Borderlands DLC - The Secret Armory of General Knoxx

[Hopeless]

My advice - stack up full on Super-HP kits, have a lowest CD turret build, drop the turret on one side to take his attention and run between the two pillars (run on the other side of the pillars). Remember to have a high RoF weapon for his weak spots (a low accuracy is nice too actually) and each of the 3 elemental weapons:

- incendiary for the green worm
- corrosive for the armored worm
- shock for the third one

Watch a solo Siren kill and so something similar (and no, not the glitched one 😛), just use the turret as a distraction until you run to the other side and hide (Siren does it with Phasewalk). No idea if the turret can survive long enough for you to make the rush though.

I actually saw a full-on Siren kill 😛 Never managed to stay alive long enough to do it myself - managed with the hiding tactic thoough. And now I'm just cheese-killing him, glitch + ricochet SMG for the back spot 😛 You can cheese-kill him too, deply the turret to grab his attention and run for the safe-spot. Still, it requires a high RoF ricochet gun to kill (got mine from Armory runs).

EDIT: And if you guys want to team up, just let me know. I can help you out with stuff 🙂 Just tell me when. And I never tried it on Borderlands, so be gentle 😛

For some reason I haven't been very lucky getting guns that I'd like for my soldier. The game keeps giving me just about every other type of yellow/oranges except higher level smgs or full auto combat rifles. Finally got a purple full auto combat rifle from the circle of duty that is over all better than any I've gotten before. Bober had a few green/blues I tried & meant to give back but I screwed up sold them after we finished that arena. It doesn't have any elem dmg to it though.

So when is the best time to play this DLC? I just beat Playthrough 1 and started Playthrough 2 this past weekend. I'm a level 40 Hunter. Does being on P1 or P2 affect the DLC?

I was still in the fyrestone area with my hunter on P2 so I went back to P1 for him. After running it on P2 with my soldier that I'd already beat P2 with I didn't think I had good enough gear / skills to run it with my hunter.

 

[BoberFett]

Thanks for the assist on the circle of duty Boberfett. That was one tough arena, at least for my soldier.

I'm beginning to have my doubts about being able to solo crawmax with my soldier now.

No problem, it was fun. 🙂

Too bad the drops sucked so bad though. Where the heck are the orange combat rifles in this game?

 

[Hopeless]

No problem, it was fun. 🙂

Too bad the drops sucked so bad though. Where the heck are the orange combat rifles in this game?

Too true, although at some I picked up a purple full auto CR that was decent. It's not the 1st time I've went into my inventory & found stuff that I didn't pick up on purpose. I wish they would change it giving priority to reloading when you hit the button.

I've been wondering that myself. I've seen a 3 different kinds of the burst fire types but haven't ever seen any of the full auto ones.

 

[Qbah]

Too true, although at some I picked up a purple full auto CR that was decent. It's not the 1st time I've went into my inventory & found stuff that I didn't pick up on purpose. I wish they would change it giving priority to reloading when you hit the button.

I've been wondering that myself. I've seen a 3 different kinds of the burst fire types but haven't ever seen any of the full auto ones.

They drop all the time for me :-/ Together with sh!tloads of pistols... Which one do you want? 😛 I'm killing Crawmax quite a few times - want my Tsunami SMG! 😛

If I find what you want, you can just have it. I don't have any need for it anyway. The only reason I pick stuff is so that the next Crawmerax kill I can see all the new loot he drops 😀

 

[Hopeless]

They drop all the time for me :-/ Together with sh!tloads of pistols... Which one do you want? 😛 I'm killing Crawmax quite a few times - want my Tsunami SMG! 😛

If I find what you want, you can just have it. I don't have any need for it anyway. The only reason I pick stuff is so that the next Crawmerax kill I can see all the new loot he drops 😀

I still haven't tried crawmax yet.

I've had my fingers crossed for an orange called Ogre (explosive) that I'd like to try and the new cyan Serpens (acid) sounds nice as well. I don't know if they come with a scope but I do like scoped guns a little better as I can focus on the crit areas easier. Base RoF isn't quite as important (like around 8-9 minimum) as I've got the metal storm skill maxed.

