So you guys may have come across this insanely popular article floating around… all over the internet.
TL;DR basically they think Eridium is a joke cause it doesn’t serve much of a purpose.
So Eiridum in BD2 basically was for upgrading storage and ammo. Also to spawn bosses and whatnot. That’s it, it didn’t give you guns except for slot machines I guess. I don’t know if people are new here, if so Hi new people! But you see… Eridium is not like an in game currency that gives you amazing gear. Like some of the other games do. Where maybe you can even buy with your real money so you don’t even have to play the game! Fun?
But I think the purpose behind it mainly supposed to be cosmetics and is not supposed to be the best way of getting good stuff cause you could do that by… wait for it… actually playing the game? Cool idea right? You get good gear by playing the game. This is just a different currency you collect to get cosmetics and Earl’s shop which those guns are useful while leveling up but not end game. If the best gear in the game came from pulling a lever, that would be the most boring Borderlands game ever. If you want to put yourself through that in the chance you do get something good, that’s on you lol.
I know it’s weird not having to whip out your credit card to get good stuff in a video game you’ve already paid for. But this is 2K we’re talking about, if you haven’t played NBA2K thank your lucky stars they didn’t attempt that cause they tend to go overboard with microtransactions when they add them.
I just don’t understand the problem? I was kind of happy the best guns are from drops and not shops. That’s kinda why I didn’t like TPS, you have no idea how long it took for us to find all those different grinding options to get gear so we could create a chart for the Grinder guide and Borderlands Fandom wiki. I hated it. Took an entire TEAM of people. Optimization and bug fixes should be more of a priority than finding a way to make a currency give better stuff than drops. Think about it, if you could do a crazy farming route to get Eridium in single player and get the best gear in the game from it. Who would want to join multiplayer dungeons or proving grounds? Am I the only one that’s fine with Eiridium?
Sorry if this came across as condescending… I did a cosplay as Handsome Jack and in the process of trying to nail his voice and way he talks it kinda stuck with me ever since
It didn’t come off as condescending so don’t worry about that.
It did however come off as nonsense.
Seriously, they’ve had 7 years to give us something worthwhile to do with eridium.
In 3 there’s just the same amount to do with it as there was in 2, the best thing we got was the auto pick up, which I’m fairly certain they just nicked from the Ultimate fan-made patch for 2.
Actually think about it for a second, we could have used eridium as a re-rolling currency for Anointed gear (500 a spin), we could have used it as a way to amp up our Proving Grounds to provide better challenge and reward, we could also use it as the price for redistributing Guardian Ranks if you want to try a different set up or if you gimp yourself as a Melee Amara, etc
The sky was the limit with 3 but they f*cked it up.
There’s about a dozen other problems I would think should come before giving Eridium more stuff to do with. But you’re right it is probably nonsense since they’ll most likely add something in DLC to do with it, and not the other dozen of issues that would be slightly more important. Just sayin.
In future when they have the time they should implement the ability to reroll gear and make us pay with Eridium. Players eventually will have bought all the cosmetics after which Eridium becomes completely useless and we’ll all be running around with maxed out stacks.
Be careful what you wish for friend. You want to know what happened when they called Masterwork cores a pointless item in Destiny 2? They took the ability to upgrade guns to higher lightlevels which you could do with legendary shards easily and pain free, then forced them into that mechanic making it nearly impossible to upgrade your large cache of weapons/gear. And all your different setups for all the different situations you’d need them, which some required that gear, forced everyone to add another thing to the list of stuff they had to do tedious amounts of farming for. It’s the reason I quit playing.
Only those who never understood the full mechanics of the game or had no patience had trouble with this. Also we could masterwork them, never could use them to raise light level. And shards are easily obtained, I still have over 16K shards, and some of my friends have more than double. (And yes we use them) did you even play the game?
The reason it continued to have use in BL2 is because we constantly farmed raid bosses which always took a fair amount of eridium to fight each time. So at least we were regularly using it.
I’ve bought all the cosmetics in the game and a few annointeds from the machine up till lvl 50 where the machine becomes worthless since you only want annointed legendaries at that point, which you can’t get from the machine.
Now I have over 8,000 eridium and literally NEVER use it for anything.
At least in BL2 there was a regular end game use. Hopefully they’ll make you use large amounts of eridium to fight raid bosses when the DLC comes because otherwise these articles are spot on when they state how worthless it is.
Most of us don’t want to buy good guns with Eridium. That still doesn’t change the fact that it’s useless. There’s nothing to do with it at all once you have all the cosmetics. Contrast that to BL2 were Eridium was used to fight raid bosses. Vanilla BL2 has a raid boss, that we used Eirdium to fight it. Where the hell is BL3 raid boss? WTF. Really. Why is one of the most important aspects of BL end game farming not in vanilla BL3? Also, everyone who’s played a looter with global drops knows how important rerolling mechanics are. Why isn’t that in? We could use Eridium and money for that. There’s lots they could have done here, things that experienced developers should know to do at this point in gaming.
Oh, much of this is the usual gamer outrage culture.
Not news to anyone, really. In 2k19 everything is the end of the world as far as gamers concerned.
It’s like a modern boy who cried wolf thing. At some point, I just consider it to be a pointless noise, because sky is falling constantly over anything imaginable.
I like this event. I work, play as much as i can. So i dont have tons of eridium, in fact the last gun i bought from earl left me with only around 100e. Not eveyone has farmed bosses and got tons of it and bank full of legs. I love the game, cant wait for more dlc and to see the game bloom. Im glad they are balancing characters and weapons. Bl2 was great but there is no denieing that a handfull of guns vastly outperformed the others.
I take it you didn’t play Foresaken? Shards weren’t the problem that was the normal mechanic. It was easy to get them and you could freely upgrade guns without problems. In Foresaken they added Masterwork Cores to the cost of upgrading lightlevels on top of shards, way too many were required and not enough places to get them except from destroying loot.
They eventually added a way to get them, which also required more farming.
