1881

It really sounds like you didn’t figure out how to win the fight at all and just plinked away at their armored skin doing 5 damage per bullet :) There’s actually a way to win that fight… and it’s a method of killing skags that you probably want to figure out.

Playing as a soldier its frustrating to use a gun I really like - the AR - but they all have such tiny magazines so far. Hoping for a random drop or quest reward gun with a much larger magazine. My current AR as a 12 cartridge mag. That’s 4 presses of the trigger before a reload.

You’re still low level, but at my level I have the increased magazine size talent (Overload 5/5, and 1/5 in Assault so that mods will work on it) and, with a mod, get 23 bullets per clip instead of 12.

1882

Are class mods that boost a skill you have maxed out wasted, or do they give a bonus above the natural skill you can have.

1883

Latter. You need to have at least 1 natural point in the skill though, otherwise the bonus doesn’t take effect.

There’s no difference in ‘natural proficiency’ between classes, you can just start using snipers. The skill trees are the only difference, but unless you really want those sniper-oriented skills just pick up the next sniper rifle you see.

1884

Not at all, I know how to kill skags fine - shoot them in the mouth. In fact I usually wait for them to leap and get them mid-air - boom like a pinata with an explosive shotgun. So the named skags last nights cronies were easy meat. But these two bosses moved around a lot and so not so easy to get mouth shots on. But got a lot of those as well and I am sure they helped but it didnt make the fight a cake walk.

1885

I remember those two being particularly difficult also, even when I came back a few levels above.

1886

Yeah but if he wants to really specialize in sniper rifle badassery he’s going to want the sniper-specific talents of the Hunter. The Soldier does have increased magazine sizes and bullet damage for all guns, but maximizing sniper effectiveness is only done with the Hunter.

I prefer the scoped burst combat rifles on my Soldier, though.

Ahh ok. Yeah it did take me about 15 minutes with my friend to kill them. We jumped onto the roof of a house which made it a bit easier to just dodge the ranged scag and take him down before going after the one that charges you.

1887

Yeah, Moe and Marley don’t roar that often!

1888

The shooty one opens his mouth all the time- everytime he fires off a shot.

1889

The zombie DLC was annouced before the release of the game. Old news. ;)

1890

I found I wasn’t able to exploit that very often till the melee one was dead - the shooty one’s bombs had a pretty big AOE and the melee guy did not let me have much time.

1891

I have a 79x12 double-barrelled shotgun on my singleplayer Mordecai. Moe and Marley went down with little trouble. ;)

1892

I got lucky and one of them decided to chew on the bandits in the nearby camp while I shot him over and over in the back.

1893

I just got lucky and bought this from a vendor machine with my hunter. It makes stuff asplode all melty and awesome-like.

I’ve switched my hunter to mostly pistols and bird goodness and it’s a ton of fun.

1894

I got on top of the yurt off to the side, opened up at long range. Took a while for them to get up where they could get me and my brother, and by that time, one was nearly dead. Then I jumped down while going berserk. Brother dropped a turret. I Jab jab jabbed while staying in the healing circle. Fight over (though I was close to dead).

1895

I just ignored the melee one (hopping around a tad) and concentrating on the ranged asshole (while avoiding his shield destroying shock balls). Once I smacked him in the mouth enough I had all the time in the world to play with the other one. I was two levels below them and was never in real danger.

1896

Unfortunately, all of the boss fights in this game don’t pose any real danger :(

1897

I’m agent Mosely!!!

1898

Uh, is that the only Borderlands skill you’re boggled at? :)

That said, think of it as learning how to mod your weapon to hold more ammo if it will make you feel better :)

1899

I wish I found that to be true :) I’m terrible at them.

1900

The giant fire-bombing rakk was a bit of a whore, though you could game it by hiding under the roof of the car station after you lit the torches. There are definitely instances playing co-op where nothing is a pushover (which is quite a lot of fun).