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Weapon faq (not yet complete)

SMG's

SMG - Balanced.
Stinger - Increased fire rate.
Thumper - Greatly increased damage but a very slow fire rate.
Bruiser - Increased damage at the cost of slightly slower fire rate.
Anarchy - 4 bullets per shot, uses 2 ammo, low accuracy.

Unique SMG Drops:

Bone shredder
Fires two projectiles

The Spy
Increased accuracy when scoped

Legendary SMG drops:

Dahl Wildcat
Lower accuracy and extended magazine.

Hyperion Bitch
improved crosshair accuracy while firing. Greatly increases elemental tech level (if element is available), allowing the elemental effect to
occur multiple times under sustained fire.

Maliwan Hellfire
Extended damage over time with increased contagion. Bullets are always at least x2 incendiary.(reccomend)

Tediore Savior
Ammo regeneration(i reccomend one myself)

Torgue Gasher
Fires three-round bursts, but with lower accuracy.

                      PISTOLS

   Lacerator - +200% Melee damage.
   Needler - Increased fire rate & magazine size.
   Raptor - Increased damage at the expense of higher recoil.
   Repeater - Balanced, closest to default stats.
   Swatter - Higher accuracy.

Unique Pistol Drops:

Lady Finger
+100% increased critical damage.

The Dove .
No ammo usage.

Krom's Sidearm - 
300% Burst Fire while zoomed & 3x Shock.

Legendary Pistol Drops:

Atlas Troll
Slow health regeneration while held.

Dahl Hornet
200% burst fire, corrosive.

Hyperion Invader
Fully automatic while zoomed.

Maliwan Firehawk
  Incendiary x4, splash damage

S&S Gemini
- 200% Burst Fire, 2 bullets fired per shot at the cost of 2 ammo.

Tediore Protector 
Ammo Regeneration.

Torgue Violator
300% Burst Fire x 3 bullets per shot at the cost of 1 ammo.

Vladof Rebel 
Large magazine & increases RoF.
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Revolvers

Justice - Increased damage.
Law - Higher fire rate.
Masher - Shoots multiple projectiles like Shotguns do. Usually features decreased accuracy and less damage per projectile.
Razor - +200% Increased Melee damage.
Revolver - Balanced stats.
Viper - Higher accuracy.

Unique Revolver drops

Atlas Patton
it does alot of damage

Madjack
x2 or x3 Explosive and bullets travel in a horizontal wave.

Legendary Reveolver drops:

Atlas Chimera
x2-x4 Explosive, but each bullet may also cause Incendiary, Corrosive or Shock damage.

Dahl Anaconda
Increased accuracy and power.

Jakobs Unforgiven
+100% more Critical Hit Damage than normal.

Maliwan Defiler
x4 Corrosive and increased spreading of Corrosive effects.
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Tediore Equalizer
Ammo regeneration.

Combat Rifle

           Burst-fire Combat Rifles

Rifle - balanced but basic; there are better assault rifles.
Cobra - highly accurate without sacrificing firepower.
Stomper - extremely powerful but half bullet velocity; very good against Crimson Lance Defenders.
Pounder - small mag-capacity, high power, semiautomatic

Unique Rifle Drops

Hyperion The Sentinel
The flavor text refers to the scope. There is no mention of it in the stats.

Legendary Burstfire Combat rifles:

Dahl Raven
Five round bursts instead of three.

  Tediore Guardian
Ammo regeneration.

Hyperion Destroyer
Automatic fire while zoomed.

Fully Automatic Combat Rifles

Machine Gun - Basic but still useful, and with a manageable reload.
Mauler - Very high damage per bullet, respectable rate of fire, but suffers from reduced accuracy.
Havoc - Fast fire rate coupled with a hard hit, rarely scoped, and unlike most machineguns Havocs reload fairly quickly.
Massacre - Very accurate machine gun with moderate fire rates, scoped models can sometimes replace assault rifles.

Unique Drops and Rewards:

The Meat Grinder
large magazine but low accuracy. Killing an enemy increases firerate
.

Ajax's Spear (DLC)
Increased damage and recoil reduction.

The Chopper (DLC)
Fires 4 bullets per shot at the cost of 6 ammo and does not stop firing until interruptedby reload or melee attack. Huge magazine and extreme firerate but decreased accuracy.

Legendary Fully Automatic Combat rifles:

Atlas Ogre
3x or 4x Explosive.

Torgue Bastard
High damage.

Vladof Revolution
Large magazine (Comes in either Glorious or Rowdy variants).

Sniper riles

Repeating and Semi-Automatic

Sniper - Balanced
Thunder - Extra damage, slightly higher recoil

Repeating Sniper Rifles

Gamble -Less accuracy, +250% Critical Hit Damage.
Hawkeye - Higher accuracy and increased zoom.

Unique Sniper Riles Drops

Whitting's Elephant Gun
Greatly increased damage but has iron sights.

Kyros' Power
Explosive, enemies release Transfusion trails when hit, healing you and your teammates.

Legendary:

Atlas Cyclops
Extreme zoom around 5.2x and double bullet velocity

Vladof Surkov
Extremely fast reload speed.

Maliwan Volcano
  Always ignites target, causes larger Fire procs.

Jakobs Skullmasher
Reduced Damage & accuracy, but fires 6 projectiles.