Like any Borderlands game – it’s all about the loot, and the Legendary Weapons are the cream of the crop. Borderlands 3 features countless different Legendary Weapons that go above and beyond normal weapons with new styles, skins, and hidden effects.
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Pistols
Infinity
- Accuracy: 90%
- Handling: 60%
- Reload Time: 2.8s
- Fire Rate: 8.61/s
- Magazine Size: 1
- +15% Weapon Fire Rate
- 4x Weapon Zoom
- Red Text: It’s closer than you think! (no it isn’t)
The Infinity is a returning pistol that only has one round in the chamber, but it’s all you ever need. It’s special effect lets you fire infinitely without using any extra ammo at a fairly high rate of fire, making it perfect for conserving ammo.
Dastardly Amazing Grace
- Accuracy: 65%
- Handling: 85%
- Reload Time: 1.6s
- Fire Rate: 2.10/s
- Magazine Size: 4
- +73% Weapon Damage
- +21% Critical Hit Damage
- +60% Weapon Accuracy
- 5x Weapon Zoom
- Returns 1 bullet to your magazine every critical hit
- Red Text: Memento Mori
A slow and steady shot, this pistol may not let you fan the hammer very fast, but its slow and accurate shots will guarantee that your foes will remember their mortality.
Hazardous Sellout
- Accuracy: 53%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 2.3s
- Fire Rate: 3.64/s
- Magazine: 15
- +15% Weapon Fire Rate
- +100 Splash Damage Radius
- Consumes 3 Ammo per shot
- 1.5x Weapon Zoom
- Can switch between Incendiary and Corrosive Element
- Red Text: Hey there, superfan!
A great pistol with explosively splashing fire or corrosive shots, it’s recoil might be bad, but nowhere near as bad as the real catch – you’ll have to listen to Tyreen Calypso’s mocking voice as you shoot.
Unending Magnificent
- Accuracy: 55%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 6s
- Fire Rate: 13.95/s
- Magazine Size: 115
- +15% Weapon Fire Rate
- Effective vs. Shields
- Underbarrel Taser can deal X damage for 7 seconds
- Red Text: Yedesh na den’, khleba beri na nedelyu
This little pistol carries over one hundred bullets in its magazine, and fires faster than most SMGs. It’s like the weapon text says: If you go for a day trip, take a week’s supply of bread.
Shotguns
Speedloadin’ Hellwalker
- Accuracy: 54%
- Handling: 51%
- Reload Time: 1s
- Fire Rate: 4.20/s
- Magazine Size: 2
- +57% Weapon Damage
- +10% Critical Hit Damage
- +35% Reload Speed
- Consumes 2 ammo per shot
- Effective vs. Flesh
- Red Text: So, my demons. Your time has come.
Hey, you got your Doom in my Borderlands! This replica of the Super Shotgun from Doom fires shots in a pentagram spread, firing both barrels in one shot with that classic reloading action we all know and love.
Assault Rifles
Rebel Yell
- Accuracy: 63%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 2.3s
- Fire Rate: 10.67/s
- Magazine Size: 22
- +10% Critical Hit Damage
- +27% Weapon Fire Rate
- 1.5x Weapon Zoom
- Effective vs. Shields
- Blasts Tracker Darts, tagging enemies for homing bullets for 15 seconds
- Red Text: When you charge, yell like Furies.
This assault rifle boasts an impressive rate of fire to deplete enemy shields in a hurry, and its name derives from the civil war battle cry and General Stonewall’s famous quote is featured in the weapon’s text.
Venomous Dauntless Kaos
- Accuracy: 73%
- Handling: 75%
- Reload Time: 2.8s
- Fire Rate: 12.61/s
- Magazine Size: 45
- +33% Weapon Fire Rate
- Effective vs Armor.
- Swaps between Fully Automatic and Semi-Auto
- Red Text: Grants the mystical art of exploding smallhands.
This assault rifle fires an impressive amount of corrosive bullets a second, with the fun added bonus of causing any corroded enemies to explode into a gooey mess upon death, infecting their friends.
Dastardly Hand of Glory
- Accuracy: 64%
- Handling: 56%
- Reload Time: 2.7s
- Fire Rate: 11.02/s
- Magazine Size: 18
- +21% Critical Hit Damage
- +15% Reload Speed
- +60% Melee Damage
- 3.3x Weapon Zoom
- Critical Hits ricochet 1 bullet at nearest enemy
- Red Text: By one, by two, by three!
This assault rifle has a very sexy cheetah print weapon skin, and has a very unusual firing pattern referenced in its weapon text, allowing you to fire off quick bursts rather than holding down the trigger to empty the entire clip.
