How does scaling work in play through 2?

Borderlands General Discussion
#1

After many hours of bl2 I’m playing lillith and have her around level 48 halfway through the second playthrough.

Will enemies scale up to my level after i beat the game?

What about loot/dlc?

My main thing is I want farmory to be as high off a level as it can be so I can hopefully score some pearls.

Thanks in advance

#2

I think this covers the basics pretty well:

Scaling is a bit weird, especially in Pt.2 (equivalent to BL2 TVHM) and Pt.2.5 (post main-story in Pt.2, not at all the same as UVHM).

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#3

Thanks. I did knox’s dlc pt1 will that mess me up?

#4

Also. That root says to do knox at 57 or so but will the armory level up with me on or 2.5 after I beat the other dlc’s?

#5

I don’t think so? Just to be sure though, paging @Kurtdawg13 or @farsight37 or @Matrixneo42 for expert advice.

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#6

To throw my 2 cents in.

Vanilla base game, DLCs 1, 2, and 4. These will scale to your level as soon as you enter the Vault(where you fight the Destroyer) in PT2.

DLC3, Knoxx, only starts scaling with your level when you beat the main story(Kill Knoxx, loot the armory, turn that mission in).

Do all of this^ in PT2 to get everything to scale with you(PT2.5). After that, most everything; loot, enemies, chests… some vendors don’t, will scale with your level. At this point you can start farming for gear anywhere.

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#7

I appreciate your kind words. :wink:

I would defer to @farsight37 as he remembers that stuff much better than myself. I’ve been in 2.5 pt for so long now. I don’t recall to be honest. Sorry I can’t be more help. Looks like Bill stepped in anyways. Good looking out @billthebetta :acmaffirmative:

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#8

Y’all are making me blush. But as usual, Bill is 100% correct, so you can refer to his excellent post detailing all the scaling in PT2.

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#9

Thank you all so much.

So in knox I would need to turn in the farmory mission for the dlc to level with me?

That means is have to recieve marcus’s second farmory mission to get higher level loot in the armory?

Also what order did the dlc’s come out in?

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#10

In Pt.2 yes, that is correct. That’s ok though, because there’s three Armoury missions you can get from Marcus after that.

So Zombies, Underdome, Knoxx, Robolution.

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#11

Not all heroes.

Thanks. Can all the claptraps in pt2 be farmed for backpack slots? I got a few but gave up on kroms canon. Sign out farmed an hour or so

#12

I think that’s addressed in the “Ideal Playthrough” post I linked right up top. Some of them are obviously easier to farm than others. I honestly didn’t bother.

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#13

There are 5 Claptraps that can give you a backpack SDU in PT2:

Sledge’s Safehouse
Lost Cave
New Haven
Tetanus Warrens
Crazy Earl’s Scrapyard

Additionally, if you rescue the Claptraps in the Lumber Mill (Ned DLC) and Tartarus Station (Claptrap DLC) before activating the mission “Find Steele”, they will also give you a backpack SDU in PT2. If you rescue them after accepting said mission, they are glitched and will offer you nothing for your kind services in repairing them.

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#14

This is where I’ve been going wrong. I will have to make sure I get that right in the future!

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#15

I found out much too late. I’m stuck unless I’m to create another Siren. Cause my Siren is the prettiest. her name is Lilith:

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OT: @farsight37 and I are attempting a new playthrough. But he has been too busy to keep that going. Hint hint. cough, slap up side the head if my subtle hints aren’t working. :wink:

Phase walkies! lmao :rofl:

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#16

That is one cute siren - time for phase-walkies yet?!

On topic: It’s too late for my siren and hunter, but Roland should be good - pretty sure I’m not that far through Pt.2 main story yet, and I haven’t touched Zombie Island or Robolution with him at all.

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#17

Made good progress today. I’ve beat the main game , neds dlc, and robolution. Next is nox’s

I’m around level 61 with 48 backpack slots.

A trick on the bp upgrades is to have a full inventory. Works wonders

Can’t wait to get my first pearl.

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#18

Update/double post.

Everything worked out. I’m max level and have the armory opened up. Now I just need to grind some gear then take on craw.

First farmory netted me an explosive crux with insane stats and a chimera (first I’ve seen).

Lillith is a beast. Even undergeared she has so much survivability it doesn’t matter.

What’s a good method for killing mix quickly on the siren? Tried the defiler and a corrosive stinger but that was slowwww.

#19

How come that I didn’t get backpack SDU in PT1 for my two characters in Secret Armory, and with other two I did got them?

#20

According to the wiki entry:

So it’s RNG based. You can iirc farm the Lockdown Palace claptrap on mission turn in (dashboard/force quit if you don’t get one and try again) but that can be a bit tedious.

Edit: helpful summary from the wiki

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