Borderlands 3

gimli2112 · 14-10-2019 2:47pm

Penn wrote: »

Yeah picked up a dictator too. Haven't used it in battle, only testing.

One gun that's really surprised me is the Hellwalker shotgun. Some kick to it, sends lads flying. Very quick reload and a magazine size buff gives me 3 shots instead of 2, so can do some very quick and high damage with it.

they're nerfing it along with the Lyuda next patch apparently.

Penn · 14-10-2019 2:49pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

they're nerfing it along with the Lyuda next patch apparently.

Damn. Back to the Conference Call I guess :pac:

Jordan 199 · 14-10-2019 3:02pm

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I didn't think he was that bad certainly didn't take me 20 mins to kill him.

In my defence I should have used higher level weapons that would have made the task easier and quicker. I have a habit of not getting better guns when I level up only to pay the price down the line.

Penn · 14-10-2019 5:06pm

https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2019-10-14-borderlands-3-show-me-the-eridium/?email_address=&timestamp=1571068896&user_id=128172483&username=3f2fff60754b8758a545662783f59152f7f8abf37aff75977a5e2d3b54559f46&verified=1&sig=d2503bae98c947441146e9e441cacc51

Next Week's event is just increased Eridium drops from enemies and discounted Eridium gear (and Moxxi's eridium slot machine cheaper too).

I have over 4k Eridium and nothing really interesting to spend it on as the anointed gear is mostly redundant compared to most legendaries (and anointed legendaries) and I bought any cosmetics I want.

Hopefully with later DLC they come up with new things to spend eridium on. I was going to suggest further SDUs but even then I also have about 40m cash so could probably easily afford any of those for cash either.

The week after seems to be mostly some special Twitch-related event, so I doubt I'll get anything of value out of that week either.

14-10-2019 5:57pm

Yeah I've over 11k already, and unless they gave Earl legendary anointed inventory theres nothing to for me to really spend it on.

wotzgoingon · 14-10-2019 7:23pm

The best looking levels are in the jungles of eden 6 imo.

14-10-2019 10:56pm

Decided to run my level 50 alt Zane thats never played the game only carries my nades to level an Amara on my main account and breeze through the story.

In an hour it really hammered home how utterly useless Moze's action skill is end game and as a result anointed gear for her.

The reason I'm levelling a new character in the first place. Just think she's very poorly thought out and how she made it into the game with some of the problems she has is a mystery like not being able to deploy Iron Bear in tight spaces ???? That had to have come up on the first day of testing. Not sure how they can fix this, give IB her guns????? IB definitely needs to be less squishy end game for a start.

gimli2112 · 15-10-2019 6:00am

big problem with Moze imo is if you can't use her action skill in end game it takes away the fun. it's also a big part of what makes Amara and Flack so powerful

sticker · 15-10-2019 8:09am

Possibly silly question... if I farm the loot Tinks is the quality of loot different to Graveward?

Penn · 15-10-2019 9:15am

sticker wrote: »

Possibly silly question... if I farm the loot Tinks is the quality of loot different to Graveward?

Should be mostly the same. Graveward has a few specific drops unique to him, but the rest should be fairly comparable and the same increased chance to drop legendaries from the pool of random loot drops.

gimli2112 · 15-10-2019 9:16am

I'm not sure how to farm loot tinks.I was just killing them and looting their backpack but yesterday noticed they were running about dropping legendries before I killed them. I don't think the quality is different but they likely have a different loot pool.

All I want for Christmas is a phasezerker mod with +31% SMG and +25% gun damage

15-10-2019 9:26am

I tried for a god roll on the coms during the event, probably more than I should have and the best I got was +18% crit and 31% sniper great for graveward but a different weapon would have been more usable, generic weapon damage the best .

Penn · 15-10-2019 9:28am

gimli2112 wrote: »

I'm not sure how to farm loot tinks.I was just killing them and looting their backpack but yesterday noticed they were running about dropping legendries before I killed them. I don't think the quality is different but they likely have a different loot pool.

All I want for Christmas is a phasezerker mod with +31% SMG and +25% gun damage

Most of the Phasezerkers I get are 10% (manufacturer) damage and charge rate time or whatever. Do have one with 25% Action Skill Cooldown though.

gimli2112 · 15-10-2019 9:31am

Penn wrote: »

Most of the Phasezerkers I get are 10% (manufacturer) damage and charge rate time or whatever. Do have one with 25% Action Skill Cooldown though.

