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**f a n c y** · 04/19/2018

Heyoooooooooooooooooooooo

Welcome to…!

>Q&A

>Character & Class Guide
The vanilla copy of BL2 comes with 4 characters. Each one of these characters has an action skill they can use for a short time to assist in battle. After each use of an action skill, there is a Cooldown period in which players have to wait before they can use it again, so be smart and strategic when deciding when and when not to use it!

The effects of this action skill, as well as the permanent perks that your character gains (such as a boost in their health or accuracy), can be customised through three skill trees. As you move further along in the game, you gain more and more skill points, unlocking more and more tiers of the trees.

Here’s a brief overlook (given that you can mix and match skills from each skill tree, half the fun comes from gawking and debating on which skills you want anyway).

Axton (as the Commando)
Action skill is the use of a turret, which will not only act as a support, but as a distraction for enemies if you’re in a tight spot and need to get away.

Guerilla - Helps you to sustain continuous high damage attacks.
Gunpowder - All about offence. Boosts combat stats and utilises explosives. Great for distracting enemies.
Survival - All about defence. Boosts your health, shield, and the last tier allows you to deploy two turrets.

Maya (as the Siren)
Action skill is phaselock, which will suspend enemies in midair for a few seconds whilst doing damage. Great for crowd control.

Motion - Good for crowd control and boosting defence.
Harmony - Focus is on healing and supporting your teammates.
Cataclysm - Focus is on elemental effects, damage, and causing all hell.

Salvador (as the Gunzerker)
Action skill is gunzerking, or the ability to wield any two weapons you have in your inventory for a little time.

Gun Lust - Gets you to swap around and reload your guns in rapid succession.
Rampage - Focus is on maintaining a continuous flow of firing. Will reward you with extra ammunition and time spent gunzerking.
Brawn - Tank tree. Increases your max health, rate of regeneration, and has the potential to turn damage into health regeneration. You can even taunt your enemies with the final tier.

Zer0 (as the Assassin)
Has the ability to go into ‘decepti0n’ mode whichs deploys a holographic decoy of himself whilst he turns invisible.

Sniping - Grants bonuses on crit hit with guns, particularly sniper rifles.
Cunning - Improves melee and ranged combat.
Bloodshed - Increases decepti0n time and improves melee damage. Makes you feel badass as hell.

Extra Characters from DLCs

Gaige (as the Mechromancer)
Action skill is summoning a robot companion to help you kicks copious amounts of ass.

Best Friends Forever - Focus is on boosting health and shield.
Little Big Trouble - Focus is on elemental damage.
Ordered Chaos - Grants you big bonuses in damage but at the cost of accuracy.

Krieg (as the Psycho)
Action skill is going into berserk mode with a buzz axe and doing extra melee damage.

Bloodlust - Focus is on ranged combat and getting stacks to improve your skills.
Mania - High risk/high reward tree that rewards you for taking damage by increasing the amount of damage you deal out.
Hellborn - Focus is on elemental damage.

Feel free to take a gander at this skill tree simulator to get a feel for the skill tree mechanics. Every time you want to move around your points, you're charged for refreshing them, so it's wise to get a good idea of what you want to do ahead of time!

Guns, and Class Mods, and Shields. Oh, my!
Loot, as you will come to know (if you don’t already) plays a huge part in the Borderlands experience. Each bit of loot gets assigned a colour which signifies it’s rarity and thus it’s rank. The general rule is: the rarer the loot, the more powerful it is.

Loot Ranking (from most common to most rare)

White = Common
Green = Uncommon
Blue = Rare
Purple = Epic
Orange = Legendary
Magenta = E-tech
Pink = Seraph (Only found in DLCs)
Cyan = Pearlescent (Only found in UVHM)

As, again, our very own Obsidian Fire puts it…

Obsidian Fire wrote: Unique weapons (and up!) in Borderlands are almost like another facet of making class builds. And that some of those Weapons can only be gotten though Side Quests.

Therefore, I’ll be making special note of all the sidequests that award you with these special weapons (even if I don’t neccesarily recommend it for the playthrough).

>Game Editions & DLCs

>Teaming Up!
From experience, I can say that Borderlands 2 is a game best played with friends. Ideally, we’d be pairing up veterans of the game with newbies, but folks are naturally free to team up with whomever they choose. I, myself, will go ahead and state that I am a vet who’d prefer to play with newbies. Mostly cuz I play like a newbie myself and I’m shy lmfao. (｡･ω･｡)

If anyone would like to provide me with their timezone as well as the medium they're playing on, I’ll list’em here and you can reach out to a member based on that.

BforBrigitta (Newborn on Mac). Might be playing! AEST (+10 GMT).
Cthulhu (Magical Space Inbetween on PC). Will play with anyone (ping him).
Darth n Airling (Vets on PC). Will play with newbies or anyone on TVHM. - (+2 GMT)
Fancy (Vet on PC). Will play with anyone but prefers newbies- EST (-4 GMT)
ForceStealer (Vet on PS4 but will play PS3 if necessary). Will play with anyone.
Joe (Vet on PC and PS4). Will play with anyone - BST (+1 GMT)
Mao Shizhong (Newbie on PC). Will play with anyone - BST (+1 GMT)
Minato (Newbie on PC). Will play with anyone.
Obsidian Fire (Vet on PC). Will play with anyone (although likely playing TVHM) - PDT (-7 GMT)

Whilst I strongly encourage everyone to team up with somebody, there are potential drawbacks to working in teams.

Skipping Ahead - When you’re joining someone’s game, you’ll load in whatever point they’re currently in, thus you risk skipping some story. For example, say you were in Chapter 5 the last time you saved, but your host is in Chapter 7 when you join their game. You’ve just skipped Chapter 6 in terms of story.

Not only this, but the next time you load your own game, you’ll end up back in the last point that you saved in (in the case of this example, Chapter 5), and you’ll be forced to progress through Chapter 6 anyway (though you will get the option of skipping Chapter 7…).

So be mindful that whoever you end up teaming up with throughout the playthrough event (I, myself, don’t plan on strictly playing with one party/set of people) are more or less on the same page as you. On a related note...

Get. On. My. Level. - As I’ve mentioned earlier, those who have completed the game once will have unlocked True Vault Hunter Mode for that character and those who’ve completed TVHM unlock Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. If a newbie ends up joining a host playing in either of these modes, the host will be carrying them as they will literally be too weak to contribute in a significant way. If a veteran joins a newbie game (with their levelled up character), the game will become too easy, as the veteran will be mowing down every enemy they encounter because they’re too overpowered for the playthrough.

Again, you’re free to join whomever and play on whatever mode with whichever teammates, but I’m just pointing this out as something you may want to keep in mind.

”T-THAT’S MY LOOT!!!” - When it comes to the loot you and your teammates find, it’s every wo(man) for her/himself. If a rare weapon drops and four players are present, only one of them is walking away with that booty (assuming no one is cheating of course lmao

). Get accustomed to negotiating, playing dirty, or using the in-game solution (literally fighting for it).

Make Your Choice - Sometimes the missions you go on give you a choice between giving an item to one character or another, which will award you a different gun. Once one of your teammates makes this decision, it’s absolute for everyone else playing.

>Chapters

Credits and Citations

**Joe** · 04/19/2018

Holy shit this is an excellent write-up. Solid work Fancy Panties!

I have no idea of my availability yet but I am a vet and open to playing with anybody.

It's likely I'll be playing on PC but I may play on PS4 too.

**f a n c y** · 04/19/2018

Aaahhhh thank you, that means a a lot coming from you!

I've been stressing about this fooking post for weeks. Probably still needs some tweaks but I'm happy for now!

Putting you in now! That's BST?

Should've made those voting public goddamit

Obsidian Fire · 04/19/2018

Woop!

Yes I am playing this!

I'll be playing on PC and am a Vet. And I'll most likely be paying True Vault Hunter Mode. I am all the way over in PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) though...

Oh and I have all the DLC for this, so count me in for the Dungeon Assault

Doom Bunneh · 04/19/2018

I'M HERE TO SHANK AND SMILE!!!

So Airling and I are both WAY in for this, and we'll be playing together but we're totes willing to play with up to two (2) more people (Uh-oh, math. Hope we don't pop a blood vessel.).

Also we're willing to either play all new chars from start if playing with young'uns, or play TVHM with our current characters (I am Krieg and A is Zer0) and I'll check what level we are as soon as I re-install the game (god I hope the damn thing kept my character...).

Anyway.

NEVER STOP THE KILLING. NEVER!!!

Minato · 04/19/2018

Dibs on 3rd player in Darth and A's team! (Actually happy to play with anyone willing to put up with a newbie)

**Joe** · 04/19/2018

For what it's worth I plan to play as Gaige using the Ordered Chaos/ANARCHY tree. >

**f a n c y** · 04/19/2018

Right, I wanna point out that I'll likely be starting a new game (I really wanna play with the newbies tehehe!) and play as Maya with a focus on the harmony skill tree (basically, I'll be the team's white mage/medic).

