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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    the landscaper is rather uniquely suited to killing stalkers, i must admit.

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  • HooverFanHooverFan NCRegistered User regular
    So the damn gun drops in iolo's game, and when I do it in UVHM on my zerker, I've killed the fucker 4 times so far and NO DAMN DROP... seriously, of all the stupid-assed kills, THIS one has to be the one not to give me shit

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    Oh, weird, I got some kind of SMG outlined in teal. It's worth a million bucks to sell but it's nothing special compared to a lesser purple of the same level.

    ... I don't understand this game.

  • HooverFanHooverFan NCRegistered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Oh, weird, I got some kind of SMG outlined in teal. It's worth a million bucks to sell but it's nothing special compared to a lesser purple of the same level.

    ... I don't understand this game.

    Pearlescent is the rarest of drops, which is what you got... and yeah, they mostly blow donkey balls

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    HooverFan wrote: »
    So the damn gun drops in iolo's game, and when I do it in UVHM on my zerker, I've killed the fucker 4 times so far and NO DAMN DROP... seriously, of all the stupid-assed kills, THIS one has to be the one not to give me shit

    yeah the game is odd about drops not working sometimes

    let me know if you want to kill him on my game

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  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Apologies to @hooverfan and anyone else I left hanging when I had to bail, didn't realize how long the egg hunt was and was on the crunch to get across town for work.

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  • IoloIolo iolo Registered User regular
    Fuck, sorry @hooverfan. I should have let you grab the landscaper. I just assumed you wouldn't want a level 50. :(

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  • HooverFanHooverFan NCRegistered User regular
    nah, if its somebody else's game, its their loot... as it is, I did one last run and finally got the damned thing to drop

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    i like how the interfacer's nades actually rise from the ground like flowers

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  • Zerozaki IshikiZerozaki Ishiki Registered User regular
    the landscaper is rather uniquely suited to killing stalkers, i must admit.

    How so? It ain't electric, and it can't actually hit them, or anything else.
    I had to swap my Rubi for another real gun to actually kill anything, or even to break through the damn shields. I wouldn't be shocked if we fail to make the community goal today.

  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    the landscaper is rather uniquely suited to killing stalkers, i must admit.

    How so? It ain't electric, and it can't actually hit them, or anything else.
    I had to swap my Rubi for another real gun to actually kill anything, or even to break through the damn shields. I wouldn't be shocked if we fail to make the community goal today.

    shoot the ground. wait a few seconds.

    the landscaper is a mine-layer. you don't aim for the stalkers, you carpet the area in mines and they have no choice but to die :D

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Also why I love my Torque shotgun when dealing with Stalkers.

    When everything in front of you is exploding, it's a happy day.

    Unless you're a stalker.

    And if you're a stalker, you're going to special hell. WHERE THEY'LL HAVE TO GLUE YOU BACK TOGETHER.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    That Pumpkin King DLC sounds interesting. I am intrigued.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    I can never friggin remember which character has which DLC finished on which playthrough, so I always manage to pick the incorrect one. And then default back to Zer0 even if the gun doesn't work for him.

    This has been another exciting update in Sorce's Adventures in Gearbox's BL2 Loot Hunt.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Might as well head out to Hammerlock's on my Krieg, since I've never actually done it before..

    ...oh god everything in there doesn't scale down in PT1, and is all level 30+. (I *just* hit 27.)

    Yeah no.

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  • 38thDoe38thDoe lets never be stupid again wait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
    Hmm killed the thing twice with hooverfan this morning but neither kill registered. Anyone else have that issue? I don't want to kill the thing again.

  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    Witch doctors are absolute rancid fucking bullshit.
    I get close enough to use my guns, I get obliterated by the homing orbs. If I don't kill them immediately, all the enemies become level fuck-you and destroy me. What am I supposed to do?

