This game can have issues and still be great, I think people can’t separate fun with good.

The fact of the matter is that EVERY Borderlands game has its fair share of problems.

I think a good idea would be to Make the Grog Nozzle the mission reward for the Beard makes the Man mission. I hate leaving uncompleted/failed missions

The lack of build/playstyle diversity at higher difficulties...really kills off a lot of potential fun. Sometimes you just feel like doing some real wacky shit in a game, y'know?

I think my biggest issue with the game is survivability in the mid to late game. You don't so much tank attacks so much as abuse health gate religiously the Grog Nozzle is pretty much mandatory if you don't wanna go down several times in a row since getting a second wind gives you full shield not health which means you have no protection from immediately going down again the ramping bleed out feels like salt on the already existing wound as well

I think a lot of people like to wear the rose tinted glasses when it comes to Borderlands 2… specifically when they’re using it to crap on Borderlands 3 😂

Yeah balance is a huge problem. And I agree that OP levels are wildly unbalanced in how they're implemented (and the addition of that extra lvl 80 dlc was madness don't get me started on how scummy that is) But my single biggest gripe hands down is the straight up NEED for a grog at high levels of play. Why do I always need this ONE SPECIFIC gun to succeed across all play styles that's just poor game design right there. A katrillion guns but you will always have to use a grog, that's my biggest gripe with this game. And yeah that kinda goes to the implementation of slag, but also goes to a weird unbalance of healing and damage per character. Edit: I have gotten all characters to OP10 solo in BL2 so don't come at me about skill or shit the game isn't balanced well across the board. Yes "Always needing a grog" is an exaggeration but no matter what character you play there's always just one path to being the "strongest" why not have many paths to that end?

Worst part of BL2 - last playable appearance of Maya :(

To be fair, Commander Lilith was completely free for a month I believe when it came out, plus it's included with the Pandora's box bundle, which is discounted if you own content inside it.

FUN FACT: The cartoony cel-shaded graphics (dark outlines etc) was a fairly last min decision by devs after early footage which u can find showed it looking like every other avg shooter form that time so while the gameplays great its that decision that made this game iconic BUT im posting cuz i think the unintended benefit is that it has aged SO well, idk how much work went into the VERY cheap Switch remakes (10$ each or like 20 for BL2/TPS and ALL DLC for both on the e shop) but even compared to decent remakes like bioshock etc on switch the framerate lock is great, very little pop in, and felt so much smoother, and since its MEANT to look like a cartoon and not 'photorealism' i dont feel like im playing an old game with old graphics as it seems like an intentional choice

I don't celebrate Easter for the religious aspect. I do however have nephews. We dyed eggs last night and today I'm drawing Vault symbols on them. I told Ronan (he's turning 7 in April) and Kenny (just turned 3) to bring me all the Vault key fragments and he'll unlock the Vault. Then I have Nerf guns stashed away which will be used to defeat me in battle. I'll be wearing the Psycho Mask from the Bl3 pre-order and wielding a bunch of Minecraft melee weapons. The reward being baskets of goodies and money (from their grandparents).

The fact that a majority of legendary/seraph/pearlescent weapons are just bad weapons

One of the more rare complaints I've seen is how mid-late game, the numbers for everything are so over-inflated, like no gun damage or shield unit is below the millions and it makes the effectiveness of your gear feel more cumbersome to keep track of or measure properly. The way BL1 scaled things with very scarcely stepping even into the 5-digit values and just amplifying damage reduction against higher-level enemies to make up for it worked alot better, there's even a mod that intends to re-implement that system into BL2, I believe it's called BLassic Mode

That’s my biggest gripe is having to reset the story 2-3 times for the peak to get grog and other mission rewards… either make those easier to get or make other builds viable lol

Although I put myself through the hell that is UVHM on every character, I didn’t have it in me to finish them all plus DLC. The fact that it’s mandatory to run meta gear and skills, the majority of legendary and pearlescent gear are paperweights, and slagging every enemy to deal any worthwhile damage is what ultimately drove me away from BL2’s endgame, and I’ve never wanted to go back to relive my trauma ever since. I could even argue that I’ve spent more time in BL3’s endgame than BL2’s.

