Borderlands 4 Update Notes - October 9, 2025
This update focuses on significant damage buffs for several Legendary weapons and critical fixes for pet scaling and status effect interactions.
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- Ruby's Grasp
- Overall damage increased by 50%, significantly boosting its combat effectiveness.→+50% %
- Fire rate increased by 25%, allowing for faster target neutralization.→+25% %
- Bully
- drone:The associated drone now deals 50% more damage.→+50% %
- Base weapon damage increased by 50%.→+50% %
- RangefinderBase damage increased by 30%.→+30% %
- Queen's Rest
- Increased the likelihood of finding this weapon from 30% to 50%.30%→50% %
- Fire rate increased by 50%.→+50% %
- Seventh Senseorb:Massive 250% increase to the damage dealt by the weapon's orbs.→+250% %
- HellwalkerBase damage increased by 30%.→+30% %
- ConvergenceBase damage increased by 25%.→+25% %
- AnarchyMutualism:Fixed an issue where Stacks of Mutualism were not correctly awarded during auto-reloads or enemy kills.
- PetsAll class pets (Trouble, Specters, Reapers, Forgeweapons) now correctly inherit Critical Hit Chance from gear and passives.
◆Other changes4
- Vex the SirenBleed:Bleed now counts as Status Effect Damage, allowing it to benefit from status-related modifiers.→Status Effect Damage
- Weekly Activities
- Weekly Big Encore Boss:The Encore Boss has been rotated to a tougher variant with improved loot rewards.→Tougher Variant
- Weekly Wildcard Mission:The weekly mission has rotated, continuing to offer guaranteed Legendary drops.→Changed
- Maurice’s Black Market:The Black Market vending machine has moved and updated its inventory.→New Location
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