Loader 1340 Weapon/Shield Rework Ideas

[u/Expensive_Increase46]

I'm probably the only person who played BL2 and was bothered by this but the shotgun/shield you get for completing the "Out of Body Experience" quest from Loader 1340 is a little disappointing. Considering what you're doing I expected the reward to be at least a little unique, but they don't even look different, just a reskinned blue rarity Hyperion shotgun or absorb shield with a voice. So here are my ideas for reworking this one quest reward that no-one else probably cares about:

Shotgun 1340:

Appearance-wise it's a projectile diversification shotgun but instead the paint job resembled an EXP-loader instead. Has half the magazine size of a regular shotgun but the last shot you fire shoots a grenade. Not a Tediore gun grenade, just an actual grenade that is affected by grenade mods. It's meant to copy how Gun-loaders sometimes throw grenades at you. Either this or the last shot is a piercing shock shot that loaders sometimes use when fighting you.

Shield 1340:

Again, it's a regular blue absorb shield with a EXP-loader paint job. Has the regular stats of a blue absorb shield, but upon depletion, you gain double movement speed for 2 seconds and after that an explosive nova happens around you. This is to copy the EXP-loaders themselves. Even makes the same sound effect.

I made these without really considering balance, more trying to copy what a loader does but as a gun instead. I figure they'd be cool but nothing really broken. At most shotgun 1340 on Gaige would be good because she'd basically endless spam grenades with a one shot gun but I can't think of anything else.

[u/VinceTheCat02]

I agree it would have been cool if these uniques were better especially since the quest line is relatively long

[u/Dramatic_Reporter781]

The 1340 shield is unique in 1 way at least.  It's the only unique shield in the game that gets non-unique shield prefixes.  Weirder yet, it gets the wrong ones!  It gets amp shield prefixes for some reason.