Borderlands 3 community love letter: level cap increase, new seasonal event, and more!

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#391

I understand your frustration! But they only did it once atm. ONCE! It would be still nice that they fix the game and add New stuff, DLC’s aso… But after playing with this 3 levels I kind of excepted it and im thankfull for it. On my fl4k the three points are doing well. There is nothing we can change about it.

Plus I will buy my first DLC if Im satisfied with the game. Atm it is lagging to much in the menu, the drop rates are bad, dedicadet drops are trash because some minibosses doesnt have some but other have 3 on m4 sometimes 4 and and and…

#392

I been farming two days for a Transformer with an anointment. approaching 8 hours and have seen 2 non-anointed… that’s it… Seems the drop rates for dedicated loot is total ass, they can at least make it anointed if its going to be a 2-3% drop rate.
Like anyone at GB or 2k cares…

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#393

For the folks that say, “You aren’t forced to play on M4”… How about the loot that has to be farmed on M4 only? Can you get it elsewhere? I’ve been trying to get my first Spiritual Driver class mod for forever, but it just won’t drop. I’ve farmed Sylestro quite a few times on M4, but it’s hard because I don’t play that well. I still haven’t managed to beat the Takedown without Mayhem so that’s not an option at the moment. So yea, if I want that I have to play on M4 because it is a requirement. To make matters worse, the character I was trying to farm with has gained the levels and now I’m at level 53, but haven’t found much in the way of better gear. The drop rates on Xbox One are abysmal, so I’ll be farming more like 200 hours to get good replacement gear so I can go try for the Spiritual Driver again. Somehow I feel like that isn’t going to happen based on where this game is right now. Drop rates need to be better and they need to stop locking desirable gear behind things an average person cannot farm solo. In real life I don’t expect everything to be obtainable, which is why I love to play video games. It takes me away from all of the real world stress and worries. However, I paid full price for this game as a pre-order and I feel like I’m not getting good value for the money I paid when there are so many things out of my reach. I don’t want stuff handed to me and I don’t want everything to be easy. I do want to enjoy all areas of the game and have a chance of obtaining every available item in game. Why? Because I paid for the whole darn game and all DLCs.
Thank you!

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#394

Is Anyone else getting loot from the Event because I have been shooting a lot of hearts and haven’t gotten anything from Morries in the mail

#395

Its in the event tab, theres little chests; once you select the 1 with a weapon it will be in your inventory

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#396

You can take out sylestro on m4 easy enough with a phasezerker build and almost any decent gun using ties that bind. I’m on Xbox and I got 3 drivers after 20 or so runs. The dedicated drops still aren’t wonderful, but they do drop.

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#397

Thanks, that did the trick. I setup a Phasezurker with Projectile Recursion and Sylestro dropped in like 4 shots taking Atomic with him. Got a Spiritual Driver on the first run too. Fortunately I have around 150 mule characters and already had the class mods and shotguns so I didn’t have to do any farming for equipment. It was a good day!

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#398

Totally agree… I think they should add a system such as increasing level cap of your weapons at a cost of 10 legendary weapons etc. Some annointments in some specific gears essential for a build took forever to obtained/farmed, if they increased level caps at a slow rate for a couple more times ppl might go crazy.

#399

You must not have played bl2, farming was way more of a chore in that game. I have legendaries dropping left and right in bl3, while they might not always have the exact anointment or god roll I want, I constantly feel like I’m getting stuff. Where as in bl2, I’ll farm terra for 6 hours and not get anything but his legendary class mod. These games are all about the grind and compared to past entries, this game is ten times more generous. People always complain no matter what. People complain about waiting 3 months for dlc even though they have free events and missions to try and sate their appetite while they wait. Past borderlands games never had these free events and takedowns while we waited for the next big expansion. Gearbox is really trying. I commend you guys heavily.

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#400

wrong played BL2 over 1200 hrs, it was far better then bl3, never had any issues with the loot. second you didn’t need to worry about anointed affix which is the main root and cause of bl3 problems.

#401

The problem here is that you could run a legendary with sub par parts on BL2 for most (some you needed specific parts) content as you were looking for functionality of what the legendary did. Here the anoint is king. While it does make mid tier guns more viable in basic mobing and some bossing, it does make seeing a legendary less of an event. Seeing a legendary in BL2 felt like a reward and you got something cool if not for your current VH for an alt or something worth trading.

I vendor or completely skip over more legendaries than I bother to keep and only keep ones with anoints that I like or know someone would want. So the drop rates are probably even with finding a decent legend in BL2 and a good anoint in BL3 but since its a trait of the gun rather than the gun it self it does cheapen the experience of seeing a gold drop.

#402

My experience in UVHM with the original level 72 cap was that your first statement was absolutely true: about the most I ever farmed a mission reward item for was element; farming for that and (a) specific part(s) was not something I had the patience for. OP levels were something else though.

If you consider NVHM/TVHM BL3 as up to UVHM BL2 and roughly equate Mayhem with OP, then it works out fairly similar: BL3 anoints on M4 play the same role as specific parts on highest OP levels. I think I would agree with others that this isn’t necessarily the best role for anointments to fulfil in their current incarnation. It will be interesting to see if there are any adjustments made to go along with Mayhem 2.0 when it comes out.

#403

Very good points. When we get more content and loot pools get sorted more it will probably feel better too. Also with load times on console farming looses its fun. I wish bosses/named enemies would respawn on fast travel. Granted it wouldnt help all bosses/named enemies but it would at least soften some farms to make them better for us console folk.

#404

Not just farming! Original XB1 here, and map transitions are starting to wear, so I’m increasingly looking for ways to maximize amount of activity without leaving. The latest info on the new XB1SX is looking tempting…

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#405

Same. I wont have the funds to upgrade my console any time soon.

I have loved Claptrap the whole series, but now with him as a load screen I have grown to dislike seeing him.

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#406

I agree the drops are terrible weapons in play through are worthless and they are trying to turn this into a multi player games which sucks. The weapons and drops need to be inproved for sure ,

#407

I’ve got one question, and one question only: Where is my boy Salvador? :slight_smile:

#408

Dead.

#409

its just way to see how people react to level up increase and to see if people grind out newer guns I think , as I noticed as well I think they nerfed orange drops even more which also put me off completely when put cap increase by 10 levels myself as if there going to make orange drops very rare to extent it can take weeks for certain orange you want I pass (as was hopeing they add in way to level up orange weapons/artifacts/mods/grenades somehow with eridium or money) as plently of people have eridium overflowing which they wont use as got over 40k+ of it on fl4k I no longer use and amara and like 10K+ on zane.

#410

yeah they probly make orange drops better by level 80 (assuming that be max level) when all dlc’s are out and expect people to refarm items again , as I spent hours on hours farming perfect god roll perks for my class mods and artifacts at 50 now it feels like kick to well you know if I cant upgrade them by eridium or something as farming perfect roles wasn’t easy task with rng and time it took getting meh rolls which was junk (as most perks on artifacts/mods suck).