Borderlands 3 Legendary Dahl Sniper Rifle – Sand Hawk – LVL72
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About the Sand Hawk:
The Sand Hawk is a Legendary weapon in Borderlands 3. This Dahl Sniper has a unique projectile pattern as the Sand Hawk fires a line of 7 bullets that move to mimic the way that a hawk flaps its wings. This weapon can come with the Full-Auto, Semi-Auto, and Burst Fire firing modes. Basically, you want a Sand Hawk with the Full-Auto & Semi-Auto firing modes. Because with Full-auto you actually have an SMG and with the Semi-Auto you have a sniper that can shoot as fast as an SMG. While the pellet spread on the Full-Auto and the Burst Fire is pretty wide, the spread on the pellets of the Semi-Auto is pretty tight.
Special Weapon Effect:
“Wedge a pig.”
- Fires a line of 7 bullets that move to mimic the way that a hawk flaps its wings.
- Consumes 3 ammo per shot.
Elements:
Fire damage is strong against Flesh and can cause targets to burn. Burning deals high damage over a 5-second duration.
Corrosive damage is strong against Armor and causes targets to melt. Melting deals high damage over a 7-second duration.
Shock damage is strong against Shields and causes targets to be electrocuted. Electrocution deals very high damage over a 3-second duration.
Radiation damage can cause targets to become Irradiated. Irradiated enemies deal Aura Damage to nearby enemies for 8 seconds. If an Irradiated enemy dies, they explode, Irradiating any enemies damaged by the explosion.
How do you get the Sand Hawk in Borderlands 3?
The Sand Hawk is Mayhem Mode 6 or higher Legendary and has a 16.5% chance to drop from Katagawa Jr. who is located in the Atlas HQ on Promethea. M6 gear will also drop from the bosses in the Guardian Takedown.
Is the Sand Hawk any good?
The Sand Hawk is a Top Tier weapon and is considered one of the best snipers in the game.
Notes:
- The projectiles from the Semi-Auto Firing Mode have a tighter spread.
- The projectiles from the Full-Auto and Burst Firing Mode have a wider spread.
- Projectiles have a limited range
- Eats through your ammo.
- Zane players can regenerate ammo with the “While Digi-Clone is Active, Regenerate 30% of Magazine Ammo Per Second” anointment.
- Other Vault Hunters can use the Terror Anointment to Regenerate Ammo.
- Can be very effective as a close weapon.
- The Sandhawk occasionally appears in Maurice’s Black Market.
Changelog:
- Hotfix June 11th, 2020
- Increased Shot Cost from 2 to 3 – We’ve increased the cost of firing the weapon, so that players have to more thoughtfully manage ammo. With the additional SDUs that were added in The Revenge of the Cartels patch, players should still be able to use this weapon quite a bit.
- Removed 2 projectiles – As stated, the performance cost of this weapon was too high, so we’ve removed two particle systems from each shot. This also removes some damage output from the weapon.
- Increased Accuracy Spread – To make up for the difference for the missing projectiles, we’ve spread out the pattern, so it still covers the same space.
- Lowered lifetime of projectiles – Too many active particle systems from consecutive shots was really hurting performance, so we’ve lowered the lifespan of the projectile.
- Increased projectile speed – It was important to use to keep the weapon still effective in combat, so to counter the lowered lifetime of the projectiles, we’ve sped them up. The result is a weapon that still feels as effective as before, and even more responsive
JimRaven
Definition of power creep.
BL3 Snipers Power Creep history
Lyuda -> wedding invitation -> krakatoa -> u… https://t.co/ChzsygzfSD
halo3fan 2020
Oh god….
They turned it into a sniper??
😆😆
Jamesaroni Mayhem Level 0
1/10.
Worst weapon in the game.
Marc lloyd
If I could get one to drop I could tell you
Lexi Baldauf
Personally I find it too ammo consuming. For mobbing I still use my useen threat, I only have a fire sandhawk for Graveward, and that already eats through half my ammo
DrDavidHuxley
It should have been an AR really. I love the gun for what it is but hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE the farm for it.