Whats going on ????

[striker93]

So i have started playing bls2 again after a while of not playing, i played it a lot in the past for almost 190hs, but only since i started a new account have i noticed that loot seems to be very very hard to come by, for example im lvl 22, and just killed 1 war loader, 2 hot loaders, 2 stg loaders and 2 normal bots all with in about 10 feet with a lvl of 25-27 and i got 1 box of sniper ammo and 1 grenade out of it. I also just killed the bunker to get 1 purple and 2 blues and all whites with only 2 blocks of erid, which to me seem like a very poor drop. My question is has or is anyone else finding loot very hard to come by, its getting so stupid for me that a lvl 10 gun is still one of my best guns to use as i cant find anything better.

[Enduro60]

BNK-3R is terrible for farming anyway, but unfortunately it has one of the best shields (sham) and SMGs (b*tch). It also drops stupidly rare heads. My advice is to get some shift codes and use them. You should be easily able to get maybe 100 codes that are still active. As you level up, if you havent found anything good, open the golden chest a few times.

BTW, when doing core angel quest, did you find any loot midgets? Maybe you could farm thousand cuts or core angel for them. But then again, since this is just your first playthrough maybe do that at a higher level.

[striker93]

Originally posted by Enduro60:

BNK-3R is terrible for farming anyway, but unfortunately it has one of the best shields (sham) and SMGs (b*tch). It also drops stupidly rare heads. My advice is to get some shift codes and use them. You should be easily able to get maybe 100 codes that are still active. As you level up, if you havent found anything good, open the golden chest a few times.

BTW, when doing core angel quest, did you find any loot midgets? Maybe you could farm thousand cuts or core angel for them. But then again, since this is just your first playthrough maybe do that at a higher level.

Yeah i know the bunker aint great but my point still stands, i did get a ♥♥♥♥♥ at lvl 10 from a loot mig but now when ever i kill one ALL i get is ammo and a bit of cash never guns, i killed a lvl 26 super badass constructor whe i was lvl 20 and got 1 blue gun and one zero class mod and that was it, just seems that everything is screwing me over on loot.

[Waste_of_skin]

Your BNK3R drops do sound "light". I'd have Steam verify the game cache, just in case. It's normal for 1 BL2 file to fail the verification.

If the files check out, then maybe you're just having a run of bad luck. FWIW, as far as BNK3R goes, I've also seen people say that they had some items fall through the ground to the level below (I'm guessing that's a PhysX issue). If you don't see many drops up top, you might want to look below, just in case.


Also, just in case you don't know ...
Gearbox increased the general legendary drop rate some months back, including most designated boss drops. It's 3 times the old rate. But the change is still a hot fix, meaning that the game has to be able to go online and d/l it every time you start the game. So if the game is able to get the hot fix, you should actually start seeing more random legendaries and designated boss drops.

Just to be clear, whether you have the hot fix or not should not have any effect on the quantity of drops. Either way, you should be finding about the same amount of stuff as always.

[Goat]

less loot? i am level 27 and i have found like 5 golden guns

[daveash]

I agree,just taken my Maya to level 71 and the legendry drop rate has been appaling,must have killed nearly 50 (at least) loot midgets and only got one (yes1) drop not even legendary a poor relic,even super badasses are dropping very little,sometimes nothing.i wonder if the loot midget drop is somehow decreased if you use your chars ability when killing them,just a thought.

[striker93]

Originally posted by daveash:

I agree,just taken my Maya to level 71 and the legendry drop rate has been appaling,must have killed nearly 50 (at least) loot midgets and only got one (yes1) drop not even legendary a poor relic,even super badasses are dropping very little,sometimes nothing.i wonder if the loot midget drop is somehow decreased if you use your chars ability when killing them,just a thought.

The normal drop rate seemed to pick up when i verifyed the game cache, but leg drops are still poor, i need leg infinity gun but no matter what accout and with the 5% bonus i still cant get one.

[Unbekannter]

I'm quite sure you're just having a run of bad luck. It's RNG. Just the way it is. Good luck.

BTW, if it's any consolation, the drop rates get better on the 2nd and 3rd playthrough. Also, there's the relic for 5% drop chance, although I doubt it actually does anything.

