So I originally posted this as a response, but after some thought, I really wanted to post it to get more ideas flowing.
So my character idea was this... a former Badass Lance Warden turned Vault Hunter. My idea is for Casdin: The Guardian.
Action Skill: Crowd Control; His action skill would be none other than the good ole' Lance Warden Shields. Casdin would digistruct a shield from the baton he uses for melee attacks which upon activating would be held by his right hand. While using the shield, holding the aim button would lower your shield partially and automatically fire your weapon you had equipped upon activating the shield, hip-firing of course with very low accuracy. Melee attacks would be a powerful shield bash. It would also give you a considerable boost to damage resistance, melee damage and have a slight movement speed penalty.
CROWD CONTROL:
-15% movement speed
+80% Damage Resistance
+200% Melee Damage
Duration - 2 minutes (recall the shield at anytime)
Cooldown - 90 seconds (unless recalled sooner)
Casdin's Melee without Crowd Control activated would be a police baton held in his right hand.
SKILLS:
Casdin's three skill tree's would mainly focus on upgrading his shield, improving weapon skills, and of course - health boosting.
The 1st tree would be all about upgrading Crowd Control and explosive damage/resistance.
LOCKDOWN:
Lockdown would have skills like "CHAAAARGE" which when selected offers a 10% increase to movement speed while in Crowd Control all the way up to a 50% if all 5 points are given to the skill. Another skill, which would be the Skill tree cap "500 Feet Back" allows you to set off a large explosive nova blast dealing large (and most-likely fatal) amounts of damage to close enemies once you activate Crowd Control.
The [COLOR="rgb(0, 191, 255)"]2nd[/COLOR] Tree focuses almost purely on gun skills, mainly pistols & sub machine guns (since badass lance wardens mainly used them)
LOCK & LOAD:
Lock & Load contains skills like "Well Trained Killer" which increases hip-firing accuracy for sub machine guns. The skill cap for this tree would be "Pistolero" offering an instant 50% increase to pistol accuracy, and damage with a 50% decrease to reload speed. Other skills "Smooth Operator" decrease reload speed and increase aim speed starting at 10% and maxing out at 25% with all 5 skill points allocated.
The 3rd and obviously final tree would purely focus on making an overpowered tank class that all your friends can whine about bieng cheap to use.
THE MAN OF IRON:
The Man of Iron has perks like "Slow But Steady" which increases your shield capacity by 15% per level (maxing out at 75% at level 5) but decreases the recharge rate by the same number, so you'll end up with an impressive shield size with terrible recharge rate. The One Point Wonder of this tree would be "Soak It All In" which allows you, while in Crowd Control a 20% decrease in damage resistance, but gives your Lance Shield a coating with the same effect as an absorb shield, with a bonus 50% chance to absorb enemy bullets with your shield.
Thanks for the read!
So my character idea was this... a former Badass Lance Warden turned Vault Hunter. My idea is for Casdin: The Guardian.
Action Skill: Crowd Control; His action skill would be none other than the good ole' Lance Warden Shields. Casdin would digistruct a shield from the baton he uses for melee attacks which upon activating would be held by his right hand. While using the shield, holding the aim button would lower your shield partially and automatically fire your weapon you had equipped upon activating the shield, hip-firing of course with very low accuracy. Melee attacks would be a powerful shield bash. It would also give you a considerable boost to damage resistance, melee damage and have a slight movement speed penalty.
CROWD CONTROL:
-15% movement speed
+80% Damage Resistance
+200% Melee Damage
Duration - 2 minutes (recall the shield at anytime)
Cooldown - 90 seconds (unless recalled sooner)
Casdin's Melee without Crowd Control activated would be a police baton held in his right hand.
SKILLS:
Casdin's three skill tree's would mainly focus on upgrading his shield, improving weapon skills, and of course - health boosting.
The 1st tree would be all about upgrading Crowd Control and explosive damage/resistance.
LOCKDOWN:
Lockdown would have skills like "CHAAAARGE" which when selected offers a 10% increase to movement speed while in Crowd Control all the way up to a 50% if all 5 points are given to the skill. Another skill, which would be the Skill tree cap "500 Feet Back" allows you to set off a large explosive nova blast dealing large (and most-likely fatal) amounts of damage to close enemies once you activate Crowd Control.
The [COLOR="rgb(0, 191, 255)"]2nd[/COLOR] Tree focuses almost purely on gun skills, mainly pistols & sub machine guns (since badass lance wardens mainly used them)
LOCK & LOAD:
Lock & Load contains skills like "Well Trained Killer" which increases hip-firing accuracy for sub machine guns. The skill cap for this tree would be "Pistolero" offering an instant 50% increase to pistol accuracy, and damage with a 50% decrease to reload speed. Other skills "Smooth Operator" decrease reload speed and increase aim speed starting at 10% and maxing out at 25% with all 5 skill points allocated.
The 3rd and obviously final tree would purely focus on making an overpowered tank class that all your friends can whine about bieng cheap to use.
THE MAN OF IRON:
The Man of Iron has perks like "Slow But Steady" which increases your shield capacity by 15% per level (maxing out at 75% at level 5) but decreases the recharge rate by the same number, so you'll end up with an impressive shield size with terrible recharge rate. The One Point Wonder of this tree would be "Soak It All In" which allows you, while in Crowd Control a 20% decrease in damage resistance, but gives your Lance Shield a coating with the same effect as an absorb shield, with a bonus 50% chance to absorb enemy bullets with your shield.
Thanks for the read!