You missed an important problem in this video, and that’s character balance. Character balance is essentially how good the classes are when compared to each other. Now, BL3 also struggled with character balance, but it was to a much smaller degree than BL2. The best example of this honestly, compare Axton’s skill tree to Salvador or Krieg. By level 20, Axton could get 30% gun damage, while Salvador gets moneyshot and Krieg gets blood bath. Axton’s turret could get a shield or rockets, Salvador can regen ammo and Krieg can heal off of overkill damage. Even in end game, no character really holds a candle to Krieg or Salvador in terms of raw power (maybe you could argue Gaige does, but Anarchy is a pain to play optimally). To be clear, this doesn’t make Axton a bad character, he definitely holds his own in end game and has powerful enough builds. But, it’s not the same power as Sal or Krieg. It is true that there is no such thing as a perfect character balance, but that doesn’t mean that there should be an alarming gap between characters. It makes other playthroughs of the game annoying, especially if your first experience with the game is someone like Krieg. What is Axton’s equivalent to bloodsplosions? He doesn’t have anything close to that power, which makes playthroughs sometimes feel like a challenge run or just less interesting. TLDR; Character balance (the comparison of how good a character is during a game) in BL2 sucks when you compare anyone else to Krieg and Salvador, and it hurts how replayable the game is. If you start with Sal or Krieg (like I did), every other character seems underwhelming.

Just cause BL3 had worse pollution doesnt mean we can ignore it for BL2. Maybe it was my bad for trying to double Drunken Harold, but I dont think having the player use damage ticks as echo location is good either.

I personally think that uniques should be their own rarity. They have a red text and making them blue just reduces the value of them making it seem like a lower rarity is better than a higher one. I mean I definitely agree that most uniques still shouldn’t be better than most legendaries and pearls but the point still stands. Having them be a separate rarity like seraph and E-tech wouldn’t lessen the value of them.

Endgame balancing. That is by far the worst part of the game. I just can’t stand UVHM and the need to constantly switch to a slag weapon to actually do damage.

I still remember when I was playing the absolute hell out of TVHM because I couldn’t afford the upgrade for UVHM (I was like 12 at the time lol) and I farmed some pretty good gear for my Zer0. Nothing meta because I didn’t know what it was at the time but was able to demolish enemies in my path and it felt GLORIOUS! Imagine my utter shock when I finally did UVHM and faced that massive brick wall of a difficulty spike. 80% of my gear became immediately useless and I absolutely *had* to slag everything to even do a dent. I eventually powered through it but it was not a fun experience for me even to this day over a decade later.

No game is perfect, even our favorites. Thank you for checking the rose tinted glasses every once in a while.

OP Levels and three playthroughs are the reason I never touched the very late game. But the memories will make this game forever my favorite one. The ambient music, the story and the feeling when you finally get a good legendary made this so good for me

It's nice that BL3 moved away from having enemies so bullet sponge-y that you NEEDED slag or a Grog Nozzle to get you thru the encounter- that being said IMO mission weapons like the Grog should have a chance to appear as world drops once you've completed the game/dlc. It can be made less effective to still make the game more challenging or better yet, increase the healing abilities of character skills or items to lessen the need for such an item. Also, as far as bosses at max level, how about allowing critical hits to ignore damage reduction? This would make fighting raid bosses like Dexi a lot less tedious.

