Borderlands 2 Luck of the Zaffords weekend run is dissapointing

By BatRastered — March 17, 2013
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St Patrick's Day weekend, and Gearbox is running a special Luck of the Zaffords promotion. What did we find? Not what we were expecting, but we did get some video of two loot goon goliaths going at each other.

Gearbox announced that all this weekend, from Thursday through Sunday, we would have increased drop rates and better quality shields. They also gave out codes to some green costumes. I ran through Thousand Cuts once by myself, and then once with Zero2990, then once with FnJimmy and GoukiJones. I seemed to find a lot of blue class mods, but nothing else of note. Zero even tweeted: "@GearboxSoftware 1 purple in 3 days and 0/100 on The Bee drop. I think your event is broken."

After the last run through, GoukiJones, FnJimmy, and I hit up Frostburn Canyon to see about getting a loot goon to drop something. We ended up getting 3 of them! At one point we had two loot goons fighting each other. After leveling a couple of them up to GOD-liath status, we were met with nothing but green and white items in the chests (and one blue gun dropped).

We also fought several bosses including the Bunker, Scorch, and Spycho. The Bunker dropped a Bitch SMG (non-elemental so I wasn't interested) and a fairly good purple explosive nova shield. Shorch and Spycho dropped nothing. Nada. Zilch.

I think once your character hits the level cap, the game should scale the weapon rarity and not drop any whites anymore. It's bad enough that the vending machines are full of white gear... I'm level 50, bitch, have been for some time now, I don't even look at drops unless they're blue or better. Come on!

I'm dying for a level cap increase now, allegedly they will announce something at PAX east, but that may be too late as Bioshock comes out that week!

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I actually got a few purples from the Bunker this afternoon but nothing to rave about. I don't think I even found a shield better than blue all weekend.

Zero2990 rated Borderlands 2 Buy it
Mar 17, 2013 by Zero2990

Yeah, I don't know what to say about this. My Mechromancer need some new shit.

goukijones rated Borderlands 2 Buy it
Mar 17, 2013 by goukijones

So to sum up our loot weekend, the rarest things we actually found was 2 pink weapons dropped by Arthvader.. This event was seriously broken..

Zero2990 rated Borderlands 2 Buy it
Mar 18, 2013 by Zero2990

I got a purple shotgun right at the very end yesterday. I still had fun tho. We should play w/ 4 more often. >.>

goukijones rated Borderlands 2 Buy it
Mar 18, 2013 by goukijones

It was kick ass playing with people who know what they're doing, (minus 1 or 2 Jimmy mishaps)

Zero2990 rated Borderlands 2 Buy it
Mar 18, 2013 by Zero2990

Yeah, the Siren is a lot more fun to use when there's three Jimmys to pick up and I've got Res. The Xbox was struggling to handle all that shit on the screen though, next gen can't get here soon enough.

BatRastered rated Borderlands 2 Buy it
Mar 18, 2013 by BatRastered

"(minus 1 or 2 Jimmy mishaps)" Recorded by both the Jimmys in the room.

goukijones rated Borderlands 2 Buy it
Mar 18, 2013 by goukijones

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Borderlands 2 Luck of the Zaffords weekend run is dissapointing

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