How to get Seraphs?

[Pelle]

I completed the mission where you have to kill Hyperius and the mission where you have to Kill master Gee but when I turn the last mission in nothing happens. I don't get a tutorial or something about seraphs. Do I have to kill Hyperius / Master Gee again or is it only UVHM?

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

UVHM.

[Маэстро]

In other playthroughs - you need to farm Tiny Tina DLC slots. There is some chance of getting Seraph Crystals.(i got only 12 crystals through 7 completes on 3 characters, all UVHM).

[CoolingGibbon]

http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Seraph

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by Pelle:

I completed the mission where you have to kill Hyperius and the mission where you have to Kill master Gee but when I turn the last mission in nothing happens. I don't get a tutorial or something about seraphs. Do I have to kill Hyperius / Master Gee again or is it only UVHM?

The Seraph story is poorly explained by the game so first game everyone's confused until you piece together the flaky story by the low levels of UVHM. Seraph weapons and crystals come as a drop from the Seraph Guardians mostly in UVHM - Hyperius, Gee, Pete, Vorac & Dragons. You can buy seraph weapons with seraph crystals at the game's four Seraph Vendor machines in Oasis, Badass Crater, Hunter's Grotto & Flamerock Refuge. You can also get seraph crystals by playing Tiny Tina's Lootsplosion Slot Machine in the Flamerock Refuge pub. That's pretty much it. Although the wiki puts them somewhere between uniques and legendaries, this is misleading as some of the seraph shields are among the best tanky shields in the game and a couple seraph guns are among the game's best too. For reasons that are still sketchy to me after +/- 3000 hrs in-game between console & computer, most all the seraph action starts around level 50 / early UVHM. Good luck

[z00t]

What Zen_Master said ^^

Seraph crystals are used to buy seraph weapons etc from the seraph vendors. 120 for each gun / shield, irrespective of levels.
Seraph crystals are dropped by the seraph bosses, Pyro Pete, Hyperious etc, only in UVHM. You do not get seraph crystals as a mission reward. Each kill results in crystals being dropped by the boss, between 8 and up to 20, depending on boss, and the game RNG. The only other way to get crystals in any playthrough, is from the Flamerock Refuge slot machines. These cost 2 eridium a pull, and if you are very lucky, will pay out 3 crystals. Trying to get sufficient crystals this way is insane. It will cost you a huge amount of eridium. That said, 3 crystals will at least let you look at what each of the seraph vendors offer. Each one is different, and the items are somewhat different between playthroughs. Certain guns are available in Normal and TVHM, but are not in UVHM. The Ahab, Hawk Eye and Interfacer etc can be bought in these playthroughs, but will only drop from the raid bosses in UVHM.

You can earn the crystals in UVHM and go to any playthrough and buy guns there, and then give them to a lower level character if you want to.

When you get to UVHM, start the various DLC's as soon as you can - I get to Sanctuary and then start. Get to the point you can farm the bosses, kill them lots of times, pick up pink crystals and buy seraph items.
Pyro Pete is the easiest of the bosses, followed by Hyperius. Gee is just ridiculously annoying unless you figure out the gate crush method. Voracidous and the Ancient dragons are just a complete pain and you have to be nuts to consider farming them for crystals.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

Originally posted by z00t:

What Zen_Master said ^^

Seraph crystals are used to buy seraph weapons etc from the seraph vendors. 120 for each gun / shield, irrespective of levels.
Seraph crystals are dropped by the seraph bosses, Pyro Pete, Hyperious etc, only in UVHM. You do not get seraph crystals as a mission reward. Each kill results in crystals being dropped by the boss, between 8 and up to 20, depending on boss, and the game RNG. The only other way to get crystals in any playthrough, is from the Flamerock Refuge slot machines. These cost 2 eridium a pull, and if you are very lucky, will pay out 3 crystals. Trying to get sufficient crystals this way is insane. It will cost you a huge amount of eridium. That said, 3 crystals will at least let you look at what each of the seraph vendors offer. Each one is different, and the items are somewhat different between playthroughs. Certain guns are available in Normal and TVHM, but are not in UVHM. The Ahab, Hawk Eye and Interfacer etc can be bought in these playthroughs, but will only drop from the raid bosses in UVHM.

You can earn the crystals in UVHM and go to any playthrough and buy guns there, and then give them to a lower level character if you want to.

When you get to UVHM, start the various DLC's as soon as you can - I get to Sanctuary and then start. Get to the point you can farm the bosses, kill them lots of times, pick up pink crystals and buy seraph items.
Pyro Pete is the easiest of the bosses, followed by Hyperius. Gee is just ridiculously annoying unless you figure out the gate crush method. Voracidous and the Ancient dragons are just a complete pain and you have to be nuts to consider farming them for crystals.

the only reason why players might farm Voracidous or the Ancient Dragons, is either the Jakobs Hawkeye, the Hyperion Interfacer shotgun, and of course, the Blockade shield. but yeah, I understand why most tend to farm Pete and Hyperius (though the gate crush on Gee can be pretty hilarious if pulled off correctly)