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 Aldarionn wrote:
Well if you played on a REAL console instead of that wussy PS3 I'd GIVE you a level 50 Conference Call

Are you on ps3 pretre? Or was that to me, as I am?

I have a 50cc now. . .if it was for pretre I could get you one too.

I'm on ps3.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Aldarionn wrote:
Well if you played on a REAL console instead of that wussy PS3 I'd GIVE you a level 50 Conference Call

I'll take it!

I can currently offer a level 50 soldier mod from terramorphous for it. Duped, on both our ends, of course.

I don't need a level 50 soldier mod but if you hit me up while I'm online I'll dupe you a level 50 CC.

 Aldarionn wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Aldarionn wrote:
Well if you played on a REAL console instead of that wussy PS3 I'd GIVE you a level 50 Conference Call

I'll take it!

I can currently offer a level 50 soldier mod from terramorphous for it. Duped, on both our ends, of course.

I don't need a level 50 soldier mod but if you hit me up while I'm online I'll dupe you a level 50 CC.

Great, thanks man. I'll be online tomorrow night, probably from about 8-midnight, eastern time. I'm at work on the road til at least 4 tomorrow. Can you send me an add on Xbox? Same screen name as here-timetowaste85. Thanks again! Hopefully I'll see you online tomorrow.

And if I find any level 50s you're looking for, I'll send you a pm to get them to you.

I won't be able to get on tonight, but I can on Tuesday after 6pm Pacific, or any time Wednesday or Thursday. Just let me know. If you get online before me, send me an add.

My Gamertag is AldarionnEB

The list of things I'm looking for should be a couple pages back, so if you find anything on it I'm definitely interested!

Sounds good. One of my buddies and I are playing most of the night tomorrow, I'll just be running a lower level with him, cuz he hasn't even beaten regular yet! Forgot I was watching walking dead at a friend's tonight for an hour anyway, so tomorrow night will be great. I'll add you as soon as I get home.

Cool cool. I'll very likely be online tomorrow evening at some point so that works.

Trying to find your post of what you need, but I did manage to obtain two level 42 Maggies from Mick, if you don't mind a lower level one until you find a higher level. One is a two-fer. Other is a trick shot. Personally, I prefer the Loaded Maggie, myself. Oh, and friend request on xbox has been sent. Anybody else who wants to join me for Borderlands 2, just send me a friend add as well: same SN as on here. Soldier is 48 right now, but I have low level characters as well, for run throughs with lower level friends.

My haves/wants post is on page 17.

 Aldarionn wrote:
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I'm on PC, sadly, so can't get much in the way of help.

I managed to drag my way through, using what appeared to be a targeting bug to take down Saturn (kiting him around the hut with the red crate on top that gives you the achievement for opening it; he never actually fired a shot except to take down my turret).

For shields, I've been unlucky in drops altogether really, which is the same story for me in most games where loot drops. I started out Axton getting the Bonus Package with my first kill of Boom Bewm, and Infinity with my first kill of Doc Mercy, but since then I've just had terrible, terrible luck with drops; the only other legendary I've got is a Stoic Emperor, but that gun is so... Weird. The burst fire of 7 rounds is complete overkill, and often ends in half or more of them missing, and firing without sights just ends up spraying the bullets everywhere with a sub-par fire rate for an SMG. Its stats are great, but it doesn't feel right.

But I digress, the only shields I've come across have been regular ones, a butt-load of turtle ones, Maylays, spikes, the occasional Nova that's far too underpowered, and one or two Adaptives and Absorbations, exactly 3 Boosters, and a few useless Amplifies. I don't feel like doing rings of Sanctuary for hours, quitting and restarting if the med vendors don't have anything decent, so I tend to just roll with what I have.

Vendor shields aren't really that good normally. If you don't have a good rare, then hit up quests and drops. Also, Sanc lags behind other areas a lot of the time for level of gear. I find that heading to the highest level area you have found and checking their machines is generally better than relying on Sanc.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

I'm on PC, sadly, so can't get much in the way of help.

I managed to drag my way through, using what appeared to be a targeting bug to take down Saturn (kiting him around the hut with the red crate on top that gives you the achievement for opening it; he never actually fired a shot except to take down my turret).

That's roughly how you are supposed to kill him if you are flying solo. His shots will down you in one hit and there's nothing around to give you a second wind, so you cannot kill him unless you do it without taking a hit. You put cover between you and him, and duck out of the way when he fires missiles. Use your turret for a distraction and possibly to slag him if you are level 31 and going down the Guerrilla tree.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
For shields, I've been unlucky in drops altogether really, which is the same story for me in most games where loot drops. I started out Axton getting the Bonus Package with my first kill of Boom Bewm, and Infinity with my first kill of Doc Mercy, but since then I've just had terrible, terrible luck with drops; the only other legendary I've got is a Stoic Emperor, but that gun is so... Weird. The burst fire of 7 rounds is complete overkill, and often ends in half or more of them missing, and firing without sights just ends up spraying the bullets everywhere with a sub-par fire rate for an SMG. Its stats are great, but it doesn't feel right.

