Same here.
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Borderlands 2 |OT| Opening Pandora's Box (of Guns!)
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Same here.
I've noticed that almost all of my Legendaries have been in maybe the first half of the game, all very early and regardless of solo or player count. I've spent a significant amount of time at level 50 both solo and in groups and practically never see them anymore. Purples up the wazoo, but no oranges (outside of Terramorphus).
MagicWithEarvin
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Need 4 Sirens with Res to stand a chance
njean777
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Maybe I am missing something, but where do I go to access the DLC? I bought it and it wasnt like fallout where they just gave me the quest, do I need to talk to somebody? I have my TVHM character and just started the game over, I also know that the DLC content will be higher level, but I just wanted to know what I need to do to access the area...
You should have Oasis as a fast travel location, go there. It's implemented poorly in that regard.
Harbinger of War
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Hyperius is a piece of cake compared to Master Gee. Me and a buddy (Gunzerker/Assassin) can rip through Hyperius in a few minutes with neither of us going down. But Master Gee, best we can do is knock off 25% of his health. And that's with vitality relics and high capacity shields with elemental resistance. It's crazy how nothing puts a dent in him. We've tried the strategy where you get him to walk over the fountains of acid but we still end up with a pool that overwhelms us before long.
What's your strat for Hyperius?
Pimpbaa
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Happening in non DLC areas for me.
njean777
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Thanks will check it out
Honestly, Borderlands is the one game truly undeserving of this sort of rant. The amount of content in the base game alone should make Diablo 3 hang its head in shame. Gearbox has been doing a fantastic job with the Borderlands franchise thus far and I feel they are actually a shining example to the industry in how to do DLC right. How to do games right and especially New Game+ right.
Empty Space
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Fuck Hyperious the Invincible that guy is a dick.
Harbinger of War
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Circle him and his minions constantly and from a distance to avoid the rockets. Take out the minions one by one until Hyperius is by himself. When he starts jumping towards you, just haul ass away from him and when there's enough distance, turn around and start shooting. Always make sure there's a lot of distance between you and him. When he does that huge area of effect attack (the one where you get two powerful bursts seconds apart), I wait for the first one, then flip into Gunzerker mode to refill my health before the second one.
Beating him solo as a Gunzerker seem doable. I was able to get him down to 10% remaining health before he took me down. If I were to re-spec and mess around with the skill tree I'm sure it could be done. When my friend joined in, it was significantly easier. Never even broke a sweat.
BTW, it goes without saying that we used the Bee for the fight. Without it he just takes so little damage that it feels like we're not even making an impact.
This.
Interesting! That was our strat, kind of. We had 3 sirens and a zer0, all with Res. We decided against the Bee because I don't think we would have had enough capacity to withstand the double nova, since it took me down to about 5-8k HP with a 43k shield bumped to about 66k. If I may ask, what was your shield/hp?
EDIT: On the subject of the DLC, I personally don't have a problem with it being released this 'early', but I do have a problem with them being as buggy as it is being reported. Mechromancer bugs and this DLC seeing some PhysX hitches/floor stuff seems bad. Also I heard this particular DLC got outsourced like some BL1 DLC too.
So I finally beat the game. Ending was kind of weak and quick but it served its purpose I guess.
What to do now? Go straight to TVHM or should I be doing endgame stuff in regular to rack up XP? Is there anything like that of the sort outside of Terramorphous? I'm level 34.
What to do now? Go straight to TVHM or should I be doing endgame stuff in regular to rack up XP? Is there anything like that of the sort outside of Terramorphous? I'm level 34.
Harbinger of War
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I believe I had 66k health and about 17k with the Bee shield. Early in the fight I could survive both bursts without having to resort to Gunzerking. But as the fight went on and he got closer to his death, either the attack got more powerful or it did more damage because he was getting closer to me. The second burst would always wipe me out while I was Gunzerking once I got him down to 10-15% health.
I think a Gunzerker with a Bee shield and a full Brawn tree (so you could taunt and refill your health completely while Gunzerking) would have a good chance of beating him solo.
jaundicejuice
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TVHM.
Do not waste time farming anything in playthrough 1. Save boss and item farming for 2.5.
Are you on PC? Gunzerker seems to be the best class to do this stuff, with Maya a good support and Zer0/Axton not providing a ton in terms of survivability or support
Weird man, I haven't had any issues like that. Mind you I don't run the PhysX stuff as I find it pretty annoying, but falling through stuff or walls I haven't seen.
Harbinger of War
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Yep, on PC (Steam ID). Unfortunately I don't think I can fight him again for the rest of the day (is that how it works with the new raid bosses?). Health regen and a Bee are probably the most important things if you want to beat Hyperius solo, IMO, so I'd think it would help to be a Gunzerker. Although I'm sure the other classes have builds well suited for taking him on solo as well.
Woo-Fu
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It was in the DLC released today and if I'm the unluckiest bastard I had the other 3 unluckiest bastards playing with me as well.
3 hours, 4 players, TVHM in the Booty DLC, no purples, no oranges, ~6-10 blues that weren't worth picking up off the ground.
Fought my first chubby enemy lol.
