Problem with rough rider drops

[Sandman]

I'm farming for the rough rider aon OP3 at the moment. For a while I was on OP2, yet he would only drop OP1 rough riders and they would all have less health boost than the OP1 rough rider I was already wearing. I assumed that if I unlocked another OP level then perhaps I could at least get an OP2 rough rider, yet he's still only dropping OP1. Anyone know why this might be?

[ILIFISLM]

every legendary/unique has achance to drop up to 2 levels below yours. the parts its made off affect its stats so a lower level one can have more hp than a higher one

[bubbacho]

I can attest to this seeing as its my favorite shield. It would always drop a level or two below me until I hit OP8. The cool thing about this shield is that it really doesn't matter too much. Its the zero shield output that really benefits your class so the minor difference in resistence doesn't make much difference on a typical Zerker or Psycho build.

If you are using the shield on any other class well than I'm not quite sure what you are doing. Although with Axton you can build a decent resistance build.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by bubbacho:

I can attest to this seeing as its my favorite shield. It would always drop a level or two below me until I hit OP8. The cool thing about this shield is that it really doesn't matter too much. Its the zero shield output that really benefits your class so the minor difference in resistence doesn't make much difference on a typical Zerker or Psycho build.

If you are using the shield on any other class well than I'm not quite sure what you are doing. Although with Axton you can build a decent resistance build.

The flat 20% resistance doesn't change between levels, but using a high level vitality relic, the health bonus difference between an OP1 and OP3 shield (about 70,000 health) ended up givng my psycho an extra 1.5 million health points (roughly, math is probably off)

[bubbacho]

I know what you mean, with my Zerker I have a solid 3.2 million health with my variant. That's mainly because like an idiot I selected "health" during the first 700hrs of gameplay. My melee is like 5.2% :(((

The only consolation I can give you is my own experience kicking the crap out of the Bulwark at OP8. I would say 3/4 of the drops were OP7 and when I finally got an OP8 variant I tweaked it in Gibbed. The first two parts should be Maliwan with the capacitor being Hyperion. After 1,400 hours in game you get tired of farming :)
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