Game: Borderlands 2

[Buffalobiian]

How did you manage to reach lvl31 just doing a few side quests? I did almost all of the side quests up until Angel dies, then just focused on the main story and I'm currently lvl28 with 33hrs of play on Ch 16.

Maybe I died more than you and had to fight things multiple times.. I don't know.

I capped out at lvl50 around 10 days ago, and toned down my play time due to finals. After I hit that cap, I've been farming the bunker for rare loots. I think I'll move on now, since I haven't gotten anything more useful than what I have already:

-Health/shield combined to give 95K points
-Sniper that gives out critical damage of 121K
-Orange SMG that costs $161K
-3 million in cash
-99 block of eridium after having bought everything from the purple store
-other various goodies

I can wait till my friend levels up to my level before playing with him (lvl20-30), but I'll start a new character as well and try to power-level that.. we'll see which ends up being faster.

I had a look at the Gaige (Mechromancer)'s tree, and I'm tossing up between the Little Big Trouble (LBT: focus on elemental damage, high focus on electrical damage) and Ordered Chaos (OC: pretty damn crazy.. you'll have to read it). LBT is a bit more conventional in playstyle while OC looks risky, but really interesting.

edit:

I'm finding that doing all the side missions and quests makes you a little too powerful. I'm mowing down the bad guys in the main quest and nearly indestructible just from doing all the missions available. It's fun, but god-mode does get old after a while.

Wait till you try True Vault Hunter Mode. Finishing all the side-quests does NOT make you super-powerful. In fact.. some of those "normal" lvl difficulty sidequests screw me up pretty bad already.

And my specialisation is in not dying..