Borderlands 2 New Character Concept: The Metalhead
I actually got this idea from someone else on a different thread when he/she mentioned a Metal head character so i thought, "Hm, lets try that out actually"
Name: Cynthia the Metalhead
Backstory: Born on Pandora, Cynthia was a natural born rockstar. She would venture all across the planet to perform for the millions of fans who have come to love her beautiful scores of music. She was given her first guitar when she was 10 years old and almost immediately became a child protegy. When she first heard of Hyperion’s “plan” to save Pandora and rid the planet of it’s bandits, she thought it would help the Hyperion morale by playing for Hyperion loyalists at the entrance of Opportunity. Handsome Jack himself agreed to let her perform. When the time came to play, however, Hyperion officials learned of her parents’ allegiance with the Crimson Raiders and apprehended her and confiscated her guitar. Through several months of torture, Hyperion squeezed the information about her parents whereabouts out of Cynthia. After their assassination and the discarding of Cynthia in a desert, she swore vengeance against Hyperion and a cruel punishment for the Handsome Bastard for taking away her dream and her family. She spent days wondering the wastelands hardly stumbling upon any food sources until she finally discovered civilization. There, she recovered and obtained a new guitar, but found that she was unable to play or write the songs she used to. She could only sing of hatred and vengeance and her guitar reflected these feelings as well. She found out that her own music taken from her heart and her resentment toward Hyperion could be her weapon. The love of her family is her motivation. But she didn’t quite know how to destroy the indestructible Handsome Jack. While living at the town, she heard a rumor of the famous Vault of legend and that Hyperion wanted it open by any means necessary. Her purpose was clear. She would open the Vault to get back at Hyperion and use it’s power to wipe them out and annihilate Jack. She installed a digistruct device to her new guitar and made a few modifications. She then set off on her journey to wipe out Hyperion and came across others with the same goal. And her story begins…
Action Skill: Rock ‘n Roll
Cynthia digistructs her guitar and gets ready to play. During Rock ‘n Roll, Cynthia gains 75% damage reduction, bonus fire, corrosive, shock, explosive and slag damage, and spawns a 5 meter long area of effect circle centered on her. (For Xbox controls) Press X repeatedly to play Thrash Metal and deal fire damage to enemies within the AOE circle, Y to play a Power Ballad and slag enemies within the AOE circle, B to play Hardcore Power Metal and deal corrosive damage to enemies within the AOE circle, and A to play Speed Metal and deal shock damage to enemies within the AOE circle. When Rock ‘n Roll is finished, Cynthia unleashes a heavy power chord that pushes enemies back, dealing explosive damage. Cynthia gains 30% movement speed during Rock ‘n Roll. Cooldown: 60 seconds.
Melee: Pulls out her guitar and plays a single chord, blasting anyone point blank in front of her.
Skill trees:
Metal Maniac: Spending points in the Metal Maniac tree boosts your elemental damage and awards you with improvements to your guitar.
Tier 1
Hit the Lights: Melee damage increased. Elemental damage increased and elemental effect chance increased.
Iron Wo-man: Increase resistance to fire, corrosive, shock, explosive, and slag damage. Slightly increase shield capacity.
Tier 2
Through the Fire and Flames: When you are dealt fire damage, you gain bonus Gun damage, fire rate, and bullet speed. When you deal fire damage, you gain bonus health regeneration and shield regeneration.
Smoke on the Water: You gain bonus elemental damage and movement speed when your shields are down.
Tier 3
Souls of Black: When an enemy has 50% health, shock damage dealt to that enemy will spread to other nearby enemies.
Fight Fire With Fire: Melee override skill. Activating melee digistructs your guitar and you play a fast guitar riff, sending balls of fire that seek out targets to burn. Cooldown: 15 seconds.
Crazy Train: Reloading your gun gives you bonus critical hit damage and bonus elemental effect chance for 30 seconds.
Tier 4
No Boundaries: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ’n Roll pulls nearby enemies close to you before letting out a powerful chord, slagging all affected enemies.
Madhouse: When your shields are down, if you take elemental damage, you send out a small nova matching the element that hit you. Taking non-elemental damage sends an explosive nova. This can only be done once every 5 seconds.
