During my first full play of the game, I accepted any mission as soon as it was available then sold the resulting item for a quick profit. Sadly, it wasn't until after completely finishing my first play-through that I finally learned the true value of the majority of one-time-only quest items (Evil Smasher anyone?).
So is there a way to start a new game, quickly get to TVHM to accept level 50 missions? Additionally, could I just accept the quests with my level 50 char in a new game, or will the mission just scale to the host level?
Best Answer
You only get a quest reward once per playthrough per character. This means there's only one chance for a level 50 Evil Smasher. If you join someone else's game and re-complete a mission, you will not get rewards for that mission again.
No, not without save file editing. And my limited attempts at messing with Gibbed's editor have been unsuccessful. And a playthrough with a hacked level 50 character from start to completing THVM will still take several hours.
Missions are complicated. It seems to find a way to always give you the lowest possible quest reward; if you've already taken the mission, it seems to give you the item at the level you took that mission, ignoring the host's mission level. I'm not 100% sure about that though, confirmation would be nice.