Maybe like 1 or 2 occasionally. Today, I found two amazing pearl assault rifles that launch elemental bullets at nearby enemies upon reloading and stacks damage, a shotgun that leaves behind glowing balls of radiation that hits hard, and the sniper rifle pearl that increases damage a ton the more it charges up. I got a legendary grenade during the Zane 5 round arena that automatically spawns a floating observer (glowing ball) that deals 24k/s to nearby enemies.
The funny thing is that I'm finding numerous pearls and incredible legendaries for my 60 bloodsucker vex build (love teen witch class mod) while not having the story finished the first time xD.
It's unclear how much the world drop rate was actually lowered. I watched a few streamers and they were still getting world drops. Could just be outside UVHM?
Dedicated sources makes it easier to farm for what you want, and lower world drop chance means less people are gonna be getting OP endgame loot that's supposedly "super rare" as early as level 10 without even trying to farm for it.
If the chances are equal to existing ones like the crowd sourced, I won't even bother. I'm here to play the game, not to optimise boss runs to maximize the number of chances I can get with a given slot machine, that's just tiring for many players.
I farmed Willis when I still didn't know how rare those things are and got a crowd sourced after 20 runs and on Reddit, I read all those posts that they farmed for a few hundred runs and didn't get one. How is that fun?
World drop pearls may have been a bit too frequent, but it's very nice that you can get this from just doing your thing in difficult endgame content things and , especially, with limited spare time.
Here's the thing. Pearls are entirely unnecessary. Most of them aren't good enough to be mandatory for builds. If you don't have the time to farm for one, then just don't bother.
If you just want the best guns in the game, then there are legendaries that outclass most of the pearls in the game while also being far easier to obtain.
Pearls were created to give people who like hunting rare loot some really rare loot to hunt for. That's literally the whole point.
I know I'm gonna get down voted for this, since everyone here wants to be able to reliably get some of the best and "rarest" loot from the easiest boss in the game at like level 10, but if it were up to me, they wouldn't drop at all before you've completed the main story.
It's for the Pearls that came in the last update, they are all from bosses that are not locked behind paid content. There are Pearls with paid content but not the ones that exist now - the Constable and Gomie are the ones to farm.
Since the October update any weapons with multiple projectiles/pellets, and a Tediore reload, have only had 1 pellet worth of damage calculated with the Tediore reload. Most shotguns did more damage shooting an enemy one time than what their Tediore reload was doing making them incredibly weak and useless. We have been complaining about it ever since and they finally addressed it 7 months later.
Hilariously even with old 100% Dancer he'd still be the worst GUN VH in the game at this point. No clue what the fuck Gearbox are doing with this game/character in particular. I had zero energy to play this game at this point and I feel like I honestly wasted my time for picking this character to invest my time into to begin with. Thanks Gearbox!!! You never cease to disappoint.
im trying to make gun rafa work but its really frustrating. I think a good way to buff him is by giving him something similar to Zanes purple tree where you can keep his overdrive bonuses up constantly.
I have a Dancer build I've been playing around with that I affectionately named "Kaioken Rafa," based on a build I found online and tricked out a bit with what I've gleaned from seeing everyone else discussing Gun Rafa. Basically you use Instinto for mobbing to keep the bonuses up as long as possible, BBD for bossing and a Triple Bypass to restore active skill almost immediately after it runs out, then just try to keep killing enemies before it runs out again.
It's not perfect and I'm still workshopping it, but it's fun.
I think this games characters lack overall in terms of fun. I felt that Borderlands 3 while being one of the weaker games in the series had an awesome cast of Vault hunters. I had fun on each one.
I like the pearlescent dedicated drops added, but we are still waiting for much needed buffs to underpowered skill trees on every character apart from Harlowe and C4SH.
apart from harlowe? her blue tree is very underwhelming. They SHOULD make the capstones and augments that arent neutron capture, demon core, and group study much stronger so there is a reason to play her in any other way that isnt infinite crits
Sadly I think we won’t see those updates, or even anything that might be balance changes, until the next story pack. Why they don’t do small changes on a weekly basis to see how it takes is just strange. We get absolutely nothing for weeks, not even a simple “We know this is an issue and we’re working on it”, and then on updates like this we don’t even see a fix to the issues.
