Worthwhile early side missions?

[Captain Zlog]

Only just ready to start Impending Storm so I'm very early in the game.

The problem is I'm getting overwhelmed by optional side missions. I've done quite a few so far.
I was a completionist in BL2 but with doing them all as the appeared found myself getting too far above level when reverting back to the main story missions and they became a breeze.

Think I'll be more selective this time instead of chasing them all down.

Can anyone suggest which are really worth doing for loot or fun etc? Just so I don't miss any good ones.

Thanks.

[papey]

i like "kill killavolt" and the entire lectra city area in general for levelling before impending storm, it's basically a continuous open battlefield

[Casurin]

With BL3 - don't? Only when you really feel like you are far too weak (which would be an impressive feet).
Wait till you have finished the story cause at least then everything can be on your level and you can use Mayhem-levels to make the enemis not die from being looked at the wrong way.

[Gila]

First time I was playing the game I was doing side missions along with the story mode but I don't remember getting any really useful rewards. There were some for sure, but nothing memorable like for example Corrosive Teapot pistol in BL2.

Recently replayed just the main story with a different character from level 1. There were only two cases where I was severely under leveled (-3 levels) for the next story chapter, but even with that difference, it wasn't a struggle in BL3 for some reason, whereas in BL1 and BL2 such discrepancy led to all sorts of problems.

BL3 has so much loot dropping everywhere, chances are that you will quickly replace the item that you got from doing a side mission anyway.

Also I might be doing it wrong but at least in BL2 on the mission description preview, which was still vague, one at least could see if it rewards an item or just XP with money. In BL3 there's nothing of the sorts, just the small window with 1-2 sentences and that's it.

[Captain Zlog]

Thanks for the tips.

[Talon]

Do the Clapslist missions (these start at Promethea). One of them awards a fairly solid grenade mod that legitimately chunks enemies' health bars for a decent amount of the game and is a great 'screw you!' to enemies who carry physical shields.

[Nakos]

It tends to come down to whether I think a map is fun or not. I like the Lectra City map, so I do tend to do the Kilavolt quest. Some of the other quests are easy to do along side the main mission, so I'll do those too (if only for the exp).

A lot of them I'll just do because ... sure, why not? I'm here to shoot stuff anyway.