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Just some ideas for some legendary gear I COMPLETELY offer to Gearbox. Use as you desire, my friends!

Bandit

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Big Tony Pistol Thanatos says "Hi" Massive magazine, increased fire rate.
Tanka Shotgun EMBRACE THE FLAME! Always Incendiary, decreased pellet count, but fires large, slow-moving fireballs that have a high chance to ignite
Bonesaw Assault Rifle The hip bone's connected to the...well, not anymore Consumes 4 rounds per shot, fires Bandit Technical sawblades that stick into enemies, slow them down, and deal DOT before disappearing
Grind SMG You can't be king of the world Consumes 2 rounds, fires 4, much like an Anarchy SMG from BL1
Slaughterhouse Launcher Put the laughter in slaughter Increased power and splash damage, lower accuracy
Schism E-Tech Shotgun Can't we all just get along? Each energy orb deals a different element of damage, one incendiary, one shock, one

corrosive

Power Fist Roid Shield Now you're punching with power! When depleted, each melee attack that lands knocks enemies back, much like Salvador's Fistful of Hurt

Notes and Trivia

  • The Big Tony is a reference to the Thanatos from BL1.
  • The Grind and it's flavor text are a reference to a Skid Row song. The full lyric is, "You can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind."
  • The Power Fist and it's flavor text reference the NES peripheral The Power Glove and it's slogan, "Now you're playing with power."

Dahl

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Espionage Pistol My little cauliflower As long as this gun is in the player's hands, that player's presence will not aggro enemies. Only by firing a shot, meleeing, throwing a grenade, or activating an Action Skill will you aggro enemies.
Stormtrooper Assault Rifle Accuracy's underrated Higher recoil reduction, reduced burst-fire delay
Filthy Animal SMG Keep the change When unsighted, fires normally. When sighted, fires two shots at the cost of one in a five round burst
Ancient Sniper The End Increased recoil reduction, fires three round bursts, third round stuns enemies and deals 50% more damage
Phi E-Tech Pistol Standing By Fires in three round bursts, lowered status effect damage and chance, any status effects inflicted with this gun persist until the enemy dies
M*A*S*H Booster Shield Suicide is Painless Dropped boosters also restore health
Shrapnel Bouncing Betty Grenade Kickback and get a load of this bombshell As the grenade bounces, it fires fields of shrapnel, similar to rounds fired by the Flakker

Notes and Trivia

  • The flavor text on the Espionage references the Team Fortress 2 Meet the Spy video, where the red Spy calls the Blue Scout's mother "Ma petite chou-fleur."
  • The Filthy Animal references the movie shown in Home Alone where the man says, "Keep the change, you filthy animal."
  • The Ancient references MGS3: Snake Eater.
  • The Phi references the Japanese television show Kamen Rider 555 (pronounced Faiz), where the title character uses a gun that fires in three shot bursts and uses a phone that says "Standing By" right before changing into his Kamen Rider form.
  • The M*A*S*H references not only the real Mobile Army Surgical Hospital with it's ability, but it's flavor text is the name of the theme song for the television series of the same name.
  • Shrapnel, Kickback, and Bombshell are the names of the Insecticons in Transformers Generation 1.

Hyperion

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Convention Pistol A shattering of like minds Comes to full accuracy immediately, increased crit damage
Efficiency Shotgun Second only to anarchy Each shot only consumes half a round, so that the actual magazine size is twice that listed
Competition SMG Rude, yet effective Sacrifices accuracy to improve in all other areas
Sunzi Sniper Rifle War is an art, and I am Rembrandt Always spawns with bayonet that grants +50% melee, but still has an open accessory slot. Redundant bayonets grant a total +100% melee.
Hostile Takeover E-Tech Sniper Rifle Under new management Upon scoring a critical hit, the shot will ricochet towards the nearest enemy's crit zone. Shots fired can ricochet up to three times in this manner, even bouncing back and forth between two targets.
Marshall Amp Shield Plug into the devil itself 0 Amp Drain, reduced Amp Damage, but applies Amp Damage to every shot fired until the shield is depleted, rather than only at full shield.
Quantum Singularity Grenade Take solace in your death Singularity effect holds enemies longer, almost like Phaselock, and deals DOT to enemies held in the singularity

Notes and Trivia

  • The Efficiency's flavor text comes from a quote made by Aldous Huxley: "The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
  • The Competition's flavor text is from a quote by Toba Beta: "Competition is a rude yet effective motivation.”
  • Sunzi is another way to say Sun Tzu, author of The Art of War.
  • The Marshall is a reference to the Marshall brand of Electric Guitar amps.
  • The Quantum's flavor text references the James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.

