Should I start 2.5 or go to UVHM?

[Sebwinder]

I have just completed TVHM and am lvl 50, I did not complete any of the side quests and therefore they have now all scaled up. Obviously I did this so I could get some tasty loot, but now I'm thinking UVHM and level cap increase has made kinda this redundant...

My question is, should I now just start over again playing UVHM? Or should I go ahead and do all those side quests now before starting it?

Cheers!

[xpxnx]

get a bee and a couple strong lvl 50 legendaries, then immediatly start UVHM, dont waste your time with TVHM

[J-Gravina]

sandhawks, sham, bee and norfleets and slagga are a must

[Santa's Little Helper]

Yeah, jump to uvhm AFTER you've got those legendaries. It makes uvhm so much more fun, and you'd need to farm these back in 2.5 mode, because initial farming in uvhm is pretty useless, i think.

[Sebwinder]

Many thanks for the replies! I will have a seach online for where to find these items.

The only thing that puts me off the bee etc is that it feels like it kinda makes the experience less unique if we are all running around with the same weapons! But I guess there all vary

[Santa's Little Helper]

It's about having fun playing the game, I guess. And walking around like a glass canon is fun! Trying to one-shot enemies while being at risk yourself is what it's all about, if you ask me!

[mewtu]

in my opinion gearbox is making it a must to have these guns ... without them you'll have a lot of trouble in UVHM

[bubbacho]

Originally posted by DEE_licious:

get a bee and a couple strong lvl 50 legendaries, then immediatly start UVHM, dont waste your time with TVHM

Ditto, bigtime.

[Sebwinder]

thanks all.

I don't really like that without certain items you are at a significant disadvantage, but I guess that is the case in most games, wish me luck hunting!

[Mices]

Originally posted by FistOfDissent:

in my opinion gearbox is making it a must to have these guns ... without them you'll have a lot of trouble in UVHM

But this game has a bazzillion guns ... even though only a dozen or so are revelant and takes hunderds of hours if not more to farm for some people ... fun times.

[Santa's Little Helper]

Good point. I guess nowadays "fun times" equals yesterdays "obsessive times".

Times 10. ;-)

[shadow hunter]

finished it other day, aslng as you have a good slag weapon, ammo absorb shield, unkepted herold (613 tokens from vending machine) or something like it that does alot of damage, atleast 1 good elemental weapon of each type. UVHM its that hard, one other thing that really helps check around for new build types at whats best gettign to 61 that deals bonus damage in your tree, did that on my gunzerker and found it helped big time.

[[SG] Wepwawet]

you people saying you need X weapon to beat UVHM is.... sad ive already beaten it once and the only thing i have is Bee shield thats it, i then use any weapon that drops that looks cool and i want to use it. thats it. stop telling people you NEED weapon X to do good its just not true.

[DORAMATIC]

Yeah I don't get it, the only major difference is you need slag, if you have a slag weapon then you can at least start doing UVHM.

There's no point to keep doing TVHM when the new difficulty scales to your level, no matter what you do you will get more experience and higher level guns you're not shoehorned into advancing the story like previous modes.

[Santa's Little Helper]

Come on man, it's only ADVICE. Not LAW. Don't act like we're telling people they must do this or that.

One obvious place to farm legendaries can be at the warrior in TVHM2.5. So while you're there, why not farm a bit, instead of going directly into uvhm? Carrying one or more legendaries can be so much more fun.

[bubbacho]

The Bee is so easy to obtain that you must get that first. That will make the first couple levels so much easier. The second is a slag weapon and if you've already gone through TVHM then you should have at least one. Dudes who just go into UTVHM without a decent kit are the same ones who come back to this forum and b*tch about how freakin' hard it is.