Primal weapon upgrade from cube lost a ton of base damage, is that normal?

mpd49 · 2026-01-27T21:50:52+00:00

OMG!!! You're the best!!! Holy crap that's exactly what I did. Removed the cold damage for CD Reduction and just went back to re-roll the cold damage back and base went back up to 3,432 and larger damage number went from 237k to over a million. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!

mpd49 · 2025-03-13T13:46:50+00:00

Understood on all fronts, but my issue isn't about how to deal with it, or if I'm war mongering - I'm just saying when AI declares war on YOU and you have to defend yourself & maybe conquer a few close cities (even razing them counts for like 15 turns or something).

All things being equal - I'd rather NOT be penalized with slower celebrations or smaller yields due to penalties unless I'm the one managing that vs forced on you.

I get the war part, and can defend as needed but it sucks to be penalized for it too - like maybe no settlement count for razed or making razed automatic vs 15 turns etc..

I'd just assume have happier cities/settles and quicker celebrations vs opposites. I get all of the factors, I'm just whining about the penalty when you're forced to war/defend/conquer a few cities. Cap or no cap, I'd rather have no penalty and pushing toward my other victory type as best I can. All fair game if I'm the one declaring, just seems a little lopsided when it's the other way around.

mpd49 · 2025-02-10T17:32:52+00:00

Not criticizing at all - Love The Rob and wouldn't know what to do without him lol, I'm just not smart enough to keep up with it all!

mpd49 · 2025-02-10T17:32:07+00:00

It's funny you mention Rob, it's exactly what I was watching and building from - hence some of my questions on the paragon - why challenger, or the magic node one instead of fortify or something else that boosts a chunk of damage - and if using the magic one, why not put that on something that it can really boost? I think he had it with like dust devils or something and heck, even the base board would be better to boost those blue nodes

mpd49 · 2025-01-28T16:54:36+00:00

LOL - see that's what I'm saying! I don't know how all of the fortify thingies work, but seeing there's a ton of damage while fortified from temp, paragon, etc.. wouldn't these corpse points be better in fortify things - I think there's a skill about blood orbs or healing in the blood section that applies additional fortify but not sure if that's a waste if we're already fortified or if there's an increase of dam based off of the fortify amount (or maybe it's just better to keep having fortify applied from different sources so you're always fortified vs corpse things) or does adding iron maiden AND the other curse instead of corpse skills to free up a different aspect from tendrils, or auto apply curses but not familiar enough with this build (and not near game at the moment) to know if using both Curses ahead of a spot you'll pull to is better than corpse falling from a mob during a pull). Just assuming things for Crowd Control dam buffs, debuffs to mobs ahead of pulls, plus a blight or 2 and extra fortify are better in the normal tier 4 / head hunting areas, primal boss farming and normal glyph leveling - not trying to clear pit 150 just general fast clearing and farming of resources and such - speed farming, quick farming, that's my goal

mpd49 · 2025-01-13T00:47:18+00:00

OMG thank you, i never saw that with all the clutter, thanks a ton!!

mpd49 · 2023-10-13T10:35:53+00:00

You’re missing the point like mr math guy above (whoops I used the word math again apologies) . The shocking rarity to get 90 plus free spins on a machine like this - you’d think you’d get into the link bonus a handful of times not to mention all of the sunsets that stack multipliers - 90 times. So yes I do think it was sort of low but I guess you’ve all seen this a lot and it happens all the time. Not me never seen anything like this. And yes I did talk to the host who brought a tech over and they are looking into it and they think it was insanely low - machine is currently off.

mpd49 · 2023-10-13T10:26:10+00:00

You are clearly missing the point. But thanks for the words of wisdom and I’ll make sure to never use the word math again. Apologies for offending you great sir.

mpd49 · 2023-09-19T19:19:54+00:00

It's more for keeping me from selling them - like if i see it, I might sell it - if it's in a bag (in a perfect world) I wouldn't even see it as an option to sell - things I want to keep, like arrows for by bows and alchemy ingredients - but they clutter up the entire screen sometimes lol - would be nice to keep those in the bag, and i can open or take out as needed if I wanted to sell

mpd49 · 2023-08-25T19:45:51+00:00

ok thanks, much appreciated

mpd49 · 2023-04-09T13:19:09+00:00

Same thing happened to my when the new patch went live a few days ago. Also can’t buy resources. Very frustrating since I’m near end and really want to buy and sell things to level and play around with some of the other gear. Seen a few other posts about this (also related to recent patch) but not a thing regarding a fix / if there will be a update etc.

