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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel BL:TPS Discussion
#9

Maybe you should tell us about your character, which build you are using, the level they are on and most importantly what your gear is. The Pre-Sequel is a lot easier than BL2 thanks to a milder scaling and characters themselves being a bit more powerful overall so there are some other issues to be addressed here.

Iwajira is a horrendous source for Legendaries anyway. The Hail it drops is really good but too awkward to use for many people. I haven’t seen a single Thingy ever since I got the Handsome Collection and I do check everything.

I find a lot of Legendaries in Vendors (a lot meaning like 3 which is a lot compared to BL2) but I do check them every single time so there are a lot of chances. Bosses have a great chance to drop their Legendaries now but 1:10 still expects you to put some work into it. Additionally, there are FAR less bosses with drops in the storyline compared to BL2 once again. If I do farm them I get what I want in about an hour at worst. I usually don’t get a Legendary without trying during a playthrough because of that low number bosses.

But really, I never even needed the Legendaries. If they are fun to use I’ll farm for them but I often get them just from exp farming Red & Belly and the Bosun to stay with the ridiculous expected level.

#10

First playthrough odds aren’t as good. I do feel like many of the blue quest rewards and drops, are equally interesting to the legendaries.

And do all the concordia side missions. Make sure you get the grinder and then grind any purples you can find (decent legendary chances that way). I find that about 90% as rewarding as seeing a legendary drop from a boss. I also tend to moonshine grind blues to purples.

#11

It’s actually about a 5% chance (1 in 20) for converting three purples into a legendary, especially since you can’t moonstone grind them.

#12

That’s better than usual odds, right?

Plus you have some control over what type you’ll end up with.

#13

Depends on what source you’re talking about, and how much real time you’re willing to invest e.g. you might actually get a better rate from “Items of the Day”, but you have to travel a lot and/or wait for the timer to reset to try again. For bosses etc. the legendary odds should now be 1 in 10 though.

As long was you use three of a kind (or two of one kind for weapons), yes. You can use three random weapons and roll the dice completely, though!

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#14

I look at grinding as the additional chances for legendaries from a boss. Because my best source for purples are from bosses. So I’ll go kill the sentinel or “godzilla”, loot all the purples and uniques, go back to town, grind the purples I don’t want.

#15

Pretty much what I do, too. I actually enjoy it as a bit of a “metagame”.

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#16

You get pretty good uniques just by doing certain side quests. So they pretty much hand out some pretty good guns. Then there’s moonstone chests which guarantee you blues or purples with a chance of luneshine effects. Theres tons of shooting and looting in this. And alot of ways to get unique or good gear. Sentinel has alot of legendarys in his loot pool so you can farm him. Then theres farming vending machines like others said. And then theres bosses who have specific drops you can farm. Mutator arena is a great place for loot as well. Im always finding loot in this game. Theres tons of it all around. Just keep playing and do everything there is to do.

#17

Well can anyone tell me why on the mission let’s build a robot where the turrets have to kill 12 scavs I’ve have died 26 times and lost almost all my money ?
It’s a level 36 mission I’m level 36 with level 36 purple weapons from the gold chest and a level 36 shield, this game is absolutely stupid, I’ve never been put down or died as much in 3 run throughs of BL2. Thought this game was meant to be more user friendly, also why Do all the shields have such rubbish recharge rates and delays ? And then to top it all off I get yet another super badass outlaw that insta kills me with a cryo rocket launcher, when will Gearbox ever realise that not everyone can co/op or has a friend who has the game, sick to death of being put down constantly or just dying resporning. This game sucks big time !!!

#18

It’s ok, I was destroying everything in that room on purpose. using Nisha with a luck cannon, transfusion grenades, and a maggie. Probably going on 10 minutes, so obviously a ton of loot everywhere. Finally, the turrets killed it’s 12 person. I go to grab the loot, and the game freezes. I guess too much loot on the ground. reset, reluctantly to do it again, and somehow, the game had saved the fact that I had finished the turrets…

#19

I managed to complete the mission eventually, took 2 hours and cost $45000 and died 30+ times, worst part is the respawn point is far enough to out of the final boss area for her to be back to full health every time you respawn. With all the white and green loot I got and sold managed to get back to $18600. I then checked the venders in the Titan robot facility and guess what a nice moonshine launcher but no money to buy it :rage:

#20

Just posting to point that out “not getting Legendaries” is not the same as “not getting loot”. You seem to be confusing the two.

#21

Did you notice the levels on the badass enemies? THere’s something weird with the scaling in that mission (as well as the “Another Pickle” in Crisis Scar) where you can see enemies significantly above either your or the mission level. I’ve mostly done the turrets and Felicity in TVHM co-op, which makes life a lot easier - you can string it out for quite a while and level up doing so. Solo is tougher if you’re gear and build aren’t matched to the situation, though.

#22

Yes the badass enemies where lvl 38 but they usually are one or two levels up

#23

GorblesGorb11h
Just posting to point that out “not getting Legendaries” is not the same as “not getting loot”. You seem to be confusing the two.

I didn’t say I was not getting loot just not legendary loot, big difference between legendary and the mostly white and green stuff that in my opinion should not even be in the game, most of them are useless against anything above a basic minion.

#24

Given how easy it is to get Blues and even Purples, I disagree with your assertions.

Game’s also perfectly doable with greens, and though a challenge is doable with whites. Not tested on OP levels, mind.

#25

Can you post what you’re using as your build. It seems like you were dying a lot on the felicity map. We might able to offer some tips.

#26

And no talk of duping, mind. I’ve removed the offending post. Please read the rules now.

#27

The thread was going on a couple of months old, but this might still be helpful: Camp under the stairs in the turret-calibration room. Chip away at health on the scavs from there. Not a single one of those little BA PITAs will get you there. They try to jump on you, and they land on the platform above you. This formerly hair-pulling experience is now cake for me.

Few legendaries are really worth the effort anyway. I find myself farming a lot more glitch guns in Claptastic than I do oranges.

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#28

Iwajira used to give a legendary 100% of the time when the game first came out… then that got patched.

I’ve since then got most of mine with careful grinding, it’s much easier that way.