#1

I’m playing as Maya, around level 56, and was absolutely dreading doing the Bloodwing fight after the trouble I had with it in TVHM. But I remembered how much AOE damage I took the last time, and noticed I had 1) a Turtle shield with fire immunity, and also 2) an adaptive shield with 40% resistance. I put these on when appropriate, and this fight turned into a joke…I think I only went into FFYL once, and it was because of a skag. So I can see the benefit of carrying these around in my inventory. Is an adaptive/immunity shield the best option, or are there other situational ones?

Also, does a resistance relic stack with an adaptive shield? I noticed I have one that gives around 20% resistance to all elements and thought it might be good to have in certain areas, if they stack.

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#2

Definitely situational… check out the Transformer, for example.

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#3

Maya can make any shield work, except roid shields, but she’s not a melee character anyways.

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#4

Yeah that’s true. What I’d recommend is the Turtle shield. They’re great with high capacity and Maya can counteract the slow regen. For the Adaptive one if I recall they add health, so if you play a Support/Medic Maya I’d use that since I heard somewhere that with a certain COM the teammates will heal a percentage of your total health pool which means the more health you have, the more health your team regens. But generally speaking, you can use just about anything.

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#5

Why no roid shields for Maya?

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#6

That transformer shield is an RNG drop deep into the Preserve…must take some time to farm. What’s the drop rate like?

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#7

You can play melee maya sure, but you have to skip some pretty good skills and she doesn’t have any real melee skills.

I wasn’t saying she can’t use them, i meant there special effect(roid damage) is mostly useless on her

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#8

In UVHM I’m almost always goes with an Antagonist because it’s easy to farm from vendor in Flamerock refuge. But of course you’ll need to had kill Pete a dozen times…

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#9

I forgot about the seraph vendor(s)…it’s been so long since I played. Looks like I have a fair bit of work in front of me (but in a good way). I’m so looking forward to going back to the Tiny Tina DLC…it was so much fun the first time. And those Dark Souls easter eggs were classic.

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#10

People with guns maps: absorb shields
Beast/ melee maps: Fire spike shields, shock spike shields on Stalker maps.
Areas allowing for a lot of safe sniping: Amp shields.

Easiest & earliest gauranteed absorb shiels is from Out of Body Experience for the 1340. In a pinch I get that one if none have dropped in game.

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