Carnage (Borderlands 2)

The Carnage is a shotgun manufactured by Torgue. The Carnage can be obtained randomly from any suitable loot source, but has a higher chance to drop from legendary loot midgets. It was added with Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack Two: Digistruct Peak Challenge.

Special Weapon Effects
Massively increased damage at a reduced projectile count and increased ammo cost. Projectiles emulate Torgue Rockets.

Usage And Description
The Carnage is essentially a rocket launcher for the price of shotgun ammo instead of rocket ammo, making it by far a very economical choice. Due to how the projectiles are essentially rockets, they benefit from massive damage and a large splash radius, making it very versatile at mid to long range. However, the Carnage rockets can still down you if you shoot to close to oneself, as it is with rocket launchers, limiting it to short-mid to long range encounters, unlike usual Ravager or Flakker shotguns, where you can rely on the high damage at short range to not kill you. Zer0's Vel0city and Maya's Accelerate can improve the usefulness of the Carnage, speeding up it's projectiles to hit more reliably.

Trivia

 * The "Casual" prefix, which increases projectile count, increases the ammo used to 3.
 * The Carnage is the first common weapon to return from Borderlands as a unique weapon.
 * The flavor text of the Carnage parodies the flavor text from the Borderlands variants, with those variants reading "Holy crap! It shoots rockets!".