HellFire (Borderlands 2)

The HellFire is a Submachine Gun manufactured by Maliwan.

Special Weapon Effects
High fire elemental damage, roughly x3 proc chance as shown on card, Small explosion damage radius which deals reduced damage, and infinite proc stacking.

Usage & Description
While the HellFire does have excellent damage-per-shot compared to other SMGs in Borderlands 2, its true strength lies in the elemental damage. The HellFire's combination of high fire rate, chance to ignite and burn damage per second makes it an excellent weapon for dealing damage over time.

The common varieties of Bandit, Nomad and other fleshy enemies will fall quickly to the sheer amount of burn damage the user can stack on a single in a short period of time. The HellFire is powerful enough to let even badass enemies behind cover simply burn to death if the user tagged them a couple times before they got there.

The HellFire excels at medium range, against single targets or many. It would be wise, however, to stack on as much fire damage onto a single target as possible, and then letting the burn damage finish the job.

Trivia
The special text is a callback to an SMG in the prior Borderlands game, also named Hellfire.