15:00 big tip right here: Right AFTER you turn in the quest where you beat Wilhelm but BEFORE you put in the power core, you can go to Sanctuary and pick up some quests. One of them," The Good, the Bad, and the Mordecai", gives access to farming to a really good AR (Veruc) and one of the best snipers/guns (Lyuda) in the game. Furthermore, turning in the quest itself gives a relic that boosts Exp gain (Moxxis Endowment), which in turn helps with farming Mutated Varkids.

Little tip: when u start a level 30 character, the game gives u some gear & money which is ok but not great, go to Arrid Badlands go through the door to Boneyard & drop down into the pipe, the secret chest here has lv30 gear. I got good shields, class mods & launchers.

This is legitimately phenomenal you deserve at least 50k for this Gaige guide alone

"The Handsome Collection comes with them all." Future Fight for Sanctuary DLC: "That'll be $15 or else no OP Levels."

I miss this guy. These videos are both interesting and helpful. It’s such a shame they kinda just stopped and he disappeared. I’m sure Lomax has his reasons. But i’d love to see him come back

I really liked this video and would love to see this series continue.

Thanks for the videos. I’ve been playing this game for 10 years since my grandkids all grew up I’m 72 years old. I love video games. I never knew about all the stats until I got online about a year and a half ago always beat the game the old-fashioned way. Thanks for your help. I can cut so much time off. Thanks again. 👍🇱🇷

Few years later and I’m still coming back to this guide😂 it’s great.

"This guide assumes you have all the dlc" well thank God for last month's ps+ deal having the handsome collection XD

glad someone is finally making an in-depth guide on Gaige. she's one of my favorite characters but a lot of people don't play her because she can be pretty challenging in later modes if you don't know how to make an efficient build.

Just started playing on switch and this guide helped me lots!!

Great starter build. I like how you have set up the expectations on Gaige's nuances that will become more important at higher levels. It would be good to see a short series on all characters for builds with the new level cap. Where is the best places to put the extra skill points???

I found you from your leveling guide and I’m so glad you haven’t stopped uploading so keep up the good work !

Just wanted to say I am thoroughly loving this Gaige guide! I’m leveling her up and watching at the same time! Thank you so much for this! It’s really appreciated!!!

Perfect timing, I just started a gaige playthrough and this is very helpful, thanks

Tip I didn't find in the comments yet: while farming for the Slagga, look for a cardboard box on the platform on the Zaford side, roughly between the two dumpsters. If the box spawns there (randomized 1/5 locations), it will always contain a Gwen's Head, a pretty good blue pistol which can also spawn as corrosive. I suggest checking again every time you save&quit / continue for another attempt at the Slagga (or leveling to 21), even if you've already found one you're happy with, because the money you get for selling them can help offset buying ammo during farming. Speaking of which - the chest underneath the Zaford platform can also contain some valuable goodies (to sell)!

The DLC in normal mode is level scaled in such a way that allows you to easily reach level 40 before reaching TVHM. It kinda breaks the leveling. Normal mode ends at level 30. TVHM starts at level 30-35. In normal, the Pirate and Torgue campaigns scale to level 15 or 30, and the Big Game Hunt and Dragon Keep campaigns can scale to level 30-35. The Fight for Sanctuary can scale to level 30-38. This is useful for late game normal mode if you just wanna speed through that second play through.

great guide, still following in 2023

This is not just a great Gaige guide, but an excellent outline for any character on how to level up efficiently. My first playthrough of BL2 must have taken 50 hours. Now? Not even a third of that.

Dude if I could, I would double like this one. Also your Zero melee build helped too.

24:00 farming tip on the left of the bounty board you can climb and have a red chest behind the house, going even more left leads you to a loader named bone head 2.0 that drops the boneshredder (similar to slagga) going right from there is a shack with a normal chest and some regular boxes, open them all cuz theres a chance for loot midgets, going forward past the house with the electric blockade on it there is a broken water tower, climb it and paralel to it is a fuse you can shoot, you can go back to the electric fence to take another red chest going forward to saturn you can jump on the box, then on the grey trash box and then jump on the pole near the house, ending on top of the house with a red chest. You can save quit and repeat, takes about 5 mins and you end up with 3 red chests, boneshredder (you can get any element), and a chance for loot midgets and tubby/chubby enemies, overall i think one of the best farms.

