OP 8 Gaige + Save File

An explanation and skill build for Gaige and how she competes with enemies, and bosses, at OP 8. Plus a little level up guide.

Overview

Gaige, The Mechromancer, a sweet young thing with stars in her eyes and a skill for destroying everything in her path. Gaige is a rather unique character when it comes to gameplay. Her Best Friends Forever tree utilizes her pet robot to help her kill enemies and stay alive and for anyone who's always wanted a pet robot that kills things. The Little Big Trouble tree focuses on giving your enemies a "shocking" conclusion to her tales of epicnesses.. by killing them with electricity instead of fire which weirdly has the same effect as fire. And finally we have the fun loving, speed killing, general destorying, selfie posting, Ordered Chaos tree which focuses on giving Gaige stacks of anarchy to boost her damage and lower her accuracy. This guide will focus on her BFF tree (Best Friends Forever) and her Ordered Chaos tree.

The goal here is to do damage, kill things, loot, well kinda. Thats really just the gist of it. But we go indepth to make sure you can do the thing to get the thing without much trouble. So, this build will have you gaining anarchy stacks to get more damage from your guns allowing you to kill things effectively. The BFF tree will have your Deathtrap doing the same or just keeping him around longer. Theres skills to keep Gaige at full HP, tips and tricks and optional tweaks to make this your own build if you like.

First off, the spec.

Description

So, first things first, the build, in a nutshell that became a bigger nutshell to show off to his other nutshell buddies.

Here you have the spec I use at OP 8, fell free to mess with it and do what you will to the build. This build can bode well with raid bosses and general mobbing, even regular bosses. As for stacking goes, everyones favorite, Shamfleeting the bar.

There will be a lot of gear swapping, and optional no gear swapping, ways you can play this character. Co-op plays? You're covered, you'll be helpin' out your buddies and doing damage from the get-go, even with no stacks. How you ask? The next section will explain!

Gameplay

First off, no stacks.

Everyone knows Gaige tends to be lackluster when she goes in carrying no damage boost with Anarchy, here's the solution. Shamfleet, or spam The Heartbreaker, CC's (short for Conference Calls.) Or hell even Badabooms. Start off with a Legendary Anarchist COM for a 60% chance to get extra stacks, you'll reach 100 in no time.

With Stacks.

Once you reach the max of 400 stacks with the Anarchist COM switch to Slayer of Terra for overkill of 600 stacks. Not really needed but its STUPIDLY fun. Add a Bee for raid bossing and wreck them all. Just as an added warning, the dragons are the hardest of them all but it is doable, yes even on solo. It'll just take time and patience. So don't go dying after you worked super hard to get 600 stacks,be sure you're ready.. aaaand pray that Boost doesnt land before Helianth.

Healthgating;



Cooking Up Trouble and Discord

So a sorta hidden in game mechanic, works for all characters, called Healthgating. Which means so long as you stay above half your HP value no single attack can down you. For example, your at a raid boss, it hits you, half your HP is down, along with our sheilds. Next hit, bam, your down and the raid boss has little to no hp left and you bleed out. Solution, you're at half HP, luckily you have health regen strong enough to get you 1 point above half HP, next attack... oh em geee yer alive and yew kill da raid boss woooot. Now you just have to do it again because he didnt drop that amazing gun you want.. anywho.. Point is, with Gaige healthgating wont be a problem. Cooking Up Trouble regens 2% of your hp per second at full magazine. Whenever your below half HP, or healthgate if you will, reload your gun. Oh mah gaaaahd buh mah stacks, shuddup. Discord. Discord adds another 3% to health regen, enough to actually heal you to get you above healthgate at the costs of a few stacks of anarchy. But with Discord's slow anarchy decay and Gaige's anarchy recovery+damage you can afford to loose a few stacks to stay alive in a fight, doesnt have to be a raid boss. This is without using a Grog, cuz you know, its a Grog.

BFF tree:

The Better Half;


At half magazine yer fire rate gets a 60% increase, getting you to that reload faster. More reloads, more anarchy, more damage.

Unstoppable Force;


Forevery kill you'll regen 8% of your sheild for a few seconds with the Anarchist COM. You'll always get kills. Plus the movement speed is nice to get to the next area and kill some more

Sharing Is Caring;


Now here's an interesting little skill. DT gets a copy of your shield, any sheld. Want Deathtrap to do damage? Equip a maylay shield. Want him to stay alive? Sham or Antagonist. An added trick, works better on solo raiding or general solo play, but co op is possible. Equip a maylay shield, or anything you want Deathtrap to use then switch the shield you have on to anything you wanna wear on your person. DT keeps the maylay sheild while you sting people with The Bee (lulz)

Close Enough;


If your tired of Shamfleeting cuz everyone does it, why not switch to a Conference Call instead? You wont even need to aim in this situation. Not a fan of shotguns? Multiple projectile weapons, i.e Slagga, Maggie, Sandhawk, Kitten, etc. Really anything that shoots a lot of bullets. Even a Laser Double Infinity will work. The laser double prefix is easy to spot on a pistol. Just look for the little laser thingy under the barrel of the gun. Not the explody, killy, annoy..y fire barrrels. Refer to the Grog screenshot waaaayy below. Yes its the thing sticking out of it.

