Borderlands 4 RARITY & GEARING Could Be Crazy! (Glitch & More)

[@lootunlocked]

If we can't find pearlescent weapons in skag piles in Borderlands 4, is it really a Borderlands game.

[@WayOfTheZombie]

You sound just like that technology channel guy

[@megagreatgodlywhiteshark2929]

Glitch-E-tech hybrids should be a new gun/rarity type in bL4 lol

[@SpottedHares]

I'm less concerned about what special color they have on loot and more concerned about the balancing and stat deviation as a major issue with BL3 is that legendary gear has very little stat deviation while also having just much better stats as well. It resulted in BL3 having a lot of loot on paper buy the reality was such much more was junk to the point it felt like it had less.

[@ayejay2688]

glitch, effervescent and cursed weapons are instant contenders for me as they are unique & a bit more powerful than legendary's when it comes to pearls tho, i feel like the idea of pearls was cool for it's time but just having them for the sake of having them be a rarer legendary, isn't it what we really need is for pearls to be hybrids instead, like imagine finding a norfleat that has like 3 potential hybrid variants all with fixed parts, not only is the chase going to be there because they are rare asf but you also don't feel scammed on a drop because it got a bad part you don't want

[@ethanshaffer8591]

Pearlescent weapens should have a cyan star like the bl3 legendary guns did

[@gadrielvanorion9872]

i think we need both pearl and seraph and i explain why u should MOSTLY build and run with purple and legendary, having either big stats or overall normal legendaries blue uniques may be gimmick guns like the hive twister or fiber that CAN be rly strong pearls should be world drop items that are INCREDIBLY rare bl1 did those rly well they also should be RLY strong, i want them to MELT enemies, and with a high rariuty and the correct system they can range from ASS to GOD gear dear ask the ass thumper tsunami vs the GOD HX tsunami seraphs should be a special rarity for raidboss loot this seperates these from legendaries, AND they can have things like VHs skills for artifacts, unique boosts to stats, or interesting remix kinda guns as the interfacer to the conference call you should be able to farm them reliably, BUT the boss in question that drops them or the crystals should be rly hard to justify their power

[@gareth6956]

Pearls should not be world drops, they should be excessively rare. their effect needs to be unique they dont necessarily need to be the best but something like the Tsunami was on of the coolest weapons in bl1, made it worth getting. In BL1 the pearls are tied to badass enemies in the 4th DLC, not sure exactly but say the undertaker is tied to ultimate badass lance, so you will get it like a world drop but you can also focus farm for them.

[@Dvdh2903]

Bring back Midgets

[@gareth6956]

@@Dvdh2903 as an alternative to the insane bl3 world drops

[@DesignsElement]

I think one of the main reasons we wont see more rarities is because it's overall a bad idea. If Bl2's pearls were crazy op or just better than legendaries, then most of the time builds would revolve around that small loot pool of weapons. Say you had 2 pearls of each weapon class in Bl4 and they were all stronger then legendaries, you're just creating the unkept harold/norfleet saga again. Sure Bl3 has some really OP weapons but generally there is far more build diversity than the previous games. I'd much rather have a really fleshed out legendary tier, then multiple tiers and a unbalanced nightmare. Now if they created a pearl tier but it was the godroll of a legendary or similar stats to god roll legendaries then that's another story. Fixed parts but lower drop chance vs legendaries with multiple parts/attachments. So technically a god roll legendary is as strong as a pearl. You don't reduce the viable weapon pool as much then.

[@warlock412]

We need loot specific bosses like bl2 and hella easter eggs and hidden areas with special bosses giving us a reason to comeback and grind basically what remnant 2 did right

[@joancavallesivera1100]

One of the key parts of uniques in diablo 4 is that they have fixed stats, making pearlescent rarity weapons (or other gear even) have always fixed parts would be dope so you would always get the best version of it. Hypothetically, if you made a super rare rarity, but made it so you could get sub-optimal parts/stats, it could feel really bad, i think fixed parts is the way to go. Additionally i think a glitch-like(glitch worked because of the DLC theme, you could make something equivalent) rarity, could be a way to make non-legendary guns relevant, by making it so legendaries can't get the "glitch" enhancement (or maybe very few can), so end game builds are not all legendary.

[@gadrielvanorion9872]

this insantly goes against borderlands as a franchise and also means the guns cannot rly be allowed to be STRONG bl1 had a wild mix of ASS variations and GOD variations a good tsunami or serpents ANNIHILATE shit a thumper will rly do nothing much the closer you get to fixed guns the closer you get to guns that can easily be ass either way or HAVE to be nerfed cuz the community will cry its too strong or something like that

[@joancavallesivera1100]

@@gadrielvanorion9872 I see what you mean, i agree kind of? But i personally don't want pearlescents to be just legendaries but another colour and rarer just because. I feel like there should be something fundamentally different about them, i dont know what. As an example of what i mean, glitch, effervescent and curse uniques from bl2 have fundamentally different mechanics, i'd like pearlescents to be the same.

[@AzoreanProud]

Wouldn't that mean B2 didn't have memory problems?

[@AmekoElite]

Bonus rarities as a whole are almost entirely pointless as the rarity system in Bl has been like 70-80% cosmetic as far back as Bl1 (hell in Bl1 it's 100% cosmetic), Seraphs, Pearls, Effervescents in Bl2 are straight up Legendary but a different color not to mention the fact that Legendaries in Bl2 are in themselves functionality purple uniques.

[@timbahr1792]

Only need pearlescent to return. Glitch needs to stay in pre-sequel cause those were terrible

[@realadelphstar]

Bl3 missed the mark

[@AzoreanProud]

Yeah, basically avoiding the B3 system is mandatory, even wonderlands was better.

[@joshjeffrey3044]

Would anyone else be comfortable having less legendaries overall BUT making them more powerful? I know stopped being excited by legendary drops in 3 because they were so common, as opposed to Borderlands 1 or even 2 where if I got a legendary drop I would immediately check it out. I think less legendaries BUT increased power

[@SpottedHares]

so take the worse part of BL3 legendary and throw away the best part?