Changes: Storm (sniper rifle)

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This article is about the Borderlands 2 sniper rifle. For other uses, see Storm.

Storm is a pearlescent sniper rifle in Borderlands 2 manufactured by Maliwan. The Storm can be obtained randomly from any suitable loot source but has a higher chance to drop in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode from legendary loot midgets and 010011110100110101000111010101110101010001001000.

Special Weapon Effects

Tut, Tut, it looks like rain. – Always shock. Increased projectile damage and elemental chance but reduced fire rate. On impact, five short-lived electric orbs are created which shock any enemy in their vicinity until they dissipate. Orb's shock damage and DoT damage is based on actual gun damage.

Usage & Description

The Storm is a sniper rifle capable of dealing elemental damage to multiple enemies simultaneously at long range. When a shot fired from the Storm impacts an enemy or surface, five electric orbs are placed at random around the point of impact. These orbs deal three ticks of damage to the closest enemy, with each tick doing 10% of the card damage of the weapon, and with an increased elemental effect damage over time.

This effect comes in lieu of the traditional Maliwan sniper rifle splash damage effect, and may indirectly hurt the weapon's effectiveness, especially on smaller targets; each orb has a very short range, meaning hitting a single target with all five orbs can be highly unlikely. However, only two orbs must strike the target in order to equal or surpass the more traditional splash effect.

Splash orbs cause additional electrocution damage when compared to the main projectile; main pellet electrocution effects will do 70% that of electrocution effects triggered by orbs. This electrocute effect can be triggered on any of the three damage ticks, giving the Storm an extremely high chance to cause elemental effects, and making it extremely effective at stripping shields, not only on the target, but also on nearby enemies. For contrast, a normal Maliwan Sniper Rifle will have two chances to cause its elemental effect: The Storm, at its peak potential, has sixteen.

Notes

The Storm's effect can be triggered multiple times if the gun hits multiple enemies with one shot, for example through the use of B0re.
Each orb deals three ticks of damage, at 10% of the card damage. With five orbs, this totals to 150% damage. This damage can be boosted by grenade damage bonuses. Each orb can also cause an electrocute effect on each tick, which does approximately 42% more damage than electrocute effects from direct hits.

Trivia

The flavor text is a reference to A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. In which Christopher Robin says to Pooh "Tut, tut, looks like rain."

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-The Storm is a sniper rifle capable of dealing elemental damage to multiple enemies simultaneously at long range. When a shot fired from the Storm impacts an enemy or surface, five electric orbs are placed at random around the point of impact. These orbs deal three ticks of damage to the closest enemy, with each tick doing 10% of the card damage of the weapon, and with an increased elemental effect damage over time.
+The Storm is a sniper rifle capable of dealing elemental damage to multiple enemies simultaneously at long range. When a shot fired from the Storm impacts an enemy or surface, five electric orbs are placed at <u>random</u> around the point of impact. These orbs deal three ticks of damage to the closest enemy, with each tick doing 10% of the card damage of the weapon, and with an increased elemental effect damage over time.
 This effect comes in lieu of the traditional Maliwan sniper rifle splash damage effect, and may indirectly hurt the weapon's effectiveness, especially on smaller targets; each orb has a very short range, meaning hitting a single target with all five orbs can be highly unlikely. However, only two orbs must strike the target in order to equal or surpass the more traditional splash effect.