Borderlands 3 Legendary Assault Rifle – Blade Fury Screenshot
Weapon Overview:
| Manufacturer: | Jakobs |
| Type: | Assault Rifle |
| Rarity: | Legendary |
| Drop Rate: | Vault Card 3 |
| Anointed: | Yes |
| Various Parts: | Yes |
| Splash Damage: | No |
| Damage Types: |  |
Weapon Stats:
| Level: | 72 |
| Mayhem: | 10 |
| Damage: | 25976 |
| Accuracy: | 64% |
| Handling: | 80% |
| Reload Time: | 3.6s |
| Fire Rate: | 5.59/s |
| Magazine Size: | 20 |
The Blade Fury is a legendary Jakobs Assault Rifle in Borderlands 3 and is part of the Director’s Cut DLC. In this weapon guide, you will learn about the Blade Fury’s unique damage, how to obtain one for yourself, and other tips and tricks.
Special Weapon Effect:
“Master of the gun, the blade, and philosophy”
- Shoots slow-moving knife projectiles that deal both weapon damage and melee damage.
- Weapon Damage: Deals 100% of the weapon’s card damage as physical splash damage, but has no splash radius.
- Melee Damage: Deals 50% of the weapon’s card damage as Non-Elemental Melee Damage. This melee damage cannot deal critical hit damage.
How to get the Blade Fury
The Blade Fury can be obtained by spending 5 Bunker Master Vault Card Keys to redeem this weapon. These specific keys can be gained by leveling up the Bunker Master Vault Card. The first claimed Blade Fury will not have an Anointment, however, subsequent redemptions will.
Notes:
- The Blade Fury’s Non-Elemental Melee Damage can bypass a Boss’s Immunity Phases.
- There is a 30% chance you get a Masher variant, the other 70% is the Gatlin variant.
- You can create an elemental Blade Fury by equipping an artifact with the ‘Stone‘ prefix. This adds elemental damage to your melee damage. Because that’s what the Blade Fury does, it gets the same bonus.
- Since the Blade Fury deals melee damage, it also works great in combination with the Cryo element because frozen enemies take 300% damage from melee attacks.
- Tag enemies with Explosive Bombs by combining the Blade Fury with a White Elephant Artifact.
- Get Ammo regeneration by combining the Blade Fury with a Cutpurse Artifact.
- Get Health regeneration by combining the Blade Fury with a Knife Drain Artifact.
- Deal Random Elemental damage by combining the Blade Fury with a Commander Planetoid Artifact
- The Blade Fury can also exploit the ‘Slayer’ Mayhem Modifier, as you can “melee” enemies from a distance to trigger its effect.
- Melee Damage gets Mayhem Scaling and gets multiplied up to 16 times in Mayhem Mode.
LazyData: Blade Fury fires both bullets and melee as two separate entities. The melee does not get infusion, and behaves like Facepuncher melee, so no weapon type, short fuse, indiscriminate, etc). However, the bullet section does, although crit and shortfuse on this is relatively negligible, its ability to Eraser and Indiscriminate to create a new, complete projectile with the melee portion is very strong. Gatling is stronger than Masher when using the gun’s damage output to deal damage, as with every other Jakobs AR.
Anoints
- Don’t use
- Next 2 mags
- Gamma Burst
- 125% incendiary damage (Moze)
- Do use
- Consecutive hits
- URAD
- Fade Away
- 150/90
- Kill stacks
My Perspective:
The Blade Fury is a unique legendary assault rifle that combines gun damage with melee damage, something other weapons don’t do in Borderlands 3. The Face-Puncher is interesting as it deals Melee Damage instead of Gun Damage, now the Blade Fury deals both, thereby offering interesting (Hybrid) build possibilities. I would have liked it if the projectile speed were a bit faster, but bypassing immunity phases is fun.
