I'm at 35 after my first play through, but most of my gear is sub-35 save for a couple guns and I'm just getting torn apart by everything. Since my time limits don't allow me to really play online with other people I have to solo it, and I have this fear after some random searching online that it's next to impossible to play TVHM alone unless you are just ridiculously amazing at FPS. I am not. I'm far more of a casual FPS guy. I like a challenge but this is ridiculous.
GasBandit
Staff member
Play the DLC first.
You'll have a better time in TVHM when you've got a gun that shoots swords that explode into more swords. BECAUSE REASONS
Yeah, what GB said. TVHM is totally do-able solo without awesome FPS skills, but some decent-ish weapons from the end of the game or the DLC help a ton.
Also, if you have a Shift Club login and have some golden keys left, the gold chest in Sanctuary will give you level appropriate purples (or better).
Also, if you have a Shift Club login and have some golden keys left, the gold chest in Sanctuary will give you level appropriate purples (or better).
Thats what I was hoping to do, go get some good guns in Sanctuary.
Finally it gave me 2 semi-decent guns so it's gotten a little easier. I'm just honestly amazed at how little damage stuff stuff like a level 33 Sniper Rifle was doing. Next to nothing. I'm gonna plug away at it a little more here. I'm really, REALLY relying on Deathtrap and that is helping a bunch. Shit though, they aren't joking around with TVHM are they?
Finally it gave me 2 semi-decent guns so it's gotten a little easier. I'm just honestly amazed at how little damage stuff stuff like a level 33 Sniper Rifle was doing. Next to nothing. I'm gonna plug away at it a little more here. I'm really, REALLY relying on Deathtrap and that is helping a bunch. Shit though, they aren't joking around with TVHM are they?
GasBandit
Staff member
Are you specced for BFF, or Ordered Chaos?
Because if you are ordered chaos, put 5 points in "close enough" in BFF, get yourself either a Fibber or the biggest texas quad shotgun you can, and start building stacks of anarchy. You'll start doing +1000% damage with homing ricochet pellets. It's gamebreakingly sick.
Mainly BFf but I haven't put anything that skill. I'll give it a shot. I finally got some decent guns and that has helped dramatically.[DOUBLEPOST=1393039247,1393039206][/DOUBLEPOST]
I only have 5.
That's kind of the whole problem with the key system... you are encouraged to save them for a rainy day, but you will NEVER have a rainy day in Borderlands 2 because the loot drops were usually pretty decent. This makes the keys both worthless and too awesome to use. The random nature of the items was also a problem: you had no idea if you' get something you could even USE.
Honestly, I hope in Borderlands 3 they make the keys let you upgrade a gun you have or something. Like turn it from a blue to a purple to a whatever. Then I'd never think twice about using them.
Honestly, I hope in Borderlands 3 they make the keys let you upgrade a gun you have or something. Like turn it from a blue to a purple to a whatever. Then I'd never think twice about using them.
Banner Saga - Factions: People were rolling out something new last night and ending my winning streak with it. The team make-up varies, but it relies on having two high strength, low armor varls that are essentially thrown away to mow down your units right off the bat. The rest of the team is a mix of balanced archers and shield soldiers.
The counter I'm thinking of involves high armor varls with archers backing them up, but that's really situation specific. Against a team like my usual, that wouldn't end well.
The counter I'm thinking of involves high armor varls with archers backing them up, but that's really situation specific. Against a team like my usual, that wouldn't end well.
I redid my skills, added in some anarchy and the Close Enough and it's helped a LOT. Don't have any great guns to use it with yet, just some sub-machineguns, but it's definitely making a difference. Still kind of amazed at how much damage the bad guys are dealing. One solid hit from a badass and my shield is GONE. I'm having to dodge around a lot more, which is kind of fun, but I'm definitely dying a lot more.
GasBandit
Staff member
Try to find shotguns with low ammo capacity but high damage/pellet count. Accuracy doesn't matter. Every time you reload (without hitting the key for it) you gain anarchy, so it can help build stacks in a hurry, along with dishing out the hurt from all the homing ricochets. That's why I said Texas Quad - it's the best shotgun for it, IMO. Or, if you kept your "Fibber" pistol from your first playthrough, and it's the one that separates into multiple bullets when it ricochets, even better. The bonuses stack on that one (a reportedly overlooked imbalance) which turns that weapon into the ultimate anarchy weapon. Using it, I was able to kill terramorphous solo in 30 seconds (granted I also had the Slayer of Terramorphous classmod already which gives you 4 more points in preshrunk cyberpunk - even if you have it at 5 already).
GasBandit
Staff member
I don't know how many of them there are, but it's just a random attribute on Jakobs (I think) shotguns. Best one I ever got was merely blue.Interesting. I sold the fibber
It just wasn't doing enough damage. Now I wish I had kept it.
Oh well. I'll look into finding the quad shotguns. It appears there are 4 of them?