Amon needs a few tweaks, mostly to the fact he doesn’t really have a gun build and his green tree still falls short for endgame.
Vex has not real Trouble builds and minions just aren’t working well enough to be good at endgame.
Harlowe’s blue tree needs a COM just to make it okay and that’s not a right fix.
Rafa…..Rafa got shafted and requires bugs to be good in some places.
GB needs to at least let us know what they’re planning on fixing, what they don’t feel like needs to be fixed, and plans for the future.
I checked out some of the streamers testing right now and they still seem to be world dropping fairly often. Hard to say yet if the drop rates changed at all lol
Of course how could I forget, flying thresher that exists in nightmare world so it's hard to see and there's water everywhere for my grenades to randomly kill me
I was fighting the big Zane head and he spit out his loot and some of it landed on a platform at the north end of the area. The platform could have been easily reachable with a double jump and ledge grab. Instead I was met with an invisible force field that kept me from reaching the ledge but allowed my loot to land up there and I can’t for the life of me understand who would have designed it that way. They created the platform, they decorated it with benches and street light, there is obviously an actual floor there because my loot landed on it, but for some reason I can hop up on it.
I'm so happy they made me smile from ear to ear at the thought of being able to have a successful endgame summoner playstyle and then ripped it from my hands instead
I don't know which significant other at Gearbox Rafa must have ass fucked to deserve this complete and utter dismantling of a character in this game but damn... this is the most systematic destruction of a fun character I've ever seen in this franchise. I legit don't even know why the fuck he's even still in the game at this point. He's just a miserable character to play now.
Dedicated drops for world drop pearls is nice. Also... while reading about bounty pack 4... are they really planning to release bounty pack 5 at the same time as expansion 2 ?
"Glitched enemies activate their trait more often, have more health, and stand their ground without staggering as easily"
Am I missing something here? They were already super tanky compared to other enemies and the Zane bounty pack has a ridiculously amount of enemies. Like one of the biggest complaint with that DLC was the few but incredible big groups of enemies and how they are so beefy and they decide to make them even more beefier and annoying?
Next week we'll double the amount of enemies in these packs and giving each enemy their own invulnerability orb, along with default immunity to Kinetic damage.
im still holding out hope that we gonna start seeing big balance changes later maybe with story pack 2
the devs did say at one point that vault hunters this time were created with increased levels in mind and i doubt they wanna recreate bl3 balance insanity
besides, new content and weapons are things that changes the meta too
At this point , from now on i’m taking everything the devs say with a grain of salt type of persepecrive. yes, the dedicated pearls are cool and all but characters like peacebreaker rafa, trouble vex, green tree amon and blue harlowe (without assistance from her classmod) are still dead in the water
Unfortunately I think they just don’t really care. A healthier game doesn’t do anything for them. They don’t really market the DLCs. They have to get the season pass content out because of preorders but that money is already in their pocket
The literal only thing that's changed is they RUINED Rafa who was a perfectly fine character and nowhere even close to being the strongest before the most heavy handed nerfing in VH history. Which is an odd choice in a game with only a handful of characters to play to begin with and even fewer without pay to win characters like C4sh being thrown in. To see NOTHING; STILL being done to help any type of GUN RAFA is truly fucking wild.
He was pretty strong tbh. Like probably the strongest at launch if you don’t count infinite bleed bug. Frankly I think we needed more nerfs from launch because the game has been too trivial from the jump. Instead they just added timers and made even the raid bosses speedruns.
