few variations of the Fibber. You will just face roll anything. Buck Up and Blood Soaked Shields means you will have almost 100% uptime on the Bee unless you mess up. The Fibber is ridiculous on Gaige. Maybe a Norfleet for second winds, but not even that is necessary.
shamfleet (with a shock norfleet) with gaige is just insane when you use legendary catalyst, or even with slayer of terramorphous and have 600 anarchy stacks. Just switch for the bee + fibber when you have to kill a raid boss
Shamfleeting is ridiculous with all characters and especially Gaige, period. The Catalyst is not even close to necessary for it to be ridiculous on her. In fact, a Necromancer class mod with +6 on WDT is better for Shamfleeting than The Catalyst could ever be. Either because of the bonus to Mag Size from the True Netrual, the Fire Rate from Chaotic Good or the Reload Speed from the Good version.
well, i used to play coop with other gaige players, and since the legendary catalyst affect the whole group, it was pretty effective. But i usually choose the slayer of terramorphous because 600 stacks ...
Interspersed outburst is awesome, not only does it slag it also increases damage. At 10/5 it will take 1/2 of an ultimate baddy's health. Also, I think the Bee synchs great with Blood Soaked Shields. Kill an enemy and hello amp damage. Finally, a great item for Gaige is the class mod that increases magazine size. Why? Hello infinity + anarchy.
Interspersed outburst is great as a skill to dump stats on when you already spec into the more important skills. Having a chance to slag on every weapon I'm holding means I don't have to swap weapons or throw a slagging grenade. At higher levels whether either you are oneshotting or getting oneshotted, a second to throw a grenade or swap to a slagging gun can be very costly.
as someone who just recently picked up the handsome collection for borderlands and just started using the mechromancer for the first time. i want to thank you for ALL of these helpful guides you make, theyve helped me a TON!
A note about Interspersed Outburst: the damage doesn't scale with rank, only the slag chance. The slag chance is Rank×Stack Count×2%, and can be boosted by More Pep and BAR. If you just want the extra damage (slight though it may be), you don't need more than one point in IO.
Nice list Puma Honestly I cant get enough of Gaige she is the best character in the game IMHO Summoning DT having full stacks of Anarchy and just going ape on everything is AWESOME and this list is quite helpful so thank you :D
Pardon? The Fibber takes skill to use? Speaking as a Gaige main, there in no skill involved with the ricochet Fibber, all you have to do is pour 5 points into Close Enough, and the auto target takes over. The damage penalty is negated because, like all ricochet weapons, the algorithm is bugged to not reduce the damage and instead auto-pilot the ricochet. Coupled with the Fibber and the Buck-Up bug, Gaige is one of the easiest Vault Hunters in the game, but also reliant on a buggy, pistol build.
That is, if Close Enough procs at the same time of a ricochet, but a 50% chance means that's negligible. It's also the same reason a Pearlescent Stalker is a great choice on Gaige. I agree with the placement of the Fibber on this list, but I don't think you quite understood why.
RocksRealNice523 I have 2 on 360 and PC, both are maxed out. Call me unskilled, but this was the build that allows me chunk raid bosses and carried me to OP8. Sad that I have to keep reseting UVHM so i can get more Fibbers, but that's the price for relying on it so heavily
RocksRealNice523 I also have no friends and trying to build Vermiverous or whatever his name is, is a total pain, and on top of that you only get the chance of getting a Norfleet. Gurl, completing a quest line for a unique weapon is so much easier. And the Treants make Bee farming a breeze.
TheDoctorOfThrills while i do agrer with you, that the fibber doesnt really need a lot of thinking of the player, especially with the buckle up glitch and a bee shield, which pretty much guarantees you full amp damage with ecery shot while being in the middle of the mayhem thats going on around you, i do not understand why you keep resetting uvhm for more fibbers? if youre on console, ask a friend to pick up your fibber and turn off the console, let him give it back to you and get 1 more. on pc you can do it without the help of anyone, finish a quest to the point where you can turn it in. quit the game and make your save file read only. get back in and get your gun. then stash it into claptraps stash, its content is stored next to your save file called profile.bin. you can get as many fibbers as you want. everytime you start the game, no matter if u took the quest reward or not, you start with the quest being ready to be turned in again. however you dont lose them once u put them in the stash because its content is stored in the file that was untouched. if youre done, remove the read only and off u go
The ricochet Fibber with a bee shield is amazing, even without anarchy. You can steamroll UVHM with this combination and in fact I refuse to use it if I'm playing for fun.
A RUclipsr by the name AdmiralBahroo farmed 13 hours for The Hive. RNGeesus wasn't with him so he had to get help from his inner demons. Near the end, he went offscreen so it looked like his chair was playing the game.
Im sure I'm not the only one who pointed this out, but if you have close enough with the fibber it becomes easier to use. Not to mention the projectiles that ricochet are unlisted so it gets full amp damage from bee shields and the damage reduction from close enough becomes void. If you shoot literally any surface everything dies, it's really powerful and more practical than shamfleeting. Try it, it's cheesy.
Aww, as much as I agree with most of the choices on this list, I was hoping there would still be a place for the Legendary Roboteer class mod. IMO only, but I like the close teamwork and dependece going on between Gaige and DT while using it. Not to mention the right gear that will boost the chances of both of you to win almost every encounter.
The flakker should have got a mention as it has a fixed shooting pattern so the accuracy drop isn't a problem on gaige plus you don't need to rely on the ahab glitch to get consistent damage allowing the player to use more weapons (works best with legendary anarchist)
Also good against air targets that dive. Since it has a fixed firing pattern and fixed detonating distance I can easily shoot down flying targets if they get close. Higher anarchy even makes it better because not only does the flak cloud now cover a larger area each pellet also deals more damage to the point one pellet explodes near a target is enough to kill.
