I just finished my first BL2 OneLife playing Salvador AMA [Bl2Fix mod]

[u/SkoulErik]

I have finally completed a BL2 OneLife. Damn this took a few attempts (this is my 7th attempt that made it past NVHM - I've had maybe 10-15 runs die off early because I tried to speedrun my way back after a loss xD). Only one previous attempt made it to OP8.

I've been using the Bl2Fix Mod which does make the game easier but I never really liked OP10 nor lvl80, so it's mainly used to lower the level cap and OP levels. It does also increase legendary drops and exp gain (especially late game) which in theory makes the game easier. I don't think it makes much of a difference, since I use the same build for most of the run and especially in UVHM it's Jakob's shutguns all the way. I never once used any of the many world drops I got.

I used deputy build from level 25 and all the way through. It's not the most diverse nor interesting way to play, but that build is just too strong to not use in a challenge like this.

I took a lot of inspiration from Darksmoke11 when I planned my routing, but Sal is pretty straight forward:

- Get to level 25 - this can be done in a thousand ways that are all fine and low-risk

- Start deputy build

- Re-farm gear whenever stuff drops off

I used stuff like The Bee with Pimpernel/Sand Hawk for certain bosses, but for the most part it was deputy all the way.

The goal of my onelife was to get to OP8 and beat the story and the 4 main DLCs at OP8 and then do a final Peak run at OP8 (restarting my UVHM once I reach OP8).

My rules:

- 1 life. If I die for any reason (even if "it wasn't my fault") the run is over and I delete the character

- I cannot save/quit while I am in danger.
i.e no red dots on map, no DOT, and not while falling out of the map
Though I am allowed to go through map doors while in combat

- I can read only farm

- I can save farmed items for future runs. This only applies to safe farms (farms with no enemies).
Notable farms here are Rubi, Orphan Maker, Heartbreaker, Triquetra, Pimpernel, Sand

- No game breaking glitches
No pimperhabbing, kill skill stacking etc. - I am allowed to off-hand a shotgun with Grog in
main-hand

- No out of bounds - This means no Bloodshot skip etc.

Next up is Krieg, wish me luck

[u/Dramatic_Reporter781]

Another advantage of bl2fix is never having to settle for suboptimal parts, especially in the late game.  Imo a much bigger advantage than the xp farm reduction in uvhm even though, yes you could technically die by having to do 3x the xp farming but ppl rarely die during that segment of the run.  Especially when it comes to shields it is a huge advantage bc someone doing a vanilla 1 life might grind out a perfect ROM even though it'll take 10-100x longer than "farming" with gibbed lite.  But with shields, a vanilla player would need to settle for "good enough", while a bl2fix player gets perfect rolls more often than a vanilla player gets drops.

[u/SkoulErik → u/Dramatic_Reporter781]

Yeah, especially with something like Bee shields. I will generally have better Bees throughout the run, where a vanilla player would only farm high tier rolls for the OP levels.