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[[Category:Sawtooth Cauldron missions]]
Toil and Trouble is a mission in Borderlands 2. The bridge to Arid Nexus has been blocked and Brick needs a special solution to blast the hoisted span back down to complete the bridge. The solution he has in mind is well out of reach at the top of Inferno Tower in Sawtooth Cauldron.
Walkthrough
Objectives
- Enter Main Street Reservoir
- Enter Cramfist's Foundry
- Destroy Boombringer
- Find buzzard hangars
- Ascend Inferno Tower
- Steal Odomo crates: 0/4
- Head to Arid Nexus
- Scare Mortar and look like a badass (optional)
- Kill Mortar (optional)
Strategy
Participants need to reach The Buzzard Nest at the top of Inferno Tower in order to neutralise the defending buzzards and prime the Odomo crates for pick up. Along the way are various location objectives and various defending bandits.
The first objectives entail simply passing through a reservoir and Cramfist's Foundry. This means passing through areas not only teeming with hostile bandits, but also a lake area populated by several threshers. The usual base units of tadpole threshers are present, but encounters may well include a wormhole thresher, and sometimes a badass pyre thresher.
The first real target is Boombringer, a grounded buzzard belonging to Mortar. While the objective itself is a simple process of pointing a weapon at it and pulling the trigger, the path to reach it is protected by two automated Gatling turrets, several buzzards and a number of bandit units. An optional objective, prompted by Brick over the ECHO, is to turn away from the Boombringer's explosion to "look badass" and to scare Mortar.
Ascending Inferno Tower is no easy task as this involves fighting through four bandit taskmasters commanding a number of regular bandits. They all attack en masse, making this a particularly intense fight.
Mortar himself arrives to exact retribution for his destroyed buzzard. The area should be clear by this point, and without backup he is little better than a very tough bandit with a powerful gun.
The elevator will take characters to the top of Inferno Tower which proves to be an open deck with minimal cover. This is a problem as the regular bandits are reinforced by five buzzards, and these five must all be destroyed. Once this has been done, the four Odomo crates can be tagged for pick up by four Slab Support Buzzards, and then the mission is complete.
Completion
- "Thanks to Brick's buzzards and your own capacity for extreme violence, you now have what you need to blast your way into the Hyperion Info Stockade and find out where the Warrior is buried."
Video
Trivia
- The Odomo explosive crates are named after Maré Odomo, illustrator and friend of Borderlands 2 lead writer Anthony Burch.