I just finished Dragon Age 2. The game has a few problems, namely that it reuses map models heavily to make new areas (they'll lock doors to keep you out of areas) and that it's fairly short (I finished it in 3 days)... but oddly, I still like this more than Dragon Age. The characters were more interesting, fighting was more streamlined, and the conflicts felt like they had greater weight despite being smaller in scale. The time skips were kinda lame but I understand why they did them: they had two story ideas and weren't able to expound on both them (due to what I'm guessing is EA's meddling) so they had to do them both in the same game. Still, it felt more organic than the 5th Blight.
The problems of DA2 have been expounded on across many pages in its own thread (wherever that is), so I'm not gonna get into it again, but I don't agree with a lot of that.
I'm hoping that DA3 will allow me to just carry off my DA: Origins save, because I deleted all my stuff from DA2.
I'm hoping that DA3 will allow me to just carry off my DA: Origins save, because I deleted all my stuff from DA2.
They are planning to do an app or something that lets you pick all of the important choices from Dragon Age 1 and 2. It's supposed to go into beta in a few months, but I don't remember what the address is.
They are also talking about letting you import a save but that hasn't been finalized.
Yeah, I can be pretty forgiving about a game for a lot of reasons but DA2 was the last game I will ever pre-order before the reviews are out. DA1 was, in my opinion, superior in almost every way. Thats not to say they didn't do some things right, and if they incorporate all of the good into DA3 then we may end up with a solid title. But I won't be pre-ordering it.
So, I'm up to level 25 on my Pugilist in FF XIV. Still loving the game. Graphically, it is just amazingly beautiful. I got my Chocobo and it was actually extremely satisfying to earn it rather than just having it handed to me when I hit a certain level. So far I've only progressed just past Ifrit, which was a fun boss battle. I've joined a Free Company (Their version of guilds) and have been having just a blast playing it. I figured I'll keep with this for a while, especially because I'm stalled on Bravely Default.
Oh man, the Primal fights are super satisfying. Let me tell you, after killing Titan for the first time I had a feeling of accomplishment I hadn't felt since the BC days of WoW. The later dungeons are a nice challenge too, especially now that you get more xp for them.
I would say the only real downside to the game is at about 43-44 or so, when your only real option to hit 50 is to grind FATEs in one or two zones. I highly recommend that when you hit this point, get in a FATE group and learn to love your AoE attacks.
Not really. You can solo everything outside of instances. Though some instances are required to advance in the main plot.[DOUBLEPOST=1393204562,1393204453][/DOUBLEPOST]
Couldn't you grind using Guildleves?
You can, but FATEs are more efficient and generally get you more currency/crafting materials, plus some special ones reward companion pets and achievements.
Inizuma Eleven: This started a bit slow and unfair, but now that I can get into what are essentially random encounters (soccer scuffles instead of monster fights), I'm learning the mechanics more and it's a lot of fun. Reminds me of Blitzball a little ...
Weapon Shop de Omasse: Gods, this is a goofy game, and I love it. There are lots of little things to keep track of, but it keeps everything energetic and light-hearted. The laugh track is bizarre, but is welcome in the game's weirdness.
Both Level 5 games. I hadn't played anything of theirs before, but they are really kicking ass with these little downloadable titles. My wife plowed through Attack of the Friday Monsters and The Starship Damrey. We really need to get onto playing through Ni No Kuni.
And maybe the Layton games at some point. These people put out some solid work.
Weapon Shop de Omasse: Gods, this is a goofy game, and I love it. There are lots of little things to keep track of, but it keeps everything energetic and light-hearted. The laugh track is bizarre, but is welcome in the game's weirdness.
Both Level 5 games. I hadn't played anything of theirs before, but they are really kicking ass with these little downloadable titles. My wife plowed through Attack of the Friday Monsters and The Starship Damrey. We really need to get onto playing through Ni No Kuni.
And maybe the Layton games at some point. These people put out some solid work.
Ni No Kuni is absolutely the most beautiful JRPG I've ever played, both in art and music. It's a real treat to play through.
Agreed, but the game hand holds you through out the entire thing. Still one of my favorites of last year.
Ok so I guess I'm getting better at Borderlands TVHM. I just took down Wilhelm last night. Holy shit it was a hard fight (I need way better corrosive weapons right now), stupid Deathmatch didn't' do ANYTHING other than stand there and take hits from him. Why? No idea. Maybe a bug but he basically couldn't see Wilhelm as a enemy to attack. That made the fight WAY harder. 4 or 5 deaths later I finally took that bastard down.
Dave
Staff member
Wilhelm is hard when you die. If you get through the first time you're okay, and I know that sounds weird. But when you die, you are running out of ammo, you don't have time to open any of the chests and the fucking adds are SO FUCKING ANNOYING! I mean, not only does Willy shoot you with lasers and rockets, but his shield regenerates really quickly and he has healer-bots flying around him. SHIELDED healer-bots!
I cut through him - on both normal and True Vault Hunter levels - like butter with the Gunzerker, but holy crap was it a hard fight with a Zero or a Psycho.[DOUBLEPOST=1393353399,1393353374][/DOUBLEPOST]And speaking of Borderlands 2, has anyone got the Headhunter DLCs? How good are they?