Cobra (Borderlands 2)

This article is about the sniper rifle featured in Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage. For other uses, see Cobra.

Cobra
EXPLODING SNIPER!
Manufacturer:	Jakobs
Type:	Sniper Rifle
Rarity:	Unique
Element:	Explosive (Not listed)
Game:	Borderlands 2
Special Part(s): GD_Iris_Weapons.SniperRifles. Sniper_Jakobs_3_Cobra GD_Iris_Weapons.SniperRifles. SR_Barrel_Dahl_Cobra GD_Iris_Weapons.ManufacturerMaterials. Material_Jakobs_2_Cobra

Cobra is a unique aftermarket sniper rifle manufactured by Jakobs with explosive ammunition. It is only available in Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage. The Cobra can be obtained as a rare drop from any of Pete's burners.

Special Weapon Effects

Found out about this I was like DAAAMN, I'm bringing that gun BACK! – Fires projectiles with Explosive properties, but non-elemental splash.

Usage & Description

The explosive projectiles fired by this weapon have an 80% non elemental splash, and the Cobra itself has a 110% crit bonus.

Notes

• In the first weeks of Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage, there was some unrest in the community due to the fact that the Cobra, prominently featured in the trailers for the DLC, was seemingly absent. In a forum post, Gearbox employee Hellface clarified that the Cobra is in fact in game, as well as revealing the drop rate.
  • Every time one of Pete's burners drops a sniper rifle, if that weapon spawns with purple rarity then it has a .88% chance (not 88%, but 0.88%: that's 88 in 10,000) to be the Cobra. This makes Cobra one of the rarest drops in the game.
• This weapon was dropped by Badassasaurus on Day 28 of week 4 in the Borderlands 2 $100,000 Loot Hunt, along with the Contraband Sky Rocket. A hotfix on that day increased the explosion radius.
• For purposes of calculating damage modifiers the rounds fired by Cobra count as explosive but do not count as grenade damage as Torgue gyrojet weapons do. Therefore damage can be boosted by Axton's Duty Calls but not by Steady for example. The splash is non-elemental, and can also be boosted by Maya's Reaper.

Trivia

• The Cobra was a legendary sniper rifle featured in Borderlands. The flavor text quote is presumably stated by Tiny Tina, and references its return to Pandora in Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage.
• The Cobra is the only weapon to fire explosive bullets (as opposed to gyrojets, E-Tech projectiles, et cetera).
• The explosive icon on a weapon's item card is a standard texture sprite which is featured on all Torgue and explosive rocket launcher item cards. Since the Cobra is manufactured by Jakobs it has no sub-line to display the sprite and its item cards will not feature the explosive icon.
• The Cobra is one of only a select few elemental Jakobs weapons. The others include the Greed, the Stinkpot and the Twister.
• The Cobra is the third weapon from Borderlands to be featured in Borderlands 2 with a different rarity and manufacturer, the first and second being Sledge's Shotgun and the Bone Shredder.