Borderlands 3

There was an absolutely tremendous amount of Borderlands 3 news dropped yesterday, mostly focused on the new DLC, Guns, Love and Tentacles which features the wedding of Hammerlock and Jakobs with a bonus cameo by Gaige as the wedding planner.

I covered all of that in a post here, and yet there was something that happened yesterday in the actual game itself that probably flew a bit under the radar. There was a Borderlands 3 hotfix that buffed some of the weakest weapons in the game, which is always nice to see, rather than nerfing the strong things. Some of these weapons are so common and bad theyre memes, but now? Maybe, just maybe, theyll be okay.

Heres the full list of the buffed weapons:

The Lob

Now has a magazine of 12, not 4, and shoots three balls instead of one giant ball. Damage per tick has been greatly increased. I feel like this has already been buffed once before, but it didnt do the job, it seems. Curious to use it now.

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DAHL Assault Rifles

I always thought these rifles were underperforming, and now they have received a 35% damage boost across the board.

Which Assault Rifles are DAHL, you ask? That would be Breath of the Dying, Kaos, Warlord and Star Helix as the most common ones, and Barrage and Good Juju as two of the more rare ones. So knock yourself out with these.

Woodblocker

If there ever was a meme weapon in the game, its this, which seems to have like a 50% drop rate from bosses. Well, now it has had its critical damage increased by 100% and it has better recoil.

Malaks Bane

And heres the other common Sniper Rifle you will find absolutely everywhere. The shotgun part of it now costs less ammo, but the only buff we know is greatly increased damage. By just how much? I guess we have to use it and find out.

Rubys Wrath

Forgot this even existed. No exact numbers here, just greatly increased damage and greatly increased the cooldown of the singularity grenade. Its still probably no ION Cannon, but these buffs should help.

The problem, of course is that these weapons have been terrible for so long that I have deleted practically all of them from my vault and characters unless they had some super good Anointment. I dont think I have a single Lob, Woodblocker or Rubys Wrath across all 300+ saved items in the game, so I guess its time to farm some. If their old drop rates are similar, this really shouldnt be much of a problem at all.

Love to see underused stuff buffed which Borderlands has been pretty good about lately. We still have a month until the DLC so not much going on until then except experimentation with some of these guns, perhaps.

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You May Have Missed Borderlands 3's Weapon Buffing Hotfix Yesterday - Forbes