Top 10 Worst Red Text Guns and Weapons to Farm in Borderlands 2

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Hey guys, New Borderlands countdown and today I wanted to go over 10 of what I think are some of the Worst Red Text Guns and Weapons to Farm in Borderlands 2! As always, let me know what some of your worst Red Text Guns and Weapons are!
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[@Paulunatr]

Pot O' Gold fix: Keep the stats and drop rate the same, but have it drop a chunk of Eridium instead of a wad of money.

[@surike]

make it have a small chance to drop a crazy amount of money or eridium and wads come flying from it like in the slot machines

[@jaysonwithay2347]

Paulunatr how about in ultimate vault hunter mode, let it drop seraph crystals

[@viperprecision6001]

Robloxlegend420 XD k

[@haydenmcqueen2503]

That would remove the point of farming raid bosses

[@krausercruz2780]

ooooor maybe make it so it instead doesnt give shields but boost HP and every time you take damage it has a chance to drop a lot of money. Or OR it gives you like 15%-20% damage resistance and that damage resisted will be turned into money that drops.

[@littleoffthetop3055]

I love how most of the guns on this list he’s talking bad about and he’s melting everything with them 😂

[@batz102]

Grognozzle

[@littleoffthetop3055]

batz10 most viable builds in end game require grognozzle or at the least the ruby. So it’s still working like the rest of the builds

[@batz102]

@@littleoffthetop3055 I mean he is using tge grognozzle with them

[@the_antag0nist841]

@@batz102 then explain the zer0 clips

[@batz102]

@@the_antag0nist841 easy difficulty

[@JohnyMCness]

pot of gold fix: when you pick up money you regenerate shields, aka make it use money as booster packs

[@black-onyx]

Slightly late but... I like that idea, as you'd then be compelled to run over loot stacks to feed shields more quickly, or open loot crates but leave them untouched when going up against something tougher should they be needed - you're "buying" boosters. A combination of the two could also work: varying chances of drops (see @bismoose5444's suggestion, higher up) and picking up dropped cash gives an immediate shield boost without having to wait for the recharge delay. Of course, this means dropping Euridium gives no boost, and players can choose between gradual advancements to keep the shield topped up, or ducking to cover and leaving the loot there for reserve boosters if needed later.

[@clovervicquemare2389]

Stinkpot carried me through my first playthrough lol

[@BadDrummerCarl]

IMO The elephant gun should be a 1 shot kill gun, like the damage should be 5 times what it is even with the drawbacks it should just be an insta kill on a crit except badass enemies

[@michelangelo5903]

Not Hitler I agree I always thought it was super underwhelming gun in BL1 it was a throw-away gun in my opinion

[@jaysonwithay2347]

It is... in borderlands one

[@l0sts0ul89]

@@jaysonwithay2347 You sure?

[@aaronsams8605]

Especially true because if you look at a real elephant gun they use massive bullets, the one in game should be able to easily chunk health away from even the strongest enemies on crit. I dont think it needs a scope or better iron sights because then you actually have to aim to kill things fast.

[@JAYDOG1337A]

I like the Gwen's Head, I just hate trying to farm all the different versions

[@Insanitydesigns]

JAYDOG1337A I know same it's a pain in the fucking ass

[@nonbiri8904]

I Always got it from Ellies like everytime I go to The Dust

[@teemupulli5277]

Mavusi Kenpachi i found it thousands times

[@dannyboi2819]

it's really easy the places it can spawn.

[@mistermccoolface1361]

JAYDOG1337A yeah that sucks. it took me like a year to get the right one.

[@yoyorobii]

Puma:ChoPPeR iS trAsH Also puma:shreds everything with it

[@toddtaylor8368]

Yeah but he was playing as Sal, which is the only character who can regenerate ammo, Dumbass!!!

[@zanespringer6171]

They should've made Rex and the Unforgivin mashers

[@shade4297]

unforgiven is better only cos it has a higher firerate, extra crit boost and damage then a rex of the same level. that and at least the Unforgiven tells you it doesnt fire as fast as you pull the trigger

[@zanespringer6171]

You're missing the point, they need Masher revolvers

[@bradlo]

Shade Flare Teh Shadow Neko masher barrels are basically shotgun barrels on pistols. they were in bl1 and they were very good. the closest thing to a masher barrel in bl2 was the Maggie

[@TwistyFreshNips]

Theres a mod on GitHub that replaces dual pellet pistols into mashers

[@surike]

The Rex should have the same fire rate 13.0 or so. and higher base damage so it would be better than a normal Non-Unique Jakobs pistol.