There is a synergy that you didn't talk about in your video. The Fibber that you say is the best for Gaige has a weird synergy with her "Close Enough" skill: the ricochets have up to a 50% chance of homing in on enemies AND does not suffer from the damage penalty from "Close Enough".
If you use UCP. The removal of self damage on the Whisky Tango Foxtrot can be quite entertaining when combined with Sharing Is Caring, even though it isn't a top tier shield.
Very late to the party and just started to play as Gaige, but has anyone else noticed you can get anarchy stacks for shooting the ice piles near the bullymong nests at three horns divide? I was using a 3 magazine shotgun that fired 2 ammo a shot and every reload after shooting one I'd get an extra anarchy stack. Same for skag piles too. If you have a gun that has essentially two shots, you shoot a pile with the first then just fire the next into the air and you'll get an extra anarchy. I spent a while driving round three horns divide killing enemies and shooting the piles too. Those accidental reloads are killing me. I'm not used to playing gaige I unconsciously reload sometimes and I'm devastated
Just wanted to add 2 things you left out that are actually pretty nuts on Gaige. 1) With the right Necromancer Mod (80%+ magazine size) you can negate the penalty from her other tier 1 skill and actually make use of the infinity, which if you also have cooking up trouble, means you are always regenerating health and never running out of ammo - pretty sweet once you have a high anarchy stack 2) The Deliverance is absolutely batshit insane on her. Normally Tediore weapons aren't viable, but this one is fine because you don't care about the reload damage - what you care about is the fact that the damn thing will home in on a target and then proceed to do obscene amounts of damage from the special effect. Oh, and The Bee also works on said effect making it even more ridiculous. 3) The Nukem, while not as powerful as the Norfleet, is a lot easier to obtain and pretty damned satisfying. Just be really, REALLY careful you don't frag yourself lol. With high stacks it basically wipes the screen, at least on lower difficulties I've not had a chance to try it UVHM.
"The Conference Call". I've spent most of my time in this game farming for this gun. First against the Warrior way back when, on my Ps3, then the Handsome Sorcerer when I got the Switch version a few weeks ago. In all this time, I've never seen the Conference Call drop. Hell, if I hadn't seen the gun in use online, I'd have been convinced the gun was literally a myth. In all that time, I've gotten over 18 Flakkers, 13 Impalers, 29 Volcanos, 12 Handsome Jack head skins, and 3 Legendary Class Mods, but no Conference Calls. I don't understand how so many people can get so many of these things in an hour when I can't get one in 7 years.
Personally I like the infinity pistol with the max amount of anarchy and the perk that allows you to heal with a full mag, not sure how good it is in actuality but I like it
Uhhh dude... gaige can't use infinity pistols with max anarchy. If you went to the second teir of anarchy tree you had to put 4 skill points into a skill that lowers your magazine size.
@@itsdemonz9814 I thought the same thing, but apparently the way the pistol works prevents this from happening, BUT, I haven't played the game since well before BL3 came out so I may be misremembering, OR I meant max anarchy as in the max stack of anarchy as I did make this comment 3 years ago. But I do remember having 150 anarchy on her at one point
I just finished my first playthrough of Borderlands 2, first time playing any Borderlands game in fact. I played Gaige, in a coop campaign, and I had a lot of fun, but I'm not sure I played her... what you'd call 'properly'. I put most of my skill points into anything but the tree with Anarchy, because I also focused on using sniper rifles, revolvers, and stuff with high accuracy and damage, instead of instead of low accuracy and super-high damage. Gaige was still a lot of fun to play, even though I'd always forget to use Deathtrap. It makes me sad that she's not in the other games.
VPG you forgot slayer of terra class mod as it gives 200 more anarchy stacks, since anarchy is the primary source of damage for Gaige I think it's important to maximise
the reaason that the fibber is so good on gaige is because combined with close enough you basically dont need to aim and the projectiles will aim towards enemys anyway
I know this is an old video, but since I am still playing borderlands 2, I feel there are many honorable mentions for gaige in terms of weapons: Florentine:. This is pretty much the chulainn without the self slag. While it is decent with anyone, when combined with little big trouble skill tree, this weapons becomes a monster. With electrical burn, more pep, evil enchantress, and wires don't talk, you now have a weapon that deals electrical, slag and fire elemental effects and damage at a fairly high frequency with very good damage. The chulainn can work the same, but any difficulty higher than normal makes the cost of self slag not really worth it as you're only making yourself easier to kill. Any weapon with a fixed or homing projectile patern will always work with gauge's anarchy. Homing weapons sacrifice the ability to crit, but with anarchy, you aren't really going for crits as much as you might think. The point is that a fixed or homing projectile pattern is always good for gauge's anarchy build. Richocet weapons can also work, but homing and fixed patterns will be far more reliable Any decent elemental weapons will always work, but with gaige, shock elementals will give you the most bang using little big trouble skills. I personally found a blue rarity bandit fire zooka, which is a very good substitute for the norfleet for now. I also have a slag maliwan sniper with a vladorf barrel for a fast rate of fire with a high slag chance, very useful in co op play as I can focus on slagging everyone while my teammate follows through with damage. Elemental resistance shields can be useful for those new to gaige. Many elementals can run the risk of being danger close and causing player damage, so if you are resistant to said element, you won't take as much damage. In terms of legendaries, the neogenator is best for that, as it also has health regen and increases max health. If you're not worried about that, elemental spike or nova would work. It doesn't have to be that high since gaige has several skills that boost shields and you will want to take advantage of elemental attacks. ideal legendaries include flame of the Firehawk, black hole if you can handle the singularity effect, and maybe the impaler. For anarchy builds, probably go with an absorption shield to keep your ammo stocked. The 1340, the transformer and the sham are good suggestions for that. Elemental grenades, just like the weapons, are always useful. For uniques or legendaries, the quasar, storm front, lightning bolt, chain lighting or magic missile are the best. Again, gaige gets more use out of shock elemental weapons. Relics really depend on play style. For anarchy builds, pick your primary weapons and get an artifact based on that, either an aggression relic or a stockpile relic. Probably stockpile since you're already going to be doing a lot of damage with anarchy. For little big trouble, find either a shock elemental relic or a maliwan allegiance relic, since shock elemental weapons will be your focus. If you wanna focus on deathtrap, get a proficiency relic so you can summon him more.
