About the Brainstormer:
The Brainstormer is a Legendary Weapon in Borderlands 3. This Hyperion Shotgun always has the shock element. It fires multiple projectiles in a lightning bolt pattern. The Brainstormer is great for mobbing and stripping shields. This is because of its legendary effect as it can create a chain lightning shock between enemies that are in close proximity to each other. There are always 2 lighting beams when a link is made, 1 from your original target to another, and then a second one can go it back to the original target or attach to another target. This link will last 2 seconds and deal 10 ticks of damage during that time and each target can have up to 5 links.
Elements:
- Always Shock
- Check out the Reflux if you want a Corrosive variant
Special Weapon Effect:
“Let’s put our heads together.”
- Fires 7 or 14 projectiles in a lightning bolt pattern.
- Hitting an enemy has a chance to cause powerful shock bolts chaining from the target hit to nearby enemies.
How to get the Brainstormer?:
The Brainstormer can be randomly obtained from any loot source but it has a high chance of dropping from Katagawa Ball who is located in Skywell-27 on Promethea. It’s the boss at the end of the Space-Laser Tag story mission.
Drop Rate:
The Drop Rate of the Brainstormer is 13.5% on Mayhem 6+; 30% Otherwise
Notes:
- Although the bolts’ way of dealing damage may look similar to a Status effect, only gun damage modifiers are applied, not status effect modifiers. Thus, Amara’s Anima skill cannot increase the duration of this effect.
- A Brainstormer with the Redundant prefix (fires 14 pellets and consumes 2 ammo per shot) has an increased chance of causing more bolts. However, a cash infused Brainstromer with a bonus element creates about the same number of chains as a Redundant.
- Bonus elemental damage from shields, grenade mods, or skills like Amara’s Infusion and Forceful Expression, also increase the chance of causing more bolts.
- If no enemies are nearby, no shock bolts will occur, greatly reducing the effectiveness of the weapon.
- The Brainstormer and its chains are entirely unaffected by splash and AoE boosts.
- This weapon synergizes well with FL4K’s Megavore skill and the The Pearl of Ineffable Knowledge.
- The Brainstormer occasionally appears in Maurice’s Black Market.
Changelog:
- Hotfix Aug 6, 2020 – Increased the chance for projectiles to chain
Trivia:
- The term “let’s put our heads together” is a term to pool ideas and work together. The name of the gun furthers this as to brainstorm is to come up with new ideas.
- The spread of the pellets is shaped like a lightning symbol
