Any LEGITIMATE Way To Get A Specific Type Of Pimpernel?

[kevin.benko]

Suppose I want a electric/shock Pimpernel.
Is there a LEGITIMATE way to FORCE the Pimpernel to be electric/shock?

Also, for the Sandhawk?

I BELIEVE that, with respect to the Morningstar, that you MIGHT be able to force a specific element if your weakest sniper is of that element.... but I might be wrong.

{{Concerning the legitimate thing: I consider using Gibbed and other such options is cheating/not legitimate, and I have only played all games without cheating, except through hints and such things}}

[z00t]

Well, if you consider handing the mission in, inspecting it and not liking what you see and then pressing Alt-F4 to be legitimate, then yes, you can get a Shock Pimpernel.
No real way of FORCING it to be a specific element afaik. That is all down to game RNG.
Same with the Sandhawk. Hand in, inspect then Alt-F4 when you don't like what you see.

Alternatively, you can read-only farm. Make your save file read-only, then reload the character and hand in and likely reject what you get.
Then Reselct the character (Important) and you will find yourself ready to hand in again.
Repeat until you get something acceptable, then fast travel to Sanctuary and put it in Clappy's stash. At this point you can make your save file read - write again and carry on.

Legitimate? Up to you. The game allows it. The chance of getting a shock Pimpernel is basically 1 in 4. It is always elemental, so a 25% chance.
Specific element Sandhawks are rather lower percentage, as these include non-elemental types as well. Getting decent parts is something else again.

Bite the bullet and think about read-only farming for specific items like this, or just be very disappointed when the game RNG gives you cr@p.

A while back I was read-only farming for an elemental Flying Sandhawk, and amused myself by writing down what garbage the game was giving me. This is an excerpt before I got totally disgusted and did something else. There was a quit and reselect character after each one.

Smooth, Stoic, Skirmish, Deft, Corrosive, Skirmish, Smooth, Incendiary with really crap parts, Reserve, Light, Reserve with Dahl grip and stock (%$^$^%&), Smooth, Deft, Captain Scarlett's, Corrosive with crap parts, Reserve, Incendiary, Reserve, Corrosive, Reserve, Sapping, Reserve, Amp, Bladed, Smooth, Sapping, Light, React, Flying with Maliwan and Hyperion parts and non-elemental, Deft, Deft, React, Smooth, Captain Scarlett's, React, React, Amp, Incendiary, Smooth, Incendiary, Light, Incendiary, Captain Scarlett's, Incendiary, Sapping, Deft. Smooth, Amp, Bladed, Smooth, Reserve, Smooth, Corrosive, Flying non-elemental and crap parts, Captain Scarlett's, Smooth, Corrosive, Incendiary, React, Captain Scarlett's, Stopping, Bladed, Stoic, Captain Scarlett's, Stopping, Reserve, Corrosive, Captain Scarlett's, Bladed, Reserve, React, Bladed, React, Reserve, React, Reserve, Light, Sapping, React, Smooth, Sapping, Skirmish in slag, Smooth, Reserve, Amp, Captain Scarlett's, Corrosive, React, Reserve, Smooth, Smooth, React, React, Light, Smooth, Flying non-elemental and crap parts, Smooth, Bladed, Light, Light, React, Smooth, Skirmish, React, Captain Scarlett's, Skirmish in slag, Light, Sapping with bad parts, Amp, Captain Scarlett's, Captain Scarlett's, Bladed, Bladed corrosive, React, Amp, Sapping, Sapping, Bladed, Smooth, Light, Sapping, Light, React, Reserve, React, Captain Scarlett's, React, React, React, Incendiary, Amp, Corrosive, Stoic, Flying non-elemental, no sight, crap parts, Amp, React, Sapping, React, Skirmish incendiary no sight & crap parts, Amp, Reserve, Reserve, Smooth, Reserve, Stoic, Captain Scarlett's, Amp, Smooth, Smooth, Smooth, Reserve, Deft, Amp, Captain Scarlett's, Flying non-elemental, bad parts, Light, Captain Scarlett's, React, Skirmish, Reserve, Skirmish incendiary, Light, React, Incendiary...

I did get what I was after though. Elemental Flying Sandhawk with decent (but not perfect) parts. It just took a while.

['MC' Gizmo]

yes there is resetting uvhm playthrough in the main menu but everything will be resseted then back to the start

[trukr]

There is not way to force the game to give you a certain variety of any mission reward or drop. It's all luck, you can set you save to read only at the point you are about to hand in the mission and then remove the read only once you have obtained the one you want. Strictly speaking, that is not exactly legit. Legit is, you get what you get and you can reset UVHM to get there an try again. I love Claptrap's "super secret stash" because of that, save em when they are what I like to pass on.

[kevin.benko]

Thank you for the answers.
I was "hoping" that I could "force" an element with a pimpernel.... boo hoo

{{Yes, I did a restart so I could get a level 72 for everything (no farming, as it was "The Flame Of The Firehawk", the Pimpernel, Sandhawk, and other "quest rewards")}

[ThatsItIm0ut]

I honestly consider read-only to be a complete waste of time.

It's cheating in my book, a very time consuming cheat, but hey..... you can do whatever you want in your game.
Just don't call it legit. It's not. You might as well save some time and use gibbed.

[ZarahNeander]

Originally posted by ThatsItIm0ut:

I honestly consider read-only to be a complete waste of time.

It's cheating in my book, a very time consuming cheat, but hey..... you can do whatever you want in your game.
Just don't call it legit. It's not. You might as well save some time and use gibbed.

This. Manipulating the game state by external means: Alt-F4, RO, gibbed. It's not "abit less legit", legit is like pregnant. Don't fool yourself and waste your precious life time, use gibbed.

[kevin.benko]

Indeed.

I play within the "rules" of every game I play.

If someone has an insight that I cannot figure out, after having been killed a butt-load, I will look for such insight, but no more than what I am looking for.

That is what I have always done, starting with Zork.

{You have heard of Zork, haven't you?}

In addition, I am constantly telling myself to NOT rush in where angels fear to tread... I do that alot..
Not everyone is a Gunzerker... I need to remember that more than you can imagine. I guess that is why I haven't figured out Zer0 on UVHM, yet.

[Sir Simp]

Originally posted by ZarahNeander:

Originally posted by ThatsItIm0ut:

I honestly consider read-only to be a complete waste of time.

It's cheating in my book, a very time consuming cheat, but hey..... you can do whatever you want in your game.
Just don't call it legit. It's not. You might as well save some time and use gibbed.

This. Manipulating the game state by external means: Alt-F4, RO, gibbed. It's not "abit less legit", legit is like pregnant. Don't fool yourself and waste your precious life time, use gibbed.

Well if you do it enough you will get want you want anyways mind as well use gibbed and save time.

[Astro_80 (WASH YOUR HANDS!)]

Originally posted by kevin.benko:

Suppose I want a electric/shock Pimpernel.
Is there a LEGITIMATE way to FORCE the Pimpernel to be electric/shock?

Also, for the Sandhawk?

I BELIEVE that, with respect to the Morningstar, that you MIGHT be able to force a specific element if your weakest sniper is of that element.... but I might be wrong.

{{Concerning the legitimate thing: I consider using Gibbed and other such options is cheating/not legitimate, and I have only played all games without cheating, except through hints and such things}}

Read-Only farming.

[Baku]

Read-only farm, heres tutorial :)

https://youtu.be/GNzU4VhKfbQ