I need help! I am trying to do a shield only run with Gaige in True Vault Hunter mode in Borderlands 2. I am trying to find skills/relics/class mods that I can use well. Any advice for good gear. My Gaige is currently lvl 33.
I have all characters on op8 and 7 days played with gaige+ all items with red text in the game. Your list is pretty accurate, i would have changed few things but good video overall:)
tbh I like the Florentine on my gaige. slag/shock weapon with the shock can cause fire damage skill (forgot what it's called off the top of my head) plus anarchy is always fun
I am surprised that you didn't include the hot mama in this list. It has a hidden effect that allows gaige to snipe with it at max anarchy stacks, which makes for crazy damage. Since we are using a sniper rifle, might as well put the morningstar in another slot and use the morningstar glitch for even more insane damage.
What about the florentine, it can slag and shock, and if you spec gaige right, can also burn people, and in tvhm and uvhm, can do triple the damage, meaning its great on fleshy and shielded targets
He's a scrub, of course he's not a Gaige player! He's not an anything-player because he doesn't display any real understanding or cover mechanics/playstyles in any sort of real depth, which is why most of this video was Sham-fleeting.. He CONSTANTLY perpetuates popular misconceptions that Money Shot is everything, Maya needs to Cat&Bee-Hawk, ZerO's BOre is what makes him good, and probably most infamously that Axton is weak.
I would like to state that they changed this in borderlands with the drop level of legendary class mods. I found them around level 40+ in TVHM no community patch just what the game gives me.
While it is true that the Norfleet is a groan response for this list, it is best suited on Gaige and not for the Anarchy point. It is the ultimate "no accuracy required" weapon. I have never tested this precisely but you can very likely kill any enemy at maximum Anarchy (600 stacks) just by being in the same area and firing that sucker off. You don't even have to be facing them because a Norfleet has such a wide area of effect. You don't need to aim. You don't need to face the target. You JUST need to be standing close enough to them. AND. THEY. WILL. DIE!!! It is perfect for getting Second Winds because of this. You only need an enemy close enough to you when you go down. This is great because, honestly, Gaige is a little fragile in that regard. She's powerful like getting hit with a meteor head-on but sometimes it seems like she takes the least amount of damage to down. For that reason alone, a Norfleet is best suited for her. I can't invest too heavily into the damage over time skills at my current level given my preferred style but I think I'll get around to them at some point. I prefer a Trickster style to my gameplay as Gaige which means Close Enough, Cooking up Trouble, Cooldown skills and Anarchy.
I'm always surprised we don't see the use of the two-fer maggie combined with a calculating anarchist mod, close enough and preshrunk anarchy discord, at max stacks your projectiles do 9x damage. spam out a clip at the general direction of the enemy and you put 70 projectiles in the air for 14 pistol rounds, 35 of which ricochet towards enemies and wreck everything, you don't aim you shoot in general directions and watch the red dots disappear.
Best thing to do with a hive and grog nozzle you glitch the double drunk effect swap the hive and grog nozzle in the inventory double shot glitch then you get over 30 hives in the air
what they really need to fix is gaige dependance of anarchy skill, she is really useless without this skill, in UVHM gaige dead trap is a waste of skill points. gaige is the only baul hunter who has to spend more skill points for her own skills rather than her dead trap.
I got the thunderball first very early on and ended up selling it coz it was too weak and then later on in the game i got it back from a loot midget with way more damage
Ok you are forgetting a lot of good guns and shields for Gaige like the Kitten, Black Hole, Antagonist, Florentine, Pitchfork, Lyudia, Veruc, Pimpernel, and the Evolution.
lowkey.. the thunderball fist's 2ndary part.... works great with maya's phase lock... everyone gets sucked in.. that 2ndary shock of all ur shots go off and everyone gets hit by it... plus i u kill phased enemy quick enough whith everyone slagged while bunched off.. the phase will just go straight down and re yank the enemies right back in.. xD
once the ammo makes it into the weapon model, hit melee and you can shoot. it's really evident at 15:43, you see her hammer drop ever time the rounds hit the 'fleet.
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Vynalicpuma: *talking about gear*
Gaige: *literally screaming bloody murder the whole time*
As an honorable mention, I might put the slayer of terramorphous class mod. It's the only class mod that boosts preshrunk cyberpunk, which increases the amount of anarchy stacks you can have. Potentially with this class mod you can get up to 650 stacks of anarchy.
“Oh my”
Funny how Hammerlock's DLC has the best weapon for Gaige, cuz she has the hots for him
Cassie Barns even tho hammerlock is gay
in the moxxy DLC gaige says "if hammerlock ever switches sides she would marry him" (or something like that)
@@DarkDan76 she would lock him down
They both got prosthetics but hammerlocc likes the quiet and gaige is screaming so much on some builds
I always found it weird why she had hots for hammerlock, untill i realized when looking at cosplay conventions, that her attire is basically the token female steampunk character just like how hammerlock is the male steampunk dude
The thing about Gaige is that she works best in solo play.
because:
1- other people can steal kills from you, severely halting your anarchy stack gain.
2- once you get enough anarchy stacks there wont be shit left for the other players kill.
