Pearlescents from Tubbies

Borderlands 2 Loot and Weapons
#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.

#68

I’m pretty sure the information I’m remembering originally came from somebody looking at the code, but I don’t have a source for it so I can’t really tell you either way.

#69

the information came from gearbox.
it says any purple drops a sniper. not purple, not badass.
guy uses maths to show the actual droprate of the cobra is roughly 1/21000

#70

“any purple … not purple” ?

FWIW, in this thread in the old forums, HellFace from Gearbox says “Any sniper rifle”.

http://oldforums.gearboxsoftware.com/oldforums/20150310092611/http://oldforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=204868

#71

meant to say burner. my hands and internal monologue aren’t always in sync.

#72

Hmm…alright, not sure where the purple came from then

#73

I thought it was probably something like that, but it was a bit confusing. :acmsmile: