Borderlands 2

[Grayfox]

I love the original, still playing it (PC). Looking very forward to Borderlands 2
Mordecai + Grim Rage =

Mordecai + Bessie = OMG god, insane damage and insanely killer sound.

I have a Lv50 mando, killed terramorphous so many times it is not funny.

I don't think that's it, it seems to be a problem with my SSD. My solution for now is to leave the right side of my PC off (the mostly closed side where the drive connectors are) and have a 40 minute timer on my phone, after those 40 minutes I shut down, unplug, replug the SSD and start all over again. That's how lazy I am. I'll probably order a new SSD tomorrow, but I'll check and make sure it's the SSD by swapping it for a spare XP system I have lying around, it could be the drive controller but as the 2TB drive is seen every time I reboot without fail it seems to be just the SSD as far as I can tell.

Get that SSD replaced stat.

Had a customer who had a performance machine that had very random bluescreens, their were no corruptions but after each bluescreen the SSD would not be found during the post.
You had to fully shut it down and turn it back on.

Sandforce controller was dying slowly.

 

[Sharky.]

Pro Gunzerking tip: match Hyperion with Hyperion. When you Gunzerk with an Hyperion weapon, when it's in its low accuracy stage both reticules kick upwards, even if your other weapon isn't Hyperion - so for the first few shots (most notable with SMGs, dunno what it's like with snipers), a non-Hyperion weapon has huge recoil.

Somewhat annoying.

 

[sesselpupser]

Just finished TVH with Gaige, took 2 hours to collate an awesome loadout by juggling my gear amongst my characters then do the quest. The fight at the end wasn't as brief as I was hoping but it wasn't as difficult as the first time. Here's my Mechromancer build (Steam screenshot), thought I might just share it... The Legendary Mechromancer mod is awesome, I get a 108% fire rate increase with a half-empty magazine which happens sooner than usual because I also have -8% magazine size, which comes with a reload speed boost (can't remember how much) so it makes Bandit shotguns really, really awesome as they normally have slow reloads and rates of fire but huge magazines, so now they're more balanced. Also it gives Deathtrap a load of abilities like the spinning claws attack, the death ray, the explosive clap thing and a shield as well. When the level cap increase comes I'll probably put any extra points in the Ordered Chaos tree, shock elemental is pretty much useless in my opinion so I really don't care about the middle tree.

 

[Grayfox]

Pro Gunzerking tip: match Hyperion with Hyperion. When you Gunzerk with an Hyperion weapon, when it's in its low accuracy stage both reticules kick upwards, even if your other weapon isn't Hyperion - so for the first few shots (most notable with SMGs, dunno what it's like with snipers), a non-Hyperion weapon has huge recoil.

Somewhat annoying.

I use 2 Vladof miniguns(both the same).

 

[sesselpupser]

I've been using a fire and shock SMG in one pair and a Law and corrosive sniper in the other, but that kind of sucked. I think I'll change it to a Chulainn (slag/shock) and Moxxi's Good Touch so I have all the elemental bases (except for explosive, but does anyone ever use that?) covered with Maliwan SMGs alone, I've found they work really, really well when Gunzerking if you have the skill which increases your rate of fire and reload the longer you shoot, after a few seconds it's like you've got a couple of ray guns or something.

Also thanks for your PM, Grayfox, I'll be ordering my replacement SSD tomorrow I think. The game (which is currently the only thing I want to play) runs perfectly fine in XP from an old Hitachi Deskstar so all's good for now.

 

[TJ13]

(except for explosive, but does anyone ever use that?)

Explosive is good if it's a launcher since it's the only other elemental that loaders are not resisted to.

Also here is something to think about, Anyone that gets shift codes how would you feel once you redeem them you get a head or skin?

