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Borderlands 2 |OT| Opening Pandora's Box (of Guns!)
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I know that feel.
MrCunningham
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I'm level 25 (playing Commando) and I already found two purples. But yeah, most of my drops have been green or blues at this point.
Those are great too.
I didn't care for Borderlands 1 much at all, so I had very low expectations for Borderlands 2. But this game has surprised me so far, it's legitimately good.
Btw, anyone found a good spot for grinding out levels, like Eridian Promontory in the first game? Places with non-bullet-sponge enemies that give good exp?
I think I've gotten a little spoiled by oranges falling from the sky as well, doing Craw runs and Armory glitch exploits. BL2 seems very stingy in comparison.
The Circle of Slaughter missions give hordes of enemies that are level-scaled to you so you'll get consistent exp for doing them. Not sure if it's repeatable but I'm sure you'll be sick of it after finishing 5 levels of it.
FalsettoVibe
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Zer0's skill is a free kill on the toughest mob in any encounter to start it off. Hard to beat that.
Ambush+Innervate+Vel0city+Headshot+Deception = godlike base attack + godlike crit for your initial attack.
When you use a shotgun or a rocket launcher for that first attack it is devastating. If it is still alive mark it for death and then empty the rest of your magazine into it, it'll be dead unless it is some ridiculously tough badass.
Toss out a homing shock transfusion mirv grenade(these are awesome btw), find some cover, reload, wait for the grenade to strip all the shields then jump out and kill everything else.
Cool. Will Try.
Haha this is close to a melee/roid build I wanna try.I think i know how to use it efficiently
http://talent.87bazillion.com/2/siren.php?050541055105434102000000000000
With Thoughtlock phaselock timer is 17s and lasts for 8s, with Quicken on 5 cooldown is reduced to 11.9s, with 15% cooldown reduction class mod or any mod that will increase Your quicken by 3, cooldown will be reduced further to 9-9.5s which will almost give 100% sustain on phaselock.
Sub-sequence though will make sure that phase-lock is on all the time, even if enemy will die and that means that You will have hp regen and fire rate + damage bonus up all the time and You can even kill phaselock enemy for hp orbs if needed.
Harmony tree point distribution really depend of +skill mods You have on Your class mod. Maxing Resoration, Wreck and Elated is highly recommended
Ps. Another question, do Fleet bonus work if You dont have any shield equipped? Or it only activates when shield gets depleted in fight?
MushroomSamba
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Question for Axton users:
Is the "Crisis Management" skill active when you're in "Fight for your life" mode, since technically your shield would still be depleted? Does it stack with "Last Ditch Effort"?
I find my style tends to be go in guns blazing and kill as fast as possible. I rely a lot on "Second Wind" opportunities so all those FFYL perks and kill skills would be great.
Is the "Crisis Management" skill active when you're in "Fight for your life" mode, since technically your shield would still be depleted? Does it stack with "Last Ditch Effort"?
I find my style tends to be go in guns blazing and kill as fast as possible. I rely a lot on "Second Wind" opportunities so all those FFYL perks and kill skills would be great.
Hopefully it has been answered but at the main menu press Y to bring up character select.
Jugendstil
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Good to know his spawn rate is low on the PC, I was tearing my hair out. I check for him every time I'm in Sanctuary and have never seen him.
splattered
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My friends and i are playing on the 360 and we've only seen him once towards the beginning of the game... we check every time we come back from a story mission and he is just nowhere to be found.
Found it...yeah one of the video's helped for sure,thanks everyone for the help for the Enkindling.
Thank You!
Victory Red
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Give me one good reason to NOT spend all my money on the slot machines
Baconsammy
Banned
I'm addicted to them. I even use them during a fight when I kill a big guy that has one on his back.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I'd be interested too. I literally put ALL my money into them.
Moxxi?
Coalition-PezRadar
Director of Community, The Coalition
Michael appears in all versions throughout the whole game. We can confirm that.
Currently console players are experiencing a higher rate of him appearing which is something we plan on addressing in a future update.
I'm on PS3, level 9, and I've seen him twice already. He gave me a nice shotgun and a cool assault rifle. His other dialogue is pretty funny too. He mentions a "Crawmerax Prime" at one point.
Dreams-Visions
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Because one day you'll wake up in Las Vegas attempting to sell your hair to a wig shop to buy a bus ticket back home after gambling away your life savings.
MushroomSamba
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Also, another question to tack onto this...
Are Kill Skills still active when you're in Fight For Your Life mode? And do they all stack with the other perks?
Michael and the slots help balance those out a bit. I've also seen a lot more purples in stores than I did in BL1 (outside of the Knoxx) DLC. The Secret Armory may have spoiled a lot of people since that pack was supposed to make up for the lameness of the contents of the Vault.
