Borderlands 3 endgame any good?

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#1

I haven’t really played Borderlands 3 since the lv 57 level cap and wanted to know if the endgame is better now and if season pass 2 is worth it? I was highly disappointed by this game and wanted to know if you guys are still enjoying it or moved on?

#2

There is no end game

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#3

LOL really? no new raid bosse’s? Arenas? Similar place like Digistruct peak from Borderlands 2?

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#4

Nope, they might have added the Guardian Takedown since you played last. But I wouldn’t suggest coming back to play it.

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#5

damn that sucks I guess 3 won’t have the longevity that 2 had.

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#6

Yeah, that’s a pretty good summary.

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#7

End game ? When did that happen ?

Edit : you know now that I think about it maybe they should have a pvp at least there might some kind of end game .

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#8

PvP would be the only reason I would see them taking the approach they did to Arms Race.

If we are allowed skill trees and such Zane will be the only one played.

#9

Is endgame defined as purely Raid Bosses? Things to do after you are at Max level? Things to do after you beat the game’s main story? With one character or all of them?

In the first sense, probably not. But I’m currently taking another Amara through DLC3 already at L65 on M11 - this sounds like endgame for me.

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#10

This seems to be the definition for a lot of people. But here’s kind of a list:

BL1’s endgame (DLC included): Crawmerax heh.

BL2’s endgame (DLC included): 10 raid bosses and Digistruct Peak. Murderlin’s arena which is repeatable.

TPS’s endgame (DLC included): 2 repeatable arenas, 1 raid boss.

BL3’s endgame (DLC included): 6 repeatable Trials, 3 repeatable Slaughters, two raids/Takedowns, Arms Race (debatable as it’s not exclusively end-gamey and you can’t use your builds there) And whatever is in DLC6 and whatever hinted-at-by-GBX raid bosses show up in the near future. I guess the timed events like Cartels could almost be counted as endgame but again I guess it’s sorta debatable, they’re more like the Headhunter DLC except on a limited-time basis. But they do give max-level characters something to do when those events do activate.

I’ve probably missed a thing or two but that roughly covers it.

And of course excluding all the various vanilla game and DLC story bosses in all the games. I’ve spent a fair share of ‘endgame’ time just running story bosses in all the games.

And I have to mention a favorite endgame pastime of mine, which was exclusive to BL2: hunting LLMs and tubbies for their exclusive loot. BL3 has those loot enemies and various chubby/shiny/etc critters, but they just drop world drops so there’s no real incentive to settle down with a couple beers and spend an afternoon hunting those guys. That’s what I’m missing in BL3. :smiley: (If Gearbox would just introduce an official pearlescent rarity and give some pearls to the various loot/chubby enemies exclusively, I would be pumped.)

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#12

So what’s your definition of endgame?

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#13

Funny how my 2 favorite games in the series has the least amount of endgame content. BL2 and 3 taught me that post launch support comes at the expense of balance. Weapons that were at the very least decent at launch suddenly become useless. How? Nerf? Nope. Absurd health spikes that puts heavy emphasis on squeesing out as much damage as possible, hence why any stat besides “increase X damage” suddenly becomes a useless stat.

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#14

Yeah there some endgame, but for me it’s a question of Quality vs. Quanity. Quanity? Yeah theres a little something there. Is it quality endgame? Not really.

I havent really came back to do much after I completed BL3 and all DLCS, as I have in base game of BL2 alone.

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#15

No. No.

#16

BL2 i still play to this day and still is pretty challenging.

BL3 took me a few weeks and was steamrolling highest difficulty. Then more level caps came wich made it even worse.

Then they gave us anoinments and M2.0… Took me a few hours “farming” and M10 was easier then old M4.

End game content as in things to do… Farming is pretty boring due to anoinments, poor weapon balance, superbeefed legendary weapons…

4 Slaughers, DLC didn’t get them for some reason…

Proving grounds… Nice but unrewarding…

Takedowns/raids… Maliwan TD is the best one, guardian TD has some, uhm… Anoying things.

I for one could fire up BL2 and enjoy myself. And can’t bring myself to play BL3 atm… (DLC anoinments dropping was the last drop)

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#17

They missed out, the fourth skill tree and gear could have been PvP exclusives .

#18

I do have to agree with the notion of quality vs quantity when it comes to BL3. There’s endgame stuff to do in BL3… but… well, can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s there, but of course, as always, it’s purely subjective as to how enjoyable it is. I love Maliwan Takedown, kinda meh on Guardian. The Trials get a little stale after a while. The slaughters are always fun though.

I think it’s the tubby/LLM thing again. :smiley: I mean, I’ve spent a LOT of time hunting them in BL2, really the thrill of the hunt… I have thousands of hours in BL2 logged compared to the others in the series and probably at least 1000 of that is running Ellie’s back yard in the Dust hunting tubbies heh.

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Key element that’s missing is balance and difficulty…

Said this many times, weapon balance is non existing and just plain bonkers… If GBX would make purples at least strong enough to compete with legendary and blue’s more viable in end game that would open up so many options (they made manufacturers fun to play with but i for one ignored them all because of legendary weapons)

Difficulty… Old M4 did it somewhat good… M2.0 was trash from the get-go…

And then there’s the stupid anoinments making the above points even worse.

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#20

The BL3 end game for me was to replay Red Dead 2 and buy Cyberpunk 2077.

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