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I played Borderlands The Pre-Sequel again today with my Level 24 Baroness, doing side missions and avoiding the main story. It's so fun to just tool around and listen to the NPCs tell you their crazy stories while doing missions for them. I want to postpone the end as long as possible.

                             

Then Mark wanted me to help him beat Deadlift, the first boss of the game, on Ultimate Vault Hunter mode (the highest difficulty in the game). I switched to my level 50 Claptrap and joined his level 53 Lawbringer. We found the boss fight pretty impossible. I guess we needed to be higher level or have better weapons.

At one point I had to respec my skills because sometimes the game makes you do that when you join another's game. I'm not sure why but maybe it happens when you join a higher skill level game. I love how easy it is to switch characters and skill levels in this game. It remembers all your missions on each skill level. You can jump into a friend's game and back out again, no problem. This is just great design and should be copied by all. 

So the boss fight having failed, we turned it down to True Vault Hunter skill level and did the Holodome DLC. It's just an arena in the part of the game where you encounter the Eridians. You fight off hoards of enemies for 5 or 6 waves per round. We did all five rounds and I got two achievements for it. Mark was hosting, but I had to host to get one of the achievements because he had already played it solo. So I hosted and we played it again, but this time on Normal skill level. It was a cakewalk but still a load of fun. I tried to get an achievement for freezing three enemies and then stomping them to pieces at the same time. I got very, very close one time, but didn't get it. I was using the Excalibastard laser weapon, which is a hidden weapon in the game I found a while ago. It's very good at freezing enemies solid. 

Between all these adventures, I was spending a fair amount of time in Concordia grinding weapons to make better ones and getting Shift Codes to open the golden key chest for random weapons. I got a few things out of that, but it was a lot of grinding and running back and forth from my bank to the grinder. It can get a little bit tedious and I wonder how valuable a task it really is. 

Next week I'll probably tackle the Claptrap DLC with my Baroness. Mark says it's really good, so I'm looking forward to it. Then I'll move on, I think. So much else I want to play on console.