Does King Mong still drop Badaboom?

[Deuce Loosely]

Been farming this jerk for like two hours. My thinking on it is gotten weirdly superstitious and I've been getting out of the vehicle to kill him. I don't so much want to hear about how easily you found it, I can easily envision a bunch of smug little monkeys formulating rub-it-in sentences before they even finish reading this. Would I would like to hear is that someone or a few someones had trouble but persevered and achieved the desired result.

[Clover]

i think he still does, the wiki says that anyway, i havnt found one yet my self but that doesnt mean he doesnt drop it. Its probbaly a really rare drop from him, but two hours for the badaboom is nothing compaired to 3 days for a confrence call form the warroir. All i can say is keep trying and youll get it at some point. :D

[Deuce Loosely]

Thanks for the imput. I guess I've got to way the cost-to-benefit of wheteher or not such a laborius farming effort is even worth it at level 50.

[SupRfirebird]

I haven't farmed the Badaboom for ages, so it was before the patch that increased drops. But, as everyone says, it's all random. I keep hearing how easy some people get the Infinity to drop, but doc Mercy will NOT drop that thing for me. Keep trying, he still drops it, he's just being a ♥♥♥♥.

[Deuce Loosely]

If it helps I've seen infinity twice from LLM's in the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve. Followup question, does anyone find that the Vault Hunter relic has a significant impact on gameplay? It seems in difficult farming jobs in which a particular mob may need to be killed a hundred times or more then 5% is a probabilistically significant. But BL2 has ably demonstrated, percentages in this engine are demonstrably fuzzy, as anyone who has experienced Krieg's StV "12%" self harm mechanic 3-4 times in a row can testify.

[Deuce Loosely]

Confirmed, King Mong does drop Badaboom. Eventually.

[Mayonnaise]

Vault hunters relic is borderline useless, all it does is give you an extra 5% chance for any weapon to be one rarity higher, i think. (not including purples going into E-tech or legendary)

[Waste_of_skin]

The consensus is that the VHR should be replaced ASAP by any other relic that seems beneficial (eg. helps keep you alive). One description I've read is that it gives you a 5% chance for a white random drop to be removed and replaced by something else, which might be green, or maybe blue. _If_ it has any effect on purple or better drops, the effect is so small that it might as well be non-existent.

[CrUsHeR]

Farmed one a couple of days ago, so yes it still drops.

According to the BL2 wiki, the Vault Hunter Relic works a bit different than you think - all it does is this:
When a white item drops, there's a 5% chance for it to be upgraded to a random higher quality. After that it's on the same likelyhood to be anything from green to orange (compared to world drop quality).
You could also translate it into "5% less white items", but definitely not "5% more legendary items" because those are usually obtained from bosses. Either as a fixed chance on unique items, or as additional high-quality random drop with massively increased chance.


http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_Hunter's_Relic

[Mister Torgue Flexington]

Originally posted by Waste_of_skin:

The consensus is that the VHR should be replaced ASAP by any other relic that seems beneficial (eg. helps keep you alive). One description I've read is that it gives you a 5% chance for a white random drop to be removed and replaced by something else, which might be green, or maybe blue. _If_ it has any effect on purple or better drops, the effect is so small that it might as well be non-existent.

the Relics that seem beneficial, are ones that quickly regenerates your health (similar to the Tediore Panacea Shields and King Wee-Wee's Super Booster from the original game)

[An Orange Shirt]

Originally posted by Scoobyfoo #TeamFish:

Vault hunters relic is borderline useless, all it does is give you an extra 5% chance for any weapon to be one rarity higher, i think. (not including purples going into E-tech or legendary)

its actually worse than that, all it does is increase your chance of getting a blue quality (non-unique) item, it doesnt affect items of any other rarity

[z00t]

Yes. Got an explosive version a couple of days ago. He doesn't drop it at all often, so be prepared for a bit of farming if you want it.

[The Toenado]

Well is it werid i got a 94 SHAM and a PERFECT NORFLEET from a chest before i got this badaboom? IVE BEEN FARMING FOR 3 WEEKS.

[HiTmAn]

yes its drops...i got on first try op2 one

[dontu_worry]

Originally posted by Mr. Jeff:

Well is it werid i got a 94 SHAM and a PERFECT NORFLEET from a chest before i got this badaboom? IVE BEEN FARMING FOR 3 WEEKS.

Its not wierd, but rather an outright lie. Norfleets do not ever come from chests. Hyperius and Vermivorous only. Bullcrap exposed.

[Classick]

Originally posted by dontu_worry:

Originally posted by Mr. Jeff:

Well is it werid i got a 94 SHAM and a PERFECT NORFLEET from a chest before i got this badaboom? IVE BEEN FARMING FOR 3 WEEKS.

Its not wierd, but rather an outright lie. Norfleets do not ever come from chests. Hyperius and Vermivorous only. Bullcrap exposed.

lol