Borderlands 3

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Started the Moxxi dlc last night. Enjoying it so far, good mix of enemies and the story is decent enough. Got one great new smg, can't remember the name but it's a maliwan shock/cryo laser smg. Absolutely shreds most enemies. Great to be back in the game anyway

Yester wrote: »

I'm having my first serious challenge of the game. Finding Killavolt tough to deal with.

found him hard on first playthrough, tough if you're under levelled. we put on a level or two more and he became easy. look at your gear, any shields that resist shock?

RopeDrink wrote: »

tied up some of the challenges after with the Mayhem mode but it was slow going, so it was either side-missions, or restart in TVHM (True Vault Hunter Mode)

You're probably already aware but if you do the side-missions in Mayhem modes you get end-game level XP for them. Otherwise it's minimal (at the level they were intended). On my 2nd character I left the majority of side missions until I'd finished the main story and then went back to do them on Mayhem, I hit lvl 50 before I'd done half of them (to be fair probably 7 or 8 levels were via boss farming aswell).

DirtyBollox wrote: »

Has there been a consensus on the best/most favoured character yet?

Played FL4K for the first run through there, and am thinking Moze for the second, never really played as the Siren in the other games, so probably wont this time either.

Fl4k was insanely overpowered at the start due to some of his skills, but I think they've largely been nerfed. Zane is still struggling behind the others.

Amara is the best all-rounder. She has great survival skills and can do massive damage, both melee and gun-based. I never played Siren in previous games either, but I went straight for her here and haven't regretted it a bit. Her action skills aren't the most inspired, but they can do proper damage (especially Phasegrasp which can link and share damage to nearby enemies).

I am loving the skill to summon Rakks....

I'm playing around with the skills calculator, so i'll see what i think with the other 3 before i make the decision.

Deleted User wrote: »

Moze has limited options for healing compared to the others and iron bear is useless still except for regenerating shields. There are builds that really do work for her but I don't find spamming nades and chucking tedior weapons fun.

My Moze is based around low-health+kills increasing damage, and using ancillary skills that trade health for shield strength + those that increase shield capacity and recharge rates. For gear I coupled that all with a high capacity shield (purple only, but has +25% and +80% for the additional perks so it's at 16K, with my build modifiers runs around 48K). Artefact is a Last Stand Deathless, reduce health to 1 while doubling shields and improving recharge, so all of my damage skills linked to lower health are maxed. The mod is Desperate Entrenched Blood-Letter, which besides some other nice perks (and an unfortunate hit to recharge) makes the shields 'heal', anything that would normally affect health instead applies to my shields. Top that off with a Power Siphon Transfusion Longbow grenade that heals 120% shields and 60% health (which due to my mod adds to shields instead again).
Basically it's a run'n'gun machine, no 'nade spam required. Between Drowning in Brass and Phalanx Doctrine the more I kill the more damage I do, and my shields are regularly getting boosted to 70-80K by the latter, which in turn can heal from any health source.
I know there may be more DPS effective builds but this is my favourite end-game as it suits my play style and does not limit me to certain weapon types while effectively mitigating the healing gap you mentioned she has versus some of the others.

Deleted User wrote: »

How are you dealing with shock damage Creed? It's the only reason I'm using the transformer still, there are definitely better options in purple shields or are your shields high enough you don't get wiped from shock right away? Think mine are up to 47k before phalanx, I only invested 1 in last I respecced for some reason, can't recall my thinking in not going higher, likely the com was adding points to it. Sounds like you went all in + the COM on it?

I have the build skill to fire while sprinting and my primary is a burst-fire cryo Hawken which is very easy to manage and keep accurate while running. Also I start shield recharge on crits (which again with the Hawken are easy enough to proc). The only time I'm in any real danger is the first few moments of a fight, or a Boss with few adds. I'm moving fast enough to dodge most fire, after 2-3 kills my shields and damage are moving towards insane so there are very few times that even shock heavy opponents are an issue. And when that does happen, it's time for Mr. Nibbles (my Iron bear , similar to Ropedrink I run corrosive rail and also the explosive main and it's been buffed enough recently to be pretty decent). In about 40 hours or so end game with this build I'd say I've died from combat maybe 2-3 times, FFL probably twice that and in nearly every case it was just because I wasn't watching what I was doing not insurmountable force.

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murphyebass wrote: »

Is there any reason to have multiple characters other than nice to have, use their abilities etc?

Not really it's not like Destiny (early days) when you really needed a solar Warlock in the Raid or a Titan for his bubble. I made 4 but really only played two, Amara which is in my opinion the most fun and Fl4k

murphyebass wrote: »

Thanks Gimli. I’m running Amara and enjoying her so I’ll give the others a kiss for now so and just focus on the end game stuff instead.

The thing about Amara (and the other characters, I think) is you can make her a totally different character through the skill tree. I respecced a lot but settled really on the phase-grasp Green , Red trees.

It took me while but I finally came around to putting 5 in sustainment? it's the last Red one on the left (recover health through elemental damage) and the cap skill which gives you an extra 18% gun damage. It's really good for keeping you alive. There's a lot of good stuff on the green. I go down to the one that gets you up if you die, you really only need it rarely but I'm so used to it now I'm too careless to drop it.

Yester wrote: »

Damn the Troy Boss fight is hard.

It was tough and them my mate said after we beat it you know you can jump off the platform.

????????????

You couldn't have told me that earlier?

that would make it a lot harder

if you're under levelled it may just need you to level up a couple of times he is a pain though

Yeah same. Killavolt, this guy and the last boss were all spikes in difficulty for us. Level 40 should be ok but it would be easier of course if you were higher. He just does so much damage with his melee and stupid purple orbs.

my problem was probably I hadn't settled on a build, I was constantly respeccing and some of them were rather bad

Yester wrote: »

Finally got him. It was nearly worth it for the "to be continued" moment.

Not going to lie, i almost gave up at that point! I was disgusted and so angry that they had cut the story short! :mad:

Which was exactly what they were aiming for! bastards :pac: