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Lamquin
Aug 11, 2007

khy posted:

Is there a recommended level to do the DLC? Just wait until I finish the main story or...?

I'd recommend waiting until you've finished the campaign. The DLCs are pretty much self-contained, but there are a few characters introduced and developed in the main campaign that make going into a DLC starring those characters a bit odd. It also helps if you can get the DLC specific legendaries and rewards at max level when you play them.

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The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



Just don't do the latest one before you totally finish Promethea because uh...spoilers

Less Fat Luke
May 23, 2003

Exciting Lemon

juggalo baby coffin posted:

is true vault hunter mode worth playing in this game? or is it annoying?
Nah Mayhem Mode is what you want (Tanis shows you how to activate it). Mayhem has 10 levels and will scale all quests and enemies to your level. TVHM seems to be the same with more annointed enemies so I'm not sure why it exists.

Highest Cactus
Jul 25, 2007

News: Mysterious illegal cookies seized. "Tastes terrible," says police.

How do I avoid the rainbow insta-kill in the last phase of the final krieg DLC boss? I tried ducking behind the rubble and that hasnt been working

Highest Cactus fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Sep 26, 2020

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
Lol, you still can't start TVHM in Mayhem mode. Just a complete waste of time.

E: sorry, you can

Highest Cactus posted:

How do I avoid the rainbow insta-kill in the last phase of the final krieg DLC boss? I tried ducking behind the rubble and that hasnt been working

Think I just facetanked with life steal.

Rinkles fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Sep 26, 2020

Highest Cactus
Jul 25, 2007

News: Mysterious illegal cookies seized. "Tastes terrible," says police.

When I bother to try again, im going to try and just kite a rocket guy around until he fires it off and hope for a second wind

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:
The rainbow death laser doesn't cover the entire arena but it is a fairly wide cone, you can just run to the left/right depending on where he's positioned himself.

juggalo baby coffin
Dec 2, 2007

How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?


does anyone have a good fl4k build? i am clueless with min-maxing of any sort, so far i have just mostly been using the radiation explosion, and switching between the gun monkey and charger skag depending on my mood.

i have not used the ant really at all cause ive not put points in the orange tree, or really used the non-gamma action skills. the green one seems like its just zer0's move from BL2 which probably means its the strongest, and the orange skill seems like it would make rakks suicide bomb and that doesnt seem very animal friendly.

edit: for some reason as my first post-storyline thing i went and did some maliwan base attack. the boss took me a few tries but cause i kept killing bits of it and the adds the entire arena was just flooded with orange guns, and half of them are the same gun with different rolls, and i will never be able to sort through all of it

juggalo baby coffin fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Sep 26, 2020

khy
Aug 15, 2005

Critique my build.

I didn't take some for the road since all the other +ammo skills already give me infinite ammo, no need for that. I'm basically just piling up all of the +damage and +incendiary and +ammo skills I possibly can, and relying on Vampyr for all of my survivability. Also for whatever reason the planner wouldn't let me select hammerdown protocol but that's planned for what I'd use.

Also what are some good legendaries I can keep an eye out for? Right now I'm using a Roisen's Thorns and it's wrecking everything even though I haven't started going into the demolition tree just yet. I imagine once I do go down that tree it'll become even crazier. I'm loving most torgue guns I get but I wish I had a torgue assault rifle that's full-auto instead of semi-auto.

khy fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Sep 26, 2020

A Moose
Oct 22, 2009



khy posted:

Critique my build.

I didn't take some for the road since all the other +ammo skills already give me infinite ammo, no need for that. I'm basically just piling up all of the +damage and +incendiary and +ammo skills I possibly can, and relying on Vampyr for all of my survivability. Also for whatever reason the planner wouldn't let me select hammerdown protocol but that's planned for what I'd use.

Also what are some good legendaries I can keep an eye out for? Right now I'm using a Roisen's Thorns and it's wrecking everything even though I haven't started going into the demolition tree just yet. I imagine once I do go down that tree it'll become even crazier. I'm loving most torgue guns I get but I wish I had a torgue assault rifle that's full-auto instead of semi-auto.

looks pretty good overall, I think Torgue Cross-Promotion is one of the strongest skills so you might want to take it and Explosive Punctuation isn't NEARLY as good as it looks, so maybe swap those 5 points over. Also To The Last is better than it looks because you can spam a bunch of grenades, get 2nd wind, and then get all the healing from Vampyr to keep you from going down again, and get a grenade refunded.

With that build, you definitely want an exploding gun, which is probably why Roisen's Thorns is working so well for you. If you do the Maliwan takedown, you can also get Kyb's Worth and Tigg's Boom, which are both really good splash damage guns. The Insider from Guns Love and Tentacles is another really good one.

Edit: I would definitely suggest you go down the Demolition tree first, that's where most of the power is.

Also, when you fill the demolition tree, the grenade you use matters a lot. Generally you want the highest possible number of explosions to hit, so you want Tracker grenades that split or MIRV or both. The absolute best grenade in the game is the Cloning Maddening Tracker, and its a random purple you'll find in a vending machine.

