Roksalt VS Shotgun 1340

[Firm and Sweet]

There's a point in the game where you get two very good unique shotguns back to back. Roksalt and Shotgun 1340 are both quest rewards for quests that you get at the same time as each other, and are likely to do and turn in at the same time. Despite them both being really good, you typically only have room for one shotgun in your loadout. Which one do you typically keep?

[z00t]

The bandit Roksalt is a very useful shotgun, and while the 1340 talks to you, it is not that good as a shotty imo.
Put one of them in clappy's stash and take the other one for a test drive. Swap for the other and then decide which one you prefer.

[Renfrew]

Shotgun 1340 can only come in non-elemental and is worse than a purple rarity Hyperion Shotgun, so it is 100% a novelty weapon, you can use it as transitional gear as Hyperion shotguns are very nice when you can get all the pellets to crit, but not much use in the endgame when you will have access to far superior shotguns.

Roksalt can come in all elements and is on par with purple rarity Bandit shotguns, it could even be considered better with its significantly higher reload compared to traditional Bandit shotguns that makes it reload faster than every Bandit shotgun in the game. True unending firepower when combined with Bandit's above average Mag size.

In Borderlands 2 shotguns have different barrels which can affect the amount of ammo they consume (this is ignoring red text shotguns as some have special effects that can ignore this rule). When a shotgun consumes increased ammo per shot, you get more damage per shot, but this is not ammo efficient, meaning that the damage per ammo ratio is poor. Because of this having a shotgun that consumes one ammo per shot to take out weak common mobs and then a higher ammo consumption shotgun for badasses, specialised enemies and bosses keeps you ammo efficient. In the context of these two shotguns they follow the standard ammo consumption rules, so Shotgun 1340 uses 1 ammo per shot as it has a Tediore barrel, and the Roksalt uses 2 ammo per shot as it has a Jakobs barrel, therefore Roksalt has better DPS, but Shotgun 1340 will be more ammo efficient especially because it is Hyperion making it easier to land shots.

[Innocent]

I agree with Zoot, the Rocksalt is far better than the 1340 shotty. It's technical a Purple (Blue but with beefed up stats) Bandit shotgun with a very fast reload time. It's one of those often overlooked guns imo, and great for levelling.

The 1340 is really just a blue Hyperion that always come with a Tediore barrel, which is not that great. Still, if you're doing an allegiance run or just like the gun, it's perfectly serviceable, just not as good as the Salt. The voice is hilarious, and the quest to get it is one of my favorite in the game.

And if you want the best of both worlds, you can use the Rocksalt with the 1340 shield :)

[Linukas164]

I would disagree with you guys, 1340 is better that rocksalt because it's a talking gun. Seriously how many talking guns have you seen guys? (Hot mamma, Morning star, Overcompensator...)(Sorry if missed anything more), but 1340 is just more avesome(r) gun than rocksalt.

Though rocksalt outputs more damage and performs better in combat. I typically go for a 1340 shield, and not really a fan of rocksalt.
In this case I might just use a three way hulk, bushwack, or something like quad.

So basicly Nether of those, but try them out yourself and chose what you like. Happy vault hunting

[UNCLE STINKFISH]

yeah..

KInd of a fake arguement - I always go with a 3-way until TVHM where there are much better shotties available than 3-way/Rocksalt/3140..

[raincloud40]

Theres another Blue quest shotgun you can get not much later on, Octo. Not sure if anybody uses that one or how it compares to Roksalt.

Playing a new character through normal again and the level 22 Octo I have seems ok. Its that or the level 21 critical conference call I have.

I don't really use shottys much, but i prefer the higher accuracy ones over the higher damage/low accuracy ones.

[WillB]

I used 1340 for about a minute then got annoyed with it once the novelty wore off.

[Renfrew]

Originally posted by raincloud40:

Theres another Blue quest shotgun you can get not much later on, Octo. Not sure if anybody uses that one or how it compares to Roksalt.

Octo is great, because of the fixed projectile pattern. In the endgame the Omen does the same thing, but offers higher damage, and also has splash damage, so most people only use the Octo as transitional gear.