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    edited October 2013
    Like, I want to play UVHM so I can keep levelling and getting rad gear and do the raid bosses and such. But I can't get past any fucking encounter. Getting the loot hunt legendaries/uniques 3+ levels below me isn't fun.
    Is there a specific build I should be running as Salvador? I normally hate running copy-paste builds from the internet, but I'm tired of dropping $1 million+ every mission.

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  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Witch Doctors are so awful. If my turret isn't on cool down I've got the cure for them, but if they become their whirlwind I'm in trouble.

    Also Arizona was a shitty choice of a target. She's got so many fucking hit points it's fucking crazy.

    I like the feel of the Hammerlock DLC, but goddamn it's got some problems. First the Crag is a fucked up map. It's way too goddamn long and doesn't have any fast travel points and that is just awful. Secondly witch doctors, fuck 'em, and thirdly fuck this Jackenstein boss fight. I got the two power packs on his back, those were obvious targets, but I don't know where on his chest I'm supposed to shoot to pop his chest open to really shoot him and gave up on that fight after half a mil.

  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    I had to drop down to TVHM to get past the first mission, so you're way ahead of me. :oops:

  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Witch Doctors are so awful. If my turret isn't on cool down I've got the cure for them, but if they become their whirlwind I'm in trouble.

    Also Arizona was a shitty choice of a target. She's got so many fucking hit points it's fucking crazy.

    I like the feel of the Hammerlock DLC, but goddamn it's got some problems. First the Crag is a fucked up map. It's way too goddamn long and doesn't have any fast travel points and that is just awful. Secondly witch doctors, fuck 'em, and thirdly fuck this Jackenstein boss fight. I got the two power packs on his back, those were obvious targets, but I don't know where on his chest I'm supposed to shoot to pop his chest open to really shoot him and gave up on that fight after half a mil.

    Witch Drs wouldn't be nearly as terrible if they didn't buff and heal all nearby mobs. If they only healed or only buffedthey'd manageable, but both is just unfair.

    Apparently one lucky buzz axe throw can take out 95% of Arizona's, slag and few bonus packages made finishing him off a lot less of a chore.

    Yes, Jackenstien's final form is total BS. His crit point is only visible when he is actively raining electric death on you. I still haven't finished him, I just abandoned that DLC and moved on to Tiny Tina. I think explosives are supposed to get passed his armor if you shoot where his crit point is supposed to be.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    I was lucky I guess, my level 50 Fibber/Close Enough/Bee combo was good enough to get to Arizona without major issues. The worst part of the whole thing was the egg hunt, I mean seriously. 23 eggs? Just traipsing about a gigantic map hoping you find them? It was boring as shit.

    Arizona itself had ridiculous hit points, so many that I had to stop the fight, flee, buy ammo and return twice, but it might not have been so bad if my son hadn't been power-leveling his 44 Krieg in my 56 UVHM, making the game significantly harder without contributing much himself.

  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Hmm donkey mong, I killed him last week and didn't get the achievement, maybe it will work today.

    Also, having played Psycho for the last 2 weeks, going back to Zer0 has been rough.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Sounds like Mong doesn't require a specific quest to spawn, right?

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  • Talus9952Talus9952 Registered User regular
    PMAvers wrote: »
    Sounds like Mong doesn't require a specific quest to spawn, right?

    Correct. But from what I understand, he doesn't always spawn.

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  • PierceNeckPierceNeck Registered User regular
    Dang, I forgot to jump on over the weekend and kill the daily guys. I'll bet one of those entries was going to win me all the money.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    With how quickly the daily community challenges are being completed, I would guess the odds of actually winning anything in this contest are pretty damn low. Still, it only takes an hour at most to beat them, and it's a good excuse to fire up the game again.

  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    Crap I've been killing King Mong not Donkey Mong.

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  • ShimshaiShimshai Flush with Success! Isle of EmeraldRegistered User regular
    I played the first Borderlands again on a whim a few days ago, and had a tree-mendous amount of fun. I had never played as Brick before so punching everything with exploding fists just gave me the biggest grin. All the time.

