Borderlands 3 Weapons

For another game, see Weapons.

Weapons are used to deal damage to enemies in Borderlands 3. Like in previous games, guns are generated with a procedural algorithm. However, unlike in previous installments of the franchise, there is no more mixing of manufacturers' parts. Instead, each manufacturer has multiple variants for each part of a given type of weapon. In addition to this new system, manufacturers have additional gimmicks associated with their products. Grenades use a new parts system as well, as do shields, allowing much greater variety in both.

Weapon Types

There are seven types of weapons in Borderlands 3.

Assault rifles	List of assault rifles in Borderlands 3
Pistols	List of pistols in Borderlands 3
Rocket launchers	List of rocket launchers in Borderlands 3
Shotguns	List of shotguns in Borderlands 3
Sniper rifles	List of sniper rifles in Borderlands 3
Submachine guns	List of submachine guns in Borderlands 3
Grenade mods	List of grenade mods in Borderlands 3

Weapon Manufacturers

There are ten weapon manufacturers in Borderlands 3.

• Atlas
• CoV (Children of the Vault)
• Dahl
• Hyperion
• Jakobs
• Maliwan
• Tediore
• Torgue
• Vladof

• Atlas
• CoV (Children of the Vault)
• Dahl
• Hyperion
• Jakobs
• Maliwan
• Tediore
• Torgue
• Vladof

• Pangolin (grenade mods only)

Elemental Effects

Main article: Elemental Damage

Borderlands 3 has the three basic elements of the previous games, namely Incendiary, Shock and Corrosive. While it retains Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel's Cryo element as well, Explosive damage is reclassified as "kinetic" non-elemental splash damage. Borderlands 3 also introduces a brand new element, Radiation. Additionally, most elements (Corrosive being the exception) can interact with bodies of water to cause area-of-effect damage.

Construction

Instead of sharing a single pool of weapon parts across a given weapon type, as in previous games, each manufacturer has usually at least 3 or 4 variants for each weapon part. Additionally, in some cases, a weapon may have multiple parts from the same class on it. For example, whereas formerly a weapon could only have a single accessory, some weapons may now have two or even three at once, in addition to part accessories that further modify the effects of a given weapon part. A total of 1,500 to 1,700 different parts, with as many as 35 on an Epic gun, allows there to be a much larger number of possible weapons than ever before; one of the trailers promised "over one billion guns", a number that is actually well under the true figure.

Datamining (numbers current as of 2020-11-09) suggests the game can generate 69,002,788 weapons (anointments non-included) or 4,007,410,150 (anointments included).

Weapons with many accessories will usually be of higher rarity, while common weapons may have no accessory at all. All Unique/Legendary weapons have fixed parts (for barrel and magazine mostly).

Alien Barrels

Functions just like E-tech barrels from Borderlands 2, these weird biopunk-styled barrels makes a weapon fires special elemental projectiles at a cost of extra ammunition cost (extra heat per shot for COV weapons).

Due to their nature, Atlas and Jakobs doesn't manufacture common alien barrel weapon.

Alien barrel weapons by title

Manufacturer	COV	Dahl	Hyperion	Maliwan	Tediore	Torgue	Vladof
Pistol	Blastphemy	Wyvern		Devourer	Lurkshot	Carbuncle	Pushdug
Submachine gun		Cadejo	Hivemind	Heliophage		Gibbergun
Shotgun			Host	Interloper	Elderblast	Protuberance
Assault rifle	Wizzperer	Mngwa				Blister	Burzum
Sniper rifle		Wyrm	Broodmother	Antimatter Rifle			Ghaash
Heavy weapon						Lump	Bagronk

See Also

• Anointment
• Mayhem Gear
• Weapons by title (Borderlands 3)