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Borderlands 2 |OT2| You missed the Conference Call, next time don't Bee late.
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Jealous
Yeah, but then I miss out on the TF2 items unless I buy it twice!
Last Baron
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Still not here in NA 9:30am EDT
Jezbollah
Member
Yep, it's a 5mb update.
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Played a bit today, felt good at Level 50, but slag felt near essential with an average loadout... Just over halfway to Level 51 (mainly from a couple sidequests, I think) and about to fight Flynt. Some Level 51 items dropped, didn't bother with them.
One thing I've always been unclear about with slag weapons.
If I slag an enemy and then say switch to a corrosive weapon do I still get the slag bonus or does corrosive overwrite it?
Problem is most of my high damage weapons are elemental and I wasn't sure if you retain the slag bonus.
If I slag an enemy and then say switch to a corrosive weapon do I still get the slag bonus or does corrosive overwrite it?
Problem is most of my high damage weapons are elemental and I wasn't sure if you retain the slag bonus.
Jezbollah
Member
I believe the Slag element increases whatever element's damage follows it.
Anyway, played with my Mechromancer to get to Sanctuary earlier, and with a friend, both with Sirens, to get from scratch to complete the beacon mission. Great fun.
Havent played much with the Slagga I have, but the two extra skill points after getting to 52, put into Phaselock cooldown plus the Unkempt Harold has been very effective.
Got a legendary Loguns Gun from Wilhelm, but sadly it was a level 49
Loving UTVHM. It's hard, requires a lot of teamwork but very satisfying.
Anyway, played with my Mechromancer to get to Sanctuary earlier, and with a friend, both with Sirens, to get from scratch to complete the beacon mission. Great fun.
Havent played much with the Slagga I have, but the two extra skill points after getting to 52, put into Phaselock cooldown plus the Unkempt Harold has been very effective.
Got a legendary Loguns Gun from Wilhelm, but sadly it was a level 49
Loving UTVHM. It's hard, requires a lot of teamwork but very satisfying.
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Got a legendary Loguns Gun from Wilhelm, but sadly it was a level 49
I feel like there be a minimum level of 50 on drops in UVHM so long as everyone is level 50. They seem to have very strong control of drops in ways I didn't anticipate, so I would be surprised if they couldn't hobble something together for that.
Has anyone been able to dl this on the PS3 yet? I have the season pass and the game menu has a ! mark next to extra content, but when I open it, it says it cant locate it and the season pass is the only icon available. I checked the PS store and the update isnt up for me either. Im on CST, if that makes any difference. Is the PS release waiting for a PS store update or is there something Im missing on how to DL it? I know the PS store sometimes gets updates a few days later than the 360 counterpart. Never mind, it is working as of 6:05 CST
This will be as soon as I get home, except I want a pearl lol, I wonder what the drop rates are compared to orange.
Probably real bad. I have hundreds of hours in BL1 and I only had 1 pearl.
Jezbollah
Member
I had to smile thinking about my UTVHM playthrough with my mate last night (two sirens)
For a long time, we had major problems seeing what was going on with all that elemental damage going on - he said it started slowing the frame rate down big time.
GOD DAMN YOU GEARBOX. I'm well and truely back in the saddle.
For a long time, we had major problems seeing what was going on with all that elemental damage going on - he said it started slowing the frame rate down big time.
GOD DAMN YOU GEARBOX. I'm well and truely back in the saddle.
Borderlands 2 wikia is pretty good. It has weapons, location, and what special effect is hidden in the red text.
TestMonkey
Member
UTVHM looks like it's gonna be tough for my Zer0. 57k on one of the bandits in the starting area and they're still standing. The bullymog fur mission was annoying too.
insmileoutblood
Member
Oh god, I'm addicted. Again.
The thoughts of Ruin and Thoughtlock, ME NERVES.
The thoughts of Ruin and Thoughtlock, ME NERVES.
Celcius
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After playing through it twice on pc and twice on ps3, I don't feel like doing another playthrough any time soon. Actually I wish there was just one playthrough and dlc + level raises instead of being forced to play through the game multiple times. I guess I'm done 'til BL3...
OK so there are > 2000 posts in this thread so I'm sure this is answered in here somewhere... but my search skills are lacking.
When starting a new character, I find I can create a new character and jump in via co-op and they gain levels quickly opening up different weapons and what not... but the ability to equip multiple weapons does not open up. I'm guessing this is story progression based (didn't pay too much attention on my first play through).
Does this mean I need to actually play through with each character to fully open up all their abilities?
EDIT: Just saw celcius' post after I posted this so I guess the answer is - yes, you have to play through multiple times... uggggg... I love playing this game, just don't have that kind of time.
When starting a new character, I find I can create a new character and jump in via co-op and they gain levels quickly opening up different weapons and what not... but the ability to equip multiple weapons does not open up. I'm guessing this is story progression based (didn't pay too much attention on my first play through).
