History GameBreaker / BorderlandsThePreSequel

* The Shooting Star, a maylay shield with ludicrous capacity, ludicrous recharge delay, and even more ludicrous roid damage. At level 40 upwards, its roid damage hits for 40K ''easily''. To put that into perspective, even the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Excalibastard]] crits for about 20K at that level range. Combined with Athena's Xiphos tree, and damage can hit in the hundreds of thousands! Even more ridiculous is when you combine it with [[FlashStep Blood Rush]], and you can spam Blood Rush until everything is dead, allowing you clear entire rooms in mere SECONDS. The moment The Shooting Star's shields drop, the fun begins.
* The Shooting Star gets one-upped by another game breaker, the Avalanche. It's the ungodly deadly combination of Maylay, Nova, and Spike shield, with stats only slightly less than the other Legendaries, for example it has 81K Roid damage, compared to The Shooting Star's 90K. It's also ALWAYS [[KillItWithIce Cryo]], meaning it will freeze your victims, which is a godsend for melee-centric characters.

->'''Athena''': [[BonusBoss Do I have to go with friends? I can't just do it alone?]]\\

** Ol' Rosie is all this, but instead of E-GUN's +214% continuous damage bonus it has [[UpToEleven a whopping +518%]] (though it was nerfed to 386% after a patch). Of course, it's PurposelyOverpowered, because you need to beat the game on True Vault Hunter mode to get it.

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** The Maggie is also BACK. Giving a Nisha with [[GunsAkimbo One Fer Each of Ya]] a Two-Fer Maggie (which fires 10 pellets instead of 6 at the cost of twice the ammo), results in utter murder. Alternatively, you can get a Maggie with the luneshine attachment, giving it a 30% chance to pierce shields. The results of this can be... ''interesting''.

** The Doppelganger's "Merger" skill, a melee override that has him unleash powerful electric wrist beams, counts as Excalibastard lasers if you are wielding the gun. Merger beams have 100% accuracy so they are phenomenally easy to crit with, chew through shields like paper, last for several seconds, and consume no resources except for having a short cooldown. If you are holding the Excalibastard, you can activate Merger and sweep it across a group of enemies to basically guarantee they are all frozen solid as well as taking electrical damage.

*** And now, a glitch (no pun intended) has been discovered where the yellow glitch can be transfered to all of your other equipped weapons. This requires a glitched Jacobs sniper rifle with the yellow glitch. After applying, the sniper no longer needs to be equipped for this to work. This works well with any character, but with Nisha and using [[GunsAkimbo One Fer Each of Ya]] to dual wield the Luck Cannon... holy hell! Especially during Showdown!
*** Since the yellow glitch persists after reloading a Jakobs sniper rifle, you can reload from yellow... only to get the red glitch and have a hysterically overpowering sniper ''cannon''. It's ridiculous.

* Two of Athena's skill trees have a health regen skill. For Phalanx, it's Vanguard, for Xiphos, it's Bloodlust. Both give a high amount of HP regen, with Bloodlust giving 4.0% HP/second per bleeding enemy, which stacks, and Vanguard also giving a high amount, which increases as the Aspis absorbs damage. Vanguard can also be boosted by the Celestial Gladiator class mod, increasing the heal to Rank 10. At Rank 10, holding out the Aspis for around 18 seconds (Hold the Line at rank 7, ALSO given by the Celestial Class Mod), will heal EVERYONE from near death to full health WITHOUT taking damage. Combined with Phalanx's United Front (which restores shields based on damage absorbed), and you can stand toe-to-toe with even the Raid Boss!

* Nisha's ''Riflewoman'' tree can be easily used in conjunction with the E-Gun to ''destroy'' raid bosses, solo. It's pretty much become a requirement with most builds. It doesn't help that the Legendary Class Com negates both ''Law & Order'' and most of ''Fan the Hammer.''
* Lampshaded in the intro to the Raid Boss quest, where Brick suggests fighting it alone by using a "broke-ass combination of equipment" to defeat it.