A Moose fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Sep 26, 2020

khy
Aug 15, 2005

The reason I hadn't been planning to use Torgue Cross Promotion was simply because I'd heard that the sudden doubling of size causes a lot of people to down themselves. I'll try it out though!

Does the storm sniper rifle have splash? It looks like it does visually and I swear near-hits are almost as good as direct hits, but it's hard to say for certain.

lazerwolf
Dec 22, 2009

Orange and Black
Zane players what gear are you using for this dumb krieg boss?

Highest Cactus
Jul 25, 2007

News: Mysterious illegal cookies seized. "Tastes terrible," says police.

I changed tactics and saved iron bear to tank it. Barely took any damage, compared to melting without it. Still kind of spongey, but the fight didn’t take as long as the jack DLC boss on the first run.

Overall, I liked the story and setting. People were right about how much of it felt like an apology for Maya getting done dirty. I haven’t found any dlc gear that I like just yet. A level 60 Moar Gargoyle carried me up to the final boss, then I went and farmed a new one for the fight. It was fun for being part of the season pass, but I still liked the casino way more, even with every enemy being just loader bots the whole time.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Highest Cactus posted:

I changed tactics and saved iron bear to tank it. Barely took any damage, compared to melting without it. Still kind of spongey, but the fight didn’t take as long as the jack DLC boss on the first run.

Overall, I liked the story and setting. People were right about how much of it felt like an apology for Maya getting done dirty. I haven’t found any dlc gear that I like just yet. A level 60 Moar Gargoyle carried me up to the final boss, then I went and farmed a new one for the fight. It was fun for being part of the season pass, but I still liked the casino way more, even with every enemy being just loader bots the whole time.

I haven't got through all the DLC yet, but I liked the Casino. The loaders were fine, especially once I figured out my Breath of the Dying made short work of them even with it a few levels behind my current level.

Highest Cactus
Jul 25, 2007

News: Mysterious illegal cookies seized. "Tastes terrible," says police.

CaptainSarcastic posted:

I haven't got through all the DLC yet, but I liked the Casino. The loaders were fine, especially once I figured out my Breath of the Dying made short work of them even with it a few levels behind my current level.

I had a corrosive Recursion (before the pellet nerf) that would clear rooms in a handful of shots. It was a lot of fun.

lazerwolf
Dec 22, 2009

Orange and Black
1. Bounty of Blood
2. Handsome Jackpot
3. Love guns and tentacles
4. Fantastic fustercluck

That’s my ranking for DLC

A Moose
Oct 22, 2009



khy posted:

The reason I hadn't been planning to use Torgue Cross Promotion was simply because I'd heard that the sudden doubling of size causes a lot of people to down themselves. I'll try it out though!

Does the storm sniper rifle have splash? It looks like it does visually and I swear near-hits are almost as good as direct hits, but it's hard to say for certain.

yeah, you can down yourself, just gotta be a little careful about letting enemies get close to you. Also maybe avoid weapons like the Nukem that have an absurdly large blast radius already. It's definitely worth the damage boost.

according to a post on the gearbox forums, the lighting balls on Storm are splash damage

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
One thing I was mildly surprised about with BOB was that it let Jakobs be total shitheads again.

Judge Tesla
Oct 29, 2011

:frogsiren:

Darth Walrus posted:

One thing I was mildly surprised about with BOB was that it let Jakobs be total shitheads again.

Yeah, while Wainright may be a decent guy it seems he was the exception to the rule in the Jakobs family.

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

It seems to be a trend that decent people are usually the exception in the Borderlands universe. Even the "good" guys are morally hosed up.

juggalo baby coffin
Dec 2, 2007

How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?


i finished guns, love, and tentacles' main storyline and i enjoyed it.

i was surprised they actually had hammerlock and wainwright kiss. usually devs are happy to have gay characters in games, but not actually show them doing anything beyond hugging or holding hands. they're probably my favourite characters from the BL3 main story so i enjoyed seeing more of them, and i liked the creepy lodge owner guy, and the environs and enemies are cool. the only real downside is a lot of the areas are very linear, so idk how huge the replay value will be.

i've been playing on mayhem 2, and my modifiers are lootsplosion and one that makes enemies tougher when they group up. lootsplosion is kind of cool and kind of a nightmare. i've mostly been wanting to unlock more cosmetics, but it keeps giving me stuff for everyone but fl4k. i'm very tired of searching through eridian artifacts and class mods now though. i think i am just gonna use this pearl claptrap gave me forever.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


I've got a weird one while playing Bounty of Blood (PC).

I can't summon a vehicle at a catch a ride station. Its like the FoV is hosed up and the bottom of the UI window goes off the bottom of the screen, and for the life of me i can't remember what hotkey it is (if there is one) to summon the vehicle.

Halp.

unicr0n
Sep 8, 2003

Arrath posted:

I've got a weird one while playing Bounty of Blood (PC).

I can't summon a vehicle at a catch a ride station. Its like the FoV is hosed up and the bottom of the UI window goes off the bottom of the screen, and for the life of me i can't remember what hotkey it is (if there is one) to summon the vehicle.