I don't know about Axton specifically but I'm pretty sure kill skills do not activate in last stand.
Edit: As in they get turned off once you go into last stand. Your second wind kill will give you the skill of course.
It's cheaper to reload the game in Sanctuary and check the vending machines.
I still am not sure how to react when I hear "You smell like my little girl!!"
My co-op partner dislikes the slots just because whenever we go back to Sanctuary I make a beeline there after selling stuff. He always initiates the next mission while I'm at the slots...waiting for the inevitable Legendary roll and trying to beat that quick travel countdown to grab it.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
A couple of questions.
I'm level 16, but can't seem to find any gear past level 14. Is this normal? I've tried from the vending machines, the dude from sactuary that gives free stuff and the slot machines.
When/where should I spend my golden keys?
I'm level 16, but can't seem to find any gear past level 14. Is this normal? I've tried from the vending machines, the dude from sactuary that gives free stuff and the slot machines.
When/where should I spend my golden keys?
Ein Soph Aur
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I'm saving the Golden Key until I get to Level 50.
BrokenEchelon
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A few zones update their inventories as events in the story occur. Sanctuary being one of them. Wait until you get to a totally brand new zone and check those vendors, but I wouldn't worry about it. I was using a level 40 pistol 'til my current level (44) because it was absolutely fantastic and I passed up a lot of higher level guns for it.
The Golden Key Chest scales loot with your level. So for optimal results I'd wait until level 50. For OCD levels of optimal results I'd wait for the last of the DLC to come out in a year or two when the level cap will probably be 60 or 70, but that seems quite silly.
Unrelated to that, I'm on Campus with nothing to do and I just want to go home and play more
microtubule
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Yes, same here. IMO, it would be a waste to use it before level 50.
MMBosstones86
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RE: Micheal on PC.
I read that if you reload your game that it will basically 're-roll' if he shows up or not. So basically load game -> run around santuary -> re-load if not there -> repeat.
Can anyone confirm?
I read that if you reload your game that it will basically 're-roll' if he shows up or not. So basically load game -> run around santuary -> re-load if not there -> repeat.
Can anyone confirm?
razgriz417
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MushroomSamba
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That's kind of a bummer. I was hoping to run into a pile of baddies, kill one, have the kill skill activate, and if I go into fight for your life mode, have those last stand perks kick in and stack on top the kill still. That'd almost be guaranteed second winds.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I know Maya at least has a skill specifically designed for Fight For Life Shots that adds Fire to them.
bigwinnerx
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'it' does assume singular, and if you've pre-ordered, signed up for SHIFT and followed Randy on Twitter, you should have at least 3 keys by now.
Which is why I put one in at Level 20 last night and got a ridiculous rocket launcher. Didn't love it, but, did sell for like $2500.
The Golden Key is overrated. People act like it's a guaranteed purple gun scaled to your level that's going to be God like, but the truth is you're more than likely going to get something that's below what you currently have equipped, stat wise.
Exactly...and what's the point on waiting until the end of the game to get a good weapon? To show off around Sanctuary once you're done with all the content?
I know there's DLC coming but still...
I agree. I got two okay grenade mods. Don't put the golden key on a pedestal; it's not that great.
Woo-Fu
Banned
Which doesn't change the fact that you might as well wait to get to 50th to use it. Higher level junk is worth more than lower level junk.
Probably because you can easily get more than serviceable weapons at lower levels so why not wait till you get a max level weapon that could be a upgrade versus using it early on when weapons are easily replaced. Like if I used it in vault hunter mode right now it would be quickly replaced with even a green so no reason to use it when I could just get a free epic at 50 without having to kill the the end game bosses.
weekend_warrior
Banned
I started as Zer0, got to level 13, then made a Gunzerker and haven't looked back. Love that class.
+ Dual wield weapons which basically doubles you DPS for ~20 seconds.
+ Instant 50% health regen, plus gradual health regen.
+ Increased resistance.
+ AMMO REGEN!!
- Your character looks like Cartmen's WoW character.
Endgame for me is going to consist of Terra-something-something-Craw-guy-equivalent runs, for which I assume you will want to be decently geared.
Yeah, I used one right when I got to Sanctuary the first time and got a pretty good sniper and SMG. It was with my commando, so I put them in the Secret Stash for my assassin and siren. They were definitely better than what I had for those characters at the time, so it was a nice little boost until I found something to replace them with.
I'll probably use another during the new game+ when I get to sanctuary again for the first time.
If the game starts being a jerk to me and doesn't want to give me a worthwhile upgrade, I use a key. That's the way I've done it anyways. I've got 1 left, but this playthrough has been pretty good on the weapon drops/machines so far.
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