#4

I don’t think the drop rates for dedicated loot are an issue but I would make anointments something you equip your weapon with rather then them being part of the weapon themself.

#5

Dedicated loot is just too low on M10. Seeing so much on quantity world drops of the same annoying legendaries over and over pisses me off honestly.

I prefer BL2 way where you don’t see an orange beam from farming but add the likeness of BL3 of when you finally see an orange glow it’s 100% dedicated legendaries from the named/boss loot pool.

Want world drops? Farm Badasses and mobs? Best place? Areas like Slaughter Shaft works wonder for world drops. People can farm for Krakatoa, Woodblockers, Ten Gallon, Companion, etc.

With that said now the bosses can drop 0% world drop so now I can sigh a little happier to save quit faster if bosses don’t drop legendaries and again, when they do, it’s 100% dedicated and I’ll waste few seconds seeing what it is.

Plus… I like to scavenge for purple gear too for reason. World legendaries just clutter things up too much

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#6

Recently, the more I play the more I find myself spending way too much time farming one boss to maybe not even get one of the items from them that is in their dedicated loot pool. Could be that they still haven’t fixed the Mayhem 10 drops rates, but I’ve farmed Killavolt for about 3 days since Revenge of the Cartels started and only got one Monarch to drop. I’m currently trying to farm him some more now that the loot the universe is no longer on Promethea and I’ve only done 3 or 4 runs, but on my last run, I didn’t get a single legendary to drop (I also always use a +15.00 luck artifact)…

I definitely think the dedicated drops need to significantly outweigh the world drops for those select mobs and also make it so that you are guaranteed at least one piece of loot from that mob’s dedicated loot pool OR just have those select mobs that have dedicated loot only be able to drop that loot and not any world drops, if that would be possible.

Finally, I had the thought also of adding the option to re-roll anointments or even add them to non anointed items for the cost of some eridium; maybe, 5 for a re-roll and 10 to give a non anointed item an anointment (I didn’t start playing BL3 until Christmas the year it came out, but I have 9,239 eridium and nothing to use it for).

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#7

I think the biggest problem is the overcrowded dedicated loot pools.
For example captain Traunt has 4 dedicated drops, when farming him I do regularly get an assigned drop from him but because he has 4 of them it’s not the item I want most of the time.
I’m currently farming him a lot on M10 for a Kaoson but it is pretty frustrating to see all the other dedicated items drop but no Kaoson and if it does drop it’s usually not the right annoint or something like that.
If bosses would have a maximum of 2 dedicated drops it would be way better already but I don’t know if it is possible te implement this with all the legendary items in the game so maybe there are not enough bosses etc. to assign the items to.

I also like the possibility of assigning/changing an annoint on a gun but I feel there has te be a pretty big cost if you want to do this, say like 1000 eridium or something so you still need to put in the work.

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#8

Yup. The anoints should’ve been in the trinkets. So you farm for trinkets and put them on whatever item you want.

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#9

Has 9000 eridium but only wants to spend 5-10 for annointment re-roll… lol.

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#10

A 10% chance to drop certain gear worked in Borderlands 2 because generally, that was the only piece of special gear that could drop from them. Meanwhile in BL3 mini-bosses and the like often have three or more items in their 10% pool. Each individual item needs a 10% chance to drop, while Mayhem Mode could add a x% bonus or a second chance of rolling for a drop again.

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#11

No I’ve thought about but no I’m just tired of the amount of ■■■■■■■ rng in this game its to much. Lets us put anointments of our choice on weapons and let it cost a ton of eridium like 3-5 thousand. Also give it a requirement to unlock it like finish all the proving grounds or slaughter arenas or complete the takedown or do all of it on mayhem 6 and above to unlock this ability.

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Pre Opinion Poll: Anoint ourselves, Reroll anoint, Keep it the same, etc. Your ideas please
#12

Sorry not going to vote in a clearly biased poll. The way the first response is worded means no matter how I vote it’s going to be “evidence” of a problem.

That said, Loot The Universe should be how loot drops work. Dedicated drops wouldn’t be necessary. You go to X area to farm Y and Z pieces of gear, you run through the area a few times and eventually get what you want. Farming a single enemy over and over is not fun and doesn’t actually make it easier to get what you want. If drop rates were high at TVHM m10, and there was loot everywhere, you could get what you want in a fraction of the time AND actually be playing the game instead of loading screen simulator.

Case and point, I found more useful Cutsmans farming areas that drop SMGs in 1/20th the time I would get just a single equally viable Cutsman from Bates.

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#13

I meeeeeeeeeaaaan… I’m tryin’ to be reasonable to those who don’t have a lot… Also it would still be rng to which new anoint you would get so you could still go through over 1000 eridium if the rng is not in your favor… which is usually my case.