BforBrigitta · 04/19/2018

I'm hoping I'll have the time but I volunteer to be sacrificial newborn lamb in Fancy's team so lmao good luck to you and pray for us all.

Mao Shizhong · 04/20/2018

I should be free around most of the summer. I am totally down for teaming up with people if accepted

I'm a completely newbie to the BL series (boy love?????) but not shooters in general.

I'm in BST (GMT+1) and will be playing on PC.

Doom Bunneh · 04/20/2018

Ah forks I forgot to put in our timezone, we're GMT+2, and totes down to have Minato in our team! Or others, ya know, but the offer was made.

Oh and we're around level 41, and have the DLC for Dragon Keep,

**ForceStealer** · 04/20/2018

I'll most likely play on PS4 with the handsome collection, but i do have a PS3 copy if necessary.

I don't know what I'll play. In my last co-op game I played healer Maya and enjoyed it quite a bit (dem long-distance raises, bb). I also have a save file with a Zero I was playing solo. I never got very far, so I could also just wait a bit for people to catch up with that and just go from there.

***Cthulhu*** · 04/20/2018

I've started and restarted this game a few times now (I think I played with Joe at some point too) but never finished it, so err, if anyone's playing, just ping in discord and I can join like whatever

BforBrigitta · 04/22/2018

FTR, my timezone is AEST (GMT +10).

**f a n c y** · 05/25/2018

Friendly reminder that the playthrough will commence in one week. If you have yet to purchase the game, now's about the time to be considering it! I've written up a guide as to how and where to buy the game in the main post if anyone needs it (it's under the Q&A spoiler). If you're interested in partnering up, let us know!

My timeframe for this playthrough is about two and half months (excluding 'Assault on Dragon Keep') with me posting a set of questions every Friday regardless of how far behind someone may be. That being said, if all the participants as a whole are ever ahead, I'll go ahead and post the next set of questions regardless of whether or not it's a Friday. For example, say after I post the first set of questions on 1 June and everyone has their questions answered (thus indicating they've finished the chapters) by 3 June, I'll go ahead and post the next set of question that same day as opposed to waiting for 8 June. Capiche??

If you have any questions or concerns let me know! Thanks!

View Poll Results: Are you partaking in the BL2 Community Playthrough?
EXXXXXPLOSI- I mean, yes, yes I am.	8	47.06%
I'm not sure. I hope so!	2	11.76%
I'm not sure. Probably not. :/	0	0%
Nope. I will be observing though.	3	17.65%
I'm just passing through. Lost. Frightened. Trying to find my way back home. You may never see me again.	4	23.53%
Voters: 17. You may not vote on this poll

04/19/2018	#1
f a n c y Community Manager Epic Member 小阳光 Join Date: Feb 2017 Sex: male-be, male-benot Location: Near Canada AKA: THICCamore, Fancy half of Brancy, Sycamore, Faust, FancyPants, Fancy half of Flarancy, Problematic Aerith, Extra Spicy Aeris, Toxic Pinkey, sadboi, spicyboi, butdidudie, banana muncher	Borderlands 2 Community Playthrough Heyoooooooooooooooooooooo Welcome to…! >Q&A >Character & Class Guide >Game Editions & DLCs >Teaming Up! >Chapters Credits and Citations Last edited by f a n c y; 07/27/2018 at 12:19 AM. Reason: Added Part Seven

04/19/2018	#2
Joe Super Moderator Legendary Member The Detective Prince Join Date: Apr 2010 Age: 30 Sex: Male Location: Landan AKA: Joe, Arcana	Holy shit this is an excellent write-up. Solid work Fancy Panties! I have no idea of my availability yet but I am a vet and open to playing with anybody. It's likely I'll be playing on PC but I may play on PS4 too. __________________ Reject common sense to make the impossible possible!

04/19/2018	#3
f a n c y Community Manager Epic Member 小阳光 Join Date: Feb 2017 Sex: male-be, male-benot Location: Near Canada AKA: THICCamore, Fancy half of Brancy, Sycamore, Faust, FancyPants, Fancy half of Flarancy, Problematic Aerith, Extra Spicy Aeris, Toxic Pinkey, sadboi, spicyboi, butdidudie, banana muncher	Aaahhhh thank you, that means a a lot coming from you! I've been stressing about this fooking post for weeks. Probably still needs some tweaks but I'm happy for now! Putting you in now! That's BST? Should've made those voting public goddamit Last edited by f a n c y; 04/19/2018 at 03:54 PM.