Polite Lead Sprinkler
- Accuracy: 61%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 3.2s
- Fire Rate: 6.93/s
- Magazine Size: 20
- -29% Weapon Damage
- -25% Critical Hi Damage
- 6.5x Weapon Zoom
This Jakobs manufactured assault rifle may seem like a dud with its reduced damage and rotating ammo barrel, but its bullets are still deadly as they follow a low trajectory, and burst into exploding shards whenever it hits an opponent, sprinkling the ground with hot death.
Hawt Dayumned Sawbar
- Accuracy: 69%
- Handling: 59%
- Repair Time :4.3s
- Fire Rate: 6.47/s
- Shots to Break: 79
- Effective vs Flesh
- Red Text: Suppressing fires!
A terrifying assault rifle that can unload all of your ammo thanks to its weapon manufacturer, its fiery rounds may come out slow, but they’ll split into three separate flaming explosions per bullet, making it deadly for clearing out packs of unshielded opponents.
Nuclear Faisor
- Accuracy: 73%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 3.5s
- Fire Rate: 11.01/s
- Magazine Size: 55
- +27% Weapon Fire Rate
- +60% Melee Damage
- 1.5x Weapon Zoom
- Irradiates enemies
- Can swap to shotgun variant
- Red Text: Set Faisers to Kill
Who doesn’t love a good nuclear assault rifle that also doubles as a shotgun. This weapon has a great rate of fire and a high magazine capacity, and shoots some very colorful but deadly rounds.
SMGs
Express Firesale Long Musket
- Accuracy: 64%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 1.6s
- Fire Rate: 3.69/s
- Magazine Size: 26
- -20% Weapon Damage
- +21% Weapon Fire Rate
- -29% Weapon Accuracy
- Consumes 2 Ammo per shot
- 3x Weapon Zoome
- Effective vs Flesh
- “one free blockchain with every reload!”
- Red Text: Say “cryptocurrency”!
Of course there’s a blockchain gun in Borderlands. This SMG doesn’t shoot bullets – it’s a mini flamethrower! As an added bonus, you can throw it away to reload, and the extra gun will sprout legs and chase your enemies around lighting them on fire for you!
Cloud Kill
- Accuracy: 84%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 2.7s
- Fire Rate: 10.31/s
- Magazine Size: 34
- +15% Weapon Fire Rate
- +35% Weapon Charge Speed
- 1.7x Weapon Zoom
- Red Text: Now, you will rise.
True to its namesake, this Maliwan brand SMG takes a moment to charge up before unleashing a quick salvo of toxic bullets that will cover any enemy it hits in a pervasive hazardous cloud that will follow them around as they flee.
Hazardous Westergun
- Accuracy: 71%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 2.4s
- Fire Rate: 5.51/s
- Magazine Size: 24
- +20% Weapon Charge Speed
- +75 Splash Damage Radius
- 1.7x Weapon Zoom
- Can switch between Cryo and Corrosive element
- Red Text: I believe ya, but my tommy gun don’t
For a Maliwan gun, this SMG needs almost no charge time before you can unleash either cryo or corrosive bolts at a rapid pace with impressive splash damage, which is sure to cause chaos when going against bigger groups.
Mocking Tsunami
- Accuracy: 86%
- Handling: 58%
- Reload Time: 3s
- Fire Rate: 9.59/s
- Magazine Size: 44
- +28% Weapon Charge Speed
- 2.9x Weapon Zoom
- Red Text: You can’t explain that.
This SMG may need a bit of a charge, but once you get it going you’ll find your shots flying out in a 5 bullet line spread with a slight angle – and your enemies will find them laced with random elemental effects!
Sniper Rifles
Quickdraw Monocle
- Accuracy: 99%
- Handling: 71%
- Reload Time: 2.8s
- Fire Rate: 0.92/s
- Magazine Size: 6
- -31% Weapon Damage
- +62% Weapon Accuracy
- +19% Reload Speed
- 15.5x Weapon Zoom
- Critical Hits ricochet 1 bullet at the nearest enemy.
- Red Text: One is enough.
The text on this sniper rifle says “one is enough”, and it might not be lying. We’ve yet to find an enemy that can survive a single critical strike from this deadly weapon!
Stark Krakatoa
- Accuracy: 95%
- Handling: 76%
- Reload Time: 4s
- Fire Rate: 3.15/s
- Magazine Size: 14
- 4.2x Weapon Zoom
- Red Text: Get him angry and he’s bound to erupt
A Maliwan sniper rifle is a bit of an oddity, but its charge-up lets you loose high powered fiery rounds, and an enemy slain by the mighty krakatoa may just spawn a small volcano on their corpse to shower the area with lava eruptions!