[@n1nsen666]

I don't like the lightning bolt, but damn is it awesome hearing Krieg shout "LIGHTNING BOLT!" when he uses it

[@jordannewthomas3293]

It's a good meme reference at the very least.

[@mikey9504]

Vinylic it's so awesome that you still make borderlands videos and impressive that you haven't even ran out of ideas yet

[@sadchild7428]

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!?!?!

[@nates.9260]

GEAR!!!!!

[@usedplaystation3camera619]

Sad Child a boat load of AYESSSSS

[@colejohnson615]

Gwens head

[@b-pascokeithjaybep.5442]

Sad Child k

[@hellfire92837]

HOW MUCH IS THE BOX WORTH?

[@TheSteam02]

I actually quite like the standard lightning bolt mod.

[@buttpiratesbuttpirate5913]

It's not inherently awful, but once you got a Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt is bad in comparison

[@HUTZKIKLON]

Exactly! Just gunzerk and act like you're Darth Sidious ^^

[@ItsVenti]

Me too

[@swapertxking]

A fix to the pot’o’gold could very well be whenever your shields finish recharging they’d guarantee dropped cash equal to exactly how much shields you lost up to the shield capacity.

[@Jakkomies]

I was greatly surprised that you didn't include Moxxi's crit. I heard losing your weapon while fighting is sub-optimal.

[@Dandramere]

I have a scopeless 50 stinkpot and it carried me well into UVHM because of it's awesome base damage, it's great for put down easy to hit medium range damage down. But the lack of crit really makes it weak quickly.

[@witchfinda]

Next video: "Top Ten Red-Text References"

[@manny2395]

I wish the patch was for console to. I want to farm for a grog

[@ferragamodurag]

NCR TROOPER Everyone here has enough money to build a PC that will run games on anything other than potato settings, yes.

[@posswazere4238]

Heh.... I have the actual gun version of the grog not the mission item

[@NexhiAlibias]

Manny Fontanes Gibbed?

[@matthewcolquhoun8486]

I have a bladed lv47 grog nozzle on ps4 cant recall my psn as I'm away from home but when I get back I could dupe it for you

[@hunterrhoden2980]

I just save and quit till I get a acceptable version

[@whensomethingcriesagain]

The Gwen's Head is one of my favorites in the game, especially before you get the Lady Fist. That critical hit bonus really makes the weapon, it gives you room to dish out a ton of damage to enemies with large critical hit spots like bosses and loaders

[@dizzylilthing]

TBH I love the chopper

[@VinylicPumaGaming]

I wish it didn't consume quite as much ammo and had higher base damage.

[@scriptskitty5371]

Ethan Layher I like the Rex a bit and the Buffalo and elephant gun

[@estonedreveldo735]

same here it would be my fav if it had higher base damage and reduce ammo consumption

[@surike]

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyy axeman

[@surike]

agreed.

[@LilithLonelyHeart]

Speaking of Rex and Elephant gun I've noticed that they are really good mid-range no scope shoots like felt way more accurate without aiming them than when actually aiming so even if they're meant to powerful be single shots they might be really good when your character can dish a lot of damage in melee while complementing melee with some no scope shots from these

[@SlowerIsFaster139]

wouldnt a lyuda be ideal for critical ascension? because of the increased projectile count? or does critical ascension just grant a max of one stack per shot fired?

[@johnk.7523]

Gwens Head is one of my favorites for the early game.

[@michelangelo5903]

I always loved the anarchy SMGs in BL1 the steel anarchy was awesome! -62 bullets per mag -4 shots fired every time it was just a death machine at shorter ranges and I used a level 25 one all the way up to 38-40 because is was just that good it has been a long time but I remember it being amazing

[@stupidloser2714]

I heartily disagree with the Hydra pick. Absolutely amazing on shotgun Zero, and puts in the work on loaders.

[@grandduelslover3055]

There is no such build, your probably doing so on normal mode, which a white shotgun is pretty good in.

[@infbrynd]

@@grandduelslover3055 all these people sleeping on deputy sal

[@jasonroy671]

I agree with all this it'd be really nice to see a community patch for the Com SMG it's such a beautiful weapon!! I think if they uped critical dam and accuracy to at least better then a regular purple hyperion SMG with the same parts! I also think if they up the element damage for it as well would be amazing or maybe make it shoot lighting bolts! like the pistol from the pre sequel

[@nyako4108]

If you are playing as Zer0 and have the accelarete skill and you fire the unkempt harrold the projectiles form a line very quickly making it less affective unless you're close to the target, but in some cases like fighting bunker its not that bad since the bunker is big a close to you

[@greatsucces5775]

Uhm the Bain smg ... is good? Like I dunno help

[@melissapavek2346]

The Bane makes me in-sane

[@tdt97]

Just got home from school and got a awesome video for me :3

[@Kola25_97]

The Lightning Bolt is somewhat better if you have invested in Salvador's "Double Your Fun" skill.