* Even the Oz Kits are taking part in fun. An example is the [[LeetLingo 3DD1.E]], with its high Oz capacity and Slam Damage, increase to Laser Damage (which makes the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Excalibastard, E-GUN, and Ol' Rosie]] [[UpToEleven even more game breaking]]), Shield Capacity, Air Control, as well as the ability to randomly heal you and charge your shields, as well as having a chance to drop a care package, which range from health, to shield, even ammo. Other examples are the Oxidizer, Moonlight Saga, etc.
* If you have ''Borderlands'' and/or ''Borderlands 2'' save data present, when you create a new character it will get two high-quality weapons and 30 moonstones right off the bat. This has given rise to an exploit: if you start a new game, but exit the character select screen, then load another save, the bonus items and moonstones will be transferred to ''that'' character. This means you can quickly and easily farm for moonstones and max your ammo or abuse the Grinder. The weapons will also scale to the character's level. The weapons, not designed to be scaled, become terrifyingly deadly at higher levels. If the shotgun, Bullpup, pops up as corrosive, it can make the much maligned RK-5 go down in ''30 seconds or less''.
* Claptrap's I Love You Guys! tree, which gives buffs and healing to himself and the team, including damage reduction, extra damage, and quicker reloads. Many of these abilities get bigger boosts from other team members, and multiple Claptraps can stack bonuses. Long story short, a team of four Claptraps will be charging through and slaughtering everything in their paths while high-fiving each other the whole way.

* The [=3DD1.E=] is quite probably the single most useful Oz Kit in the game. As a legendary item, it gets its own unique effects. First, if your health or shields run low, it has a chance to refill them, preventing all but the strongest attacks from killing you. Second, if you get hit with a melee attack, it has a high chance to zap the aggressor with a stream of electricity. Finally, if you kill an enemy, it has a chance to release a care package that can contain money, health pickups, and ammo. The developers could easily have turned each of these effects into its own legendary or unique item, but instead they all got rolled into a single one. And if that weren't enough, the [=3DD1.E=]'s regular stat boosts are also solid. You get extra shields and a high oxygen capacity for more survival, increased laser damage (and we've already mentioned how good lasers are), and increased air control for improved mobility. The only real downside to this thing is that the slam attack is locked to Explosive damage, and even that's not too big of an issue.
* Jack's Melee Override skill, Merger, can be combined into a glitch with his action skill, Expendable Assets, for some CRAZY shenanigans. Activate Merger and with the correct timing, activate Expendable Assets. Enjoy a CONSTANT STREAM OF SCALING MELEE ATTACKS while still being able to shoot any gun you hold. For even better usage, combine with any melee enhancing gun and watch as everything falls before you WELL into mid to late TVHM. And while wielding the Excalibastard, which has the added effect of freezing on critical hits, will make any critical hits with the wrist lasers, will 100% freeze any enemy that CAN be frozen. You can't trigger the Excalibastard's singularity effect without disabling the glitch, but it's fast and powerful, and can constantly freeze freezable foes.

** Laser weapons in general can be considered this. With the only drawback being recoil, they pretty much fuck up whatever you point it at with astounding quickness.

* Jack's Melee Override skill, Merger, can be combined into a glitch with his action skill, Expendable Assets, for some CRAZY shenanigans. Activate Merger and with the correct timing, activate Expendable Assets. Enjoy a CONSTANT STREAM OF SCALING MELEE ATTACKS while still being able to shoot any gun you hold. For even better usage, combine with any melee enhancing gun and watch as everything falls before you WELL into mid to late TVHM.

* The [=3DD1.E=] is quite probably the single most useful Oz Kit in the game. As a legendary item, it gets its own unique effects. First, if your health or shields run low, it has a chance to refill them, preventing all but the strongest attacks from killing you. Second, if you get hit with a melee attack, it has a high chance to zap the aggressor with a stream of electricity. Finally, if you kill an enemy, it has a chance to release a care package that can contain money, health pickups, and ammo. The developers could easily have turned each of these effects into its own legendary or unique item, but instead they all got rolled into a single one. And if that weren't enough, the [=3DD1.E=]'s regular stat boosts are also solid. You get extra shields and a high oxygen capacity for more survival, increased laser damage (and we've already mentioned how good lasers are), and increased air control for improved mobility. The only real downside to this thing is that the slam attack is locked to Explosive damage, and even that's not too big of an issue.

