Does anyone happen to know of a guide or route players use to get through NVHM on new characters that bypasses the need to do sidequests for experience. I know grinding will be necessary, and I don’t mind doing the sidequests that give out good rewards such as the Law or Lady Fist, but most of the side jobs just don’t feel rewarding or I’d rather not spend the time on them since I want to get out of NVHM rather quickly. Even recommendations for legendary gear at certain points would help too, for example, I tend to farm for a Harold and Fastball when my character is around level 10 and I’m on my way to the dust for the first time. Any input on how to speed this up would be helpful.
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Have a high level join and just face-roll everything? lol
I’m just kidding, but I can’t really think of anything. I do tend to run WEP once or twice to get some exp. and perhaps a nice piece of gear, and I also like to give my low levels an OP8 legendary/pearl to sell so I can buy Items of the Day and upgrade gear that way.
So, sounds like you’ve already played characters through the story, correct? In that case, you probably have enough knowledge of the game, BAR boosts, and hand-me downs to do most story missions under-levelled, which will get you to end-game faster.
My under-levelled run usually involves the following side-quests:
- Handsome Jack Here (easy money)
- This Town Ain’t Big Enough + Bad Hair Day (sniper!)
- Claptrap’s Secret Stash
- Rock Paper Genocide
- No Vacancy (gets FT/vendors/Catch-a-ride working)
- Assassinate the Assassins (chance of uniques/legendaries)
- In Memoriam (Boll won’t spawn until you do this)
- Cult Following (gets you Scorch for leg. chance)
- note that FotFH doesn’t level in NVHM so take it early
- No Hard feelings (easy blue Torgue)
- You Are Cordially Invitied (Teapot)
- Mine all Mine (extra eridium)
- note that you must pick up and turn this in before installing the power core if you want to use the eridium to buy extra ammo slots for main story “Bright Lights” sequence
- Doctors Orders
- Slap Happy (Octo!)
- Hidden Journals (easy money)
- Won’t Get Fooled (Law)
- Rocko’s Modern strife (but not handed in!)
- Bearer of Bad News (rewards don’t scale in NVHM)
- Monster Mash (unlocks Spycho)
- Kill Yourself (eridium)
- Hungry Like A Skag
- Uncle Teddy
- This Just In
- note that you need to get this from Mordy ASAP if you want the eridium before heading to Heroes Pass. I FT back after checking in at the first Arid Nexus stop (before or just after trying to use the ladder to get up the pipe). If you wait until you’ve completed Data Mining, you’ll be out of luck until after the Warrior.
Note that some of those side quests I would keep for level 50 in TVHM since then the rewards do level up (as long as you didn’t already accept the quest). In that case, I substitute some of the other quests that have weaker rewards eg the ones from Scooter. I don’t recommend power-levelling if it’s a character you’ve never played before, since you need to see what the skills do independent of the higher-level ones.
You’ll notice that I save ALL the Casutic Caverns and Lynchwood quests in NVHM. This is because these areas do rescale as you go through the game, so you can get the goodies (Heartbreaker etc) at higher level. If you need the weapon, take them earlier. Remember, though, that you can also get good shotguns from Splinter Group and Out of Body Experience.
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So the fact that some of those saved items are still going to be low level in NVHM doesn’t bother you? Or do you just skip them since you can manage without them until end of TVHM? Incidentally, have you ever managed to get a level 30 Heartbreaker? Tried the other week where I didn’t turn in Data Mining until I was level 30 but, even after beating the Warrior and a save/quit/restart the Heartbreaker mission was still listed as 29 (better than 19 or 22 but still… 
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