[@Cuestrupaster]

No.

[@acey6991]

Alex 5432 Yes.

[@laughinwillow]

Acey Moo Nyes

[@Neon-yj9xw]

Or Axton's Steady skill with a good Grenadier mod

[@alexciawood]

What grenade mod are you using in all of your clips?

[@estonedreveldo735]

can you do a vid on the guns you use just when you are just playing i'm really curious what your skag smg is?

[@eslow12]

Dude. I want you to know. I was a huge fan of yoteslaya before he died. You are a great KZbinr my dude and I appreciate your vids in my feed.

[@dillonhansen3839]

Wow puma your gaining subs pretty quick and imagine when borderlands 3 comes out you"ll sky rocket up man

[@jciarkowski3109]

I just noticed your Zer0 build, do you use a turtle shield with a sniper com?

[@Maybe_Its_Keira]

what is the gun in his right hand at 6:45?

[@dandydolphin64]

I actually like the stinkpot. It's a good weapon at a low level due to the damage

[@matthewhull8282]

Who remembers the Whitting's Elephant Gun from the first game? That Elephant gun was better, accuracy, damage, and maybe fire rate.

[@qizip2856]

BL:TPS best red-text guns plz

[@danielcarevskij7002]

Ur videos are awesome keep up the good work

[@elliotbarton5606]

how do you make Axton walk fast. when you were playing the stinkpot

[@bonksawman4392]

You make these guns look so good

[@afellowvaulthunter6019]

with the pot of gold shield, cant u just get a realllyyyy low lvl explosive rifle and shoot the ground around u for some free cash? ooooo especially with sal and his ammo regen? or is the percentage too low to do that aswell?

[@purplesus8647]

What does the daddy I want that rifle text mean for the legendary assault rifle that you get from gettle or mobley

[@DragonbIaze052]

The Veruc Assault Rifle is based on Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She's the spoiled girl that says, "Daddy, I want that _____!"

[@joesneesby5807]

Anyone come across a glitch where sms do all elemental damage types?

[@sandscavver3604]

The Rex is less of a pistol and more of a weak sniper with more ammo in concept- high damage, low fire rate- but has the chance to spawn WITHOUT A SCOPE

[@speedpants8915]

what is better the lady fist or the tidal wave (for salvador)

[@OlaftheGreat]

I actually got the stinkpot on my first try. I loved it, because Jakobs gun with an elemental capacitor was nuts

[@mastergame1311]

By the way - is there any good way to spend money later in the game? Me and my friend are only using it for buying ammo and on jackpots.

[@Spartan375X]

It's good for when you come across a legendary or perfect parts item in a vending machine.

[@thefallenjeans3051]

mastergame1311 just spend it on ammo, use the regenerating grenades from the tiny Tina dlc to regenerate your grenade ammo, and you are good. Don't spend it on jackpots, just do quests for quest rewards or just farm bosses, it's much easier to get legendaries that way.

[@acey6991]

If you do a lot of farming, check the vendors while doing so. You can get world drops from them, otherwise there really no need other then buying ammo. But it's easy enough to just scavenge for it.

[@doughdeeznutz3734]

I was wondering i have the handsom version so do i get every dlc?

[@acey6991]

Doughdeez Nutz yep. The pre sequel only has two play through dlcs though.

[@crabby648]

What machine gun are you using in the start ???

[@QuestHeel]

The Commerce does its job taking out shields like the Cyber Eagle so it's more like an effect weapon like the Slagga. The Gwen's Head is one of my main guns on UVHM because you can get it at will along with the Lasaux and is also just as effective. If you find a corrosive version, you can combat buzzards and most bots easily with it. I agree with everything else though.

[@captaincornchips7122]

What grenade mod do you use ?

[@frosttone1026]

Post a video called top 10 or 5 weapons for second winds

[@mrsurprise2294]

Blackhole, quasar if you are using Axton and have that skill that enables using grenades in ffyl and baby maker

[@greyclydesdale]

second wind? tunguska

[@mrsurprise2294]

With the patch I guess so

[@dovahben8103]

That's what Tiedior is for. fire one bullet and just throw the gun.

