How to reliably get good gear in Borderlands 2:

[Frizan]

Slot machines. All day every day.

No, seriously, most of my higher-end gear came from the fucking slot machines at Moxi's. Almost everything I get from actually playing the game sucks ass.

[Kill Bones]

Alternatively, you can just turn on a second controller, load in a second profile into your game with splitscreen, and you get a free 10 golden keys to use on that chest in Sanctuary that gives purple tier weapons that are better than pretty much everything else in the game. You can even remove the splitscreen player and have them rejoin for another 10 keys and do this infinitely until the chest gives you the exact guns you want.

[Frizan]

Kill Bones said
Alternatively, you can just turn on a second controller, load in a second profile into your game with splitscreen, and you get a free 10 golden keys to use on that chest in Sanctuary that gives purple tier weapons that are better than pretty much everything else in the game. You can even remove the splitscreen player and have them rejoin for another 10 keys and do this infinitely until the chest gives you the exact guns you want.

Seriously? Never knew that at all. It seems like a really easy way to break the(albeit already broken) system. I might try that some time.

It'd certainly solve my problem of getting 78% junk gear while out looting.

[Kill Bones]

Use at your own risk. It's honestly what killed my interest in the game because it very quickly got to the point where NOTHING was as good as what I was already using, not even orange tier shit

And that kind of ruins one of the entire points of the game

[Frizan]

Yeah, that's true. It does feel pretty good to finally get a good gun after sifting through piles of skag vomit.

Speaking of skag vomit piles, I've found that I find a lot of player customization things when I break open skag piles/bullymong crystals/etc. I now make it a point to break every single one of those things when I see them.

[Kill Bones]

A bunch of the good player customization shit drops at like 1% from bosses which is complete bullshit

Like, maybe if it was something useful I'd get why they made it that way, but I'm not farming a boss for a fucking cosmetic item that's dumb

[Frizan]

One percent for a cosmetic???? The damn drop rates on bosses are absurdly low anyway! Like seriously, Captain Flynt has NO business having the rare drop rates he has. Especially since the nearest fast-travel station to him is in Liar's Burg.

[Darog the Badger God]

True Vault Hunter Mode is a good way of getting loot and some of the rare Customization pieces I've found,

[aza]

I wish I still liked that game.