Borderlands

[The ghost of raids past]

I am on my 2nd playthrough. I just unlocked New Haven and have a few missions left in the Dahl Headlands. My question is when should I expect to be hitting 50 ? I am leevl 44 at the moment, the guide I read said 50 should come up after a few mission in New Haven, I think thats a tad optimistic.

[Mayhem]

Probably. It depends how much random online stuff you've been doing and how much you've been killing. My brother and I were about level 48 just entering Rustlands East, and hit level 50 while playing the DLC.

[PVB]

Fuck me but Krom's Canyon's hard!

I was level 28, had two 'Trivial' level 25 missions to do (Reaver and skag meat) and it took me ages and a lot of deaths to finally do them.

Got Krom himself next, and he's waaaaaay back in the area, so that's not gonna be easy.

[Mayhem]

One tip for Krom: get yourself a good rocket launcher

[PVB]

One tip for Krom: get yourself a good rocket launcher

I have a choice of three;

One projectile doing >500 damage with 93% accuracy.

One projectile doing >750 with 88%.

Three projectiles doing >330 each + corrosive with 85%.

[The ghost of raids past]

I got bored with using a launcher on Krom, closed to point blank range and nailed him from about 10 feet away.

[chub]

I got bored with using a launcher on Krom, closed to point blank range and nailed him from about 10 feet away.

Yeah I did that too. Lots of run and cover to get to him, then blam with a big shotgun.

[CarlBillen]

I got bored with using a launcher on Krom, closed to point blank range and nailed him from about 10 feet away.

Yeah I did that too. Lots of run and cover to get to him, then blam with a big shotgun.

I used the coward's way, run as close as you can but stop before the final stairs, and I could see his foot while he was simply shooting in the walls. Quite a few sniper shots in his foot later and he went down...

So look at all the possible ways to defeat him!

[PVB]

That had to be the easiest mission I've had in the whole game.

No Spiderants on the way to him, just a few bandits.

Then the cut scene (never found the Claptrap he shot), he started shooting at me, so I just used the >500 damage rocket launcher and after a few shots he was down.

The blasts seemed to take out the surrounding bandits too, as his level was empty when I got there, save for a few mangled bodies.

Have noticed that some missions have now increased in level while I've been levelling up, as Mayhem warned me they would.

[PVB]

Rakk Hive in the Trash Coast was difficult.

Managed to not die once though, so I think I was lucky in my position to shoot from.

Need a better shotgun though, as my current one only fires 3 shots before needing a (slow) reload. My combat rifle does better against Rakk.

[Mayhem]

Unless you're the soldier, you'll need a shotgun with 6-8 in the mag at least to be useful...

[PVB]

Unless you're the soldier, you'll need a shotgun with 6-8 in the mag at least to be useful...

I am a soldier.

[Mayhem]

Oh... then why haven't you been boosting Overload then?

[PVB]

Oh... then why haven't you been boosting Overload then?

Because all the other weapon types I've found have gradually increased in mag size so didn't need it, but shotguns seem a bit thin on the ground.

[Mayhem]

Overload is godly... my shotgun has 23 in the barrel, my SMG has 147 for f's sake