Haha, today has been an amusing and quite lucrative day in Borderlands for me.
As I mentioned in that Steam Sale thread, I beat the main campaign yesterday and decided that instead of jumping on Playthrough 2, I'd head to Jacob's cove.
Well, I found going through DLC1 to be quite annoying... there are no teleporters anywhere, so you're forced to walk all around. It's just a bit annoying after being able to teleport anywhere in the basic game.
The day really got good when I noticed a gem of an item on a vendor... a Siren Mercenary Class Mod with.... SMG Ammo Regen! Oh, even though it took half of my money to buy it, I bought that bad boy so fast. Let me tell you, now I never have to switch to a different weapon... and it's awesome!
So, I kinda breezed through DLC1
. But the way I beat him was... well, a bit unorthodox and kind of amusing. I ended up trapped in a corner by him... rather unlucky I might say and he pretty much melee'd me to death very quickly. Now, the ol' sack of meat was probably laughing his digital head off... but he forgot one thing! I was using another SMG I bought (for 1 million... probably not a good idea) as it has better accuracy, so I figured it'd be better for boss fights (given there's usually only one thing there... so I can't increase my accuracy with kills). I just aimed at his head while bleeding out and just railed away. I ended up killing the boss and getting Second Wind off of it .
Pretty cheesy, eh?
Oh, and I also found this nice 800-ish capacity shield... I'm rather enjoying the high shield capacity (until a boss tears through it while you foolishly got trapped in the corner)!
EDIT:
Oh and better yet... to add insult to winning even more, when I killed the boss, I leveled up too, so I ended the fight with full HP! Makes me seem rather bad ass (rather than just bad).