I'll say with all this talk of drop rates and such, one of the things that actually does really annoy me is that shops stock nothing but garbage now.
And by extension money is totally pointless.
yeah i was mulling over this earlier
by themselves, the boss drop rates aren't an issue; giving bosses a small chance to drop a specific thing is a nice way of giving you a means to acquire a specific item
the problem is that it's the only way to acquire most oranges
i have 160 levels under my belt across my characters and i've found a grand total of three orange items that weren't boss drops
that's fucking ridiculous
purple items hit the sweet spot, infrequent enough to be exciting, but not so infrequent that you can't upgrade favored item types or feel ripped off when you find one that's still vendor trash (although since they apparently made geary even more tedious as shit to farm now, i'm less confident this will continue to be the case)
the worst offender is head/skin drops
i don't know what gearbox is thinking: five terra heads, ostensibly a four-man boss, and he never fucking drops them anyway
between all four players they need 20 heads, even leaving aside the inevitable doubles (or quintuples or whatever)
a 100% head/skin drop rate would take a long fucking time to get everything, and verm is even worse!
Now? Shops have been almost always garbage for me, though that's just probably my bad luck.
In BL1, you got a list of greens with a couple blues sometimes and maybe a purple item of the day when you got lucky. BL2 is like going to Utah: nothing but pasty white as far as the eye can see, with a green item of the day and maybe one or two more at the top of the list.
I think I've used exactly one single item out of a machine in all of my three playthroughs. It was never great stuff, but it was useful to level out the RNG in BL1. It doesn't even do that now.
Now? Shops have been almost always garbage for me, though that's just probably my bad luck.
That one vendor in that area where you take the elevator down to fight the first eridum guardians was good to me, I got like 4-5 oranges from it. Sure half of them were volcanos, but still
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There is issues with the drops but that might be to get players to play co-op instead of solo.
Man, I want the Space Knight accessory but after 15 fights with BUNK3R the only one I got was Zero's headpiece.
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i don't know what gearbox is thinking: five terra heads, ostensibly a four-man boss, and he never fucking drops them anyway
I have seen two of the five Terra heads drop when we farmed him a couple of times. Both times I couldn't pick it up. It turns out I was the only one seeing the head both times. I have no idea if this was a bug of some sort (I never did look into it), but it convinced me that this game has so many problems when it comes to loot. If it isn't clipping its way through the ground or a wall, it's just bugged to be picked up. I honestly don't remember this being a problem in the first game other than those disappearing class mods from Crawmerax.
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BUT I HAVEN'T FOUND A GOOD ONE IN AGES WHAT IS UP WITH THAT HORSECRAP?
I found an excellent purple Torgue AR near the end of my first playthrough with Zero - 800 damage, over 90% accuracy, great fire rate, and a 25 round magazine size. That thing served me very well in the final push against the overwhelmingly armored enemies.
I'll say with all this talk of drop rates and such, one of the things that actually does really annoy me is that shops stock nothing but garbage now.
And by extension money is totally pointless.
yeah i was mulling over this earlier
by themselves, the boss drop rates aren't an issue; giving bosses a small chance to drop a specific thing is a nice way of giving you a means to acquire a specific item
the problem is that it's the only way to acquire most oranges
i have 160 levels under my belt across my characters and i've found a grand total of three orange items that weren't boss drops
Apparently fighting a level 50 last boss with a level 46 character using a level 40 Slagga and a level 29 pre-nerf Bee and the Evil Smasher glitch is just too weak for the difficulty scaling to accept. At any rate, that combination which effortlessly eviscerated level 49 and 50 enemies including constructors and super badasses etc. drained the entirety of my SMG reservoir before doing a quarter's worth of the boss's health bar (shooting the weak point).
Time to level up or go upgrade some guns, I guess!
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BUT I HAVEN'T FOUND A GOOD ONE IN AGES WHAT IS UP WITH THAT HORSECRAP?
And by extension money is totally pointless.
by themselves, the boss drop rates aren't an issue; giving bosses a small chance to drop a specific thing is a nice way of giving you a means to acquire a specific item
the problem is that it's the only way to acquire most oranges
i have 160 levels under my belt across my characters and i've found a grand total of three orange items that weren't boss drops
that's fucking ridiculous
purple items hit the sweet spot, infrequent enough to be exciting, but not so infrequent that you can't upgrade favored item types or feel ripped off when you find one that's still vendor trash (although since they apparently made geary even more tedious as shit to farm now, i'm less confident this will continue to be the case)
the worst offender is head/skin drops
i don't know what gearbox is thinking: five terra heads, ostensibly a four-man boss, and he never fucking drops them anyway
between all four players they need 20 heads, even leaving aside the inevitable doubles (or quintuples or whatever)
a 100% head/skin drop rate would take a long fucking time to get everything, and verm is even worse!
like, what the fuck
do they want people to cheat?
I think I've used exactly one single item out of a machine in all of my three playthroughs. It was never great stuff, but it was useful to level out the RNG in BL1. It doesn't even do that now.
I mean now as opposed to BL1, where you could regularly find decent if not good items in shops as the item of the day at least.
certainly more than 2
Sad, but there are good substitutes.
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On the other hand I've had a Jimmy Jenkins spawn in a stalker hanging sac so yeah, luck can be a harsh, weird mistress.
There is issues with the drops but that might be to get players to play co-op instead of solo.
Man, I want the Space Knight accessory but after 15 fights with BUNK3R the only one I got was Zero's headpiece.
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Yeah, this'll be DLC #2 for the season pass.
Basically the season pass covers the first four "expansion" style DLCs.
Anything else they release like new classes or whatever will fall outside of it.
it's way easier to farm solo than to hope something drops while you're actually just playing
(increasing the number of players does not actually improve loot drops except in the most roundabout possible way)
The only way playing multi improves drops is by increasing the number of badass and above enemies, who naturally have better drop rates.
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I have seen two of the five Terra heads drop when we farmed him a couple of times. Both times I couldn't pick it up. It turns out I was the only one seeing the head both times. I have no idea if this was a bug of some sort (I never did look into it), but it convinced me that this game has so many problems when it comes to loot. If it isn't clipping its way through the ground or a wall, it's just bugged to be picked up. I honestly don't remember this being a problem in the first game other than those disappearing class mods from Crawmerax.
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So, on to TVHM or head to Oasis?
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