Are non-elemental weapons worth it?

[Linus Hyper]

[Lord Cyphre]

Elemental guns get a great boost in damage if you match elements. With elemental relics you´ll be able to boost them even further.
Always pick an elemental version over a non elemental if can because it will be better.
Jakobs make up for this with very high base damage and good critical hit modifiers. Those are viable if your aim is up for the task.

[AwesomeMatt26]

Most defiently one of my favorite gun makers are jacobs and they arent elemental

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by Phobos⛧Anomaly:

Are non-elemental weapons worth it?

To many players who are partial to Jakobs, yes they can be very much worth it. Once you've reached max lvl 80 OP8, a fun challenge for your next class is to try taking it from 1 to 80 OP8 with nothing but non-elemental arms. Jakobs makes many of the game's best non-elemental arms and if you're a Jakobs fan, you can even farm their Allegiance Relic mod. Other manufacturers that make a few darn good non-elemental arms are Vladof, Hyperion and Torgue.

[z00t]

While matching elemental weapons to the relevant enemies will give you higher damage, you will need a set of each weapon in each flavour. A non-elemental version of a weapon will usually give higher base damage than an equivalent elemental weapon, and can be used on all enemy types.
It is not an either / or situation. Both types are useful.

[Lord Cyphre]

Originally posted by z00t:

While matching elemental weapons to the relevant enemies will give you higher damage, you will need a set of each weapon in each flavour. A non-elemental version of a weapon will usually give higher base damage than an equivalent elemental weapon, and can be used on all enemy types.
It is not an either / or situation. Both types are useful.

Aromred enemies take less damage (only 80% iirc) from non-elemental guns though.

[Darbie]

http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Elemental_Damage

You have to scroll down for BL2 listings, and there are separate listings of damage spread for Normal and TVHM and higher.

The basic breakdown is that elemental does more versus the correct type, sometimes significantly, but has penalties against anything else. Electric does not have this problem; they get bonus vs shield and no penalties, but are lower delve values than a normal weapon.

Normal damage is .8 vs armor, and explosive is .8 vs shield.

[muchdebate]

Also depends on characters and bonuses. Mechromancers have the potential to get a lot of boosts to elemental, but only if you have the right skills in place.

[MonkeyPocket]

Yeah dude. My favorite and most efficient gun on my OP8 Zer0 when I wanna change from melee to gunplay is The Maggie. With the right relics and classmods it just tears through whatever. Also there is little that can survive a full magazine of my Lyuda or my Butcher. It's all about hitting crits with non-elemental.