I just play it all the freakin time and don't want to stop and write 
OK... I started off an hour or so ago with a bowl of a strain called "Acapulco Gold"... Do not confuse this with the memory of it you have from way back when... No, not at all. Topped with some outstanding bubble hash and I'm ready for... A nice dinner consisting of a mesquite BBQ pork loin, some broc-n-cheese rice-a-roni and white corn... Freakin yummy 
I then moved onto the vaporizer and have been pulling on my now dwindling stock of Purple Kush for the last 20 minutes or so... Yeah, I'm gone.
A few things about the game I've wanted to talk about though and finally have the ambition to put it down... As I need to let the rush wear off a bit before I start playing 
Badass - Let me make what I said before clearer and... More correct... I was wrong in some of what I said earlier so let me get what I know straight here:
Challenges - Challenges are not in the Start menu, they are in the Select menu, all the way to the right. There are so freakin many challenges it is hard to keep track... Early game, don't worry about them, just check to see if you have Badass tokens to spend every 10-15 minutes of game play. Once you get to the point in the story where Sanctuary is in the air and you can get back to it via fast travel, use the triangle button while looking at the challenges to sort them by percent completed. Looking at them this way can inform you as to what you should do to get them maximum number of badass points. With this view of the challenges, you can also scroll to the bottom and see what you have not done at all... 0 kills with an SMG... Get a decent SMG and use it
Skills - In general... the plan should be to max out many, if not most or all, of one tree and then use any left over points in a secondary tree. Very Important... Pay Attention Here...
This Is An End Goal.
Along the way, Gearbox made it very cheap and easy to re-spec your points. 5 levels is a lot... Yes, it's is only 5 points (you get 1 per level and so far none are rewarded for quests) but... it is soooo cheap and easy to re-spec so... Fuck it, do it. Use the low level skills to make it easier to get along and in 5 levels... Do it again. Don't miss your end game... And don't miss your fun.
ack... How do I put this...
I am talking here from the perspective of a single player... And I understand B2 is very different if you are doing multi-player... Battles are very intense and can go on for a long time... Clearing out each little part of a map can involve battles that go on for anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes... I hear this is very different from the multi-player experience where they cut through a lot of these areas far faster (not a big deal on the low end but a lot on the big end and more parts are on the big end)... Everything I've seen says the game is slanted easier for multi-play (If you have done both, let us know your experience).
ahhh... So what the fuck was I trying to tell you... oh yeah... Re-specing... heh, it does not matter if you are going to be a long term hardcore player or if you are just going to finish the game with one character and be done... Do not be afraid to experiment with the skills to find the right one that works for you... Because then it will suck you in and make you play more
ahhhh... Back after a smoke break... How fucked up is that? I can use my vaporizer in the house but I have to go out side for a cig... Sigh.
Holy Crap... How do I spend my Badass Tokens - OK, what is a badass token? A badass token is a 'coin' you get spend by completing challenges. Each challenge has five levels of 'do more'... Kill more of this monster, use more of this weapon... On and on, so many different challenges. You get a set number of badass points for each level you complete and they are:
Level 1 - 1 BP
Level 2 - 5 BP
Level 3 - 10 BP
Level 4 - 50 BP
Level 5 - 100 BP
The amount of Badass Points it takes to level up and get a coin increases but not by much. At character level 1 it only takes.. 20... maybe 30 Badass Points to get a Badass Token and at character level 42 it's about 170 BP to get a token.
To spend the token, go to the challenges screen and hit the 'x' button. There are 14 different stats you can spend the token on and it will upgrade the stat. The amount of the upgrade drops fast and you are soon getting .04% stat increase per token spent (and it will go down more, bottoms out at .1 but not till you have spent a crapload of token in a given stat). You get to choose one of five random stats, presented to you... I've not given it much thought and pretty much kept my stats close. The wicked cool thing about the bonus is that it is shared across all characters on the account. Also, you never run out of challenges to go for since they can be reset (only challenges are reset, you keep the bonus on tokens spent), the option appears when you complete 85% of the non-map specific challenges (find 'x' on a given map). I currently have a little more then 19k Badass Points from all of my five characters and they all get the following:
Max Health - +9.1%
Max Shield Capacity - +8.0%
Shield Recharge Delay - -9.1%
Shield Recharge Rate - +7.6%
Melee Damage - +7.6%
Grenade Damage - +9.1%
Gun Accuracy - +7.6%
Gun Damage - +9.8%
Fire Rate - +8.4%
Recoil Reduction - +7.6%
Reload Speed - +8.7%
Elemental Effect Chance - +8.0%
Elemental Effect Damage - +9.1%
Critical Hit Damage - +8.0%
It's a crapload of badass tokens to get to this Do not let the number deceive you... They do not have a very big impact at lower levels, one of my characters is still level five and he sees almost no difference with the bonus on or off (they can be dis/enabled in the challenges menu) but my level 42 Siren... Holy Crap! And what makes that even better is that I'm still going to be getting a crapload more tokens... I have one of each character each and they are levels - 5, 21, 23, 25, 42... The level 42 is the only one past normal difficulty and finished with 'True Vault Hunter' about 15%... Not counting expansions... Of which the third of four comes out Tuesday... So many mutants to kill in so many different places
OK, enough for tonight, I want to go play Look soon for a siren guide... She is so freakin awesome 
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