Springbok
Karen
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Lol the kickballer is my favorite gun but I die constantly as I'm too dumb to figure out how to use it right. It does great deeps though
Borderlands 4
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I think that's the problem with Kickballer. Even with immunity items it just blasts for such a huge area there's no real escaping outside of luck.
Xevy
Log Wizard
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So I've been shield/cryo spec the entire time. I've discovered a couple of things:
-Shield overshield notable is really good
-Elemental status on enemy has 30%(+) chance to refill gun magazine is NUTS because it's FREE ammo and with a large magazine you're never refilling especially on big bosses.
--Combine that with Ordinance specialties and get either a 6-8 mag rocket launcher or a beam rifle (30ish mag) and get the cryo DOT from ordinance. You've got INFINITE heavy ammo. I just run around beam rifling everything nonstop and it splashes everywhere and constantly refills while keeping me overshield. If for some reason I'm getting overwhelmed I just turn on my shield (which blocks ALL frontal damage as far as I can tell, OP as fuck) and I have the AoE cryo on which CONSTANTLY applies cryo to everything in your area which also constantly reloads your magazines.
Basically I think he's best from what I know so far as a heavy weapon, not grenades, specialist. Basically get a big mag heavy weapon (no orb guns, small gatlings, small rocket launchers) and make sure to get an ELEMENTAL one and just infinitely blast.
If you fuck up and run out of heavy guns any high dps high magazine elemental weapon will do you good. I mostly just spam the Richocet Rocket AR from the triplets in flying drones fight.
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Shmoopy
Avatar of War Slayer
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Springbok
Karen
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After dozens of kills finally got the one shot shotgun to drop and got the exotic rafa mod, though it rolled AR dmg. FFS. Build online into vh5 now, will probably go harlowe next. I like that once you beat it once you can roll another toon at lvl 30 with all story shit done.
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DirkDonkeyroot
Blackwing Lair Raider
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That shotty drops from the bunker boss north of the bones of sanctuary fast travel right?
Springbok
Karen
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Yup, that son of a bitch took me the better part of half a day to drop it too. It's funny, I've got bis mods/shields/ordinance and weapons for Harlowe and Vex and haven't played either. Playing Rafa and none of his shit is dropping. RNG
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Xevy
Log Wizard
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Game was fun, but it'd really, really benefit from a never ending gauntlet/infinite scaling type of arena. Something akin to Diablo 3's Greater Rifts or PoE's mapping system. I just wanna go in and blast enemies until they eventually blast me. I don't think they have a proper wall of difficulty yet for most people once they're 50/50 and decently geared.
They do say they have "invincible bosses" coming, that's supposed to be either Q4 2025 or Q1 2026 according to their website.
I'd be willing to play other characters and specs, but with most of the "end game" being MSQ missions there's so much fucking talking and waiting outside of the cutscenes you can skip that it's pretty unbearable to spam. Especially when combat becomes a slight speedbump and 75% of the waiting game is for dialogue and NPC pathing.
They do say they have "invincible bosses" coming, that's supposed to be either Q4 2025 or Q1 2026 according to their website.
I'd be willing to play other characters and specs, but with most of the "end game" being MSQ missions there's so much fucking talking and waiting outside of the cutscenes you can skip that it's pretty unbearable to spam. Especially when combat becomes a slight speedbump and 75% of the waiting game is for dialogue and NPC pathing.
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DirkDonkeyroot
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Need to turn that tower that we levitate up in the final mission into a end game dungeon, kinda like what division 2 does with their tower climb. And dune dinner scaling boss rushes with random abilities and resists. They could also stuff the open world with mini names (warlords) in all the little npc towns and bunkers that are all over and pretty much unused.
Anyone know where the black market vendor is this week?
Anyone know where the black market vendor is this week?
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Needs a POE style end game with random modifiers and the harder they are the more shit you get. Kind of like a slot machine for missions, etc... Also the mission replay thing can be easily fixed if they allow you to skip all that dialogue nonsense once you have done the mission before or some shit.
Maybe a gauntlet style mission, where they zap you somewhere and you have to clear the place and do the boss at end. Not necessarily a "story" mission replay.
Raids and shit would be cool too but im not sure how they would balance this shit to be hard, other than hard mechanics which dont necessarily fit this game.
But if they want this game to become a live service game like Destiny or the others, then they need to def add some type of end game loop other than killing boss x for a chance at a drop over and over.
Maybe a gauntlet style mission, where they zap you somewhere and you have to clear the place and do the boss at end. Not necessarily a "story" mission replay.
Raids and shit would be cool too but im not sure how they would balance this shit to be hard, other than hard mechanics which dont necessarily fit this game.
But if they want this game to become a live service game like Destiny or the others, then they need to def add some type of end game loop other than killing boss x for a chance at a drop over and over.
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Gator
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I've been enjoying this more than expected. I missed some good Borderlands action. Luckily, I haven't had the issues some have had on their PC's. I just wish I had more time to play. Not trying anything OP as of yet but lvl 18 Vex with the cat still in what I would assume is the first area.
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Zindan
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Finally got around to finishing the Story today, could have done so a lot sooner, but I got mired into exploring and killing bosses every few levels to get better weapons, ended at 47 with 9 spec points. If you remove Handsome Jack, then this is by far their best BL game. The Timekeeper here was a bit tame, I think someone said they played it safe with him, and I agree. There isn't a single issue I've seen brought up here which has had a negative impact on my enjoyment with the game. I was a bit disappointed with the Callis and Victor fights though, they were both subpar compared to Sol (imo), by the time I got to Timekeeper I had the right weapons to just smoke him.
I still need to fully open up Carcadia and the Mountains to look for other "faction" missions. There is also some side mission where you look for a legendary vending machine (not Maurice), that you can screw yourself out of a leggo if you do something out of order.
I still need to fully open up Carcadia and the Mountains to look for other "faction" missions. There is also some side mission where you look for a legendary vending machine (not Maurice), that you can screw yourself out of a leggo if you do something out of order.
Valorath
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Been playing the Gravitar with my brother and buddy. We're having lots of fun, all of us around level 40 with a bit of story left to go. I have been playing the "support-ish" build with the little droids that follow and buff allies. Was planning to change spec and try something a bit more engaging, and then today I got a legendary class mod that recharges your class ability on status effect hit. This thing sealed the deal, and now I'm doing the build that sends the big exploding orb and it's absolutely bonkers. Send big orb, explode big orb, and then in one magazine of ammo I can recharge the ability and send it again.
Haven't used it on groups of mobs yet, we were farming for my brother's Siren class mod when this one dropped, so I've only used it on that boss so far, but it halved our kill times when I switched.
Love this game with all the neat legendary weapons and weapon stat interactions. Been on the lookout for that Maliwan shotgun with the energy disc and jakobs parts, no luck yet.
Haven't used it on groups of mobs yet, we were farming for my brother's Siren class mod when this one dropped, so I've only used it on that boss so far, but it halved our kill times when I switched.
Love this game with all the neat legendary weapons and weapon stat interactions. Been on the lookout for that Maliwan shotgun with the energy disc and jakobs parts, no luck yet.
DirkDonkeyroot
Blackwing Lair Raider
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I've been playing with Hot Slugger and a bunch of +accuracy mods. I can out shoot a sniper rifle with this thing. I wonder if you add a bunch of +splash it would help since it's less of a shotgun and more of a single shot grenade launcher.