Jakobs

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Tombstone Pistol What would you like on yours? Shots fired immediately after sighting in gain +50% damage
Boomstick Shotgun Fist Full Only consumes ammo and needs to be reloaded when your shield is depleted
Bronco Assault Rifle Built Jakobs Tough High recoil and damage. Upon reload, there is a chance the player will "break" the Bronco and the gun will gain increased recoil reduction and faster reload speed
Transcontinental Sniper Rifle Murder train a'comin Increased projectile velocity, increased power and crit damage
Grizzly "Rough Rider" Shield He did have a beard Large health bonus, large damage reduction bonus that increases as your health decreases, up to 60%

Notes and Trivia

  • The Tombtone's flavor text references the slogan of Tombstone pizza.
  • The Boomstick's flavor text references the Evil Dead video game, Fistful of Boomstick, and it's ability reflects how, in the films, Ash never needed to reload unless he were in extreme danger.
  • The Bronco's flavor text is a reference to the Ford Motor Company slogan, "Built Ford Tough." The Bronco is also a Ford model vehicle.
  • The Transcontinental's flavor text references, not only the fact that it's namesake is a railroad, but also a song by fictional metal band, Dethklok.
  • The Grizzly's flavor text is a reference to a line from the movie, Happy Gilmore, where a character that had previously remained silent speaks to confirm that "Grizzly Adams did have a beard."

Maliwan

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Firehawk Pistol Being a god sucks...most of the time Always Incendiary, reduced power, but faster fire rate and only consumes one round per shot
Nightmare SMG Phase, Shock, and Barrel Always Shock, Shock version of the Hellfire
Philosopher Sniper Rifle Entirely Ferrous Always Slag, average chance to slag, but the element of the shot changes depending on what it hits (Incendiary for flesh, Shock for shield, and Corrosive for armor), despite being able to fire all elements, this gun can only inflict the slag status
Plague Launcher Bring out your dead! Always Corrosive, consumes two rounds per shot, fires six smaller rockets, high chance to corrode, enemies killed with the Plague explode in a corrosive shower that can spread to other enemies
Teleforce E-Tech Launcher War and Peace Ray Consumes two rounds per shot, fires a stream of energy that inflicts continuous damage to the target and anything else near the beam
Fahrenheit Nova Shield 451 ways to die Always Incendiary, nova blast has 100% chance to ignite, high burn damage
Electroplate Nova Shield A protective layer of death Always Shock, massive damage reduction while shield is depleted
Tetanus Nova Shield Bend over Always Corrosive, enemies corroded by this shield will perpetually corrode until this shield begins to regenerate
Vampyre Transfusion Grenade I never drink...blood Always Incendiary, bypasses shields

Notes and Trivia

  • The Firehawk's flavor text refers to a line Lilith says during the Cult of the Firehawk missions.
  • The Philosopher's flavor text is synonymous with "Full Metal" a reference to the anime Full metal Alchemist.
  • The Plague is an update of the Maliwan Crux from BL1.
  • The Teleforce is the name of a weapon devised by Nikola Tesla that he called the Peace Ray, hence the flavor text.
  • The Fahrenheit's flavor text references the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 and the television show 1000 Ways to Die.
  • The Vampyre's flavor text is taken from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Tediore

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Equalizer Pistol Level the playing field Small amount of ammo regen, when reloaded, the base damage for the throw is based upon a full magazine and increases the more ammo is left in the mag, with a reload throw performed after one shot dealing nearly double damage.
Defender Shotgun Quality protection for a low, low price Small amount of ammo regen, as long as the Defender is in the player's hands, the player gains +20% Damage Reduction
Savior SMG Worship me! Small amount of ammo regen, when reload-thrown at an ally in FFYL, they instantly revive, the health they receive reflecting the amount of ammo left in the mag
Door Buster Launcher Everything must go Straighter, more focused reload throw, higher damage, larger blast radius on shots fired and reload throw, chance to stun enemies
Lava Lamp E-Tech SMG Far Out Increased reload throw distance, when it explodes, produces three elemental blobs similar to a Splatgun that cover a larger area
Maximum Shield Helluva ride Slightly increased capacity, ludicrously high recharge rate, slightly higher delay

Notes and Trivia

  • The Equalizer, Defender, and Savior are brought back from BL1 with different abilities and new flavor text.

