Wildlife Preserve or Thousand Cuts?

[Golt]

Which one of these areas are better for farming loot midgets?

[Mylar]

I think they're both good and have their drawbacks-Wildife seems much more reliable for the best relics (Bone of the Ancents in particular) and the occasional orange, but is far more of a slog to get to. Cuts don't seem quite as reliable but can be farmed with zero enemies if you first take Rocko's Modern Strife mission but don't turn it in.

[Bringoutyerded]

Although a little longer to complete, don't forget Sawtooth Cauldron. I just learned about this from a friend and it works.

Make a loop by jumping down to the area behind the ammo machine first. Work your way through and up the ramp back to the travel portal to Eridium Blight. Your loop is done in a counter clockwise direction.

Open everything along the way, kill all baddies. Exit to Eridium Blight, reenter Sawtooth, and run through the areas again. LLMs that spawn will do so near their boxes, sans baddies, save for those that respawn in over time.

I tend to get 2-3 LLMs each time. Adds a little variety to play, and I can play with my Greed along the way.

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

Originally posted by Golt:

Which one of these areas are better for farming loot midgets?

Wildlife Preservation Reserve in my experience as long as you have the Doctor's Orders side-mission active but not completed.

[HiTmAn]

tusand cuts is way faster u do just first section and save quit+ u dont need to fight anyone

[Zen_Disaster]

I'd say if you have some time to devote to the effort, Wildlife Preserve + a side trip to clear out Natural Selection Annex (DLC) can yield you some goodies. If you're pressed for time, you can do Wildlife alone or Thousand Cuts. The latter has never been too good for me and if that's what things are down to, I'll prolly pick from other places 'round the game. (y)

[Exploded_Armadillo]

Originally posted by HiTmAn:

tusand cuts is way faster u do just first section and save quit+ u dont need to fight anyone

To farm TC for midgets you do still need to make the full loop. Midgets are already a rare spawn and if you limit yourself to the MAYBE 20 or so chests/lockers in the first area (from No man's land to the bridge) then you drastically cut down your chances at seeing anything spawn at all.

on the flip side If you start at the Annex.. You can run right back out the door and jump up the cliff face to the right of the waterfall at the preserve. and its ALWAYS 4 midgets unless you pick up any of the mission items, You lose a midget for each one collected.

Total time For Wildlife is right around 2 minutes unless you go into ffyl from a badass along the way with Guaranteed spawns.

TC loop is right around 4-5 minutes with A high chance of not seeing anything for several runs.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

for me, i've had more success with loot midget farming in the Wildlife Preserve, especially on UVHM. while I agree it's a slogfest just to get to the 4 boxes, it's quite worth it. I say this, is because every so often, you'll get a Tubby enemy in one of the animal dens

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

I'm lvl 32 commando and during Capture the Flags quest and Tail and Trouble main quest on Thousand Cuts map...I've found about 11 of those mini midgets and no rare drop except for Nifed Biasster lvl 29. Although I've completed about 5 brutal challenges during their encounters...one weapon still not great.
By the way I am playing on normal difficult in my first run for not playing Borderlands after long 11 years.

[Mylar]

Lil C, that's because Capture The Flags & Toil & Trouble are both in Sawtooth Cauldron. You can also get Loot Midgets there but it's a much tougher map than Thousand Cuts.

[Its_Kate_TV]

Ive done some testing

If you have the DlC for the Creature Slaughter Dome. it's much faster, and depending on the gear you have, you can skip the first 2 rooms, plus you can get a chance to get tubbys plus pimon and tumba that you wouldnt get in thousand cuts

If you dont have the Dome I will be much harder and time consuming to run to the other end of the map, but you have more chances to find tubby, I would only suggest this if you have either a faster way to get there, like a rough rider with siren, axton speed glitch, or zeros deseption,. and some way to take hits along the way like a turtle shield.

Thousand Cuts with enemies its going to suck, having may people shooting at you and also try to focus on boxes, its possable and you will get lots of exp just like running threw the presurve, but with less badasses. not recomended

Ideal Thousand Cuts If you dont have much of any gear this its the best way to get some, its all random what you get plus you only need to kill the midgets, and nothing more. my avarage for the bandit camp is about 3-4 midgets and 5-8 if you have good RNG, but the loot should be the same as any other midgets, but it hasnt been for me personally.

Personally I would because i have the Dome, I do the Wildlife Persirve and I get 2 things each time, maybe 2 relics or 2 pearls. i would rather fight the 2 or 3 badasses for a garrented 4 midgets then to rely on RNG

[Starbug]

Wildlife exploitation preserve for me. Does take a while to reach the loot midget spot, but they're guaranteed, so long as you don't pick up any of the doctor's orders quest items.

The dome is ok but you're only guaranteed tubbies in wave 3 (if memory serves). Loot midgets are the preferred option if you are heading to wildlife.

[Sierra]

Personally prefer Wildlife because of almost guaranteed midgets, chance to get a transformer, deliverance, chance to get tubbies (skags, rakks, stalkers) and even a Skullmasher.
And it's simply more fun for me.

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

Originally posted by ๋:

Personally prefer Wildlife because of almost guaranteed midgets, chance to get a transformer, deliverance, chance to get tubbies (skags, rakks, stalkers) and even a Skullmasher.
And it's simply more fun for me.

i've never seen a Tubby Rakk before (those Chubby Rakk for that one mission in the Torgue DLC doesn't count)