Eridium Slot Machines Borderlands 2

The slot machine is a new addition to Borderlands 2, and it allows you to spend all of your hard earned cash for the chance to win fantastic prizes.

I used the Eridium one, as it seems to be the realistically best one to do. After 1000 Rolls on the Slot Machine, here are the results (Google Sheets) Some Things of note; Guns seem to be slightly more likely to drop than Grenades and Shields. The chance to get a Legendary appears to be the same in previous Borderlands Games.

The amount of money it costs to tug the one-armed bandit varies depending on your character’s level—as do the weapon rewards.

Eridium, character skins and cash are dispensed through the front tray, while weapons are acquired through the side tray on the left.

You can find two slot machines in Mad Moxxi’s bar for double the fun. You’ll also come across them in the wilderness, occasionally hoisted by a rare enemy called the One Armed Bandit.

A handy tip: Play the slots with a group of other players to multiply your cash and Eridium rewards.

Another handy tip: While your friends are doing their shopping in Sanctuary, just head on to Moxxi’s bar and gamble while you wait. Money has little use apart from buying ammunition and rare items from stores and you’ll always find more cash to buy ammo should you ever run out.

The odds may always be in the house's favor, but it's not like you've anything else to do with your money.

Slot Machine Rewards

Three Psycho Masks : A live grenade. This “reward” is the only one that’ll hurt you by doing more than taking away your money. Be sure to avoid the explosion.

Three Single Eridium : One stack of Eridium (4 pieces)

Three Double Eridium : Two stacks of Eridium (8 pieces)

Three Triple Eridium : Three stacks of Eridium (12 pieces)

Three Sevens : An uncommon rarity character skin from a weapons manufacturer.

Borderlands 2 Eridium Upgrades

Three Bells : More money for you to gamble with!

Three Cherries : Uncommon (Green) weapon

Three Moxxi Symbols : Rare (Blue) weapon

Three Marcus Symbols : Epic (Purple) weapon

Three Vault Symbols : Legendary (Orange) weapon

A pair of symbols with a bell: A small amount of cash.

A pair of symbols with a non-matching symbol: Common (White) weapon

In the first Borderlands game, players could upgrade their ammunition capacity and storage by buying upgrades from the vending machines. This time around, players will have to acquire a rare material known as Eridium and turn them in to a shopkeeper to purchase these upgrades at increasingly higher fees per upgrade.

Though the material is described as rare, it’s fairly easy to find and players should have no difficulty accumulating the necessary amount of Eridium to purchase their upgrades over a period of playing the game normally.

The easiest, and most legitimate way of acquiring Eridium without actually exploiting any in-game quest mechanics is to head on over to the slot machines in Mad Moxxi’s bar. It’ll take a bit of scratch, but winning the Eridium jackpot can net you anywhere from 20 to 40 pieces of Eridium to purchase your upgrades with.

If you lack the patience, or the money to play the slots, you can always use the following “exploit”:

1) Quick travel to Three Horns Valley.
2) Walk on over to the Bloodshot Stronghold just north of the quick travel terminal.
3) Kill a unique mob named “Bad Maw” outside the area.
4) Head into the Bloodshot Stronghold.
5) Save and quit the game.
6) Continue the game, and walk back outside and kill Bad Maw again.
7) Rinse and repeat until you have more Eridium than you can shake a cannibal midget at.

The best part of all is that it'll work on any platform you've got the game on, be it the PC, PS3, or Xbox 360.

[This article is part of a series of guides for Borderlands 2.

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