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I love Claptrap, I really really do. Yet, it seems online, simply the use of your Action Skill is a reason for a boot, or for everyone to leave. I can understand the frustration some may have as a result of the random nature of Claptrap. I’ve dealt with those who welcome a Fragtrap with open arms, an absolutely wonderful all Claptrap game, and then the people who hate your guts for being born. And in this I will display some tips, some of my own and some suggested by you, on how to be a tolerable, or even lovable, little robot.
The Essentials
Don’t overheat it.
Overuse of the Action Skill may become irritating to your buddies, while some people may not mind, others might not like being thrown into Funzerker in the midst of a gunfight. Also, who knows if you might get Clap-in-the-Box during the raid? A suggestion I would make would be to use your Action Skill as health recovery if all else fails.
“Oh god I can’t stop!”
If someone is in Fight For Your Life, if you can safely get to them, rather than use VaultHunter.EXE in the slim chance of getting Senseless Sacrifice, just lend a hand to get them up, because I know for sure seeing someone roll Funzerker or Rubber Ducky when standing next to a downed player isn’t really being a team player.
Sharing is Caring
This is a problem that can go for everyone, you see that guy, you see that Legendary Mod for his class, he doesn’t have it, you don’t have it, so I suppose you’ll just go: “SCREW YOU GUYS!” and take it. Don’t do that, if you’re able let the Wilhelm get that classmod, it’d be better for the entire team if someone can use the Class Mod instantly, rather than someone horde it for a class they may never play any time soon.
BUT, I NEED THE OXYGEN!
As a Claptrap, you do not lose Oxygen over time, and do not die if it goes out, so if you’re able, use Oxygen to revive someone, it’s faster, and you don’t need it to live anyway!
Time for something different
This is a tip towards all classes. If a Claptrap has the misfortune of rolling Clap-in-the-Box, let them in first, the explosion needs to damage an enemy otherwise the poor bot will go into Fight For Your Life, or if you’re too close, hurt you! This is a problem I witness ALL THE TIME. Seriously, give them the space and the target, it will make everyone happier.
“More fun times than Sunshine, more friends than Galaxy”
Always remember to have fun, what is really the point to playing the game if you’re not having fun?
Laughing Metal Asses Off!
Get Maniacal Laughter. Seriously. It’s a first row skill and easily one of the best for Claptrap. The Elemental Effect Chance increase is helpful for almost any build. And then for all the Elemental Effect Damage, you get stacks of Maniacal Laughter, which cause team wide health regeneration!
Here are some items that can help!
Excalibastard freezes any freezible enemy upon Crit, though the sad part is, you can only get one per character. If the problem is that things are dying too fast, make another character and get their Badass Rank up to 2500 as soon as you can and then, have them pull it from the stone to give it to Claptrap.
Vibra-Pulse is a weapon you get during the main storyline. It is always Shock and this is great for taking down shields. It has the added bonus of being a Moxxi weapon, giving health regeneration as a base effect, it also has an occasional electrical arch that likes to shock other enemies! Also, the arch LOVES to glitch and happen with other Lazer weapons, so that’s great too!
Edd1.e is an Oz Kit that loves you. It’s overattached and will occasionally repair shields, send you care packages full of ammo, money, or health, and send electric shocks towards enemies every once in a while, though it seems to happen much more frequently with melee. I’ve never seen a shock done by Edd1.e that didn’t cause an electrical effect.
Laugh it up and go be a badass!
Your Tips
User suggested tips go here!
From the Mind of a Mysterious Alchemist
Avoid “kick him whiles he’s down” and “I am rubber,you are glue”.
Asking buddies for high fives takes forever.You can just run to trash mob and allow him to melee you.
Feculator’s Totally Titanic Trio of Tips!
Just don’t get clap-in-the-box. I hardly noticed the “aggro” I was supposedly pulling, I still got the enemies deciding to run across the map will I’m fighting for my life. As for the damage, if you’ve got a halfway decent gun you could just kill everyone normally in the time it takes to explode. If you’ve got a good gun, you can kill everyone in a third of the time
Torgue Fiesta is similar apparently, just don’t get it. I didn’t spec into it, myself, based on advice here
Corrosive guns. They may be less potent, but they are great for Maniacal Laughter. It works in vacuum and lasts longer. Heal your team!
KrewL_RaiN_Fun.EXE
Try to synchronize your .exe’s. All that malware flying around at the same time can lead to some devastating combos. Ever had a “one shot wonder” and “funzerker” active together on a boss? The boss ends up crying in a corner!
CoonTail’s Freezing Tricks
Another tip is that Boom trap builds looking to be team players should be running cryo without question because it works great on both sides.
As clap you get a massive boost to your explosive damage from cryo
AND
As claps teammates you get all the awesome debuffing bonuses of cryo without having to apply it yourself. I don’t think there is a vaulthunter out there that doesn’t enjoy some cryo support from time to time. I mean hell it literally lowers an enemies DPS to 0 while they are frozen and grants you damage perks…
BookEmDano’s Best Buddy Tips!
Best Buds 4 Life + High Fives Guys is great survivability for a downed teammate and offers a practical way of using High Fives with your teammates without bugging them too much. With those two skills active and 10/5 in BB4L your teammate will get +70% Damage Resistance, +8% max health/sec, +15% Gun Damage, and +50% Fire Rate. Now get back out there and fight!
Gun Wizard (You’re Going to Love Me) seems to trigger quite often when your health is low and you’re using your action skill for self-healing purposes.
GAZE INTO THE EYES OF… cowthulhu45
the cathartic oz kit (from poop deck(haha poop)) is amazing for maniacal laughter stacks.
make sure you and your buddies have a quad to swap to to save ammo when you funzerk and to kill things really well.
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