The Handsome Collection is only like 3 dollars on Steam right now for anyone interested

2:10 the handsome collection does not have the fight for sanctuary dlc u have to buy that unless u got borderlands the legendary edition that will have all dlcs and all borderlands 1, 2 and pre sequel

So underated, I went full sweet heart and at level 21. My battle with certain bosses were comically short thanks to my pet murder bot.

Coming back to the game and using your guide to relearn everything. You’re the best for this Lomax.

This is the only guide that actually teaches you how she works thanks

I was looking for this kind of guide all day. Can't wait for the next videos.

Thanks for the guide! I would add that you should farm a Lobbed Bonus Package from Boom Bewm, which is far superior to the skyrocket, which you only need to save for specific uses. Also, I wouldn't give up farming the Unkempt Harold in favor of the Lascoux's that spawn in the puddle in Frostburn Canyon. In most, if not all cases, the Unkempt will do more damage. Lastly, it's probably worth it to farm Knuckledragger for a Hornet at the start of the game.

This guide is fantastic and I appreciate you taking the time to put this together. I personally hate Gaige and her playstyle so I'm looking forward to the other character guides.

Well, time to replay as gaige again. Thanks lomax

You can also go into lynchwood before you start the last clan wars quest, then pick up the quest and fast travel to lynchwood. Then you can go back to the dust by the train and you can save quit farm either a slagga or a Maggie

I prefer to do hunting the fire hawk and then doing in memoriam so I can farm a fast ball and unkempt harold

Gaige is my fave! I would sugest a shotgun with one 'extra' round in the magazine (which will be removed thanks to her skill). This means you not only build stacks very quickly, but that you CANNOT accidentally reload. This is more of an issue on consoles where you can't rebind controls.

Thanks a lot for this guide Agent Lomax!

A good option since the patch is to farm for a fastball, either explosive or fire for normal mode (always preferred as explosive) from the in memoriam mission which makes the assassin boll available to farm. It becomes available from lillith as soon as she's back in sanctuary. It takes out most enemies in one hit, two hits for mini bosses and tougher enemies like badasses. Its mainly useful for single enemies as it acts like it says, a fastball in baseball, so having a crowd control grenade like a fire burst or an electric burst grenade is always a good thing to keep in the back

There is an easy way to kill Saturn, if you stand on the right side of the gate right before you go in the giant area the bot can jump down to, you can shoot from cover and not one thing will hit you. It eats a lot of ammo, but that is no problem because there is a machine near that spot

Thank you so much for your videos, I'm playing through the game again after a few years and never played gaige or even got to digistruct peak!

This game is way more enjoyable now I know some of the tricks of the game

Great stuff, looking forward to the rest

I find farming for lyuda rlly good pre level 30 too, the 2 bosses gettle and the other guy seemed to scale with the story level too

The fibber and her skill “close enough” is essentially turning the difficulty to 0 if any of you are having trouble, it’s a very good combo and really fun.

I do have a few of tips for the guide. This is down to personal preference, but I like to go into the "close enough" skill after getting anarchy. It mitigates the lost ammo when missing (either due to just missing shots or because of anarchy itself) and the damage of anarchy negates the damage loss after about 35 stacks. Also if you have a weapon that already richotets/"bounces" then the 50% debuff isn't applied and you just get a straight buff to that weapon as the bullets will now auto target enemies instead of having to line up shots. Since you are assuming all dlc, that means that the player will also have access to the creature slaughter dome in the wildlife preservation. Finishing all 5 quests in that area rewards miss moxxies creamer, which is an incredibly powerful rocket launcher that also heals for a small portion of thr damage done. It also has a bit of a quirk with the initial rocket exploding and splitting into two during its flight, if you aim it right you can hit an enemy with all three rockets at one time. At around this point you mention that we can get a new fight for your life launcher after a mission that comes up just after this, but I'm pretty sure the creamer would be far more powerful if used right. There is also the heart breaker, ruby, and the hail. They are all moxxi weapons which all heal for a percentage of damage. The heart breaker is an amazing shotgun (though it is fire only) and I would recommend read only farming for perfect parts. I would also recommend farming for a Slag ruby as well. The hail is a weapon that had its bullets split up mid air and bounce and is mostly good when you use the close enough skill as I described earlier.

