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[spindoctor]

Took advice from a couple of Gaffers and shifted from a gunzerker to a brawn build yesterday. My life in NG+ is going a lot smoother now. Found a nice mod that adds +18 regen and +3 to the hard to kill skill, and my first purple relic which gives me +44% health which is just awesome.

Unfortunately, I've discovered that you cannot play NG+ by just doing the story missions. I'm level 40 now and my next story mission is the Wildlife preserve which is marked 42, and will be really hard. Even the last couple of missions I've seen enemies with skull marks next to their name and while I've managed to get past them, it has been an expensive endeavor in terms of respawns and ammo costs. So now I have to go through every side quest I didn't take so far, looking for those that are trivial, for those that don't have any sort of proper reward and then jumping back and forth between zones doing them. I suspect I'll have to do this a few more times before I get past NG+. Really wishing Gearbox had designed this better, or simply let us play NG++.

 

[Edgeward]

Oh god I wish I hadn't highlighted that, fuck.

Back to blackout.

You gotta go finish the game soon, man. =D

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Should I go with cunning or bloodshed with Zero?

 

[HoosTrax]

Btw, why is the YOU.WILL.DIE. quest available at the end of Playthrough 1? Isn't it actually practically impossible to get enough exp to reach a level at which it is possible to beat a level 50 (or 52?) boss? No mobs scale that high, so you'd be getting 1 exp per kill once you hit the mid 30s.

 

[Empty Space]

Should I go with cunning or bloodshed with Zero?

Cunning if you want a hybrid gun/melee build or Bloodshed for almost pure melee. Both trees are good either way.

 

[Woo-Fu]

Should I go with cunning or bloodshed with Zero?

You don't pick just one tree with zer0, at least not if you want to succeed.

Cunning + Bloodshed if you want a melee build
Cunning + Sniping if you want a ranged build

Btw, why is the YOU.WILL.DIE. quest available at the end of Playthrough 1? .

One word: Incentive.

 

[PixyJunket]

I went back to kill the first boss to get the challenge for him and got an orange weapon out of it.

A Level 8 orange weapon.

Oh well, into Claptrap's Stash you go, you'll be useful for my mechromancer/co-op run.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Oh well, into Claptrap's Stash you go, you'll be useful for my mechromancer/co-op run.

to bad its only 4 slots

 

[PixyJunket]

to bad its only 4 slots

Indeed. All four are taken with under Level 10 items for my next run.

 

[mickcenary]

You can start now, but just know that you can't farm both. Whatever you pick will be the only one you can farm on that character.

Ooh. What are these and how exactly does one get them? I'm a level 32; should I hold off?

Many thanks to the helpers in this thread, by the way. Sexcellent stuff.

 

[Gvaz]

talking to my real life friend:

"if I buy borderlands 2, you'll play with me right?" Yeah sure I'll play with you. *makes a time to play with me, disappears*

 

[Avinexus]

Ooh. What are these and how exactly does one get them? I'm a level 32; should I hold off?

Many thanks to the helpers in this thread, by the way. Sexcellent stuff.

I believe they all say "Clan War" before each quest during that quest line. I think you get the first quest in The Dust, not too sure though (it might be Overlook).

 

[-PXG-]

Motion tree is underpowered. Cata all the way. Those elemental buffs are nothing to sneeze at. Early Harmony tree is straight beast.

 

[one_kill]

How is the final quest (the one that says "impossible" and "you will die")? Is the boss really that hard?

 

[Hazaro]

Looking for people who want to help me spawn Vermivorous. Anyone down?

http://steamcommunity.com/id/PXG

Level 50s only, prefer that you have the Blood of Terramorphous too. E-tech/ legendary gear would be nice too.

Added, did you do this already?

 

[PixyJunket]

I would buy an entire game about Lynchwood.

 

[Wunder]

Dying constantly as a Siren in TVHM. Specced over to Motion/Harmony build and it doesn't seem to be working out, might switch back to cata and just see how it goes. T_T I feel like my guns are good but the enemies are just so strong. I have a pretty good loadout of a Slag Sniper, Flame Shottie, Corrosive Bad touch and a Shock E-tech needler. They all do well but I always rely so much on my fire shotgun and keep running out of ammo and the dudes just take buckets of damage.

 

[enzo_gt]

You gotta go finish the game soon, man. =D

I went in hard that first week. Clocked 37 hours and then my procrastination hit me

 

[breakfuss]

If there's one criticism i can offer up for what has otherwise become my GOTY, it's that none of the storyline bosses offer up any strategic challenge. The closest is probably

Spoiler

bloodwing

. The rest just all seem to be about whittling down enemies with gratuitous amounts of health.

