Optimizing Roland - A Borderlands Guide
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Talking about Roland's skills and possibilities.
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This is an awesome guide. I'm going to follow this optimization for my Roland playthrough. Can you do a video on what weapons, shields, and com are best for each character?
Great video, and great mini-guide here, thanks a lot! =]
You mentioned role-playing as a medic with Cauterize, I actually did. I wasn't satisfied with my damage (either lack of good weapons, or I just sucked), so for the arena, I went with a full-on Support and Tankiness build, letting my friend kill nearly everything with Mordecai. I was mostly distracting enemies or sitting next to him just firing full assault rifles magazines at him, he normally had survivability issues, but he rarely went down during our arena runs. =]
We never found any Pearlescent weapons either. In Borderlands 2 we have like 6-7 already, though we played a bit more maybe.
@@saoirseae6584 If "Quick Regen" prefix shields are good, "Accelerated/Rapid/Alacritous" prefix shields are even better, right? =]
@@saoirseae6584 where's that video, buddy!
@@saoirseae6584 I'm torn between my 300/60 shield that gives 40% health boost vs quick regen. Maybe since I have two points in aid station I should just keep using the boost shield. It's too bad that the 40% seems to only apply to his base health. In other words if I max out fitness I'm still only going to get 40% compared to his health before you buy fitness.
@@guybrushthreepwood8174 I'd pretty much always favor the Regen. This game applies 'health gating', so you can't die in one hit if your health/shields are sufficiently high (relevant vs Crawmerax); that makes healing more important the raw health-score, usually.
Instructions unclear, my roland has a hole in his chest
Recruit Main too soon man
Ooof
Damn, and I thought Jack was savage.
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just put Scorpio turret there all will be fine
Who's here after the enhanced edition was released? 😉
Me, I don't know if I want to play Roland or Mordicei
Checking in. Just as a heads up, he uses 5 too many points here, so you'll want to pick one maxed skill from above that you can live without. Based on this video, I'll probably pass on Grit.
@@Extra_ChrisB You can use my build for Roland. Switch Grit to Revive depending on arena or Crawmerax. talent.87bazillion.com/soldier.php?505555150501515551045
Me hands up!
Same but turret kills everythinf i mean the build i found killed everything now remastered and trying to find it again
Damn im so sad u dont have more vids. Love your sense of humor and stuff. Youre just so easy to watch
True dat
Appreciate this! Life has been super crazy, but I'll be getting back into the video game; stay tuned! :D
My wife and I absolutely love the Borderlands franchise, and it all started with her as Lillith and me as Roland. She's an absolutely reckless bullet hose of a player so I play a medic/ support build to keep us rolling. I use cauterize with grenadier and spam bouncing betty grenades to aoe heal and whittle down mobs so she can finish everything off. Scorpio turret with shock damage to keep shields down (since absolutely no one seems to like using shock) and keep those ammo boxes floating around to reapply us. It's a really fun way to play in a team environment with little to no downtime. Love the videos, keep up the good work.
team ammo regen is my favorite part of roland. been doing a playthrough as the siren and its been bugging me so bad, there are only so many guns with ammo regen and none of them launchers lol
That's hilarious considering Roland and Lilith were in love
your channel is a gem
So happy this guy is back
Excellent optimisation guide for roland. Loved every moment
You’ve got the best build videos I actually learn about the game from u it’s not just a build video like the others I wish you did them for the other games
Thanks bro never seen a more comprehensive borderland guide before.
Really good and clear guide that doesn't leave any stone upturned. Much Love!
3:00 Reminds me of that one quote from Scooter. Refire ain't the prettiest gal at the dance, but she'll put out the second you ask her.
That was a great in depth guide mate,certainly given me food for thought on my Roland,great job,subbed.
Brilliant guide explaining every skill. Nice ! :D
As I’ve started the Game of the Year edition of bl1 Roland was who I picked and I started just like you mentioned. However I went with Fitness, Overload, Grit and Stat. Next I will go Defense, and Quick Charge. After that I’m going to Impact, Scattershot and Metal Storm. I run a support gunner class mod and primarily use shotguns. When I find a good commando class mod with ammo regen I’ll go with that instead. Once I get that build, anything else acquired will go to team aid skills like Aid Station, Revive and Cauterize. Maximize Team play and DPS and Roland is easily one of the most valuable characters to have around.
Wish you still uploaded. Love your commentary, hope to see you for borderlands 4.
Cauterize can even heal allies vehicles. Maximising magazine size means that metal storm is more useful now that you reload less.
Dude, thanks so much for your videos. I really playing old games, Borderlands 1 being one of my favorites, and I really love your videos. They help me become a better player and I'm all about researching and looking up all the theoretical best practices. I really hope you will come out with some more awesome BL1 videos in the future, there really is a huge gap between the content available for BL1 and the rest of the franchise. If you need any help or collaboration, please hit me up. If not, keep doing what you do. Thanks, peace!