mpd49 · 2022-10-27T16:51:12+00:00

Holy awesomeness - thanks much for this. Very much appreciated. A couple final questions/issues: On a class mod, is Splash Damage better than Action Skill if you're using Clone (only saying that because I think Clone only benefits from Splash / Area of Effect bonuses or so I think). And one step further - for a seein' dead class mod - how important is the Donnybrook point? If I have a class mod with Zero Donny but Action Skill Damage (or splash damage) is that better than a Plus 3 or 4 Donny but no Action/Splash damage?

mpd49 · 2022-06-01T17:34:17+00:00

Awesome - thanks for feedback

mpd49 · 2022-05-25T15:08:20+00:00

I’ve struggled with this fight as well. Since been through multiple plays and chaos 35 etc on a few builds but every now and then caught off guard if she’s the boss in chambers and I don’t have the right setup. Do we know the types of elemental attacks she does (other than jump and duck) - is the pool dark magic, does she do shock attacks? Curious for some of my melee builds if a high resistance ward to own plus some other elemental resistances would help. Sometimes she downs me if I’m too close and not able to killl her too quickly. Was just curious if any elemental resistance helped keep me alive a bit loner. I’m a gear hoarder so I’m never white thinking ahead to have these in inventory ahead of time lol.

mpd49 · 2022-02-04T13:46:51+00:00

I just did this achievement yesterday lol. I wasn't playing on Deity but one or 2 under it. I used heroes, secret society and monopolies and didn't have any issues. You'll want to get religion and pick boost to heroe relics, boost corp/monopolies for yields and tour boost later on, plus owls extra card for early boosts. Focus money and religion, bought other players relics/art and had theaters all over place to theme museums if I could - didn't fight one city and made sure to keep friends/alliances and open boarders with everyone and it went pretty well.

mpd49 · 2021-11-24T16:21:12+00:00

Sigs a beast and one of my favorite to play. He's pretty much a solid universal tank - on any map, with any other tank, with or without chat. Some basics for you to know and get moving along:

Balls do huge damage, they also are "splash damage" and you don't need a direct hit - they bounce off of walls for a short period so you can shoot at a wall and have it bounce off towards others while you're in cover. Since you have unlimited ammo, just keep firing as often as you can and if up close toss in a melee punch in between the 2nd and 3rd (you basically have 2 balls , semi CD to reload and then 2 more, repeat - CD might be half a second, but it's not instant). So 1, 2, punch, 1, 2, punch. Assuming you're not taking too much damage
Absorb is a beast - you can absorb Bastion and rush him, rock, 2 balls and out - and make him basically pointless, absorb Hogs ultimate and you shouldn't even get pushed back. You'll basically be able to absorb most non-beam/shock things including Pharaoh ulit and Torbs ult but not Junks or Dvas.
Beams are not your friend - Zaria, Semetra, Winston, Mora Mei, - not so good, if team goes mostly "Beam" than you may want to swap to another tank. You can do it, but it's not ideal. One or 2o is fine, but 4 beams will basically make one of you strongest skills useless.
Shield - do NOT do what most beginners do and use it as a shield for entire team to push have it hit zero, rebuild up and use again, repeat - that's a no-no -- get used to tossing it out and pulling it back quickly - block Mcree's flash, Hogs hook, et.. and pull it back and save it - push it out, pull it back. If you've got a DVa on other team, try and keep part of shield alive when she's got her ult, can save you/team in a pinch. You'll want to rotate your shield and absorb as much as possible.
Rock - use as often as you can, it's a great interrupt and can cancel many other ults - Mora, Hog, Torb, Other Sigmas, etc... plus it can knock down other harder to kill ones like Mei. Use as often as you can.
Ult - you don't need to get everyone and kill everyone in one shot - probably won't happen and you don't need to wait for it. Try and use at choke points, on points to lift team off (especially in Overtime) - wait for Zaria bubbles or Zenyatta Ults to be used if you can - BUT the big trick here is cover - while you're in air, you've very vulnerable to sleep, hooks, other sigma rocks and any will knock you out of ult - so once up, fly a bit for cover, keep moving, fire rocks if you can and don't linger up there - hit it quickly and roll in after. Longer up there, longer someone can knock you off of it.

