What Mayhem level do you play on?

[joe]

Title.
Wondering what everyone plays on who's endgame or semi-endgame. I've had a really chill experience going through the content and working on 100% with Mayhem 1, but I'm letting her rip now. Moving up and seeing how it goes

[Diogenes49]

do not mess with the lower mayhem levels go directly to 10 or 11 go to sanctuary use chest keys pick up some purple m10 guns an go from there

[El Chiko Juan]

10

[joe]

Originally posted by Diogenes49:

do not mess with the lower mayhem levels go directly to 10 or 11 go to sanctuary use chest keys pick up some purple m10 guns an go from there

i have a couple mayhem 10 guns that someone gave me in mp, a maggie, an unkempt harold, and i have a mayhem 10 butcher. everything still takes insane amount of damage, like a ratchling takes 500 bullets to kill. what am i doing wrong? or are yall just insane and play like this lmao

i assume my build is prob trash i'm playing siren

[meheezen]

im playing a lvl 62 siren with mayhem 2 at the moment, doing side quests and completing maps.
killing enemies takes a bit longer but it is still enjoyable.
my gear is lvl 49-54, so theres that as well.
i'm going to increase mayhem lvl once i reach max character lvl and have decent gear.
( i mean, if i can kill lvl 63 badasses on mayhem 2 with a lvl 49 KAOS, then playing mayhem 10 with level appropriate gear should not be an issue)

[M.V.Petra]

Even with mayhem 10 guns, I literally can't get anywhere without getting downed constantly, and then its just a matter of time before the fight for your life timer gets shorter than I can chew through the crazy health. So, yeah, I don't even bother with the Mayhem, what's the point, I'd rather have fun running and gunning than dealing with a game so slanted against me that even fighting a 'weak' enemy makes me want to shove my keyboard down my throat.

[tools guy-kun]

I usually play on mayhem 4-5. it's my comfort zone while also having that bit of challenge. but in all honesty it depends on the character i'm playing personally, and whether or not I'm still building them.

[spoggie]

Originally posted by joe:

Title.
Wondering what everyone plays on who's endgame or semi-endgame. I've had a really chill experience going through the content and working on 100% with Mayhem 1, but I'm letting her rip now. Moving up and seeing how it goes

My favourite thing these days is taking a character from normal to Mayhem 11 by only using drops from foes and world chests. After Mayhem 1 is activated I quickly level up to 72 by doing the circle of slaughters and trials with cartels on.

By having done those when available in the main game and repeated visits to Joey's villa I finish the main story in the midl 50's level.
That's without doing side quests or DLC.

When at 72 some characters supported by a pet or iron cub can go straight to MH11.
For others a session at Mayhem 6 is required for me before going to 11.
Those guns that creamed the foes at Mayhem 1 find a li'l Skag to be a bullet sponge at Mayhem 10.
When at level 72 MH11 I respec for an end game character and acquire favourite guns and other gear.

[Anelyn]

I played M1, M4, M6, M8 M10 and settled for M11 (Amara).

M1 is the best one to get started with the 10% chance on kill (100% on critical kill) to get loot explosion. Fast money / eridium and more legendaries to get you going. M4 wasn't too bad, but some modifiers can really screw you up.

M6 is doable with M4 gear, M8 not too bad when M6 gear is active, and M10 is a nightmare, don't do it, just go straight M11.

Every VH has some weapons they can get most out of, try to get one of those at your current mayhem level before pushing higher so that you have a good weapon that you are familiar with and know what it can do (like the hellwalker for example) before attempting higher difficulties.

Don't worry about shields too much, just grab whatever blue / purple that drops on your mayhem level and has highest capacity until you reach M11, then you can start farming for whatever shields you want (same with grenades, look at them as accessories that will enable some of your skills etc not main dmg dealers).

I would not spend much time playing the content on intermediate mayhems before M10/11, as some rewards / drops are unique per playthrough and you wouldn't want to go TVHM to do it again at M10/11 (or reset story if you already are on TVHM), just target farm the essential pieces of gear to allow you to push higher mayhem levels.

If you enjoy vehicle combat, unlock the first vault card rocket launcher and carry it on you at all times, equip it before entering a vehicle, otherwise at higher mayhem levels your car won't be able to destroy any vehicle / enemies and will blow up before you can sneeze.

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Was playing on M10 and 11 but there's nobody to play with online most of the time...so I've kinda given up. Not that it matters; I've a god roll cryo moze save. Makes the game way too easy.

[Zack]

Moze is broken, if you use the nukes it one shots everything even mayhem 10

[GoldenFox 51]

I prefer M1.

[YesMan]

M11
If Gearbox doesn't lock certain gears behind M6, I won't even turn on Mayhem mode at all.

[Valdrax]

M11, and M11 only. The modifiers just aren't fun, but top level gear is.

[LT2483]

M11. The game isn't remotely challenging at low/no mayhem levels, and at higher mayhem levels the modifiers make the game challenging but in a frustrating way. M11 gets the benefits of harder enemies without annoying modifiers.

I also sometimes play M1 if I feel like just mindlessly shooting stuff without worry. Basically just so I can use lootsplosion, getting some eridium while I'm at it.

[Safarel]

only M11