First toon into UVHM (I am so screwed it seems)

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#17

How about the darksiders? Can you travel to them and farm them? They drop alot of moonstones and enough cash and gear to get you back on your feet.

Then once you have money go start farming vendors in Concordia or grind loot.

So here are some things to look for (I still don’t know what level you are or what most of your gear is)

  • Tediore low delay shield. She loves these because of like skills like BP and WV. Adaptive shields are bad for you since you have life steal as your only way to heal, making your health more makes it take longer to get past healthgate and boson can healthgate you.

  • Juggernaut OZ kits are your friend, you have stated you have survival issues, get damage resistance.

  • Transfusion Grenades in cryo but other elements will do. If you can find some cryo transfusion grenades and have a kill active (bosons turrets) your grenades can heal you on impact and with the transfusion trails. These are great to have.

  • Shock Snipers, shields got a big boost in UVHM so a shock vladof or maliwan sniper will go a long way in droping shields fast. Vladof ones with I Never Miss can take down bosses fast. If you find a fire droog you should be able to drop Iwajira quick.

  • Cryo Sniper, again same thing as above but this time in cryo to get all your buffs from both trees for after you drop the shields.

  • Cryo splitters, since you have so many cryo skills a tediore or any cryo splitter will fill in your shotgun needs.

Don’t give up, just back up and find something to farm to get you back on your feet. Like I said I like to farm the darksiders, there are also a few chests around them. Pick up everything and sell it, rinse and repeat. Then go farm concordia vendors for cash.

If the darksiders are giving you trouble just farm concordia, run around and open everything you see and sell it all. You will be shocked at how quick you can get some cash. Gear up and get ready. Also like others have said enter in your codes and use your golden keys. IMO the best time to use your keys is when you are stuck. They are not great at endgame, so now is the best time.

#18

Now I have no clue about which shields to get, as opinions are a complete 180 with what people are telling me…

I’m currently using a lousy maliwan shock sniper (Frost damage is so reduced against shields that frost snipers seem to be fairly worthless anymore)

A beyond horrible frost SMG
a frost laser
and a shock laser

All are horrible weapons

Thank you so much for the "how to farm cash when you suck beyond imagination " info

#19

There are a couple of different ways you can work shields on her:

  • you can get a sheild with as a really low recharge delay, so that when the delay is recuced by Short Summer, you can get significant recharges in combat
  • you can run a really large sheild with a long recharge delay so that you get a lot of value out of Short Summer, but you still have to back off a bit to get your sheild to recharge
  • you can go somewhere in between and get a bit of both

Personaly, I’m more a fan of the first option on her, because it mean’s you don’t need to worry about your shield much.

A few other things: unless your gear is really underleveled, I’m not seeing anything majorly wrong with your guns; there really is no such thing as a bad maliwan sniper, some are better than others, but they’re all really good, same with the other stuff, although it does depend a bit on the maufacturers. Basicaly, for the most part, weapons parts have less of an impact than some people would have you belive, as long as you have the right manufacturer and element, and the weapon is close to being on level, you should be alright.

The beginning of UVHM is one of the hardest parts of this game, espically if you haven’t done it before. So take a deep breath, and remember that if all of us have managed it, you can to. If you still find yourself getting frustrated, step away for a day or two, it helps a lot.

Finaly, remember, games are supposed to be fun, don’t let it get to you!

#20

If possible, go back to TVHM and get a vibrapulse or hail. If you can’t do either of those, get a probe and spam vladof cryo grenades, then all you’ll need is an explosive weapon.

If you find yourself dying this much, maybe its your approach to gameplay, instead of your gear and build. Try staying really far back. Run in to spawn enemies, then run away and pick them off one at a time from safety. If you’re facing a boss use whatever cheap weapon combo you can get.

If you need money, farm the “Guardian Hunter” mission on TVHM. They should be easy to kill and they drop a lot. Also, you could try a lvl 50 shield of ages, it will have higher capacity than any turtle shield you’ll get for awhile, and it will make leeching easier. You may even want to spec into the "Podsnappery"skill in the contract tree if you find yourself on low health often. Transfusion grenades can assist with regening health, or singularities can constantly stagger enemies.

Don’t get too caught up in doing the job the “right way”, whatever that may be. Use whatever tactic you can to make money and progress. If that means spamming grenades every mob and constantly running away, so be it. What matters is killing the enemies and looting their gear.

BTW: What specifically are your “terrible” weapons? Are those lasers beams or railguns? Are they hyperion or Dahl? What about the SMG?

If you’re at the bosun, then you could do the Shock Dome arena if you have it. The Haymaker is a nice adaptive shield that may due you some good until you can find another shield.Or you could do springs mission to get the Oz kit that regens health when you pick up Oz cannisters. You could farm RedBelly for the striker, which may help a bit. Even green maliwans or Droog sniper rifles will do fine.