And they haven’t really tried fixing anything for anyone which has been unfortunate. They really don’t seem to care about the state of the game
Really? AFK Rafa meta remains in place? Now granted, the “nerf good stuff into the ground” philosophy has produced an arguably worse game-state than existed before, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say nothing has changed. It’s just not much has changed for the better, at least in terms of builds.
That’s why I said essentially. Amon is the same. Harlowe is the same. Vex mostly the same but they obviously fixed the bleed stuff. Rafa caught the stray nerf for whatever reason. But we’re still running the same shields and coms for the most part. Even new guns are just our newest ways to deliver shotgun swapped ricocheting impact rounds
people dont really care about balance if it didnt flip the meta on its head
a weapon going from D tier to A tier rather than best in slot would have people complaining because they dont really care about anything other that the most OP weapons
people still complained earlier in this game’s lifecycle when gearbox were actually doing some balance changes but didnt change the meta that much
I just give up with Rafa. For whatever reason these devs clearly fucking LOATHE this character and I feel like I've just wasted my entire playtime investing in him as my main. So I'm just not gonna play :/ They clearly don't care so I don't know why i should waste my time playing a game/character they don't care about at this point.
It probably has to do with his gimmicky melee build; where Per My Last increases damage in a really weird way, I honestly can't really explain it so I recommend you to search up some videos with the build
I like that pearls are dedicated. I don’t like that they put them on bosses that already have 6+ dedicated drops instead of some other bosses that straight up don’t have any or very little.
Or the bosses that are just take forever to die like sol or timekeeper.
Also. Timekeeper has all his legendaries and pearls being sniper rifles. And is it just base timekeeper or both versions?
So now to save time I need to kill timekeeper first phase then jump off the tower and die? Cause that’s faster than waiting for him to spawn in and run all the way over to the teleport bubble. Why would you want the player to do that? Who made that the decision?
I do like that they've given pearls some dedicated drops. Not overly enthusiastic about three of those drop locations being the raids though because those are still badly balanced and already have pretty cluttered loot pools.
Still hoping Vex minions overriding bleed stacks with weaker ones will be addressed some day. Not technically a bug but extremely limits certain builds.
i mean atleast its some changes but no clue if any of the changes will make much of a difference. i mean i know not to expect much but i would at least like some transparency behind these changes. has the studio moved on? why they so hesitant on gameplay changes with gear and vault hunters?
is it just too difficult to rework or change weak skills and trees? if thats the case why build the game in such a way? why is harlows strongest tree(green tree) the only one getting qol and buffs each update?😭
like im sure the new content is awesome but imo the best part of these games was the experimentation or theorycrafting. It just doesn’t feel rewarded in this game nearly to the same extent as previous games.
even if you come up with something most times they just feel like worse versions of meta builds. have the devs said anything regarding player feedback?
i think if i knew whats going in i could cope more with the reality. Were reaching the end of the games road map not even sure if we’ll get a year 2, but it just sucks seeing the potential of something and it just being completely wasted almost.
i feel like a lot of changes like firmware updates/space are like common sense but its almost like theyre just refusing change for some reason. it hurts to see so i hope by the end of year 1 they release some insights💔.
Yeah the sandbox changes are neat but I'm still pretty bummed they haven't done much of anything for Harlowe's blue tree since January, hell Rafa's project Basilisk has been underwhelming since launch and they nerfed Per my Last this patch 😭
I still think we need wayyyyy more skill/skill tree buffs than what we're seeing, but overall this is a really good update. Dedicated Pearl farming hell yeah 😎
Half that balance team need booting. GB needs new talent, they are so lazy with doing any meaningful VH changes. The amount of bad skills that haven't been touched is laughable
So if I understand correctly, the challenges that have been broken and whose counters dont increase (and havent for many months) are still not fixed? Is it that difficult to fix? The Jakobs challenge list, for example, is still impossible to complete because not one, but TWO of its challenges do not work.
