Best Friends Forever tree: Skills designed to enhance longevity.Gaige - The Mechromancer, who can summon a powerful battle robot to do the wetwork for her.Sniping tree: Weapon enhancements with a particular emphasis on sniper rifles.īorderlands 2 has been created with the capacity to accommodate additional characters from DLCs:.Cunning tree: A wide array of utilities and damage effects.
Zer0 - The Assassin, who can deploy a holographic decoy and cloak himself entirely from view.Gunpowder tree: Damage enhancements suitable for long-range fighting.Guerilla tree: General combat enhancements well suited to being in the thick of the fight.Axton - The Commando, who can deploy a Sabre Turret, dramatically increasing the available firepower on the field of battle.Rampage tree: Stat bonuses and abilities tied to simultaneously wielding a gun in each hand.Gun Lust tree: Increases weapon stats and grants various abilities.Brawn tree: Focuses on physical toughness.Salvador - The Gunzerker, who can unleash a wild barrage of gunfire as he launches into a gun-waving battle frenzy.A mixture of defensive and offensive abilities. Motion tree: Upgrades to Phaselock for crowd control.Defensive upgrades based around damage prevention. Harmony tree: Defensive upgrades focusing on character health values.Cataclysm tree: Skills offering a wide range of damage types.Maya - The Siren, who can Phaselock her enemies in a stasis bubble to help control the field of battle.The original cast from Borderlands returns in supporting roles.
Blaster tree: improves explosive damage and abilities with weaponry, especially Rocket Launchers.Ĭharacters of Borderlands 2 (starting from left): Zer0, Salvador, Maya, Axton on background – Gaige riding Deathtrap, and Kriegīorderlands 2 redraws the playing field with a new set of character classes that players may select from.Tank tree: massively increases toughness and survivability.Brawler tree: increases melee damage capabilities.His ability is 'Berserk', in which he uses his fists to pound his enemies to death, and gains large increases to his survivability and speed to achieve that end. Other than that, is a master of blasting his foes with explosive heavy weapons. Brick - The Berserker, who loves to do nothing more than pound enemies with his fists.Assassin tree: increases lethality with weaponry and melee combat.Elemental tree: improves her ability to use weapons and inflict Elemental damage.Controller tree: improves survivability and disables foes.Touched by an ancient alien power, her ability is Phasewalk: She can shift into a different dimension and become invisible for a few seconds, and when she enters or exits that state she releases a shockwave of energy which damages nearby enemies. Lilith - The Siren, who has advantages using SMGs and Elemental weapons.Medic tree: abilities that allow the Soldier to rapidly replenish his health and his allies' even in the midst of heavy combat.Support tree: increase Roland's defensive abilities with shields, and improve his Scorpio Turret's cooldown, increases its burst fire count, and allow his turret to support the Soldier and his teammates by constantly resupplying their ordnance.Infantry tree: increases effectiveness with weapons particularly combat rifles and shotguns.He can deploy an automatic Scorpio Turret to attack enemies, which operates independently, allowing the soldier to hide behind cover or attack enemies while his turret attacks enemies. Roland - The Soldier, who is well suited to using combat rifles and shotguns.Gunslinger tree: improves pistol and melee abilities.Sniper tree: improves sniper abilities.'Bloodwing' is an AI-controlled aerial unit that will operate semi-independently of the hunter. He sends his pet Bloodwing to attack enemies from above. Mordecai - The Hunter, who has skills that enhance sniper rifles and pistols.There is also an accessory item type specific to each class. Each class also has three unique focus skill trees to develop. As a character gains experience and levels up, their basic statistics, such as health totals and accuracy, will increase. The original Vault hunters from L-R: Mordecai, Lilith, Brick, Rolandīorderlands includes four character classes, each with unique skills, abilities and backstories.