Story Pack 1, Mad Ellie & The Vault Of The Damned, drops 18 new legendary items and 3 Pearlescents into the loot pool. Every single one of them comes from a named boss, and every boss has a fixed zone location. There is no guessing, no random world drop praying required. You just need to know where to go and who to kill.
What legendaries are in Mad Ellie Story Pack 1?
The DLC adds 21 total items worth farming: 18 legendaries and 3 Pearlescents. According to the drop table compiled by EpicNNG on Mobalytics, each item is tied to a specific boss encounter, and those bosses spawn in named zones across the DLC's map. There are 8 distinct boss sources in total, covering everything from early-zone encounters to the final Vault Of The Damned itself.
Legendary drop confirmation
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Pearlescent items are rarer than legendaries and sit above them in the gear tier. If you are farming for Pearlescents specifically, expect longer sessions before one drops.
Where do you find all boss drops?
Below is the complete drop table based on Mobalytics source data. Each boss has a dedicated item pool, so if you are hunting a specific weapon or mod, you only need to farm that one encounter.
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The Nightmare Rifts are your most efficient stop if you want DLC Class Mods. All 5 new mods drop from that single pool, so you can cycle through Nightmare Rift bosses without bouncing across the entire map.
Which bosses should you farm first?
If you are working through the DLC for the first time, Corporal Brennan in Trans-Lunar Intactment is an early encounter and a reasonable warm-up farm. The Laser-Cutter and Bismuth-Tipped Dagger are both accessible without finishing the story.
For endgame farming, Captain Willis in the Vault Of The Damned is the priority target. Three drops including Reminisce, Heimdahl, and Crow-Sourced make Willis one of the most loot-dense bosses in the pack. After testing the Vault Of The Damned encounter multiple times, the fight is repeatable and the zone loads quickly, which matters when you are doing extended farm sessions.
Crazed Earl in Bloodstained Hollowe also deserves attention. Three dedicated drops including a self-named Crazed Earl weapon make this one of the more rewarding stops in the DLC.
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The zone name for Big Oil is specifically the Fuel Siphon: The Gurgling Stent sub-area inside Bloodstained Hollow. Do not confuse this with the Bloodstained Hollowe zone where Crazed Earl spawns. These are two separate locations despite the similar names.How do you farm Nightmare Rift bosses efficiently?
The Nightmare Rifts function as a shared drop pool for four weapons and all 5 new DLC Class Mods. That makes them the single best location in Story Pack 1 if you need class mod upgrades for C4SH or any other Vault Hunter.
The four weapons available from Nightmare Rift bosses are Kor, Fearstalker, Falke, and Ichor. Since all Nightmare Rift bosses contribute to the same pool, you do not need to track which specific rift boss drops which specific item. Run the rifts, collect loot, repeat.
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If you are farming for a specific Class Mod, Nightmare Rifts are more efficient than hoping for world drops. The dedicated pool keeps your target items in rotation rather than competing against the entire legendary loot table.
Full item list at a glance
For quick reference, here are all 18 legendaries and the 3 Pearlescents grouped by source:
- Trans-Lunar Intactment (Corporal Brennan): Laser-Cutter, Bismuth-Tipped Dagger
- Nightmare Rifts: Kor, Fearstalker, Falke, Ichor, plus all 5 DLC Class Mods
- Bunker: Crisis Scar Weeping (The Penitent Steel): Flash Cyclone, Geiger-Roid, Soul Survivor
- Bloodstained Hollow (Big Oil): Honey Badger, Sunspot
- Bloodstained Hollowe (Crazed Earl): Barb' Ara, Scoot'n'Shoot, Crazed Earl
- DCN Feuermann (Colonel Crash): Blood Moon, Hemorrhage
- Vault Of The Damned (Captain Willis): Reminisce, Heimdahl, Crow-Sourced
- Crooked Teeth (Air-Raider Scremulous): Elpis Star, Prowler
Based on available information from Mobalytics, the 3 Pearlescents are distributed within the boss drop pools listed above, though the exact Pearlescent-to-boss assignments are not broken out separately in the current source data.
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