DLC is very short, but very entertaining. Raid bosses be cray yo.
DLC is very short, but very entertaining. Raid bosses be cray yo.
Added. Maybe you can take me through sometime :3
Finished the game yesterday wiht a lvl 35 Siren, and started right away a new game with Zer0.
I'm level 9, now, with Zer0, and I don't quite get the feel of his skill. How do you guys use it?
I feel like, whenever I start the decoy, I don't know where will my character actually be. I get a lot of damage in stealth because I try to approach the enemies and the hurt me many times.
Any tips you can share?
I'm level 9, now, with Zer0, and I don't quite get the feel of his skill. How do you guys use it?
I feel like, whenever I start the decoy, I don't know where will my character actually be. I get a lot of damage in stealth because I try to approach the enemies and the hurt me many times.
Any tips you can share?
Depends on how you want to use the skill.
I just use it as a distraction for the enemies, I throw it then run away for healing up. Or I throw it, and then dump grenades on it so they explode on the enemies that charge the decoy.
I'm not that great at using the character though, I just spammed my skill points into the Sniping tree.
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I tried for quite some time to beat the second one. Did not happen. Hah.
Also, with all the orange talk, I have had terrible drop rates as well. I only found one during an entire playthrough, and it also happened during the beginning of my campaign. That's a bit... ridiculous.
Krappadizzle
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Zer0 is my main. And I play him in the most sniper of ways. His power/ability isn't that good for a pure sniper class, BUT he can put out a crazy amount of single target DPS as a pure sniper class. His power has been essentially a pop and pick up someone who is down.
Harbinger of War
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Master Gee feels like the first "Invincible" raid boss that actually lives up to the name. So demoralizing to fight him for 10 minutes and only drain 25% of his health.
You know at the end
on top of that pyramid with all the chests? Man nothing but crap blue items 
I really do wish they'd fix the drop rates a bit. It's really fucking stupid. Especially because if an orange drops in a party of four... good luck. Thank you based god for item duping.You know at the endI only got 1 purple my entire playthrough :/on top of that pyramid with all the chests? Man nothing but crap blue items
I'm not finished with the DLC yet, but I've put about 5 hours in so far and still haven't
. There's some fantastic artwork and atmosphere, the new enemies are good fun to fight against (plus cool looking) and I'm liking the area as a whole. Characters and dialogue are all top notch, so they definitely kept up the same quality that was present throughout the campaign.
Overall, I'm happy with it and feel it's plenty long enough for only the first of 4 planned DLC packs.
What I will say is, much like my run through the regular campaign, I've had no luck with weapons. Nothing but greens and whites for the most part with some shitty blues spread here and there. I've had 1 orange in 49 hours of play >_>
finished putting together the compass
Overall, I'm happy with it and feel it's plenty long enough for only the first of 4 planned DLC packs.
What I will say is, much like my run through the regular campaign, I've had no luck with weapons. Nothing but greens and whites for the most part with some shitty blues spread here and there. I've had 1 orange in 49 hours of play >_>
Krappadizzle
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I'm playing right now with a buddy. On steam. He's in South Carolina and I'm in Hawaii. It's been pretty lag free so far.
Bee + Conference call. GG.
So I'm curious. Why is it that the version of bosses like Terra spawned for a 4 player party take about as long to kill solo as the version spawned for a 1 player party? Or, alternatively, why doesn't the 1-player version have 1/4 of the HP? Someone is probably going to say, well it is a RAID boss after all. Which would make sense, except even in games like Starcraft 2, half of the players have never played online.
Just some random thoughts as I'm sitting here trying to chip away at the health of Hyperius's Minions (with a Bee).
Just some random thoughts as I'm sitting here trying to chip away at the health of Hyperius's Minions (with a Bee).
Exactly. I just looked and saw I put 64 hours into the game before any DLC even came out and that's with one character doing all the side quests and now 1/3 of the way through TVHM. I usually do all the side quests just to make games last longer but that's no worry with this game. There's so much shit to do that you can be selective if you want or make it the only game you play for a few weeks and do everything.
NG+ is brilliant in this game and it's the first game I replayed immediately after finishing without stopping a few minutes in. I agree that DLC trends are annoying now, but this game actually gives you real SUBSTANTIAL DLC that lasts hours and hours more instead of small shit that adds up to a lot of money over time. We get real mini-expansions that are longer than a lot of other games' full SP campaigns for less than we would pay for MP maps in other games out there.
This game is the exception to the DLC hate in my eyes because the original product is loaded with content and then they add to it with DLC that gives us a whole new place to experience and more.
Anyone on PS3 want to duplicate these items to give to me?
Hypereides
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Really want to buy it now, but I gotta postpone it till next month. Lookin' good.
I hope Gearbox offers month than 4 DLC expansions this time. Give us at least 5 or 6.
Going by the season pass it'll be 4 'big' expansions and a few other smaller ones not included in the season pass. They could just offer more than that outside of the pass, though.
Hypereides
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The way I understood it was, like "at least 4 expansions". So I figured they would add a few more big expansions to that.
Even if they add more than 4, the Season pass is only for the 4 currently announced story DLC expansions.
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