Where is Michael Mamaril?

Solution 1:

Michael Mamaril can be found in the Sanctuary (you don't need any quest requirement for him,he starts showing as soon you get in Sanctuary).

There is a chance he will "spawn" in one of his spawn locations (i personally found him twice next to the Hostel door) in Sanctuary everytime you come to the town.

Michael Mamaril Locations (screenshot and work by me):

Additional info:

• Michael Mamaril will give you a blue weapon or item when you talk to him
• The items he gives you are scaled to your level
• You can constantly leave and re-enter town via fast-travel to reset his spawning and therefore farm free items from him
• In the unpatched console versions, Michael has a 100% spawn chance before Sanctuary is relocated
• His spawn chance on PC and on patched console version is always 10%

Solution 2:

For the Tribute To A Vault Hunter (15 points / Bronze) achievement when you reach the town of Sanctuary, you can find Mike Mamaril hanging around some of the town’s major landmarks.

Partial list of locations he can be found at:

• Inside the Crimson Raider’s HQ
• Zed’s Clinic
• The News Stand
• Claptrap’s Corner
• Moxxie's place (across from Sir Hammerlock)

and other random locations around the city.

Here is a video example:

EDIT

There are reports that at first I concluded it must be a bug on the PC version of the game. But as reports started coming in from other forums, it seems Mike is a very rare spawn on PC. On consoles people find him very easily.

Here is one Steam user who found him on PC. Posting the screen shot to avoid link rot.

I followed the discussion at Gearbox forums for the past few days since I posted this answer. And this is what I am concluding. Whether this was intentional or a bug, I can not tell. More likely some int value got a bit higher in porting it across platforms.

No Michael on PC?

Has ANYONE who plays on PC found Michael Mamaril?

If you HAVE found Michael Mamaril on PC version, post here

Solution 3:

I found him in the gun store. He gave me a badass fire pistol. The store is in the Sanctuary and it's a store not a vending machine. I'm playing on the PS3.