Halp.

I'm on PS4 but for me it's 'square' which is the same button as reload, so I dunno, maybe 'R' on pc?

brain dammej
Oct 6, 2013

Default is Q to summon the vehicle.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Thanks guys.

juggalo baby coffin
Dec 2, 2007

How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?


is there any way to stop my dang ol doggo dying constantly in the wotan fight? he just endlessly runs into the electric aoe around the boss and dies, is there a way to tell him to hold back a bit?

A Moose
Oct 22, 2009



So Gearbox is making an actual tabletop version of Bunkers and Badasses, complete with sourcebook, miniatures, gun cards.

its 120 and features

"-over 200 jokes!
- 20 of which are funny!"

https://tinytinagames.com/

Listerine
Jan 5, 2005

Exquisite Corpse

A Moose posted:

So Gearbox is making an actual tabletop version of Bunkers and Badasses, complete with sourcebook, miniatures, gun cards.

its 120 and features

"-over 200 jokes!
- 20 of which are funny!"

https://tinytinagames.com/

This is so useless, Bunkers and Badasses was just a D&D campaign Tina was running. Dungeons and Dragons already exists. At most, partner with someone to make a campaign sourcebook using the existing D&D ruleset, although I don't even know what that would consist of, they didn't innovate anything with Tina's campaign.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



juggalo baby coffin posted:

is there any way to stop my dang ol doggo dying constantly in the wotan fight? he just endlessly runs into the electric aoe around the boss and dies, is there a way to tell him to hold back a bit?

I assume you're asking about Fl4k? I tend to use the Jabber pet with an SMG so he tends to stay back a bit - not sure if that would help.

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Holy poo poo i found a fire Kaos and this thing is incredible if only I could stop murdering myself with it.

Numberwang!!!
Jul 24, 2019

So I haven't played since launch, did they ever fix crashing during Multiplayer??? 5~15 minutes into each match, but never with single player.

Also are level caps dependent on DLC?

juggalo baby coffin
Dec 2, 2007

How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?


CaptainSarcastic posted:

I assume you're asking about Fl4k? I tend to use the Jabber pet with an SMG so he tends to stay back a bit - not sure if that would help.

yeah i'm playing as fl4k. i've tried the gunslinger jabber but he still runs in for some reason, i don't know why.

is it supposed to be a surprise that jakobs is the company in the western dlc? they treat it like a reveal but like, everything in the entire planet has the branding all over.

also, is it meant to be impossible to do the guardian breach takedown solo? it takes 100 years to charge each of the three crystals at the start, and way too many guardians spawn. i eventually lost after like 15 minutes because my FFYL time just went down to 0 seconds eventually

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


juggalo baby coffin posted:

is it supposed to be a surprise that jakobs is the company in the western dlc? they treat it like a reveal but like, everything in the entire planet has the branding all over.

It felt like they wanted it to be. But when all the loot containers on the entire planet were jakobs style it was slightly telegraphed.

GTJustin
Nov 24, 2010

juggalo baby coffin posted:

also, is it meant to be impossible to do the guardian breach takedown solo? it takes 100 years to charge each of the three crystals at the start, and way too many guardians spawn. i eventually lost after like 15 minutes because my FFYL time just went down to 0 seconds eventually

The jump from maliwan to guardian is quite large. Maybe farm higher mayhem gear up if you're going down at the crystal stage. There's a lot of platforming/mechanics/knock backs that was super frustrating for me even with a geared up Amara playing on a lower mayhem mode

Listerine
Jan 5, 2005

Exquisite Corpse
Been out of the loop since the 3rd DLC, what are the best guns- is it the Blood DLC now, or has the new DLC produced anything good?

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

What I'm getting at is...
Do you feel the same way?
just want to say playing krieg is a lot of fun

i'm not gonna deny that part of it is nostalgia, but there's something about borderlands 2 that's missing from 3. 3 has qol changes and better shooting, but overall 2 is just a better time.

Tombot
Oct 21, 2008
For me, I can't go back to Borderlands 2 after playing The pre-sequel. I can't go back to a world without laser guns. (Oh and all the other QOL changes and additions).

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

Tombot posted:

For me, I can't go back to Borderlands 2 after playing The pre-sequel. I can't go back to a world without laser guns. (Oh and all the other QOL changes and additions).

I think I'd keep trying to slide and mantle. It's a shame as there are find and skills I'd like to go back to, hopefully Excalibastard will yet be added.

Anyway, Bloody Harvest is coming back next week, so terror builds may re-enter the meta.

https://twitter.com/Borderlands/status/1311698681800785927?s=19

Shiftypenguin
Mar 15, 2005

Antique Roadshow
Come on M10 level 65 Ghost Call!

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PERMACAV 50
Jul 24, 2007

because we are cat
Ah man, between this and Festival of the Lost in Destiny 2 starting the same time, I'm going to be putting in some serious couch time this month. On-level Ghast Calls and Fearmongers are real high on my shopping list.

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