My advice to new players - don't skip the side missions. You're going to have a much easier time as the game progresses if you use the side missions to get experience and to build your character's strength and you won't be giving up on the game at level 20 because you can't go 2 feet without getting murdered.

I'm just still so surprised how people are still playing this GAME! I remember playing this on the xbox 360 and to this day I'M STILL COMING BACK TO IT! So many memories! Glad to see people like you making content for this game as it deserves to still be in the sunlight!

“hell when i first got the game i didn’t have wifi. so i couldn’t look up shit” 😂

Love your point on "copying" builds. I also think new players could get discouraged that way, by copying a build that is technically powerful but that they don't enjoy playing. "Most powerful" isn't always whats most enjoyable.

I genuinely do agree with the no 1 pick. Played the game on PlayStation and played the game normally for the most part, then played the end of the game with a friend who had a way overleveled Salvador. He beat the final boss in like 3 punches and I was excited but now I’m bummed I didn’t get the experience myself. I’m playing with another friend now on PC and we started with level 1 characters. We’re about to be at the mission where we rescue Roland from the bloodshots and I’m having a great time now. Can’t wait to earn that defeat against jack. ❤

The only reason I see to keep a lower level gun like the hellfire is to use Claptrap’s safe and give it to one of your lower level characters that match or are below the level of the gun so you don’t have to farm it again. Good video though. I gave up on BL early then picked it up again and have not looked back.

Not sure if anyone else has pointed this out but if your an Axton player, using a Fire element Chopper, Antagonist Shield and your farming Hyperius, the Chopper makes quick work of him, with the correct method. Kreig benefits with it also if you use the Bloodlust skill tree

I used to be really hung up on defense. I was always playing Maya spec-ing toward health regeneration and lengthening Phaselock. This latest playthrough, I'm filling up Cataclysm and Maya is a one-woman wrecking crew. Cloud Kill feels almost like a cheat code.

Does anyone else hate the game mechanic when you go into fight for your life, and the enemies just start fucking moving away from you? I love borderlands but *THAT* shit has made me almost destroy my TV, console, and controllers. Sometimes I just have to take a couple week to month break. ESPECIALLY when I go farming for a couple of hours just for 1 weapon

I stopped playing for 3 years and just got back into the game this month. Got my first dpuh from Savage Lee. Much more satisfying experience than the usual bar room brawl route.

burnout is a pretty subjective thing. from my personal POV I usually stop playing a game when it starts to feel like a second job and and the grind in this game can definitely feel that way.

The first time i played borderlands i was so angry that i kept getting one shotted by everyone and couldnt do any damage but i didint give up and here i am playing this game every single year.

My advice for getting rid of low level weapons is to transfer them to other characters via the weapons locker in Sanctuary. A level 32 legendary item might not be useful at level 80 in UVHM, but you’ll still get plenty of use from it on other characters at a lower level.

I'll still be playing this game when I'm in my 80's!!! (which is 30 years from now) 😎👍

The person that got me into borderland was YOTESLAYA RIP man miss him all the times. :(

This video was awesome. I've been on bl2 for ever ever and I know all these things, I just clicked because it kept showing up on my feed. Concisely and cogently spoken. Subscribed.

Dang that fleshstick glitch was a throwback! I remember joining public games and see people doing that nonestop. Great video!

Reliability of applying slag is what makes me HEAVILY hate BL2 endgame. I feel like slag should be a bonus, not a requirement... especially given bosses that are immune to it. Another thing... I play on console... Switch nowadays... And I have a severe skill issue hindering me from playing Zer0 but he's my favorite. I take WAYYY too much damage WAAAAY too easy and just go down before I can do a whole lot... I use deception, throw kunai, might fail to slag due to inconsistency with kunai because I dont wanna be revealed while slagging because im taking damage while that happens, then I try to kill a target but tend to miss crits a lot... like... A lot a lot... But if I sit still and aim careful then I can land crits, but you cant be that methodical all the time due to need for repositioning... Which is why I play Axton... While his gunplay with non exploding/grenade damage weapons is lacking compared to Zer0's intense bullet damage bonuses, Axton is reliable with his turret slag and regen skills. And the aggro it draws is a plus... But also... I miss B0re... I also like Maya but vs bosses she feels so... so weak...Krieg needs too much mental gymnastics to maintain his buffs for a gun build plus I dont like relying on kill skills for my damage output because a lot of bosses are 1v1 for large portions of the fight meaning my damage output would HINGE upon having killable minions... And I Hate Anarchy but if you wanna play gaige you have to in UVHM.... I frankly also hate that deathtrap cannot melee a majority of large unmoving enemies or flying enemies... At the least if his shock laser received an approximate 1k% damage buff it'd be viable.