I find myself strongly agreeing with you about Digistruct Peak. I actually really loved the Peak itself, it was a very fun gauntlet to run, for a simple reason; it broke up the monotony of end-game BL2. Honestly my biggest issue with BL2 is that a lot of the ways you powered up, or faced end-game content, boiled down to a really, really repetitive numbers game. You faced the same boss/named enemy hundreds of times, just to get a better number that you needed. There was absolutely nothing interesting about driving up to Hyperion Truth Network 300 times, Hunter Hellquist had zero interactivity. One of the main misconceptions I think the community has about critiques of BL2 ties into this, with the rate of legendary drops. I don't want higher legendary drop chances because I want things handed to me on a plate, because I don't want to put in any effort into the game. I want them to be higher because the 'effort' I'm putting in is desperately dull. If I wanted to put together a build strong enough to solo the Ancient Dragons or god forbid Voracidous, I would have to spend hours, maybe dozens of hours, farming specific pieces of gear in extremely repetitive ways. I would basically not be playing the game, I would be going through tedium so that I could play the game. That's just really terrible design in my eyes. That's one thing that BL3 did extremely right with things like Trials and how they work with increased loot drop chances. You're still doing the numbers game but at least you're actually interacting with the game while you're doing it. I'm not saying that doing a trial over and over again for hours didn't also get tiring, but at least for me it was far less so. I was still actually using my character, looking for ammo, taking cover, picking targets. For all it's issues, Digistruct Peak gave that experience at the endgame of BL2. I'm still not a fan at all of OP levels, and I loathe that, say, I have to fight two Saturns, which is easily among the worst enemy designs in the game at OP10, but at least I felt like I was playing the game, and not preparing to play the game.

For me, it's how almost every item in the game becomes useless at Ultimate+. In Borderlands, you can use ANY item at Lv66-69 and still be able to play the game. It doesn't matter if the items are white/green/blue/purple or orange. The same can be said with Borderlands: TPS and Borderlands 3.

The only thing better than barrel trolling your friend is forcing them to watch the dlc cutscenes as soon as you unlock the fast travel >:D

for mission rewards id like them to be added to world loot once u beat that quest

Never been a fan of the difference in difficulty level being a enemies health pool and/or damage resistance. Bullet sponges are boring. I prefer tactics, being changed. The enemy had three moves, now he has five. Instead of getting in your face, now he is more standoffish and has a different weapon set.

I have over 15 thousand hours in BL2 and one of my biggest issues is the entire section from the start to getting into sanctuary is extremely tedious and slow spawn points are terrible, there is no way to easily get back to captain Flynt or that entire area for that matter if you want to farm anything. I think it partly due to Borderlands 1 doing its starting area so well that BL2's beginning area is disappointing to me.

This is the most polite roast ive ever seen. Love the content. Hopefully they see this and make BL4 super dope

Gearbox designs their maps with no idea of having a jet, a grappilng hook or something (old practices) thats why were "cut", Ellie told you that in Sanctuary as a joke (but in Behind the scenes they told that)

Big reason why I play this game with the community patch. To me the biggest issue by far is the scaling and slag. UVHM is just tedious, getting health gated after one hit and then having to heal with the grog. Level 50 TVHM was pretty well balanced and slag was optional. The scaling also just makes it so your items fall off EXTREMELY quickly after just a few levels, in BL1 you could use a good gun for basically the entire playthrough.

This video really shows the absolute dreadfulness of the end game in BL2. I see so many people complain about BL3 end game balancing like it's the worst thing in the franchise, but BL2 is far and away worse than BL3. And the character balancing in BL2. YIKES. I love the game to death, I really do, but there are glaring issues that people either refuse to accept or refuse to see. Also can't wait for the Pre-Sequel version of this series! For it's flaws, I still enjoy that game quite a bit.

OP levels, more like poopy levels

Funnily enough some of the issues i had at the start they actually fixed like having to keep playing the starting section which could now skip, one thing i will mention which was not mentioned as far as i can tell....DLC was actually finished way in advance as one of the DLC the Moxi wedding one had accidently included the whole of the crawmerax one and people on PC had hacked it and could play it months in advance

One thing that wasnt mentioned, is the terrible terrain geometry and always getting stopped by some random tiny little lip in the floor, or some dumb shit, causing me to go down because I couldnt make cover in time. This happens ALOT, and is one of the most annoying things in the damn game. Like, simply trying to walk into Rolands hideout, my character cant walk up the little step, into the entrance LOL, so I either need to time a jump just right (as to not bump my head on the celing) to land on the curb/step, or walk up the curb in front of the gun vending machine and hug the wall. Shits retarted.

