Melee Krieg is STILL Powerful in OP10! In-Depth Build Guide | Leveling Guide 

Rough rider is super great for not one shotting yourself with STV and is just so good for OP10 melee Krieg. A very Common (and I mean VERY common) misconception is that roid boosts self damage, it’s actually Fuel the Blood causing the self 1-shot. (It counts as grenade damage for some reason 🙃) I just recently found this out and my mind was blown. Great vid btw, love to see more up to date build guides popping up. Edit: you mentioned FTB hit self damage, I commented too soon XD

Nice full length video! It's nice to see people keeping this game alive!

Gonna be fun to follow this build video when I do my Krieg to OP8 using BL2 fix mod . Thanks for making BL2 content for us all :)

Love seeing recent builds for my favorite blood boy Krieg, great work on this video!

Great video! I'll definitely revisit this video when I get around to trying out Krieg

Very-well-made guide, there's honestly nothing to add to this build - a solid one for sure. But I have a personal grudge against Pain is Power. Though the melee boost is nice and all, but it's too small to give up the ability to benefit from crits for. Please notice those two consecutive hits at 32:07 and how much Pain is Power gimps the crit damage of melee swings to a point where you actually get punished for scoring crits. This might seem insignificant with human enemies, but definitely not with Loaders. One fun and entirely non-practical tip: when you throw your last buzzaxe far enough in reverse transformation animation, your flying buzzaxe can benefit from a stat-stick you're holding when you are not in buzzaxe rampage (assuming you get to see the weapon while the axe is still in the air), so things like Rapier or a bladed Lady Fist can crank its damage up even more

haven’t mained krieg in years but this video is very informative. good stuff

This video is amazing. I’ve been looking for a good way to build melee for krieg forever. Thanks! Even tho it’s 2024 updated guides for all diff builds are amazing

Awesome vid I just got back into BL2 on my krieg I imported from Xbox 360. Love the build and guide best one I’ve seen

The problem with moving the points out of blood overdrive is that you won't be able to get to bloodsplosion if you do. Instead just get rid of embrace the pain for strip the flesh, keep the 4 in overdrive and keep the full points in elation

I loved this video a lot. Please keep it up

34:55 I’m pretty sure that they wanted to do the assault rifle skill because of the kerblaster combined with his explosive damage Btw really good vid man did not know he was this good at OP10 on vanilla

Very good video! Can I have some more, please. 😉 Especially those "special/special" builds that everyone says won't work. Or that have simply been forgotten over the years. Such as Javelin Krieg or Backdraft Maya...

Thanks for actually listening to us and making long-length videos:) will you have a upload schedule?

hello non gib fellow. been watching your stuff for a while and i just got Krieg up to level 80 so this is useful. THANKS also make more full length videos i love your content :)

Great guide …love it

The super faint terraria music had me thinking I was losing it

Thx I was just gonna start the pre sequal but now I'm gonna try melee

Krieg is up there with Jack and FL4K as the best designed characters in Borderlands in my opinion.

I'm playing as melee Krieg right now, thanks !!

Now we just need Pre Sequel builds and it's perfect ☺️🥹

I’m just glad it’s not just me struggling with Kriegs bloodsploding lol 😂

This build is great! I'd personally use slag nades instead of a pandemic tho but i guess It just comes down to preferences. Very informative video keep it up mate 👍

have a comment to help the algorithm. your vids are making me want to get back into BL2

While I’ve played bl2 for years, I’ve only just now stuck to it long enough to max out my zero. One problem that these older games have is when you look for guides it’s super easy to find out dated info by mistake. There’s just so many video guides out there and checking the dates on everything can get tedious. If you’re going to keep up the long form content, then I’m definitely sticking around.

Nice video, bro

Great Video, just have to comment on the Terraria music, nostalgia

I think my only problem with Krieg design wise is that after your first kill in rampage you have like no incentive to melee enemies, throwing your axe is better in like every way- and personally I just find swinging more satisfying

i love terraria theme man , thanks a lot for this build , I was waiting for someone to release a video like this!11!1

Dope video! Do you think you’ll do this type of content for builds with different characters?

impressive

Would just say that mentioning the Longbow Slag Crossfire is great for melee krieg as well. Toss a few into the area, enter Release the Beast and then keep on killing for a bit. Itll build Bloodlust fast, slag everything and itll keep slagging for a while after you have entered Release the Beast. Makes things easier to kill in every way. Especially good if you use the more "Ranged Melee" w explosives axes (which id say is the easier way to go through OP levels w him).

5:29 it is like having a max level chain ligthning and a low level preferably 50 to 60 cause at even at only 72 if you are low it can one shot you speaking from experience so u noticed cross fire was very very low level too its the same it shoots projectiles and its kind of like a rolljng thunder so low level is advised for every healing grenade every elemental dot at high level is very very dangerous btw if u are facing raid bosses with other characters a chain lighting and a moxxy weapon is a must have preferably grog nozzle it can save you lot of times

You can take roid shields on Krieg, even on op10 Just do not skill silence the voices The roid shield atleast evens out the loss of damage + you dont have the 12%chance of hitting yourself

Krieg will always be my top favourite borderlands character

For throwing the axe could the roid sheild help there since still gives a nice boost to the damage done which would make harder to hit enemies easier to kill

Personally, i believe maxing out Fire Fiend is more important than Pain is Power, as you can ignite yourself for the Numbed Nerves damage reduction. I don't know if you have a discord, but it would be nice to share builds and different perspectives.

i didnt know krieg gets the twins boss theme from terraria personally hes more of a skeletron guy

I go for evolution shield on kreig rough rider great

As a melee Krieg main that has just over 2,000 hours in BL2 but has literally never touched another character I gotta ask, how do you kill BNK3R? cause he is BY FAR more of a melee Krieg challenge than ANY raid boss (other than maybe the dragons, because I've also never gotten the bloodspolsion to hit in OP 10)

Melee krieg is super fun man. Also, fuck voracidous

So is zero melee build useless when you have krig?

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You need 4 points to get down to bloodsplosion. Since you have so much fire-rate already, i think putting on the elemental explosion relic to make up for strip the flesh would be best. Bloodlust tree would be 5 in blood filled guns, taste of blood, fuel the blood, boiling blood, and then 4 into blood overdrive since some grenades are really good at getting bloodlust stacks or slagging enemies. You have to give up something from hellborn to get strip the flesh, not bloodlust. And if you do decide to do that, pain is power would be your best bet, along with the one in fire fiend, just so you can do decent crit damage and have max strip the flesh and blood overdrive. Edit: I however do like the synergy with fire fiend. So. I will.keep it.