Tier 5
She-Wolf: Increases the size of the AOE circle during Rock ‘n Roll.
Tier 6
Thunderstruck: Action Skill Augmentation. (On Xbox Controls) Pressing LB during Rock ‘n Roll causes Cynthia to play Speed Death Metal and unleashes a lightning storm to devastate her enemies. After the storm ends, Rock ‘n Roll will have to cool down.
Punk: Spending points in the Punk skill tree allows you to boosts you and your friends’ defenses.
Tier 1
Bad Company: Increase shield capacity, recharge rate, and decrease recharge delay.
Feel So Numb: When you shield is hit, you gain bonus health regeneration.
Tier 2
The Four Horsemen: Shooting a teammate refills half of their shield. This can only be done once every 3 seconds to the same teammate.
No Remorse: When you take damage, you gain a stack of No Remorse. For each stack, you gain bonus gun accuracy and health regeneration. Max stacks 30.
Tier 3
Fuel: When using Rock ‘n Roll, all members of your party gain health regeneration.
Final Countdown: Fight For Your Life is replaced by Final Countdown. During Final Countdown, you drop to your knees, digistruct your guitar and play your final solo, spitting fire, corrosive, and shock blasts in all directions, giving your teammates invulnerability to all damage, and increasing the effect of the damage you cause throughout Final Countdown until the end. When the timer runs out, you play one long, loud, screeching note dealing a final burst of shock damage. If you kill someone, you’re revived.
Kryptonite: You gain a weakness to shock damage when your shield is up, but an increased resistance to all damage when your shield is down.
Tier 4
Hero of the Day: Melee Override Skill. If a teammate has less than 50% health remaining, you may activate Hero of the Day when standing next to them to transfer the full capacity of your shield and 25% of your health to them to return 50% of their max health and grant them 1.5 seconds in reduction to their shield recharge delay. In doing so, you gain 1.5 seconds increased shield recharge delay. This skill will override Fight Fire With Fire if you are within distance of the injured teammate.
Superbeast: While your shield is full, you gain increased damage reduction.
Tier 5
More Human Than Human: Increased Gun and Melee damage. Effects further increase when your shield is down.
Tier 6
Begging for Mercy: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ‘n Roll When any of your teammates are below 50% health spawns a shield around all of them, preventing any damage that would be dealt to them and reflecting it back to their attacker. This effect lasts for the duration of Rock ‘n Roll.
Rockstar: Spending points in the Rockstar skill tree allows you to use Rock ‘n Roll for longer periods and (quite literally) melt the faces off your enemies.
Tier 1
We Will Rock You: Increase damage dealt during Rock ‘n Roll and increase melee damage.
Run to the Hills: Dealing damage to an enemy while using Rock ‘n Roll increases movement speed. This effect can only be applied once every 5 second.
Tier 2
Raining Blood: Increase the duration of Rock ‘n Roll. Increase magazine size of SMGs and Shotguns.
Remedy: While Rock ‘n Roll is active, all elemental status effects you cause slightly heals you.
Tier 3
Creeping Death: Whenever you empty your magazine, the cooldown for Rock ‘n Roll slightly speeds up. Overall cooldown for Rock ‘n Roll is faster.
Master of Puppets: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ‘n Roll near enemies with 50% or less health brainwashes them into fighting for you for the duration of Rock ‘n Roll. When Rock ‘n Roll ends, those who fought for you are burnt to a crisp.
Are you Dead Yet?: Kill Skill. Killing an enemy increases Gun damage and fire damage.
Tier 4
Blitzkrieg: Kill Skill. Killing an enemy during Rock ‘n Roll increases the amount of time you remain in Rock ‘n roll.
Tier 5
One: Significantly increase elemental damage during Rock ‘n Roll. You have a chance of smacking the ground with your guitar when you kill an enemy, sending out an explosive nova, but pulls you out of Rock ‘n Roll, forcing it to cool down.
Tier 6
Symphony of Destruction: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ‘n Roll when you are at 50% health or lower, an illusionary drummer and bassist appear and carry out Rock ‘n Roll with you. During this time, all damage you deal is increased. This lasts half of regular Rock ‘n Roll’s duration.
