 So today I thought I'd do something a little different and bring you guys 5 weapons that went from being what people would consider OP to absolute trash. How's it going guys my name's DPJ and today I bring you another BR3 video if you enjoy it leaving a like really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. Also before we go any further for all your gaming needs and I'm at the platform we play on at amazing prices and incredible weekly deals check out G2A linked within the video description. First day guys we take a look or a look back at 5 weapons that were at one time so so good gearbox took it upon themselves to nerf them somewhat into the ground and for the most part most of these weapons have been forgotten about, never recovered and never used again. Now after going through this list if you guys remember a weapon I don't mention be sure to let me know down below in that comments section ok so let's get into the 5 people actually it's 5 plus but yeah let's get into it people. And in at number 5 we have the king and queens cool, the legendary pistols which saw them go from incredible weapons to the weapons that are currently at the moment of being just meh. Now originally the cool jacob pistols which drop exclusively from Tyroon the destroyer the main villain from the original BR3 story, these in the early days were the gold two weapons from many and they both packed an almighty punch, the difference between the two I believe, one being a kings cool, drops offering incendiary and shock while the other queens cool drops offering corrosive radiation and trial, don't fault me on that I ain't used these things in quite some time and I could be mistaken there. So these two pistols were at one stage the very best in the game and we saw many many great builds created where these two pistols were the main things to use, I clearly remember a certain flak build and remember seeing an absolutely mount grave and that's the thing I actually believe this is the reason these two pistols received a nerf because if I'm honest I don't think they were ever overpowered at all, certain builds in this game could make any weapon seem overpowered and I feel many amazing builds would take advantage of these pistols and the benefits they had and it's this which inevitably saw the two receive a nerf. So the king and queens cool had the gearbox nerf them well they dropped the fire rate on them by 50% which when you think about how these weapons work you would have known straight away how much of an effect this would have on the weapons but within the same patch the same patch not struck by gearbox we saw jacob's pistols across the board receive a 15% damage reduction nerf too and this pair of nerfs in my opinion hit these pistols quite hard. Now I know there's still people still out there who still use these weapons to good effect which is great to see but in my opinion they won't ever be the weapons they once were. Okay so I'm moving on and in at number four we have nothing other than the iron cannon so the iron cannon was first introduced with a maxis heist to the handsome jackpot and is an exclusive drop from the fabricator mark 2. So when this weapon actually first arrived many people included myself thought because of the flavor text on it and just in general powerful it was gearbox purposely put this back into the game as a joke to all the nerfs weapons in game received so they added this back into the game due to this and wanted to add back a weapon that seemed OP and to be honest that's exactly what this was as you can see on the screen now this is pre-nerf by the way this thing was incredible it was stupid powerful and it was a guaranteed drop every time you killed the fabricator. The iron cannon quickly became a weapon everyone was using and just tearing everything apart with it now the purpose of this being added back into the game by gearbox for the fun of having something strong in the game in my opinion still stands and I truly believe what they did was on purpose and what they already had adding this into the game was the intentions to eventually nerf it and that's what eventually happened so what gearbox did was they made the iron cannon upon every shot consume at least six ammo per shot but at the same time adding a five-second reload time and what these changes actually did was drastically drop the weapons dps that values to a point of people just not using it anymore I mean looking at it today it's still powerful but to use this over what else is an offer would be just daft and all of this has led in my opinion to the iron cannon being a meh weapon right now one that does deal great damage but at the same time trying to do it efficiently while playing the many aspects this game has in reality is very very poor okay so moving on and in at number three we have a pair of grenades two different families both equally ruined so the two families of grenades nerfed by gearbox with a firestorm and hex variants now the nerfs which come upon these two grenades were again around the time we started seeing some popular grenade builds being created now I will admit the very first grenade we did see which was nerfed out of existence was and rightfully so the pipe bomb this if you do remember was a blue variant which was utterly broken these kind of items I have tried keeping out this list and let's face it the pipe bomb 100% needed