Changes: Hawk Eye

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This article is about sniper rifle featured in Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt. For other uses, see Hawkeye.

Hawk Eye is a Seraph sniper rifle in Borderlands 2 manufactured by Jakobs. The Hawk Eye can only be obtained as a rare drop from Voracidous the Invincible, Dexiduous the Invincible or Omnd-Omnd-Ohk in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, or from the Seraph Vendor in Hunter's Grotto in True Vault Hunter Mode and Normal modes.

Special Weapon Effects

Eye certain. Finger Lightning. Aim Death. – Extremely high critical hit damage and severely reduced base damage. Increased weapon zoom, fire rate, reload speed and magazine size. Slightly reduced accuracy.

Usage & Description

Due to the Hawk Eye's extreme critical hit damage output, it makes for an effective "one shot, one kill" weapon. It should only be used in long-range combat unless the user is particularly skilled with snipers or can slow their target down enough to get a clear shot, as it is ineffective with non-critical hits and the increased scope magnification can impede close-quarters aim.

Despite the reduced weapon damage, the net effect(due to the way critical hits are calculated) is actually a 50% reduction in the effectiveness of Critical Hit bonuses. This makes the weapon largely ineffective when used by Zer0, resulting in below-average damage even on critical hits, and extremely ineffective damage on body shots, especially when used in Decepti0n.

However, the Hawkeye offers a high critical damage to classes that otherwise have none. This makes it an attractive option for characters who might normally avoid sniper rifles and/or have little or no critical hit bonuses, such as Gaige or Axton.

Notes

2014-04-08 00001 — A Hawk Eye with the 11.6x magnification

On critical hits, a Hawk Eye will deal slightly more damage than a Muckamuck, but with substantially higher rate of fire.
- This is not the case with Critical Ascensi0n or other boosts to critical damage, as a Muckamuck will out-damage a Hawk Eye with a sufficient stack.
Mathematically, a 100% critical hit bonus on a Hawk Eye will provide a mere 14.7% damage bonus. By contrast, the same 100% bonus on a normal Jakobs sniper rifle will provide a 38% damage bonus, and on a non-Jakobs sniper, a 50% damage bonus.
Initially, the Hawk Eye was bugged and would have always have "1.0x zoom". This was fixed in an unknown patch, which gave the Hawk Eye increased zoom compared to other sniper rifles.
With a Hyperion scope, a Hawk Eye will have a zoom magnification of 11.6x, the highest for any sniper rifle, surpassing the 11.4x of the Fremington's Edge.

Trivia

The name and red flavor text are references to The Deerslayer, a novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The line is: "eye sartain -finger lightning - aim, death- great warrior soon. No Deerslayer - Hawkeye -Hawkeye - Hawkeye. Shake hand."

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+'''Hawk Eye''' is a {{rarity_link|Seraph}} [[sniper rifle]] in ''[[Borderlands 2]]'' manufactured by [[Jakobs]]. The Hawk Eye can only be obtained as a rare drop from [[Voracidous the Invincible (enemy)|Voracidous the Invincible]], [[Dexiduous the Invincible]] or [[Omnd-Omnd-Ohk]] in [[Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]], or from the [[Seraph Vendor]] in [[Hunter's Grotto]] in [[True Vault Hunter Mode]] and Normal modes.
 ==Special Weapon Effects==
-{{flavor|Eye certain. Finger Lightning. Aim Death.}}{{dash}} Extremely high critical hit damage, high accuracy, reduced weapon zoom and lowered overall damage output.
+{{flavor|Eye certain. Finger Lightning. Aim Death.}}{{dash}} Extremely high critical hit damage and severely reduced base damage. Increased weapon zoom, fire rate, reload speed and magazine size. Slightly reduced accuracy.
 ==Usage & Description==
-Due to the Hawk Eye's extreme critical hit damage output, the Hawk Eye makes an effective "one shot, one kill" weapon and should only be used in long range combat unless the user is particularly skilled with snipers in general or can slow their target down enough to get a clear shot.
+Due to the Hawk Eye's extreme critical hit damage output, it makes for an effective "one shot, one kill" weapon. It should only be used in long-range combat unless the user is particularly skilled with snipers or can slow their target down enough to get a clear shot, as it is ineffective with non-critical hits and the increased scope magnification can impede close-quarters aim.
+Despite the reduced weapon damage, the net effect(due to the way critical hits are calculated) is actually a 50% reduction in the effectiveness of ''Critical Hit bonuses''. This makes the weapon largely ineffective when used by [[Zer0]], resulting in below-average damage even on critical hits, and extremely ineffective damage on body shots, especially when used in Decepti0n.
+However, the Hawkeye offers a high critical damage to classes that otherwise have none. This makes it an attractive option for characters who might normally avoid sniper rifles and/or have little or no critical hit bonuses, such as [[Gaige]] or [[Axton]].
 ==Notes==
+[[File:2014-04-08_00001.jpg|thumb|A Hawk Eye with the 11.6x magnification]]
-*The Hawk Eye can also be obtained from Hunter's Grotto seraph vendor for 120 crystals on all difficulty modes except Ultimate Vault Hunter's Mode.
+*On critical hits, a Hawk Eye will deal slightly more damage than a [[Muckamuck]], but with substantially higher rate of fire.
-*If wielded by an assasin built based on the Sniping skill tree, the critical hit damage can reach up to and above 2.5 million on a critical hit. This is one of the highest critical hit sniper rifles in Borderlands 2, and coupled with the reasonably high fire rate this sniper rifle has massive potential.
+**This is not the case with [[Critical Ascensi0n]] or other boosts to critical damage, as a Muckamuck will out-damage a Hawk Eye with a sufficient stack.
-*It is also amplified by Zer0's skill, [[0ne Sh0t 0ne Kill]], boosting the first shot from the magazine to do even more critical hit damage.
+*Mathematically, a 100% critical hit bonus on a Hawk Eye will provide a mere 14.7% damage bonus. By contrast, the same 100% bonus on a normal Jakobs sniper rifle will provide a 38% damage bonus, and on a non-Jakobs sniper, a 50% damage bonus.
-*Because of the Hawk Eye's zoom and critical hit capabilities, this rifle is very useful on slow-moving enemies such as [[Loader]]s. A player will often be able to destroy them in one critical hit from this weapon, making it extremely useful.
+*Initially, the Hawk Eye was bugged and would have always have "1.0x zoom". This was fixed in an unknown patch, which gave the Hawk Eye increased zoom compared to other sniper rifles.
-*The ability to kill enemies with one critical hit makes this a strong choice with [[No Kill Like Overkill]] to set up a very powerful second shot.
+*With a Hyperion scope, a Hawk Eye will have a zoom magnification of 11.6x, the highest for any sniper rifle, surpassing the 11.4x of the [[Fremington's Edge]].
-==Triva==
+==Trivia==
-*The Hawk Eye's special abilities are noticeably equal to what the [[Bessie]] did in Borderlands. However, rather than lowering base damage, the Bessie sported above-average damage in addition to the massive critical boost.
 *The name and red flavor text are references to ''[http://www.online-literature.com/cooperj/the-deerslayer/7/ The Deerslayer]'', a novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The line is: "eye sartain -finger lightning - aim, death- great warrior soon. No Deerslayer - Hawkeye -Hawkeye - Hawkeye. Shake hand."
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