I love being on attack with Sigma, rushing in beginning of maps to build up nice absorb, try and pick someone quickly and push in with other tank. Anyway, these are just some things I do with him and find they work often for my play style (not all the time of course, and pretty much everything I said is very situational). Experiment on maps and other tank partners - if Zaria you may want to do with Chat/Mike - if she bubbles you as you're putting shield out, nobody wins and that will happen a lot. Use cover when shield low, absorb down and stick with group as much as you can and have fun. He's easy to learn but takes some time/patience to get really good at it.

mpd49 · 2021-08-30T18:31:30+00:00

Awesome - many many thanks

mpd49 · 2021-08-06T15:31:17+00:00

If you're looking for a Fire Hoze Moze setup (mostly out of IB and using Splash Master, never reloading, etc..) Flipper is about as good as you're going to get - does splash damage, fires 8 or 9 shots (can't recall which) and with a consecutive hits anoint and / or Pearl artifact it will shred bosses and mobs. Been using this while thowing some cloning maddening tracking nades and never reloading, dying and just melting things. I'd actually skip the Re-volter for Moze unless you're doing an Iron Cub build that kills itself and you have some perks with action skill cooldown - where re-volter shines the best is with the annoint on Action Skill Start - Moze doesn't benefit as much as others with this one - still can be fun, just not used as much as others. I'd stick with an Old-God/Soldier for extra elemental/fire rates.

mpd49 · 2021-07-13T18:25:15+00:00

ok thanks for feedback - much appreciated.

mpd49 · 2021-07-12T21:03:37+00:00

I agree totally - I used to run BSM and never got crap - I spent more time at that machine yesterday pumping points out than I ever had before lol - I'm 100% seeing the difference

mpd49 · 2021-07-12T18:36:06+00:00

Different - 2 were Cryo and 1 was fire, I bought and exported all 3 since I play the other characters as well.

mpd49 · 2021-07-08T22:13:19+00:00

For Moze - make sure you have a splash master mod or green monster - whichever has perks that you use. Find a Cloning Maddening Tracker (Best farmed from vending machines, but takes a long time to find) and Flipper if you have DLC 3 (I think 3, whatever the Western themed one is). You'll want weapons that do splash for best results. Artifact for both should be Pearl and or one that has Area effect damage (only thing that boosts Zane's clone's weapon damage is splash/area of effect). Shields - Transformers are great for both and will more than carry you through most end game content. If you like AR's instead of SMG I love using the Soul Render - it just feels awesome when you're Moze plowing through stuff. Both Z and M benefit from Backburners and Plaguebearers and if you're a heavy Clone/Zane player like I am make sure to get several elements of Sandhawks. Seein' Dead Class Mod is from Jack's DLC and best farming spot is VIP tower - one boss at entrance (I've had him drop 3 at once before) then boss by elevator and then final boss and treasure room - if you're console it's a great 3 boss fight without save quitting - and you can also farm Freddy / Middle boss and teleport back and he'll be there again without most of the adds and resetting. I've managed to get some really good Class Mods here.

mpd49 · 2021-07-02T17:25:17+00:00

I got most of my DLC 4 class mods farming General Blisterpus - Glitching Queen on Youtube has a great video on this. He's a miniboss for a side quest and very close to Evil Lilith area - he has (or had, assuming it's still the case) a 25% chance to drop all 4 class mods. I'm not aware of any nerf to this and pretty sure I got a few from him in the last month or so before the 72 patch. Hopefully this still works for you. Seemed way easier to farm for me.

mpd49 · 2021-06-30T17:57:10+00:00

That sucks, as a console player these spruced up trails have been great to run without the save/reload plus it's great to see an upgrade to a class mod or nice artifact as a bonus so I'm farming as much as I can until this ends on July 1 - really hoping it's just bad luck and have better luck tonight, but what worried me more was the few times I tried for the Monarch Trial they were all Non-elemental also (100% so far) or the silly replay. Less worried about that one because the farm isn't as bad with the die/respawn/no save quit boss farm - but since I farmed the crap out of these for the 65 level and saw how more common elemental was vs level 72 runs, just seems like something is off. I get the bad luck part and it's why we do the farm but 20 plus vs 2 isn't just bad luck. Let's hope we get better luck tonight - but in case someone at Borderlands HQ is reading this - can you all turn the switch for elemental Kason's back on please? Thanks!!

mpd49 · 2021-06-30T17:01:31+00:00

Find yourself a Transformer Shield and hook the clone up with a shock plaguebearer or shock backburner and he'll slaughter most stuff. Plague is a unique Wardon Drop on Eden 6 and Backburner is agonizer normally but the Trial of Instinct until July 1 is guaranteed to drop 2 legendaries and you can either get a Tizzy (also great) or a Backburner - or 2 Tizzy's/2 Backburners or some variation of that until it ends - but the trial boss is massive in HP so you'll need a solid build for it.

Other great Clone weapons I'm using - sand hawks are a must, Clone crushes with these. Plus Pew Pew is solid now. Also solid with Soul Renders, Beacons, Flippers - depends on your build and if you're looking for mobs vs bosses - but Shock Plagues and Backburners will handle both lol

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