Borderlands Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot Trophy Guide
Welcome to the Borderlands Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot trophy guide which as a DLC is more hassle than it’s worth unless you are a die hard completionist as in a best case scenario you have to complete 375 waves of enemies. I won’t lie, this DLC is rough as all hell.
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- Platforms: PlayStation, Xbox, PC.
- Trophies: 5: Gold: 1, Silver: 3, Bronze: 1.
- Achievements: 5.
- Release Date: 29th December 2009.
- Developer: Gearbox Software.
- Publisher: 2K.
- Missable: None.
- Glitched: None.
- Online: None although you will have a much easier time of it if you have at least one other high level, well geared partner.
- Difficulty Rating: 6/10 solo, 3/10 co-op.
- Approx. time to 100%: 60+ Hours.
This Guide Contains:
Roadmap
Moxxi’s Underdome Riot is an arena based DLC where you enter 1 of 3 arenas and need to kill all of the enemies without losing Fight for Your Life as if you do the current Round you’re in will reset and you’ll need to start again. The arena battles are set up as a 5×5 series of waves and rounds meaning there are 25 waves each of which have their own sets of enemies and in later rounds, perks or penalties.
I strongly suggest you bring a variety of high level weaponry as Moxxi can roll any type of weapon which will be considered effective rendering all other weapon types fairly useless. They’ll still get kills but if you roll the Boomstick perk, Shotguns will be x10 more effective than SMGs or Combat Rifles for example.
The waves can vary between Gun Waves, Horde Waves, Badass Waves but on the fifth wave being the final wave of that Round you will always fight a boss from the base game who you need to take down. Upon doing so, Moxxi will drop some guns through her chute for you should you need or want them and health ammunition comes down in between each wave in a large collectible format which you need to sprint to collect and it is first come first served. Miss it or if someone else gets there first then better luck next time.
That said, with the way the Underdome Riot is setup you will have a LOT of killing to do here so work through the DLC completing the lesser challenges then continue through all of the Larger challenges as you work towards unlocking all of the trophies in the DLC which are of course:
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Small Tournament
Completed the lesser challenge in all 3 coliseums
The Lesser Challenges consist of 5×5 waves of slaughter. Complete all 25 waves in each of the arenas to unlock Small Tournament.
Hell-Burbia
Completed the larger challenge in the Hell-Burbia coliseum
Hell-Burbia is the Arena 1 and the Larger Challenge will require you to complete 20 waves of 5 rounds a piece. Die and the current round will reset so bring a team of high level players and work through until you complete the larger challenge in Hell-Burbia unlocking Hell-Burbia.
The Angelic Ruins
Completed the larger challenge in The Angelic Ruins coliseum
The Angelic Ruins is the Arena 2 and the Larger Challenge will require you to complete 20 waves of 5 rounds a piece. Die and the current round will reset so bring a team of high level players and work through until you complete the larger challenge in the Angelic Ruins unlocking The Angelic Ruins.
The Gully
Completed the larger challenge in The Gully coliseum
The Gully is the Arena 3 and the Larger Challenge will require you to complete 20 waves of 5 rounds a piece. Die and the current round will reset so bring a team of high level players and work through until you complete the larger challenge in the Gully unlocking The Gully.
Big Tournament
Completed each of the larger challenges in all 3 coliseums
The large challenges are obtuse to be blunt. You are required to fight through 20 waves of 5 rounds back to back with no breaks or time to rest especially if you have a team which I highly recommend you do as in solo play if you die then that’s it for that round. Collecting the health and ammo which gets more and more scarce as time goes on is imperative for survival and even end game players will get their asses handed to them on occasion.
One of the things I found infuriating is you will get downed which is fair enough but then the enemies will actively hide leaving you helpless in FFYL making Second Winds all but impossible even with Rocket Launchers firing off right next to the enemy.
Combine that with the modifiers and penalties you will accrue along the way and Moxxi’s Underdome Riot can frankly get stuffed. It’s one for the completionists but with the other DLC being so manageable and enjoyable this feels like getting thorns stuck then ripped out of your skin, highly unpleasant and only enjoy to the sadists amongst players.
Work through the lesser challenges until you unlock Small Tournament then with that done you need to complete 20 waves of 5 rounds meaning 100 waves in total as you aim to unlock these 3 trophies:
With those 3 trophies unlocked, depending on the order you did them in, with the last one complete you will then unlock Big Tournament.
That’s the Borderlands Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot trophy guide complete, I hope it helped you through the DLC pack.
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