Starting new characters and playing in co-op with a friend is seriously the best experience in this game!

I usually use an XP cheat when I'm trying out new builds. I've put literally thousands of hours into this game and I'm still coming up with new ideas or stumbling across people who have a different way of looking at skills or playstyles that I want to try. But I don't have all the time in the world so the cheat makes it easy to work stuff out. I'll fire it up, put on a cheat that gives me a lot more XP per instance and run them up to level 40 or so...or high enough to figure out whether I like the idea or not. It's important to note that I'm looking at mechanics, not effects. If you understand how to work the mechanics, the extras (elemental damage, legendary gear, etc.) are largely superfluous. Then I wipe the character and build it for real. It's a great way to figure out what I want to do and to plan my advancement without wasting hours on a dead end concept.

3:15 Bandit SMGs actually compete for best non unique SMGs in the game meanwhile Bandit Launchers ARE the best non uniques

As someone who its a vet and has played for 7+ years I disagree with the attachment to guns one. Because there are some legendaries that can you can use for 13-15 levels before they scale down especially in normal mode and tvm. Like a level 18 slagga just hits way to hard especially with sirens cloud kill. Lyuda also hits hard for a while especially if you pair it with any slag weapon. The firehawk shield can also be busted and I personally it used the whole game. The grub is another one to that pistol is stupid. I agree with all your other tips though. This video is very informative definitely subbing.

I've played through BL3 6 times and 4 of those times were with each different vault hunter. I like Moze and Zane the best. Not only have played through game on both modes but through ALL of the DLC's and take downs. Only the Guardians take down was as OP as BL2. I am focused now on beating the pre-sequel and actually enjoying it. I might decided to play BL2 again.

This game was a staple for me and my little brother. In a time where we would rarely get along we had so many great times on this game. Possibly my favorite of all time

Ive fallen into the borerlands 2 trap 😅. I got the handsome collection a while back for free with ps plus. Highly regret not starting back then because im hooked. Currently lvl 41 and doing my second run through in tvhm. I luv it

I used to be one of those people. I bought borderlands handsome edition and stopped because I thought I was leveling up slow and was at level 22 not knowing I was close to beating it. I got back to it a little over a month ago and now am on my 5th play through and now I am having the biggest blast. But my Salvador max level 100% completion got corrupted so I have to start another one.

# 5 yup my lvl 2 Pistol from knuckle dragger carried me till about 20 b4 I said ok bye and found something with a 9FR 😅 # 4 yup I'm using a bandit shock shot gun and oof

One of my favourite games. I love the madness of it, running in all guns blazing. And the humour, of course. Completely agree with no 1. Cheating just ruins all games.

I remember talking to a guy from bungie in 2016 about there model, he said loot is gonna take a new industry standard white green blue purple and gold

I actually downloaded this yesterday, can't wait to play it after all those years.. Hope its gonna be fun as i remember and not just a nostalgic feeling

1st time I played was with zero and gave up at the bloodshot strong hold. Eventually came back a year later and beat it with maya. But for 1st time players learning the game I would recommend Gaige her bot does most of the work for you.

In uvhm, don’t accept side missions with blue, purple or legendary loot rewards until you’re max level. Some of those rewards are great but useless if you accept the mission when you’re under max level, as they scale to that level

only the unkept harold can carry you through the whole story😂 atleast first play through used a lvl 6 one through the whole play through, also great video bro!

quitting on a character is a big one. i mean i just lost my level 67 gunzerk because of corrupted data and the last download from that character was 5 days ago at level 51 with nothing i had before. im so unbelievably pissed. but i got back on him and am right now gridding UVHM.. again..

