Okay so I picked up Borderlands 2 GOTY and I am going to purchase the Vault hunter 2 pack for the sake of £4 and theoretically 19 levels and a load more loot, its worth it to me as I am loving this game :)
Anyways a few questions for you people, I want to start a new game as Maya, I used a trainer to build a few test characters and see which I liked best, I played Maya and loved the power she possessed, Walked into a room and ripped it apart pure fun!.
Anyways the trainer allowed me to unlock all skills, now I don't expect her to possess the raw power she had with all the levels even with the cap increased, but I plan to play her on the vault hunter mode when I have finished the game and I am unsure, does your level 72+ character pass through as NG+ or do I start a new?
Also is the Catalysm tree worth using with elemental only weapons, I shall be focusing on fire rate and elemental damage, with phase lock as a backup utility, I believe slag causes even more elemental damage no?
So do I go down this line or do I follow a different path with the flicker and foresight perks? I will be mostly soloing with this character, I like a bit of a challenge also, hence why I love Dark Souls :).
And now onto the Hunter pack question.
Apart from the level cap, what does it actually introduce? I know a new area and items, but any raid sort of areas? anything beastly like?
You can use any existing character on a new game/difficulty. I run Maya and I went full damage path as that is what I played The Siren as in Borerlands 1, but in BL2 Maya is very much a support character. Very good at healing the team, not so fantastic with damage. She is currently around 50-60 I can't remember right now.
My main problem with Maya is weapon drops. I chose to run SMGs and they drop like it rains diamonds. I have been using my current one for about 11 levels and I got it from a friend who got it in the gold chest. SO I have having huge trouble finding new SMGs and it has really put me off the game. They really seem the rarest to drop high power weapon. All the other are fine and because I went damage Maya and SMGs I end up just dying constantly dragging and slowing my friends down, she is also very squishy so solo play is impossible for me with my current weapons.
Vicious cycle: Can't get better weapons till I level up > Can't kill to level up > See step one.
This is literally the only thing stopping me from playing a game that I have 250+ hours in now and I dread the thought of going back.
So go Maya and damage but know that you will have low health and pick something other than SMG, you will be fine.
Maya is a very strong support character but, phase-lock can be used to when playing solo to great effect. Maya's top weapons are mostly SMGs but many of them are quest items so they really aren't so bad to get. As far as elemental damage goes it becomes much, MUCH less effective past level 62 or so. Even so, with a Bee shield and a Sandhawk Maya has some of the best DPS in the game. I would experiment with builds see what you like to play. The vault hunter pack introduces some new content mainly the raid on digistruct peak; which is a gauntlet that scales up in difficultly. Besides that, the upgrade pack introduces a bit of new/high end loots and overpowered levels expanding the gameplay.
I'm new here so I not sure about the rules of posting links, but here is a gearbox forums link to top gear for Maya, reading It should give a solid idea of what to expect when you are getting into endgame content!