 

[Wunder]

OK Cataclysm is way better. Why did I ever switch?

 

[Empty Space]

Dying constantly as a Siren in TVHM. Specced over to Motion/Harmony build and it doesn't seem to be working out, might switch back to cata and just see how it goes. T_T I feel like my guns are good but the enemies are just so strong. I have a pretty good loadout of a Slag Sniper, Flame Shottie, Corrosive Bad touch and a Shock E-tech needler. They all do well but I always rely so much on my fire shotgun and keep running out of ammo and the dudes just take buckets of damage.

Using the right element on the right enemies is how you progress through TVHM. Fire is best for bandits and all creatures that aren't stalkers or fire based, Corrosive is for all Hyperion Loaders, Electricity is for stalkers and Hyperion foot soldiers. Despite whatever damage your shotgun does it will very weak against the loaders and shielded enemies.

 

[JAY the BIRD]

error 55 on Steam, just for Borderlands 2. Any one have any ideas on how to fix it?

 

[steadfast]

Holy shit, fuck Rabid Stalkers right in the goddamn ear. I have fire and corrosion guns but no decent shock right now.... of course!

Hate them so much.

error 55 on Steam, just for Borderlands 2. Any one have any ideas on how to fix it?

File integrity check and restart steam, if you haven't already

 

[Balphon]

OK Cataclysm is way better. Why did I ever switch?

Really? I felt underpowered every time I tried respeccing into full Cataclysm, even at 50.

Maybe I'm just nuts.

 

[Wunder]

Using the right element on the right enemies is how you progress through TVHM. Fire is best for bandits and all creatures that aren't stalkers or fire based, Corrosive is for all Hyperion Loaders, Electricity is for stalkers and Hyperion foot soldiers. Despite whatever damage your shotgun does it will very weak against the loaders and shielded enemies.

Yeah, bandits are pretty weird because they almost always have shields and I still don't know how to 100% engage people with actual shields like Nomads, because I can't hit their head too well. I love fighting loaders with corrosive or even just a really good non-ele AR. I find Electricity to be really weird because its the only element where you can't really use it for the whole fight. I find myself purposely switching out of my shock weapon to my fire weapon half way through because my shock feels so weak against flesh.

 

[SuicideUZI]

talking to my real life friend:

"if I buy borderlands 2, you'll play with me right?" Yeah sure I'll play with you. *makes a time to play with me, disappears*

i know how that goes, ive literally bought a friend a game before so he'd play with me, he never did

 

[HoosTrax]

Yeah, bandits are pretty weird because they almost always have shields and I still don't know how to 100% engage people with actual shields like Nomads, because I can't hit their head too well. I love fighting loaders with corrosive or even just a really good non-ele AR. I find Electricity to be really weird because its the only element where you can't really use it for the whole fight. I find myself purposely switching out of my shock weapon to my fire weapon half way through because my shock feels so weak against flesh.

I usually lead off with a Phaselock w/Ruin to strip the shield.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

OK Cataclysm is way better. Why did I ever switch?

Meh, maybe for solo play, but Motion + Harmony is better for TVHM (especially co-op) IMO.

 

[NoirVisage]

Killed Hunter Helinquest..3 pieces of colored loot drops..through the floor.
If this happens one more time, I'm done with this game until DLC.

 

[Mikey Jr.]

I just got ruin with Maya.

Jesus, normal enemies just full on die when they get sucked into this. Like, when they get locked in, I don't even look at them anymore. Like, first helios sets them on fire. Then it electrocutes them, then slags them, then corrodes them. Colours of the rainbow just flying off those enemies.


How awesome is it taking out buzzards a mile away with just your mind? I love watching them explode and slowing falling down to the earth.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

Yeahhh boiiii! Got it working!

PC

http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=151660

 

[HoosTrax]

I just got ruin with Maya.

Jesus, normal enemies just full on die when they get sucked into this. Like, when they get locked in, I don't even look at them anymore. Like, first helios sets them on fire. Then it electrocutes them, then slags them, then corrodes them. Colours of the rainbow just flying off those enemies.


How awesome is it taking out buzzards a mile away with just your mind? I love watching them explode and slowing falling down to the earth.

This is the main thing I miss when I'm playing my gunzerker instead. With Maya, you can run through levels, toss a phaselock into a crowd, keep running, and a few seconds later you start to see exp gain pop-ups.

 

[Empty Space]

Yeahhh boiiii! Got it working!

PC



http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=151660

That is fucking amazing. Thanks for posting it or I might never have heard about it.