When I first got this game in January of 2013 I played without Internet, hell I couldn't play my games on the Internet until I moved out of my parents house 3 years later, so I played this game without Internet for 3 years because we didn't have any. When my slag challenged bugged out on ps4 I took advantage of it and now my stats are 763% I even bought a turbo controller just to speed it up.

I just started BL2 and restarted my character and got a unkempt Harold and conference call from shift codes. Now I have 2 of them after restart

Borderlands is what made me fall in love with role-playing games in general. I love the idea of building your own character. Which is why i love number 2 spot. Dont try to copy someones exact builds. I like to use someone skills i hear are really good but i dont use every single one of em. I wanna try out what i find fun and make a unique build that i like to use for my play style. Huuuge props for number 2 tip

Honestly the best tips/tricks video I've seen in a long time! Subscribed

Going after one skilltree is crazy

My "new player" mistake was when back around 2010 or before, at the time played WoW, when a guildmate told me how fun BL is ,dont remember if it was 1 or 2, probably 1, i didnt look it up and it took me a few more years to find out how fun these games are.

My biggest mistake as somebody who has played the game since 2013 was playing BL3

another tip is don't use all of your golden keys until you're close to max level or until you really need to use them, they are too valuable and very few and far between

My first time playing Borderlands was BL2 and I picked Maya and had a blast. It took me longer and maybe other to actually get the game though still to this day I can’t just look at a weapons and tell if it’s a godroll or not or what parts are on it like I see people do in streams and on videos. I think BL1 is actually more difficult than BL2 or BL3. BL3 I think is the least difficult game of the series. I think a big problem people do also if they will try to play the dlc right beating there first play through and screw themselves when then trying to do a 2nd play through cause there weapons are under level.

Generally, if I get a low level legendary and outlevel it, I relegate it to the stash to give to another character that may have a use for it

8:20 Actually, in TVHM and NVHM, slag increases *non*-slag damage by 100% (total of 200% damage), and does nothing for slag damage on the slagged target. In UVHM, Slag damage on a slagged target does +50% damage (150% total), and non-slag damage does +200% damage (300% in total!).

Only just found your channel, ABSOLUTELY agree with number 1!! I've played this game hundreds of times and never once power leveled,im on a switch group and all that's asked is for power leveling or modded weapons. Sure each to their own but you might as well just let someone else play it😂

If you are playing axton. Building him around the Sabre turret. It screws you over towards the end of the story. Build axton more first, then focus on the Sabre turret.

This leans into the no cheating point you made but new players: don't pick up/ use modded gear . You can sometimes tell whether an item is modded due to it being a untextured white colour with purple ascents

8:45 Honestly, I think this should have been in the top five. I've gotten green and blue tier guns that had just the right stats to stay as my reliable go-to weapons for hours on end, and I've gotten legendries that are in every way _worse_ then what I already have and immediately get sold off.

As someone who also enjoyed Yoteslaya I'm glad to see a Borderlands KZfaqr give him a short word of positivity, RIP my boy Yoteslaya

I feel your top three personally. I think I have some 2000 hours across Borderlands games, never completed any of them. I always want to tinker and play with unique or goofy builds, or try to make some dumb legendary workable. I've never looked at classic or meta builds, I'm not interested in what people think is 'best' as to me that kills the joy of the game - exploration and working things out for youself while meeting challenges. If you follow someone else you're not playing your game, just imitating theirs while not understanding _why_ it was built that way. I've never cheated in BL, there's no need in a world of infinite loot and it devalues any success you have as you didn't earn it. My nephew brought in a cheat character unasked in a game he was hosting, dropping crazy gear (tens of millions dmg) maxlevelled in 10 mins. I felt dirty afterwards and deleted the character. No point in playing that any more.

i just got the game a couple weeks ago, started up a week ago and already got 40 hours in, a solo siren and a seperate mechro that me and a friend literally both made fresh characters for and play through when he gets free time. till then i just play solo. no idea why but i got instantly hooked lmao