Love your commentary dude, I usually just watch these things for the builds but i was watching this one to listen to you talk lol
I love your build guides. Awesome.
roland built for shotguns with a tkwave bulldogs is one of the most fun combos iv played in a borderlands game. Shotgun roland is so good he makes a joke weapon actually good.
could you do a optimizing video for axton in borderlands 2 ?
-this guide was great so i expect you could make a great one for him.
My dad and i play this game and we depended on stockpile quite a bit early on, then we got the regen ammo class mod. We don't worry about ammo anymore.
My name is Roland, I was very confused when I saw this video.
Do you feel more optimized?
Replaying in 2019. Awesome guide!
I always find myself coming back to Borderlands 1 but bL2 will always be my favorite
grenade regen is great for movement with longbow grenade jumps
god id wish you would come back man!
I only use Grenadier in co-op for Transfusion grenades.
My party never dies as long as I live.
Thanks man! Amazing guide!
I like Grenadier. With one point is Supply Drop and 5 points in Grenadier you can use grenades as your primary attack as long as you are killing often enough.
Love your commentary man :D
I like your commentary, you deserve more attention.
With solo Roland, it's fun to go Commando with an all-shotgun loadout and shotgun ammo regen (which justifies an all-shotgun loadout). Call me a nutbar, but I actually like elemental Carnage guns, especially if they have acid or fire. I've never gotten an acid one, but I have a fire one on my highest Roland and it's an Atlas. It's a special-purpose weapon, but it's useful for roasting skags.
That's a really cool twist! I'd written off the Terrible Carnage line, but I've also never tried them in the lategame with elemental modifiers. Very conceivable that they could shred enemies with elemental weaknesses!
@@saoirseae6584 I get some use out of it in this video a go go: ua-cam.com/video/6Gq3O9df7lM/v-deo.html
Please, do Bl2 and TPS guides!
there are hundreds of videos out there why not just watch one of those
christpuncher121 This was probably back when he made videos.
Roland's ammo regen class mods are fucking crazy. especially if you have a (relatively) accurate double anarchy and throw out the turret with its ammo regen skill.
Oh man as a noob I didn't realize bulletstorm would be really good. I'm about level 21 and I prioritized damage so far, haven't done much on medic tree yet. I maxed out impact, scatter shot and refire first cuz I love shotguns. I feel like the spread actually got bigger on my shotguns from scatter shot not smaller but maybe I'm wrong
Before version 1.0.2 Scattershot made shotguns less accurate.
Do I feel like an idiot now for investing in my turret damage. Although I must say: that thing is savage. It takes out a couple of level 28 Red lance guys when I leave it unattended. It often kills as much or more enemies than me when I deploy it. So maybe the damage is a bit better than our beloved silk tongued soldier-mentor suggests
You need to make a let's play of this game.
So I'm following this guide in 2024, it's really helped me in PT1.
I just beat the endboss and now I'm wondering should I do the DLCs as well or save them for 2? I've already started 2 and things are hitting WAY harder. I'm surviving but just wanted some advice.
roland is fun to play as
dugesn yup I agree
Oh, and also, Supply Drop just makes Grenadier obsolete because the ammo boxes the turret spits out give you 2 grenades each.
Thx for the info
Make borderlands remastered vids like if you’ll watch
glad you're finally doing the other characters, you greatly helped me out with speaking into mordicai, when he was my first ever charater on that game, that being said, how the crud did you get 138 skill points? I thought 69 was the cap with the underdome and claptrap dlc as well as the level cap.
Yeah didn't watch the video in its entirety, but like mention that crud at the beginning next time, but still my fault for not watching it all first, keep up the awesome videos though, they are badass!
*when I posted this
Obviously this is an old video, but I just wanted to comment on how worthless Defense is. Quick Charge forces 7.5% of your shield to recharge per second, so recharge rate from Defense is nearly useless. If they made it a capacity skill on the lower end, like 2-3% per level, it would be very nice
stockpile > defense coop wise?
@@ElmoIzMeh I'd say so for all types of play. Stockpile is a little bit bad compared to that tree's capstone, but it's better than Defense imo
@@Cepaceous thanks, doing a play through on switch with my friend!
Lol all it took was 3 years. anyways, welcome back! I love these videos! :D
I'd very much like a source on that claim that barrage decreases DPS. Any source on turret damage to be honest.
I felt like an idiot for investing in my turret so much when I saw this, but in-game my turret really does a lot of damage. As I just wrote if I leave it unattended it will wreck a bunch of enemies and often as much as I kill. Not sure if that is because of the elemental damage or because of my upgrades as I cannot compare (yet).
So although I agree with the creator that the turret is mainly a great distraction to absorb enemy attention in my experience it's also a savage slaying machine.
can you do Axton next please
0:12 We’ll See about that
Half Life Aah Reference 💀
Why is arena solo a sad affair? I have no steam friends that play and so I only do solo. Using lilith.
So, regarding the remaster gearbox announced. Do you believe this setup will still be good or will they nerf some things?
Good question
It should just be a normal remaster. They are going to adjust some things (boss fight), fix some bugs, and add some minor things (5 new legendaries and cosmetics, etc.). It's possible they could nerf some things, but I think it is very unlikely and this guide should still apply.
