Heh, only two tries to get a Hive.

[minor blogpost]
Back when I originally stopped playing eons ago, since I was a shitter who couldn't solo, I spent so much time trying to find people to get to OP8 and/or do raid bosses with. I wanted to get to OP8 and farm perfects of each max level legendary and farm every raid boss, but I couldn't clear Digistruct Peak by myself even with Fibber+Bee cheese. Didn't help that BL2 matchmaking was always broken (probably still is) where you couldn't actually find or join OP raid lobbies. You had to host a lv 72 lobby and wait for enough people to join, friend them, then invite them into a separate lobby. And given my bad luck and inability to carry, I could never finish that final OP7 run to get into OP8 and start farming OP8 gear.

But I just found a recent OP10 Gaige playthrough on Youtube and the dude just breezes through the OP levels solo with OP5 gear so I have hope of finishing again. Just gotta be persistent in rolling guns like he did. Like, he rolled almost 400 times just for his OP5 Fibber that he used to clear OP5-9, then 840 more for his OP10 Fibbers, holy fuck. It's a long road but at least the finish line is visible...

My remaining shopping list to copy what he did for OP raids seems to be: low level Badaboom, low Striker, a Sham, Magic Missile, Chaotic Neutral mod, Bone of the Ancients, acid Pimpernel, and acid Fibber