Most legendary weapons are complete overkill if you get them in playthrough 1, and you will use them until you get into playthrough 2 or get another legendary. At level 50 I think that weapon would make a lot more sense, since things will have enough HP to survive the burst. SMG's also tend to be better when used against large targets, especially Hyperion SMG's who have terrible initial accuracy.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
But I digress, the only shields I've come across have been regular ones, a butt-load of turtle ones, Maylays, spikes, the occasional Nova that's far too underpowered, and one or two Adaptives and Absorbations, exactly 3 Boosters, and a few useless Amplifies. I don't feel like doing rings of Sanctuary for hours, quitting and restarting if the med vendors don't have anything decent, so I tend to just roll with what I have.

Until level 50 you don't need anything but a white shield. I buy all of my shields from vendors, since Doctor Zed machines are common in literally every zone. Just check the machines every time you go into a zone of near your level. Personally I prefer adaptive shields since they prevent some elemental damage, increase health, and usually have a high capacity with reasonable recharge rate and delay. I got lucky on my Axton, and at level 45 I found a purple adaptive shield in a machine that had 3k higher capacity than the best shield I had found yet, and only a 1.4 second recharge delay and fast recharge rate. I used that shield until 50 and almost felt bad vendoring it after I replaced it.

Vendor shields are plenty fine unless you find something better from a quest or a drop. Some notable shields you get from quests include the one you get from The Overlooked: Medicine Man quest (A Nova shield that fires upon depletion of shields AND health, meaning you almost always get a second wind if you go down near enemies), and the Flame of the Firehawk. Also, if you are playing the Guerrilla tree, and you take the talent that increases your gun damage when your shields are depleted, you can use the Roid shield that you get from killing Henry which has a MASSIVE recharge delay. You will basically never have your shield active but you will always have a huge boost to melee and gun damage.

All of these quests can be saved until level 50, and the Flame of the Firehawk is actually a legendary shield with a great capacity and nova damage.

I've run into a bug, and I wonder if anyone else has experienced anything like this before. Please bear with me, because it involves quite a bit of explanation.

When playing through the story missions on co-op, all of the missions are based on the host's progress, so if my friend logs in to his profile and we play split screen, and his character joins mine but I am ahead of him in the story, he can still play on my game and get quest credit. THEN, when he goes BACK to his game as the host, the game will have him continue where he left off on his own, but when he gets to a story mission he completed on my game, the game will prompt him with an option to skip the mission.

Keeping that in mind, I made a new character on my friends profile and did XP farming to get him to my characters level, then imported that character into my game on TVHM and just picked up where I left off (Just after rescuing Roland from the Bloodshots). I finished the game and both characters reached 50. But of course his character had not completed normal mode or the first few missions of TVHM. So I took his character through normal mode and just blazed through the story missions, and when I got to TVHM I completed all of the story missions up to rescuing Roland. The game then prompted me to skip missions I had already completed, but it didn't actually skip anything. It teleported me to Sanctuary, but the next objective didn't change (Meet Roland in Sanctuary). I tried it again on the next mission (A Train To Catch), with the same result. When I got the power core from Willhelm, I took it back to Sanctuary and handed in the quest to the guy at the shield generator, and it prompted me to jump ahead again. I selected Yes, but again it just teleported me to Sanctuary (where I already was) and the next objective was to install the power core.

Basically, my skip-ahead feature seems to be bugged, and won't actually let me skip anything. Has anyone run into this before? If so, did you fix it and how?

My best guess is that because I actually finished the game on TVHM it was trying to send me to the end of the game, but could not for some reason so it just teleported me to the zone where the next turn-in for my current mission was. A cursory search of Google turned up that there used to be a bug where people would skip past the end of the game but TVHM would not update to 2.5 and quests would not update to 50. Perhaps Gearbox could not fix this easily so they prevented people from skipping to the end of the game?

Whatever the problem, it's definitely annoying and defeats the purpose of having this feature.

Hmm. I have not heard of that one.

I did finally beat TVHM with my Zero and Axton. CC wasn't that great against Terra but I had a super fast reload purple SMG from tediore that just chewed him up. Now I'm getting my lv50 quest rewards. Got Law and Order as a test and that worked, so on to the rest.

I didn't even know there was an option to skip missions-I never saw it. I'll test it out later tonight with my roommate when he gets back from work and I'll let you know if we had the issue as well. Also, just picked up the Blood of Terramorphous-Aldarionn, I know it wasn't in your haves or wants, so if you want it or a better pitchfork, I've got both. Grinding up my Mecro at the moment, so I haven't gotten to the real farming yet in 2.5.

Yes, I definitely want both of those! The blood is something I have been after a while but I forgot to include it on my list.

Apparently, and this is rumor and speculation that I have not seen confirmed or denied anywhere, the Blood of Terramorphous has an effect that forces Varkids to evolve more quickly and improves the chances of spawning Vermivorous. Hence the red text "His blood inspires..."

Re: Blood of Terramorphous and faster evolving Varkids

I saw a couple of threads disproving that - and from my own tests it does not actually make them evolve more quickly, neither less time in the bulbs nor less time to go into one.

There is variation on them, but with or without the blood it was basically the same time for them.

Would not mind being wrong or finding out what it does anyway. . .I got one and was trying to figure it too.

We still have not spawned Vermi ever though, but there are just the two of us not 4, so the odds are still low.

Haven't seen anybody talk about the gunzerker guy, everyone seems to be the assassin. I've been playing him using the center tree (the one built around making him use his gunzerker skill all the time) and it's awesome.

Also, this game feels like everything the first borderlands should have been. At least everything isn't ALL BROWN ALL THE TIME like the first one was, at least until about halfway through. Plus, you actually see people more than once every few hours. My god that bugged me in the first one.

Also, found an orange shield that shoots electrical bombs out everytime you get hurt. Quite possibly one of the funniest things for a gunzerker to have. I think I knocked myself out with it just as many times as I killed an enemy

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Haven't seen anybody talk about the gunzerker guy, everyone seems to be the assassin. I've been playing him using the center tree (the one built around making him use his gunzerker skill all the time) and it's awesome.

I have literally no interest in the Gunzerker. He's the only character I have not made, and don't intend to get to level 50 unless I'm bored. Something about his style of play just doesn't mesh with me, and I'm not sure why. The idea is cool, but I just don't like him. To be fair though, I thought the Assassin looked awesome, and he was the first character I made, but he is still only 38 while my Axton and Gaige are both 50, and I'm working on my Maya next. Zer0 is just underpowered in basically every way until 50, and even then he doesn't shine that much. I was very disappointed because I like his character the most.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Also, this game feels like everything the first borderlands should have been. At least everything isn't ALL BROWN ALL THE TIME like the first one was, at least until about halfway through. Plus, you actually see people more than once every few hours. My god that bugged me in the first one.

The visuals are certainly a lot better, particularly with the snowscapes, and zones like the Caustic Caverns, Opportunity, the Eridium Blight, and the Highlands. Also, the guns have much better graphics.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
Also, found an orange shield that shoots electrical bombs out everytime you get hurt. Quite possibly one of the funniest things for a gunzerker to have. I think I knocked myself out with it just as many times as I killed an enemy

Yep, the Cradle, and the fact that it can hurt you is one of the reasons I hate that shield. It tosses the grenade directly in front of you, so if you are moving forward and the shield gets dropped, you have to back off or pay the price. I had it kill me playing the slots once, because I didn't get out of the way of a grenade in time, and it tossed a second grenade in front of me that bounced off the machine and landed at my feet, killing me.

 Aldarionn wrote:
Zer0 is just underpowered in basically every way until 50, and even then he doesn't shine that much. I was very disappointed because I like his character the most.

I don't know, Zero pretty much one shots everything in the game that isn't a super badass. As long as you maintain your distance, a sniper build is pretty insane. My first shot out of a clip right now does 500k-1mil damage right now at 50. Most of my deaths are me being stupid.

He can be reallllly fun. The only problems I have found are flyers (argh!) and nomads with shields (have to switch to an explosive weapon). Against anyone with a crit area bigger than a spec, you will just destroy them.

Currently, I'm using Bee with a Vladof Slag Sniper, a Flame Jacobs Sniper, Sloth and Trespasser (depending on opponent). My backups are a high rate Hyperion shotgun and Lady Fist.

He is horrible against Bandits, for a number of reasons. They rush your position with maniacs and suicide bombers, so keeping your distance is almost never an option, and up close his sniper build just falls apart. You end up using a shotgun most of the time. Against fliers he is difficult to use for the same reasons. He is almost TOO accurate.

