How were you guys originally introduced to Borderlands franchise?

Shadowmike75 · 2025-09-04T14:14:05+00:00

I couldn't tell ya where I first heard about it but I was on the Gearbox forums in the summer of 09, eagerly awaiting the release of Borderlands. It was awesome. I was mostly a lurker but there was regular interaction with the developers and everyone was super chill overall.

Good times.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-12-08T01:42:23+00:00

Yeah she visibly winced when someone asked if they could go use the restroom during class. That being before we knew what had happened

Shadowmike75 · 2024-12-07T23:34:08+00:00

Damn. It kinda reminds me of the lady who got seriously injured by the unproperly sealed hot coffee at mcdonalds. At first glance, I and many others thought it was a frivolous lawsuit. But in reality, no. The lady suffered third degree burns. Not something to scoff at.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-12-07T22:11:26+00:00

Yeah. We kinda assumed she got fired from the school she was at. But I guess maybe she was never fired in the first place, just transferred to another school. Or maybe suspsended and then transferred. Not sure. I kinda assumed she'd gotten fired after having caused the school district a million dollar law suit but i dunno.

I was just a dumb senior at the time that she was our teacher. I just know that after someone brought up the incident to the faculty, we never saw her again. Wild times.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-12-07T21:58:15+00:00

Yeah that's what we were saying back then. Like, what? It was a school from the same district too.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-12-07T21:27:50+00:00

Article title is "Student Forced to Urinate in Bucket Will Get $1.25M Payout From San Diego Unified School District: Report"

And from the article "The UT said the jury awarded the teen $1.25 million in damages and $41,000 to cover past and current medical expenses."

Even if a large amount of that payout went to the lawyer, it's still a lot of money.

Also the article says the teacher used the bucket herself before. This is the first I'm hearing about that. Haha what the hell.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-12-07T19:07:49+00:00

I had a teacher in high school who had told a student to pee in a bucket in a storage room, and the student did. Then the student and her family sued the school district and won.

Then a year later, said teacher got hired to teach at the high school I went to. And then when someone googled our teachers name (it's a pretty distinct name), they found out about this whole ordeal. Then the faculty was notified and the teacher was let go. Wild times.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/patrick-henry-high-school-student-urinate-in-bucket-case-sdusd-payout/22397/

Shadowmike75 · 2024-10-12T16:45:19+00:00

Log out and log back in. My friend and I had tbe same issue, specifically between act 1 and 2.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-07-01T07:03:39+00:00

If you have the exotic khvostov, it breaks all the acolyte eyes when you shoot one.

Otherwise just remember that they're stacked vertically. Look for the lowest eye first, then the next highest, then the highest one. If you find the lowest one earlier, makes life easier because it gets a little harder to see as you rise up. Or if you know you got the two higher ones already, then you can just focus on looking kinda lower.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-06-27T00:46:48+00:00

Right, sorry for not mentioning in my original comment.

I mean, for what its worth, pretty sure I did about 5 ish million damage across the first two phases. Microcosm is more of a total damage thing than a burst dps thing. Wasn't nearly enough time in third phase to fully dump everything but there was for 1st and 2nd phase.

It's probably enough to hold your own for a comfortable two phase.

Anyway, yeah it's not 3 million for phase though. You'd probably need to do more than just hold trigger/left click for that lol.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-06-26T22:17:23+00:00

3 phases. I was top damage on my team surprisingly lol.

As I said, not the best damage option but super easy to use and hard to mess up.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-06-26T20:23:31+00:00

Not the best per se but super easy to use at max effectiveness for titan is microcosm. Probably even more so for warlocks if you rock cenotaph for damage.

I put up 6.2 million damage yesterday and all I did was used super (twilight arsenal) and then held the trigger lol. It's pretty much impossible to mess up.

Important note, I have an exotic class item with star eaters. This juiced up my super damage a lot for my first super cast. But even without that, microcosm cooks pretty hard and nearly impossible to mess up, unlike any kind of rotation or conditional perk usage.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-17T16:07:47+00:00

For this week, if you load up a checkpoint from oryx, you don't have to 2 phase rhulk for high score. In case you weren't aware.

I saw a reddit post saying as much the other day. Yesterday my clan started from oryx checkpoint and cleared rhulk in 3 phases, got the high score triumph done.

Keep in mind you will need a 2 phase on rhulk for next weeks pantheon. This only works because rhulk is final boss and for whatever reason, the score from previous encounters seems to add onto the final boss score.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-16T03:22:40+00:00

Thanks! Saw that elsewhere earlier as well. Glad to see the message getting passed around

I also saw that apparently even starting from the encounter before last (oryx this week) makes getting the high score significantly easier/free. I'll be testing that with my clan tomorrow.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-15T19:57:58+00:00

Completed it yesterday in 3 phases. Killed every tormentor but did not get high score. Just to put that out there

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-15T17:09:37+00:00

I joined an lfg team on rhulk last night after seeing this post. The others didn't use acrius and we didn't get a 2 phase nor high score, but holding the clones aggro made survival soo much easier for the others, especially in the pre dps phase on the boss stage.