3- if you are not the host suffering a disconnect and losing all stacks can be heartbreaking.
You dont need kills to stack anarchy. you only need to do damage.
I had a 100 anarchy stack (KILL me)
Another thing, If You’re in a lobby with a Gaige, steam rolling through UVHM and all a sudden she goes AFK, I find that less experienced players suffer because it’s becomes much harder to kill baddies.
steam servers btw
Anarchy forever!!! And ever!!!
Personally, I like using Gaige's Slayer of Terramorphous class mod, if only for the boost to Preshrunk Cyberpunk so I can have a maximum of 600 Anarchy.
Word of warning, though - playing with that much Anarchy kinda makes bullets behave... weirdly. ESPECIALLY if the gun has low accuracy to begin with. I'm talking bullets going sideways, zig-zagging, missing at point blank, and (if you have Close Enough), missing the guy two feet in front of you only to rebound and hit some jackoff trying to snipe you from behind.
It has happened to me
I once made a critical hit on a hyperion loader that was one level avobe the Constructor I was trying to kill
600 anarchy, are you going to demolish a house son??
i've missed the ground aiming at my feet w/ a norfleet....
Cody Mayo Also it can cause the screen to wobble uncontrollably. Like, with high recoil weapons, you can get your screen doing 360's.
Cody Mayo pshh and people say gaige is easy.
I swear to the meat Lords, if you don't make something about Krieg next, my meat bicycle won't be the only shiny thing around here
There is only the never ending spit and bile of combat! The twenty-four hour murder spree of shining metal!
CovenantArch 882 Over here, my sweet meats, your prince of justice and genocide has something to say: Gone are the days of the tentacle and the age of the gods and mercy is far away... We are fighters of the middle, the second act in the three-part MEAT play, AND I WILL WIN BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR!
This is my favorite song! Dance to the drum beat of the _ballistic, fetishistic, sadistic piss-stick!_ Let the bullets scrape me clean and never, ever, ever flash a sassy eye at the good doctor!
You’re gonna scream, just like she did; Open mouth, open heart, blood and noice forever piercing my skull, poisoning me with it’s psychopatic purple liquid. We watched it all, and felt the knife edge split down the middle... CAN YOU HEAR ME!
"You will need to gauge where to aim the shot to ricochet the bullets to hit crit spots" I see what you did there... Bravo lol
Gaige at 600 anarchy with the twister is like the most hilarious spectacle to ever lay your eyes upon. The twister is about half the height of Gaige and as wide as two Ellies, and as they travel they begin to spread out making this wall of shock orbs. Sure shotguns with the bee are not great, but at the same time, pairing it with the bee, some decent cover, and Deathtrap to distract enemies, you'll be like "Ye Gods, what accuracy?"
You could even run Blood Soaked Shields WITH the Bee to shoot the Twister, get shot by said enemy, Annihilate the enemy, and gain back the shield. Rinse and Repeat
huh... Am I the only one who just walked through the entire game with the infinity pistol spraying forever letting my anarchy ruin everything in my path?
Girl you didn’t spec anything into the ordered chaos tree?
@@LanitaDelSlay you can spec into anarchy but not smaller lighter faster
@@grandduelslover3055 yeah I know I was just saying that throughout the game I speced into smaller lighter faster to get through the tree to get to other skills. I was confused why you would go the entire time without specing into the tree
You can get a class mod in the Tina dlc to have enough magazine size to use the infinity
@@theoutdatedgoat6816 really! Never knew
Properly *GAIGE* the distancing and angle of the shots.
The punnnnssssss!!!!!!
Yup yup
VinylicPumaGaming I got the pun haha
Scottisheep - MCPE Redstone & Commands I thought I was the only one who got that
no
GreekGeek6467 god damnit barb
Every youtuber suggests chain lightning.
Every youtuber uses magic missile.
#logic
Watafu mmx4 is the best grenade for UVHM but it’s pretty bad in normal and TVHM
I carry both if someone is using it I'll switch to chain lightning... but it is an awesome granade
A longbow slag transfusion with a low fuse time outbeats it
prince zuko the magi module regent is so good though but I still use transfusion slags on gaige
My husband uses magic missile and I use chain lightning. 😂 Shields are never a problem.
1.Twister
2.Grog nozzle
3.electric sandhawk
4.Norfleet
Legendary Anarchist class mod.
Sham shield.
Longbow quasar.
cool down relic with electric dmg+.
That's what I run in OP8.
The Sandhawk and the quasar are good weapons but not as good with Gaige.. Tattler and Florentine are better smgs for her (Gaige is not a great smg user tought), and for the grenade I prefer Stormfront, Crossfire (slag version) or Chain Lightning, Get a Fibber barrel 3 and a Conference call (Or Butcher maybe) too, they work fuckin great with Gaige, and the Sham is good with rockets launchers but it's also good to have a nova shield with her, like hide of terramorphous (sorry for my english)
For Gaige, all you need is a Bee Shield, Storm Front, Grog for Healing and a few variations of the Fibber. You will just face roll anything.
Buck Up and Blood Soaked Shields means you will have almost 100% uptime on the Bee unless you mess up.
The Fibber is ridiculous on Gaige.
Maybe a Norfleet for second winds, but not even that is necessary.
shamfleet (with a shock norfleet) with gaige is just insane when you use legendary catalyst, or even with slayer of terramorphous and have 600 anarchy stacks.
Just switch for the bee + fibber when you have to kill a raid boss
Shamfleeting is ridiculous with all characters and especially Gaige, period.
The Catalyst is not even close to necessary for it to be ridiculous on her. In fact, a Necromancer class mod with +6 on WDT is better for Shamfleeting than The Catalyst could ever be. Either because of the bonus to Mag Size from the True Netrual, the Fire Rate from Chaotic Good or the Reload Speed from the Good version.
well, i used to play coop with other gaige players, and since the legendary catalyst affect the whole group, it was pretty effective.
