Hi 
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Is there a reason why most people showing videos, mostly build videos and OP 8 ones do show that they donât use their BAR ?
Would a high lvl video (OP lvls) be âinvalidatedâ because youâre enabling BARs ?
Are there people that really lvl without BAR all the way ? or are they doing their lvling through OP8 with BAR and then taking it off for subsequent videos ?
Partly itâs to show that any random viewer can really do this too (without resorting to cheats such as voldemort.exe, the software that shall not be named!) If youâve ever played with randoms, or read the complaints of those whoâve played with randoms, then you probably already know that there are some folks out there with frankly impossible buffs that turn them into one-shot wonders. So if you want to show off a really good build, or a neat strategy, it has sadly become necessary to prove that you arenât cheating somehow.
The time trials require that BAR be turned off in submissions.
Ha okâŚ
But then if you show at the end of the video that youâre using BAR and itâs like normal reasonable BAR % like 12.8% here and 13.5% there it should be ok as well no ? Like right now for example I have 57k ranks and thus since I have 4 different characters I place % everywhere since itâs useful for everyone so iâm at 13.1% / 13.5% in everything : I always choose the lowest to rank up so everything is the same.
Whatâs a time trial?, killing Terra or Pete in less than X time?.
I guess it also counts doing Bar Brawl and stuff like that.
PS: voldemort.exe xDDDDD
Time trials thread. But you are right: itâs about killing raid bosses or doing arena fights in the shortest possible time.
Thanks Gulf.
Since BAR can also be manipulated by turning it off itâs another way of saying âHey, this is a legit methodââŚ
Yeah, I had to read that twice as well!
What @Carlton_Slayer is saying is that BAR can be manipulated in ways that make it waaaay higher than it should be - essentially, a form of cheating. Showing that youâve turned BAR perks off shows that youâre not doing this.
So yeah just a comma after the word âmanipulatedâ would have helped I guess 
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Misuse of punctuation- what I meant was "Since BAR can also be manipulated, by turning it off, itâs another way of saying âHey, this is a legit methodâ. I was trying to infer that by turning off your BAR that that meant the build wasnât unduly influenced by it. I should have stayed awake during English classes- or just listen to Word Crimes againâŚ
Itâs to show that anyone could theoretically duplicate what they see in the video. People who make Youtube videos and play Borderlands for a living typically have insanely high BA ranks (like, 30% or higher in every stat). That way, it shows the setup is whatâs doing all the work, not their super character who has been built up over the course of several dozen hundreds of hours.
Ha ok thanks ! Makes more sense now.
So I can assume the corollary of that is that if one makes a video showing badass ranks and that he actually uses them itâs not going to be seen as bad either right ?
As long as theyâre reasonable. If it shows boosts of 100% across the board, you know thereâs something fishy going onâŚ
I have a bit less than 60k so I think itâs around 13% per stat (I raise them all equally).
All but 5 of mine are at 22.4%- really screws up nova shields like the FotF and Love ThumperâŚ
Also, there are people who are incredibly skilled, such as MoLMF, who keeps his off in just normal situations, for whatever reason. Thatâs just because theyâre better than usâŚ