Hey after this one, please do krieg!

Been playing her for the first time now. I have found that Amp shields work pretty good on her once you have Blood Soaked shields to 5 since every kill it maxes out and you get bonus damage on the next shot, which sometimes allows single shot kills, repeating the process. But my second choice is high turtles. I try and keep both, but if I'm in the anarchy I would never use the novas since you will usually not have much health when your shields are gone.

As someone that enjoys Mechromancer and claims it as my favorite class, I am so happy to have found your video series on leveling her. However, one quick thing I'd like to point out is that there is likely something more needed to be explained when farming the Hodunks for a Slagga. I dunno if I just lingered too long in the Dust after my second kill, or if I did something improper that I have no clue like claiming the chest under the Dust station, but they seem to not wanna spawn after I farmed them the first time. Specifically, the order of events are: I killed the Hodunks and turned in the quest, no Slagga drop first try. I watched more of the video and heard a caravan, so I went to kill the guard and loot them. I then realized there was a chest under the Dust station, so I looted that. I then travelled to Lynchwood and travelled back to the Dust as fast as I could. Only the main boss of the Hodunks spawned when I returned, so I killed him quickly with my shotgun and Deathtrap, still no drop. I go back to Lynchwood and then back to the Dust for a second farm/third kill, and none of the Hodunks spawn. To note, I like doing side quests before story quests, so unless specifically mentioned to save for later in your video, I've been doing all the side quests I can, while still doing the recommended quests first so I'm not too over-level. By the time I turned in the quest for the Clan War, I was close to reaching level 21. Also, I found that save/quitting while by the train station will make the entire Hodunk group respawn once I load back in. I am also on Console in case that changes anything. Just in case this needs to be cleared up for anyone else trying to play as Mechromancer or anyone needing to farm the Slagga!

Daaaammn I just found this guide literally 30 mins after I completed the varkid quest

Ooo my favorite character gauge

Pro tip, Get Buck upp as soon as you can after you got anarchy. its the best deffensive skill in the game, when you have deathtrap, get close to an area exit, unequip your shield, and when you see deathtrap try to replenish your shield, exit the area. this will glitch the game, making it think you still get the buff, even tho deathtrap is no longer there. you now have infinite shield. you can then equip an amp shield and do amazing damage.

awsome, was looking all the time for this kind of guide

Well looks like im breaking out BL2 again

If someone happens to see this, a good option to be certainly able to kill the warrior easily is to get the hail from the slaughter house im the fridge with slag is optimal but not needed. And farm the bee shield from humter helquist in arid nexus. If you are unlucky thid cam take a while but it is very powerful. Important is u need to do this or at least accept the quest before going to the heros pass bc once u go there the npcs disappear. And those 2 items together will 1 phase the warrior every time he jumps out od the lava if u hit his weak spot

Saw the laser sight on you UH on Normal mode and i nearly cried till i realised it was explicit haha

Can't wait to see the next 2 vids on this. For me, lvling was kind of a shock after the latest dlc. I could be wrong, but it feels like they increased both mobs and bosses level caps toward late game. I used to farm Bunker till level 30 for exp and for the bitch/sham. Then, I'd continue on to The Warrior and farm him till 40-43. Partly for the exp, but mostly for the conference call. Also, the loot drop rate seems way less post new dlc and I think that's because both Uranus and Casius have the potential to drop 4-5 legendaries in one fight. One problem I do have with Gaige is that most of my go to weapons for other characters are utter crap in her hands. For example, the Bitch in Maya's hands will tear up Bunker in no time. However, with Gaige I ended up using a Badaboom. Not a bad thing except that rockets are way more expensive and you get way less than other ammo. Which means having to buy ammo more often.