 

[GuardianE]

This is the main thing I miss when I'm playing my gunzerker instead. With Maya, you can run through levels, toss a phaselock into a crowd, keep running, and a few seconds later you start to see exp gain pop-ups.

Is that a viable strategy on TVHM? I'm just curious for my own Siren build in the long term.

 

[toastyToast]

I was feeling pretty good with my level 30 gear, then I started TVH mode

Blown up

I figured out that I was doing a lot less damage relatively speaking so I switched my strategy. Gear improves exponentially from about level 28.

It's pretty stupid

 

[JAY the BIRD]

Holy shit, fuck Rabid Stalkers right in the goddamn ear. I have fire and corrosion guns but no decent shock right now.... of course!

Hate them so much.



File integrity check and restart steam, if you haven't already

Did that, restarted, re installed, re-wubwubed, still not working. :/

 

[Empty Space]

Is that a viable strategy on the higher difficulties? I'm just curious for my own Siren build in the long term.

No its not. Ignoring an enemy will get you destroyed.

 

[Buckethead]

Just did the Firehawk sidequest in TVHM.

I hate myself.

Worst sidequest/map ever.

 

[MagicWithEarvin]

Legendary shottie: Barbed Striker

Surprised this one didn't have some sort of gimmick. Every legendary I've used had something unique about them.

 

[GuardianE]

No its not. Ignoring an enemy will get you destroyed.

Hahah, more specifically I meant using Ruin. I'm hoping it doesn't completely lose its usefulness on TVHM.

 

[Badgerst3]

If there's one criticism i can offer up for what has otherwise become my GOTY, it's that none of the storyline bosses offer up any strategic challenge. The closest is probably

Spoiler

bloodwing

. The rest just all seem to be about whittling down enemies with gratuitous amounts of health.

Agreed possible goty, my only criticism:

Game needs to just auto pickup any ammo I need, like money.

Why do I have to move around an open crate 4 times past all the ammo I don't need, to trigger the single "take" i need for that 1 grenade. Grrrrr.

 

[mickcenary]

i know how that goes, ive literally bought a friend a game before so he'd play with me, he never did

Ha. I actually have a good mate who has the game, but being the big fucking nerd that I am, I'm a good 20 levels beyond him; it just doesn't work.

The few times he's joined my game have been hilarious. Utterly molesteraped.

 

[Buckethead]

A grenade ended up being my best weapon. High damage, 6x grenade spawn, fire elemental and vampiric heath skill. The damn thing even tracks to the enemy, I just toss it anywhere andit hunts them down and give me health.

Yeah I have one of those but it's corrosive instead.

The new 'nades weren't really an improvement. :-\

I'm a good 20 levels beyond him; it just doesn't work.

Start a new game/character you big meanie head

 

[Gorillaz]

Agreed possible goty, my only criticism:

Game needs to just auto pickup any ammo I need, like money.

Why do I have to move around an open crate 4 times past all the ammo I don't need, to trigger the single "take" i need for that 1 grenade. Grrrrr.

I still think this is a likely GOTY...atleast for me

There are a few things I don't like, auto save setup, storage room for everything is too limited, enemy respawn times etc.

For the most part this will prob be my GOTY

 

[Woo-Fu]

No its not. Ignoring an enemy will get you destroyed.

I run quite a few levels as zer0, particularly the Hyperion areas. Switch to largest shield, run, run, run, decepti0n if they pierce my shield.

 

[Salsa]

Yeahhh boiiii! Got it working!

PC



http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=151660

holy fuck shit what WHAT WOW FUCK SHIT

 

[Empty Space]

Hahah, more specifically I meant using Ruin. I'm hoping it doesn't completely lose its usefulness on TVHM.

Yeah Ruin is still great in TVHM. Its especially great for applying slag on lots of target at one time.

I run quite a few levels as zer0, particularly the Hyperion areas. Switch to largest shield, run, run, run, decepti0n if they pierce my shield.

Right, but Maya doesn't have the luxury of deception. She can't avoid combat like Zer0 can and I would know since I have a level 50 Zer0 and Maya.

 

[Stantron]

Why is it that I have to be looking at an NPC talking to hear them clearly? If I stand next to them but look away, the audio cuts drastically. Is that the way the game works or do I need to fix something on my end (PC)?

 

[Hazaro]

Yeahhh boiiii! Got it working!

PC

http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=151660

DAT FOV

 

[Unicorn]

Agreed possible goty, my only criticism:

Game needs to just auto pickup any ammo I need, like money.

Why do I have to move around an open crate 4 times past all the ammo I don't need, to trigger the single "take" i need for that 1 grenade. Grrrrr.

Dude. Any crate of ammo, hold x on any of the items. You will auto pickup anything you need