i love my turret, and wouldnt trade it for anything else. i'm considering respeccing to make it more powerful.
the birds all well and good, but at the end of the day its just an extra bit of burst damage. whereas, to quote roland, the turrets 'like having another soldier on the field'
being able to use it (especially in single player) to distract a bunch of enemies while i shoot them in the back (or it shoots them in the back), or load it up with corrosive ammo to take down those pesky crimson lance badass defenders, or just to hide behind for a few seconds when theres no other cover, is just really handy.
i notice noones talking about the sirens action skill... is that cause its as crap as it seems?
i'm yet to find a decent use for it. oh wow, i can run up to an enemy and hit them! then get pounded by all their freinds that i'm in the middle of :/ the one useful thing i did with it was to leg it accross a miniguns field of fire at sledges place, to get to some cover where i could resurect my freind from. which isnt bad i guess, but it doesnt seem in the same league.
i've had some lovely assault rifles btw. the 'glorious havoc' line of LMGs spring to mind - scoped, huge mag, fire rate in the 10-12 range, fairly high damage, almost no recoil, and accurate. granted, they also drink ammo. in terms of the burst fire type guns, the 'battle stomper' line seems good, think i had a level 19 green that was better than any other gun i found until i was around 40...