Melee rafa #1 !!!!! He's a little mad

So I wanna make a case for bloomreaper to be one of, if not the worst, raid boss in bl history.

Basically, it's a timed fight for the best loot, meaning you have to be perfect else your sol for the best loot .

Phase 1

It starts off with you needing to smash 6 vile crystals, which already are the most annoying thing to actually break, while being attacked by several creeps, who also have vile crystals .

Making it so self revives are practically impossible.

Then you have to destroy the small and hard to see ordanite orb floating around before it replenishes the crystals. All while bloom reaper is attacking you with a very strong attack, that you have to jump at the right time to avoid, else you take a lot of damage and get launched away.

Then it triggers a 10-20 second animation where it is immune to damage .

Then phase 2

Now you have to navigate several platforms above the abyss, while bloomreaper jumps from platform to platform, attacking with a really powerful lazer beam (which pushes the player and can stun lock them) and acid spills the platform hes on.

Not to mention the army of creeps he sends at you

If you deal enough damage he will trigger another immune phase followed by phase 3 in which he cannot take damage and can be locked into his Lazer animation for even longer.

Phase 3.

In phase 3 he fills the arena with a thick sandstorm where the player cannot see anything including the boss and the tiny platforms of safety while still attacking relentlessly and hopping from platform to platform.

That is assuming you at no point got flung into the abyss or worse killed while in the air and fell to your doom .

All for him to fall off the edge and spew the loot directly into the bottomless pit as you watch in actual rage .

The whole fight feels like tiny moments of taking the piss, from the difficult creeps to the use of vile crystals, to the abysmal map and bloomreapers moveset that makes him invincible more often then not

It gets worse if your Rafa or amon melee builds as the shit targeting sends you hurtling into the Stygian darkness you have not felt since listening to mid 00s my chemical romance .

It feels so frustrating to know your either shit out of luck or have to rebuild your character into the carbon copy Harlowe boss melter #29 every youtuber is running.

It just feels like such a shit, piss take of a map

Like am I the only one or do others feel differently about the fight ?

Gotta say, I was enjoying the story for the most part, riiiiiiight up until the point after you get back from the big rescue. After that, it feels like they ran out of ideas and time, and just slapped together the end of the game. From the moment you talk to the exhausted Lilith until the credits rolled, everything felt so rushed and forced. Z spent 1k+ Years with the Timekeeper, and didn't for a moment consider that your Echo-4, THE ONLY THING SUPPRESSING YOUR BOLT, being knocked out of commission would be a cause for concern? Didn't recognize the difference in cadence when he speaks through someone else? Whatever you need to force your plot along, and try to force the player to want revenge for yet another character that was just recently introduced to any depth, I guess. Arjay was just an awful plot device with zero purpose other than an excuse to shove volatile enemies into the final stretch en mass. All in all, decent story, solid game, absolutely garbage ending sequences. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts and views on the ending stretch of the base game.

Just got my first Pearl drop, is this a good roll on a Gomie?

Encountered a glitch last night and not sure how to replicate it. I was running rift bosses/vile bounties and went down before fast traveling to Willis. With Vex's "Strike Me Down" skill, she will automatically revive herself and go invisible for 4 seconds. It seems the glitch is that Vex remained invisible for the remainder of the session. I am not sure how it happened but know I was fast traveling often and noticed as soon as I came to Willis that he was not attacking me. I haven't been able to replicate the glitch but it made farming Willis extremely easy!

Just finished the campaign, done some random stuff and this dropped 🫳🔥

Really enjoying the game, picked up the super deluxe edition for 38 quid and dont regret it whatsoever, but I do need some help, what should I now be playing for those big drops ?

I don't care I'm never doing that again!

So I finally decided to grind for all the base game phosphenes for the challenge gun skin. It's honestly been pretty fun going through a tour of all the bosses in the game that I haven't touched in forever. I've been making good progress and all has been good. But then I got to the Ohm I Got and holy shit. I cannot comprehend what Gearbox was thinking when they designed Moon-Maddened Callis. This might just be the most tedious boss in the whole franchise IMO. There was supposed to be no immune phases after beating the bosses for the first time. But her entire fight is designed around an immune phase. If you don't instantly kill her which is very easy to not do, even on a good build, because she moves so sporadically and sometimes rushes into the immune phase the second you get through her armor. I just don't understand why they would ever design a boss this way in a game that's designed around farming bosses repeatedly. It's crazy. Sorry for the rant but man I can't wrap my head around their thought process

Did my second play through as Ca$h and it’s been fun. Now I’m looking for a gun damage based build but without sacrificing the usefulness of the totems which I like. Current build is heavy into green tree right side.

Just want to shout out the devs, one of my major gripes with open world games is that normally, everyone you find outside of towns are enemies. It’s nice here to sometimes just running into folks going about their day.

Howdy yall, so I’ve seen a few things here and there about vex melee but not much. I’m planning on trying to make a haruspex build work for as high a UVHM as I can, I just think throwing knives as a melee override is neat

I’ve also done this loosely during the campaign, and one shotting a badass enemy by throwing 10 knives directly into his face at point blank range is so satisfying

Anyone have any info/builds that try to do something similar? Got a few ideas about buffing melee damage in other ways but tbh I’ve not kept up to date with builds and what might help for this

Since the last update of BL4 I fixed some problem with the game but the only one problem I couldn’t solve it was some macros of my mouse and I tried everything to try to fix it like reinstalling the game, clearing the files, reinstalling Logitech hub, etc, I contacted 2k support and Logitech support and they couldn’t give me any solution and I don’t know what else i can do.

If anyone knows this problem and fixed let me know .

How do I kill this boss?

I've been running around looking for the orbs. I'm sure these don't exist and someone is lying. The longer I look the bigger the bar.

Help...

I just picked up BL4, and I'm trying an Amon Onslaughter build. I've got what is probably a really dumb question: how do I properly perform a rocket punch with Amon?

From what I read online, I'm supposed to activate Onslaughter, then either use the melee button or the action skill button to dash up and perform the punch, but I think I'm doing something wrong. I hit the action skill button to activate Onslaughter, and Amon throws up a translucent blue shield in his left hand. When I then hit the melee button, he just does a bash with the shield, and when I hit the action skill button again, he throws a chain type thing. Neither dash forward and perform a punch.

What is this clueless newbie doing wrong? Any help is appreciated!

They seriously have to get rid of the Data Tower mechanic in the fight. It’s impossible to hit all the locks in order in time and console, so it’s literally impossible to kill this guy

Yo whats up i have been primarily a solo gamer for most of my adult life now so im looking to get back into the community so are there anyone that likes to play on the weekends i am currently just farming gear for c4sh lemme know below if you wanna play and i have all the up to date dlc and play on xbox

I’ve been seeing melee vex builds but none of them have grabbed her curse skill, i was just curious as to why? Because on paper it seems like it would be pretty decent. Just didn’t know if those skill points are better spent on some other skills vs that? I’m leveling mine to level 60, definitely gonna mess around with it to see for myself later tonight

What does the gold guy mean?

Is this still an issue I'm on Playstation and can't connect to shift

Xbox has a massive sale going right now. I loved the first 3 but have heard mixed reviews for #4.

Please help me decide either to buy it at all AND/OR if I only buy the standard or deluxe version.

Never in my days did I think I would get one, then my first phosphene is this thing. Huge bait