But Close Enough isn’t part of the Anarchist build.
There’s a certain number of stacks where your new damage means missed shots still can do full original gun damage. Close Enough does synergize nicely with Anarchy. We keep looking at Anarchy Gaige as “you miss a lot, but when you hit, you hit hard. (Though my Sniper AoE Gaige will not have it because that one will be the antithesis of anarchy.) With Claws is such a character defining moment, that I want it regardless of my build. She created a monster bot…and then the monster bot made her. It would have been a better mid tree skill attached to Robot Rampage, which a Capstone should have then Buffed.
Do I think it’s a Terrible Capstone? Yeah. And part of the RPG Experience is that you respond to situations as they come and sometimes, you gotta swing. As much as this is a first person shooter, it’s an RPG. Because every character should have some cool melee thing. This is why I don’t like the “why put a melee skill on a non-melee character” argument. You get kicked, and you flail and kill an enemy to proc skills to get back on your feet. That’s why roid shields are “when depleted”. Melee was designed to be an “oh crap” button. On top of this, melee wasn’t designed to be a full build…maybe with Krieg…post original game, who knows. I should use a gun with 6 or less bullets so I can always use these skills!” Nisha is pushed towards Jakobs guns by words like “non-elemental” and buffs to the bottom 6 bullets and top one bullet in the mag. But this game has never really been about penalizing us with skills, it’s been about using skill “penalties” to push us towards certain playstyles. When we look at “Anarchist” in this game, I think a lot of times, we just see it as “the gun damage goes crazy, but you miss a lot”. This means you most likely have a Capstone, and are heavily invested in multiple trees. A Legendary COM assumes you are past Level 62. I’m getting to the idea that I don’t thing these are unrelated at all. What am I getting at, because I’m very bad at getting to a point. More Gun damage and less accuracy, it’s like having a bonus 20-40 stacks? I didn’t do the fancy mathematics here. Typecast Iconoclast: chance of Bonus anarchy stacks. Smaller Lighter Faster: quicker reload, less magazine. Unstoppable Force: kill skill with movement speed and instant recharge delay. Strength of Five Gorillas: melee damage for Gaige and DT. Myelin: shield capacity and Shock resist.
So, to review, the LegAnarch COM gives plus five to: What he mentioned was that With Claws doesn’t fit as a Capstone on Anarchy, and that the Legendary Anarchist COM doesn’t make a lot of sense. But I think they’re wrong because we have had a massive oversight in how we view The Anarchist. I was listening to Derch’s Gaige tree videos today (because I decided that what I like doing is absorbing as much info as I can while driving for work), and he made a couple of points, that I think a lot of people echo.