#10

I hate to consider adding this, but it is tough to beat the Legendary Soldier class mod. I still use the others for a hoot, but that one really is like Christmas compared to the others.

Also! If you have Double Up, and you’ll be tossing one of your turrets in a safer location than the other, toss that one first. You can re-toss the second turret if it gets destroyed, but if the first gets destroyed, you can’t re-throw. I, for example, will occasionally toss one right on me and throw the other into a distant mob. If they die fast, I can reclaim them for the cooldown bonus by grabbing my “local” one. If the far one dies, I can re-toss it as long as the timer is up. (I’m not sure how to put this into your list elegantly
 "manage your turret deployment properly with Double Up?)

#11

Axton gets crazy good grenade buffs. Use them!
Don’t bother with laser sight because it actually makes your turrets less accurate.
Skip the RR and get a blockade instead.

#12
  • Not only does Longbow help you position your turret, it also more than doubles it’s health; even if you tend to throw your turret next to you, it’s still a worthy investment if only to keep it up longer in UVHM.
  • As you go through the OP levels, Enemies, in addition to gaining more health, will start to gain damage reduction as well as they out-level you. Your Turret however, will be at the same level as you + your OP level, meaning that it won’t deal reduced damage (Gaige’s Death Trap also has this benefit.)
  • With his Shield Recharge Rate Bonuses and Shield Recharge Delay Reduction, Axton can make great use out of AMP shields, especially The Bee. However, always carry a more defensive shield such as the Blockade or an Adaptive Shield for when you need more survivability than DPS.
  • The Quick Charge constantly recharges your shields while it’s active, even while your shields are still taking damage. This can potentially save you from DoTs that would normally eat away at your health.
  • However, there are a few Synergy problems this can produce: not only is Axton a terrible character for melee builds (recharging your Maylay Shields when you want it down for example,) but Willing, Quick Charge, and Pressure all don’t work very well with Crisis Management, as CM is active while your shields are down.
  • Axton gets several Grenade bonuses, which not only apply to the grenade mods, but also towards the Splash damage of most Torgue Weapons and the Tediore Reloads.
  • However, while there are very good Tediore Reload builds available for Axton, be aware that they can consume A LOT of your SMG and Pistol ammo, and tend to be best used against Bosses rather than mobs. Carry a few backup weapons, such as a Torgue Assault Rifle or Shotgun if you’re planning on using such a build.
  • While Axton doesn’t have any Flashy skills like B0re, Anarchy, or Gunzerking, he can prove to be a very useful team-player in Co-op, having the survivability from skills like Grit, redirect aggro with his Turrets, or constantly debuffing the enemy with Double Up.
#13

To actually expand upon something Gen said here, while Crisis Management doesn’t work well with his shield boosting skills, it DOES work well with some survivability builds. If a player finds themselves going down quite a bit, Crisis Management might be work taking. With CM included, Axton has TWO skills that will buff his gun damage while in Fight For Your Life.

#14
  1. Don’t overlook Willing and Quick Charge. They synergize amazingly with Preparation.
  2. Don’t sleep on Expertise. The extra weapon swap speed can really help in FFYL.
  3. Use your turrets to get out of a tough situation if you need to.
  4. Tediore quick shields are amazing, especially with Axton’s shield buffs. You’ll get your shield back almost instantaneously.
  5. Moxxi weapons are great, but be careful of using them in FFYL if you’ve specced into Last Ditch Effort. They’ll take away the bonuses from that skill if they’re used while you’re down.
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#15

I back this up 100%. I used a lot of Turtle or high capacity shields on normal mode. Those only carried me halfway through TVHM, when I started dying literally all the time. In desperation, I tried the exact opposite of those huge shields, a purple generic Tediore. I’m never going back. With fast Tediore shields, Axton’s shield buffs and health regen when they’re full, you’ll never be unprotected unless you do something stupid. I just got a level 71 purple Tediore Blast Proof Shield. Higher recharge rate than capacity, less than 2 seconds delay and resistance to explosive damage. My shields are practically never down. I think it’s honestly my favorite piece of gear I have in my inventory.

#16

If you don’t have nuke and want to distract an enemy (like a badass), throw you turret right in front of the enemy. Your turret won’t last long though.

#17

Call me crazy but I use

-legendary engineer mod
-double turrets with shield that slag
-bee shield
-43% turret cool down relic (my 61 is still better than any OP 4 relic I can find).