I totally agree with you on the scaling comparisons of BL2 and BL3. I too am not one of those “Elite 1% Players” always rocket jumping, glitching, or using one or two “ perfect” builds for crazy damage. In BL2 the only class to play through OPs is Sal because he is just broken. But every other class starts falling short after OP 4, heck I would even say Gaige would have trouble getting there without focusing on anarchy and glitching. In BL3 I feel confident playing any class, at any difficulty, using whatever build I make, not even trying to copy those “God” Builds promoting crazy damage like most creators promote. Sometimes Moze feels squishy in those Takedown, but still not like playing OP 10 with any class in BL2.

I hated playing this game by myself because it felt like I was always either grinding side missions for diminishing returns and dying whenever trying to progress the story. Friends would help by letting me mooch XP off of various farms but that still didn't help me have FUN with the game.

I loved BL2. It's one of my top five games but the drop rate for legendary items was atrocious for a casual gamer. Like me. Tons of QoL changes, sure, but drop rates is the biggest for me. This is where I loved BL3. Sure, lots of useless legendary items but they were worth money and as you level up, you always need money.

I get really frustrated when I get a legendary at an important part of the game, and It's a mod for a different character. Also there should be a unique legendary in Roland's chest. Finally, on PlayStation there is a glitch where the final lootsplosion in the Torgue dlc gets stuck below the ground.

The new OP level change made all my friends so jaded and fed up with the thought of having to refarm their entire min-max perfect weapon builds that they just used a Save Editor to cheat past the entire grind. I honestly cant blame them, all thise years with no DLC or changes and suddenly you have to basically redo your entire character build from the start again by farming ALL of your gear.

My biggest gripe with BL2 is that all the vault hunters are completely random in terms of balance. Try telling me with a straight face that Commander and Gunzerker are on the same level. I dare you.

I agree with this video, it quite literally irons out why I don’t like BL2 anymore. Also one more note, me and the homies HATE UVHM and Slag

As a veteran slag was still my least favourite part of this game, it should’ve been reworked Each Vault Hunter should’ve had at least two or three ways to easily apply slag via their skill trees Slag at UVHM was 4× damage, it would've served better at 4.6× or 4.8× Slag has no DoT effect, it should’ve had some small, or even medium DoT And class mods or relics in general in UVHM should've given a "8% chance per shot to apply slag" effect on top of their already listed stats, or some other percentage to balance it out Would've made late game far more build friendly and accessible to casuals

It's very broad but I think the biggest issue is just "balance." I love almost everything in the game but the Balance no no good. It's similar in BL3, but I think BL2 is too hard where the looter shooter part doesn't matter and BL3 is too easy where it's boring. BL2 keeps me more interested but still the weapon options and everything feels too small. I don't even mind Slag tbh, I think it's designed somewhat bad but I think it's usable I don't mind the level 80 grind, I just would rather want more locations to farm vs just like Bad Maw or Zafford

The fact i had to use eridium to get bank/backpack space was bad, im glad the third game fixed it

I think Gaige could have a viable shock build just by doubling “wires don’t talk”. I would love to play her, and not have to use only Anarchy

What you said were Quality of life Improvements and I wholeheartedly agree with everything you stated, I hate having to glitch kill Hyperius and gate crush Gee because their fights aren't fun or easy to do with specific characters

Claptrap getting stuck happen to me for the first time yesterday lol. Never knew that was possible. I just walked away not knowing how to fix it, before I was gonna save and quit, it fixed itself

I remember finding out about op levels and how they work and ditching bl2 for another game at that time

Every borderlands game needs to stop with the hidden damage math. I shouldn't need a phd to figure out what skills stack with what and how, as well as what skills scale with Op and mayhem or chaos levels. If it scales with end-game content, the skill card should show you the values you're actually getting.

