- This article is about the Borderlands 2 class mods. For other uses, see Class Mod.
Class Mods, or COMs (short for Class Optimization Modules), are influential items in Borderlands 2. They are class specific upgrades that provide benefits to the character (or the entire team) by offering a wide variety of bonuses such as amplifying a character's damage, healing, increasing character health or shield capacity, reducing reload times, increasing skill ranks, etc. Class Mod skill bonuses do stack, even if a specific skill is maxxed (5/5), up to a total maximum of 11 ranks in any skill. A skill bonus however will not function unless the character has at least 1 point invested in the specified skill. Skills currently receiving bonuses from an equipped Class Mod are outlined in cyan in the skill tree, even if no points are invested in the skill.
Class mods can be obtained in several ways throughout the game.
- They can be bought from medical vending machines.
- Found in many of the lootable objects such as: Chests, skag piles or lockers.
- As a reward from completing a mission.
- Dropped by certain enemies when they are killed.
Borderlands 2 Class Mods[]
Class mods in Borderlands 2 have a prefix that will note the skills given by the class mod, with the prefix determining the mandatory focus of the skill bonus. Skills that are boosted by class mods will also be shown in the skill tree selection, listing the number of bonus points from the mod and the final percentages for the skill.
The prefix (if any) always offers a bonus to the skill that it is associated with, as shown in the charts below. (For example, Maya's "Hell Binder" class mod will always buff Helios, "Cunning Binder," Reaper, and "Chrono Binder," Suspension.) The additional skills that receive a bonus (if any) come from the class mod's pre-defined set of skills. (For example, Maya's "Binder" class mod will always affect only Helios, Reaper, and/or Suspension.)
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep adds a set of class mods (Barbarian, Cleric, Monk, Necromancer, Ranger, and Rogue) which do not follow the above rule. The prefix on these class mods instead determines what player variables (e.g. Fire Rate, Magazine Size, etc.) are affected.
The rarity of a class mod determines how many skills it will affect:
- White - No skill bonuses
- Green - 1 skill bonus
- Blue - 2 skill bonuses
- Purple - 3 skill bonuses
- "Legendary" and "Slayer Of Terramorphous" class mods each grant additional skill bonuses:
- Legendary - 5 or 6 skill bonuses, depending on class
- Slayer Of Terramorphous - 5 skill bonuses
The level and rarity of a class mod determine the number of bonus skill points granted. The maximum number of bonus skill points at maximum level by rarity is:
- Green - +5 skill points
- Blue - +6, +5 skill points
- Purple - +5, +4, +4 skill points
- Legendary - +5, +5, +5, +5, +5, (+5) skill points
- Slayer Of Terramorphous - +4, +4, +4, +4, +4 skill points
Class mods are visible on-character, seen as a signature piece of equipment on each of the characters. They are Salvador's digistruct ammo boxes, Maya's book, Axton's targeting device, Zer0's elbow blades, Gaige's lunchbox, and Krieg's sawblade.
Loyalty mods from Borderlands no longer exist. However, the new Allegiance Relics provide a similar function.
