WARNING: Contains major spoiler.
Contents:
1. Chest FAQ.
2. Chest Location (with farming route)
3. Hidden Chest screenshots.
4. Loot Midget FAQ.
5. Loot Midget Location (with farming route)
6. Quest Rewards.
7. NON-Quest Rewards.
Background info:
Q: What is Chest farming?
A: All of you know about boss farming i.e. repeated killing of a boss till he drops the desired loot. Chest farming is the repeated opening of a chest till you find some quality gear.
Q: Why is Chest farming necessary?
A: In B2, one can easily find loot upto blue rarity but purple (rare), pink (e-tech) and orange (legendary) are extremely rare. Boss farming is not recommended unless you hit PT3 as you’ll get XP that will level you up unnecessary and there is no guarantee if a boss will drop his gun in any less number of kills.
Secondly, the number of legendary shield and grenade mods is way too less compared to the number of guns. If you want a better shield, you’ll have to check vending machine or chests.
Lastly, relics mainly drop from badass enemies and that also at rare times. Chests have really high chance of containing relics along with eridium bars.
Q: What kind of chests are worth farming?
A: Red chest (referred simply as red), bandit truck chest (bandit), dahl red chest (dahl) and hyperion red chest (hyperion) are likely to contain blue rarity items and constantly give out purple or even legendary gear at times. Toilets, green dahl, silver chest, yellow hyperion weapon locker, etc contains mostly white to green rarity items and are not worth farming.
Q: When is a chest farmable?
A: Most chests in the game are well protected and require killing your way to reach them. This gives you lot of XP and is time consuming. Chest which are not protected or protected by weak enemies (like varkrids) that can be ignored and doesn’t take more than a couple of minutes are farmable.
Also, chest that contain higher level weaponry compared to your current gear are worth farming. Usually a 5 level difference is recommended in PT1 so as not to waste time farming for gear that is marginally better than your current ones.
Red: Red chest (silver chest are ignored)
Dahl: Dahl red chest (green dahl chest are ignored)
Bandit: Bandit trunk chest (toilets are ignored)
Hyperion: Hyperion red chest (yellow weapon locker are ignored)
Loot Midget FAQ:
Q: What is a Midget?
A: Midgets are replica of the normal enemies (humans) in B2 but smaller in size and have much less health and no shield. They appear in all areas populated by bandits.
Q: What is Loot Midget?
A: Loot midgets are identical to midgets but with a backpack where loot is stuffed up. Upon death, the loot gets scattered around that can be looted. Loot midgets are considered badass by the game and encountering one, the player may speak out a Badass quote (like “badass incoming”). Also they have health comparable to that of badass sometimes even suppressing them making them some of the most deadly enemies in the game. Unlike midgets, Loot midget can be of both fraction: bandit and hyperion, with hyperion including Loot Loader and Loot Engineer.
Q: What is Loot Midget farming?
A: Loot midgets have really high chance of dropping legendary (average of 1 drop in 20 kills) items when killed. They can drop almost all legendary items found in the base game including guns, shields, grenade mods, class mods. But unlike midgets, Loot midget spawn only in some selected location and rarely encountered. But given the legendary drop chance they are worth farming.
Q: Where Loot midgets are found?
A: Loot midgets are usually found hiding in cash, ammo locker, dumpster and even toilets. They jump out as soon as the object is opened and attack with guns. Like normal bandits and enemies, creatures as well as Goliath (with helmet knocked off) will attack them if they get too close to them.
The following are legendary that Loot Midget can't drop: Any item having Terramorphous name associated with it, Flame of the Firehawk (mission reward, once per playthrough), Ogre, Norfleet, Longbow, Fire Storm, Chain Lightning.
Quest Rewards:
The following are some of the best items you'll come across in the entire game and comparable to Legendary items. Don't throw them away unless you are absolutely sure you won't be needing them anymore as these can only be obtained once per playthough.
Mission: Cult Following: The Enkindling
Reward: Flame of the Firehawk (LEGENDARY incendiary nova shield)
Importance: Continuously throws out fire nova so long the shield is empty, even if the player gets crippled (FFYL mode).
Mission: You Are Cordially Invited: Tea Party
Reward: Teapot (pistol)
Importance: Burst fire with high corrosive damage. Bullets explode on impact.
Mission: Won't Get Fooled Again
Reward: Law (pistol)
Importance: 100% melee. Regenerate health when melee with Order shield.
Mission: Bandit Slaughter Dome: Round 5
Reward: Miss Moxxi's Hail (assault rifle)
Importance: High damage and critical hit, bullets follow a curved trajectory, restores 3% health on damage.
Mission: Best Mother's Day Ever
Reward: Love Thumper (maylay shield)
Importance: When shield is depleted melee attacks throws out explosive nova.
Mission: The Overlooked: This is Only a Test
Reward: Deadly Bloom (explosive nova shield)
Importance: Throws out explosive nova when shield is down as well as when in FFYL mode.
Mission: Clan War: Zafords vs Hodunks
Reward: Chulainn (SMG)
Importance: Slag and shock at same time, slags the wielder if holds for more than a couple of seconds.
Mission: Safe And Sound
Reward: Miss Moxxi's Heart Breaker (shotgun, if given to Moxxi)
Importance: High accuracy and burn damage, returns 2% health.
Mission: Animal Rights
Reward: Tresspasser (sniper rifle)
Importance: Ignores shield.