But i usually choose the slayer of terramorphous because 600 stacks ...
Interspersed outburst is awesome, not only does it slag it also increases damage. At 10/5 it will take 1/2 of an ultimate baddy's health.
Also, I think the Bee synchs great with Blood Soaked Shields. Kill an enemy and hello amp damage.
Finally, a great item for Gaige is the class mod that increases magazine size. Why? Hello infinity + anarchy.
Interspersed outburst is great as a skill to dump stats on when you already spec into the more important skills. Having a chance to slag on every weapon I'm holding means I don't have to swap weapons or throw a slagging grenade. At higher levels whether either you are oneshotting or getting oneshotted, a second to throw a grenade or swap to a slagging gun can be very costly.
as someone who just recently picked up the handsome collection for borderlands and just started using the mechromancer for the first time. i want to thank you for ALL of these helpful guides you make, theyve helped me a TON!
*Fires off Thunderball fists after getting drunk*
Sam: "There's too many orbs happening here."
A note about Interspersed Outburst: the damage doesn't scale with rank, only the slag chance. The slag chance is Rank×Stack Count×2%, and can be boosted by More Pep and BAR.
If you just want the extra damage (slight though it may be), you don't need more than one point in IO.
Nice list Puma Honestly I cant get enough of Gaige she is the best character in the game IMHO Summoning DT having full stacks of Anarchy and just going ape on everything is AWESOME and this list is quite helpful so thank you :D
Pardon? The Fibber takes skill to use? Speaking as a Gaige main, there in no skill involved with the ricochet Fibber, all you have to do is pour 5 points into Close Enough, and the auto target takes over. The damage penalty is negated because, like all ricochet weapons, the algorithm is bugged to not reduce the damage and instead auto-pilot the ricochet. Coupled with the Fibber and the Buck-Up bug, Gaige is one of the easiest Vault Hunters in the game, but also reliant on a buggy, pistol build.
That is, if Close Enough procs at the same time of a ricochet, but a 50% chance means that's negligible. It's also the same reason a Pearlescent Stalker is a great choice on Gaige. I agree with the placement of the Fibber on this list, but I don't think you quite understood why.
How many Gaiges have you leveled and how many days does your favorite Gaige have on her?
RocksRealNice523 I have 2 on 360 and PC, both are maxed out. Call me unskilled, but this was the build that allows me chunk raid bosses and carried me to OP8. Sad that I have to keep reseting UVHM so i can get more Fibbers, but that's the price for relying on it so heavily
RocksRealNice523 I also have no friends and trying to build Vermiverous or whatever his name is, is a total pain, and on top of that you only get the chance of getting a Norfleet. Gurl, completing a quest line for a unique weapon is so much easier. And the Treants make Bee farming a breeze.
TheDoctorOfThrills while i do agrer with you, that the fibber doesnt really need a lot of thinking of the player, especially with the buckle up glitch and a bee shield, which pretty much guarantees you full amp damage with ecery shot while being in the middle of the mayhem thats going on around you, i do not understand why you keep resetting uvhm for more fibbers? if youre on console, ask a friend to pick up your fibber and turn off the console, let him give it back to you and get 1 more. on pc you can do it without the help of anyone, finish a quest to the point where you can turn it in. quit the game and make your save file read only. get back in and get your gun. then stash it into claptraps stash, its content is stored next to your save file called profile.bin. you can get as many fibbers as you want. everytime you start the game, no matter if u took the quest reward or not, you start with the quest being ready to be turned in again. however you dont lose them once u put them in the stash because its content is stored in the file that was untouched. if youre done, remove the read only and off u go
I think I've been playing too much Skyrim. as gauge was going in the dragon DLC I was wondering why Vynlic didn't harvest the mushrooms in the creek.
The ricochet Fibber with a bee shield is amazing, even without anarchy. You can steamroll UVHM with this combination and in fact I refuse to use it if I'm playing for fun.
Also you can get the conference call by defeating Cassius in Lilith dlc!
Really?
kam schu He drops different legendaries so it takes alot of time to farm if you just want a CC
Jere Niemi Yeah, but this video was made before the Lilith expansion existed, lol
@@chuckhorizon7815 I know that much. That's why i made the comment
You could just let your chair farm your Hive for you.
Heh, I see what you did there.
Don't.
That's a good reference but don't those were dark times
Xeno Let's Plays It works 😂
A RUclipsr by the name AdmiralBahroo farmed 13 hours for The Hive. RNGeesus wasn't with him so he had to get help from his inner demons. Near the end, he went offscreen so it looked like his chair was playing the game.
Xeno Let's Plays Papa Bahroo
Im sure I'm not the only one who pointed this out, but if you have close enough with the fibber it becomes easier to use. Not to mention the projectiles that ricochet are unlisted so it gets full amp damage from bee shields and the damage reduction from close enough becomes void. If you shoot literally any surface everything dies, it's really powerful and more practical than shamfleeting. Try it, it's cheesy.
That's what I've been using in the Dragon Keep DLC. The richochet electric fibber is killing the skeletons and I'm speced into close enough.
Aww, as much as I agree with most of the choices on this list, I was hoping there would still be a place for the Legendary Roboteer class mod. IMO only, but I like the close teamwork and dependece going on between Gaige and DT while using it. Not to mention the right gear that will boost the chances of both of you to win almost every encounter.
I'm only lvl 52 but I'm already running the "Social" conference call & the Chain Lightning... SOOOOO GOOOOOOOOODDDDD
The flakker should have got a mention as it has a fixed shooting pattern so the accuracy drop isn't a problem on gaige plus you don't need to rely on the ahab glitch to get consistent damage allowing the player to use more weapons (works best with legendary anarchist)
Also good against air targets that dive. Since it has a fixed firing pattern and fixed detonating distance I can easily shoot down flying targets if they get close. Higher anarchy even makes it better because not only does the flak cloud now cover a larger area each pellet also deals more damage to the point one pellet explodes near a target is enough to kill.
