Cannot grind or find Flayer

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel BL: TPS Loot and Weapons Chat
#1

Killed hundreds of viruses. Killed EOS many, many times. Grinded eight times per dashboard. Repeated this grind for hours. RNG has been good to me in this game, but the Flayer has eluded me.

#2

Grinding it works. Make sure to use a DLC legendary, any legendary and a purple shottie. It will come out eventually. 2 dlc legendaries can be better, but don’t have to.

#3

Ever since the May 19 game update, I’ve noticed the grinder refuses to give out new DLC2 guns using all 3 legendaries for the ingredients. It used to work well before, but somehow not so good now.

The most reliable way to get a new DLC2 gun now is by grinding a DLC2 Leg + Vanilla Leg (or Berrigan RL) + Purple gun. This has been my experience thus far.

Also, have noticed Flayer SGs seem to be now rare from the grinder, unless you use 2 - Flayers with a purple SG. I tried grinding Flayers last night and earlier in the day with ingredients that used to work before the game update, but I’ve had no luck.

I’ll keep trying and see what combination works best for me now to get Flayers (not using 2 of them).

#4

I’ve never seen one drop from a Virus.
I’ve seen EOS drop a crap one though.
How coveted is the Flayer anyway?
It seems like everyone wants it.

#5

It’s like one of the best SGs in the game. You can also use 2 Flayers + Hyperion Purple pistol in the grinder to get a Pro Revolution Legendary.

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#6

Looks like the May 19 Game Update made the Flayer a rare drop from the grinder now.
Not been able to get one, unless I use two Flayers.

#7

got a flayer from the badass robots, on the way to the vaulthunter.exe entrance

#8

Thanks for the info but I was already doing that. Used eight dlc’s + eight vanilla legendaries + eight purple shotguns at a time.

#9

It’s the last legendary I want.

#10

Try two longest yard lasers plus a purple shotgun

#11

Just got two from grinder today in Concordia. Kanedas laser + nukem + purple tediore sg. Same recipe twice got it two out of three trys.

#12

It is for damn sure badass. Keep grinding until you get a Rustler’s.

#13

*Doc’s
try to get a Doc’s, with a Jakobs grip
Rustler’s is rubbish on the Flayer

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#14

Thanks for all the input, everybody. Farmed EOS today, he glitched three times in a row. After that, he dropped four Legendaries in a row. The last one was a Well Kept Flayer. Jakobs stock and grip, Torgue sight. Perfect except it wasn’t a Doc’s. I can live with that. Yeah, it’s pretty Bada$$ SG.

I am thoroughly sick of grinding though. EOS is a fun boss , so I’ll just farm him.

#15

Maybe it was a parts thing, but the Rustler’s I ground completely outdid the Doc’s.

#16

Man, that’s good enough in my book.

It was probably a parts thing, the Rustler’s prefix on the Flayer is not even an improvement on having no accessory at all…

DPS-wise, a Doc’s outperforms it in all scenarios, and when accuracy is concerned, it’s not even a contest.

The vertical grip accessory (Rustler’s) adds 2 pellets…a flat bonus. On guns that shoot 6 pellets, it’s a 33% improvement. But on a gun that already fires 15, it’s a very minor increase. Plus, the vertical grip does 2 more things: it improves fire rate (which is totally wasted on Jakobs shotguns like the Flayer) and it LOWERS accuracy. Having 2 more pellets, but having 4-5 less actually hit is no improvement.

The Doc’s prefix not only adds more DPS on average, but it also slightly improves accuracy, insuring that nothing is lost.

Have a look here: :slight_smile:

#17

Thanks for that. With Lex and Lance’s recent advances in grinder genetics, I ought to be able grind a better Doc’s and give it a try.

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Color Coded - Grinder Recipes [Guide]
#18

I spent the morning grinding for a flayer. I had massive success, but I think that is more of a product of beneficial RNG than anything I did.

My approach was to grind DLC2 Legendary + Other Legendary + Purple Shotgun

The DLC2 Legendary weapons were:


Fusillade
Luck Cannon
Proletariat Revolution
Thunderfire
Flayer

The Other Legendary weapons, which were a mix of DLC 2 weapons and “original game wepons” were:


Fusillade
Viral Marketer
Luck Cannon
Kerboom
Proletariat Revolution
Thunderfire
Flayer
Omin-Cannon

I started off with three purple shotguns:


Scav Firehose
Torgue Pounder
Jakobs Scattergun

I was specifically after a Flayer (a Doc’s with a Tediore [edit -Hyperion, right shape wrong manufacturer and Jakobs Grip). While the Grinder yielded 37/90 Flayers, none met my wishlist exactly. I did get a number of Doc’s though, perhaps as many as 12 or 13.

I am afraid I’m not much of a research statistician. I just ground through 9 different sets without any kind of plan until I had done the first run, which I managed to write down. The last 3 grinds included cast-offs from the previous 6, so it shouldn’t be surprising that my results were not consistent enough to provide an adequate number of purples in the 4th and 10th rounds and not enough Flayers in teh 8th round. In the 4th, I ground 3 Flayers together and got a purple and used that with the last Flayer and and Omni-Cannon to do that grind. I also ground a leftover Flayer with a Viral Marketer with a purple shotgun to produce another Flayer in that same round - which is why there are two Flayers in the same box on run #4.

I got a number (19) of high end non-Flayer Legendaries over the ninety runs, leaving only 34 Purples produced. Truthfully, this is the best grinding I have seen in a long time, maybe ever. So, I think your mileage will definitely vary.

Here are the results: http://s17.postimg.org/ctap12vtb/grinder_6_5.jpg

You can see that some combinations did not fair well. The only real take-away I get from this is that grinding 2 DLC2 Legendaries , of the same type (eg, 2 luck cannons) with a purple is more likely to produce a purple than a legendary.

After the last run, I did another run grinding the non-producing guns with other DLC2 legendaries. For instance, instead of grinding 2 Luck Cannons with a purple, I ground a Luck Cannon with a Proletariat Revolution. I got 7 Flayers on that 11th run. But, it could be anomalous because the 10th run was pretty fat too.

My experience tells me that while there may be fixed recipes for some weapons, I am doubtful any exist for the Flayer.

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#19

Nice summary chart and great discoveries. Congrats.
And glad you have proven me wrong, I guess Flayers are not rare after all post May 19.
Looks like I wasn’t using the right ingredients. Just got my first set of Flayers since May19 without using a Flayer for an ingredient.

Got two Flayers right now in 12 attempts using (2 Pro Revolution Pistols with a purple SG).
On Grind #3: I used a purple Tediore SG to get a LV70 Huntin Flayer
On Grind #12: I use a purple Hyperion SG to get a LV70 Sidewinder Flayer.

#20

I think you will do better with 1 PR and a non-dlc legendary. I think that you want the PR to mate with the purple shotgun and for the second legendary to get out of the way. I don’t even know if it matters whether it is a shotgun or not.