The Dust - Borderlands 2 Guide - IGN (2024)

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What is the rarest gun in BL2? ›

The Diamond Weisenheimer is a Hyperion SMG. You can get a normal Weisenheimer as a world-drop, however the chance of getting a Diamond variant with perfect parts is around a 0.22%. The Diamond varients of these are actually very rare considering Butt Stallion will normally drop you a Emerald SMG at the best.

The Dust is one of the main 27 locations in Pandora. This location can be accessed through Eridium Blight, The Highlands, Lynchwood, Three Horns - Valley and fast travel stations. The Dust is a desert wasteland where you can interact with Ellie as well as build a Bandit Technical.

Boot Hill is an area in The Dust, it consists of a church with a graveyard just in front of it. This is the setting for the final fight in the side quest "The Good, The Bad, and the Mordecai".

There is a chance that Mobley drops the legendary weapon Veruc. If not, come back after he respawns for another chance.

In Normal Mode, Gaige the Mechromancer is generally considered the "most powerful" thanks to her robot. Axton the Commando would probably be considered second "most powerful" because of his turret and more universal playstyle.

Gettle is a unique member of Hyperion Personnel. He only spawns in The Dust via jetpack for the final fight of "The Good, The Bad, and the Mordecai" along with Mobley. He can be fought again by simply returning to the church in The Dust. Gettle will attack with an assault rifle.

Butcher is a pearlescent shotgun in Borderlands 2 manufactured by Hyperion. It can be obtained randomly from any suitable loot source, but has a higher chance to drop from Uranus, 010011110100110101000111010101110101010001001000, and legendary loot midgets.

He is located exactly in the same place he was in the first game, behind the town of Fyrestone in The Arid Nexus Badlands. Also just like in the first game he has a chance to drop his weapon the Bone Shredder, an epic SMG.

The point of entry is behind Ellie's Garage, although there is little of interest until near the end of the area when it loops around to rejoin the main portion of the Dust. At this point the access road branches with a pair of old houses down one path and Boot Hill up the other.

In Borderlands 2, The Black Queen can be found in the Dust at Bug Gulch. She spawns randomly and may not appear every time. The Black Queen will also appear at Butcher Base of The Raid on Digistruct Peak location, at Overpower Level 4 or above.

Does tipping Moxxi in Borderlands 2 do anything? ›

You can tip Moxxi in $100 and $1,000 increments by activating the tip jar on the counter. In addition to hearing her wisecracks or seeing her dance, this can net you some sweet weapons: Miss Moxxi's Bad Touch SMG: Receive this unique corrosion SMG at random after tipping her more than $10,000.

Another one you can farm easily is Old Slappy, in The Highlands - Outwash. Just travel to The Highlands - Extraction Plant, then walk up to the door and exit to the Outwash. Kill Old Slappy, save and exit. When you load again, you'll respawn in the Outwash, close to where he is.

The Shredifier is an extremely fast firing weapon, able to obtain a maximum fire rate of 15.7 barring usage of skills and class mods. This is only surpassed by most Jakobs weapons at maximum fire rate, which is impossible to attain without mods, and the CHOPPER, which can have a fire rate of 18.1.

Best Guns in Borderlands 2. One of the first guns that will help in playthroughs is the "Flying Sand Hawk" SMG. Players can get this SMG from the Borderland's 2 DLC titled "Captain Scarlet," and equipping it with the flying prefix and Dahl parts will deal massive damage to enemies.

88% chance (not 88%, but 0.88%: that's 88 in 10,000) to be the Cobra. This makes Cobra one of the rarest drops in the game. However, the Cobra received a drop rate increase in the 10/29/15 patch.

Any legendary has a 1/20 (5%) drop rate from the boss it's assigned to, the infinity pistol is assigned to Doc Mercy. Any legendary has a 1/1000 (. 1%) to be found in a chest, random drop, or in a skag/stalker/whatever pile.