What are the worst weapons to use in co-op and what are the best guns?

Borderlands 2 Gameplay Discussion (Spoilers!)
#1

There’s tons of guns in this game. A lot of them are really fun to use and a lot of them are pretty unconventional. But when playing co-op some weapons can just be a downright nightmare to use with other people. One gun I think is not designed for co-op use is the Thunderball fists. While I love using the gun itself on my solo plays, I realized how blinding it could be for others who were playing with me so I decided to opt out of using it in co-op. Same wth some grenades.

So just curious what do you consider the least courteous or bad guns to use when playing with other players? Which do you consider to work best. You can talk about mods grenades relics and stuff too

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#2

Love thumper shield

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#3

So I guess that also extends to Flame of the Firehawk too huh?

#4

Flame of the firehawk doesn’t kill your team mates. Yes it makes a lot of fire on screen, but i don’t mind that part

#5

A gunzerker

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#6

oh really?

#7

i didnt know love thumper killed teammates. interesting

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#8

I think the Chère-amie is worth a mention for being a good weapon in co-op, due to the transfusion trails it makes when it hits something. I usually play a long range sniper role in co-op “mobbing”, and being able to heal teammates regardless of character is a nice gesture.

Just so I can mention both sides, I don’t think the Bonus Package and Meteor Shower are as good in co-op. Their damage is fine, but it is really hard to aim through the sheer amount of explosions they make.

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#9

Or Rolling Thunder for that matter. Quite a few grenades which are more problematic for co-op actually (unless you like causing your friends to go into FFYL unexpectedly?).

#10

Weapons only? Probably none that I would say don’t use other than a) hacked ones if your partner cares or b) weak/infamous ones if your partner cares? I don’t think any weapons hurt team members (though they may very well hurt you). I’m not even sure splash damage from Darts will hit a team mate?

#11

I thought you got friendly fire splash damage from splat guns? Or was I imagining that?

#12

Love thumper is a good choice, probably the worst overall

Can other players hear the Bane ?

Otherwise, mishandled MIRVs have killed plenty of people

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#13

Now that’s just mean ! :stuck_out_tongue:

Nobody complains when they get ammo regen from my Hoarder COM :wink:

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#14

Torgue weaponry in general can cause less robust computers to lag really bad, especially if wielded by a gunzerker. The Unkempt Harold is of note due to how many projectiles it fires at once. When I was using a Dell it would suffer such problems.

Other than that I cannot think of any outside of what was mentioned previously.

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#15

So just a follow-up on this, but my TVHM Maya is currently rocking a sticky homing bonus package with a fuse time that isn’t 0s. This can be immensely fun, but also immensely troll-ish.

Fun: toss the sticky homing BP out and, when it lands on an enemy, phaselock them. Then back up…

Troll: lag a bit behind your team, wait until you’re approaching a nest of stalkers, then start recording gameplay and toss the sticky homing BP out. And back up…

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#16

I’d throw magic missles in there in that case too. so blinding

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