Hello Vault Hunters!

Today, Bloody Harvest returns to Borderlands 3, and with it comes weapon balance changes and adjustments to Zane the Operative! These changes will be live on all platforms by 12:00 PM PT.

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With the return of Bloody Harvest comes haunted enemies and Terror, a frightening status effect that will leave Vault Hunters a little shaken up! Haunted enemies can inflict the Terror debuff, which will affect your aim and partially cloud your vision, but could leave you with a boost of power when paired with the Anointments that will only be available during the event! The landscape of Borderlands 3 has changed since last year, and with that, the Terror anointments are also receiving some balance changes today.

Players who don’t want to see haunted enemies are able to turn off the Bloody Harvest event in the Main Menu.

• Activates Bloody Harvest, which will be active from October 8 to November 5 at 9:00 AM PT
• Oletta will now consistently lead players to the Traitor Weed testing area in the Bounty of Blood DLC
• Using the Galaxy Brain Mayhem Modifier will no longer prevent players from talking to Krieg or entering the loot room in the Psycho Krieg and the Fantastic Fustercluck DLC

Bloody Harvest Weapon and Anointment Changes

These changes will impact existing and newly dropped guns with Terror anointments on them during Bloody Harvest.

Fearmonger

• Increased number of bullets shot per Terror level.
• Increased weapon damage.

Stalker

• Increased weapon damage.

Ghast Call

• Increased weapon damage.

Terror Anointments

“While Terrified, gain increased damage and fire rate. The more Terror you have, the higher the bonus.”

• Increased damage bonus.

“While Terrified, deal 50% bonus cryo damage.”

• Increased damage bonus to 75%.

“While Terrified, enemy bullets have a chance to reflect off you. The more Terror you have, the higher the bonus.”

• Increased damage bonus.

 “On Action Skill End, apply Terror to yourself every 5 seconds for the next 18 seconds.”

• Adjusted the text to match what was happening in-game.

Siren Anointment “After Phasegrasping an enemy, Amara fires Terror skulls at the grasped target dealing 3718 damage.” (LVL 50)

• Increased damage bonus.

Beastmaster Anointment “After Using Attack Command, consume all Terror and FL4K's pet gains 50% bonus fire damage for a short time.”

• Increased damage bonus.

Gunner Anointment “After Reloading, consume all Terror and create a nova that deals cryo damage.”

• Increased damage bonus.

Weapon Changes

Dahl Burst Weapons

• Increased the burst fire rate of AR, SMG, and Pistol weapons. Does not affect legendary weapons.

Lasersploder

• Increased damage scaling and magazine size.

Conference Call

• The initial target will now be hit with the weapon’s extra projectiles.

Maggie

• Slightly increased weapon damage.

Psycho Stabber

• Increased melee damage.

Masterwork Crossbow

• Increased weapon damage.

Changes to Zane, the Operative

Today we're releasing several changes to Zane's passive skills and class mods. After buffing weapons, we started looking at how class mods were impacting the build diversity of the Vault Hunters. After investigating community feedback, we developed these changes to make more class mods viable for Zane in the end game. Most of the passive skill buffs changed today are used by class mods that had been underperforming. Additional changes to Zane are already planned, with some coming in future hotfixes and patches.

Skill Changes

Cold Bore

• Increased bonus damage.

This skill only provides extra damage on the first bullet of a weapon swap. This bonus happens infrequently by nature, so we have massively buffed the damage. With this change, we are interested to see new builds centered around small magazine sizes, sniper rifles, and more.

Duct Tape Mod

• Decreased grenade cooldown by half.

We found that the value of this passive skill was limited by the cooldown between each grenade, so we've cut that in half. Players will need to be conscious of the cooldown time and type of grenade mod they equipped to get the maximum value out of this passive skill. 

Like a Ghost

• Increased damage of base effect.
• Increased the bonus for each active action skill.

The stacking bonus only occurs each time one of Zane’s action skills is activated. This is infrequent in the late game, as players generally extend their action skill duration time. We’ve made this change with that playstyle in mind. 

Trick of the Light

• Increased damage bonus.

The damage from this skill depends on the number of enemies targeting Zane and Zane’s clone and can occasionally be unpredictable. To better account for this inconsistency, we've buffed the damage bonus.

Best Served Cold

• Increased damage from the Cryo novas.

Frutility Belt

• Increased the damage reduction.

To help encourage players to consider builds that remove elemental damage, we’ve buffed the damage mitigation to be stronger here.

Classmod Changes

Anti-Freeze

• Increased movement speed while taking Cryo damage.

Conductor

• Increased the damage bonus.

The damage bonus for this class mod is dependent on the amount of action skill duration time you have left. Like Trick of the Light, this damage can feel inconsistent. We have increased the damage bonus to provide more reliable damage.

Executor

• Increased stat bonuses.

Players suggested that the stat bonuses provided as a kill skill weren't strong enough to feel the value. We've buffed each significantly.

Techspert

• Increased the chance of recharge to SNTNL cooldown and active duration.

The intent of this class mod is to provide a way to keep Zane's drone active nearly indefinitely, but at just a 5% chance to refill the cooldown and duration, it wasn't consistent enough. We've increased the likelihood of this behavior occurring.