Captain Flynt drop rates

Borderlands 2 BL2 General Discussion
#1

I beg of you… Would someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FIX CAPTAIN FLYNTS DROP RATE SO HE WILL DROP THE DAM THUNDERBALL FISTS!!! I must’ve farmed him over a hundred times with nothing to show for it and it just isn’t fun anymore so I BEG YOU… FIX IT!!! And no Sparky doesn’t drop it either… AT ALL!!!

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#2

Just at least tell someone to fix it. It’s a problem across all platforms. I’ve bought your game twice… I deserve to have the guns included in the game I bought. Just fix the drop rates. Farming that Thunderball is painfully long

#3

Random is Random

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#4

Go and farm the LLMs, they seem to like dropping me the Thunderball Fists.

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#5

Don’t feel bad. He’s never dropped one for me either.

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#6

One of the worst farms in the vanilla game by a long shot. Takes ages to get there and Flynt is really stingy.

There’s a reason why GBX made the Thunderball Fists easier to farm with the Sir Hammerlock vs. the Son of Crawmerax headhunter pack after all…

#7

The good news is he’s an easy farm… as long as you remember to use the travel gate to spawn in almost right behind him on claptrap’s ship. Otherwise it’s a looooong run.

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#8

@stuarthome3 I’m pretty sure this doesn’t work actually. Have you personally farmed him this way?

#9

Second this.
Got one from him too.

In fact, double drop. Tinderbox + Th Fists.

#10

Wait so how exactly does this work? You say it’s possible to spawn on Claptraps ship?

#11

No, if you have the Son if Crawmerax dlc, Sparky Flynt drops the Thunderball Fists.

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#12

Yeah I mean I’ve farmed him more than I’ve farmed his dad even with the VH Relic. Does the VH relic even help or should I try without using?

#13

I mean I heard Sparky has the same loot pool as his dad yet he rarely even drops the tinderbox and on the other hand that’s all his dad even drops

#14

The VH relic adds a 5% chance to get rare items IIRC- meaning blue items, not legendary…

#15

So does that mean it interferes with your chances to get legendaries then though?

#16

Nope- it just doesn’t help you any as far as legendary gear goes…

#17

I mean the thing is… I’ve farmed Sparky so dam much that I’m too the point where I don’t even believe he’s ever gonna drop it. He drops the Tinderbox 1 in 10 tries if I’m lucky but not the Thunderball Fists. I was able to get the Bee shield only after about 3 tries. Same with the Infinity pistol

#18

I’m doing UVHM by the way

#19

The only Thunderball Fists I ever got came off the Marcus loot train- that’s a long haul for one weapon…

#20

Wow really??! So does that loot train have a pretty decent legendary drop rate then?