For me I like getting boosted because it shows me what I can expect later in the game while experiencing it myself idk if that makes any sense but my first character was boosted a tiny bit (like ten levels) and some one dropped an insane amount of gear and that moment made my Brain think “my god I love this game” so all characters op8 then 10 respectively it certainly didn’t turn me off of the game

I never boosting/getting boosted by my friend because i dont have friiend who play BL to begin with. Feelsgoodman

Mistake #1- Buying Borderlands 3 after loving 2

Burnout imo is one of the biggest killers for borderlands and i found a way for my adhd ass to avoid it, essentially having a goal to get all characters max level op10, but just leveling one to 50, then switching to another character and do that with all of them to 50, then just doing it again with level 80 then the op levels

The biggest mistake is picking kreig, axton or gaige 😂

All I'm saying is pay attention to Red Flavor Text with weapons, regardless of color. Think that plays a big part, telling you how that gun will react.

Personal opinions: - If you are starting out UVHM, I really suggest looking up meta builds and modifying them to your taste, because UVHM only really works with a select few builds with a few variations to the strategy... Unless of course you play Salvador. - Don't farm legendary weapons before reaching at least level 50. - If you want a better experience with UVHM get your build ready and then every 4 levels use gibbed to get your get up to level! Seriously, I know it may sound like cheating but with how drops work in this game, considering you have to refarm all your gear every 4 levels, by the time you are done farming all your items you will have already leveled up twice, meaning that the first item you farmed is already reaching the end of it's life span, only exceptions to this rule are relics and classmods which for the most part don't need to be farmed. - If you wanna do a melee build, know right away that it's useless for OP levels as your stop leveling up and your melee damage is adjusted to your level, meaning that at OP 10 you'll be trying to use lvl80 damage against lvl90 enemies. - Get used to slag early on, you are going to need it for UVHM. - Have the bee in your inventory at all times during UVHM, use other shields for fights where you aren't sure you can go by without being hit, but use the bee for everything else (specially bosses). - Extremely useful gear on UVHM: Unkempt Harold, Sandhawk, Slag Pimpernell, Conference Call, Logan's Gun, Norfleet, Bee, Sham

one of my best pieces of advice to new players is don't pick a character just because of their skins and customization options! nine times out of ten it hurts the players experience, do your research on the characters, and find out which one suits the way you want to play the game and progress!

My advice is pick a character that speaks to you as in how you want to play for example do you want have your turret give you suppressing fire or run in and soak up bullets to unleash a deadly onslaught

Ah yes, my favorite Bandit launcher, The Bunny. Glad you mentioned it. Edit: And saying Slag applies a 50% increase?! Dude, don’t even upload videos about the game if you barely know how basic mechanics work.

Started playing a month back, got a legendary from Doc Mercy, then, after a while, instead of keeping it in storage for alt characters, I sold it, thought legendaries weren't as rare as they are

I fell into that category of ppl who quit I kept restarting when I’d come back I’m finally on play through 3 at level 70 after years of playing

on giving up a character, you didn't mention re-specing. you could probably make the character you have work better for you. If you watch content creators, they still re-spec frequently!

I'm completely addicted, play all 6 characters, got the fight for sanctuary expantion recently lol

I'm a new player and I think the worst mistake I made is farming legendaries for countless hours in NVHM. I wasted so much time farming for weapons that got outscaled as I progressed through the story 😂

