Maya is one of the 6 Sirens, like Lilith, though her ability is to phaselock, locking an enemy in a bubble and damaging them. Quite useful since his melee weapon is a sword. His skill trees involve strengthening his sniper rifle usage and critical damage, strengthening the decepti0n ability and combat and strengthening his melee attacks. Zer0’s ability is decepti0n, creating a hologram of himself to distract enemies. I’d like to think he was possibly a R.A.T, or genetically modified in some way, though it’s speculated that Tanis knows his origins. There’s also a lot of debate on if Zer0 is even human or not, given his body type and lack of fingers. He gets his name from the zero displayed on his face plate. There’s not much known about Zer0, even his gender maybe a lie. A bartender tells Zer0 of Pandora after he laments about his lack of interest lately. An assassin for hire, dealing with common hits as well as political ones, he becomes disillusioned when his victim won’t fight back, even after Zer0 demands it. Zer0 is the game’s Assassin, kinda like Mordecai’s hunter with his sniper rifle proficiency, but no bloodwing. His skill trees range between gun and damage boosting, extending gunzerking times, ammo regen and healing. A good method is keeping a slag weapon in each rotation. Like I said previously, Salvador’s ability is gunzerking, meaning firing two guns at once, so weapon placement for him is key.

After defeating the invaders, Salvador becomes interested in the vault, after interrogating (torturing) the last survivor. None the less, before the events of Borderlands he too is set to die for his actions, but before he does, Hyperion attempts to seize his town. Born and raised on Pandora, he has a love of violence (and steroids, causing his 5’4″ stature), but aimed it towards bandits and other outlaws. Salvador, the Gunzerker, in my eyes, is this game’s Brick, using two guns instead of his fists. Depending on which tree you utilize your turret can heal you, set off nuclear explosions or even spawn a second Turret. His former wife/commanding officer recommends he not try to escape to one of the many places beyond Dahl’s reach, which he does, then makes his way to Pandora after hearing one of Handsome Jack’s ads. A former Dahl Sergeant, dishonorably discharged for his personal glory seeking ways and sentenced to death by firing squad.

You follow one of six unique vault hunters, each with different abilities: Axton the Commando, Salvador the Gunzerker, Maya our resident Siren, Zero the assassin, the two DLC characters, Gaige the Mecromancer and Krieg the Psycho on their quest to stop Handsome Jack and Hyperion, find adventure and the best gear on Pandora.īefore we get into the story, I want to spend a bit of time with our playable characters, their different abilities and back stories:įirst is Axton, our Commando, who like Roland utilizes Turrets.

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