And general mutator arena discussion. What character did you do it with? Were there better drops from enemies and the chests?
Also, whoever came up with the rocket launcher mutator deserves a raise. Thank you thank you thank you, that mode is fun as hell, finally RLs get some use besides second winds.
I have beaten level 9 using Claptrap and Jack at least 10 times. A few times one chest had 2 legendaries. Most of the time the chest had blues. The enemy drops did not improve.
Nice, I should probably switch to the cortex instead of EOS killing. Not having a lot of luck with his drops. Does shadowtrap have any specific drops? I think I got my rerouter from him but that was a legendary-heavy day and can’t remember
I beat it once using my cookie-cutter Phalanx/Ceraunic Storm Athena (wearing a Celestial Gladiator COM), but never again. Not even vaguely close, in fact. And considering that the chest rewards I got for that one win were like three blues and a purple, I genuinely think the game glitched or something and I was actually playing on an easier difficulty than I thought for that one round. I can only consistently beat the arena on difficulty 7, and that’s won me one or two glitch guns per win and a legendary (the new Hyperion amp shield, the Rerouter–a very cool piece of equipment).
I’m not sure if it’s a specific drop to him but I got a head for Nisha, she’s got dreads and a beanie on
i was just playin with settings while solo and tried the lvl 9 and things in there are deff sturdy.
I beat it with Deputy Jack and I was playing with a Melee Athena. Absolutely brutal. The chests were bugged so I didn’t get anything. The other day I beat it with three other people and got a Cryophobia from a glitch chest and blue class mods from the other one.
I tried lvl 3 and it took me as long to beat Shadow-Trap there as it did EOS and that after Shadow-Trap glitched and got stuck in the floor.
If the lvls above lvl 3 have his health higher than that … I don’t know … that is worse than EOS’s health.
How are people doing the arena?
Did I get a weird run?
Is the first run … the h4xorzs (??) a special harder run?
Dunno, but that was insane.
Shadow Trap’s health and shields at level 9 is absolutely stupid. Just make sure you find him quickly when he teleports because that shield regen will certainly kill your vibe lol
Luckily if there’s dot on him you can find him with the damage numbers after he teleports. Corrosion lasts 8 seconds if I recall.
Wilhelm’s bots will also be on him … very useful for finding him.
I have not done Jack yet, but I bet the digi-jacks would be the same way.
My first time was with Claptrap and finding him after he teleports was hard as I kept finding the other Shadow-Traps (??) that were not him.
Hopefully the zx-1 stays on him too, haven’t tried it yet
Did my first arena today. Jack level 61. Greater good tree. Level 2 difficulty. Pistol crit mutator. Low air mutator. Good times.
I got sucker killed between activations of my action skill the first time I tried. Then I managed a victory the second time I tried. Used Eddie oz kit that time so I could get his health regen.
It’s definitely worth it to keep giving shadow trap corrosive damage over time. To more easily find him and I think it stops his shield regen.
I am definitely going to try the rocket mode.
Also. Definitely will try higher difficulties. Only got green and blue rewards from the chests that time.
Yep, it’s time to crank it up for me as well. Level 3 still isn’t as hard as bl2 uvhm. I wonder when it becomes harder than that
Beaten it twice, both solo and in 4 player co-op.
Solo was Claptrap. Think I used low gravity (since it’s neither a boon nor a bane) and EXPLOOOOOOSIONS! Cause I had a Double Fragnum and an Excalibastard. Storm Front grenade and the Enlightment laser and shock Torrents as backup weapons. Reogenator shield and EDDIE oz kit.
Ran with the I love you guys and boomtrap skill trees, with only the defensive subroutines. Was pretty tough, had to rely heavily on freezing enemies and picking them off 1 or 2 at a time as to not keep dying.
As co-op I did so with Athena. I didn’t pick the modifiers so I can’t remember what they were. More or less used the same guns except for the Enlightenment, got ahold of the Thunderfire instead and swapped the Storm Front for a Pandemic. Used Ceraunic Storm and Phalanx. Basically just stayed on top of keeping everyone alive. Raise shield, tank a little bit, manually revive WITH OXYGEN (seriously, you’d be surprised how many people don’t do this even in oxygen filled areas), tank again, toss shield for damage. Using “clear” only in emergencies, it’s almost always better to manually revive.
I beat it at level 7 this morning. Jack. Level 61. Vampire mode. Shotguns, melee and something else boosted. Greater good tree. jacks cache. homing grenades. I threw grenades a lot and sapped health that way as well as through the greater good skill tree. Oh yeah! and my level 60 flak cannon was happy to use the shotgun damage bonus.
I tried it at level 9 and got hosed by some super badass floating shielded armored jerks who were bullet sponges. Not impossible though. I just have to be more careful.
One glitched chest + a red chest. All rewards were blue.
Got stuck at seven slices of cake with a level 58 CS Athena. I feel like if you get a bug wave you might as well give up, though maybe I shouldn’t be running the speedhack mutator. Once I got 4 badassbugs, christ on a bike. Definitely felt like taking a year to live at gearbox offices and slap anyone who tries to design another flying enemy.
It’s also not very handy that the only explosive weapon I have is an underlevelled flakker, I know I should be torgue-swapping.
Also, to me it feels like around level 5-6 is where it reaches BL2 UVHM levels, Thrown aspis can’t really be relied on even with high charge, hades shackles is only good for stacks, need some method of healing etc.
I really like Jacks cache now, was not sure about it at at first, but with that skill above it in tier 2 forget the name I throw transfusion grenades With the extra bonus damage works well.
Ah, this thread makes me realize the chests CAN be opened.
Must be just an individual glitch for certain people then.
Oh yes i sure beat it with every option set to the hardest on Level 9, cause my gun did 99999999999999 damage and 9999999999 shield and infinity grenades with purple text that allows it to make child grenades and grand-child grenades that then spawn great-grand-children grenades. Cause like the mission says i am one of those L337 H4x0rZ that blast through everything.