[Waste_of_skin]

Originally posted by striker93:

... i need leg infinity gun but no matter what accout and with the 5% bonus i still cant get one.

If "5% bonus" is referring to the Vault Hunter Relic, forget it. The consensus is that the VHR has either literally or virtually no effect on the chances of getting a legendary. Supposedly the 5% means that 5 out of every 100 white drops are removed and replaced with some other random item, which might be green, or just maybe blue. Getting anything better out of it is extremely unlikely. Aside from that, it presumably only affects random drops and not designated drops, like getting an Infinity from Mercy.

Use any other relic that makes things easier, helps you survive, etc.

[trukr]

I, on the other hand have had some good luck with the RNG, I have a level 23 Zero that has a collection of infinity pistols from Doc Mercy, 2 hornets from knuckle dragger , 2 UHs from Savage Lee and a Veruc from one of the boxs in Dr's Orders, first try no farming but did not even see Pimon and Tumba oh well. I know some do better but I was marginally happy and got some pretty good green and blue items that I found useful as well. Looks to me like loot is better now.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

I managed to get the Badaboom from King Mong yesterday while completing some challenges in Eridium Blight, and I managed to get a Lvl-9 version of the Tediore Bunny right in front of the Happy Pig Motel in Three Horns-Valley after running over a Chubby Skag.

[Enduro60]

Originally posted by striker93:

So i have started playing bls2 again after a while of not playing, i played it a lot in the past for almost 190hs, but only since i started a new account have i noticed that loot seems to be very very hard to come by, for example im lvl 22, and just killed 1 war loader, 2 hot loaders, 2 stg loaders and 2 normal bots all with in about 10 feet with a lvl of 25-27 and i got 1 box of sniper ammo and 1 grenade out of it. I also just killed the bunker to get 1 purple and 2 blues and all whites with only 2 blocks of erid, which to me seem like a very poor drop. My question is has or is anyone else finding loot very hard to come by, its getting so stupid for me that a lvl 10 gun is still one of my best guns to use as i cant find anything better.

Today I was farming for the JEEEENKIIIINS challenge in NVHM and the LLMs dropped 2 legendaries - a bonus package and Sledge's shotgun. I immediately thought of you.



http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/382036172061495009/1E3A747DA3E0B8B5A2C23C603FA7B9F6A78FF344/

[Unbekannter]

Holy crap, nice.

[blinkmoth]

Originally posted by Waste_of_skin:

The consensus is that the VHR has either literally or virtually no effect on the chances of getting a legendary.

Tsssss, and this from someone who once claimed to follow up on Gearbox's publications? :)

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1087/inside-the-box-the-borderlands-2-loot-system

the VHR does exactly what it says. It does effectively increase all drop rates beside white drops by 5% (on the cost of fewer white drops). Meaning, with the VHR you'll get an average of 1 Legendary more per 20 Legendaries, for example.

..
still, the VHR is complete ♥♥♥♥. Those 5% are a joke. If you farm for something, better use a relic that increases your dps and therefore your farming speed. It will help much more with legendary drops.

[Waste_of_skin]

Originally posted by blinkmoth:

Meaning, with the VHR you'll get an average of 1 Legendary more per 20 Legendaries, for example.

Honestly, I was more or less repeating what I've read, over and over and over, in the Gearbox forums (like I said, the consensus). IAC, you're talking about the possibility of 1 more random legendary for every 20, when each one of those was a 1 in 10000 chance to begin with, so it wasn't exactly going to be raining legendaries. :-) With the drop rate increase, the effect from the VHR is presumably 3 times greater, but 3 times a very small number is still a very small number. :-)

[blinkmoth]

Originally posted by Waste_of_skin:

you're talking about the possibility of 1 more random legendary for every 20, when each one of those was a 1 in 10000 chance to begin with, so it wasn't exactly going to be raining legendaries

well... what else do you expect when it says 5% increased drop chance? Do you expect to get +700% more legendaries? Just because a small number is still a small number does not render those 5% useless. It's still 5% more legendaries after all.

But anyway, the one reason why it really is a useless item is that there are plenty of other relics out there with make your farming far more than 5% faster, ergo helping you more than a VHR.