If those are actually good just have to get a good high dmg hellfire (fire) and than something for elec to have a nice 4 weapon load out that covers all elements & a couple different types.

Although at this point I'm beginning to think that the (yellow/orange/cyan) full auto combat rifles must be in the rarest level of loot. Between both my chars that I'm playing I've never seen any of them.

 

[PimpJuice]

I'm still looking to complete the DLC.....havent completed any of them yet. If anybody wants to set up a time to kick some butt, let me know!

gamertag = pLmpjuice

 

[Hopeless]

I'm still looking to complete the DLC.....havent completed any of them yet. If anybody wants to set up a time to kick some butt, let me know!

gamertag = pLmpjuice

I've got underdome & knoxx.

Got a 61 soldier that still has some of the side missions left for knoxx on P2 but haven't even attempted underdome with.

Got a 46 hunter that I've been bouncing between knoxx on P1 & the orginial areas of P2. Haven't did any underdome with him or knoxx on P2 yet.

I'm always up for a teamup.

 

[Hopeless]

Loaded up the soldier to do some more of the side missions last night and noticed that one of them was to re-raid the armory.

I finally started getting a few full auto combat rifles as drops along the way there, some greens & blues. For the most part the purple that I already had seems to be better. Knoxx was a lot tougher this second time around. While hitting the chests I had a moment of shock as I saw a couple of orange combat rifle sized guns spawn. Once again I was too greedy and didn't make it out before the bomb went off. Afterward I checked my inventory and got a combat raven (5 shot burst) and I can't remember the full name but the other was a destroyer. What a let down, got my fingers crossed that I'll get to go through it again.

 

[Skel]

Loaded up the soldier to do some more of the side missions last night and noticed that one of them was to re-raid the armory.

I finally started getting a few full auto combat rifles as drops along the way there, some greens & blues. For the most part the purple that I already had seems to be better. Knoxx was a lot tougher this second time around. While hitting the chests I had a moment of shock as I saw a couple of orange combat rifle sized guns spawn. Once again I was too greedy and didn't make it out before the bomb went off. Afterward I checked my inventory and got a combat raven (5 shot burst) and I can't remember the full name but the other was a destroyer. What a let down, got my fingers crossed that I'll get to go through it again.

I've an extra one of these that I'd be more then willing to dupe for you if someone would be willing to explain how to do that.

 

[Thraxen]

I've an extra one of these that I'd be more then willing to dupe for you if someone would be willing to explain how to do that.

Duping is easy. Just make sure you aren't near one of those save point poles and drop the gun. Whoever is getting the dupe needs to pick it up and use the in-game menu to exit which will save their game. If the person getting the dupe is the host then when they exit you'll be kicked out without saving automatically. If you are the host then use the guide button to exit straight back to the dash... which will also exit the game without saving.

 

[Hopeless]

I've an extra one of these that I'd be more then willing to dupe for you if someone would be willing to explain how to do that.

That's a nice gun. That'd be great.

It's actually easy. I've done it to share some of my oranges with others before. Send me a request on live & I can walk you through it. Not sure if Queasy (console mod) would like a detailed explaination about it here.

 

[BoberFett]

Wow, that thing is insane.

 

[Hopeless]

Finally hit 48 the other night with my hunter. Got to start using the gear I transferred over that my soldier found. I'm really liking the hunter so far, at this point even better than my soldier. I'll admit it may be partly do to having some good lvl 48 gear that I was just waiting to use.

It seems that the devs might have made some changes to MP. I was 46 & joined a few open games that were hosted by 50s to try and powerlevel to 48 so I could try the gear. I wasn't getting much of any XP for the kills we were doing. Overall it wasn't really worth it as now my mission log is screwed up. It shows both of marcus' armory runs as ready to go but haven't even been to the armory on P2 yet. My luck when I go in for the main quest it will count for all & I'll get cheated out of those loot runs.

