So I was playing Borderlands in solo mode since its launch on Steam and progressingin the story, and I was getting normal legendary weapons amount (1 or 2 in 25h of playing) but since the 26/03/20 update I began to loot more legendaries. But by more I mean a lot , and maybe too many.
For example, I dropped 4 legendary items from mouthpiece first time coming to him again. I also get other legendaries every 2-3 stronger ennemies (Badass psychos or Anointed enemies).
I wanted to know if this is normal while playing in solo normal and non-mayhem mode, because at this point it just removes all the excitment from getting the big orange flash as an enemy dies.
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Because legendary items are 95% trash. Like blue, green and purple.
Hellshock imba for amara, everything else is rubbish. I tried a bunch of legendary guns and they are all rubbish.
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This is about right. If all you’re looking at is, ‘check out all the orange dots on the map’, then it’s an (awesome) epidemic. If you’re looking for a dedicated drop with specific parts/anointment, RNG is still there to let you down.
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are you playing mayhem mode? then that’s your answer 
M4 has a 700% increase in drop rate 
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and that’s why they added anointments 
it’s just a big powercreep…
legendaries also got blown out of proportion… there are some realy great purple guns (but most get overshadow’d by legendary items) problem is that white, green and most blue items are useless (guns can be usefull, but classmods, grenades and the like are totaly useless outside of the legendary category)
mayhem 2.0 will hopefully improve on this
Don’t mean to sound rude but you are new to the game and this is more of an end game style of game not built around new players in the idea that once you yourself become a player with more time invested will actually find yourself realising that with anointments not enough legendaries are dropping as a long time player seeing new players complaining about how many legendaries are dropping knowing gear box tries to keep every one happy and often due to being human fail and sometimes nerfs drop rates it’s insanely frustrating to see these posts pop up
*edit: want to make clear not attacking you or having a go at you just explaining it
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not entirely accurate though I get the joke phase cast clone swap 100% cryo and phase slam annoints make alot more of the average weapons good to depending on the weapon and build great
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Whut eez thees "too many legendaries " uf wheech u speek???
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My opinion, you need to add pearls weapons, it should not be anointed. It must be fixed in parameters, and be extremely rare and be imba.
And it should fall exclusively from the world drop, excluding bosses. To remove the routine, he killed the boss - left the game - went into the game, killed the boss.
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I would love pearls and other old b2 and tps styled weapons but tps style being b3 unique pearls staying what pearls have always been being introduced into b3
The solution to the over abundance of legendaries is simple. Greatly decrease world drops but increase dedicated drop and annoint drop rate. This fixes the issue on both sides of the fence so people looking for specific loot and those who want legendaries to actually be legendary are satisfied. But people seem so to be so against it when it would make both sides happy. I think the issue comes down to the gimme now crowd wanting the insane amount of world drops and dedicated drops to be just as high as tbe world drops. But that would just be way to many legendaries and their needs to be some take before gearbox should up the drop rates on anything. What say you comment section, does anyone else have the same level of sense I do or are you mesmerized by the map full of shiny oranges like some slave to the legendary loot?
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The game is not made right, look diablo, no one there is farming bosses, they play a game and kill mobs. It doesn’t make sense here, items drop from bosses more often. And the game quickly bothers, it turns into - kill, left the game, went into the game, kill.
It quickly bothers.
Tbh this is a problem for me as one of my preferred farming methods is farming lectra city I often farm it for fun and a change of pace from 8 hours of boss kills or rare spawn or dedicated drop kills it would really suck for gear box to take that away from me just because of new players
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tbh diablo does have dedicated drops but it has been out for years so has had an insane amount of content and fixes for loot issues added
What prevents gb from doing ctrl + c ctrl + v? Clearly it works. A little tweak and there will be a looter shooter. And now this is the boss shooter. As a result, it is not clear why to collect items. To remove the game apparently.
what’s that on console?
Fair enough, some may prefer to farm world drops by just strolling through an area instead of bosses but that puts you in the minority of players. Most players farm bosses/Unique spawns which should have the best chance at legendaries bar none. World drops were a rarity in previous borderlands games and BL3 seems like such a big departure that legendaries just aren’t special anymore. Some sacrafices must be made to obtain something of equal value. And in my opinion we need reduced world drops in order to increase dedicated drops and please the highest amount of players. I do respect your opinion still though, sometimes the minority has to take a back seat for the better of somethings health though.
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