Since the Legendary drop rates got a buff and I’m reading of all these double drops and what not it got me thinking about lucky drops that I’ve had pre- drop buff. A few came to mind:
OP8 Wild Bekah (Jakobs grip/Dahl stock) and Legendary Torch double drop from a Tubby Midget during Badass Round of Fink’s Slaughterdome.
OP8 Hawkeye/Infection/Legendary Berserker drop from Voracidous
OP8 Omen/Quasar/Legendary Siren drop from the Dragons
The triple drop from the Invincibles isn’t that crazy considering that a Seraph is guaranteed but I thought with Voracidous the double Seraph drop is pretty rare and the Dragons was just a good combination. The Perfect Bekah and Torch from the Tubby Midget, I just have no words for that.
So BL2 vets let’s reminisce some from when the legendary drops truly were legendary. What were some of your best drops before the recent update?
I think my luckiest drop was a level 50 Infinity from a Sanctuary slot machine. What made it lucky was the timing. There was the “Bug Hunt” event before the Hammerlock DLC was released. At the end of the event, Vermi’s spawn rate was temporarily increased. A day or two before his spawn rate was increased, I got my first legendary from the slot machines, and it was a level 50 Infinity. I think that was my first Infinity. It was definitely my first high level one, since this was when Mercy was still broken and didn’t drop it in TVHM, so the only way to get a high level one in the game was a random drop. But I’m pretty sure it was my first Infinity, period.
So, a day or two before Vermi’s spawn rate was temporarily increased, I got my first legendary from the slot machines, and it was my first Infinity. I mostly farmed Vermi at the Tundra Express farmhouse, and the Infinity was very handy for keeping the varkids interested, without using ammo. I really don’t know what would have happened if I didn’t have that Infinity, but I probably wouldn’t have ended up with a dozen level 50 Norfleets at the end of the event.
Normal mode with Maya. Got a Lobbed Bouncing Betty at the vending machine by the first Catch a Ride that you have to fix and the about 30 min later pulled a Pandemic from the trunk chest where you get the Power core.
Just last night I spawned two Tubby Bones at once in Tiny Tina’s DLC. One dropped a Legendary class mod and another dropped me an Infinity! I was so stressed that those stupid Skele-mages were going to backshoot me and make it hard to get back to them so I snatched em up quick.
As Maya: In the cardboard box on top of the dumpster across from the health vendor near Marcus, it held a level 52 corrosive Infinity. That gun owned every armored enemy for the rest of the story. Good thing too, since I had no good acid weapons.
I found a DPUH as a world drop with Sal just before facing Bunker in TVHM. OMG, Bunker never knew what hit him! I passed it along to Gaige after he entered UVHM and she wasted Bunker even faster than Sal did (back then I ran her with max 600 Anarchy stacks). After that I made a point to play the Mr Torgue dlc in every game mode with every character- it’s the only weapon (aside from the Grog Nozzle ) that I make sure to get for every character…
Before the hotfix? Probaly getting a Nasty Ogre first try when I was playing the Tina DLC on TVHM.
I also remember getting a nice fire Conference Call on a non-Moonshot kill of the Warrior after very few tries, back when level 50 was still the level cap.
Killed Voracidous twice in a row without dying, dropped a Hawkeye each time. Both were at OP 8 (do raid bosses always and only drop stuff set at the current level? I’ve somehow never noticed). The second had nice parts so I donated the first.
OMGWTH dropped not only a fire Stalker (pistol, not the enemy or sociopath) AND a Striker with the critical hit prefix in one go.
Anytime a Storm Front or Pandemic is found.
Finding a DPUH in the Dahl chest before meeting Roland. On normal. That thing could have lasted until the Warrior if I didn’t already have enough loot to arm the entire city of Sanctuary.
I have found 3 legendary shields in vending machines before the increased drop rates, one was a Bee.
Speaking of the Bee, oddly enough, almost all my Bees are 5 levels apart, which is also the point at which I will go out an seek “upgrades” to my stuff. But this was unintentional for the Bees.
I have gotten a Sham from the Bunker.
I don’t know how many times I’ve killed Hyperius, but I’ve got what I feel like is a disproportionately large amount of Norfleets.
A level 49 Hive on my first ever TVHM playthrough. I have not seen one since and it still gets passed around new characters to this day. It’s got signs of rust on the back and has a lot of chipped paint, but it’s sitting in clappy’s stash right now…
A little backstory first. Wanted to pick up Maya again, but she somehow still needed backpack and bank upgrades, and I had not completed any of the DLC with this character on any difficulty so no easy access to eridium. I decided to switch it over to normal and do TTAODK.
I got two level 35 Bees to drop within a minute of each other in the Forest of Being Eaten by Trees, I believe both were from Treants. If it wasn’t from Treants than it was from a Pixie and run of the mill Orc. Hard to tell, was using Blight Phoenix and everything just dies instantly.
While running WEP LLMs during the grinding portion of getting my Zer0 to lvl 72, ended up getting a lvl 70 Legendary Berserker COM from the chest across from the boxes and an Onslaught fire Bearcat (my first!) from the loot midgets, with the next run netting me an explicit UH. Played with the bearcat for 2 minutes before realizing it sucked, then proceeded to use the UH for the rest of my farming given how strong it was. Haven’t used the Berserker COM yet, but am leveling a Maliwan Salvador who will inherit it when the time comes.
A number of things come to mind: first time ever playing OP levels, the very first place I went was STC and I found an Unkempt Harold in a cardboard box. Had a Storm drop from an engineer in WEP. A Black Hole dropped from a loader in Washburne. Found a Bee in a locker by the LLM’s in WEP. Several Norfleets from Hyperius. I guess I gotta throw in the Wanderlust and Bekah from tubbies since those finished off my op8 collection. All of these were within my first 6 months of playing, when the drop rates were horrendous.
More recently, 2 Twisters within a couple weeks, Butcher from a Goliath Blaster, and numerous legendaries from skag and spiderant piles.
I passed it along to Gaige after he entered UVHM and she wasted Bunker even faster than Sal did (back then I ran her with max 600 Anarchy stacks). After that I made a point to play the Mr Torgue dlc in every game mode with every character- it’s the only weapon (aside from the Grog Nozzle 
) that I make sure to get for every character…