 

[Thraxen]

My luck when I go in for the main quest it will count for all & I'll get cheated out of those loot runs.

Unfortunately it might... or at least you may get cheated out of one run. One of my friends was in a similar situation just last week. He hadn't killed Knoxx in his game, but he had the first Marcus mission from being in my game.

I was with him when he went to kill Knoxx. He had that mission selected as the current mission and it even showed the Knoxx cut scene when we first went in to kill him. But after we killed him and exited the armory it showed Marcus watching the armory blow up and the credits didn't roll. Also, the level of the loot in the armory was the same as if it was the first Knoxx run. So we got first Knoxx run level loot, the enemies were first run levels guys, but it counted as completing the first run for Marcus. We then had to go back and kill Knoxx again to complete the first run before moving on and getting the 2nd Marcus loot run (3rd overall armory run) as a mission.

Not sure what's going to happen since you have all three. You may indeed get cheated out of the higher level gear in the 2nd and 3rd armory runs. You can always just run it with me or someone else. I'm still on the second run... which I've done several times using the floor glitch to enter the armory without triggering the timer.

 

[Hopeless]

Unfortunately it might... or at least you may get cheated out of one run. One of my friends was in a similar situation just last week. He hadn't killed Knoxx in his game, but he had the first Marcus mission from being in my game.

I was with him when he went to kill Knoxx. He had that mission selected as the current mission and it even showed the Knoxx cut scene when we first went in to kill him. But after we killed him and exited the armory it showed Marcus watching the armory blow up and the credits didn't roll. Also, the level of the loot in the armory was the same as if it was the first Knoxx run. So we got first Knoxx run level loot, the enemies were first run levels guys, but it counted as completing the first run for Marcus. We then had to go back and kill Knoxx again to complete the first run before moving on and getting the 2nd Marcus loot run (3rd overall armory run) as a mission.

Not sure what's going to happen since you have all three. You may indeed get cheated out of the higher level gear in the 2nd and 3rd armory runs. You can always just run it with me or someone else. I'm still on the second run... which I've done several times using the floor glitch to enter the armory without triggering the timer.

I've only messed around with the armory on P1 with my hunter as I wanted to lvl up some before going there in P2. I haven't done anything there in P2 with him yet as I was thinking of finishing up the main areas first (extra lvls & maybe harder enemys). In my log it now shows both of Marcus' loot trips as valid missions. Sadly I'm thinking that when I do get there for the main story one it will count for all 3 at once.

I've heard about the glitch but wasn't sure how to do it and I'm kinda worried about fubaring the quests.

If you want to team up sometime I'm normally on late-ish (9-10 CST) during the wk & just when I get a chance on wkends.

 

[BoberFett]

Hey hopeless, I was in a full group last night or I would have invited you.

And Crawmerax is officially one of the most stupid bosses ever put in a game. We killed him twice, only we didn't get any loot for it. In other words, we had him almost dead and between his and his minion bullshit one hit kills, all four of us died and nobody could get back to the top before he healed up. Whoever decided that was a good idea needs a swift kick in the nuts.

 

[Hopeless]

Hey hopeless, I was in a full group last night or I would have invited you.

And Crawmerax is officially one of the most stupid bosses ever put in a game. We killed him twice, only we didn't get any loot for it. In other words, we had him almost dead and between his and his minion bullshit one hit kills, all four of us died and nobody could get back to the top before he healed up. Whoever decided that was a good idea needs a swift kick in the nuts.

At one point I was running the circle of duty with Skel & Thraxen joined in. Skel hooked me up with that gun. Between all the support gunners along with 3pts in assault, I was running around with 300+ mag. Although I was still reloading like I was using my old gun that only had around 80 mag. Afterward I went to my locker and pulled out my tactian mod to carry around to be able to swap on the go & respeced to take the pts out of assualt.

I still haven't even went to his area yet. With my soldier I'm down to the last armory sweep & killing him. I'd heard about him being able to pretty much 1 hit kill, how bad are his minions?