Axton[]
Mod Title | Affected Variable | Skill Bonuses | ||||
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Engineer | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate | (Sentry) Sentry | (Front Line) Battlefront | (Efficient) Resourceful | ||
Grenadier | +Grenade Damage, +Explosive Damage Resist | (Master) Grenadier | (Impact) Impact | (Expert) Steady | ||
Gunner | +Team Fire Rate | (Support) Overload | (Heavy) Metal Storm | (Auto) Steady | ||
Pointman | Health Regeneration, +Max Health | (Grisly) Last Ditch Effort | (Juiced) Pressure | (Unstoppable) Grit | ||
Ranger | Two of the following (one from each set):
|
Impact |
Ranger |
Grit | ||
Rifleman | +Assault Rifle Magazine Size, +Assault Rifle Gun Damage | (Assault) Onslaught | (Impact) Impact | (Front Line) Battlefront | ||
Shock Trooper | +Shock Damage Resist, +Electrocute Damage | (Assault) Onslaught | (Heavy) Metal Storm | (Security) Quick Charge | ||
Specialist | +SMG Accuracy | (Warfare) Ready | (Military) Duty Calls | (Hazard) Forbearance | ||
Tactician | +Team Shield Recharge Rate, -Team Shield Recharge Delay | (Front Line) Battlefront | (Determined) Preparation | (Efficient) Resourceful | ||
Veteran | +Reload Speed, +Magazine Size | (Expert) Steady | (Die Hard) Last Ditch Effort | (Juiced) Pressure | ||
Legendary Engineer | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate | Sentry | Able | Impact | ||
Battlefront | Resourceful | |||||
Legendary Pointman | Health Regeneration, +Max Health | Able | Healthy | Pressure | ||
Last Ditch Effort | Grit | |||||
Legendary Ranger | +Team Shield Recharge Rate, -Team Shield Recharge Delay | Onslaught | Impact | Metal Storm | ||
Ranger | Quick Charge | |||||
Legendary Soldier | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate, +Gun Damage, +Fire Rate | Sentry | Ready | Impact | ||
Expertise | Healthy | Preparation | ||||
Slayer Of Terramorphous | +Burn Damage, +Burn Chance, +Max Health | Sentry | Ready | Impact | ||
Expertise | Healthy |
Gaige[]
Krieg[]
Mod Title | Affected Variable | Skill Bonuses | ||||
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Barbarian | Two of the following (one from each set):
|
Blood Trance |
Salt the Wound |
Fire Fiend | ||
Blister | +Grenade Capacity, +Kill Skill Duration | (Diesel) Fuel the Blood | (Driven) Blood Overdrive | (Blood) Blood Bath | ||
Crunch | +Explosive Damage | (Tasty) Taste of Blood | (Dazed) Blood Trance | (Flesh) Strip the Flesh | ||
Meat | Health Regeneration, +Shield Recharge Delay | (Rage) Empty the Rage | (Pain) Embrace the Pain | (Salt) Salt the Wound | ||
Reaper | +Team Kill Skill Duration | (Twitchy) Blood Twitch | (Driven) Blood Overdrive | (Fuel) Fuel the Fire | ||
Sickle | +Melee Damage | (Diesel) Fuel the Blood | (Rage) Empty the Rage | (Scream) Silence the Voices | ||
Slab | +Max Health | (Gore) Thrill of the Kill | (Rampaging) Fuel the Rampage | (Beef) Feed the Meat | ||
Toast | +Burn Chance, +Magazine Size | (Power) Pain is Power | (Burnt) Fire Fiend | (Razed) Elemental Elation | ||
Torch | +Burn Damage | (Blaze) Burn, Baby, Burn | (Fuel) Fuel the Fire | (Flare) Flame Flare | ||
Wound | +Fire Rate After Kill | (Twitchy) Blood Twitch | (Tasty) Taste of Blood | (Hot) Boiling Blood | ||
Legendary Psycho | +Burn Damage, +Magazine Size, +Shield Recharge Delay | Blood-Filled Guns | Blood Twitch | Empty the Rage | ||
Feed the Meat | Burn, Baby, Burn | Fuel the Fire | ||||
Legendary Reaper | +Team Kill Skill Duration | Taste of Blood | Blood Overdrive | Blood Bath | ||
Thrill of the Kill | Fuel the Fire | |||||
Legendary Sickle | +Melee Damage | Taste of Blood | Fuel the Blood | Empty the Rage | ||
Silence the Voices | Pain is Power | |||||
Legendary Torch | +Burn Damage | Embrace the Pain | Burn, Baby, Burn | Fuel the Fire | ||
Elemental Elation | Flame Flare | |||||
