Borderlands – How should I build Krieg to prevent him dying a lot

Playing Gaige in a "no aiming" style requires a different mindset from the other Vault Hunters. The Ordered Chaos tree works better when using a weapon with a low Magazine Size but high Reload Rate. Generally, that means you're shifting away from automatic weapons such as SMGs and Assault Rifles that often have Magazine Sizes of 20-30+.

One other thing you'll need to force yourself to forget is reloading in between fights. Anarchy stacks based on emptying your magazine or killing an enemy, so the fewer shots you have your current magazine, the sooner you'll accumulate stacks of Anarchy.

Anarchy itself is an odd mechanic. Because it reduces Accuracy per stack, you'll actually want to use a weapon with a decent amount of Accuracy otherwise you'll be doing little damage even at close range (a la Sledge's Shotgun from the first Borderlands). Combined with the need for low Magazine Size and high Reload Rate, your best shot for a go-to weapon is anything from the pistol family. Be a revolver or a repeater, these guns have respectable Accuracy and Fire Rate, without having the relatively high Magazine Sizes you want to avoid.

With this mind, you can stack Anarchy as quickly as possible for use with your other skills. While this isn't so much a "no aiming" style, Gaige's Ordered Chaos tree puts a lower emphasis on aiming than other playstyles. What's making this hard to swallow isn't so much the skill build but the mindset involved. A lot of it run counters to what you learned in other FPSs.

P.S. If you really want tips for skill builds, I would recommend getting the Close Enough skill in the Best Friends Forever tree as soon as you invest a couple of points in the Ordered Chaos tree. With your decreased Accuracy from Anarchy stacks, the ricochet will definitely help. After more points in the Ordered Chaos tree, I would recommend coming back to the Best Friends Forever tree for The Better Half skill. As you want to empty your magazines as quickly as possible, any source of increased Fire Rate helps. In fact, The Better Half skill might actually make high Magazine Size weapons such as Assault Rifles, Machineguns, and SMGs more palatable to use.

Deathtrap is a situation based skill to use. And while the situation comes up quite often in single player, it does not come up that often in co-op play. My overall suggestion is to use Deathtrap less if you find he is in the way that often. You may feel this lessens the effectiveness of your character, but there again so does having 3 other people there to help you out!

I have not seen any Deathtrap skills change his AI pattern to this point yet, but I have not used the heal-shields ability so that may alter it a bit. He will always pick a target (And most often its the most moronic of them all) and then go up and attack it with a melee or ranged attack depending on if the target is land or air based.

That being said there are pretty much two situations that I will release him in (Again, only in co-op I use him All the time when solo due to using the mechromancer's anarchy build).

• To knock down the annoying flying targets. Deathtrap always has his ranged and melee ranged skills from level 5 onward. Since his ranged attacks always hit he is very handy to take down the drones and such that can fly overhead while you and your team focus on the ground targets.
• Ambush situations. As you mention he is good at gaining agro and this helps in these situations. When you are in a location and open up a chest, complete an objective or whatever that suddenly puts 6+ red dots around you, pop off Deathtrap and he will occupy 1-3 of them depending on how his AI goes.

The overall goal is to use Deathtrap only in situations where you need to control the AI's targeting of yourself and the people you are playing in co-op (or to get rid of an annoying target that is not worth your bullets). Using him in a situation when people are dropping you have to go in with the understanding you are going to be bringing people back up and they are not likely to get second winds.

Hope this helps.