One thing I ended up loving about UVHM is how it makes you better and you eventually lose the fear of getting dropped. Sometimes with my DUKH you almost can live forever.

A guy hides, your turret is distracting him, run in head first and shoot him, if he drops you then more often then not you will easily get back up with second wind.

I’m OP 4 now but with a OP 3 bee shield, and 72 weapons it is almost unfair to enemies right now.

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#18

I’m assuming you mean Gemini? This works, I do this all the time and it does make things easier.

#19

Yes! My mistake :blush:

#20

The kill skill “Onslaught”, any mod that boosts it (Shock Trooper, Legendary Ranger), and the glitch: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/638785-borderlands-2/

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Not a walk-in strategy, but build/spec in preparation for the high possibility of dying, and fighting out of it. Get good at that, tho, and NOTHING will keep you down
long.

#21

For me in normal and even in TVHM I did a lot of dropping my turret and essentially running away. It got the job done as I would also toss out a couple of grenades.

That strategy doesn’t work in UVHM though. Your turret is your brother in arms or more then that according to Axton. Take your longbow and take your mag lock. Have the Gemini perk.

You can throw one on a far wall and one on the ceiling almost right next to you. As it slags the enemies just mow them down with your favorite gun. As they will fall like it is TVHM.

I prefer a Tediore SMG if I go down to spam reloads to get back up with.

A side note. I find it to be very ignorant how if you were to only throw out one turret for a battle and it goes through it’s cycle you have to wait for the cool down cycle before throwing another one. This needs to be patched as it is extremely unfair. Considering Gaige for example has upshot robot allowing Death Trap to be spawned as long as kills continue to be made. There is no perk I know of to increase the duration of the turret once it is deployed via number of kills. I know you can increase its base duration but that still isn’t the same.

I apologize if any of this was already said. I am not trying to steal anyones thunder. Just trying to help everyone. As Axton is my favorite Character.

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Noob question about bl2 characters
The Community Axton Guide - All you ever wanted to know
#22

Will be updating this once I put a bit of an order of importance to the suggestions (crowd sourcing a bit of knowledge at the moment).

#23

Actually, the comment about Upshot Robot is wrong. Yes, DT will stay up as long as kills are made, to a point. If kills are too far apart, he will still go down. And you have to wait until the timer runs out for him to respawn. I have 5 in Upshot, and I have still had DT go down in the middle of a combat. I think you mean DT stays out as long as kills are made, theoretically for minutes at a time.

Sal has that too, with Yippee Ki Yay. And Zero, sort of, with Many Must Fall. I wish Axton had something like that.

#24

???

But Upshot is a one-point skill
 Do you actually have 5 points in it, or is this just a typo?

#25

Just a typo. I remembered the name of the skill, but that’s all. I juist remembered I have it.

#26

The secret is using Crack
ed Sash.

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#28

I have noticed that Transfusion grenades can actually heal your turret. Perfect for keeping the aggro sink on the field longer. Toss out the turret along with a couple of Transfusions and it should last through the whole engagement.

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#29

Here is a nice tip :

  • Never use the Love Thumper, it doesn’t fit well on Axton.
#30

  • Turrets draw aggro for you and your team, use them as a diversion and flank your enemy while your turrets flank them.

  • Turn Axton into a disruptor! Nuke is a rarely used skill but it’s essentially Axton’s Crowd Control, if you’re heavily invested down the middle tree (forget what it’s called) throw your turret in the middle of a crowd to ease the congestion and isolate enemies, can also be used as an escape tool or to knock enemies off the edge of the map.

  • Kill skills! Axton has three great kill skills and a legendary COM that boosts all three, he might be slow to get the first kill but once he does he can chain kill and clear mobs with ease. Pair with Krieg running a legendary Reaper for a mobbing extravaganza!

  • Don’t be afraid to go down. Axton has a lot of tanking skills and can increase his effectiveness in FFYL, sometimes when you think he’s about to go down he doesn’t and other times he gets straight back up. You’re the front-line tank, you draw aggro for your team and your turrets draw aggro for you, get in there!

  • Shields! Axton has great skills for buffing his shields, instead of taking the easy route and using The Bee play to his strengths and make a strong shield stronger. Trash mobs will have a hard taking down Axton’s Antagonist or Blockade, the tankier the shield the tankier the tank!

  • EXPLOSIONS? Yes. Grenades, Torgue weapons, Torgue grenades, Torgue shields. Yeah, even the Deadly Bloom is great on Axton with his explosive proficiency and shield skills.

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