Does this mean I need to actually play through with each character to fully open up all their abilities?
EDIT: Just saw celcius' post after I posted this so I guess the answer is - yes, you have to play through multiple times... uggggg... I love playing this game, just don't have that kind of time.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
I guess you can do what I'm doing. I never played through torque and hammerlock DLC, so I'm just using Ultimate vault hunter mode to go through those and the upcoming dlc.
But if you have already completed those, just wait for the next dlc to come out and do uvhm then. You can just warp to those points without actually doing the main quest line.
Yea fuck that bullymong quest, espec when there's ultimate badass ones in the packs.
Jezbollah
Member
Multiple playthoughs is what Borderlands is about - Kind of a similar way the theory works with Diablo.
xBigDanx, you unlock the weapons slots by, id say, a third of the way through. You get them as quest rewards. You dont need multiple playthroughs to get the main four slots unlocked, however you may need to do get through the second playthrough to get to the pearlescence SDUs (they were just introduced yesterday). You need eridium to unlock weapons and bank/backback SDUs.
I had no problems with Bad Hair Day as a mechromancer, deathclaw does all the work.
Last Baron
Member
I started playing UVHM with a friend and melee feels more useless than ever, even with my Rapier.
I've always found sniping useless and zero is pretty much crap all around unless you just take the middle tree and stay the hell away from sniping.
Yeah I know it's possible to have a melee build for zero, but it's still a gimmicky class that can't do shit against bosses.
5 Keys, last longer than normal, but says they will expire someday.
PC/Mac: K3WJT-BFBRW-S5RTT-TBBB3-9XWZ5
PS3: C3KTB-F6ZKB-KC5WJ-ZTKJ3-XC569
360: KBWTB-T6XSC-JJHBF-WXBJJ-WRWKF
http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1025/borderlands-2--ultimate-vault-hunters-wanted
PC/Mac: K3WJT-BFBRW-S5RTT-TBBB3-9XWZ5
PS3: C3KTB-F6ZKB-KC5WJ-ZTKJ3-XC569
360: KBWTB-T6XSC-JJHBF-WXBJJ-WRWKF
http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1025/borderlands-2--ultimate-vault-hunters-wanted
Jezbollah
Member
Dont know if you've seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjbsvqF7iTQ
The Law & Order combo is a core requirement of melee assassin. It's a hell of a lot of fun.
On TVHM in the Hammerlock DLC the seraph sniper rifle is amazing. The one with +600% critical damage. With slag, and stealth, I killed the Herle boss in a single critical, doing roughly 2 million damage.
But on UVHM.....I don't think it's possible to stay alive to get multiple perfect critical shots...
edit:
I've seen it and tested it as well, it is fun I must admit, but worthless against bosses, and in UVHM where slag is needed for everything.
Halcyon
Member
There are better assassin melee setups.
If you use a slag rapier with a 55k Terra shield and the correct spec you can destroy the bosses. If you use the kunei bosses get wrecked with the right melee technique.
At 61 it will only get more insane. My zero hit stuff for like 200 million occasionally at 50.
If you use a slag rapier with a 55k Terra shield and the correct spec you can destroy the bosses. If you use the kunei bosses get wrecked with the right melee technique.
At 61 it will only get more insane. My zero hit stuff for like 200 million occasionally at 50.
I've heard a few of the DLC's were disappointing this time around, so I'm probably just gonna cherry pick one or two DLC's and get the level cap increase.
There's a lot of bosses that you can't even hit. Like Terra, Vermi, or The Warrior.
edit: and 200 million would be a 200000K in a single hit, don't you mean 2000K?
Halcyon
Member
No it was a retarded number. The stars have to align and the enemy has to basically already be dead.
You slag/mark kunei get a lucky counter/water proc hitting something crit from behind on low health at the very last moment of deception with the right setup and the damage is retarded.
Its always overkill but can be applied to boss battles with some effectiveness.
You always had to be specced either for boss or for trash mobs. At 61 you can do both which is awesome.
Law/order combo is like melee assassin lite. Using the slag rubi and rapier combo is the highest damage output while still maintaining survivability.
The only problem with melee assassin is that its best played solo. Online usually the lag will screw with the hit detection and timing making it less than ideal.
AlimNassor
Banned
UVHM is kicking my ass.
Halcyon
Member
As axton it hasn't been too bad.
My slag turret wrecks stuff. The sham is really useful and I've found my dp unkempt Harold is fairly powerful still.
Bee+sand hawk is also still pretty strong.
You may as well just get the season pass at that point. 2 DLC's and the cap increase will run you $25. The season pass is only $5 more.
Holy crap. Are you saying the slag rapier gives the slag effect on melee? What it looks like he's doing is slagging with the grenades, death mark with kunai, getting the roid damage then meleeing the crit spot? That is insane.
What are you playing as and what are you using? I'm having no problems whatsoever with a mechro.
I'm mostly using plasma casters, no CC, only a purple shield.
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