I felt that the gameplay and guns in BL3 were great, but BL2s story will always be the topps.

The OP levels and the the fact you need to use slag in order to do any damage is baffling to me how they thought thats a good idea

One of my biggest gripes was if you don't farm you don't see legendaries. I played through BL1 and BL2 on Normal and TVHM back to back, mostly only story missions to grind characters. In BL1 I got 20+ legendaries and in BL2 I only got 2. I think there should be more world drop instances and stuff like skin/head drops shouldn't happen if players in the game already have them (i.e. TVHM warrior drop was taken by Jack mask). I feel like TPS was perfect in so many aspects but the game lacked content for me and felt too easy so I didn't play it much.

To anyone who says bl3 doesnt have visual pollution i say when i played it years ago i used the minimap during combat more than the actual screen

How is ammo regen being exclusive to Salvador not mentioned?

Ultimate Mode is its biggest problem. Many can make it to OP10, but the curve is pretty insanely hard. I mean. To the point it becomes unfair and frustrating.

uh oh I wonder how many people will get annoyed at this vid. It seems a lot of fans just throw all of BL2s issues out the window and just dog on BL3 nowadays. I love BL2 but it has so many issues and balance is probably its worst one imo. I am someone who plays BL2 up to OP10 ( Used to be 8 ) as well so I know it all too well... Also cant lie the build diversity is kinda meh in BL2.

I hate slag, but i thought it was fine in normal mode. It's when they made it like 300% more damage and scaled everything as if everyone's using the top 2% of gear AND FUCKING SLAG, where it really blows.

Slag dependency was a buzz kill for me. I just.quit and waited for BL3

100% agree with all your points, ive started to shift towards BL3 recently as my favourite. The gameplay is just alot more solid and in my opinion fun, plus the end game is just alot more enjoyable with more to do, less restrictions and alot more loot/build variety.

4:22 Well well well, your prayers have been answered haha

Endgame always felt so unrewarding, aside from bragging rites. 😂

Well, if OP lvl10 is messed up, its not the original guys fault, its the ones who made BL3. What i would have loved to see in the Lilith DLC, is a Shredder like thing, like the one in Pre-Sequel. Would have loved if Zero's sniper build would be a bit better, atleast that stacking buff somewhat more easier for a more casual player and you wouldnt need to glitch it to make it usable.

The only thing I don't agree is normal mode being the best mode. I really don't think UVHM is as hard as people make it to be. I do agree with op levels being very unfair tho

7:14 community mod "BSABT" (better spawns and better travel) lets you fast travel from anywhere and its fantastic. Dont have to quit to menu and doesnt break the game in any way except saving you half a minute a thousand times

I love this game, doing an OP 10 full clear with my oldest son right now… but yeah, some of these things are SO frustrating. Locking gear behind mission rewards, not being able to repeat certain slaughter domes, the general disappointment of pearls, non skipable cutscenes, and how freaking FRUSTRATING it can be to play at higher OP levels are real issues.

My biggest problem with BL2 is slag and how its implemented in uvhm.

I genuinely didn’t even realize level cap was locked behind a paywall, had the game on Xbox then switched to a pc and obviously just bought all the dlc’s but the fact that a portion of a paid dlc is locked behind another paid dlc is insane to me

Playing Borderlands 2 rn, staying at lvl 80 which I recently hit.