04/19/2018	#4
Obsidian Fire Elite Member Ahk Morn! Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Fractal Continuum, Azys Lla AKA: The Engineer	Woop! Yes I am playing this! I'll be playing on PC and am a Vet. And I'll most likely be paying True Vault Hunter Mode. I am all the way over in PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) though... Oh and I have all the DLC for this, so count me in for the Dungeon Assault __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Last edited by Obsidian Fire; 04/19/2018 at 06:48 PM.

04/19/2018	#5
Doom Bunneh Epic Member Teh Bunneh of Doom Join Date: Jul 2014 Age: 32 Sex: Male Location: South Africa AKA: Jaiek Mahanny, Blargon, Darth, Commander Vimes	I'M HERE TO SHANK AND SMILE!!! So Airling and I are both WAY in for this, and we'll be playing together but we're totes willing to play with up to two (2) more people (Uh-oh, math. Hope we don't pop a blood vessel.). Also we're willing to either play all new chars from start if playing with young'uns, or play TVHM with our current characters (I am Krieg and A is Zer0) and I'll check what level we are as soon as I re-install the game (god I hope the damn thing kept my character...). Anyway. NEVER STOP THE KILLING. NEVER!!! __________________ "Hmm." - Yazoo (SPOILER)

04/19/2018	#6
Minato Elite Member Donator Join Date: Sep 2009 Age: 31 Sex: Yes Location: Close AKA: MarquessLaus, Brandon Stark, Epyon, Mr Foxhound, Doran	Dibs on 3rd player in Darth and A's team! (Actually happy to play with anyone willing to put up with a newbie)

04/19/2018	#9
BforBrigitta Senior Member Donator Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Australia AKA: B, Supportive Hedgehog, Bri half of Brancy, Karaoke Menace Zack	I'm hoping I'll have the time but I volunteer to be sacrificial newborn lamb in Fancy's team so lmao good luck to you and pray for us all.

04/20/2018	#10
Mao Shizhong Junior Member 毛始终 Join Date: Jan 2018 Age: 26 Sex: No. Location: UK	I should be free around most of the summer. I am totally down for teaming up with people if accepted I'm a completely newbie to the BL series (boy love?????) but not shooters in general. I'm in BST (GMT+1) and will be playing on PC.

04/20/2018	#12
ForceStealer Super Moderator Great Old One Double Growth Join Date: Nov 2008 Age: 34 Sex: Male AKA: Ramza Beoulve, Sonic the Hedgehog, Vash the Stampede	I'll most likely play on PS4 with the handsome collection, but i do have a PS3 copy if necessary. I don't know what I'll play. In my last co-op game I played healer Maya and enjoyed it quite a bit (dem long-distance raises, bb). I also have a save file with a Zero I was playing solo. I never got very far, so I could also just wait a bit for people to catch up with that and just go from there. __________________ hitoshura wrote: Don't belittle my peoples, bitch. We work hard and we do what we're told. And might possibly be Scottish. ultima espio wrote: I'm not sure if it was a BOMB, it could have been MAKO, KING, BEST, or ORBS. Last edited by ForceStealer; 04/20/2018 at 03:41 PM.

04/20/2018	#13
*Cthulhu* *Administrator* Great Old One Join Date: Nov 2008	I've started and restarted this game a few times now (I think I played with Joe at some point too) but never finished it, so err, if anyone's playing, just ping in discord and I can join like whatever

04/22/2018	#14
BforBrigitta Senior Member Donator Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Australia AKA: B, Supportive Hedgehog, Bri half of Brancy, Karaoke Menace Zack	FTR, my timezone is AEST (GMT +10).

05/25/2018	#15
f a n c y Community Manager Epic Member 小阳光 Join Date: Feb 2017 Sex: male-be, male-benot Location: Near Canada AKA: THICCamore, Fancy half of Brancy, Sycamore, Faust, FancyPants, Fancy half of Flarancy, Problematic Aerith, Extra Spicy Aeris, Toxic Pinkey, sadboi, spicyboi, butdidudie, banana muncher	Friendly reminder that the playthrough will commence in one week. If you have yet to purchase the game, now's about the time to be considering it! I've written up a guide as to how and where to buy the game in the main post if anyone needs it (it's under the Q&A spoiler). If you're interested in partnering up, let us know! My timeframe for this playthrough is about two and half months (excluding 'Assault on Dragon Keep') with me posting a set of questions every Friday regardless of how far behind someone may be. That being said, if all the participants as a whole are ever ahead, I'll go ahead and post the next set of questions regardless of whether or not it's a Friday. For example, say after I post the first set of questions on 1 June and everyone has their questions answered (thus indicating they've finished the chapters) by 3 June, I'll go ahead and post the next set of question that same day as opposed to waiting for 8 June. Capiche?? If you have any questions or concerns let me know! Thanks!