Moxxi's vibra pulse is pretty darn OP

[Aaron]

My lvl 38 Vibra Pulse does basically the same damage as my lvl 44 ZX-1 (legendary fire laser)
The imbalance of elements is real in this game... Hope i can make better use of my non-shock element weapons in the DLC's

[dhr09]

The "Thorny Ol' Rosie" you get after completing TVHM is better IMO. But the Moxxi gun is good until then.

[M [MY]]

There's actually 2 reasons for that;

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(1) In your 2nd playthough if you look closely you will notice that most beast enemies are resistance to fire damage, as in fire weapons do less damage on them – when you shoot them with fire element weapons there’re small red-ish orange words ‘resist’ popping out.

& shielded enemies automatically resist fire damage when they still have shield.

OH, and do you know according to Spring in the Zap missions - in vacuum fire will have a hard time doing elemental damage over time since no air no burning?

That's why that one laser gun that don't have elemental damage that you get from a side mission felt so strong compare to the others laser guns.

Electricity however are not resist by most beast enemies by some reason, shield is automatically weak against electricity no matter what, & electricity’s damage over time works fine in vacuum.

Oh & it probably helps that the aliens enemies in the last chapter all commonly have strong shield but sucky health, just like in BL1.

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(2) Moxxi's vibra pulse actually have chain lightnings effects or maybe more correctly, AOE damages plus heals, from BLWikia:

<i>“The Vibra-Pulse acts like a standard shock beam gun with continuous fire when the trigger is held down, but with added features. So long as the beam damages an opponent, any enemies within the radius of the targeted enemy will be damaged every second by chains of lightning that emit from the target currently in the crosshairs. This makes the Vibra-Pulse excel at decimating shields of multiple targets at once, especially if they are crowded together.

Additionally, being a Moxxi weapon, the Vibra-Pulse heals the user at a portion of damage done, making it extremely useful for leeching health from targets if they are bunched up together. A short burst can get a player up to a quarter of his health back if there are targets nearby to transfer the chains of lightning to.”</i>

So you are damaging most of your enemies at the same time, with most of them having shields, while you’re getting back some health on the way, making you more durable.

Yeah, totally OP rite there.

[Zack Morris]

Also after the chest vanishes you can exit through the back door then re-enter and it respawns so you can get it at a higher level. After I hit level 50 I went back and got one at my level and sold the old one to a machine.

[Turkeysammich]

I believe is also heals you a bit, being a Moxxi weapon. Also, just because it's a legendary, doesn't mean it's any better than a blue weapon with red text. A lot blue weapons with red text in BL2 were way better than some legendaries levels above it.

[CamperBoiii]

Thornie Ol' Rosie, most OP laser gun in my opinion. It wrecks everything in TVHM, level 50.

[Aaron]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Zack Morris:

Also after the chest vanishes you can exit through the back door then re-enter and it respawns so you can get it at a higher level. After I hit level 50 I went back and got one at my level and sold the old one to a machine.

I tried this and the moxxi items that appeared were the same level as when i first got them.

[Aaron]

Opprinnelig skrevet av M MY:

There's actually 2 reasons for that;

------------------

(1) In your 2nd playthough if you look closely you will notice that most beast enemies are resistance to fire damage, as in fire weapons do less damage on them – when you shoot them with fire element weapons there’re small red-ish orange words ‘resist’ popping out.

& shielded enemies automatically resist fire damage when they still have shield.

OH, and do you know according to Spring in the Zap missions - in vacuum fire will have a hard time doing elemental damage over time since no air no burning?

That's why that one laser gun that don't have elemental damage that you get from a side mission felt so strong compare to the others laser guns.

Electricity however are not resist by most beast enemies by some reason, shield is automatically weak against electricity no matter what, & electricity’s damage over time works fine in vacuum.

Oh & it probably helps that the aliens enemies in the last chapter all commonly have strong shield but sucky health, just like in BL1.

------------------

(2) Moxxi's vibra pulse actually have chain lightnings effects or maybe more correctly, AOE damages plus heals, from BLWikia:

<i>“The Vibra-Pulse acts like a standard shock beam gun with continuous fire when the trigger is held down, but with added features. So long as the beam damages an opponent, any enemies within the radius of the targeted enemy will be damaged every second by chains of lightning that emit from the target currently in the crosshairs. This makes the Vibra-Pulse excel at decimating shields of multiple targets at once, especially if they are crowded together.

Additionally, being a Moxxi weapon, the Vibra-Pulse heals the user at a portion of damage done, making it extremely useful for leeching health from targets if they are bunched up together. A short burst can get a player up to a quarter of his health back if there are targets nearby to transfer the chains of lightning to.”</i>

So you are damaging most of your enemies at the same time, with most of them having shields, while you’re getting back some health on the way, making you more durable.

Yeah, totally OP rite there.

hence, imbalance of elements

[The Fourth Shoemaker on the left]

Opprinnelig skrevet av loonaticaaron:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Zack Morris:

Also after the chest vanishes you can exit through the back door then re-enter and it respawns so you can get it at a higher level. After I hit level 50 I went back and got one at my level and sold the old one to a machine.

I tried this and the moxxi items that appeared were the same level as when i first got them.

You have to beat TVHM to get the items in Moxxi's chest at lvl50.

[crazie8]

The ZX-1 still sucks at lvl 50; greens are better than that thing. Anyways, I got that moxi gun at 38 in TVHM because I was avoiding side quests and had no choice in the matter. Wtb a reset option. W/e. /holds onto the two fer maggie and won't let go!