My problem with BL2 how the massive difficulty spike on UVHM. Every encounter felt like a boss fight and it just became tedious. To the point where I just said "I'm done." Getting 2-3 shotted by normal mobs when I have legendary gear only a lvl or 2 below the enemies level was frustrating.

not skipping cutscenes would be cool if it only applied to ur first run

never played borderlands 2 but borderlands 3 is all i need

cloud kill is a perfect skill thats needed for maya lmao

I've been trying to get the achievements on borderlands 2 the last few day, I had only played beyond normal mode once with maya and wish I didn't have to because doing it with another character feel more like a chore, would have been better if enemies just started to scale to my level and especially if DLC did because doing one them cause you to be a few level highter than the main story but if you do them after finishing the story you end up with loots below your level (finished the story level 34). It's sad that you have no movement option, even the bandits can dodge-roll on the side.

Having a boss with 5+ items in the loots pool is fine IMO! I just think that each should be a 1/whatever instead of them stacking so only one can drop so it's like 1/60 to get what you want!! I should be able to get a flakker, volcano, and random ass relic in one go if I get pretty lucky!

Man I’ve been with this game since launch. Most of these are just things I’ve accepted but yeah a lot of the leveling stuff ain’t ideal. I’ll never stop playing this game. And you can ask my grandkids when I have em.

Sorry Ki11er had to report for misleading, Borderlands 2 is perfect (Im delusional and coping 😭🤣)

The biggest issue with engame especially uvhm is how unforgiving it is for casual player that just want to get to max level and not worry about meta of endgame stuff. All builds should be viable not just anarchy stacking etc

Bro chose to say something and that something was straight FIRE

At least they had work arounds. I just used a mule and quit farmed most uniques. Take your max rank Sal and level up the next character (I got good at killing crash test dummies). Deployed that strategy in spades for prequel. Now I slum wartrash and enjoy something good like Elden Ring.

There's also the mission where you have to search into skag poop in Lynchwood that's glitched (playing on PC). I always have to quit the game in order for this poop pile to be clickable. Plus : Movement feels clunky in lots od situations. There was no attention to details in the way Saly's skills ans weapon bonuses triggers or not on the left hand. Multiplicative and additive bonuses cannot be figured out in-game. The way crit bonuses are written on snipers's cards makes it uncomprehensible. Etc. The game is great, but it's not that greatly developped.

I completely agree with all the issues in Borderlands 2. For context, though, these things didn't feel like issues at time of launch, because Borderlands 2 improved on so much from Borderlands 1. Story was better, characters were more fleshed out, gameplay was smoother, load times improved tremendously, and overall, it just felt like the best looter shooter experience by a country mile. Of course, since then, other games, including the Pre-Sequel and BL3, came out, which helps us to retroactively look at BL2 in a different light and draw more accurate critiques and conclusions. Despite that, BL2 is still incredible, thanks especially to the incredible storytelling and Handsome Jack. For what it's worth, BL2 will still be heralded years later while we will find more reasons to not like BL3 if BL4 is better in every way, and that is thanks solely to Handsome Jack being one of the best villains in gaming history. Unless BL4 introduces a stronger villain than that, the series will continue to struggle with competing with BL2. I know many people don't like to admit this, but in a narrative title, story and characters are very important, and that's exactly where BL2 shines the brightest in the series.

Uvhm was a nightmare. I loved the game, I got super good at it and it was fun. The issue is I can’t use many fun builds because of balancing. Not to mention I can’t beat some raid bosses alone unless I have deputy Sal :(

It would be neat if instead of one individual movement option like jet packs or grapple hooks, it would be cooler if each vault hunter had a unique extra movement option. Maybe a grapple character, a wall running double jumping character, a jet pack guy and maybe a stealth character that can stick to walls and climbs with an addition of a stealth state of some sort.

What would somewhat solve the balance issues of endgame is actually optional difficultly increases, that have zero benefits besides the added challenge. Current bl2, BL3, and WLs "Best" loot is behind the highest difficulty the game offers instead of allowing players to get the best stuff at the level that they want to actually play the game. Taking the BL2 OP system and just not having OP level gear with balancing around that level of player power would be ideal for more of the playerbase than it currently sits at. The people that want to use the most broken items but still have some level of challenge can play on OP10 and people that just want a fun power fantasy get to play and farm the same "Best" gear in the game at the same time.

