Anyone know why I'm seeing a level 50 mission in NVHM (bar brawl)?

Borderlands 2 Gameplay Discussion (Spoilers!)
#1

I was following some advice about going to NVHM to the beatdown bar so I could farm tokens fast, rather than trying to do it in UVHM. My first two tiers were level 30, same as all the other quests (I’m level 48), but for some reason my third tier fight came up at level 50. I double checked, and my first playthrough save is the one loaded.

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#2

There are several missions that are available in NVHM but are level 50 : the Bar Brawl, Hoard of Horrors, Twelve o’clock High, Terramorphous and the other raids.

It’s just a thing :man_shrugging:

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#3

The tier 3 rematches in the Torgue DLC are all level 50 in NVHM. Gave me a nasty surprise my first time playing Torgue DLC in normal mode with a level 30 character! :blrage:

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#4

Ah, okay…I see. So, I"m not sure if I shot myself in the foot here, but I finished the game just a hair into level 48, so I have two more full levels to go before 50. Every new mission is now level 50. Any idea what I should do? Grind out a couple of levels before starting NVHM? Or just dive right in, since everything will be level 50 anyway (though I can’t use all my level 50 legendary stuff that I twinked over)?

I guess I could always coop with some people just to grab more XP, then roll it right at 50 and go back to the bar brawl area to farm.

I’m using Axton, if that matters.

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#5

You get the most XP for turning in missions and sidequests, so if you have some (other than the brawls, obviously) which you can still do in NVHM, you could blast through those easily and get the XP that way.

Co-op with someone who is level 50 or higher should also get you to level 50 easily - the higher level of the game you join, the faster it will be. Check the on-line play section for your platform to see if anyone is advertising power-levelling.

Starting UVHM is also possible, although it would be a bit tough going in at level 48. It depends a bit on your play-style, how comfortable you are with the FPS aspect of the game, etc. Gear-wise, you can always drop down to NVHM and hit the golden chest in Sanctuary (someone just posted codes for more keys) since the stuff in the chest is always at the player’s level.

Here are the links for the different on-line play sections:

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#6

Great…thanks. I’ll look into those. Something else I may do is try running the Torgue races, so I can farm some XP and some tokens at the same time.

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#7

Make sure you have the vehicle booster from Ellie’s mission (the one with the statues) before you tackle that at tier 3 - the timing is pretty tight, even using the two-vehicle trick.

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#8

Will do. I think I remember doing it back on the 360 and it was pretty tight. Which is the better way to farm tokens, the brawls or the race?

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#9

I’d say bar-room brawl is the most popular. With practice, you can get that down fairly well. Plus, you get the chances for loot drops, which you don’t for Death Race. Death Race is probably the least risky of them all, though.

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#10

Yup! I remember that! Playing with my wife and her son. (They were in split screen.) Leveling the kid, just recently got the DLC at the time… We were 010011110100110101000111010101110101010001001000 just happened!??!!

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#11

Yeah, I definitely went with the Bar Brawl. After one try on the tier 3 race I remembered just how perfect it has to be. That brawl is pretty easy on TVHM.

I really need to decide soon which character I want to use going forward through the 60s. I’ve been enjoying Axton, but Maya was always pretty near and dear to my playstyle. This late in the life of the game I"m not sure how many characters I would take into those OP levels.