Borderlands 3 has a ton of legendary weapons, shields, grenade mods, artifacts, and class mods that players can farm throughout the game. Sometimes, these legendary items can be hard to find, or in some instances have a hard time spawning.
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Luckily, many players have discovered locations that are easy to farm if you are having trouble getting that specific legendary you have been looking for. Some farming locations players have found can get others hundreds of legendaries that they can store back at Sanctuary or sell if they are in need of the money. Without further delay, here are the ten best farming locations for legendaries in Borderlands 3.
Updated May 26th, 2021 by Aden Carter: With the addition of new DLCs and various updates, farming locations have changed. Gearbox has added additional loot drops to bosses that didn't drop many items before. These updates have also changed how some of the bosses function, allowing players to replay a boss fight without needing to restart the game. DLC areas like the Arms Race DLC have also brought new ways of farming legendary items.
10 Graveward
- Graveward can be found on Eden 6 and appears while running the Borderlands 3 campaign.
Graveward is one of the best bosses to farm in the game, considering you can choose to spawn directly next to the boss arena. Along with this, the Graveward fight can be extremely easy and with the right built can even be killed in seconds.
Graveward has the Lob shotgun in his dedicated loot pool which is one of the best shotguns in the game. Not only that, but he can drop upwards of eight or nine legendaries at one time. There is also a vault directly behind him that has multiple chests that can drop legendaries as well.
9 Arms Race
- Arms Race can be accessed first by activating the quest on Sanctuary. Players can then teleport there from the fast travel menu.
Arms Race is one of the latest additions to Borderlands 3 that acts sort of like a battle royal. Players are spawned into a large area that has different segments, each with its own chest. There is also a murdercane roaming about, but more on that later.
Players need to run around and collect weapons so they have something to fight with. Killing enemies can grant them legendary items, but the most come from the various chests in the different areas. As time ticks on, the murdercane that was mentioned will shrink, preventing players from reaching certain areas of the map. Players need to avoid getting hit by the mudercane and make it to the final boss to keep all their hard-earned loot.
8 Rampager
- The Rampager can be found on Promethea during the Borderlands 3 campaign.
The Rampager has recently become a more favored farming location thanks to the various updates. Despite needing to go through annoying immunity stages, the Rampager is a great farming location that can get players a ton of legendary gear.
Not only can the Rampager drop a lot of world drop items, but it can also drop the Mayhem level four exclusive weapon called the Good Juju. Players can also skip needing to exit the game to farm the Rampager. They simply need to wait until the boss is in its dying animation and then enter the vault door. Then they can quickly turn around, leave the vault, and take the boss down again.
7 Psychoreaver & Vaulthalla
- The Psychoreaver appears as the final boss of DLC 4: Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck.
The Psychoreaver isn't the easiest boss to defeat, but when it is defeated players will be able to enter Vaulthalla. Vaulthalla is filled with chests for players to be able to get more legendary items. There are also two bonus rooms that players can enter if they solve the puzzle.
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To get the bonus rooms open, players will need to shoot a ton of buttons that appear outside the boss room, in the boss room, and inside the vault. Once all of them are shot, players will be able to enter the first bonus room. After shooting more buttons in the bonus room, players will be able to enter the second one.
6 Slaughter Shaft
- The Slaughter Shaft can be found on Promethea in the main city location.
The Slaughter Shaft is one of the best ways to farm legendaries no matter what difficulty you are on. Even playing without mayhem mode on can result in tons of legendaries dropping from the enemies in this arena. While there aren't any dedicated drops in the Slaughter Shaft arenas, every world drop can be dropped here making it extremely useful.
The only problem with this method of farming is that it is easier to do it with friends if you don't have the right build.
5 Freddie
- Freddy can be located on the Handsome Jack from DLC 1: Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot. He appears at the end before the final boss.
Freddie the Traitor is a boss that spawns in the first Borderlands 3 DLC. When spawning into the arena, you will be met with tons of enemies to take down and a boss that melts like butter on a hot sidewalk. The only problem with Freddie the Traitor is that half the legendaries he drops are dedicated to the DLC, but he still drops other legendaries from the main game.
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This boss is also easier to farm than all the others because all you need to do is teleport to make him respawn. That's right, no more needing to quit out of the game.
4 Killavolt
- Killavolt can be found during the main campaign of Borderlands 3 in Lecta City.
Players might remember Killavolt from the main campaign during their brief visit to Lecta City. This shockingly easy-to-kill boss has a larger loot pool now thanks to the updates that Gearbox has done. He can also drop some of the best weapons in the game like the Monarch.
Killavolt can also easily be farmed by players who aren't looking to exit the game each time they kill him. Players simply need to kill themselves after defeating him. They will respawn outside of the arena where they can drop back down and take on Killavolt once more.
3 Eista The Invincible
- Eista the Invincible can be found after completing the campaign for DLC 2: Guns, Love, and Tentacles.
Eista was added during the second DLC called Guns, Love, and Tentacles. This DLC might not be accessible by everyone, but has some of the best farming locations. Eista the Invincible is another boss that can be taken down pretty easily with the right build.
Eista can also drop multiple legendaries from the DLC and base game which makes him very useful. He also has specific legendary class mods for each character that can only be obtained from him. Some players may not be able to take him down easily, but he is definitely worth farming if you can.
2 Scraptrap Nest
- The Scraptrap Nest can be found during the DLC 1 campaign: Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot. It appears as a mini-boss of the DLC.
In the Scraptrap Nest, you will fight a boss that is multiple bosses in one. The main reason this boss is worth farming is because of the number of legendaries it can drop. Scraptrap can be killed pretty easily with weapons like the recursion that have ricocheting rounds.
As this boss comes from the Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot DLC, there are multiple legendaries it can drop from both the content pack's dedicated loot pool and the original game's collection.
A new way to farm the Scraptrap Nest has been discovered as well that allows players to stay in the game instead of exiting out. Players wanting to farm this boss just need to run out of the boss arena like they would to continue the story. They can then stop at the edge of the cliff before the dropdown. Wait a few seconds and run back into the boss arena to get the boss to respawn.
1 Tom & Xam
- Tim and Xam can be found during the campaign of DLC 2: Guns, Love, and Tentacles. They are located near the end of the DLC.
Tom and Xam are bosses that spawn in the second DLC of Borderlands 3. There is a trick to farming them so you don't need to reload the game. If you run into their boss arena and kill one of them and fast travel out, they will both respawn.
This can make farming for legendaries go very quickly since players will no longer have to quit out of the game. These bosses can also provide all the world drop legendaries, which is great since they can come from the second DLC and the main game.