Legendary Loot Midget does not drop Legendaries.

[yy-aom-yy]

I farm them alone in lv.72 OP 6 UHVM mode 30 times and got only 5 E-tech Relic and no ♥♥♥♥in Orange and cyan drop while in Doctor orders active.I only picked 1/4 Slag ECHO.So pls help this ♥♥♥♥in people who want to get some big loot.

[ShinkuTear]

This is called RNG. RNG stands for Random Number Generator, and some people joke that the G is Godess, to fit with the concept of Lady Luck.

RNG is determines what determines the result of anything left to chance. Legendary items are very rare, about 3% drop chance from their designated source on TVHM if I remember correctly.

While UVHM boosts the odds, even at 5% from a designated source, you'd assume around 20+ runs for 1. On top of that, LLMs aren't Designated Sources for *anything* that I know of, unless they are for the Relics. LLMs simply have a very large loot pool they can draw from, and drop several item drops(not ammo or currency) that can come up Legendary or Pearlescent.

tl;dr: This isn't unusual at all. Annoying, but not unusual.

[Random_Gamer_12345]

At level 60 in 1000 Cuts (whilst on the Brick mission) the legendary loot midgets kept popping out of the boxes at the start of the level, so I farmed them for a bit. Out of about 10 save/quit/reloads, I saw maybe 10 loot midgets overall.. sometimes 2 popped per reset, sometimes they didn't appear at all. I got 2 legendaries in that time and lots of pink relics (I take it that "pink" equals e-tech?). Not bad tbh, but the Preserve (with the quest) seems better, with 3 or 4 legendary loot midgets per reset popping out of the 4 boxes by Bloodwings enclosure

[Ludi]

I've been trying to farm them at level 58 lately (WEP, Doctor's Orders active). Currently only killed about 10 of these midgets, and they dropped around 5-7 purple relics but no Legendaries. I'll keep trying, but does anyone know if it really does take dozens and dozens of runs to get a Legendary without RNG luck?

[Multi]

Same here, I got purples about 15 times in a row from 4 midegts/jets/loaders in wildlife reserve before getting a orange nade mod that kinda sucks :(

[ender_wiggins]

Its pure Random Luck ,i was farming for a Mod for my Soldier did 40+ runs and got only a few Legendarys and no Mod, then 2 Mods in the same lvl within 5 runs ...

[Random_Gamer_12345]

Just killed a legendary loot midget on the Angel quest.. in 1000 cuts, through the forcefield and up the road against the bots.. it popped out of a box at the top of the road.. it took heavy damage and decided to fly off with my elemenatal damage ticking away. It died mid flight, over the side of the map... dropped a legendary which promptly fell into the abyss. Sad times :/

[ACG_Panzer]

On TVHM they won't have a boosted legendary chance, and only a tiny chance at the relics. On UVHM, they drop more legendaries (got a Badaboom and Storm Front today) and frequently drop relics. They also have a chance at pearlescents. DO NOT bring a friend that is on a lower difficulty. This will cause them to act like normal Loot Midgets and only drop cash, ammo, health, and maybe Eridium. I did 3 runs with such a friend, not a single relic. I usually kill 'em left to right, fast as possible. Phaselock, correct elemental weapon, full auto. If loot midgets don't seem to work, you can always farm Tubby Stalkers, or go to the Dust for Tubby Spiderants (which are kinda easier) plus you can try the Black Queen, and kill Mobley and Gettle, and Mc.Nally.

[Waste_of_skin]

Originally posted by Teleos:

On TVHM they won't have a boosted legendary chance, and only a tiny chance at the relics.

Assuming that you're referring to the Ancients relics, those are only dropped by LLM's (ie. only in UVHM). Still, I suppose 0% could be considered "a tiny chance". :-)

Originally posted by Teleos:

DO NOT bring a friend that is on a lower difficulty. This will cause them to act like normal Loot Midgets and only drop cash, ammo, health, and maybe Eridium.

I only play solo, but I'm sure that having someone that's a lower level playing with you has no effect on LLM drops. If it did, it probably would have come up in the Gearbox forums (those people are always analyzing things :-), and I've never seen anyone even suggest that possibility.