This is a great video explaining the problems of BL2, are you going to do on for TPS?

8:58 it all makes sense now. this happened to me so many times and the run all the way back there was so annoying.

One of the biggest issues I had with BL2 was no gore, and then after that, damage scaling was just awful. End-game, I prefer to feel OP. Regular mobs should not be a struggle to plough through at end-game. It's understandable if specific high-tier enemies, bosses and raid bosses are more difficult, but end-game BL2 is just straight up not fun unless you have specific builds, and loot.

I always hated having to slag to damage in UVHM.

My best friend loves Gaige, but has never taken her to max level, or even lvl 50. Hes never had to endure shooting that fuckin box in eridium blight to stack Anarchy, its insane to me how Gaige and Krieg are so forgotten in the grand scheme of the game.

I badly want to see a either, a blacksmith, where you can customise some of your weapon parts, or eight in game, like Cyclopedia of all the guns and who drops them

yeah i agree with everything in this vídeo, as someone who like to play with gaige o have a terrible time farming the fibber (because its the only weapon that works well without need to do a crazy farming) and get very disappointed with deathtrap being useless in end game plus the need to have anarchy to do a okay demage

As much as I love my rarities, I have a problem with BL2's implementation: Common: it's the stuff you use for early game. Uncommon: It's common but good. Why is it in the game? Rare: It's the end-game stuff for Normal Mode, but turns into filler after TVHM. Very Rare: the top-of-the-class normal stuff. No such thing as a bad VR weapon, but what comes after it is... Legendary: Bread-and-Butter of the Borderlands games. The unique and wacky weapons that EVERYONE is either using, or farming. Seraph: They're there... they're just harder-to-get Uniques. Unique: Not an official rarity, but they are the... unique non-Legendary/Pearlescent gear. A complete wildcard in performance. E-Tech: Garbage most of the time. Pearlescent: ...either ONE character specific, or just straight-up garbage that's there to let you showcase just how much you farm in the game, Butcher aside. It's very bloated, and GB could easily remove a couple of them for future titles. C-R-VR-U-L-P is my ideal rarity system, and Unique isn't _really_ a rarity, more like an outlier of an already-existing rarity that's below L/P. And while we're at it, Pearlescents shouldn't be weak. At all. In my opinion, weapons like BL2's UH, Norfleet, etc., and BL3's Plasma-Coil, Hellwalker, Soul-Render, etc., ARE Pearls. They're the best, bar-none, no matter what. They should outclass and outshine everything else that isn't on their rarity, but they should be hard to get. Like Norfleet-level hard to get.

i loved the BL2 Progging and the OP levels. Felt more fun imo plus i play modded to save some time in certain things. Exodus has been a blast but I havent got to end game yet. Ive been enjoying it more than BL3 tbh. Need to farm dlc 5 some more tho

You can start a boosted character at lvl 30 and have to do the warrior fight. So your first playthrough is not required anymore ... They could build on that.

still cant play OP levels with my buddy to this day. got the DLC pack way back in the day that was supposed to have the ability to play all content, but at some point in time it became separate and i can no longer play the full content of the game with my friend unless I buy that specific dlc. At least BL2 isnt a complete cakewalk like BL3

STV is one of my biggest gripes about Borderlands 2. I love Axton, but Grit is busted, I like running a +6 Grit Pointman COM, but with the base 20% chance to survive at max points it seems like a 95% chance to proc instead. Meanwhile the massive mountain of muscle and flesh has a 12% chance to self hit (which usually health gates in OP levels) is seen way more than the regular melee.

One last thing, why the lvl multiplier is só high? 13% per levei os horrible, when the games was on lvl50 was Fine, but Now with lvl 80 (or 90 with Op levels) the numbes get almost unreadble

Are you planning on doing an eww for borderlands 1 and pre-sequel as well?