[@xypherus777]

Ok lets see... 5. Norfleet 4. Norfleet 3. Norfleet 2. Norfleet 1. Norfleet

[@lonelywolf8734]

And why you are using green droog to stack CA instead of purple droog and you can reduce stinkpot recoil if you have dahl stock instead of jakobs stock

[@thatguy6171]

I love how all the weapons on this list you're not doing half bad with but "they suck"

[@mrsurprise2294]

He prob means for the majority of the characters

[@maxvolostnov7152]

Bane

[@jciarkowski3109]

max volostnov technically I would say that it isn't a "farmable" weapon unless you finish the quest and turn it in multiple times for the right parts

[@surike]

Its a Quest reward, not farmable from a boss.

[@donutzforlife5569]

HOLY SHIT SURIKE!?!?

[@xypherus777]

max volostnov its a quest reward tho :l

[@killerdragon4026]

How to fix 1. NO MORE EAR RAPE 2. Doesn't slow you down 3. EVERYTHING ELSE

[@catuluj4385]

I actually really like gwen's head, since it will mostly beat any gun you have by the time you reach the dust in normal mod. Same for the commerce, they are supposed to be nice starting weapons (in my opinion)

[@timeforgottenprince8271]

The Rex maybe impractical AF to use, but boy do I find it satisfying seeing big numbers float away after scoring a headshot. Very. Satisfying.

[@astrofish6163]

great vid keep up the good work

[@edcellwarrior]

What's the purple and orange weapon being used at 15:00?

[@ttr_coco]

edcellwarrior the slow hand, an E-Tech moxxi shotgun. It's actually pretty good but you need the practicable prefix for extra pellets, the slow hand also travels in a straight line as opposed to all the other E-Tech shotguns with the exception of the omen, you get the omen by farming the badassasourus in the tourge campaign of carnage dlc

[@thefallenjeans3051]

edcellwarrior slow hand e-Tech shotgun that fires straight, not like the other e-tech shotguns. You can get this from badassasaurus Rex from the torgue dlc, in the very last main quest.

[@bigsmoke4881]

From what I see in this video, the lightning bolt looks like a fastball re-skin but only in shock. Both need to be accurate, but you said it was a flaw for the lightning bolt. Also, the fastball was #1 on you video about the best grenades.

[@jaysonwithay2347]

The difference is the fastball has way greater damage, and a tiny bit of splashing damage and a bigger hitbox, I agree it's under rated and she used more

[@Lonewolf-dv3zg]

Because I like the chopper am I mentaly challenged

[@Unknown_______000]

No not at all the more bullets there are the more death and the more death the less enemies that are left to deal with only ur path of ruin and chaos is what's left that's what counts

[@badmaw7073]

make the stink pot consume one ammo pershot and reduce recoil

[@illumi._.]

Isn't there a Legendary Pot o' Gold I think I got it once Someone please talk to me about it

[@metallicnole4514]

The Gwen's head is a solid pistol for playthrough one, especially since the dust levels up to the current story mission level. It makes it a reliable level appropriate weapon for the first playthough.

[@blastphemoushorseman9110]

which is best torgues campaign of carnage or dragon keep?

[@acey6991]

Hm. This is pretty tough but you might have more fun with the tina dlc. Torgue should def be second on the list

[@guerrinlove69]

for the rex, I feel a 5-10x damage buff would make it more viable without being broken on OP8. might be broken for lower levels though haha. it can keep the low fire rate, just buff the fucc out of damage. I may have to give it a go sometime with the new community patch and see if I can write in some code for the rex's damage.

[@xaviertzodiacc3154]

what's the shotgun in the right hand in 16:00 ?

[@krumplekookie9181]

Slowhand

[@antidiablo386]

I think i remember heard you can farm the pot of gold in the weeding day dlc from a leprechaun(i hope wrote it well)near Hodunks houses.

[@TrueMegaManiac]

Hydra seems good for mechromancer from what you describe. High anarchy with 20-22 projectiles bouncing everywhere sounds fun.

[@KageDarkAngel]

I actually did get the Stinkpot in my first play-through and at the time, I was excited since the only weapons I had that did over 1500 damage were a Legendary Handgun with the red text "Monty's wife takes no guff" and the Pele Sniper rifle. Man was I disappointed in how... inaccurate it was for a Jakobs assault rifle. May as well have been a Torgue, no wait-- scratch that, I had a Torgue assault rifle that had better pin point accuracy that the Stinkpot from the Gold Chest in Sanctuary.

[@xperrosinsangrex]

The corrosive Gwen's head was very helpful to me for like 12 levels with Maya

[@Aberlure]

Even though it was a joke months ago, I'd still love to see a Top 10 pebbles video on Skyrim or Borderlands. I mean it...