There is a synergy that you didn't talk about in your video. The Fibber that you say is the best for Gaige has a weird synergy with her "Close Enough" skill: the ricochets have up to a 50% chance of homing in on enemies AND does not suffer from the damage penalty from "Close Enough".
You sound like your name is Eugene
goldenskull1111 [YT] that's an odd way to describe someone's voice
Or is it
No it is not
Not odd
goldenskull1111 [YT]
Nah, he kinda sounds like a
*BILLNYETHESCIENCEGUY*
What about wanderlust it never misses so it's good... at anarchy
Yeah... you can run out of ammon before you can kill anyone... it's so perfect!
What a boatload of AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
If you use UCP. The removal of self damage on the Whisky Tango Foxtrot can be quite entertaining when combined with Sharing Is Caring, even though it isn't a top tier shield.
Very late to the party and just started to play as Gaige, but has anyone else noticed you can get anarchy stacks for shooting the ice piles near the bullymong nests at three horns divide? I was using a 3 magazine shotgun that fired 2 ammo a shot and every reload after shooting one I'd get an extra anarchy stack. Same for skag piles too. If you have a gun that has essentially two shots, you shoot a pile with the first then just fire the next into the air and you'll get an extra anarchy. I spent a while driving round three horns divide killing enemies and shooting the piles too. Those accidental reloads are killing me. I'm not used to playing gaige I unconsciously reload sometimes and I'm devastated
YAY MY FAVORITE CHARACTER GETS A COUNTDOWN!!!
Yeah! She's my main as well! I really enjoy her and I'm glad to see someone else who has the same thoughts!
@@andonascended Its Been 4 years SINCE He posted this comment
@Merchant Mocha oh shit you right
Just wanted to add 2 things you left out that are actually pretty nuts on Gaige.
1) With the right Necromancer Mod (80%+ magazine size) you can negate the penalty from her other tier 1 skill and actually make use of the infinity, which if you also have cooking up trouble, means you are always regenerating health and never running out of ammo - pretty sweet once you have a high anarchy stack
2) The Deliverance is absolutely batshit insane on her. Normally Tediore weapons aren't viable, but this one is fine because you don't care about the reload damage - what you care about is the fact that the damn thing will home in on a target and then proceed to do obscene amounts of damage from the special effect. Oh, and The Bee also works on said effect making it even more ridiculous.
3) The Nukem, while not as powerful as the Norfleet, is a lot easier to obtain and pretty damned satisfying. Just be really, REALLY careful you don't frag yourself lol. With high stacks it basically wipes the screen, at least on lower difficulties I've not had a chance to try it UVHM.
Smaller mag size isn’t a penalty. It’s in your favor as Gaige.
I love Gaige ^^
The torgue seeker is fun to use with her once your anarchy stacks are up .she is the only character ill run it on.
the Thunderball Fist is also good for rocket ammo
timothy hunnel so’s the logans gun
Where can i find the legendary anarchist/catalyst class mod art? i really like the 4 cards of gaige concept and the diamond background
"The Conference Call".
I've spent most of my time in this game farming for this gun. First against the Warrior way back when, on my Ps3, then the Handsome Sorcerer when I got the Switch version a few weeks ago. In all this time, I've never seen the Conference Call drop. Hell, if I hadn't seen the gun in use online, I'd have been convinced the gun was literally a myth. In all that time, I've gotten over 18 Flakkers, 13 Impalers, 29 Volcanos, 12 Handsome Jack head skins, and 3 Legendary Class Mods, but no Conference Calls.
I don't understand how so many people can get so many of these things in an hour when I can't get one in 7 years.
Me : has like 3 conference calls on one character
Have at least ten in all elements across three characters - regular drops from Uranus Bot.
Moonshot farm the warrior
Bro i got it on my first playthrough lvl 30
Personally I like the infinity pistol with the max amount of anarchy and the perk that allows you to heal with a full mag, not sure how good it is in actuality but I like it
I hope I didn't sell my infinity pistol.
Uhhh dude... gaige can't use infinity pistols with max anarchy. If you went to the second teir of anarchy tree you had to put 4 skill points into a skill that lowers your magazine size.
@@itsdemonz9814 I thought the same thing, but apparently the way the pistol works prevents this from happening, BUT, I haven't played the game since well before BL3 came out so I may be misremembering, OR I meant max anarchy as in the max stack of anarchy as I did make this comment 3 years ago. But I do remember having 150 anarchy on her at one point
Eithwr dont go 2nd tier (some do investing in shock tree) or using a tina class mod that invreases mag size it can be done @@itsdemonz9814
I just finished my first playthrough of Borderlands 2, first time playing any Borderlands game in fact. I played Gaige, in a coop campaign, and I had a lot of fun, but I'm not sure I played her... what you'd call 'properly'. I put most of my skill points into anything but the tree with Anarchy, because I also focused on using sniper rifles, revolvers, and stuff with high accuracy and damage, instead of instead of low accuracy and super-high damage.
Gaige was still a lot of fun to play, even though I'd always forget to use Deathtrap. It makes me sad that she's not in the other games.
tbh i started to worry about not seeing the fibber , i found this one to be completely hope especially with close enough and lots of anarchy stacks
I feel like I hear a lot of mixed opinions about Gaige's Wires Don't Talk skill. Would you say it's worth specing into?
Pimpernel and swordsplosion is so good with gaiage. swordsplosion literally acts as a norfleet rocket launcher in shotgun form
Puma you forgot to mention that you can also do a double shot with the hive to further increase the projectiles along with the grog drunk effect.