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Helped another friend with the last enemy of the game on his 2nd playthrough. We had 2 level 50s, a level 42, and level 47. An hour long battle and I lost about $490,000 in deaths. But it was still a great time. We didnt have a single siren so thats 1 main reason we constantly died. The siren is so effect with her instant revive. But money is easy in this game so it really was no big deal to me. I love the long challenging boss battles. 👍

Last time I came in there with 4 level 50s and we wiped out the boss within a couple minutes. Thats not fun imo. I also got 4 shift codes over the weekend but only 1 good weapon. So those chests really are hit and miss. HOwever we did find a sniper rifle right before the main enemy that puts out about 17,000 in damage and corrosive! Thats the highest sniper damage I have seen.

 

[bluemoon_19]

I have had some good finds in the last few days here a a few.
I got comfy for a session of farming knuckle dragger for the hornet and on the first kill he dropped me this.

Then farming the warrior he dropped this on the second go.

And just for Camaroboy69 i found this sniper riffle today.

 

[Hei]

That pistol, mmmhmmmm. Level 44 now. Dam fine rescue is so hard. The constructor spawned 4 badass loaders at once and couldn't kill them till after the constructor fled. Now I have to go all the way to the Prison.

 

[sesselpupser]

Today I've done levels 45 to 49 with Salvador, I want to hit 50 ASAP (I'm on the Sawtooth Cauldron story quest) because I'm struggling to find a decent shield, I'm still using the Order which is just terrible at this point if you're not using a melee build. I also seem to be finding great grenade mods and artefacts (got my first Sheriff's Badge) but no noteworthy weapons, I'm using level 45 weapons and even a level 35 grenade mod, although it is a legendary one, against lv 47-49 enemies! When I hit 50, though, I've got two characters' inventories and banks full of weapons and items to draw from.

I also played a little co-op with Axton earlier on, managed to get Midgemong to drop whatever his legendary drop is and let my friend take it as it was under level 10 or something. It was some sort of Torgue assault rifle.


Edit: So I finished TVH with Salvador, managed to find a Bitch in a chest (lv.48) and a Badaboom (lv.45) dropped by King Mong on my way to visit the last boss who seemed to be much easier to kill with Salvador than with Gaige or Zer0. I suppose his action skill is much more useful than either of theirs though so that's hardly surprising.

Gearbox will be tweeting Shift codes for Halloween skins tomorrow, hopefully not at 5am GMT but who knows?

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/952/halloween-shift-codes-for-borderlands-2

(oops, just read the article, the codes are valid until Sunday!)

 

[TJ13]

Well Im off to farm doc merc for the infinity here sometime since I just finished up TVHM.

Shift code is a joke...

Redeemed code, get skin...looks at skin says Already have...

 

[sesselpupser]

Got given a slag Conference Call earlier and then not half an hour later got myself a Bee (lv48 though). Tried farming Knuckledragger but he was pants, dropped nothing but cash and a white gun every time. Also got myself a better Law but it's only got 13k damage, I'm hoping there's better with a lower rate of fire (being a Jakobs it's down to how fast you can click anyway), and I also discovered that you can get higher level quest reward weapons if you discover the quest after hitting level 50, so I got a lv50 Chuliann... But now I can't farm for a Maggie (Borderlands 2's closest approximation of the Masher revolver) with Zer0. I have to remember to not do that quest with Maya until after TVH as I think I've made the same choice with both Salvador and Gaige, meaning I can only farm the Slagga. Which is fine, I kind of want one of those as well.

 

[bluemoon_19]

Got given a slag Conference Call earlier and then not half an hour later got myself a Bee (lv48 though). Tried farming Knuckledragger but he was pants, dropped nothing but cash and a white gun every time. Also got myself a better Law but it's only got 13k damage, I'm hoping there's better with a lower rate of fire (being a Jakobs it's down to how fast you can click anyway), and I also discovered that you can get higher level quest reward weapons if you discover the quest after hitting level 50, so I got a lv50 Chuliann... But now I can't farm for a Maggie (Borderlands 2's closest approximation of the Masher revolver) with Zer0. I have to remember to not do that quest with Maya until after TVH as I think I've made the same choice with both Salvador and Gaige, meaning I can only farm the Slagga. Which is fine, I kind of want one of those as well.

Knuckle dragger dropped me 3 hornets in the space of about 30 goes. Was farming terramorphous yesterday and on 1 drop he dropped 2 hide of terramorphous shields on 1 drop so me and my friend both got 1.

