Welcome to this huge archive of all Borderlands’ best[*] weapons and items at their highest possible levels. These are the real guncards from the game arranged in swift galleries with built-in Gearcalc links for every weapon and shield (Class Mods and Grenade Mods are in the archive but without links). All Legendaries and Pearlescents are included. Galleries of Borderlands’ Best Weapons and Items last updated 5/9/2012.
Navigating Borderlands’ Best Weapons and Items
The top menu bar^ leads to loads of guns in pop-out galleries where you can:
- hover to see the guncards
- OR navigate using keyboard arrow keys (click any thumbnail to enable this)
- click a guncard to go to the gun’s Gearcalc page for parts makeup, damage per second, reload speed, damage at different levels etc.
*Deciding upon Borderlands’ Best Weapons
“Borderlands
best weapons and items, eh?”, you might ask; and “How were Borderlands best weapons and items chosen?” Good questions. Given the strengths and weaknesses of the different characters in Borderlands, and the individual preferences that each player might have, it’s going to be more or less inaccurate to say that a certain gun configuration is the ‘best’. So, instead, this site focuses on presenting a great variety of Borderlands’ best weapons and items. Generally speaking, we’re taking the standard top gun configs as suggested by A. the Gun Number ‘Best of’ List
here and B. Gearcalc’s damage-per-second figure**, and going from there. In most cases, each brands’ barrel4 and barrel5 are presented, along with significant stock/mag variations if applicable. The members of the Gearbox Gearchat forum
here then provide feedback and the end result is what you see in these galleries. If anyone wants another gun on here – a holy grail perhaps – just ask. Holy grails can be added with a note as to who is looking for it and why they want it. You can see an example in the corrosive revolver gallery. If you’d like a new weapon (or class of weapon) added, please propose it in the development thread for review and discussion. Any and all feedback is appreciated – either in the development thread or here on the site! Click
here for the development thread in the Gearbox Forums.
**Gearcalc’s Elemental DPS figure and Borderlands Best Elemental Weapons
Note that the Gearcalc Damage per second figure does not include elemental DoT (damage over time); it only includes the impact damage from the elemental bullets
see here (look under the ‘Tech’ tab in Gearcalc). This is because different enemies have different levels of resistance to DoT triggering and, although it can be insanely powerful, it can also just not work- especially if the target is a boss or a badass version. Level differences can also keep DoT from triggering reliably. Because of all the what if and dependencies involved in DoT, it’s left out of the equation as a hard number. This sounds like it might cause trouble in deciding on Borderlands’ Best Weapons, but since all elements and weapon types are represented equally, it’s not an issue. For more info on DoT, see Scottes’ test threads
here (links below his sig pic).
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Very nice and clean looking site. Bookmarked for reference. Should get stickied on the forums.
hey UFKHBA just confirming it works on ipods, gearcalc doesnt though (we really need an app!)
This is awesome! I’ll be using this often, greatjob UFK!
What a great resource! This site is always pulled up when I’m farming Craw. Thanks for all your hard work!
A-MAZ-ING…….. seemless searching, wonderful item cards, exceptional job!
im confused am i able to do this on the ps3 cuz i found this out from when i was playing in multiplayer a lvl 28 guy dropped a shield with over 2 billion shield health it doesn’t go down unless you fight someone thus like lvl 68 (i found that out the hard way) but help me out on this one plz and thx
Hi Broly,
A shield like that isn’t ‘legit’ – it would have been ‘modded’ or ‘constructed’ on a PC and then somehow injected into a PS3 save.
might i suggest having different methods of sorting available
maybe build a database that holds all info on all items, and have different sort by options to be clicked.
I mean you have covered the basics of each weapon type and elements and items, but how about things like:
Manufacturer and Rarity, so we can view all pearlescents at once, or all hyperion pistols at a time for example
True, true. I thought about that approach at the outset, and it would certainly be better in some ways, but it also seemed like lot more work to set up. I figured the gallery-by-category setup would be good enough for a start and actually quicker sometimes because you can get a boatload of info in about 3-5 clicks without typing anything (if the categories are familiar enough, anyway). Maybe a database is in the cards for the future though; we’ll see what happens with BL2 :D
It is a great start though, and idk bout everyone else, but when borderlands 2 is released i will be jumping back and forth between the two.
it will be cool if you put up 2 sections on this site at that time 1 for each game.
I like the site btw
thanks dude! It’ll take some time to catalog the new guns and develop the BL2 Gearcalc, but yeah a BL2 section would be totally cool : )
Good luck with your sweet Gearcalc+ project btw!
thanks. i just hope i will finish that before bl2 comes out (even if not, i will still play both games after that) since i am really busy with work, sometimes only 1 day off a week, and car troubles. (gotta replace the bearing plate for the strut, should replace the whole struts, but im on a budget so only gonna replace neccessitys)
but if you want some help with the bl2 gearcalc, just let me know via pm on the forums, not sure how busy i will be then tho