I maxed out at level 72 a few months ago and have been farming ever since. I’ve farmed pretty much everything I wanted but yesterday joined someone’s game and played digistruct peak for the first time. I’m now OP1. I was expecting it to be much harder but the reason I didn’t want to do it was that I don’t want to level out of all the glorious legendary weapons I’ve put hundreds of hours into farming. Specifically my shreddifiers. I would pay actual money to someone who could get me a slag version of it. I have fire, shock and corrosive. I did manage to get an OP1 Slagga and it’s outstanding. It’s got a 130 round magazine, 2.9 reload and has the 1x magnification sight I wanted. I also found a blue Dahl slag minigun with 2.7 reload and 38 round magazine. It briefly replaced my level 72 Slagga until I got the OP1 version. Are all OP legendaries/uniques/purples that much better than level 72 or did I just get really lucky?
It’s higher level. An OP1 gun is basically level 73. An OP8 gun is basically level 80 so yes, the difference gets pretty huge.
It depends on the gun, build, and character at how long the weapon will last before it needs to be replaced but the numbers do get significantly higher with every level above 72. The Overpower levels are simply an extension of Ultimate Vault Hunter mode in regards to leveling up and gearing with Digistruct Peak being an absolute pain in the rear. So for the most part a gun will remain effective for about 2-3 OP levels before you will want to consider finding something better, and that is assuming said weapon/gear is top quality.
However once you become heavily equipped at OP8 it just becomes level 72 all over the again with having all the goodies you wanted being at your fingertips. At least for me that was the case with Jakobs firearms with some weapons requiring an extra bullet or two to accomplish the same thing that they were capable of performing at level 72.
I have an OP8 slag Shreddifier. Hyperius dropped it for me.
Don’t forget that the OP levels are entirely optional. If you’d rather not go through the whole thing again, just leave your game set on OP0 (level 72). There’s no achievements or BAR challenges for levelling OP1-8.
I have only once successfully killed a raid boss that was on my level. I tried Hyperius twice and couldn’t even make a dent, got really close to killing Pete the first time I tried but the DOT and what eventually turned into level 85 spiderants got me. I killed Terra solo once in TVHM but that’s it. I don’t understand how people can solo some of these fights. Bee with a huge amp damage and low recharge delay, legendary weapons, slag on everything, dual turrets to cover me but I can’t even get close.
I’m probably going to farm a few OP1 items (Bee, Hellfire, Fastball) and not do any more OP levels.
Once you go to mid op levels you wont be able to view the regular 72 op0 games on matchmaking. Wel thats what im experiencing with my op4 zero even if im set at op0.