What Would It Take For You To Stop Playing?

Borderlands 2 BL2 General Discussion
#61

I have 5 mules including Mulezerker. He was my first character; level 50 gunzerker. I had upgraded his item capacity to 36 items and don’t intend to ever go back and play him so … sold all the level 50 crap he was carrying and he stores my extra legendaries and useful things. The only things I won’t sell are super rare, awesome items I don’t like but can use to trade for other super awesome stuff. I’d like to get my siren up to where my commando is but I don’t like playing her anymore. I miss my turrets and not being able to throw grenades in fight for your life.

I have a legendary soldier mod so I will probably never change my class mod. I only even pick them up if I think someone may want it in a trade.

I farmed an OP1 slag lyuda to replace my pimpernel (I would have preferred a purple Maliwan but no luck) and FINALLY got a purple OP2 spitter! 50 round magazine, 3.1 reload and no zoom on the sight. EXACTLY what I was looking for! I was so excited. Now I just need an OP2 DPUH with no zoom when aiming down the sights. I usually hipfire it because my current DPUH zooms in and if you’ve ever used one, you know that’s a useless feature with the way this gun patterns.

#62

Why? The Pimpernel is much better for slagging than the Lyuda.

#63

Not sure what it’d take for me to stop playing BL2 or Diablo 3.
I was unable to recover my 360 saves and started fresh on THC, didn’t slow me down at all.
Lost my original D3 characters (2 years down the drain in a moment of inattenition) moving to a new HD on 360 and started right back up. Theyre just perfect games for my mindset.
But I have backups now :relieved:

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#64

Because I lost my pimpernel and I didn’t have any luck finding a better slag rifle. I was going to cash in some golden keys and hope for a slag maliwan but I decided to stick with the Lyuda I already had.

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#65

Oh, ok. I misunderstood what you wrote. I thought you had replaced your Pimpernel with the Lyuda on purpose. My bad.

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#66

I stopped playing for a few months and came back to the game recently. In the meantime I’d also stopped my Xbox Live Gold subscription as I rarely play Co-Op (only ever did with one person). So I was initially bummed to find I’d saved my top toons to the Cloud and had no way of accessing them without paying ransom money. Nearly gave up there and then as I couldn’t face building a character from scratch again but found an OP8 Maya mule with some OK gear and am rebuilding from that. Some day when I’m feeling less tight I’ll pay the ransom fee but until then it’s just Maya.

So if all my saves were gone I might stop, for a while at least. I enjoy the destination with BL2 but the journey in BL1 was much better IMO and I’m not sure I’d want to go through all the playthroughs and Peak to get to OP8 again. I know it’s different for everyone but for me at least the crappy guns in BL2 are really crappy and I don’t know if I could take waiting an age to get decent gear again!

#67

To be fair, I am looking at BL2 through the lens of my “retirement” here in UVHM. Dragging nine characters to OP8 meant twenty seven storyline campaigns and seventy two runs in Digistruct Peak. While the memories of that initial journey are rose tinted, I do recall some runs that felt pretty grindy.

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#68

Raid the treasure room. I usually get a slag snipers pretty quick there.

#69

For me, Borderlands 2 is way more about the journey. I enjoy playing at OP8 because there’s a lot of endgame content and some awesome players at that level. But I love taking characters from the beginning again. I really enjoy exploring different builds and just the progression and changes you get when you add one skill at a time. And I’m not really a loot chaser, so I find picking up things as I move through story objectives much more fun than worrying about which guns I like / want to farm. And I love earning XP.

I never get people who want to be powerlevelled through N/TVHM. The game doesn’t magically transform for me once I reach endgame.

The only times I ever really felt like I was grinding were when i went through UVHM for the first time, and some digistruct runs. Other than that I’m endlessly content to just wander around Pandora.

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#70

I agree about the power levelling. It’s not something I’d do. NVHM was fun, I guess, but there were several wtf? moments in UVHM as my gear wasn’t anywhere near adequate and praying for something halfway decent to turn up wasn’t a particularly enjoyable experience. In the 60s, as I recall. The availability of decent weaponry is scarce enough to be noticeable and I found myself often just wishing I could get through a particular level just to get it out of the way. But I appreciate that’s not the same for everyone.

I love the game. Let’s face it, I wouldn’t be playing it years later otherwise. But I did feel some of the later UVHM levels were a grind and I never felt that way in BL1. That was a much more enjoyable journey IMO, while the endgame in BL2 is far superior.