![]() ![]() Today and Monday we’ll wrap up the playable characters available in The Pre-Sequel. After we’re done with Borderlands I want to look back at some of the news that I haven’t really had time to go into yet. We’re nearing the end of our coverage of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection – at least until there’s any future DLC. Grab some friends, pick your characters and dive in. It’s fun to play solo, but it’s hands down a better experience co-op. It’s a fantastic way to experience two of the best games in recent years. Of the four DLC characters, I think that Aurelia and Gaige have the most effectiveness overall, with Jack close behind and Krieg being a bit more specialized.Īnd that brings us to the end of our Borderlands: The Handsome Collection coverage. For a DLC character, she is actually a really strong option to add in to any party. She’s a great option for crowd control thanks to the focus on cryo damage, and pure damage thanks to the extra sniping skills. Even though the contract mechanic is a little out of the norm, it’s essentially just turning you and an ally into a two-man team. You backhand enemies, which has knockback and cryo damage, as well as providing movement speed and reload speed buffs for your allies.Īurelia is a pretty straightforward character when it’s all said and done. The capstone skill though is pretty cool – A Backhand to Remember – which is a melee override. It’s hard to point to one specific skill and say that it’s the most important one to take, just because if you’re using this tree, you’re playing co-op and you’ll want as many skills in there as possible. There are also a couple – especially in tier two – that keep you both alive. A lot of the skills here focus on getting bonuses for you and your servant. When you get a servant, they gain increased shield capacity, and the contract only ends when either of you die. The whole focal point here is getting your teammates to sign contracts, making them your servants. Her final tree – CONTRACTUAL ARISTOCRACY – is the one that’s a little interesting. Whenever you kill an enemy, all of your non-cyro guns deal cryo damage in addition to their usual damage, and your cryo guns do even more cryo damage. And then we get to the capstone skill – Winter Tide – which is a kill skill. My favorite pick for Cold as Ice upgrades goes to Polar Vortex, which has your frost shard draw in nearby enemies whenever it latches on to an enemy. Bitter Riposte has you firing out ice darts at any enemy that damages you while your shield is fully charged. Avalanche is a stacking skill that increases your cyro damage and freeze chance, based on stacks, which you gain by dealing cryo damage. ![]() Early on in the tree you have two skills that impact cryo damage right away. Add in that critical hits generate novas of that element, and you have a super versatile skill.Īurelia’s second tree – COLD MONEY – focuses around cryo damage, as well as Cold as Ice. When you zoom in, a wheel spins with the elemental effects available, firing will apply that effect to any shot until you descope. And the capstone skill for this tree is really nice – Custom Loads. Critical Hits regen health, but the big thing is crits from snipers generate healing novas, with more health healed based on how far you are. There’s another distance based skill in here too – Magic Bullet. If you do focus on sniping, then you’ll really like Long-Range Killer, which does extra damage based on how far you are from your target. The skill tree isn’t solely focused on the rifles though, you have gun bonuses that apply across the board. ![]() In this case, you’re looking for sniper rifles, which is nice, since there really isn’t another sniper-centric character in The Pre-Sequel. Her first skill tree – THE HUNTRESS – is the one that’s going to have you focusing on specific weapons. Of course, depending on how you move down her skill trees, you still might want to keep your eyes out for certain weapons. As such, you don’t need to go out of your way to find cryo guns, since you always have access to frost damage. It continues to seek out enemies after it kills them, until its time is up. Her action skill, Cold as Ice, tosses out a frost diadem, which will seek out enemies and cause frost damage over time. She’s Sir Hammerlock’s sister, and is all about using the new Cryo element.Īurelia is the last DLC character available in either of the two games. Today with the last character we’ll be looking at Aurelia, the Baroness. I’ve tried to keep these posts relatively high-level, that way there’s still plenty for you to discover. Each games’ six playable characters all have their own feel that helps make them all totally different. We’ve finally reached the end of our journey through all the playable characters available in Borderlands: The Handsome Collection. ![]()
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