THX PUMAA for this video, been playing Gaige for awhile and was trying to find this vid on ur channel, FINALLY ITS UP THANKSS MANN!! :))
what do you think of madhous for gaige
VPG you forgot slayer of terra class mod as it gives 200 more anarchy stacks, since anarchy is the primary source of damage for Gaige I think it's important to maximise
And for the people who dont use the anarchy like me? What class mod can be good?
Volgin Oni Legendary one obv
@@tokita9652 Im using a full Deathtrap build with the legendary roboteer class mod
Volgin Oni dude are you playing a challenge or what?
the reaason that the fibber is so good on gaige is because combined with close enough you basically dont need to aim and the projectiles will aim towards enemys anyway
I know this is an old video, but since I am still playing borderlands 2, I feel there are many honorable mentions for gaige in terms of weapons:
Florentine:. This is pretty much the chulainn without the self slag. While it is decent with anyone, when combined with little big trouble skill tree, this weapons becomes a monster. With electrical burn, more pep, evil enchantress, and wires don't talk, you now have a weapon that deals electrical, slag and fire elemental effects and damage at a fairly high frequency with very good damage. The chulainn can work the same, but any difficulty higher than normal makes the cost of self slag not really worth it as you're only making yourself easier to kill.
Any weapon with a fixed or homing projectile patern will always work with gauge's anarchy. Homing weapons sacrifice the ability to crit, but with anarchy, you aren't really going for crits as much as you might think. The point is that a fixed or homing projectile pattern is always good for gauge's anarchy build. Richocet weapons can also work, but homing and fixed patterns will be far more reliable
Any decent elemental weapons will always work, but with gaige, shock elementals will give you the most bang using little big trouble skills. I personally found a blue rarity bandit fire zooka, which is a very good substitute for the norfleet for now. I also have a slag maliwan sniper with a vladorf barrel for a fast rate of fire with a high slag chance, very useful in co op play as I can focus on slagging everyone while my teammate follows through with damage.
Elemental resistance shields can be useful for those new to gaige. Many elementals can run the risk of being danger close and causing player damage, so if you are resistant to said element, you won't take as much damage. In terms of legendaries, the neogenator is best for that, as it also has health regen and increases max health. If you're not worried about that, elemental spike or nova would work. It doesn't have to be that high since gaige has several skills that boost shields and you will want to take advantage of elemental attacks. ideal legendaries include flame of the Firehawk, black hole if you can handle the singularity effect, and maybe the impaler. For anarchy builds, probably go with an absorption shield to keep your ammo stocked. The 1340, the transformer and the sham are good suggestions for that.
Elemental grenades, just like the weapons, are always useful. For uniques or legendaries, the quasar, storm front, lightning bolt, chain lighting or magic missile are the best. Again, gaige gets more use out of shock elemental weapons.
Relics really depend on play style. For anarchy builds, pick your primary weapons and get an artifact based on that, either an aggression relic or a stockpile relic. Probably stockpile since you're already going to be doing a lot of damage with anarchy. For little big trouble, find either a shock elemental relic or a maliwan allegiance relic, since shock elemental weapons will be your focus. If you wanna focus on deathtrap, get a proficiency relic so you can summon him more.
I need help! I am trying to do a shield only run with Gaige in True Vault Hunter mode in Borderlands 2. I am trying to find skills/relics/class mods that I can use well. Any advice for good gear. My Gaige is currently lvl 33.
I farmed for my first ever norfleet on my Salvador and was so pissed that I got a shock one until I realized it makes her an immortal mobbing machine.
I hate to say it, but the pearlescent storm is actually great with Gaige.
My level 80 shock Ladyfist is also fantastic with her.
I love how a lot of these guns are guns. Where your accuracy doesn't matter, really.
I have all characters on op8 and 7 days played with gaige+ all items with red text in the game. Your list is pretty accurate, i would have changed few things but good video overall:)
Got thunderbolt pistol farming uranus
Began Shamfleeting with my freshly levelled 80 Gaige only this week - blimey.
tbh I like the Florentine on my gaige. slag/shock weapon with the shock can cause fire damage skill (forgot what it's called off the top of my head) plus anarchy is always fun
Florentine is good for gaige, it would just be better if the slag splash damage was happening before the shock direct damage.
I like the Florentine in conjunction with an Orphan Maker (the Florphantine) and a Turtle shield.
The rekachet fibber is actually the ultimate rakk hunting weapon. Just trigger them and aim at the ground as they approach you...
Thanks for the video, theres not a lot of gaige mains out there
Thanks for the video. I'm late to the game but Gaige is my favorite.
Can u do a new one?
With the new DLC?
Does that build still the better?
I am surprised that you didn't include the hot mama in this list. It has a hidden effect that allows gaige to snipe with it at max anarchy stacks, which makes for crazy damage. Since we are using a sniper rifle, might as well put the morningstar in another slot and use the morningstar glitch for even more insane damage.
This was made 7 years ago so the hot moms wasn’t out yet.
What about the florentine, it can slag and shock, and if you spec gaige right, can also burn people, and in tvhm and uvhm, can do triple the damage, meaning its great on fleshy and shielded targets
The fire interfacer is godlike at the hands of 600 anarchy gaige with a bone of the ancients
A double pentatrating upkept Harold is another exelint wepon for anarchy gauge. Its almost guaranteed to hit
well we Know he's not a gaige player. 😶
jose mariano
Gaige kinda just plays the game for you anyways
@ yeah she does
He's a scrub, of course he's not a Gaige player!
He's not an anything-player because he doesn't display any real understanding or cover mechanics/playstyles in any sort of real depth, which is why most of this video was Sham-fleeting.. He CONSTANTLY perpetuates popular misconceptions that Money Shot is everything, Maya needs to Cat&Bee-Hawk, ZerO's BOre is what makes him good, and probably most infamously that Axton is weak.