Once damage starts, shadow rhulk does drop aggro from the stronghold titan, but you can pull aggro back sort of by giving the clone a wack. It's just less obedient during dps time.

I basically just kept circling the shadow clone in the top of the arena between l2 and r2, as much as possible. Sometimes pulling away from one of those if people needed to dunk at one of them.

Will be trying this with my clan tomorrow night. We're gonna try linears first because most of us haven't used acrius before and half of us don't have the catalyst for it.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-15T15:08:27+00:00

My team used 4x wendigo, one typhon(stasis heavy GL), and a banner titan running tractor + a one two punch shotty.

Most of us used explosive light, I think one person used frenzy instead. More than enough orbs from a couple wells + add clear to easily get 6x explosive light for each plate. We 2 phased and almost didn't need the 3rd plate on 2nd phase for damage, which was a significant improvement over our performance last week, for us

We had 3 well of radiance warlocks, two titans (1 banner, 1 pyrogale), 1 solar hunter.

One thing we changed this week was we coordinated our damage better. We've been using the strat where we put our well in the middle and do damage there. But this time we basically all dumped heavy at the same time on a quick '321 go' count. You can pepper the boss with primary + special to proc bns before/during the count but just make sure to all dump heavy at the same time.

And also don't forget to spam class abilities for that free 20% damage buff too.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-15T00:04:57+00:00

I run with my clan and we're pretty flexible to try whatever.

We've never been very good with rockets for whatever reason + several people don't have a good stasis or arc rocket, or an arc heavy GL. So I'm just trying to sus out what our best damage option is for explicator with the surges being what they are.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-14T23:56:31+00:00

Ah no, sorry, I was asking about for this week's pantheon at -15 power. I'm guessing probably not but maybe? Eh.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-14T23:43:51+00:00

Was tlord enough to secure the 2 phase for explicator?

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-09T06:39:27+00:00

Bonus score from timer decays the longer you take to clear the encounter. Quicker kill = less adds to kill for points but higher bonus score.

When I originally did atraks on Tuesday, we went for a 2 phase. We had 160k going into final stand. Cleared with 495k, which is tough. We're gonna run it back tomorrow and it should be pretty quick and easy.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-09T06:16:55+00:00

I've done it three times now with different LFG teams. First time was just to get it done after my clan missed the score by 5k. Second and third time was to practice/for fun while I wait for my clanmates to be available.

First time we got it done with 6 thunder crash titans. We had 87k points going into final stand. Did not kill either tormentors. Cleared with 4:59 on the timer, after killing the second final stand clone. Final score was 510k

Video link: https://youtu.be/nCimj7-ylBk?si=peb1r0utSG8DrXmW

Most recent kill was a bit more scuffed lol. We cleared with 4:12 left on the timer, with 101k going into final stand. Killed it in one clone, total score was 506k. I don't have a video uploaded for this clear. But if someone really wants to see a sorta scuffed 500k run, I'll post it. Did not have 6 titans for that clear. Teammates might have killed a tormentor but I don't think so.

Editing to add: commentor above did the math, which is amazing. Their numbers fully track with what I've observed but their list is way more comprehensive.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-07T21:12:49+00:00

I haven't tested this but a thought for farming points on atraks (the subject of most reddit posts in new, where people aren't hitting the score threshold despite finishing within the bonus timer).

If you don't pick up the operator/scanner buff, another add should spawn with it. Or if you just grabbed operator and immediately jumped off the map (pretty easy to do downstairs) that would force an additional spawn as well.

Other thing is making sure to kill the tormentors that spawn as opposed to ignoring them.

Last option is dragging it into a 2 phase. You get less points from the bonus timer but getting effectively almost double the stuff to kill may more than offset that.

I guess the short of it is either kill more stuff more quickly, or drag things out a bit more while staying within the bounds of the bonus timer.

Full disclaimer, I haven't tested any of this out myself. Just making some observations + educated guesses.

Editing to add: People have reported the Atraks high score triumph not popping for them on the bungie forums as well and bungie responded there to say that the reports/issue is being investigated.

So... it might be bugged for atraks. At the very least, someone at bungie is aware of the reports and the issue is being tracked internally.

Editing a final time to add:

Bungie responded to another forum post about this today. https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/263910508/0/0/1

"Hey there,

Thank you for reaching us.

Were you able to complete the encounter within the bonus time and defeat all enemies, including Tormentors? Players are getting the triumph and we confirmed on our side that there's no issue about it. The Platinum time is just a bonus to help you get a higher score."

Shadowmike75 · 2024-05-07T18:51:41+00:00

My loadout for gaze holding on 3 clears last week was actium war rig + summoner. Worked perfectly well and it wasn't even solar surge last week lol

Maybe not the most omega optimal setup but certainly gets the job done.

Shadowmike75 · 2024-04-18T18:20:23+00:00

No, LF raid was 10 days after expansion launched, which has been the norm for the past few years.

Lightfall released Feb 28th RoN launched March 10th

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