*me looking at my contraband sky rocket, knowing I'll outlevel it*

point 1: to be fair the infinity pistol is never not useless as soon as you get one to drop. you won't get one to drop 9 times out of 10 before level 13 in the first place. like, congrats you have the worst gun in the game, but hey at least it has infinite ammo, right? a world dropped slagga though... that's always useful. basically if it's not the double pen harold a slagga or bee shield don't get attached. those three will carry you through the whole game. point 2 bandit weapons are okay with very specific build types on characters that have reload speed buffs like Gaige(I'm gonna be real she's the only one that can really utilize them to the fullest). that said, I'd stick to smgs and shotguns maybe an e-tech AR if you find one. Otherwise, yeah skip 'em. point 3: I don't think it's possible to hit a wall with Gaige. She's just broken with anarchy, and the ricochet skills. 🤣 Here's a better final point: don't farm for anything other than levels. If you get a legendary while farming the levels, cool, but the moment you start farming exclusively for legendaries you're going to be save quitting and reloading through the same area potentially thousands of times before you get what you want. You will burn out and get bored very fast. the game is already too grindy as it is, don't waste your time. the point in the game where you'll actually want to farm on normal mode is maybe for a conference call and bee shield. those two weapons will carry you through the next two playthroughs. Other than those two items don't bother farming loot until you complete True Vault Hunter mode and are ready to move on to UVHM difficulty(level 50-60). By this point you should be sufficiently bored with the game along with all of it's DLC after having run through it twice already(I know I was), and go install a better one(like the original borderlands game which you should have played first) 👍

Never got a player maxed on bl2 but ive played the game probably like 3-4 years ago

been getting into B2 lately

I have a purple rarity fire elementary pistol with around 90 mag size. The bullets are slow but they home into the enemies and has decent damage. My character is underleveled so gonna hold onto it for a while.

I remember my first experience of the game very well. Zero, there was no Internet when white trash who was 7 levels below the level of the enemies tried to kill a warrior. I miraculously reached level 40, I thought I was really cool... but then I went on the Internet.. I saw one KZfaqr how he killed packs of OP8 level enemies, shooting perfectly at critical points, using tons of unknown cool weapons. It was like playing a robot, perfect, a balance between death and healing. And then I found out that all weapons have a bunch of components, hundreds of options! But where can you get it? Without knowledge of the game... my first Harold farm took 57 attempts, my brain was brutally raped that day and it was my first time quitting the game.

100% agree on the cheating argument, many years ago when I was still a dumb boy I hacked a bunch of BAR into my pc account and now I want to downgrade it, thankfully I can just play with BAR off and just do that, but still doesn't feel good and I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from doing that

Tip if you want to optimise for most fun, do everything the moment its available check dlc to see the level of enemies and return when you're that level or when it makes sense for the story. If you want to optimise for end game, save side quests for last, do main story then do dlc one at a time then do all side quests

A mistake I made was continuing the bad habit I got from Diablo. Milking the difficulty modes for all the XP and wondering why UVHM was so fracking hard .. until I finally found out years later why ..

An advice i give for new players: just because something isn't meta doesn't mean it's not fun or good. Yes the Grog heals more than the Rubi, but the Rubi is still a heck of a gun. Of course the Lyuda is great, but have you tried a diaub the Pimpernel is an amazing gun, but have you used a Snider? Try everything untill you find something you like Edit: (plus the rubi can actually kill things lol)

I ended up giving up on my zero mainly because it just sucks. I have to do soooo much farming to get it to the new max level (it's level 50 and i made it before having any of the uvhm upgrade packs) and to get weapons for it. I know that it can be really fun but I prefer playing on my maya, sal, or on some rare occasions my gaige

Honestly for me hen I first started playing almost 6 years ago what held me back was not trying new things like other playthroughs or different skill trees or other characters and not different items and weapons and killing unique mobs but when I started doing those things the games experience got so much better

I just started playing Borderlands 2 a couple months ago same it's so cool to see that the community is still strong. I'm struggling with my Gaige build in UVHM but the game is so good I don't mind building other characters at the same time. Thanks for the tips, i especially like the no 1 tip. I only ever play solo and even though i suffer a lot, finally taking down a raid boss feels so great, like a true accomplishment

The only time I cheat in weapons is to play with them a bit and see if i like them, so that way i dont grind for a gun that i shoot once and go "huh. I hate this"

I can get behind most of what you said, but I still have some things I wanna share. First: While I agree that a large portion of the Bandit guns are complete garbage, their SMG's are actually pretty decent. I did a Bandit Allegiance playthrough on Maya quite a few years ago, and it worked like a charm. Only thing was that I had to be within mid range to be able to hit stuff. That build would certainly work for a few OP levels too, but I wouldn't try it all the way. Second: If a character doesn't do it for you, you should abandon it. At least for the time being. Keep in mind that this is a game, and it's supposed to be fun. Not a chore. After a while, one may look at things from a different perspective, and feel the urge to try that char again. I had that experience with Zero. Finally... Exploring things as a new player, is one of the most important things there is. It keeps the creativity active. Being spoon fed... Not so much! Good job! I think I'll drop you a like! 😉

I disagree on #4. Sometimes you just have to use a shitty Bandit gun. On Normal mode, anything will be able to kill most things that are on-level with the gun you're pewpewing out of. The only argument is the huge mag eating up your stockpile, but SDUs exist.

