For example, you could try repeatedly killing Gettle in the side mission, The Good, The Bad and The Mordecai for a chance at getting a legendary sniper rifle. Farming involves killing the boss enemy to see if it drops a legendary, if not, quit the game and restart to get the boss enemy to respawn, go kill him again to see if it drops a legendary, rinse and repeat until you get one. Some boss enemies have a 1-in-20 chance of dropping a legendary weapon after killing them and they can be farmed for those legendaries if you have the patience. The most sought after weapons in Borderlands 2 are orange legendary.
The color code rarity system is ordered as follows:
Finding the Homing Fire Bee, a legendary grenade modĪll weapons in Borderlands 2 have color-coded titles indicating how rare the weapon is which also corelates to how much better its stats are compared to other weapons of the same level.