And whatever you do, don’t get frustrated. That probably isn’t something that will help you right now, but Borderlands is a game that kicks your butt when you’re mad it at, especially at the stage of the game you’re at. If you’re getting angry, take a break, and just come back to the game when you feel like messing around. Take it slow, go around and kill whatever your gear and skill allows you to, even if its baby kragons, so you can build some confidence with Aurelia. From there, just try to ease yourself into the rest of the game.

#21

I’ve finally managed to make some of the adjustment’s that were suggested to my build , shield, and oz kit, I still haven’t replaced my weapons.

I’m now slightly better, in that I used to die before I could do much at all,

Now I die on Bosun about half way, and that’s when I have less then 2 seconds of FFYL and I drop.

And please, DONT SUGGEST FARMING BOSSES (it’s not a viable option to get weapons. The ones I have managed to kill have taken more hours than I would care to admit, or I flat out CANT even kill on my own OR BOTH)

Redbelly took forever to kill him the one time I got him, it wasn’t funny. spamming Cold as Ice, isn’t the most efficient way to take out a boss. And as far as farming that boss for something. That has to be a bad way.

#22

Ok.

You need guns, you say?

The easiest way I’ve found to level up and whatnot is to farm the Darksiders mini bosses. I pulled a legendary COM from the chest on the rockface, so I can imagine it would give out leg. weapons as well.

It may take a long time depending on where you are lvl and XP wise, but the minibosses aren’t that hard and it’s a save,quit,restart type farm. Not much walking about required.

#23

Thats what I also suggested earlier @barachius_dunn have your tried this?

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#24

Ahh ok Derch, well at least we’re thinking along the same lines!

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#25

Can you use the trade forums? Maybe you could gear up that way.

#27

I guess I need to say this again…

I HAVE NOTHING TO TRADE,

I made adjustments and it feels like a I lost a TON of damage at the cost of survivability.

SO my guns being horrible just got more dire of a situation.

And I have had no luck getting new weapons

#28

Have you tried the darksiders?

Are your guns at level?

Are you hitting crits reliably?

#29

Chill dude. Just trying to help.
Anyway, you may get something for nothing. People give stuff away for free sometimes. Its worth a shot.

#30

Yes I’m hitting crits Relaibly

No, my guns suck,
No they aren’t even my level
And I just upgraded my blue frost SMG for a green one that was my level :worried: (It’s damage was a good bit more.)

And I just dinged to 54 which means my guns are now even worse relative to my level

I’m farming darksiders… not getting crap

#31

@barachius_dunn

While I do understand that you are frustrated and you did already state that you feel as though you have nothing to trade, @boombumr did take a moment out of his day in an attempt to help you out. I do not think he warranted a response preceded by “I guess I need to say this again” and followed by caps lock, please avoid it in the future.

People trade items for powerlevels. People trade items for free. You’d be surprised how generous people can be on the trade forums.

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#32

having weapons that are at least close to your level is more important than almost any other factor. look at the stats of the wrapon, not the rarity. That is what really matters. if an on level white is better than your under leveled legendary, switch to to the white!

#33

Not counting quality not quantity yes… but this is really getting sad when I’m upgrading to green weapons.

This is my whole stupid problem, my guns suck on every level

#34

The items of the day are almost always blue or better and you can grind your green guns to get blue or better.

and if you are low on money you can either go take on the darksiders, which you should be able to handle or just run around concordia picking everything up and either sell or grind it to get enough money to get better guns.

What level are you right now?

Have you also tried golden keys?

Also I know you said kinda what your guns are but can you give us specifics?

Names, Level, Element? Not just maliwan shock sniper. More like level 53 Maliwan Banbury Rakehell in shock element.

We are trying to help you here, many people are.

#35

your sepc shold follow your gear: if the gear you have dosen’t work with the gear you’re getting, you need to change your spec. In other words, if you arn’t getting many blues, spec out of QnQ.

We’ve suggested so many ways for you to remedy your gear problems, I’m not sure what you want me to tell you anymore.

Just use a few of them and get used to using sub-par gear. Think of it this way, you don’t get much better at the game using super strong gear. one of the best ways to get better is using sub-par gear because it forces you to actually improve your gameplay rather than relying on a really strong build.

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#36

At this point it sounds like you need to use some gold key on the chest in Concordia. If you don’t have any keys search the post on here about key codes. If you scroll back through the post you will find that most of the old codes are still valid. I booted TPS back up last month and I was able to come up with 150 keys with the old codes. The gold chest gives only purple equipment and it is always on level. Randy and Borderlands are always handing out new codes on Twitter and Facebook all the time so there is no need to hoard the keys.

#37

I know this has been suggested before but.

Do you not have a clean path to farm any red chest in the game? In all of UVHM?

In BL2 the Red Chest by Boom Bewm and the one by the Bay became so familiar that I could’ve set spots for them at the dinner table.

Even the items which are useless you can sell at the closest machine to replenish your emaciated bank account. You’ve got a lot of outs to this, mate.

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