Shooting star?

[Beepboop]

Just me or is the Shooting star roid shield actually broke now as it is just like any other roid shield but with a longer recharge delay after the huge nerf?
Sure it was very op before the nerf and needed a nerf indeed.. but yea this much?
My Shooting Star went from allmost 101k roid damage down to 8k
Whats so special about this legendary shield now? the long recharge delay which is good?

[PTABomber]

My Shooting Star keeps changing in damage for some reaosn, One second it will be doing the normal 27k Roid damage bonus and the next it will be down to 2k. Was there a nerf or change that I wasn't aware of?

[SoundCollapse]

is the patch already rolling out? i'm actually waiting for that more than for the DLC.. haven't gottena shooting star yet, so can't really speak to that personally (was actually just alt-f4 farming for it, but guess i'll be able to try grinding purples for it really soon anyway)... did you notice an update when you started steam?

[irondevil83]

same suprise for me... just horrible :-( you kill my athena

[SoundCollapse]

does sound like a slightly excessive nerfing though, i'd agree on that... maybe gearbox will agree and move it to somewhere in the middle (20k-ish maybe instead of 8k for a lvl 50 would seem reasonable)

[Beepboop]

Originally posted by irondevil83:

same suprise for me... just horrible :-( you kill my athena

Yea instead of melee the robot to farm the eddie ozkit with about 3 maybe 4 hits you now have to melee him about 25-30 times for him to die with athena. :(

Originally posted by PTABomber:

My Shooting Star keeps changing in damage for some reaosn, One second it will be doing the normal 27k Roid damage bonus and the next it will be down to 2k. Was there a nerf or change that I wasn't aware of?

No i have not seen a update on my steam here yet but something or some things have been changed.

[Criored]

https://gearboxsoftware.zendesk.com/entries/57683810-PC-Update-Hot-Fix-Information

Nerfed.. ;(

[Beepboop]

Originally posted by SoundCollapse:

does sound like a slightly excessive nerfing though, i'd agree on that... maybe gearbox will agree and move it to somewhere in the middle (20k-ish maybe instead of 8k for a lvl 50 would seem reasonable)

Yea hopefully.. becouse now it's just trash
Thinking about going back to a elemental build now instead on my athena.

[Beepboop]

Originally posted by Criored:

https://gearboxsoftware.zendesk.com/entries/57683810-PC-Update-Hot-Fix-Information

"Rebalanced the Big Thumprr and Shooting Star legendary shields."
But the shield is like any other shield now. There is nothing special about it now to be taken as a legendary. :/ Atleast not in my opinion.

[SoundCollapse]

Originally posted by Criored:

https://gearboxsoftware.zendesk.com/entries/57683810-PC-Update-Hot-Fix-Information

well i'm glad the 3dd1.e lazer damage is fixed, i already loved it for my wilhelm but now it'll just be amazing (and very glad i grabbed 2 bonus packages this weekend)... any idea what the new stats on the thumper are?

[irondevil83]

the tumper down 80 k to 9 k for me so little bit better then the shooting star

[SoundCollapse]

surprised they did this as a hotfix with a proper update coming today as well

[🚀 Mars]

Originally posted by SoundCollapse:

surprised they did this as a hotfix with a proper update coming today as well

Update have to be certified and locked in weeks in advance. Hotfixes do not. Also, they forgot to nerf the Avalanche. A perfect Avalanche still does 80k roid damage at level 50.

[SoundCollapse]

knew that was the case for console updates, but never heard that for PC/Steam stuff before..

[SoundCollapse]

this game sure has a weird way of timing when you get certain loot.. i screwed up my alt-f4 farming for the shooting star this afternoon, head back to concordia and there's a lvl 50 shooting star in the vending machine.. only ~7k roid damage, but 12+ sec recharge delay... still good for my collection, just wish my first legendary shield had been something i'd want to use

[Veya]

Y'now... I actually like this nerf, I enjoy melee because it makes me play a lot more tactically than regular gunplay, and one-shotting everything was taking some away from that, I can still ♥♥♥♥ on Iwajira like it was nobody's business, so even bosses shouldn't be a problem... except Empyrian Sentinel since he have very finnicky head hitboxes, even with OP melee, it was still annoying to hit him without getting stuck in his head.

Although I do think the nerf is too hard, something like 25k-30k at level 50 would be more like it for a legendary.