The one I have at the moment has 31% AR damage, 25% Gun Damage and Action Skill cooldown. It's awesome but the SMG one is the one I crave

Penn · 15-10-2019 9:37am

Farmed Dinklebot a bunch last night (on Normal mode without Mayhem, so thanks for that tip, definitely made it a lot quicker and easier). Out of about 15 loot-o-grams though, 14 whites, and one legendary anointed gunner shotgun (not a great one though).

Might do it for another while, but I think I might be better off spending the time with Graveward instead in the hopes of getting the Lucian's Call.

gimli2112 · 15-10-2019 10:23am

What's your PSN and what Lucian's Cal do you want. If I have it I'll mail it to you.

Penn · 15-10-2019 11:12am

gimli2112 wrote: »

What's your PSN and what Lucian's Cal do you want. If I have it I'll mail it to you.

harleybill. I'll take whatever one you have going spare mate, not fussy. Cheers. Happy to return the favour if I find a good Phasezerker mod for you

wotzgoingon · 15-10-2019 10:30pm

What's with the long Claptrap loading screen at the beginning anyone know?

Cookie_Monster · 16-10-2019 4:48am

Page 69, lol

Game appropriate humour...

gimli2112 · 16-10-2019 6:06am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What's with the long Claptrap loading screen at the beginning anyone know?

menus were very slow yesterday

woke up early and matchmade into slaughterstar 3000, online glitch must have activated as xp was big, both died wave 2, one left. The other chap gamely threw grenades from the walkway in support. Round 2 he died in wave 1.
Round 3 I revived him about 6-7 times and he survived. He went down again early in Round 4, got him up a couple of times and then I died trying to get him up but Guardian Angel proccd. Round 5 I more or less solod.

They sure made it look difficult

Penn · 16-10-2019 8:14am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What's with the long Claptrap loading screen at the beginning anyone know?

I've never understood when developers put stuff like that into loading screens. Surely it just makes the loading take slightly longer because it's also playing that animation?

Anyway, internet is down at home for a few days so just did a quick bit of boss farming last night with Graveward and Tyreen. Didn't get anything useful though.

TitianGerm · 16-10-2019 8:45am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiRVYkAelPk

Glitch to get loads of legendary gears if your a Flak main.

gimli2112 · 16-10-2019 9:02am

you can do that with Amara too

slaughtershaft has become a real pain, at the entrance there's an enemy that spawns just above the dump truck but he doesn't jump out and you can't kill him. It's frustrated me maybe 5 our of the last 10 runs it's super annoying.

Penn, I sent you some guns and stuff yesterday if you're internet's down they're stuck in cyberspace. I hope I sent them to you otherwise some dude is getting a really weird message from gimli2112

Penn · 16-10-2019 9:06am

gimli2112 wrote: »

Penn, I sent you some guns and stuff yesterday if you're internet's down they're stuck in cyberspace. I hope I sent them to you otherwise some dude is getting a really weird message from gimli2112

Got and accepted your friend request through the app anyway. Might have a temporary fix to get online tonight so will check then. Cheers again, lad!

16-10-2019 9:40am

TitianGerm wrote: »

Glitch to get loads of legendary gears if your a Flak main.

No good to me but offline this spot between the Jakobs chest, hekler and the tink I 've an anointed transformer and some other nice bits.

What I'm curious about is if you shoot the backpack while the tink is still alive and it drops a legendary does that take away from what he might drop when he's dead???? ie kill it fast or shoot the backback

Penn · 16-10-2019 10:01am

Deleted User wrote: »

No good to me but offline this spot between the Jakobs chest, hekler and the tink I 've an anointed transformer and some other nice bits.

What I'm curious about is if you shoot the backpack while the tink is still alive and it drops a legendary does that take away from what he might drop when he's dead???? ie kill it fast or shoot the backback

I don't think so. I think it's the same odds for every item drop regardless.

Might try the Amara method tonight, see what I get from it for a while (since I might have to play offline anyway).

16-10-2019 10:29am

Just a FYI if you are running that spot, not sure if the video mentions it or not. She seemed to be going to the same spot and quitting out, the tink can spawn there like she shows but it can also be one of the two that spawns with Heckle and it can also be one that spawns on the ledge above those.

