#7

Fair enough. :wink:

There’s no such thing as a “real Borderlands player”. That’s one thing to like with the game. You play it the way you like. No one is holding you by the hand.

Personally I’m fine with drops. Having played BL2 for years BL3 feel like a candy store when it come to drops. My advice is always the same. Don’t focus too much on that elusive piece of gear. Go out. Explore different maps. Try different gear, sometime sub par, and make them work.

There’s so much more to do than the Takedown with a god tier build.

-edit-
In BL2 some players played for years at OP8 and never saw a Beckah drop for them and never called the game crap for it.

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#8

I’m focus on the elusive gear and that’s one of the reasons why I play BL3. I create new VHs to create builds with perfect gear. It’s a challenge but it’s worth aiming for.

In the meantime I don’t cry if I don’t have god roll gear though I have a bunch already. I know I can beat the hardest difficulty with less ideal gear. Beating the hardest content with a perfect build is something I am looking forward to. What happens after I reached my goal which I already did on some of my VHs? I just continue beating the crap out of enemies and create new VHs.

I don’t like refarming gear but I’m ok with farming.

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#9

@Dr_Do-Little

Well, I am one of those players you nentioned that played at OP8 for years and never got a Bekka …

Come to think of it … BL2 was trash for never dropping me a dagum Bekka!!! :slight_smile:

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#10

So there’s this absolutely free to play RPG called Genshin Impact and it’s breath of the wild with 24 unlockable characters, and each of those characters has a weapon slot, special action skill, special ultimate skill, and 5 gear slots.
If you’re jonesin’ for something to scratch that looter/action game, I highly recommend it. It’s free on all platforms.
Oh, you also swap between 4 characters, so keys 1-4 are different characters that you can switch between at will as opposed to just different weapons.
Also, swapping characters lets you combine elements as each character has an elemental ability, so you can combine wind skills with fire ones, electric with water, etc. etc.
It’s what I picked up and I can’t even be bothered to leave sanctuary in BL3 now. Completely free and WAY more content.

#11

Oh boy, I can’t wait to get more Woodblockers, Monocles, ASMDs, etc

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#12

Borderlands is often compared to Diablo. For good reasons.
I wonder what is the good Legendary vs crap gear ratio in Diablo III. :thinking:
What about dedicated drops?..

#13

The Beckha was a Gen 2 Pearl pretty sure… and so it had no drop source. It was just an extremely rare drop. I understand people mad cuz they never got one but I’ve seen about 10 in the years I’ve played BL2 mostly from Red chests.

(When I say fake Borderlands players)
I’m referring to people who would rather get a super rare drop from a boss that shouldn’t really be dropping that item. Or people with the “Candy store mentality” and just want (Easy mode) Because BL2 was stingy

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#14

There is no such thing as a “fake” Borderlands player though. BL1 didn’t have dedicated drops, and TPS didn’t have them either until 6 months in. These games are more than farming to some people and they couldn’t care less about dedicated rates.

Not saying they couldn’t be higher for those who do, but let’s not get carried away here.

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#15

All I know is that at this point, Borderlands 2 strikes me as re-playable fun. Borderlands 3 doesn’t have that feel.

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#16

Then my guess is drop rates are not the issue…

#17

I dont think you could get the bekah from red chests only tubbie enemies could drop gen 2 Pearl’s.

#18

Back in my day, REAL vault hunters would WALK the entire set of maps, from the Windshear Waste to the Eridium Blight just to complete challenges!

Uphill! Both ways!!!

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#19

From the Wiki:

Bekah is a pearlescent assault rifle in Borderlands 2 manufactured by Jakobs. It was added with Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack Two: Digistruct Peak Challenge. Like all of the four Pearlescent weapons from the UVHM2 pack, it will only fall from Tubby enemies, and only after reaching level 61 while UVHM2 is installed.

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#20

Thanks for clarifying that :slight_smile: ^
back in my day we would travel to General Knox armoury just to loot all the chests and do that untill we were satisfied. And at that point BL1 lost a lot of its charm when you could cheese the game to get 25+ red chests per run without worrying about the timer

BL2 tresure room glitch is still to this day my favourite glitch in any borderlands game - effort= rewards

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#21

the woodblocker and asmd drop more then most other gear in total…
i swear i have seen less q systems, lumps, hedghogs, quickies
i have seen this thing in like half my runs of anything and thats insane

ive had maliwan takedown runs where i got like 5-10 of them PER RUN

and yes, some drop rates are lowkey unbearable

my personal hope for a future game is
start with 1 more rarity / pearls / or mayhem rarity or seraph
legendaries work as rare as bl 1-2 where it MIGHT drop
and have for harder content the higher rarity

makes annoints a seperate farmable thing like aritfacts… infact make artifacts annoints and let me equip 3 of them

make purples worth more, delete 70% of all legendary weapons in the game WEAPONS
suddenly we are gucci since all cool things are a special rarity and feel amazing
legendaries are more legendary, and could feel more impactful

my eprsonal favorite legendary RIGHT NOW is easy the hellwalker… this thing is a solid gun to get, its consistent
you only have to watch the annoint
any hellwalker drop feels like its a good drop ( as long as i doesnt have 1 of the few ■■■■ annoints a hellwalker can call bad ( which is not alot actually)

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#22

man i remember when there where things like this
or an entire seperate set of areas wildly different from the main setting offering bonus content like caustic caverns or that town where you kill misha

or when you had secrets like this… man makes me want to go back to bl2
i can even try to spawn a special raidboss if i freaking wish to

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#23

I remember when having an orange drop gave your heart a jump.

“Wait! Was that a… a… LEGENDARY?!?”

Suddenly your whole perspective of whatever you might be in the middle of shifted (like spotting a loot midget and chasing after it in the middle of a firefight). You would rush to see what the LEGENDARY was, and even if it was something you didn’t want, you still held onto it because it was the only one that dropped that day (or whatever). In other words, LEGENDARY drops meant something. And forget it if you came across a Pearlescent. You were in heaven for a week.

Now, you kill 5 badasses and if you don’t see at least one legendary it’s like, “What the fu-heck? Did they nerf drop rates again?” And then when you do get a drop a minute later it’s, “What, ANOTHER Woodblocker? Well THAT gun is certainly living up to its name!”

Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that overall drop rates for legendaries as a whole are up significantly from previous Borderlands games. That much I think they got right. But padding the pools with crap legendaries (and trinkets and other garbage that have nothing to do with usable equipment), and then compounding any decent weapons or other gear by adding crappy annointments just turns the whole exercise into a farce. Legendaries are a dime a dozen now, and most of them are worth no more in playable value than a White rarity. It honestly takes all the excitement and FUN out of getting a “legendary” drop. So what is GB doing to address this horrible game imbalance? Anybody…?

That’s right!

A new frickin’ game mode where all weapons will become viable! Woo-hoo! THAT should make everyone happy with the base game (he said with heavy sarcasm).

“* sigh *”

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#24

Had a similar issue with the blood starved beast drop rate I farmed for hours and only got 1, much of the other drops either i didn’t want or kinda worthless, after it finally dropped I was done I didn’t even care what the anoit was I had it and that was it

#25

Why does this make me feel old I am way too young to be feeling like this.

#26

jo remember before mayhem was actually this horrible tool to make ■■■■ sponegier then spongebob, loot midgets where a thing you would chase like ur life depends on it?

i do…
did you know bl3 had tubby enemies? and they drop abolutely nothing? also spawn like almost never?