![]() ![]() Yes, just because we managed to get the first item to drop, does not give us the right to cheat and dupe the item. ![]() What were the chances of another exact Legendary Siren class mod dropping (and not Legendary class mods for the five other classes that we did not really want)? It was an extremely lucky turn of events, and unfortunately, we didn’t want to waste even more time farming for a second one. The biggest irony of all was that the Legendary class mod dropped from a random trash mob, and not from Pete the Invincible, the boss that we had farmed for about 30+ times before that. It is unquestionably the best class mod for Maya, and would be absolutely indispensable for Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, the game’s third and hardest playthrough difficulty which we were planning to pursue. This allows Maya to cast Phaselock more often, and deal higher damage for all of her weapons. It grants +5 skill points to several Tier 1 skills (all of them useful for the Siren), a hefty cooldown rate bonus (mine was +38%), and a gun damage modifier (mine was +24% damage). The item that I wanted to dupe, was a friend’s Legendary Siren class mod, a level 50 Legendary item. The problem is so prevalent that a trading group was formed in the Gearbox forums to ensure that all loot traded among players in the group was legitimate. ![]() Duped items in Borderlands 2 are actually very common - if you have ever traded for a Legendary with another player you found on an online forum, there is a very high chance that the item was duped along the way. Why is this a problem? It’s cheating, plain and simple, because you are exploiting a loophole in the game’s system to perform something that was never intended by the developers. This saves you time of having to spend hours re-farming all over again and re-rolling the stats each time the unique dropped. The point of duping, is to replicate the best possible stats for a unique item you had. Combine this with the different possible elemental permutations and item prefixes, and you will very rarely see the same unique weapon dropping with the exact same stats. Unfortunately, Borderlands 2 always requires you to roll for the stats of any items that drop. As long as it dropped, you would be getting the single, best possible version of that unique. Some RPG games, such as Torchlight II, always have fixed stats for all of their unique items. HOWEVER, getting the item to drop isn’t enough - you still had to pray that the item has good stats that were suitable for your character build. The drop rates for a specific unique item are usually higher from a particular boss monster - therefore if you wanted to farm for the item, you would keep killing the same baddie over and over again until you got the item you wanted. If you have ever played any similar loot-dropping RPG games, such as the older Diablo II, then you should understand the concept of the loot generator, or random number generator (RNG). ![]() I still feel quite bad about it, and hopefully by writing my thoughts down it will give me some mental closure.ĭisclaimer: I will not disclose the exact method of how to perform an item dupe in Borderlands 2, because it is an act that I absolutely do not condone under normal circumstances. I have thought very long and hard about my reasons, and none of them are truly justifiable. I cheated the game and resorted to item duping. I will re-post the entire article here on my WordPress to make it easier for any of my interested readers (if any) to write their replies:Īfter more than 260 hours spent in Borderlands 2, it finally happened. I resorted to cheating in Borderlands 2, and blogged about it at No Game No Talk. ![]()
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