I actually got this idea from someone else on a different thread when he/she mentioned a Metal head character so i thought, "Hm, lets try that out actually"
Name: Cynthia the Metalhead
Backstory: Born on Pandora, Cynthia was a natural born rockstar. She would venture all across the planet to perform for the millions of fans who have come to love her beautiful scores of music. She was given her first guitar when she was 10 years old and almost immediately became a child protegy. When she first heard of Hyperion’s “plan” to save Pandora and rid the planet of it’s bandits, she thought it would help the Hyperion morale by playing for Hyperion loyalists at the entrance of Opportunity. Handsome Jack himself agreed to let her perform. When the time came to play, however, Hyperion officials learned of her parents’ allegiance with the Crimson Raiders and apprehended her and confiscated her guitar. Through several months of torture, Hyperion squeezed the information about her parents whereabouts out of Cynthia. After their assassination and the discarding of Cynthia in a desert, she swore vengeance against Hyperion and a cruel punishment for the Handsome Bastard for taking away her dream and her family. She spent days wondering the wastelands hardly stumbling upon any food sources until she finally discovered civilization. There, she recovered and obtained a new guitar, but found that she was unable to play or write the songs she used to. She could only sing of hatred and vengeance and her guitar reflected these feelings as well. She found out that her own music taken from her heart and her resentment toward Hyperion could be her weapon. The love of her family is her motivation. But she didn’t quite know how to destroy the indestructible Handsome Jack. While living at the town, she heard a rumor of the famous Vault of legend and that Hyperion wanted it open by any means necessary. Her purpose was clear. She would open the Vault to get back at Hyperion and use it’s power to wipe them out and annihilate Jack. She installed a digistruct device to her new guitar and made a few modifications. She then set off on her journey to wipe out Hyperion and came across others with the same goal. And her story begins…
Action Skill: Rock ‘n Roll
Cynthia digistructs her guitar and gets ready to play. During Rock ‘n Roll, Cynthia gains 75% damage reduction, bonus fire, corrosive, shock, explosive and slag damage, and spawns a 5 meter long area of effect circle centered on her. (For Xbox controls) Press X repeatedly to play Thrash Metal and deal fire damage to enemies within the AOE circle, Y to play a Power Ballad and slag enemies within the AOE circle, B to play Hardcore Power Metal and deal corrosive damage to enemies within the AOE circle, and A to play Speed Metal and deal shock damage to enemies within the AOE circle. When Rock ‘n Roll is finished, Cynthia unleashes a heavy power chord that pushes enemies back, dealing explosive damage. Cynthia gains 30% movement speed during Rock ‘n Roll. Cooldown: 60 seconds.
Melee: Pulls out her guitar and plays a single chord, blasting anyone point blank in front of her.
Skill trees:
Metal Maniac: Spending points in the Metal Maniac tree boosts your elemental damage and awards you with improvements to your guitar.
Tier 1
Hit the Lights: Melee damage increased. Elemental damage increased and elemental effect chance increased.
Iron Wo-man: Increase resistance to fire, corrosive, shock, explosive, and slag damage. Slightly increase shield capacity.
Tier 2
Through the Fire and Flames: When you are dealt fire damage, you gain bonus Gun damage, fire rate, and bullet speed. When you deal fire damage, you gain bonus health regeneration and shield regeneration.
Smoke on the Water: You gain bonus elemental damage and movement speed when your shields are down.
Tier 3
Souls of Black: When an enemy has 50% health, shock damage dealt to that enemy will spread to other nearby enemies.
Fight Fire With Fire: Melee override skill. Activating melee digistructs your guitar and you play a fast guitar riff, sending balls of fire that seek out targets to burn. Cooldown: 15 seconds.
Crazy Train: Reloading your gun gives you bonus critical hit damage and bonus elemental effect chance for 30 seconds.
Tier 4
No Boundaries: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ’n Roll pulls nearby enemies close to you before letting out a powerful chord, slagging all affected enemies.
Madhouse: When your shields are down, if you take elemental damage, you send out a small nova matching the element that hit you. Taking non-elemental damage sends an explosive nova. This can only be done once every 5 seconds.