If you go for a melee build you are in the thick of things and often get your head above water. I do not have a 50 Zer0 so I don't know if this changes, but I died WAY too many times playing him in that build in my 30s. The Sniper build is the best I've seen so far, and ammo is so limited it works out to "kill everything I CAN kill with a sniper rifle, then try to stay alive with an SMG/Shotgun while gathering ammo."

I just don't like Zer0 very much.

Actually, I don't have a lot of problems with bandits. Even with the ones that rush you, you can still headshot them pretty easy. If they get too close, you can shoot from the hip for pretty massive damage. If they are a badass and too close, you throw your Image either behind them or at a 45/90 from your current position, back up and proceed to keep sniping.

The only place where I had a problem with ammo is in the long drawn out fights (Fink's Arena or Ore Chasm) or when I was silly enough to try to use a Hyperion Sniper.

The hardest badguys for a while were the invisible dudes. Now that I have a good shotgun and bee though, those don't bother me. If you go down to someone, Lady Fist generally gets you right back up (reaaaally high crit damage and fast shots/reloads).

I guess it is a matter of taste though.

My Zero right now is going through Captain Scarlett in 2.5 and just rocking face. (Oh and that's with one player of dead weight, since I'm split screening my Gunzerker to get him levels. Man XP comes fast in 2.5.)

FYI, gearbox posted like 5 golden keys on their twitter that are good for the whole weekend.

Unfortunately I screwed up my Shift account when I signed up, because it wasn't showing up on my console, so I deleted the account and went to make it again, but it told me I could not create an account at this time. My original Golden Key showed up, but I have not been able to get any more since then. I tried e-mailing them about it but I got a response that they couldn't do anything, so I just don't pay attention to golden keys any more. There's no point.

Wow, that's lame. Apparently, according to the shift thing, I've redeemed like 60 of the suckers. Along with the PS3 split screen glitch, I've opened a lot of chests.

 Aldarionn wrote:
Unfortunately I screwed up my Shift account when I signed up, because it wasn't showing up on my console, so I deleted the account and went to make it again, but it told me I could not create an account at this time. My original Golden Key showed up, but I have not been able to get any more since then. I tried e-mailing them about it but I got a response that they couldn't do anything, so I just don't pay attention to golden keys any more. There's no point.

I have 5 floating, so just jump on with me when you want to use one, and I'll open up a chest for you. Also sent you an xbox message: got that Maggie for ya, but sadly the Nukem is only 49. I think the BQ was trolling me.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Aldarionn wrote:
Unfortunately I screwed up my Shift account when I signed up, because it wasn't showing up on my console, so I deleted the account and went to make it again, but it told me I could not create an account at this time. My original Golden Key showed up, but I have not been able to get any more since then. I tried e-mailing them about it but I got a response that they couldn't do anything, so I just don't pay attention to golden keys any more. There's no point.

I have 5 floating, so just jump on with me when you want to use one, and I'll open up a chest for you. Also sent you an xbox message: got that Maggie for ya, but sadly the Nukem is only 49. I think the BQ was trolling me.

Most excellent! My Zero and Gaige will be pleased!

 Aldarionn wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Aldarionn wrote:
Unfortunately I screwed up my Shift account when I signed up, because it wasn't showing up on my console, so I deleted the account and went to make it again, but it told me I could not create an account at this time. My original Golden Key showed up, but I have not been able to get any more since then. I tried e-mailing them about it but I got a response that they couldn't do anything, so I just don't pay attention to golden keys any more. There's no point.

I have 5 floating, so just jump on with me when you want to use one, and I'll open up a chest for you. Also sent you an xbox message: got that Maggie for ya, but sadly the Nukem is only 49. I think the BQ was trolling me.

Most excellent! My Zero and Gaige will be pleased!

Want a fabled turtle shield too? Ugh, tried to farm the lost treasure vault with a second created player, my second player snagged the shield, saved out, I went to dashboard with my main character, came back in and he was ready to turn in the quest. Xbox was glitching quite a bit-registered two controllers as the same player and everything, so I think it was bad luck. I don't suppose you still have to kill the Leviathon and want to go on a farming spree?

I was kinda annoyed with my Salvador because it looked like his quest progression was bugged (always started at blindsided in PT1 when I loaded him as the main character).

So I loaded him up and figured I'd just blaze through. Got to Liar's Berg, turned on the power and bam 'Do you want to skip?' Click Yes. 'You have completed Playthrough 1'.

Moral of the story, if you are going to dual screen keep track of where your second character started.

Ugh, PS3 and Xbox players, best farm Fleshstick tonight-it all ends tomorrow. News from Gearbox on their forums says they're fixing the issue with him giving unlimited XP.

http://support.gearboxsoftware.com/entries/22147216-xbox-360-update-information

Go to the "Missions" section, it's the last bulletpoint.