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Example of a shock elemental weapon.

Shock weapons crackle with electricity and are very effective against shields, making them useful against shielded bandits and guardians. However, shock weapons do less damage against flesh enemies, thus this could prove to be a double-edged sword.

Shock bullets will crack with electricity when they impact. When a shock weapon's effect triggers, high damage is dealt to the enemy's shield and they take damage over time. If an enemy dies to shock damage, his face burns away and reveals his skull and part of his brain, then his head explodes.

Notes

  • Barrels which are blue in color contain shock and explode and release large blue electric bolts when destroyed.
  • Shock weapons are extremely effective against both the Guardians found in Eridian Promotory, Larva Crab Worms and Craw Maggots.
  • If used properly, shock artifacts can be very useful on action skills such as Bloodwing, and can take down the enemy's shields so traditional weapons can take down enemy flesh.
  • This elemental effect is almost completely worthless against zombies of all sorts. In fact, Tankensteins are actually healed by electrical damage.
  • The Elemental effect also seems to stun/slow opponents as well as having a very large radius of effect, thus can be used to great effect against rakk, where one shot with a high-damage weapon to the middle of the flock can take out the whole flock, even with the non-ideal element matching.
  • Roland has a class mod tuned to enhancing shock damage, shock elemental effect chance, and shock resistance.

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