Tier 5
She-Wolf: Increases the size of the AOE circle during Rock ‘n Roll.
Tier 6
Thunderstruck: Action Skill Augmentation. (On Xbox Controls) Pressing LB during Rock ‘n Roll causes Cynthia to play Speed Death Metal and unleashes a lightning storm to devastate her enemies. After the storm ends, Rock ‘n Roll will have to cool down.
Punk: Spending points in the Punk skill tree allows you to boosts you and your friends’ defenses.
Tier 1
Bad Company: Increase shield capacity, recharge rate, and decrease recharge delay.
Feel So Numb: When you shield is hit, you gain bonus health regeneration.
Tier 2
The Four Horsemen: Shooting a teammate refills half of their shield. This can only be done once every 3 seconds to the same teammate.
No Remorse: When you take damage, you gain a stack of No Remorse. For each stack, you gain bonus gun accuracy and health regeneration. Max stacks 30.
Tier 3
Fuel: When using Rock ‘n Roll, all members of your party gain health regeneration.
Final Countdown: Fight For Your Life is replaced by Final Countdown. During Final Countdown, you drop to your knees, digistruct your guitar and play your final solo, spitting fire, corrosive, and shock blasts in all directions, giving your teammates invulnerability to all damage, and increasing the effect of the damage you cause throughout Final Countdown until the end. When the timer runs out, you play one long, loud, screeching note dealing a final burst of shock damage. If you kill someone, you’re revived.
Kryptonite: You gain a weakness to shock damage when your shield is up, but an increased resistance to all damage when your shield is down.
Tier 4
Hero of the Day: Melee Override Skill. If a teammate has less than 50% health remaining, you may activate Hero of the Day when standing next to them to transfer the full capacity of your shield and 25% of your health to them to return 50% of their max health and grant them 1.5 seconds in reduction to their shield recharge delay. In doing so, you gain 1.5 seconds increased shield recharge delay. This skill will override Fight Fire With Fire if you are within distance of the injured teammate.
Superbeast: While your shield is full, you gain increased damage reduction.
Tier 5
More Human Than Human: Increased Gun and Melee damage. Effects further increase when your shield is down.
Tier 6
Begging for Mercy: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ‘n Roll When any of your teammates are below 50% health spawns a shield around all of them, preventing any damage that would be dealt to them and reflecting it back to their attacker. This effect lasts for the duration of Rock ‘n Roll.
Rockstar: Spending points in the Rockstar skill tree allows you to use Rock ‘n Roll for longer periods and (quite literally) melt the faces off your enemies.
Tier 1
We Will Rock You: Increase damage dealt during Rock ‘n Roll and increase melee damage.
Run to the Hills: Dealing damage to an enemy while using Rock ‘n Roll increases movement speed. This effect can only be applied once every 5 second.
Tier 2
Raining Blood: Increase the duration of Rock ‘n Roll. Increase magazine size of SMGs and Shotguns.
Remedy: While Rock ‘n Roll is active, all elemental status effects you cause slightly heals you.
Tier 3
Creeping Death: Whenever you empty your magazine, the cooldown for Rock ‘n Roll slightly speeds up. Overall cooldown for Rock ‘n Roll is faster.
Master of Puppets: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ‘n Roll near enemies with 50% or less health brainwashes them into fighting for you for the duration of Rock ‘n Roll. When Rock ‘n Roll ends, those who fought for you are burnt to a crisp.
Are you Dead Yet?: Kill Skill. Killing an enemy increases Gun damage and fire damage.
Tier 4
Blitzkrieg: Kill Skill. Killing an enemy during Rock ‘n Roll increases the amount of time you remain in Rock ‘n roll.
Tier 5
One: Significantly increase elemental damage during Rock ‘n Roll. You have a chance of smacking the ground with your guitar when you kill an enemy, sending out an explosive nova, but pulls you out of Rock ‘n Roll, forcing it to cool down.
Tier 6
Symphony of Destruction: Action Skill Augmentation. Activating Rock ‘n Roll when you are at 50% health or lower, an illusionary drummer and bassist appear and carry out Rock ‘n Roll with you. During this time, all damage you deal is increased. This lasts half of regular Rock ‘n Roll’s duration.