Pearlescents from Tubbies

Borderlands 2 Loot and Weapons
#47

The amount of time that I’ve spent farming tubbies at lvl 72 is absurd for the return. I’ve seen 3 pearls drop in hundreds and hundreds (and even more hundreds) of kills. The drop rate is insanely low.

Luckily 1 of them was a Bekah, but it has a Jakobs stock with some nasty recoil which kinda sucks. It’s still pretty awesome though. Other 2 drops were Avengers and made me extremely salty.

The drop rates are so bad, that i just don’t care anymore. Love this game and I’ve put soooo much time into it, but rates that low just kill any interest in farming for that particular item. It’s just not worth it for the amount of time I have to put into the game right now.

#48

OR You have a pearl drop but it is underleveled. Happens quite frequently.
(Tubby Midget dropping a OP7 Wanderlust, c’mon RNG)

#49

There are really only two guns I’m after at this point, a Bekah and a Twister. I’m not sure which has the worse odds of dropping.

#50

The Twister. Spawning 3-O is a PITA, even more than Vermi.

#51

a few weeks ago I was farming for tubbies in the Dust, when I saw another tubby walking around, It dropped a cowboy bekah, I was extremely lucky I guess, but it shows its still possible to get them.

#52

I don’t know about that. Triple O has a very high chance of dropping it and that’s it. The spawning is annoying but if you know what you’re doing it’s still better than a rare enemy who appears entirely at random who has a small chance of dropping one of 12 different guns.

#53

@BlackHeartV - thanks a lot for the info - I hadn’t realised there was a separate loot pool for Pearls. I guess I can stop being annoyed at all the orange drops from tubbies, since they’re not stopping the Pearls from dropping. Maybe getting to OP8, then farming. would be “easier” than a L72 farm then… and I’d been putting off on OP levels because of the difficulty! :smile:

@shure - about getting tubbies to appear, I’m pretty sure if you visit Hyperius’ gate to activate 4-player difficulty, then do the first Creature Slaughter round repeatedly, you’ll see about the same tubby rate as I did - about 2 tubbies every 3 runs. It is a really reliable way to spawn them as you can see from the notes I pasted. and you don’t have to quit-save between runs. The only trick (apart from coping with 4-player mode solo) is to make sure not to kill all the enemies in the last round. Usually there’s 3 or 4 spiderlings at the end. I mostly just ran away from them, jumped up against a wall and rocketed myself in the face, though one time the stupid spiderlings jumped after me as I did it, and I accidentally took them out.

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#54

That’s incredibly lucky. My only fear of when a pearl actually does drop is that it will be underleveled and or not the Bekah.

#55

Probably the Bekah. I remember when the Hammerlock Hunt Dlc came out my friend and I spawned OOO and got the twister. We had no idea how rare of an occasion it was

#56

I’ve probably gotten 5 pearls on my way to level 72. They don’t seem that rare. Idk I just might be lucky.

#57

I got about that amount myself. First on was pure luck. Picked up a Storm from a LLM. Level 50 some odd.

#59

Please do not ask for dupes in these forums. GBX consider it cheating.

Also, the Godfinger can’t be lower than 62 legitimately anyway.

#60

ok thanks for heads up and do you know the percent chance of a cobra droping from burners

#61

Supposedly it’s 0.08% but I can’t confirm that for real. It is however definitely insanely rare.

#62

whats console are you on because if you are on xbox one I would appreciate the help

#63

PS4. sorry.

#64

its all good ty anyway

#65

IIRC the droprate is .88% if the burner rolls a purple sniper.
If you’re looking for the absolute droprate, you are going to have to ask someone with a lot better knowlage of the loot system than me though.

#66

I really don’t buy that Purple Sniper thing though. The Sniper part I understand but Purple only is even more ridiculous than that. Let me explain my reasoning:

How often do we even see Snipers being dropped and how many of them are purple? We don’t really know the drop rate in UVHM but I am just going to guess the drop rate of a randomly generated purple gear is 1:500. All the math I am using now is based on this ItB article

Let’s assume a Burner enemy has a 50% (or 1:2) chance dropping anything on average. A roll decides what exactly is being dropped now. There are 207 tickets and the first 100 result in a gun. That’s about 48% or 1:2 (rounded down for simplicity). Sniper Rifles have a 13.25% chance of being chosen. That’s slightly worse than 1:7.5 so let’s just get that for simplicity again. Now every 500th Sniper is a Purple and 0.88% of those are the Corba we seek. Let’s round that down to 1:113, again for simplicity.
So all of these events have to be met by a single Burner enemy.
227.5500113=1,695,000 or 0.0000589970501475%

I am sorry but that is ridiculous and I am being very generous with the numbers. Even if the drop rate of purples is 1:200 that’s still 1:678,000. I just can’t believe it would be that ridiculously rare. And with actual numbers it would be even rarer than that.

Wow, I actually made quite a mistake and accidentally took the Shotgun rate instead of the Sniper one before… Rewritten again. I hope it’s right now.

#67

We don’t sell that fruit buddy. Dupes are quite weird to find

The Cobra…go hit a lottery ticket if you get one.