Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Guide Optional Missions

The Bane

Mission Briefing

You have heard rumors of a powerful, cursed gun known as The Bane. With some help from Marcus Kincaid, you may be able to find this legendary weapon.

Availability: Locate the ECHO Recorder in the alley beside Moxxi’s Bar in Sanctuary after “The Once and Future Slab.”

Unlocks: —

Mission Reward: The Grave

Level	Money	XP	Gear
22	—	4563	SMG (Blue)

The Dust

Find this ECHO Recorder in the alley just outside the door near the slot machines at Moxxi’s Bar.

A mysterious ECHO Recorder lying in the alley near Moxxi’s Bar has information about a cursed weapon. Locate the ECHO Recorder, then head to Marcus Kincaid to see if he knows anything about it. If anyone in Sanctuary is going to know something about a weapon, it’s Marcus!

Marcus knows a little about the weapon, but he’s not too interested in talking about it. Instead, he tells you to track down a man named Horace in The Dust. Use the Fast Travel to visit The Dust and head around back behind Ellie’s Garage. Fight your way past the spiderants in Bug Gulch, and stay to the right at the fork to find another ECHO Recorder near the corpse of a man named Horace. The next step in what’s becoming a wild goose chase has you searching for a man named McNally. Return to Ellie’s Garage and get yourself a vehicle.

McNally isn’t going to just hand you the ECHO Recorder; you’ll have to shoot it out of him!

Drive south across the desert to the canyon between Hodunk Speedway and Goose’s Roost. A bandit named McNally can be found roaming the area on foot. Open fire on him with your vehicle’s guns, and pick up the ECHO Recorder he drops. This next ECHO Recorder speaks of a man named Gar who resides in the frontier town of Lynchwood. Drive west across The Dust to the railcar station and transit to Lynchwood.

Lynchwood

Load up on ammo at the vending machines in the train station, then step out onto Main Street and make a hard left toward the cave leading to Gunslinger’s Corner. Fight your way north past the Marauders and Bruisers to the bend in the road, and loop around the perimeter of this northern district toward a cave with an elevator in the rear. Ride the elevator up to the top of the plateau overlooking Gunslinger’s Corner. Many more bandits lurk in this upper area, so keep your wits about you as you make your way east to the buildings on the edge of town. The blue glow of Gar’s ECHO Recorder leads you to the man’s corpse and the next piece of the puzzle.

Here lies a weapon of incredible accuracy, but also of great immobility and annoyance.

Leap from the western edge of the upper area to quickly return to the tunnel leading back to Main Street. Continue south past the station and through a skag-infested canyon to an elevator at the southern end. Ride the elevator up to Death Row Refinery and battle past the hordes of rats to an area known as The Grinders. This location is home to numerous Armored Skags and Armored Skag Riders. Put away the Fire weapons you’ve likely been wielding in favor of some Explosive or Corrosive weaponry. Push on past these deadly armored foes to the southeast corner of The Grinders to find a small patch of ground set aside for a cemetery. Dig up the grave near the lone tombstone to complete the mission and find the cursed weapon.