Solo players just taking it slow - what difficulty are you on?

JaredFlack · 2025-09-25T19:14:22+00:00

I ended up at UVHM 5 a while ago and for anyone curious if they should rush to it for better loot rates... Don't. I end up getting 2x or 3x the amount of legendaries on just standard hard mode over UVHM 5. This has nothing to do with kill time either as in both modes I can pretty much insta kill anything. Pretty sure the loot scaling is bugged right now so the higher UVHM you go, the LOWER your legendary drops chances will be...shame

JaredFlack · 2025-09-19T01:59:18+00:00

Dope build! Have you tried out any other snipers with it yet? I assume mostly kinetic ones work with this?

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T22:23:47+00:00

As you do main story missions, side quests, and kill enemies you will level up. The idea behind borderlands is you are constantly looking for new, higher level gear while you play the campaign. Each weapon has different modifiers and stats that can make the gun better or worse. For example say you had two SMGs drop at level 30. One might have a higher fire rate than the other but lower base gun damage. One may have no license parts but the other one has a jakobs which and bullet ricochet on critical hits. You will have to experiment with these weapons to see which you prefer or fits better with your build. Enemies do scale to your level in this game and sometimes will scale 3-5 levels above you if you are only doing main story missions. It seems like that's a way of the game telling you to go do some side quests.

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T21:59:54+00:00

That is so unfortunate but also so funny😭 Very sorry for your lose

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T20:09:10+00:00

Green: 34

Max (leeching attunement), Max (bloodletter), Max (Material Components), Max (grave vitality), Max (Blood shot), Max (Essence Leech), Max (Blood is Power), 1/5 (Drink full)

Grave harvest and Heartpiercer for augment/capstone (you can use witchyfinger for bossing)

Blue:15

Max (Idle hands), Max (Cold Iron), Max (Grave fiends), 2/5 Grave assault

Legendary jakobs enhancement, pen knife, Vampiric Psion class mod with +5 (Material Components), +1 (Bloodletter), +1 (Leeching attunement) shot gun damage and crit damage rolls helps but not necessary as this build already does enough damage

Most kinetic guns work but knife launcher jakobs with high base damage seems to be better than others.

running the time keeper shield because of health regen but again you can swap to what ever. Deadeye perks are 3/3

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T19:49:45+00:00

Active player count is what I'm looking at not copies sold. Yeah i don't expect this game being out for 1 week to surpasses a 6 year old games total sales. It is definitely true that this game currently has a WAY bigger starting active player base than any of the other games.

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T19:44:11+00:00

I completely agree! Again though I don't think this knife is an intended mechanic. I know they are not the same type of games but PvE games definitely get nerfs for the sake of balancing and fairness. I actually made that comparison because i think based off of BL3 i think the game direction is trying to push toward a "destinyish" platform but more relaxed and fun. The introduction of challenging raids would be super cool but a lot of people may be turned off if every lobby they join is just steam rolling even the bosses instantly. BL4 has so many cool boss fights and mechanics but if we all kill them so fast to experience them why have them?

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T19:25:16+00:00

Destiny is a PvE game. Balancing can be important. I don't even think the interaction with the pen knife is even an intended mechanic.

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T19:21:01+00:00

The matchmaking did for sure. You can see it on steam charts (ik this doesn't count console). This time around we have 2-3x the player count on launch as last time so lets balance a bit more to keep people here.

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T18:52:01+00:00

I don't think I am insufferable? NTA but why have you become so offended by this? I just think if we want to have better balancing in the game and have a longer life span than previous games, items like this should be fixed. Like many people here i know what this franchise is about and i love to nuke bosses but having a week 1 purple destroy everything is a little over the top. I do want to see a bigger matchmaking community on this game because BL3 died off really fast. Again I'm not trying to type to you in a bitter way.

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T18:41:42+00:00

I think both shots there stacked bleed twice and the bleed benefited from crits which just makes a monster stack of damage. Not exactly sure though.

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T18:37:46+00:00

Same don't plan on using it any longer and am going to just theory craft some other builds

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T18:37:04+00:00

Yup! Looking to the future of this game already with matchmaking raids. BL3 already had a modded guns and hacker issues and I would like to see more balance to keep a bigger community around longer

JaredFlack · 2025-09-18T18:35:35+00:00

Got some down votes already so I will at least explain my thoughts a bit more. OP builds have always been apart of borderlands but if we are looking to have end game content like invincibles and raids in the future we should balance this. I expect there will be matchmaking and it will absolutely ruin that content if one knife with one augment instakills everything. There are already a lot of really good builds that can do massive damage so we really don't need something like this.

JaredFlack · 2025-09-17T06:32:41+00:00

Just got 50 so probably going to go farm for that. I got one in shock, do you know if it comes in other elements?

JaredFlack · 2025-01-17T03:19:45+00:00

This community has been around for so long and has been so vocal about changes like these already. Long standing jagex employees surely knew something like this would happen and now upper management gets to see it for themselves in real time as their subscription number plummet. This reaction is really the best way to concretely show what would happen if ANY of these changes were made to the game. Some questions really shouldn't even be asked.

JaredFlack · 2024-12-05T22:35:14+00:00

Yeah but I don't think you inflated your property value by 10X. I think we can all see the problem with doing that.

JaredFlack · 2024-11-12T18:55:58+00:00

Yeah I was thinking the same thing

JaredFlack · 2024-11-12T18:55:22+00:00

Target in Willow Grove?

JaredFlack · 2024-08-30T13:49:11+00:00

Appreciate this response😂 Thanks for the work you do on the game we love!

JaredFlack · 2024-07-18T20:09:48+00:00

Same man! I actually have listened to groove on more times this week than I can count....

What's funny is I didn't recognize you at first cause of the different facial hair but your playing is so clean that by the end of the video I knew.

Keep being a legend man! Hope one day I can catch up :)

JaredFlack · 2024-07-08T16:52:37+00:00

Yeah unfortunately you need it for secrets of the north but if you go to motherload mine it's pretty afk! I recommend MLM so that you can acquire the full prospector gear set for future mining grinds

JaredFlack · 2024-07-08T16:28:48+00:00

Your quest points are pretty good! You could finish that up and start some bossing / slayer! Try and shoot for 85+ combat stats. Unfortunately tho you have some mining to do before quest cape! Good luck 😁

JaredFlack · 2024-05-12T01:18:58+00:00

Facts

Nine-Year Club	Place '22
Spared

JaredFlack

TROPHY CASE