Torgue

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Griffin Pistol I've got a lovely bunch of MIRV grenades Consumes six ammo per shot, fires MIRV grenades with an 8 child grenade count, cannot spawn with Double accessory
Friendly Fire Shotgun HAVE A NICE MOTHER[bleep]ING DAY! Rockets are fired in a fixed Smiley Face pattern, deals explosive and incendiary splash damage
Bastard Assault Rifle Torgue! Inglorious guns for inglorious people! Increased projectile speed and damage, higher rate of fire
Moreton Launcher Hang 10,000,000 degrees Consumes 2 rounds per shot, increased damage and blast radius, but not quite on par with the Nukem, infinite projectile velocity, meaning that whenever the player pulls the trigger, whatever is in the Moreton's sights will instantly explode
Falcone Nova/Roid Shield PAWNCH! When depleted, the player gains a massive roid damage boost, their next melee attack creates a nova that deals explosive and incendiary damage, and the shield will not recharge until the player performs a melee attack, regardless of whether it connects with an enemy
Carpet Bomb MIRV Grenade Does it match the drapes? MAAAYYYBEEEE! Reduced damage, child grenade count of 20-24, grenade splits upon being thrown, similar to the Fuster Cluck

Notes and Trivia

  • The Griffin's flavor text references the song "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" sung by Merv Griffin.
  • The Friendly Fire and Bastard are both returning guns from BL1 with slightly modified flavor text, the FF's to reflect Mister Torgue's vernacular, and the Bastard's to reflect how people saw the Glorious Bastard variant in BL1 as a reference to the movie Inglorious Basterds.
  • A Moreton Wave is a 'solar tsunami' caused by solar flares, and is capable of traveling at around 560K MPH (250 km/s)
  • The Falcone's effect and flavor text is a reference to the signature move of F-Zero character, Captain Falcon. Also, when depleted, the Vault Hunter will say "Falcone." When the player uses a melee attack, the VH will shout "PAWNCH!" Except Krieg will say "Cockatiel SLAUGHTER!"
  • The Carpet Bomb's flavor text references the crude question, "Does the carpet match the drapes?" usually asked to determine if a woman's hair color is natural.

Vladof

Name Gun Type Flavor Text Special Effect
Beyond Pistol To there and here Typical Vladof pistol except rounds can penetrate physical shields like those wielded by Nomad Taskmasters and small bits of cover like fences
Liberator Assault Rifle Everything's in Red Damage increases the longer the trigger is held down, with the last round in the mag doing around triple damage
Chornobylska Sniper Rifle Fukushima don't come close Always Corrosive, head shots produce corrosive novas
Terrible Launcher Makes you worse at just about everythingActually it's a pretty good launcher Higher fire rate, increased chance of free shots
Bounty Hunter E-Tech Assault Rifle No Disintegration Never Slag, increased damage modifiers against appropriate targets
Gluttony Absorb Shield Save room for desert Lower absorb chance than The Sham, but absorbed bullets also restore some health
Fallout AOE Grenade Probability of mission hindrance: 0% Always Slag, large AOE, 100% chance to slag anything within its radius

Notes and Trivia

  • The Liberator's flavor text is a reference to a line spoken in Fox's Anastasia.
  • Chronobylska is the Russian way of saying Chernobyl, and the flavor text references the only other level 7 nuclear catastrophe as classified on the International Nuclear Event Scale, Fukushima, Japan
  • The Terrible gains its name from Russian Tsar, Ivan Vasilyevich, AKA Ivan the Terrible.
  • The Bounty Hunter's flavor text is a line spoken by Darth Vader to Boba Fett during The Empire Strikes Back
  • The flavor text on the Fallout is a line spoken by the character Liberty Prime in Bethesda's Fallout 3. Ironic that Vladof is a Soviet Russia inspired manufacturer and Liberty Prime was violently anti-Communism.

Other

Name Gun Type Manufacturer Flavor Text Special Effect
Darwin Adaptive Shield Anshin Natural Selection, Bitch! Higher capacities on all stats, 100% Elemental Resistance
Terrapin Turtle Shield Pangolin It's not hard to understand Slightly lower capacity, but still higher than that of any other non-Pangolin shield, but with no penalties to Health

Notes and Trivia

Notes from Me

There are six guns in this list that gain and grant special abilities when wielded by a particular Vault Hunter. If you can find them, I'll spill what they do.

Mech-Romance (talk) 19:57, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

EDIT: Sakuretsu115, comment below, found three of the six special guns. So, here they are, with an explanation of how I chose them.