 

[Qbah]

His spray attack takes my Siren down to 75HP from 3200 shields and 1000 HP 😛

His minions are annoying and are semi dangerous - depending on how much ground they use for charging into you, it takes them from 2 to 5-6 hits to kill me. Not to mention it knocks me right in front of the big worm 😛 They die fast with the right elemental SMG though.


Also, don't run the last armory - why should you lock yourself from running the glitch and clearing the armory without a time limit? You can open every chest even on third clearance and not glitch your quest log (I do it all the time now).

 

[Hopeless]

His spray attack takes my Siren down to 75HP from 3200 shields and 1000 HP 😛

His minions are annoying and are semi dangerous - depending on how much ground they use for charging into you, it takes them from 2 to 5-6 hits to kill me. Not to mention it knocks me right in front of the big worm 😛 They die fast with the right elemental SMG though.


Also, don't run the last armory - why should you lock yourself from running the glitch and clearing the armory without a time limit? You can open every chest even on third clearance and not glitch your quest log (I do it all the time now).

With that kind of dmg my soldier will be toast in 1 hit. The only elemental I have right now is acid, but the base dmg listed (around 309) is the best I've seen on an auto combat rifle.

I thought about running the armory over & over. Right now I've got my 61 soldier and working on a 49 hunter. As far as I can tell I've done all the missions except craw & the last loot run. Was thinking of just going ahead and finish the armory if I can get in a group to kill craw to get the all mission achievement with my soldier. It wont be too long before I get my hunter up to there & from playing him online I already have both of Marcus' runs as valid quests. I'm thinking that when I go to the armory with him that it will count for all 3 at once. So I may try the glitch than even though it won't be the higher lvl gear.

 

[Thraxen]

I'm thinking that when I go to the armory with him that it will count for all 3 at once. So I may try the glitch than even though it won't be the higher lvl gear.

I don't think it will do all three at once. If it's like what happened to my friend (as described above) it will likely count for the 3rd... but you'll end up watching the first run cut scene at the start, get 1st run level loot, and then see the 3rd run ending cut scene if you opt to finish the mission rather than glitch.

 

[R Nilla]

I did the armory glitch with a buddy on our third run and now it looks like we'll never be able to complete that mission (unless we try it on someone else's game). When we walked under the platform to get to the room with chests on the other side the Steal Loot objective got checked off. Now the doors are all closed and there's no way to get back in.

 

[Qbah]

All you have to do is avoid the room with the elevator - you can loot every chest in the armory, there are ways around that room for every chest. I skip the lvl48 ones all the time now (4th floor and single chest rooms behind the red forcefields).

 

[Thraxen]

I did the armory glitch with a buddy on our third run and now it looks like we'll never be able to complete that mission (unless we try it on someone else's game). When we walked under the platform to get to the room with chests on the other side the Steal Loot objective got checked off. Now the doors are all closed and there's no way to get back in.

Yeah, you can't enter that octagonal room with the vertical beams. To get to those chests you have to go to the level above, lower the bridge, and then take the lift down that is on the left after the bridge. Of course, too late for you now!

 

[R Nilla]

Yeah, you can't enter that octagonal room with the vertical beams. To get to those chests you have to go to the level above, lower the bridge, and then take the lift down that is on the left after the bridge. Of course, too late for you now!

Yeah, now I know! Oh well, we have a third guy we've been playing with so we'll probably just finish it on his save. That and/or try not to goof it up on Playthrough 2. This was just on P1. I think we found maybe 1 or 2 guns that we liked.

 

[Thraxen]

Yeah, now I know! Oh well, we have a third guy we've been playing with so we'll probably just finish it on his save. That and/or try not to goof it up on Playthrough 2. This was just on P1. I think we found maybe 1 or 2 guns that we liked.

Ahh.. it's just P1? Hell, no problem then! Playthrough 2 is where you get all the really good loot. At least now you'll know what to do in P2. Just make sure when you're playing with a group that everyone knows not to enter that room. Plus there's always Crawmerax (sp?) for getting loot.