    I played up to about level 40. One of the more striking differences between the two games was that the vending machine weapons were actually far better than most of the weapons drops, with a lot of blues and purples regularly available. Even better was that they weren't so rigidly tied to the player level, so you actually had a very good chance of finding level-relevant gear and even higher-level gear.

    So yeah, not having to rely on drops for all you weapon needs was a nice change of pace.

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  • HooverFanHooverFan NCRegistered User regular
    Crap I've been killing King Mong not Donkey Mong.

    Yeah, King Mong spawns quite a bit, but Donkey Mong spawns VERY little... i'm hoping they've changed that so he spawns all the time. He's located just under where Mal the robot is along with all the other bonerfarts and rakk's that divebomb you while fighting 'farts.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    edited October 2013
    Shimshai wrote: »
    I played the first Borderlands again on a whim a few days ago, and had a tree-mendous amount of fun. I had never played as Brick before so punching everything with exploding fists just gave me the biggest grin. All the time.

    I played up to about level 40. One of the more striking differences between the two games was that the vending machine weapons were actually far better than most of the weapons drops, with a lot of blues and purples regularly available. Even better was that they weren't so rigidly tied to the player level, so you actually had a very good chance of finding level-relevant gear and even higher-level gear.

    So yeah, not having to rely on drops for all you weapon needs was a nice change of pace.

    Borderlands 2 features massive improvements on a general level, but I feel like the level scaling hurts it the same way that it hurt Oblivion. When I'm reaching higher levels in UVHM, the enemies scale with me and I never feel truly powerful.

    Like, one mook can one-shot me but it takes 2 or 3 minutes of him bullet-sponging to do the same. But it's even worse than Oblivion, because that awesome gun he has that's one-shotting me isn't dropped for me to use.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    i've run into donkey mong like twice ever

    fffffffffff

  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Ran into him the first time I went out to the point on the map. Maybe he shows up more on normal?

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  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
    Quickest way to run Donkey Mongs spawn point is to enter the Blight from the Ore Chasm, up where Mal is. Enter the Ore Chasm, back out again, then it's a straight 20-second run to his cave. If he doesn't show, quit and continue, and you start at that same entrance again. 30-45 seconds a time. He's not that infrequent a spawn.

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  • El GuacoEl Guaco Registered User regular
    I still say that a random spawn boss is a poor choice for a challenge. The only challenge is trying your patience by loading the game over and over until he shows.

    And why have him be a random spawn to begin with? I didn't have the achievement until now because the few times I've been out to EB, I never went near his spawn area.

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Ehhh there are things to complain about but this isn't one of them.

    It took me literally 2 and a half minutes to get DM to spawn and kill him, total

    Even if you're really unlucky I can't imagine it would take you more than 10 minutes

  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    Quickest way to run Donkey Mongs spawn point is to enter the Blight from the Ore Chasm, up where Mal is. Enter the Ore Chasm, back out again, then it's a straight 20-second run to his cave. If he doesn't show, quit and continue, and you start at that same entrance again. 30-45 seconds a time. He's not that infrequent a spawn.

    Infrequent enough that I wasted a little more than half an hour before giving up. :(

    I thought I was in the wrong place so I youtubed it. Nope, the Border gods just don't like me.

  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    once i found the spot i needed to, i got him like four times in a row

    and only one dud run

    thank christ, too, because he was being a dick about dropping a level 61 hive

    i wanted to get one because it's good and there's no goddamn way i'm ever getting a level 61 from saturn

  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    New target's up, McNally out in the Dust. Drops a Lady Fist.

    Sounds like you need to be on the Bane mission to get him to spawn the first time?
    200k Loaders is the community target.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Beat Terramorphous last night, but I had to do it with a 57 Mech in TVHM against a 52 Terra

    Even then it took like 7 or 8 tries

    I also made a little progress in UVHM, but it is really fuckin' annoying getting one-shotted by enemies with a low-accuracy shotgun from across the map

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