It takes an ambitious game to introduce an element system into guns, but nobody accused Borderlands of trying to conform to FPS norms. How do you like your psycho midget best served? Char-broiled? Electrocuted? Acid-washed?
Poll: Favorite element in Borderlands
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I'm lame apparently. Never found myself purposely seeking out elements. Hope that changes in BL2, they seem pretty cool.
Honestly I hated the element system. I spent several hours looking for a long-barrel 6-shot revolver that wasn't elemental, but it seems like they are ALL elemental.
Well they really didn't do anything apart from some color changes, I guess my favorite would be the gun I got about halfway in with explosive acid shots and regenerating bullets... overpowered doesn't even begin to describe it.
Corrosion reduces heavily armoured opponents into easy to kill puddles of green goo 
I had a 6 shot revolver with 4x corrosion, I bloody loved the thing
Slag is looking like a good element, although the weapons that use slag will be next to useless in terms of damage, since slag affected bullets don't deal the extra damage that slag permits.
So you have to use a gun with slag, then switch to something else to get the damage bonus.
I had a 6 shot revolver with 4x corrosion, I bloody loved the thing
Slag is looking like a good element, although the weapons that use slag will be next to useless in terms of damage, since slag affected bullets don't deal the extra damage that slag permits.
So you have to use a gun with slag, then switch to something else to get the damage bonus.
Fire. Corrosive can be useful for killing heavily armored guys, but a good enough fire weapon (like my Siren's Hellfire SMG) can shred through anything that's not resistant to fire.
As a hunter, with a cobalt volcano with over 700 damage and 4x fire elemental (translates to over 20k damage), unless the enemy was fire based it died in one shot.
captcha: I like humans --- Yes, roasted bandit rib anyone?
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I liked them all in a way: lightning because sound and effect although it was pretty useless against anything else but shields, fire because it ate through flesh like it was nothing, acid because it cut through armor and explosive because it made a nice bang other than that it was also pretty useles unless you were Brick. So yeah I liked them all although I'm fairly sure I used fire the most.
I mainly used a high powered corrosive revolver, the "Anarchy" SMG that shoots 4 bullets at once (Try it with Roland's clip expander perks and metal storm. ouch) and a Lightning element shotgun.
My usual tactic is to hit them at a distance with the revolver to weaken them. rush in and knock off their shields with the shotgun then point the SMG in the general vicinity of their face and hold the trigger until they die.
works on EVERYTHING.
My usual tactic is to hit them at a distance with the revolver to weaken them. rush in and knock off their shields with the shotgun then point the SMG in the general vicinity of their face and hold the trigger until they die.
works on EVERYTHING.
I rememeber when you helped me with Moxxi, picking bandits one by one siting behind rocks sneaky fuck like you are and another head went pop.Old Father Eternity said:
Fire, simply by virtue of being the most OP element (due to the way DoTs are applied in Borderlands*), especially if you can get your hands on a Hellfire or a Firehawk.
If you hit an opponent with two Fire-inflicting bullets, then each bullet will apply its own DoT, meaning if you have a Hellfire/Firehawk (which both Fire very fast and have a 100% chance of proccing on hit) then even fire-resistant enemies go down in seconds due to the sheer number of DoTs that are being applied.
All of them with the exception of Explosive.
That's only because it didn't make the Rhino rocket launcher any more cooler.
That's only because it didn't make the Rhino rocket launcher any more cooler.
On the few occasions where I use an element, I prefer corrosive. I usually use Roland, so I just like slinging lots of bullets at people. I usually didn't want to sacrifice base damage for elemental.