@@atlys258 for real dude axton problem was annoying
@@joyboy1734 Some people really lost it over that whole deal.. I was just glad that Demonite and Derch pretty much kept their cool.
I would like to state that they changed this in borderlands with the drop level of legendary class mods. I found them around level 40+ in TVHM no community patch just what the game gives me.
I just got true vault hunter mode so,this video is helpful to me
At 02:04 when he fires to replenish rocket ammo will any E Tech pistol work? Or is that some special pistol?
Yes the pistol is a legendary. The logans gun is the pistol that can replenish launcher ammo when using a Sham shield.
While it is true that the Norfleet is a groan response for this list, it is best suited on Gaige and not for the Anarchy point. It is the ultimate "no accuracy required" weapon. I have never tested this precisely but you can very likely kill any enemy at maximum Anarchy (600 stacks) just by being in the same area and firing that sucker off. You don't even have to be facing them because a Norfleet has such a wide area of effect. You don't need to aim. You don't need to face the target. You JUST need to be standing close enough to them. AND. THEY. WILL. DIE!!! It is perfect for getting Second Winds because of this. You only need an enemy close enough to you when you go down. This is great because, honestly, Gaige is a little fragile in that regard. She's powerful like getting hit with a meteor head-on but sometimes it seems like she takes the least amount of damage to down. For that reason alone, a Norfleet is best suited for her.
I can't invest too heavily into the damage over time skills at my current level given my preferred style but I think I'll get around to them at some point. I prefer a Trickster style to my gameplay as Gaige which means Close Enough, Cooking up Trouble, Cooldown skills and Anarchy.
How do I get the Norfleet?
@@jamilgotcher5456: A common drop from Vermivorous (the giant Varkid), or a rare drop from Hyperius (Captain Scarlet DLC).
@@DarkPegasus87 Thank you Dark Pegasus
after the bl2 characters are you going to do bltps characters?
Great vid man👍 can you do best weapons for krieg next?
I'm always surprised we don't see the use of the two-fer maggie combined with a calculating anarchist mod, close enough and preshrunk anarchy discord, at max stacks your projectiles do 9x damage. spam out a clip at the general direction of the enemy and you put 70 projectiles in the air for 14 pistol rounds, 35 of which ricochet towards enemies and wreck everything, you don't aim you shoot in general directions and watch the red dots disappear.
Best thing to do with a hive and grog nozzle you glitch the double drunk effect swap the hive and grog nozzle in the inventory double shot glitch then you get over 30 hives in the air
What no slayer of Terra class mod? I guess 600 stacks is a little excessive
prob cause the others arent special
The Black Hole legendary shield is really great if you care about melee builds
Out of all the vault hunters imagine picking gaige for melee lol sounds like a challenge i want to try out
what they really need to fix is gaige dependance of anarchy skill, she is really useless without this skill, in UVHM gaige dead trap is a waste of skill points. gaige is the only baul hunter who has to spend more skill points for her own skills rather than her dead trap.
if you have about 600 stacks of anarchy the twister bullet pattern spreads out a lot
can we get one for the tps vault hunters
i found the mechromancer legendary class mod at level 53 in the red chest of shouhtern self in ultimate vault hunter mode
Is Chain Lightning a reference to Steely Dans song? From the Katy Lied álbum..
Electric Lyuda
Electric conference call
Florentine
Thunderball Fists or Unkempt Herald
Seraph resistance shield (forgot it's name)
Legendary anarchist
Longbow quasar
Shock BotA
OP8 build.
what best items for gaige at lvl 71 on uvhm
4:15 what is that rigle?
why do you melee everytime you shoot the norfleet?
Animationcancel
Was that a pun when you were talking about gaiging your aim
Just got a legendary class mod for Gaige from pyro Pete.Btw keep up the great videos.
Hail, Wanderlust and Slayer of Terra should be in this list. Those items works very good on Gaige.
Hey puma what's the rocket launcher you're using in 7:02
It's probably an E-Tech Vladof launcher. It's like a Norfleet before the steroids, and a completely different manufacturer.
the Grey one? It's a Topneaa, it's a Vladof E-tech launcher that drops from any loot source.
Thanks guys.
I like using Slayer of Terramorphous for DOT/Anarchy hybrid Gaige. Those anarchy stacks.
I got the thunderball first very early on and ended up selling it coz it was too weak and then later on in the game i got it back from a loot midget with way more damage
flakker + nukem + anarchy
Whats the name of the grenade that u are using. Brasil players still active in Borderlands
Ok you are forgetting a lot of good guns and shields for Gaige like the Kitten, Black Hole, Antagonist, Florentine, Pitchfork, Lyudia, Veruc, Pimpernel, and the Evolution.
lowkey.. the thunderball fist's 2ndary part.... works great with maya's phase lock...
everyone gets sucked in.. that 2ndary shock of all ur shots go off and everyone gets hit by it... plus i u kill phased enemy quick enough whith everyone slagged while bunched off.. the phase will just go straight down and re yank the enemies right back in.. xD
What type of build are you using with gaige?
Legendary Catalyst generally works with Anarchy builds as well
Shock granular fibber + bee + close enough + anarchy = aim in the general direction for a kill
were was the Florentine dont you say its not a good enough weapon to be on the list or in the vid because i saw the hyperion e-tech plasma caster
finally you feature Gage.... i was about to ask you never show many vids of her
How he can shoot the Norfleet so fast?
It seem lile some sort of reload cancel method
once the ammo makes it into the weapon model, hit melee and you can shoot.
it's really evident at 15:43, you see her hammer drop ever time the rounds hit the 'fleet.