I also want to mention something about class modes. If you go to Scarlett DLC, meet scarlett herself, comeback to Oasis, you can take side-mission "Grendel". The mob Grendel could be hard, but as long as you have enough stacks, should be ok. Upon completing this quest goes "read only" farm, because a quest reward for this mission are two to choose blue class modes. This farm could be more effective in TVHM and probably UVHM, if you still don't have legendary class mode. On TVHM class modes will give +5 and +4 points on skills

This was really neat. I loved it

very nice video. very informative and easier to follow than other videos I've seen

Great Video! Need ones for Axton & Maya!

PLEASE come out with part 2! You've made my life so easy, but now I'm moving on

On console, if you have cloud save, you don't need to dashboard farm. On the GOTY edition, cloud saving saves 10 seconds over dashboard on average. What you do: get your character in the desired difficulty and spawning location save/quit, upload character to cloud pick up your reward. If you want to keep it, put it in claptrap's stash. It doesn't matter if the game saves so feel free to save/quit if it saves time on the way to the stash. save/quit, Download your character from cloud and overwrite, then upload it again. You can use the same method to farm buttstallion and torgue machines indefinitely.

12:00 You forgot to mention Hyperion Synergies. And since ARs didnt get a mention (sadly they are lackluster), I'll do it for you. Ill also mention guns in conjunction with 2 skills: Anarchy and The Better Half. TBH is a bit later if you focus on Anarchy but it synergizes with most guns on Gaige. For ARs, you typically want guns with the second Vladof barrel: these are easily identified by the minigun looking piece. For most guns, this barrel increase mag and fire rate while making it shoot faster the longer you hold it. At high Anarchy, these can work as automatic shotguns. Dahl and Vladof are the premier choices, while Torgue and Bandit are secondary. Jakobs can put out some hurt but Anarchy can make crit spots hard to hit. TBH makes the second half of the mag shoot at outrageous speeds, making it a premier boss killer. The other Vladof barrel also provides fire rate without the minigun gimmick, so thats an option. That barrel doesnt really benefit Jakobs though. ARs are fairly situational but i hope this helps

I really like your video, very informative. The only thing I would add is that the tidal wave is actually pretty great on gaige and is kind of a hidden gem weapon. It has some cool interactions with her ricochet stuff and works well with anarchy since it hits hard and you probably arent getting crits with it anyways. Also anarchy doesnt really mess with the spread pattern much. People think its kind of a meme weapon and for the most part it is but on gaige i think its actually pretty solid.

The fact that the Commander Lilith DLC is $15 is so stupid. It adds so much: levels weapons and characters. My game will still cap at level 72 on my switch because of the selfish decision. No way Gearbox wasn't doing something sketchy with that.

I assume that you're not doing side quests (unless they have a farmable NPC)? Thanks for spending the massive amount of time it took to make this guide!

Two things I'd add... getting the the rubi and picking up the fibber, after getting fibber take off cooking up trouble and pick up close enough.

i subbed to this channel becuase I liked the video so much!

For a corrosive weapon you can farm the Hornet, a fairly good unique corrosive pistol, at any point from Knuckledragger in Windshear wastes. Just fast travel to Lyersburg, head to Windshear Waste, kill her, then save and reload. Rinse and repeat until you get a version you want. The gun should level to you, but the boss stays at level 1 so she's an easy kill. Same goes for Unkempt Harold and other Legendary weapons, they level to the player on drop so you can return to farm stronger versions as you level.

Awesome guide! Thank you for making this.

@ Agent Lomax infinity pistol + Anarchy = fun

While farming Boom and Bewm, don't forget to always check the red chest under the elevator to get to them...