 

[sesselpupser]

Knuckle dragger dropped me 3 hornets in the space of about 30 goes. Was farming terramorphous yesterday and on 1 drop he dropped 2 hide of terramorphous shields on 1 drop so me and my friend both got 1.

I'll keep trying, but for a while he wasn't dropping anything at all and then it was just white guns... I was starting to wonder if he was broken or something.

Got from level 35 (or was it 36?) to 41 with Maya tonight, I definitely need some good level 35 gear because I jumped from relying on a lv 33 Tediore SMG (mainly throwing it at stuff after firing a single shot) to a lv 36 shotgun, the gap in-between was horrible. After hitting level 36 it's all pretty smooth sailing now though, I've got a really nice corrosive shotgun, a Moxxi's Heart Breaker (if that's the automatic fire shotgun, I can never remember what it's called), a Plasma Caster fire SMG (which I recall using well into the 40's with Zer0) and a decently powerful shock Hyperion E-tech sniper rifle. All pretty good stuff. Once again struggling with shields though, I'm still using a lv 37 shock spike shield.

 

[TJ13]

all I want is an infinity, plus people have been farming the thingy in the DLC, I dont know how they managed...

 

[Hei]

Been using a lv.40 Firehawk or whatever it's called shield.

 

[bluemoon_19]

all I want is an infinity, plus people have been farming the thingy in the DLC, I dont know how they managed...

Check this video out it will explain it.

MASSIVE spoiler alert video shows the end bosses area.

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVV0-hZdE90
the video shows the guy going a different route but it is possible to take another route and get back inside the chest area.

 

[TJ13]

Now I can farm the farmory and hope I can get my infinity from that, so far I had a few semi nice weapons and of course a few e-tech weapons. but no orange yet. Will try again soon.

Got some orange, nothing really "good" except the skullsmasher, got a soldier class mod if someone wants it, (PC)

 

[Hei]

Skullmasher? Sniper rifle? It's back?

 

[TJ13]

Skullmasher? Sniper rifle? It's back?

Yup got a 6775x5 I believe, but I will double check tomorrow when I go through the farmory again to find my infinity

 

[Sharky.]

Skullmasher? Sniper rifle? It's back?

Most legendaries from the first game are.

 

[TJ13]

Most legendaries from the first game are.

Too bad the pearls aren't

 

[Hei]

So that means....there is a chance to get my Cyclops back

 

[sesselpupser]

So that means....there is a chance to get my Cyclops back

There's a list of all the legendaries and uniques at www.borderlands.wikia.com but I don't think the Cyclops is one of them.

What's the Farmory?

 

[TJ13]

There's a list of all the legendaries and uniques at www.borderlands.wikia.com but I don't think the Cyclops is one of them.

What's the Farmory?

The leviathans lair treasure room.

 

[sesselpupser]

The leviathans lair treasure room.

Interesting, I should really make some progress with the DLC. In fact now would be a good time, I've got some great lv 48 gear (such as a Bitch and a Bee) my siren could use but she's lv 47.5. I'm sure the DLC would help me hit 48... But that's for next week as I actually have things to do this weekend, believe it or not!

 

[TJ13]

Isn't e-tech weapons supposed to be rarer than orange??

I just found 3 in my morning run through.

 

[sesselpupser]

Isn't e-tech weapons supposed to be rarer than orange??

I just found 3 in my morning run through.

No, I don't think so... I hope not anyway, I've got a whole load of E-tech but only maybe 7 or 8 oranges.

 

[TJ13]

No, I don't think so... I hope not anyway, I've got a whole load of E-tech but only maybe 7 or 8 oranges.

Isn't their like the "Pearls" of the trade that was supposed to be in but didn't?
I have like etech galore, but squat that I could actually use for orange well except the skullmasther and the bee, (Still looking for that infinity...)

 

[bluemoon_19]

Well today I finally got an orange relic and now my character can be fully kitted out with orange lol. The relic was the blood of terramorphous and gives 0.5% health regen.