Fancy Mathematics, Buck Up, Blood Soaked Shields;






Recharge Delay and rate, There's no need for explaining. Unless you want one, in short, for Bee users, more Bee, more damage, more Gaige. Blood Soaked Sheilds will synergize with Fancy Mathematics, Discord and Cooking Up Trouble. The lost health will almost instantly be regained.

Anarchy tree:

Preshrunk Cyberpunk;

More stacks, more damage, more Discord, more Gaige.

Smaller, Lighter, Faster


Ever heard the saying less is more? Check out this skill! Exactly what the name says, less mag size, more reloads, more anarchy, more damage, more Gaige.

Typecast Iconoclast;


More anarchy, more damage.

The Nth Degree.


Now this one is completely optional. If you're using rockets them its a useless skill. For the bullet users it's amazing! Every 5th bullet travels to another guy to add even more DPS (Damage per second) to Gaige, more damage, more possible anarchy if that bullet kills.

Rational Anarchist;


Insta-anarchy, don't really need to explain that lol

Lastly, 2 points in Meylin or More Pep.




Meylin is helpful for the increased capacity and shock resistance, which is nice but its not necessary. More Pep increases your DOT (Damage Over Time) chances so if your using a Grog for healing it'll save you. So really all you need to do is choose.

Gear Swapping;

So swapping to and from gear could prove to be a hassle if you forget something, but you'll get the hang of it. For example, you're i a loader based area, use corrosive, flesh based, fire. If you dont wanna swap things use shock, no not Shock Gaige, just shock. That way you just go in, kill, loot, repeat.

Leveling up with Gaige.

Pick up any absorb, Nova or Spike shields and go down the Anarchy tree first, then BFF. For guns get as many multiple pellet gun you can find.

Gear

Now for the good stuff!

Weapons:


Conference Call, all elements. Who remembers these from the level 50 days where everyone spammed it with The Bee? These are basic CC's with a vertical grip for more pellets and more damage. Each of them have a Tediore grip, which is under the barrell of the gun, that increases reload speed and reduces damage+mag size. With the amount of DPS and anarchy Gaige has the damage reduction is very neglegable.


Heartbreaker, for heals, damage and overall fun if you wanna switch things up. Vertical grip, which is the stick under the guns grip, and Tediore grip


Norfleet, perfect Norfleets in all elements for all needs.


Binary Grog Nozzle, for heals


Logan's Gun for rocket regen, cuz sometimes you need rockets bro.

Relics;


All elemental Bones for the extra damage and cooldown for you Deathtrap lovers.

Class Mods;


Legendary Anarchist COM for the not so crazy side of you that likes 400 as a stack count.


Slayer of Terra COM for that raid boss kill.

Grenades;


Everyone loves the Chain Lightning for the Insta-health so you'll get one!


More insta-health to keep you from dying.


Bouncing Bonny for the slag when mobbing or raid bossing.


Cuz Singularities are amazing.

Shields


Antagonist for survivability to you and Deathtrap


Sham for your rockets


Shield for Deathtrap. You can even keeps this shield on your own. The spike and Nova damage, as well as capacity and added bonuses make this a great overall shield.


Finally a Bee for that extra damage to raid bosses

Optional Gear;


These guns work well with Gaige but the bullet speed might make this hard to use.


Badabooms for great damage, and rocket jumps if thats your thing

Save File

The save file comes with all the gear shown, OP 8 is available, feel free to tweak it, delete it, kill it or eat. Enjoy the build! Download if you like.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/303yikftllp5tq7/Save1201.sav?dl=0

Need help installing the save file?

After downloading the file go to your downloads folder, find the file, drag it to the following folder.

Documents>MyGames>Borderlands2>WillowGame>SaveData>ABigAssNumber (lol) and viola, done.

My other Guides!

OP 8Maya + Save File

OP 8 Zer0 + Save File

[Take My Flame]

I hope you can enjoy with friends for longer, have fun out there!

[blackhunter60 (Riperr)]

Well thanks got it done now thx so much for all the help saves look good and you did me hard work of levleing and grding a lot esay

[Take My Flame]

"After downloading the file go to your downloads folder, find the file, drag it to the following folder.

Documents>MyGames>Borderlands2>WillowGame>SaveData>ABigAssNumber (lol) and viola, done."

[blackhunter60 (Riperr)]

I will need same help with the game files i do download them then i just add them in the file of the game ????

[Dimanns]

thanks

[reasav]

my pleasure

[Take My Flame]

I plan on making axton once I have enough time on him to understand his most effective playstyle and desired gear. Also glad to be of help, thanks for he support! < 3

[reasav]

are you going to add the other 3 charcters? and many thx, i support you

[Take My Flame]

Sham/Fleet is not a glitch, it the way the game works. Ahab/Pimp is. No one says you shuold go around shamfleeting everything. Theres a reason why shotguns are in this build. But to each their own.

['MC' Gizmo]

buck up skill is such a worthless skill imo. melee players and/or torch krieg with fof shield don't have any advantage with that skill.. a worthless skill imo , and sham/fleet being helpfull in co-op? how? most of the time you wil steall people their revives.. (same with pimp-ahab glitch) people that spamming those glitches in co-op non stop are more annoying. the build and the gear you use is for pure solo play but not for co-op imo.
personally i think shock hail is a better healing weapon for her then the heartbreaker.
gaige can be very good with more weapons not just only sham/fleet. (grog nozzle , fiber , twister or cc and the hail)