The only bandit gun I really like using is slagga 💀

I used my toothpick and mouthwash with kreig for basically all of TVHM

There Are few tiny ones. But one big Mistake I saw many new players doing No taking time in NVHM. What I mean is, not exploring and doing side quests. Learning the game is obviously best on easiest difficulty. I see people rushing main quest dieing, blaming it on character and gear and quiting... they don't usualy know save&quit is a think on their own. Not enough eridium = no ammo reserve = pointless Hating on Dahl and Tediore (you can quess why). I know they end up overleveled if they don't learn in NVHM leads to being overleveled up to UVHM. But that's different issue. BL2 isn't learning players to Aim to the head and use slag more often before you end up in UVHM. But that's different problem

You sound like K6, odd that. I never sold legendaries. I grew too attached to them, so instead I would get a 2player ready on my console, and then go and do a raid boss. Then just as I was about to kill it, I would pause the game and jump in player 2. That would give player 2 a lot of XP but more importantly eridium. I would then do this enough to get enough eridium on a few characters and then max out their backpack slots. Then I would just put my legendaries in their backpacks for when I did new playthrough. I know that’s lame, but I don’t wish to spend hours of my days grinding enemies for particular guns and gear. Also, “the bunny”? That’s Tediore, surely? You mentioned it alongside the Chopper and the Madhaus.

Bandit weapons have poor accuracy and large mag size, they are best used up close w/ characters that have excellent access to fire rate buffs. Outside of this niche they don't perform that well, but in it, they are *very* good.

Buying this game with my friends, beat borderlands 3 a couple times, so excited and thx for tips :P

My biggest tip to anyone new is dont make your first character Salvador. Hes so broken that all the other characters will seem frustrating as youll actually have to learn to play the game unless you take Maya with cloudkill active.

My first and last mistake in BL2 was a Zer0 :) Zer0 is so big piece of s#$%t. I quit an level 57 after dying about 40 times an simple mission. I laughed so much that I fell off my chair and i gave up with Zer0.

I have played borderlands sense I was 3 and this was still useful

After watching this I realized that my b2 game hasn't been updated at all on the 360, I could legit got farm fleahstick or whatever his name was

Back in the day I couldn't fully understand the gameplay of the borderlands, it was difficult for me to get rid of stuff that I like, and it was difficult for me to complete a full playthrough, before the sequel came out I played but never finished the first one, didn't even reach the New Heaven, actually not even the Lucky's bar. But eventually thanks to the save editor that I used to level up my gear to my current level, I was able to enjoy the game enough to complete it. And I loved it. Right now I am actually doing a full playthrough of the entire game series, currently at the New Heaven. And I am doing it on Xbox, which is surprisingly is more enjoyable for me than on pc, I guess that's the old shooting system being designed for consoles first. But otherwise, you are spot on about all those mistakes. Also I am still not interested in all of that endgame stuff and the NG+ stuff, fight me :p Enjoy the game everyone 💛

3:54 the bunny is tediore, and overall id say the badaboom is not a bad rocket launcher from bandit

Sorry I always get attached to my gear.... I got too many good things to get rid of... just pass them to your next character or a newbie.

this makes me feel like it's 2014 again

Well, Idk dude, the first run can be done with any "Infinity". And connecting it with “Bee” - is useful in second. 😉

i have done 793 runs of the bnkr for a sham shield on ps3 and only got 2 at 88% i'm going to dupe that thing any chance i get

I remember when I first started playing bordalands my friend started his level 25 character and I was struck with a level 1 it was so frustrating then I started playing it by myself and really picked up interest with it