Revolver (Borderlands)

Revolvers are very powerful handguns, what they lack in both firing rate and reload speed they make up with damage and accuracy. Essentially "hand-cannons", revolvers are a great weapon for anyone exploring Pandora. Because of their reliability and critical hit power, they make a great weapon to pull out during a reload, or a good weapon to open up a fight with by head-shotting a target. Because of their effectiveness over a long range, revolvers often have scopes. Revolvers are best suited for use against targets with high health, which move slowly and have large areas to critical hit such as Bruisers.

Revolvers are only a good choice in a heated fire-fight if they are used effectively for headshots. If you are unable to aim for headshots consistently while moving, a weapon with a higher fire rate is a better choice. However, the Pestilent Defiler orange revolver will deal massive corrosive damage on every shot regardless of whether one aims for headshots or not, so it can be used in such heated firefights much more effectively.

Revolvers can have a bladed accessory that doubles the power of melee attacks. Revolvers typically have slow reload speeds. Using a bladed revolver you can finish off a wounded enemy instead of taking damage while the revolver reloads.

Revolvers have their own ammunition but share a proficiency score with repeater Pistols.

Revolvers are arguably the best elemental weapons. Every shot is guaranteed to give at least an x2 elemental effect, with a chance of the stronger effects for x2 x3 or x4 guns.

Varieties

 * Patton - Unique quest reward
 * Justice - Increased damage
 * Law - Higher fire rate
 * Masher - Shoots multiple projectiles like Shotguns do. Usually feature decreased accuracy.
 * Madjack - Unique drop
 * Razor - Increased Melee damage
 * Revolver - Balanced stats
 * Viper - Higher accuracy

Legendary:
 * Atlas Chimera "A beast of many forms - Fire, Lightning and poison" - Each bullet will randomly deal fire, lightning, or corrosive damage.
 * Dahl Anaconda "Long and Strong" - Increased accuracy and power.
 * Jakobs Unforgiven "It's a helluva thing..." - +200% Critical Hit Damage.
 * Maliwan Defiler "Give Sick" - 100% chance to corrode the enemy. (Will always have "Pestilent" prefix.)
 * Tediore Equalizer "Unending Firepower" - Ammo regeneration.

Trivia

 * Mordecai counts Revolvers as included in any of his talents that improve his skills with Pistols, including Class Mods that give Pistol Ammo Regeneration.