Benefits to playing coop?

[Lotica]

So here's the funny thing about my history with the Borderlands franchise: I've never played coop before.

Obviously, a big benefit to it is taking down enemies much faster, but is there anything else that's a benefit or is it just one big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around fest? Kinda of curious if it's worth the effort haggling my friends to boot up BL3.

[Diogenes49]

better loot

[syl]

better loot drops, higher chance to get legendary drops with the trade off of the game being more difficult cus it scales. all borderlands games are best experienced with a full lobby but the game is fun with any amount imo, including solo

[Kuma]

Taking down enemies faster isn't necessarily true because their health scale with more people.

The one element that you miss out when playing solo is the extra banter heroes have with eachother during missions and open world. Other than that its just a matter of preference, if you like playing with friends do it, otherwise play solo anyways.

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by syl:

better loot drops, higher chance to get legendary drops with the trade off of the game being more difficult cus it scales. all borderlands games are best experienced with a full lobby but the game is fun with any amount imo, including solo

I have to disagree with the full lobby thing.
all borderlands games are developed as solo games with the possibility for co-op
and how they are developed they shine mostly as solo games and have the best experience being played solo.
only exception I am willing to make is playing as the ice queen in TPS since she has a full skill tree developed for co-op.
a full lobby or just 1-2 friends is nice and very fun but the solo experience is much more greater as you can pace the game however it lets you and the scaling is made for solo players and way more refined then with multiple people.

[𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘩𝘦𝘮_ ☾]

for me its just about more fun running with my friend together. solo is great too. ive never seen a difference in loot on coop to solo.

[Masque]

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

Originally posted by syl:

better loot drops, higher chance to get legendary drops with the trade off of the game being more difficult cus it scales. all borderlands games are best experienced with a full lobby but the game is fun with any amount imo, including solo

I have to disagree with the full lobby thing.
all borderlands games are developed as solo games with the possibility for co-op
and how they are developed they shine mostly as solo games and have the best experience being played solo.
only exception I am willing to make is playing as the ice queen in TPS since she has a full skill tree developed for co-op.
a full lobby or just 1-2 friends is nice and very fun but the solo experience is much more greater as you can pace the game however it lets you and the scaling is made for solo players and way more refined then with multiple people.

Isn't the TPS Claptrap skill tree also built for coop?

[Casurin]

BL2 and TPS already hadskills that are (nearly) useless when playing solo.

Playing with more people will give rather similar loot if the loot is shared:
There are more enemies and the loot is of better quality on average - sure - buuut there are now also more people wanting that loot.