Just had the thought of they could also make it a % of your eridium like they do with money for when you respec your skills.

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#14

Make a suggestion option ill add it. Then it wont be biased.

If anything i can add better worded options and list the best condensed ideas. Many ppl have similar ideas. So put em down get it concise and small enough. That i can make it a clear option.

Worse case scenario if ppl feel its biased as it is based off what i see ppl saying making topics for.

I can just make a new one. A better one for all who at least put forth the effort to suggest an option. I mean i said i would in the OP

#15

I can’t speak for @thesuicidefox but I interpreted their protest was from the obviously loaded language in one of the answer options. At the risk of taking a survey on a gaming forum far too seriously, I’ll explain what I mean. By writing, “I like things the way they are. A person should have to farm 8 hours over many days to find their gear. This is a fulltime job” you’ve thrown your own personal baggage onto the answer. It should read simply, “I like things the way they are.” Rather, you’ve included additional characterizations (biases) which are presumptions you’re expecting us to take you up on without proving them first. Case in point: isn’t it possible that someone likes the way things are now and doesn’t agree with those added comments?

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#16

I’m glad it’s not just me, been farming traunt for 6 hours straight. Most of the time I get 2 legendaries a run. I’ve had 9 dedicated drops in 6 hours :’( I’ve given up farming him for now. The loot pools are just too crammed that it’s starting to take the fun out of the game now
I should add that it was 6 hours just for today. Been farming in total 6 days for the kaoson that I want

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#17

I just got a nice looking corrosive Kaoson from him. That is, I thought it was nice until I looked at the anoint, which was for melee damage.

Just got another nice looking Kaoson. Again, a stupid melee damage anoint.

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#18

Ill keep that in mind to curb my sarcasm next time.

I actually tried to edit the poll it wont allow me anymore. Id have to make a new one one day.

Tbh that one just made me laugh. Its like the people.eho have been saying nothing. is wrong since mayhem 2.0 dropped and this is how it should be.

Ive farmed 10 hrs for.one piece to see it drop twice with unusable anointments sliding sandhawk etc

#19

Reworking annointments so that they’re all useful. Buff the crappy legendary guns so there’s some variety. If this were the case would the boo hooing about drop rates cease? Probably not but I feel thats whats missing. If you could kill stuff at M10 with a Kaos everyone would have 1 in their packs instead of leaving them on the ground.

Oh yeah, dedicated loot. Are you bored if u get that gun everytime from that boss? Every other time?

#20

As someone who tried farming a decent Spiritual Driver and killed Rampager way too many times on M4 just because i kinda like the boss but only saw like 2 or 3 Jujus ever.
And who has only seen a handful of Antifreeze despite having run Takedown more than enough.

Id say they arent bugged, they just vary - some of the dedicated drops have abyssmal chances - nothing new there - was the same in old M4.

Katagawa Junior has given me a good number of Sandhawks on M10 - definitely more than i got Jujus, Drivers and Antifreeze combined in M4 %age wise.

Either way id prefer it if every item was in the global pool. Really not a fan of being forced to kill any specific enemy over and over. If its a DLC exclusive item - at least make it global inside that DLC.

#21

I joined the game with m4. Have been farming everytbing i wanted. Mayhem 2.0.comes.out i spend hours soing the same.bosses cant find it anymore. More like insane amounts of useless world drop legebdarys. Both me and my wife like.some.niche gear. Cant even get em.after 40 runs sometimes between two ppl is rediculous.

Edit solo i do way over 100 runs as i yellow cake some bosses. Plague bearer others. I speed kill stuff. Itsa pain for her to rejoin over n over when i kill a boss in under a minute.

The added rng is too much. Im.not having fun anymore.

#22

I think. The uhh hardcore ppl are right. This is what the devs want.

Personally at this point its not fun anymore for me. I think players like myself will probably move to another game where ur rewarded at a more reasonable rate. Tbh at these rates id never recommend bl3 to another player.

I regret investing so much time into the game.

I think i should move on and leave it to the hardcore fulltime job community. I gotta family and i realize 6 hours farming a boss is not enough even after two weeks on and off now.

#23

For me it’s either one of three options, increase dedicated drop rates OR remove a vast amount of guns from the dedicated pool so it’s not so diluted.

Farming traunt I’ll get a dedicated drop about 1 in every 5-10 runs which isn’t terrible but then in fighting against the tankmans shield and devoted and guess who usually wins…

Or as you move up pass the threshold guns drop off so from m1-3 devoted drops then M4-5 tankmans shield drops and M6-10 it’s just the kaoson and the others are moved to world drop pool.

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