* Jack's The Hero of This Story skill tree turns him into a one-man army. The tree's main focus is buffing the Digi-Jacks spawned by his action skill, Expendable Assets. However, the Digi-Jacks start out fairly potent without skills: while they're stationary, Jack always has two out at once; if one dies, a new one spawns to take its place. Furthermore, Digi-Jacks will self-destruct if Jack gets too far away from them, so Jack can remain mobile without losing their support, and they persist during Fight For Your Life mode. In comparison, Axton's Sabre Turret, the closest equivalent from the previous game, could only deploy a second copy with Gemini, the final skill in his Survival tree, and he had to manually redeploy a turret if one went down; losing both turrets (or one, without Gemini) ended the Action Skill's duration prematurely. With some investment into the skill tree, the Digi-Jacks get even more powerful.
** Best Foot Forward acts much like Gaige's Upshot Robot skill, extending the duration of Expendable Assets with each kill. However, Gaige doesn't get hers until the third tier of its skill tree, while Best Foot Forward is available right off the bat.
** Bolster, in addition to increasing the max health of Jack and his Digi-Jacks, gives the Digi-Jacks a damage bonus the longer they survive. Like Best Foot Forward, this one's available from the beginning.
** You Have My Shield acts like another one of Gaige's skills, Sharing is Caring, granting a copy of Jack's current shield to his Digi-Jacks. However, Jack gets his ''much'' sooner; You Have My Shield is only a second-tier skill, while Gaige's is the capstone for its skill tree.
** Take Their Freedom heals Jack and his Digi-Jacks by a percentage of their max health every time one of them gets a kill; the Digi-Jacks are fairly effective at killing enemies, so you'll have a fairly constant stream of healing during battle.
** On My Mark lets Jack make his Digi-Jacks toss a grenade at a specific enemy once during Expendable Assets. The grenade benefits from Jack's current grenade mod, for added damage and utility.
** Resolute increases weapon damage and damage resistance for Jack and his Digi-Jacks whenever Jack takes damage.
** Promote the Ranks, the capstone skill, turns the first Digi-Jack into a Badass with increased health and damage and a missile barrage attack. All Digi-Jacks spawned afterwards have a one-in-three chance of becoming a Badass too.
* Athena's Ceraunic Storm skill tree can get very powerful, very fast. To start with, the signature skill of the tree can give up to 400% (actually 399.6, happy?) bonus damage to elemental weapons, and is available from level 4. With points in the right skills, Athena can achieve up to 700% fire rate, easily enough to hit the fire-rate cap on even the slowest weapons, as well as no longer requiring to use ammunition. Combined with a rocket launcher (or anything that isn't Jakobs, really), Athena is nearly unstoppable.

** The Maggie is also BACK. Giving a Nisha with [[GunsAkimbo One Fer Each of Ya]] a Two-Fer Maggie (which fires 10 pellets instead of 6 at the cost of twice the ammo), results in utter murder.

* The Shooting Star gets one-upped by another game breaker, the Avalanche. It's the ungodly broken combination of Maylay, Nova, and Spike shield, with stats only slightly less than the other Legendaries, for example it has 81K Roid damage, compared to The Shooting Star's 90K. It's also ALWAYS [[KillItWithIce Cryo]], meaning it will freeze your victims, which is a godsend for melee-centric characters.
* Certain items from ''Borderlands 2'' were transferred over to ''The Pre-Sequel'', but renamed, or edited to fit the theme, such as the Bitch, renamed into the Fatale, the [[KillItWithFire Pyro]][[StuffBlowingUp phobia]] turned into an ice version, the [[KillItWithIce Cryophobia]], the [[ShockAndAwe Black Hole]], and, best of all, the [[PunchPackingPistol Unkempt]] [[Film/DirtyHarry Harold]], considered Borderlands 2's single most broken pistol, has been nearly recreated as the somewhat-less-broken [[Film/JohnnyDangerously 88 Fragnum]] (the Fragnum shoots a random spread of bullets instead of the Harold's single splitting bullet).

* If you have ''Borderlands'' and/or ''Borderlands 2'' save data present, when you create a new character it will get two high-quality weapons and 30 moonstones right off the bat. This has given rise to an exploit: if you start a new game, but exit the character select screen, then load another save, the bonus items and moonstones will be transferred to ''that'' character. This means you can quickly and easily farm for moonstones and max your ammo or abuse the Grinder. The weapons will also scale to the character's level. The weapons, not designed to be scaled, become terrifyingly broken at higher levels. If the shotgun, Bullpup, pops up as corrosive, it can make the much maligned RK-5 go down in ''30 seconds or less''.

*** Since the yellow glitch persists after reloading a Jakobs sniper rifle, you can reload from yellow... only to get the red glitch and have a hysterically overpowered sniper ''cannon''. It's ridiculous.

** Promote the Ranks, the capstone skill, turns the first Digi-Jack into a Badass with increased health and damage and a missile barrage attack. All Digi-Jacks spawned afterwards have a one-in-three chance of becoming a Badass too.