Rare items? And other questions.

In a game I tend to be a rare item hunter, In borderlands I have every gold weapon just about. Now I hope it's some kind of crafting system as well, the more difficult the better. Or a boss that's ridiculously hard, but drops a rare (blank) at like 1% chance. I'm not sure how skills work I haven't played a beta yet.

Also I love having an A.I. controlled thing (Pet, turret, etc) To help me while I fight, it doesn't even have to do significant damage or be allowed in pvp, but I enjoy seeing that something else is also helping me as I tend to solo unless it calls I must be on a team to get something. Is their any hint at this?

Also explain Skills if you can please? XD

I'll try and best answer your questions without violating the NDA. First off, check my signature and read through the FAQ that's linked there. It should help. Second watch this video:

http://youtu.be/LTtup_5yk-Y

That will cover the basic EGO powers and even show the grid.

There are rare items. That's not a secret. These items can be found throughout the game so if hunting is your thing, you might enjoy it. There is now however a crafting system at this time. The matrix allows for modification of weapons and breaking down of weapons. But there's no traditional crafting system yet (they are talking about adding it and may or may not do that).

We haven't seen anything official in the way of pets. But, keep an eye out.

Skills are EGO powers. These are the affect of the implant inserted into your body by Von Bach Industries. It guides you, and gives you four special abilities you can swap out on the fly. It also gives you access to that grid where there are a bunch of perks that give additional helpful statistics.

Any more than that and I'd be breaking the NDA. But watch the streams and the above video and read the FAQ for the info currently out there.

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Originally Posted by Bee

In a game I tend to be a rare item hunter, In borderlands I have every gold weapon just about. Now I hope it's some kind of crafting system as well, the more difficult the better. Or a boss that's ridiculously hard, but drops a rare (blank) at like 1% chance. I'm not sure how skills work I haven't played a beta yet.

Also I love having an A.I. controlled thing (Pet, turret, etc) To help me while I fight, it doesn't even have to do significant damage or be allowed in pvp, but I enjoy seeing that something else is also helping me as I tend to solo unless it calls I must be on a team to get something. Is their any hint at this?

Also explain Skills if you can please? XD

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to start with yes weapons and other bits have different degrees of rarity.

theres no kind of crafting system, well i say that they call it a modding system, so its not crafting as you know it, you break down weapons and use those parts to modifiy others. they have talked about making a crafting system, but that will be after release.

as for boss battles, we know there are instanced areas (dungeongs if you will) and they will have bosses in. we till dont know how there looting will work. but id imagion there will be a series of hard bosses that drop high loot.

as for pets, non that we know of yet.

finally skills, basically you have 1 of 4 ego powers, cloak, blur (run fast), decoy and overcharge. from these you can customise with a series of perks which you unlock and equip and have various benefits. exact details we dont know yet

Thank you very much that video answered most of my questions.
Are their any melee only weapons as well? Im sure the show will have someone get stabbed or hit with something other then a gun XD

Still waiting on any info about standard melee weapons, but don't hold your breath as it's a SHOOTER. There is a 'special' melee weapon in one of the streams but it is only for a specific mission. I'd personally like melee weapons, especially since they don't take ammo and one of the worst feelings is pointing your gun and hearing a click as you're empty. That and Irisa seems to have at least 8 knives so it gives me a glimmer of hope.

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Originally Posted by Bee

Thank you very much that video answered most of my questions.
Are their any melee only weapons as well? Im sure the show will have someone get stabbed or hit with something other then a gun XD

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atm we know there's special limited use melee weapons. But no idea if there's any collectable melee weapons yet. You can hit people with a melee attack.

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Originally Posted by Bee

Thank you very much that video answered most of my questions.
Are their any melee only weapons as well? Im sure the show will have someone get stabbed or hit with something other then a gun XD

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There are melee modifications and certainly a whole power that supports melee. But I don't think we'll end up seeing swords, and the like. Maybe knives at some point. Nothing has been said about that in the streams so bring it up... maybe they'll do it.

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Originally Posted by Bee

Thank you very much that video answered most of my questions.
Are their any melee only weapons as well? Im sure the show will have someone get stabbed or hit with something other then a gun XD

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From the recent release of the ego grid and seeing what the perks are surrounding Blur I would hope they would add permanent melee weapons. Almost half the perks around Blur involve melee damage and melee kills. It would seem a bit rough not to have some sort of melee weapons or maybe attachments on weapons that add to melee capabilities of that weapon would work. ME3 style. Just thinking out loud I guess.

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Originally Posted by Bee

In a game I tend to be a rare item hunter, In borderlands I have every gold weapon just about. Now I hope it's some kind of crafting system as well, the more difficult the better. Or a boss that's ridiculously hard, but drops a rare (blank) at like 1% chance. I'm not sure how skills work I haven't played a beta yet.

Also I love having an A.I. controlled thing (Pet, turret, etc) To help me while I fight, it doesn't even have to do significant damage or be allowed in pvp, but I enjoy seeing that something else is also helping me as I tend to solo unless it calls I must be on a team to get something. Is their any hint at this?

Also explain Skills if you can please? XD

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Oh god no 1% plz, I hope the lowest is 5%(reduces time by around 35%).4 weeks(3 hours a day) I've spent hunting Henry's head drop for my Mechromamcer in BL2. And after all that time I didn't get it and had to ask a modder to dupe me one, taking the rewarding feeling out of it but atleast I got my head:DI never want to feel a grind like that again.