Mission: Creature Slaughter Dome: Round 5
Reward: Miss Moxxi's Creamer (rocket launcher)
Importance: Really high damage, rockets split into 2 after certain distance, health returned on damage.
Mission: Rakkaholics Anonymous
Reward: Miss Moxxi's Rubi (pistol, if given to Moxxi)
Importance: Heals the wielder with 12% of all damage dealt (inc melee, shooting with the pistol, grenade).
Mission: Hell Hath No Fury
Reward: Miss Moxxi's Kiss of Death (transfusion grenade)
Importance: Stick to enemy dealing damage over time and immediately restores health.
Mission: BFFs
Reward: Order (maylay shield)
Importance: Melee with Law pistol returns health.
Mission: The Bane
Reward: Bane (SMG)
Importance: Really high specs but makes crazy shouts.
Mission: Demon Hunter
Reward: Buffalo (sniper rifle)
Importance: Scopeless, exceptionally high gun damage and critical hit damage.
Mission: The Lost Treasure
Reward: Dahlminator (E-tech pistol)
Importance: Really high damage for an E-tech pistol.
Mission: The Chosen One
Reward: Evil Smasher (assault rifle)
Importance: random buff when reloading increases gun potential that affects other equipped guns too.
Mission: A Real Boy: Human
Reward: Fibber (pistol)
Importance: This gun spawn with 3 different barrels giving it different abilities (bullets bounces of surface and divide into multiple pellets if it comes with some 5-6 digit damage, bullets follow an arc with exceptional critical hit damage if the damage value is 2-3 digit, shotgun like burst with slow bullet speed if the value has X1 as suffix). First type of barrel is most sought after. Third barrel is completely useless.
Mission: Uncle Teddy
Reward: Lady Fist (pistol)
Importance: Exceptionally high critical hit damage.
NON-Quest Rewards:
The following are items that are not related to any quest. Some of these can be found by killing Loot Midgets or random loot source.
Gun: Miss Moxxi’s Good/Bad Touch (rare SMG)
Source: In Moxxi’s bar in sanctuary is a jar, tip her around $5k to get the Bad Touch SMG. Keep adding money upto $20k and she’ll give another gun, Good Touch SMG. Bad Touch can only be acquired once as further tipping will give only Good Touch SMG of higher level.
Gun: Unkempt Harold (legendary pistol)
Source: A bandit named Savage Lee may appear in Three Horns Divide playing with bullymongs. Once killed, he has a chance to drop the legendary pistol, Unkempt Harold.
Gun: Blockhead (unique shotgun) & Longbow (legendary sniper)
Source: During the mission Minecraft Mischief, just right of where the minecraft is parked lie a cave with a block looking wall which can be broken down with melee. Inside lies a new enemy type known as creeper. Once the smaller ones are dealt with, a single badass creeper will appear which when killed has a chance to drop the unique shotgun, Blockhead as well as the legendary sniper, Longbow.
Gun: Gwen’s Head (unique pistol)
Source: Various locations in The Dust appear a parcel inside is a pistol. Most easy to spot are inside Elle’s garage near the right entrance or Lynchwood train station.
Gun: Deliverance (legendary shotgun)
Source: In WEP, a skag may appear named Tumbaa which when killed has a chance to drop this gun.
Gun: Badaboom (legendary rocket launcher)
Source: In Eridium Blight a gigantic bullymong may appear near the entrance to Arid Nexus Boneyard or Hero’s Pass when killed may drop this item.
Gun: Nukem (legendary rocket launcher)
Source: In The Dust, just past the Church where Gettle and Mobley is fought a giant Black spiderant may appear when killed may drop this rocket launcher.
Gun: Bone Shredder (rare SMG)
Source: If you have played Borderlands1, you need no further explanation. For others, when in Arid Nexus Badlands during the mission “Get to know Jack” you’ll need to collect an ECHO recorder from a smaller camp adjacent to Fyrestone. A loader named Bone Head 2.0 will be found which when killed may drop this gun.
Gun: Lascaux (unique SMG)
Source: During the mission Hunting the Firehawk, just before the 3rd bloodshot sign is a path to the left side. The gun can be found buried in a frozen pond.
Gun: Bunny (legendary rocket launcher)
Source: Dropped by Chubby enemies. Chubby varkrids spawn from Badass or Superbadass pod.
Shield: Transformer (legendary shield)
Source: Near Tumbaa may appear a stalker named Pimon which when killed may drop the legendary absorption shield, Transformer.
Shield: Whisky Tango Foxtrot (legendary shield)
Source: Dropped by Chubby enemies. Chubby varkrids spawn from Badass or Superbadass pod.
Re: Borderlands 2 Chest (farming) Guide
+rep for this awesome guide.
What is your steam id?
Re: Borderlands 2 Chest (farming) Guide
best chest farming guide out there.
may be because you chose the hellborn tree? i'm quite happy with mania though.
full on hellborn. and its kind of fun but only problem is the RPG guys which blows me up almost everytime. from tomorrow it'll be UVHM with both Krieg and Axton.
hmm..ok can you tell me about this ..ï noticed krieg sacrificing his own life while reviving someone, he goes into fight for life mode instantly reviving the player,or light the fuse mode if u have chosen, while most of the times i press E near a dying co-player, but its not consistent, the player does get the normal revive treatment too at times. am in a hurry or missing something in the skill tree. would be glad if you please highlight.