Borderlands 2

[Ruvaldt]

IainC and I do have that Elfbowl match to play from like four months ago...

[MrHat]

I was getting kind of bored with the Gunzerker.

Then I zerked with dual rocket launchers and an exploding shield.

<3

[Phildo]

So is the Commando the most boring place?  I don't think anyone's even mentioned it yet.

[Trippy]

Maya isn't all the exciting. It takes a long time to buff up her Phaselock power. so I'm really just playing her right now as a gimpy Sniper Zero.

[Hawkbit]

So is the Commando the most boring place?  I don't think anyone's even mentioned it yet.

I play commando (har har) and did through BL1, too.  The turret is much improved this version, but we lose the shield.  It's a tradeoff that feels worthwhile.  I feel less of an attachment to assault rifles in this version, though. 

[Phildo]

I'm finding most guns underwhelming considering all my points thus far have gone into the turret.

[Segoris]

I play commando (har har) and did through BL1, too.  The turret is much improved this version, but we lose the shield.  It's a tradeoff that feels worthwhile.  I feel less of an attachment to assault rifles in this version, though. 

Have you tried Phalanx Shield? I'm curious how that is.

[Amaron]

If you see a grenade that claims it launchs a bouncy thing which fires bullets then GRAB it.   It's amazing.

[Trippy]

Also if you started with a blue grenade it's not meant for killing things

(Yes I found that out the hard way)

[Muffled]

Regarding the inventory marking bug I've found that scrolling after tagging does generally remove the tags.  The workaround has been to switch menus or close and open the inventory to force it to save the states before scrolling the inventory around.  Pain in the ass, but not as much as accidentally selling and then having to repurchase my situational gear.

[Yegolev]

It's the MIRV Griffin Show, starring A LOT OF FUCKING GRENADES.

[Fabricated]

What is it with these games and finding loot for every class but the one I actually play? I've got like a dozen embermage-exclusive uniques in TL2 as my berserker, and in Borderlands 2 the only thing I seem to find are pistols and smgs when I'm playing Axton and would like Assault Rifles and Shotguns.

[Amaron]

I've never actually seen a good assault rifle yet.

[Hawkbit]

I've never actually seen a good assault rifle yet.

This is my problem.  I've been unlucky with my guns so far, and it's making it harder than it should be.

[Phildo]

And that's why I'm speccing exclusively for the turret!

[Malakili]

I got really good shotgun early on that got me through most of the beginning, then had a pretty long drought of no good drops for about 7 levels (until about level 11-12).  Now I am regularly getting some solid drops, if not amazing ones.

Playing as a Bloodshed specced Zero at the moment, and getting a point blank critical with a shotgun while cloaked will one shot damned near anything, least with the shotugns I've found so far.

[Rendakor]

I'm having the same problem. I've found a badass rocket launcher and SMG, on my sniper-specced Zer0; the sniper rifle I'm actually using is just a high level white item because all of the green+ ones I find hit for shit.

[Furiously]

Jack might be the best written bad guy ever. 

[Quinton]

I think my only serious complaint (and it's not the end of the world, just an annoyance) is that you always have to hike back to a Fast Travel terminal to get back to Sanctuary or whereever -- I've had a number of side missions that ended with me in the middle of a large level (often with enemies having respawned behind me) and a long hike to get back to a travel terminal.  Give me a way to teleport home when I'm done doing stuff and I'd be a happier Vault Hunter.

More minor is that they seem pretty stingy with vault/stash storage -- I get that part of the game is having to make the hard call on what to keep and what to sell, and once you open up more inventory slots things are less painful, but I still wish I had more space to save stuff.

[Rendakor]

If you save and quit then reload, you'll be back at the nearest fast travel station. Clunky but faster than walking most of the time

[kildorn]

Jack might be the best written bad guy ever. 

This.