I had one spawn with Heckle and didn't spot a second one on the ledge until it was too late and he got away.

Cookie_Monster · 16-10-2019 10:55am

amara infinite farm

gimli2112 · 17-10-2019 8:09pm

today's patch has murdered some of my favourite stuff
cutsman -25% damage
hex grenades -70% damage and duration reduced to 3 seconds
lyuda - -30% crit damage
flakker - -33% damage and full magazine gone on a trigger pull
crossroads - accuarcy reduced and fires 3 projectiles now not 4
Elemental projector - damage reduced to 90%

yeah whatever, nerfs annoy me so much

17-10-2019 10:06pm

Another reason to stay offline for a while longer. Really though that nerf to the Lyuda will be minimal to me between my com that has 18% crit and 31% sniper damage and guardian ranks all above 10%

They increased the damage on the conference call but nerfed the butcher booooo.

Iron bear got a 50% health boost yay but still not gonna make me use him. Moze is at a serious disadvantage for anointed perks compared to the others and I think going forward I'm going to have to say good bye to her. Like Zane as some really cool anointed perks simply for swapping places with his digi clone.

"Shield Boosters were modified and are now set for autopickup" that has possibilities

Full list of changes here : https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2019-10-17-borderlands-3-hotfixes-oct-17/

gimli2112 · 18-10-2019 6:04am

played a little earlier and the nerfs to the hex and cutsman didn't seem to make much difference, my mate and I were saying just yesterday there's no challenge anymore and I kind of understand why they've done this but my default position is "boo nerfs".
that the stash space hasn't been looked at in addition to gun balance is nigh on unforgiveable
also slaughtershaft seems constantly bugged now or maybe I'm just unlucky, enemy failed to spawn in a different location yesterday

Penn · 18-10-2019 8:09am

I think some of the changes are fair enough, but some are just changes for the sake of change, simply because "This gun is better in more situations and suit more playstyles than others", and those are changes I dislike.

If something's not working the way it was intended, fair enough. If something's ridiculously overpowered, fair enough. But if something's just reasonably better than most other guns, it's just a better gun, and when you have bazillions of guns, some are going to be better. Nerfs like that annoy me.

Also, they shouldn't have split the Crossroads into 3 projectiles instead of 4. It's a Crossroads, not a T-Junction.

gimli2112 · 18-10-2019 8:25am

it's the way these games like this go now, the devs have all the data and they see a certain gun/perk/loadout is being used far more than others so they nerf it into the ground. In my opinion it shows a total lack of understanding of the mentality of people who play their game. I could sum it up with [EMAIL="DON@T NERF MY FMN STUFF!!!!"]DON'T NERF MY FN STUFF!!!![/EMAIL]

no-one cares if they fiddle with something they're not using but if you've farmed or been lucky enough to get a god roll cutsman and they knock 25% damage off it, well that's me staring at the ceiling at 3am

Penn · 20-10-2019 9:42am

Was getting kind of bored, so checked the trophy list and wasn't too far off so cleaned up the last of them last night for the platinum. Surprised all the crew challenges weren't required, was sure I'd have to get all the claptraps and typhon logs which probably would have put me off. Bad enough doing the last few eridian logs. Also had to go online and do a duel and revive other players but wasn't too bad.

Half tempted to start a new character but I still think Amara was the right character to go with for me and with DLC coming I'd prefer to stick with her. Just don't know if I can be hugely bothered playing as much in the next few weeks.

20-10-2019 10:06am

I've stopped playing, you get to a point farming gear when you realise that it's for nothing. I've a bank and 6 mules full and to do what? To hold on to incase something gets a buff and becomes good or to throw out once the cap gets raised?

Penn · 20-10-2019 12:40pm

Yeah it's why I haven't even bothered with mules or anything. The legendaries are so plentiful and there'll likely be a level cap raise coming, so just no point.

I jumped back into BL2 during the summer, and remember farming The Warrior and some other bosses repeatedly. Most of the time they wouldn't even drop a legendary.

Now you can farm Graveward on Mayhem 3 and get about 3 legendaries each time.

Jordan 199 · 20-10-2019 1:21pm

What the hell is a mule?

EoinMcLovin · 20-10-2019 2:04pm

Jordan 199 wrote: »

What the hell is a mule?

