Love Drill is a legendary pistol in Borderlands 3 manufactured by Jakobs.
It is obtained randomly from any suitable loot source, but has an increased chance to drop from Eleanor located in Heart's Desire on Xylourgos.
Special Weapon Effects[]
...till death do us depart. – Unique sight. Has a 40% chance to deal an additional 200% damage as shock. +250% critical damage. Critical hits return 2 bullet to the magazine.
Usage & Description[]
The Love Drill can be considered as similar to the Unforgiven, as it deals much more damage, has a chance to deal significant bonus shock damage, and lacks the innate fire rate penalty. However, unlike the Unforgiven, the critical damage bonus of the Love Drill is additive with other critical damage bonuses, rather than multiplicative. Despite the increased base damage, an Unforgiven of the same level usually deal more critical damage than the Love Drill, especially with a number of critical damage bonuses from other gear and skills. In addition, due to its unique sight, the Love Drill can never spawn with a scope.
Enemies with large or easily-targeted critical spots are especially weak against the Love Drill, as critical hits will return two bullets to the magazine, meaning it will never needed to be reloaded as long as the character critically hits at least every other shot. This is further enhanced by the gun's chance of getting doubled shock damage, giving it shield-depleting properties.
The Love Drill is more limited against regular enemies, as it still has the heavy recoil of a Jakobs weapon, low magazine size, and its unique sight also makes it difficult to aim accurately. However, because of the fairly high damage, extremely high critical hit damage and 40% chance to deal substantial extra shock damage damage, this weapon is still extremely effective against all enemies, often killing enemies in 1 shot even on Mayhem 10/11, provided a critical hit and the bonus shock damage is applied.
Notes[]
- This legendary weapon is part of a pair of weapons, the other being the Love Drill rewarded at the end of the DLC's storyline. It is differentiated by its rarity and weapon skin, and is effectively a direct upgrade over the mission reward version.
- Unlike the mission reward version, the legendary version does not have fixed parts, except the grip, hammer, and magazine, which are fixed to the same parts as the mission reward version.
- The fixed grip prevents it from spawning with a masher grip.
- The fixed magazine has a base size of 5 rounds.
- FL4K's Fade Away synergises worse with this weapon than what might be expected: Although "Critical!" pops up on any Fade Away hit, the damage bonus of Fade Away is only based on gun damage and ignores any critical damage bonuses. That said, it does still return ammo to the magazine for each hit, and with skills such as Leave No Trace, Megavore, and critical hit focused skills, Fl4k to tear through any enemy in seconds.
- The Love Drill has a unique sight in the shape of a hovering diamond. The bullets still fire aligned with the iron sights when zoomed in, with the diamond essentially just acting as visual noise.
- Hotfix 12/17/2020: Damage increased by 100%, and bonus shock damage chance increased from 20% to 40%.
Trivia[]
- Love Drill shows up in the credits of Borderlands 3 as Wainwright's marriage proposal gift.
- The flavor text refers to the vows said during a wedding ceremony. The text is the second half of the quote, with the full quote being "To have and to hold... till death do us depart". The first half of the quote is found on the mission reward version of the weapon.
- The Love Drill is one of the few weapons that shares the exact same name as another weapon in one game (that being its pairing).
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