The Aegis has a somewhat slow rate of fire that is compensated by high elemental effect chance and damage on shock, incendiary, and corrosive variants.
Depending on the Barrel, Aegis can have several effects:
Dahl barrel: Reduces recoil and accuracy.
Maliwan barrel: Increases accuracy and elemental effect chance.
Tediore barrel: No additional effects.
Bandit/scav barrel: Increases damage at the cost of accuracy.
Notable Variants[]
Borderlands 2
Rubi – Unique pistol that restores 12% of damage dealt as health.
Grog Nozzle – Uniqueslag pistol with low base damage. Restores 65% of damage dealt as health and has a short-lived effect that fires five more projectiles with reduced fire rate and accuracy.
Thunderball Fists – Legendaryshock pistol that fires orbs which deal area-of-effect damage before detonating.
Infection – Seraphcorrosive pistol that fires gravity-affected projectiles with an arc. Significantly increased elemental effect damage and chance. Extremely low base damage.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Electrified Aegis – Uniqueshock (but common-quality) variant of this weapon as Athena's starting weapon.
Hard Reboot – Uniqueshock pistol with a much larger elemental effect radius on impact.
Probe – Unique pistol that restores 5% of damage dealt as health.
Notes[]
An Aegis deals an additional 80% splash damage. This damage is further boosted by grenade damage bonuses.
The Aegis is obtained randomly from any suitable loot source.