Also for ARs: anything by Torgue is awesome, since it pretty much ignores things like skag frontal armor. The one I'm having issues with is finding really solid SMGs. The per bullet damage seems crazy low this time around, and I've only got one awesome SMG that self-slags me (and deals slag/lightning damage and absolutely rips things apart)

[Evildrider]

Tiny TIna is awesome.   

And there is so much loot that finding any good guns is a pain in the ass. 

[Rendakor]

Anyone know if the class mods that provide team bonuses affect you too, or only other teammates?

[Ragnoros]

Anyone know if the class mods that provide team bonuses affect you too, or only other teammates?

They worked on you in BL1. I have not had enough time to play this one enough to know for sure, but I would assume it would be the same.

[Trippy]

Didn't realize there are one way travel stations in the game. I'm having to do the entire Bloodshot section/rescue all over again

Edit: I'm

[Quinton]

Anyone know if the class mods that provide team bonuses affect you too, or only other teammates?

They worked on you in BL1. I have not had enough time to play this one enough to know for sure, but I would assume it would be the same.

I have a Siren mod that provides HP regen to the team and it works on me when I'm playing solo.

[caladein]

Got a chance to play around with Scorn last night and it's pretty great to be able to just toss out Slags without having other people fuss around with weapons. Cooldown is a bit long though even with a cooldown rate relic. I'll probably swap over to something like http://www.bl2db.com/skill-trees#zmxVovVxxqL once I have enough points for Res/Elated and a few points in Sub-Sequence. (The Sustenance points could go wherever I think.)

On another Maya note, has anyone gotten a lot of mileage out of Restoration? Even in the arena fights I haven't used it much as my teammates aren't biting it slowly. We either get separated a bit or gibbed (read: surprise double Super Badass Maniacs), which is where Res is awesome-fantastic.

[Amaron]

I'm still not finding any good assault rifles and it's driving me insane.  What should I even be looking for?  I'm 25 and every one I've ever tried has been clearly inferior to slowly shooting critical locations.

[Fabricated]

I finally found a few decent ones last night, and in general they still do less DPS than equivalent maliwan pistols for some fucking reason, ignoring the fairly accurate jakobs I found that obliterates shit when I aim at shit and spam.

Well, I DID find a green rifle of all things with solid stats/clip size that shot explosive rounds and DIDN'T use so much ammo per shot it needed reloaded every 2 seconds. It's pretty good.

[kildorn]

I'm still not finding any good assault rifles and it's driving me insane.  What should I even be looking for?  I'm 25 and every one I've ever tried has been clearly inferior to slowly shooting critical locations.

DAHL ARs are pretty solid. 25 was an odd level for me, because all the weapons seemed to suddenly scale up a ton, so I went from 100 damage ARs to 300 damage ARs if I found a 26-28 min required. It was pretty rough for about two levels where everything felt like bullet sponges while I tried to find any weapon that would work.

If you ever need a level scaled weapon, tip Moxxi ~30-50k and she'll give you a level scaled SMG.

[MisterNoisy]

If you save and quit then reload, you'll be back at the nearest fast travel station. Clunky but faster than walking most of the time

This also has the added benefit of respawning the boxes (and the ammo contained therein).

[Rishathra]

Speaking of the quit/reload trick, has anyone found a spot like New Haven in the first game, where there were something like six weapons chests scattered around the town?  That was my main method of acquiring good guns.

[kildorn]

Speaking of the quit/reload trick, has anyone found a spot like New Haven in the first game, where there were something like six weapons chests scattered around the town?  That was my main method of acquiring good guns.

The Slab camp has a whole mess of them, and is pretty light on the hostiles. Chests in the world drop loot on level with the zone though, so it's not something you can go back to frequently until you're level capped.

[Lantyssa]

Anyone know if the class mods that provide team bonuses affect you too, or only other teammates?

They affect you as well.  I'm generally running around with a Nurse mod for the regen.

[Fabricated]

Oh yeah, those 3-legged crystal things? A single melee hit shatters the crystals on their legs, so if you're quick you can drop them in 3 hits.