A Few Small Questions

Borderlands 2 Gameplay Discussion (Spoilers!)
#1

A few random questions I would like answered and didn’t think they warranted their own post.

  1. Zer0’s Precision: does it drastically effect the accuracy of shotguns like the coach gun or quad?

  2. Maya’s Flicker: is it a direct % increase to any equipped weapons?

  3. Jakob’s Allegiance Relic: is recoil/acc. Recovery the only combination you can get?

  4. Is there any point using a tediore shotgun other than the omen?

Last one is more subjective I know lol

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#2

No, it’s a multiplicative increase in the chance to apply a status effect - see the example calculation at http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Flicker

I believe it’s 2 out of Accuracy Recovery, Magazine Size, Recoil Reduction ([GUIDE] To BL2 Allegiance)

The one that’s in your inventory when you don’t have an Omen.

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#3

Thank you!

Exactly what I was thinking :joy:

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#4

Only worth it at 10/5 - I’ve tested this a lot

Chuck and kkiller like the Shotgun Supreme ( Torgue barrel ) , but the Omen / Blockhead are only Tediores I use.

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#5

Just ran southpaw with a Doc’s quad using Jakob’s allegiance relic and 10/5 and it makes headshots so consistent

I have a corrosive shotgun supreme but my juicy ravager feels a lot better even against loaders :confused:

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#6

I don’t even bother speccing it anymore. I have that weird feeling when I equip the Legendary Siren com and seeing that boosted skill in the tree without having any points in it, but Flicker just doesn’t seem to do a lot. I used to spec it because I thought it would increase the slag chance of Scorn, but people have runs tests on that and it does jack squat for Scorn.

Blockhead! I like that shotty a lot. :slight_smile:

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#7

Only reason I wanted to know lol

Was my favourite shotty till I got the omen and noticed it had almost double damage and I just lost interest

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#8

Why not just go ahead and ask if there’s a point using any other gun than the Norfleet while you’re at it? I mean… It blows up everything after all.

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#9

Omen doesn’t trivialise the game anywhere near as much as the Norfleet does so that’s irrelevant

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#10

I like the Deliverance, the Octo, the aforementioned Blockhead and Shotgun Supreme. Is there a point? Probably just not trying to farm the dragons if the thought of soloing raids makes you nervous, which happens to be my problem. :sweat_smile:

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#11

I think most people struggle to solo the dragons reliably, me included lol it’s meant to be a group thing though so I can’t complain

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#12

I don’t really like it. But I realize now that there are a very few situations where it’s better than a Jakobs Quad.

The Blockhead is a good alternative anywhere you don’t want to get close to flesh enemies.

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#13

What do you expect out of a shotgun?

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#14

For it to work at op8. Just seems to me that the omen is the best tediore shotty and was curious as to what others thought

#15

I think it was @Jefe or @VaultHunter101 or one of the forum regulars who tested Flicker recently and determined it doesn’t do anything so don’t bother throwing points into it anymore.

Like others above, I like Octo, Deliverance, and Blockhead, but I only use the Blockhead at OP8 whereas the other two I don’t feel hit hard enough at that level. As a Maya player, Blockhead and CR are a great combo.

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#16

Actually it was @Itsu

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#17

Ye I like the blockhead, with zero it’s harder to know if a shotty is good because his skills do a lot of the damage imo and can make mediocre guns perform beyond usual levels

#18

With Zer0 in particular any high damage “burst” gun will do amazing things.

#19

Ye I’ve come to realise that, finding it hard to go back to Axton after playing for Zer0 for a while now