Slayer Of Terramorphous | +Burn Chance, +Burn Damage, +Max Health | Blood Trance | Thrill of the Kill | Strip the Flesh | ||
Burn, Baby, Burn | Flame Flare |
Maya[]
Mod Title | Affected Variables | Skill Bonuses | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banshee | +Shield Recharge Rate, -Shield Recharge Delay, -Max Health | (Unyielding) Immolate | (Breakneck) Fleet | (Scorched) Backdraft | ||
Binder | +Team Action Skill Cooldown Rate | (Hell)Helios | (Cunning)Reaper | (Chrono)Suspension | ||
Cat | +SMG Damage, -SMG Accuracy | (Killer)Mind's Eye | (Scheming)Wreck | (Wild)Accelerate | ||
Cleric | Two of the following (one from each set):
|
Suspension |
Life Tap |
Restoration | ||
Fox | +Burn Chance, +Burn Damage | (Hell)Helios | (Cunning)Reaper | (Plague)Blight Phoenix | ||
Matriarch | +Max Health, +Magazine Size | (Leeching)Life Tap | (Relentless)Sustenance | (Angelic)Elated | ||
Nurse | Team Health Regeneration | (Merciful)Restoration | (Angelic)Elated | (Heavenly)Sweet Release | ||
Trickster | +Fire Rate | (Thieving)Life Tap | (Mirrored)Kinetic Reflection | (Blurred)Chain Reaction | ||
Warder | +Shield Capacity | (Scheming)Wreck | (Guarded)Ward | (Rebounding)Recompense | ||
Witch | +Corrode Chance, +Corrode Damage | (Hell)Helios | (Splatter)Flicker | (Bullet)Kinetic Reflection | ||
Legendary Binder | +Team Action Skill Cooldown Rate | Suspension | Sweet Release | Wreck | ||
Helios | Reaper | |||||
Legendary Cat | +SMG Damage, -SMG Accuracy | Accelerate | Mind's Eye | Wreck | ||
Foresight | Reaper | |||||
Legendary Nurse | Team Health Regeneration | Suspension | Sweet Release | Restoration | ||
Elated | Sustenance | |||||
Legendary Siren | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate, +Gun Damage, Increases Movement Speed while using Phaselock | Ward | Accelerate | Mind's Eye | ||
Foresight | Flicker | |||||
Slayer Of Terramorphous | +Burn Chance, +Burn Damage, +Max Health | Ward | Accelerate | Mind's Eye | ||
Sweet Release | Flicker |
Salvador[]
Mod Title | Affected Variable | Skill Bonuses (Prefix) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Beast | +Max Health, +Reload Speed | (Savage) Just Got Real | (Vengeful) Incite | (Altered) Sexual Tyrannosaurus | ||
Berserker | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate | (Unhinged) Lay Waste | (Two Gun) Last Longer | (Unstoppable) Yippee Ki Yay | ||
Devastator | +Team Magazine Size | (Hoarding) Filled to the Brim | (Savage) Just Got Real | (Pragmatic) Divergent Likeness | ||
Monk | Two of the following (one from each set):
|
Money Shot |
Asbestos |
Sexual Tyrannosaurus | ||
Hoarder | Team Bullet Regeneration | (Unhinged) Lay Waste | (Lucky) 5 Shots or 6 | (Loaded) Filled to the Brim | ||
Raider | +Assault Rifle Accuracy, -Shield Capacity | (Auspicious) Money Shot | (Cocky) Locked and Loaded | (Vengeful) Incite | ||
Renegade | +Pistol Gun Damage, -Pistol Accuracy | (Suave) I'm Your Huckleberry | (Vengeful) Incite | (Cocky) All I Need is One | ||
Tank | +Shield Capacity, +Shield Recharge Rate | (Armored) I'm the Juggernaut | (Hulking) Hard to Kill | (Resistance) Asbestos | ||
Titan | Health Regeneration, +Gun Damage, -Shield Capacity | (Hulking) Hard to Kill | (Grand) Out of Bubblegum | (Armored) I'm the Juggernaut | ||
War Dog | +Reload Speed, +Magazine Size | (Lucky) 5 Shots or 6 | (Determined) Out of Bubblegum | (Hoarding) Filled to the Brim | ||
Legendary Berserker | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate, +Fire Rate, +Melee Damage, Increases Movement Speed while Gunzerking | Locked and Loaded | Quick Draw | Filled to the Brim | ||
Hard to Kill | Incite | |||||
Legendary Gunzerker | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate | Lay Waste | All in the Reflexes | Last Longer | ||
Yippee Ki Yay | Incite | |||||
Legendary Hoarder | Team Bullet Regeneration | Locked and Loaded | Lay Waste | Filled to the Brim | ||