You've probaberly been told you but a Texes Striker with a Tediore Grip is fantastic for Anarchy Stacking. Hmm, do you plan on other characters in such detail? This is a good format.

Gage has a nice glitch to have shelds that replenish fast for ever untle you quit

Why were Gaige and krieg way more fun then the main vault hunters? (Expect zer0)

So I actually started a Gaige playthrough a couple of days ago and as much as I love the starter grenade you can get with the pass, if like me you are lucky enough to get the legendary grenade from Boom on your second try then please feel free to use that for a while instead as it will clear out anything that you're having difficulties with for a good while and it is so much fun to both use and watch.

I love the video besides the fact that it doesn’t actually start until 3:10

this video applies to every character very well except for skills and some gear choices

If anyone sees this and is playing salvadore, you can gunzerk a ladyfist and a sniper to get massive crits, very helpful!

In normal mode I usually I typically spend the majority of it putting points into the Best Friends Forever tree. I also only put 1 point into cooking up trouble since the skill mostly works as a way to heal you between fights. I've rarely been able to keep the skill active while fighting since you have to have a full magazine. Anarchy isn't really needed in normal mode as Death Trap really works wonders in this mode. I usually respect into late in normal more or before going to true vault hunter mode. Be aware if you've never played Gaige that Death Trap potency drastically reduces as you move up in modes. By UVHM think of him as a support option and a distraction.

I think I would personally at the beginning of the game, read only farm bad hair day earlier and turn it in to claptrap for a hulk

Uh, I feel like you neglected to mention a very big Gaige Tip. Bind Drop Weapon to an easily accessible Key if you run Gaige, Ever. Dropping your gun and picking it up will fully reload the weapon without losing Anarchy Stacks.

I think I'm going to respec my character. I'm at level 19 but I already did the thing where Sanctuary moves. Thanks for the video though, your tips are very helpful.

Must’ve patched it I went to lynchwood and back but it only worked once

I'm glad I'm watching this about to respec and have waaaaayyyyyyhg more fun.

Idk if it still works but on both sides don't kill either clan entirely focus on the leaders choose 1 leader first then get the Maggie or the other item that u want and are happy with the parts then save and quit and do the other side (I can't really explain it well sorry for that)

I invest in her anarchy tree first her damage gets ridiculous when you have over 400 stacks

_MECH-ROMANCER_

I think you should have included the bee shield because it with the unkempt is a guarentee one shot all normal enemies. One mag of a harold with the bee kills bunker.

I'm surprised you don't have Close Enough in the build, seems like a necessity once Anarchy reaches about 50. As it is, I've had to completely change my playstyle with Gaige, as I've always loved sniping with every other character (other than Krieg, whom I've not played yet).

Best video EVER!

I prefer Jakobs revolvers over shotguns. They build anarchy stacks faster because they shoot faster, have lower reload speed, put out more damage, you get more ammo for it, and they're damn cool to fire. Plus it's easier to build up pistoleer badass ranks.

Gwens head is a good weapon for normal mode.

I lost all progress with my old gaige so I started a new one, funny enough it gave me a Conference Call and an Ogre which gave me a decent pick-me-up which aided me up to "A Dam Fine Rescue" to there I began to get gear with better stats (other than shot guns where I had to beat Frosty for a good bandit shotgun and an Eridian-tech pistal)

Lee can also spawn behind the fast travel

What a great guide!

I lost my sky rocket randomly. Accidentally picked up another grenade and tried picking it up again but it was gone

Great guide. Thanks

For bunker i like the shock thing with a shock shotgun or assault rifle. But thats for fun For efficiency i would stay with your build. But get a boneshredder

Great video lots of important information in this guide. Would love to see what you have to say about the other vaults hunters. As much as i like gaige in my opinion her skill trees i find to be a bit disjointed.

Early game you can do do unassuming docks to

Cant wait to see UVHM

I like farming a nukem. Then farm saturn. For THE HIVE. It helps with loader. And other loaders