Weapons

Weapons are generated randomly in Borderlands. This means that weapons that have the same name do not necessarily have the same stats. This is also true of boss weapons. Rather than waste time listing every possibly combination in the game, we decided it best to list the most powerful and/or interesting of them all only. This is more practical and less of a waste of time for those of you who wish to know the juicy information.

Borderlands has the following types of weapons:


• Combat Rifles
• Eridian Guns
• Pistols
• Revolvers
• Rocket Launchers
• Shotguns
• Sniper Rifles
• Sub-Machine Guns

Weapon Proficiency

Something that makes Borderlands extra fun is that you are rewarded not only with XP when you shoot enemies down, but also an increase in weapon proficiency. The higher your proficiency, the more of a stat bonus is added to that category of weapon. This includes not only accuracy, but damage and other stats too.

Weapon Name Color - Rarity

There are 8 levels of weapon rarity. This is depicted by the text color of the weapon's name and is calculated based off of the weapon's stats. The colors are ranked in the following order:

White -> Green -> Blue -> Purple -> Light Orange -> Orange -> Dark Orange -> Red -> Pearlescent

Elemental Weapons

Standard - Does not add elemental damage
Corrosive - Good against armor, spreads to nearby enemies, corrosive effect
Explosive - Causes explosions on impact for increased damage
Fire - Good against enemies that don't have armor or shields, burning effect
Lightning - Good against damaging shields

Weapon Manufacturers

Atlas – Known for above-average overall attributes
Dahl – Known for low recoil rate
Eridians – Known for being rare, alien weaponry (uses rechargeable energy)
Gearbox – Known for being very rare.
Hyperion – Known for high accuracy
Jakobs – Known for having high damage with a low rate of fire
Maliwan – Known for having elemental attributes
S&S Munitions – Known for large gun magazine size
Tediore – Known for fast reload sped
Torgue – Known for being a balanced gun (stat-wise)
Vladof – Known for having a high fire rate

Gun Stats

Accuracy – Likelihood of hitting target where you are aiming at
Burst Fire Count – The amount of bullets that shoot out from a burst fire
Critical Hit Damage – Damage dealt from critical attacks
Damage – The rate of the attack power
Elemental Chance – The likelihood of whether or not an elemental weapon will fire a bullet with an elemental effect
Extra Particles – Usually for shotgun blasts, the more particles fired into the enemy the more damage dealt
Fire Rate – The rate at which bullets are fired
Magazine – Total bullet capacity of gun
Melee – Increases melee attack damage
Multiplier – Pertaining to damage, this multiples the attack’s power (x2, x3, x4, etc)
Recoil – The amount your gun pushes back (less recoil = more accuracy). Recoil reduction stat available.
Reload Speed – The speed of which the user adds a new magazine full of ammo
Zoom – Allows you to see targets more easily by zooming in to their location

Special Attributes

Some weapons have special attributes, of which is made apparent by a phrase in red text. These attributes are not made apparent in the weapon's description and therefore must either be looked-up or figured out by ones self from testing weapons. There are many.

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