5 Shots or 6 | Incite | |||||
Legendary Titan | Health Regeneration, +Gun Damage, -Shield Capacity | Locked and Loaded | Hard to Kill | Asbestos | ||
I'm the Juggernaut | Out of Bubblegum | |||||
Slayer Of Terramorphous | +Burn Damage, +Burn Chance, +Max Health | Locked and Loaded | Quick Draw | Filled to the Brim | ||
Hard to Kill | Incite |
Zer0[]
Mod Title | Affected Variable | Skill Bonuses | ||||
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Infiltrator | +Fire Rate, +Melee Damage | (Graceful) Be Like Water | (Tricky) Unf0rseen | (Rugged) Ir0n Hand | ||
Killer | +Team Critical Hit Damage | (Unpredictable) Fearless | (The) Killer | (Contemptible) Ambush | ||
Ninja | +Melee Damage | (Shadow) Backstab | (Bloodied) Resurgence | (Lethal) Killing Bl0w | ||
Professional | +Reload Speed, +Shield Capacity | (Unequaled) Tw0 Fang | (The) Killer | (Succinct) Ambush | ||
Rogue | Two of the following (one from each set):
|
Vel0city |
Tw0 Fang |
Like The Wind | ||
Shot | +Team Accuracy | (Long) 0ptics | (Sure) Precisi0n | (True) Kill C0nfirmed | ||
Sniper | +Sniper Rifle Damage, +Sniper Rifle Critical Damage, -Shield Capacity | (Tranquil) Precisi0n | (One Shot) 0ne Sh0t 0ne Kill | (Deadly) Headsh0t | ||
Spy | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate | (Swift) Vel0city | (Contemptible) Ambush | (Tricky) Unf0rseen | ||
Stalker | +Pistol Firerate, +Pistol Magazine Size, +Shield Recharge Rate | (Shadow) F0ll0wthr0ugh | (Disturbed) Rising Sh0t | (Razored) C0unter Strike | ||
Survivor | +Max Health, Health Regeneration | (Contemptible) Ambush | (Disturbed) Rising Sh0t | (Bloodied) Resurgence | ||
Legendary Hunter | +Action Skill Cooldown Rate, +Critical Damage, +Reload Speed, Using Decepti0n instantly restores 10% of your Health | Headsh0t | Fast Hands | C0unter Strike | ||
Killing Bl0w | Ir0n Hand | |||||
Legendary Killer | +Team Critical Hit Damage | Headsh0t | Killer | Vel0city | ||
Ambush | Tw0 Fang | |||||
Legendary Ninja | +Melee Damage | Ambush | Killing Bl0w | Backstab | ||
F0ll0wthr0ugh | Resurgence | |||||
Legendary Sniper | +Sniper Rifle Damage, +Sniper Rifle Critical Damage, -Shield Capacity | Headsh0t | Precisi0n | Vel0city | ||
0ne Sh0t 0ne Kill | Kill C0nfirmed | |||||
Slayer Of Terramorphous | +Burn Chance, +Burn Damage, +Max Health | Headsh0t | 0ptics | Fast Hands | ||
C0unter Strike | Ir0n Hand |
Alignment Class Mods[]
Alignment class mods are class mods only available in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep campaign DLC. These mods give the Vault Hunters a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired title, in addition to granting bonuses based upon the mod's alignment (Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, etc.). Also, regardless of the listed alignment, these mods will always boost the same three skills for each character. Otherwise, they follow the same rules as regular mods as far as the number of skills boosted for the rarity.
Alignment Type Affected Variable Lawful Accuracy (Up to 33%) Chaotic Fire Rate (Up to 33%) Good Reload Speed (Up to 45%) Evil Critical Hit Damage (Up to 45%) Neutral Magazine Size (Up to 45%) True Neutral (Double instance of Neutral Alignment) Magazine Size (Up to 86%)
Mod Title Usable By Skill Bonuses Barbarian Krieg Blood Trance Salt the Wound Fire Fiend Cleric Maya Suspension Restoration Life Tap Monk Salvador Money Shot Asbestos Sexual Tyrannosaurus Necromancer Gaige Made of Sterner Stuff Strength of Five Gorillas Wires Don't Talk Ranger Axton Impact Ranger Grit Rogue Zer0 Vel0city Tw0 Fang Like The Wind
Notes[]
- Blue-rarity Class Mods under level 50 cannot give more than +5/+4 to their skills. In order to give +6 to a single skill, a blue-rarity class mod must be at least level 50.
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