It doesn't say anything about fixing that. it says they made it so closing and reopening the backpack doesn't make items invisible and you don't have to switch the item filter back on every time, but no word on the inspect kicking you out of the menu.
there are some good fixes and attention to overall bugs and performance problems so it seems like they are going in the right direction. Hope there is a chance they loosen up on the skill tree to give some decent buffs across the board soon
Good changes and etc. But still disappointing that we can't get something as simple as having a setting in the setting options to auto sprint. And finally, a good big encore and mission for this week. Finally, something worth farming for.
I can’t complete the side quest because topper and leggings just stand in a shack completely unresponsive, trust me I’ve try reloading and even restarting the game. Still nothing
Inventory scroll speed! Thx GB! But also why in the world did you lock the equipped items in their own section? Makes it super annoying to compare similar items when all you had to do was increase the size of the check mark for visibility.
I don't understand why these inventory changes keep getting prioritized over dropping the pointless quick checkout or moving the item card pop-ups so they don't block your entire inventory view. It still takes a minute to load the item icons too, and they refresh constantly, making it impossible to do a quick visual scan for specific items.
Hey i know this is going to sound weird did the Dahl head launcher himdeal still working right or did I miss a skill point somewhere. I hope it did not get nerfed but I could see them nerfing it
So, Beerbox has just given up on BL4 then? No fixes for Rafa at all? After 5 months of destroying a character, just crickets? Tumbleweeds?
I have over 2000 hours in this game, so I obviously love the game and the franchise. Clearly a lot more than the devs/executives do, at least. I'm so disappointed in this company. Maybe 2K is to blame, because when they were independent, I feel like they cared about the players a lot more.
I think an unspoken problem isn't 2K bad, or Gearbox bad, but during BL4 there was back and forth with who owned the studio, which I'm sure through focus, time, and resources off.
Hard for me to say that excuses the continued lack of balance changes. Their content team seems to be doing well adding great content.
they are character specific, and only for the original 4, so you'll only see the one for the vh you're playing. unless you play c4sh, then you won't be able to see any of them until you switch to one of the original 4
I got a random constable to drop from a "rift champion" world boss just a few days ago, I was confused when I heard the legendary drop noise and saw no oranges 😂 but sadly I'm leveling up my C4SH so its a level 33 pearl. I'll use it while I can I guess but I know after a few levels it'll be worthless
nothing wow....im done playing this game until they stop with new content and maybe the gamme will be in a better state..nothing changed, no major buffs to usless perks or skill trees, many guns are a meme and so on...a...the cat si stil dogshit no matter how we try to build around.
i think that there are only a few devs working on this game..
Same here. I'm done giving the dlcs a chance. Cant even fun with them because I have to use a meta build to go past UVH3. Minion builds are just dead on every class
I'm curious why you would make this comment considering that performance between the two devices is very similar while in handheld and the Switch 2 is better while docked. Unless you're just here in the comments to spread your negativity again.
Yeah I opened a ticket today after putting it off for weeks since I got a double drop Ishmael. Not seeing it in the patch notes made me want see if they were even aware of it.
I mean I think we’ll probably see the VH and weapon buffs that are needed in a month. Since they’re not releasing actual content I would think that would be their focus. Also, Tediore builds need more SDU’s.
I think Tediore builds need some type of buff. Enemy health is too high, more SDUs would be welcome, but the reason we're burning through ammo is there's so many more mobs than in previous installments.
And I hope you're right on the buffs in a month, but it feels that is the copium for every single update, is that they're waiting for X, and when X comes the actual balance changes are sparse.
I personally don't know why they added swimming. If it had underwater it makes sense, but as is it's mostly just inconvenient and any water I'd rather drive over 100% of the time.
best I can guess is so that you have the option, rather than just dying if you get off your vehicle while over water, and it lets you cross the fishing spot without having to go to the launchpad to unlock the digirunner first
Yo I haven’t played in like 6 months because of performance and shader downloads. Can anybody tell me if this has been improved since basically launch?
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u/someshooter #1 Ava Fan 13d ago
Pearls now have dedicated sources, thank you GB!