Forum:Noob Elemental Question

I'm not a noob to borderlands, I've been playing since it came out and I am actually quite addicted to it. But I did have a question thats probably been explained on here a dozen dozen times or may even have a main page but I cant find it. I want to see if one of you guys on here (you all seem to know a helluva lot about he game mechanics) exactly how the elements work.

1: I always thought that them main difference in the x1-x4 was the damage it caused while the enemy was burning/melting/shocking and the likelyhood of it happening. But reading some article on here it seems I may be wrong. Does a x4 do 4 times the listed gun damage while the enemy is burning/melting/shocking or is it based on something else?

2: Also the High, very high, higher text on the gun, I thought for awhile the it went from high, to very high to higher simply because Higher for me is the rarest of those texts, but it would make more since if it went high, higher, very high. Please clear that up for me too.

3: Stacking:  I hear that refered to alot in regards to mostly hellfires, what does that mean?

Eatingleg4peanut 13:50, June 16, 2010 (UTC)