Overview

E-techs have been changed to be powerful but ammo hungry, providing high but difficult to sustain damage.

Most E-Techs follow these stat changes:

• +100% Ammo Cost
• +80% Accuracy
• -80% Max Inaccuracy
• -80% Spread
• -80% Recoil
• +80% Damage
• +80% Clip Size
• +80% Elemental Effect Damage
• +80% Elemental Effect Chance

Also E-Techs are now considered to be higher quality than Purple gear so they get an additional:

• -10% Spread
• +24% Damage
• +14% Clip Size
• +24% Elemental Effect Damage

Pistols

Beamer

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires piercing beams like E-Tech Blasters.

Attribute Changes:

• Gets +10% Fire Rate.

Manufacturer Changes:

• Torgue gets an additional +40% Damage.
• Maliwan gets an additional +40% Damage.

Spiker

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires a spike that explodes on contact with a delay.
• Deals 100% Rocket splash.

Attribute Changes:

• Gets +100% Damage instead of +80% because it cannot crit normally.

Manufacturer Changes:

• Torgue gets an additional +50% Damage.
• Maliwan gets an additional +50% Damage.

SMGs

Plasma Caster

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires plasma that explodes for an additional 50% Grenade splash.

Attribute Changes:

• Gets +60% Damage instead of +80% because of extra splash.

Manufacturer Changes: None

Swarmer

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires homing darts that explode on contact after a delay.
• Deals 100% Rocket splash.

Attribute Changes:

• Gets +100% Damage instead of +80% because it cannot crit normally.

Manufacturer Changes: None

Rifles

Blaster

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires piercing beams.

Attribute Changes:

• Gets +10% Fire Rate.

Manufacturer Changes:

• Torgue gets an additional +40% Damage.

Holopoint

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires accelerating beams that explode for an additional 80% Grenade splash.

Attribute Changes:

• Gets +60% Damage instead of +80% because of extra splash.

Manufacturer Changes: None

Shotguns

Convergence

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires a tight cluster of piercing rails.

Attribute Changes: None

Manufacturer Changes:

• Torgue gets an additional +40% Damage.

Splattergun

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires globs that bounce against surfaces and enemies.
• Globs explode on bounce for 100% Rocket splash.

Rather than listing what's different I'll list what it has.

Attributes

• +3 Ammo Cost
• -2 Projectiles
• +300% Damage
• +80% Clip Size
• -36% Fire Rate
• +80% Elemental Effect Damage
• +120% Elemental Effect Chance
• -20% Accuracy
• +20% Spread
• +20% Max Inaccuracy
• +20% Recoil

Manufacturer Changes:

• Torgue gets an additional +2 projectile count.

Snipers

Railer

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires a piercing rail.

Attribute Changes: None

Manufacturer Changes:

• Maliwan gets an additional +40% Damage.

Launchers

Destroyer

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires a piercing rail that explodes for an additional 80% Rocket splash.
• Rails deal bullet damage and can crit.

Attribute Changes: None

Manufacturer Changes: None

PBFG

Firing Mode Notes:

• Fires a mass of plasma that explodes in a large radius for an additional 100% Rocket splash.

Attribute Changes:

• Doesn't get Min Accuracy and Spread improvements.
• Doesn't get Max Inaccuracy and Recoil improvements.

Manufacturer Changes: None