Searing Vigilant Malak’s Bane
- Accuracy: 93%
- Handling: 38%
- Reload Time: 2.7s
- Fire Rate: 2.36/s
- Magazine Size: 18
- +15% Reload Speed
- Consumes 2 ammo per shot.
- 7.7x Weapon Zoom (Sniper) or 2x (Shotgun)
- Effective against Flesh
- Swaps between Sniper and Shotgun
- Red Text: Welcome to the End
This creepy looking sniper rifle can double as a shotgun to shoot a round of flaming shards, but its true terror lies in its ability to belt out ricocheting sniper round that leave a trail of fire, letting you watch the bullets fly.
Woodblocker
- Accuracy: 92%
- Handling: 83%
- Reload Time: 3.2s
- Fire Rate: 9.26/s
- Magazine Size: 20
- +25% Weapon Shield Capacity (3,569)
- +15% Reload Speed
- 8x Weapon Zoom
- Irradiates enemies
- Damage to projected front-facing shield Amplifies weapon damage
- Red Text: You don’t get into woodblocks unless you are ready to f***.
Boasting a nifty weapon skin, this sniper rifle can pack a huge punch with a 4-round burst of irradiated shots, and it can be used when zoomed to both shield incoming attacks and amplify your own damage when sent back!
Rocket Launchers
Stuffed Quadomizer
- Accuracy: 45%
- Handling: 41%
- Reload TIme: 4.5s
- Fire Rate: 0.46/s
- Magazine Size: 6
- +540 Splash Damage Radius
- Consumes 2 ammo per shot
- 1.5x Weapon Zoom
- Irradiates enemies
- Red Text: Damn near killed ’em.
The great Quadomizer lives up to its name, as a single shot from this rocket launcher will let loose a spread of four radioactive rockets to crash into your enemies and send them flying.
Stuffed Tunguska
- Accuracy: 81%
- Handling: 41%
- Reload Time: 4.3s
- Fire Rate: 0.63/s
- Magazine Size: 6
- +50 Splash Damage Radius
- Red Text: Crack the skye.
The only thing better than a rocket launcher is a rocket that launches itself! If your shot happens to miss and hit the ground, this weapon’s rockets will bounce upwards before exploding to catch everyone around them in a fiery blast.
Uniques
Eridian Fabricator
- Shoots guns instead of bullets
- Fires 10 guns per 10 Eridium
- Requires 10 Eridium to be used
It’s a gun. That shoots guns. What’s not to love?
Shields
Marksman Red Suit
- Recharge Delay: 2.3
- Recharge Rate: 461
- Deals a constant radiation damage per second to nearby enemies
- Grants 100% Radiation Resistance
- When shield is full, shots drain 30% shield for +20% Weapon Damage
- When shield is damaged, 20% on hit to drop a Power Charge that increases weapon damage by 10%
- Red Text: Warning: Containment failure.
This nifty shield will protect you from all forms of radiation damage – but your enemies won’t be so lucky. Anyone unfortunate enough to get close to you will suffer immense radiation damage, and you can use the opportunity to amp up your own shots whether your shield is full or damaged.
The Transformer
- Recharge Delay: 4.8
- Recharge Rate: 1,285
- Grants 100% Shock Resistance
- Coverts 100% of Shock Damage into shields
- 40% chance to absorb bullets, adding to your ammo count
- Red Text: There’s more than your eye can see.
This shield has a roundabout way of saying there’s more than meets your eye, and for good reason – The Transformer boasts total shock immunity, and will instead power your shields, as well absorbing some bullets into your own ammo.
Grenades
Nagata
- Radius: 192
- Longbow Grenades Teleport to their destination
- Red Text: Beltalowda!
A nifty teleporting grenade, the Nagata moves slowly before replicating into a giant ring of identical grenades, and warping to the target to explode in a consecutive firestorm of death. Fun fact: it’s red text is a reference to The Expanse, as the word translates roughly to “the people of the (asteroid) belt”.
Class Mods
Growling Reinforced Bear Trooper (Moze Mod)
- Lowers Iron Bear’s Fuel Use (-50%) and Increases Iron Bear’s Duration (+50%)
- +18% Weapon Critical Damage
- +5 Grenade Capacity
- +25% Atlas Weapon Reload Speed
- Red Text: Rocket ’til the wheels fall off.
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