Basically it's a character created to be used as just an extra bank for your main character

EoinMcLovin · 21-10-2019 7:28pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHVMDUnudc

gimli2112 · 21-10-2019 8:15pm

trinkets, you discover them, think they are so fn cool and then never think of them again

wotzgoingon · 21-10-2019 8:18pm

gimli2112 wrote: »

trinkets, you discover them, think they are so fn cool and then never think of them again

They annoyed me so real bad. So much I had to take them off my guns.

wotzgoingon · 22-10-2019 4:36pm

So it seems I have to wait until Borderlands 4 to finish the story or so I thought. Ah no seriously I knew it was a countdown. Nice little trick but that guy was pretty difficult. As Fl4k my pet was useless kept dying in a few seconds once he came back to life.

Penn · 22-10-2019 5:11pm

https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2019-10-22-borderlands-3-mayhem-on-twitch/?email_address=&timestamp=1571760404&user_id=128172483&username=3f2fff60754b8758a545662783f59152f7f8abf37aff75977a5e2d3b54559f46&verified=1&sig=e598aba7dcacdfe9e798345b33d06f25

New Week of Content starts today, called Mayhem on Twitch

However, it's not exclusive to anything on Twitch, it's in fact two separate things, one related to Mayhem Mode, one for Twitch streams.

For the Mayhem Mode content, the changes (so long as any Mayhem Mode is active) are:
- Increased drop chance for Anointed Gear
- Increased XP gains
- Reduced values for various Mayhem Mode penalty modifiers

22-10-2019 9:57pm

Couldn't resist checking it out , Graveward has dropped 3 anointed Rowans calls so far.

Canis Lupus · 24-10-2019 11:25am

Just went to finally try the DLC in BL2 that was the prequel to this and they're now charging $22 aud for it.

Talk about a kick in the nuts. Doesn't really make me want to buy 3 now gearbox.

Penn · 24-10-2019 11:34am

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Just went to finally try the DLC in BL2 that was the prequel to this and they're now charging $22 aud for it.

Talk about a kick in the nuts. Doesn't really make me want to buy 3 now gearbox.

In fairness, it was free for about a month or so when it was released, and there is a fair bit of new content in it.

$22AUD is about €13.50 here. So might be a little on the higher side price-wise (not sure how that translates to other such DLC in terms of AUD pricing) but I would have been happy paying €10 for it anyway.

That said, you don't really need to have played the DLC as a precursor to BL3. The story links aren't all that important and there's a decent time jump between the two so it doesn't directly lead into BL3 either. You wouldn't miss anything important by skipping it, bar

Sanctuary gets destroyed

24-10-2019 12:11pm

6.8gb update today.

Penn · 24-10-2019 3:13pm

The update is mainly to do with the Bloody Harvest event, but general patch notes and what they're working on for future updates
https://borderlands.com/en-US/news/2019-10-24-borderlands-3-patch-hotfixes-roadmap-oct-24/

Biggest points to note, most of which coming with the Maliwan Takedown DLC:
Bank size will be at least doubled
Dedicated Loot Pools for bosses
New Mayhem Level 4, with new legendaries that will only drop in Mayhem 4
New Mayhem modifiers in general
New vending machines in some maps
Skippable cutscenes
Training Dummy on Sanctuary for testing weapons

Reports on Reddit say the UI seems a lot quicker and more stable now too, and you can choose Mayhem modes on TVHM without having to finish TVHM (this was available on PC, but not console).

Happy with all the above anyway, seems promising.

24-10-2019 7:50pm

Seems interesting enough some of the challenges are a big grindy. I had to quit out and check I was on TVHM there as I was mincing stuff even on M3.

Someone on my friends list sent me a Westergun and it's unreal in cryo mode even on armor.

wotzgoingon · 24-10-2019 8:32pm

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Just went to finally try the DLC in BL2 that was the prequel to this and they're now charging $22 aud for it.

Talk about a kick in the nuts. Doesn't really make me want to buy 3 now gearbox.

I played it for free on PC and then started a new playthrough of 2 and all DLC on Xbox and got to the Commander Lilith and fight for Sanctuary and just paid for it as I wanted the achievements.

I know you see the price and think damn but you would spend that much on stupid things anyway but at least you get some enjoyment from the DLC, that's the way I look at it when buying games.

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