[@JaskHuma]

The lighting bolt looks cool when you throw it

[@Boyd20081]

I honestly really like the Gwen's Head :D

[@penislover7934]

i like it cause of the blood

[@laughinwillow]

Boyd Jenkins Yeah, only real problem I have with it is how it consumes alot of ammo from my experience.

[@xandercarr72]

Its ok in normal and tvhm. Thats about it

[@juicejug6678]

I used the hydra on gaige and I loved it. The ricochet was great

[@peytonhawk]

Even with as bad as some of these weapons are most of them are still fun to challenge yourself and/or screw around.

[@ethang5301]

I honestly liked the lightning bolt. I used it on my gunzerker. Nonetheless, awesome vid puma!

[@soaringfalcon8344]

Gwen's Head: Fix Hyperion barrel so Gwen's Head has boosted recoil reduction, accuracy, weapon damage, magazine size, and give it a higher crit damage boost like the Bitch. Provided that this could happen, then the Tediore grip would be counteracted. That, or just remove the Tediore Grip. Or, give it a projectile multiplier. It has the potential to be a great pistol, its just that the lousy part restrictions stop exceptional ones from spawning. Chopper was way better in BL1.

[@blocker3065]

4:41 You saying that makes me wonder what would happen if the Unkempt Harold fired in a vertical pattern.

[@highwatered9975]

id like to see a tps version of this

[@Axel-qd5ht]

2:48 the times he said assassin got me on the ground xD

[@giantsalamander2296]

Thema Cobra was such a amazing günstig in bl1, I Like IT!

[@acesalt673]

I really like you TOP 10 rocks count down

[@dawsonwelliver4356]

THE FUNNNY PART IS THAT THERE MOSTLY ALL FROM THE HAMMER LOCK DLC AND BRO PUMA PLEASE RETURN

[@man-qw2xj]

You thinking of remaking this for the Community Patch?

[@SWHSMonsters]

The lightning bolt and fireball were both created as jokes about magic in fantasy games. Those are common spells and it regenerates ammo because its supposed to act like your mana or magika.

[@lilbeachball]

The cobra Reminds me of the old borderlands 1 explosive sniper rifles.

[@fno2009]

Shouldn't the stinkpot not be on a list based around guns to farm, since it is technically not farmable without exploits?

[@VinylicPumaGaming]

You can reset UVHM to Farm it.

[@metallicnole4514]

Technically you can farm it. You just have dashboard out/quit the game to farm it.

[@xypherus777]

Mavusi Kenpachi just back up ypur save and once you get it just put it in claptrap's stash and reload your save

[@GlorryGaming]

Puma imo I love the borderlands videos but I think you should try expanding your channel out to different games, that one game review you put out did amazing. Not saying your videos now are boring, but I'm just trying to give you my take on what would help your channel expand, have a nice day! :)

[@JustOpossum]

What’s the shotgun he’s using towards the end of the video

[@ethanpiggot2171]

The slow hand its a rare drop from piston in the torque DCL

[@duckenomics7981]

can you do a video going over a bunch of the references in BL2, like showing clips and pictures that guns are referencing

[@saladpuncher8436]

I think he already did something like "best references in gun names".

[@cwiskus4956]

with the pot of gold another way to fix it is instead of a chance to get cash it always gives cash on damage just a small amount so you are building up nickle and dime but if you are getting clip of smg in the face and get paid per hit it builds up fast.

[@devastatheseeker9967]

I'm not sure if it's in the presequel but if it was in that the pot if gold would be good for Jack

[@danielives5299]

How do you get chain lightning? Handsome sorcerer?

[@gamernoah1284]

Any badass necromancer

[@SheLuvsAnarchy]

I got the cobra a couple days by pure luck. I was doing the torgue campaign and it was the first time going in the arena. After I killed all the burners, I looked around for Eridium and I got more than what I bargained for

[@communismman7610]

When he was talking about the stinkpot, I didn’t think that it was rare because I got it the first time I killed no beard in normal mode, I figured that it was a guaranteed drop every time because after that every play through I did I got a stinkpot

[@carlwinn6180]

I wouldn't consider this a "worst unique items" list, but rather a "bad unique items, why they are bad and how to fix them" list

[@Matt-md5yt]

Lighting Bolt is funny to use though it and the Snowball one was funny. Krieg says Lighting-bolt while using it.

[@acey6991]

Yea they all say something when using it. They all also say some when using the magic missile, and the fireball. You have to be in one of the tina dlc areas though.

[@HybridMasakari]

Lightning Bolt has the highest dot damage (more than chain lightning) compare to any weapon ,that's also one of its advantage if you want to play dot build .

[@Cuestrupaster]

Use fastball instead...