Assault + Overload with an Ogre, Ajax's Spear, *OR* an Ajax Ogre.....simply delicious
I really want to see a LP by you man, especially with Brick because there isn't any good LP of Brick afaik.
What is your opinions on the elemental artifacts for Roland?
if you atually decide to do the rest of these build videos, and I hope you do, because literally no one else on yt has done a lv69 max skill point build for them bar handsomejackboy.
I want to see lilith next please, and possibly a rant on how dot damage is good on this game, and then naturally the blastmaster brick, but I definitely also want to see a melee build for him, and then rant in how melee (bar lethal strike mordicai) sucks in borderlands, the original.
It doesnt suck, I've been running a melee/elemental hybrid Lilith as of late and it's a blast, absolutely slaughtered the 5 round Underdome. Theres also a fun little glitch in that if you achieve negative cooldown of Phasewalk (meaning Phasewalk is back up before it ends) your melee atacks wont end the Phasewalk allowing you to hit multiple 800% boosted melee attacks.
Wow, that sounds awesome! ^^ beating people up in phasewalk, gotta find that glitch
It is pretty funny, what you do is run a catalyst com for cd reduction spec into both of lilths cooldown skills then you just need to set enough dots to get 3 kills while Phasewalked. I generally only get enough time to get about 4 melee's off but thats enought to kill 4 little guys or one boss.
Wait. How do you have 137 skill points? And hecc stack overload WITH assault and metal storm so you can bathe you enemies in bullets lol. Draco plus class mods with +4 to overload on maxed overload and with maxed assault combined with the usual mag size buff of 50% to 75% to mag size of class mods (75% if you lucky so always check dr zed vendors.) and your got yourself. Mag size of EASILY 400 bullets. If you wanna boost aid station and fitness even more keep your eyes peeled for a torgue hardened muscleman shield adds 60% to health ontop of fitness Wich boosts the healing effect of aid station and stat.
If i may ask... How exactly does Barrage take from the DPS if i may ask My nephew would like some answers other than "It's just horrible..."
Ah thank you i was trying to word that to him but i am usually not the best at explaining...
cauterize transform self-damage (like explosions) in health to you ?
What would be a good example of a solo build?
What equipment do you recommend for Roland? Weapons, shields, COMs, you know. That stuff. And is the current build the only one you use? Also, you used one extra skill point that people who don't cheat (myself not included) can't get.
I play as Heavy Gunner as it is the best com for Roland from a DPS perspective. As for guns I use the Ajax Ogre, Serpens, S&S Crux or Maliwan Plague as main shotguns. I recommend to always keep a Vengeance around, for the bypass shield glitch. Secondary guns that are useful are the Draco, Invader (sniper), Destroyer, Hammer. Use a pangolin shield with a large capacity. Corrosive Bouncing Betty grenades to infect your enemies and increase the damage of your shots.
What's the build for the Roland Rocketeer build he said
Do you still make content
How can adding shots to the turret bursts DECREASE the DPS? O_o
I'm guessing that because that also increases the time each burst takes, it end up laying out so that it reduces the number of bursts while out enough that the total number of bullets fired before deactivating is less than having more but shorter bursts.
If you could increase how long it stays out, then doing the math right you could increase the bullets and damage, but you can't... right?
Please do more builds for bl2 tps
how much shuld i bit points on adding shots to burst
On a solo gameplay what is the max level with dlcs and how many skill points can you get?
64 base game + 4(8) for completing each dlc (idk if you get another skill point from beating the dlc on playthrough 2, if not, then 4, if yes, then 8)
I don't agree with cautrize and revive it doesn't synergies with the rest of the tree
How did you get 137 points
Idk what class I should uss
Dusk. Roland is good
Don't agree with the grenade regeneration, I think its a very useful skill, you just have to have 8 grenades and transfusion grenads make you practically invincible
God she even talks like a borderlands character
I want to know how you got that amount of skill points
Modded Account
"aids station"
Supply drop for if you playing with four other people OR machine pistol mordecai :P.
Mustache Roland is stronger
why dont u just put all the skill points into each one
Bc you only have 69 skill points
you put on 70 points max is 69
Alright yall wish me luck, ima go after jack
Yo definitely play the elder scrolls series
The only optimizing video I liked was Mordecai because all your other characters are hacked.
Want a tissue for your issue?
that doesnt make sense, its only hacked so he can show off the things without needing to farm a character to max level on pc.
Oh man, thanks for the advice and all, but DAMN is your voice and your constant (mmnnha) noices annoying.
Also, you stretch your videos a lot man, they don't need to be 17+ min at all.
Thanks for your comment and all but DAMN your writing and whining is annoying.
Also, you didn't have to comment man, just watch someone elses video or non at all.
@@Barrrt
Nah, you don't tell me who to watch and what to complain about, but DAMN! you decided to criticize a 3 year old comment? That's hella cringe bro.
Also, I don't even remember the video (obviously) at this point but maybe you should take it easy, it's not like a commented that with the intention to make you feel bad, but hey, you do you man.
@@Gallant_Tuba_Knight you still play borderlands