VH Name Special Ability
Krieg Bandit Tanka When Krieg wields the Tanka, he's always on fire, Bloodlust stack cap is raised to 150, and stack accumulation is doubled.
Maya Maliwan Nightmare When reloaded, releases a shock nova similar to Gaige's Shock and AAAGGGGHHH!, shock damage from all sources is increased, and when an enemy is Phaselocked, the phase bubble releases a shock burst, similar to Helios
Zer0 Hyperion Sunzi Melee bonus from gun is doubled (max of +200%), gun comes to full accuracy immediately, and gains +400% crit damage
Salvador ??? ???
Axton ??? ???
Gaige ??? ???
  • The Tanka got it's name from the japanese word 'tenka' which roughly means 'to set fire to' or 'to ignite'. Perfect for Krieg.
  • The Nightmare started out as a reference to Nightmare Before Christmas, and the flavor text was originally 'Lock, Shock, and Barrel'. Then, I changed it to 'Phase, Shock, and Barrel' because Phase...lock...bad, pun, yeah, but it still works.
  • The Sunzi was easy. I needed a Sniper Rifle for Zer0, and one of his Haikus mentions that killing is an art, so what better name for the gun than the author of The Art of War

Sal, Axton, and Gaige's guns are still hidden in there. Here are a few hints:

  • There are no shields or 'nades in the special guns list. Only, well, guns.
  • No E-Tech.
  • One gun of each type. I.E. Since we already have a Sniper, a Shotty, and an SMG, the remaining three are a launcher, an AR, and a pistol.
  • The biggest hints are the flavor text.

Mech-Romance (talk) 22:15, October 3, 2013 (UTC)

Comments (please adjust to your liking or remove - I'm used to different formats for "forums")

Well, this is fun! I like seeing stuff like this. Ok, here I go.

For Salvador, the only things I could think of are the Torgue Falcone roid shield and the Anshin Darwin adaptive shield. For the Falcone, it matches almost exactly to his skill Fistful of Hurt, but that's all I got. For the Darwin, it's ironic because he is stunted not due to natural phenomenon, but rather his taking of steroids.

For Maya, I only came up with the Dahl Ancient sniper and the Maliwan Nightmare smg. The Ancient because she is from an "ancient" order and/or she is a siren. The Nightmare because she is, well, a siren - and the people of Athenas (or whatever planet she's from) had feared her for so long.

For Axton, I only got the Jakobs Grizzly shield and the Torgue Bastard assault rifle. Honestly, I thought of the Grizzly solely because of the Grizzled Veteran head. The Bastard because Axton was a glory hunter back when he was in the army.

For Zer0, I thought of the Hyperion Efficiency shotgun and Sunzi sniper rifle, the Jakobs Tombstone pistol and the Vladof Bounty Hunter assault rifle. The Efficiency only because Zer0 has an entire tree dedicated to sniping - which usually leads people to the term efficient/efficiency (one shot, one kill mantra - etc.). The Sunzi because, for Zer0, killing is an art and it's also a sniper rifle. I also chose the Tombstone because the flavor text matches similar to when Zer0 says a haiku (including that ECHO between him and one of his marks). The Bounty Hunter for obvious reasons - he was a bounty hunter before being a Vault Hunter.

For Gaige, I didn't go for anything related to shock. Instead, I went with the Bandit Bonesaw assault rifle and Power Fist roid shield. The Bonesaw because it reminds me of when she sawed off her own arm and the Power Fist because she had said once that she could shatter concrete with her new robotic arm (the fact that she doesn't is irrelevant).

Lastly, we have Krieg. I chose the Bandit Tanka shotgun because of "embracing the flame" and the Torgue Friendly Fire because of his skill that enables friendly fire and his quote to go with it.

I know I probably got them all wrong, but these could be taken in many different ways. It doesn't really matter, I still had fun. Let me know how I did. Sakuretsu115 (talk) 21:34, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

Hopefully I'm doing this right. I've never actually added to a forum post on a Wikia wiki before, so let me know if I'm doing it wrong. I'd just like to submit a Legendary idea of my own: The Bandit Pelican (His beak can hold more than his bellican). The Pelican is a fairly typical Bandit Shotgun, with low stats compared to shotguns from other manufacturers. However, its magazine size is equivalent to your character's maximum ammunition capacity for shotgun ammunition, and any ammo you pick up adds to the clip rather than the reserve. This means that the Pelican never needs to be reloaded, allowing for sustained DPS at the cost of other stats. The name and flavor text are references to a poem by American poet Dixon Lanier Merritt. If you like my idea, feel free to add it to your list. Dog in yard (talk) 01:06, October 4, 2013 (UTC)
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