toning down it was just crazily overpowered but a firestorm and a hex grenades in my opinion I don't think they were I thought the way in which they were nerfed and the effect that has had on these grenades and the game going forward is still scarring the game right now because if you think about it there really isn't many efficient popular grenade builds which are still running to this day which are 100% based upon those grenades and using them to push throughout the game they kind of all just stopped and ended when the hex and firestorms were in my opinion ruined by gearbox so you are seeing on screen now mainly the firestorm as it was the one I much preferred out of the two and to watch it in action alone was amazing so what gearbox did to these grenades were with the hex variants they reduced damage by 70% and at the same time reduce the duration of grenade down to three seconds I'm sure it was a literally double that prior maybe even more and with the firestorm they also reduced its damage by 70% which in my opinions took all the fun away from using them the firestorm went from literally dropping burning balls of fire to dropping falling clouds of cheeseballs that just tickle enemies okay so moving on and in at number two we have the laiuda sniper rifle now the laiuda was the first weapon I remember besides the king queen's call that everyone wanted that perfect version of and when we saw this thing in action you could understand why the laiuda which is a world drop know that you have seen numerous times farming the game of today and if you don't remember it within these early days you would look upon this thing today and you'd more or less disregard it it's just so so weak to balance I still collect them in hope we may see that spark come back to light so the laiuda in the early days was the most powerful weapon in the game or one of the most powerful weapons in the game his capable dps was scary and the best builds in the game 99% of the time had a laiuda equipped for maximum burst dps but now the laiuda falls into that category of average to below average snipers due to the nerfs applied by gearbox which were base damage reduced by 30% and they also took away what they said was a bogged extra bullet from this weapon shot this is actually what they said the laiuda's functionality is to split the projectiles from one to three after a certain distance it was reported that the original projectile was never destroyed in the process of splitting so one projectile actually became four addressing this concern efficiently removed a full shots worth of damage which auto corrects the base damage of the weapon since we increased all sniper rifle critical bonus damage in a previous hotfix we've reduced some of the critical damage bonus and the laiuda and after these nerfs people the end result is indeed a weapon now nobody uses which is a shame okay so moving on and finally and in my opinion the worst nerfed weapon in the game is nothing other than the flacker now for me the flacker was for sure one of the best weapons in the game but if we are honest with ourselves it wasn't even the best shotgun in the game when it got nerfed people forget about the protuberance which was an epic or even a rare shotgun which was much more capable than the flacker but because the flacker was a popular weapon loads of people used it and well let's be honest mounted all with it gearbox thought this thing needed a nerf and the problem with this nerf to the flacker and basically everything else today is the fact this one hit way worse than anything else we have seen to a point of just taking the weapon I had a question this actually if you do a quick search upset a lot of the playing community at the time and it didn't and I remember saying this at the time it didn't help relations between us as the playing community and gearbox as the developers many people lost faith in their methods of adjusting things and I truly think we are still seeing the effects to this day many people did indeed lose faith many people thought they were purposely taking away the fun and many people even stopped playing I still have friends who cherish borderlands one borderlands two they love this game to start but the changes gearbox made mainly taking away a lot of the fun ruined the experience for them now when saying this I do think borderlands three right now is the best it's ever been but back in the early days changes like the one made to the also popular flacker that ripple effect is still going on to this day the flacker right now is a weapon I haven't seen anyone touch or mention in months and if I'm honest I still think they did indeed make a mistake in a way in which this weapon was nerfed but that's just my opinion the actual nerf they applied to the flacker it consumes a full magazine when fired and the damage was reduced by 33 percent and what I actually think happened was I think they used the flacker as a test to see the community's reaction and then nerfing weapons into the ground because we haven't seen any other weapon been nerfed this hard in the past and let's face it the flacker right now is probably the least of all weapons you take into a fight which is a shame because originally it was an absolute beast but hey it's all just my opinion and there we have it guys five plus weapons gearbox took from being incredible items we all enjoyed using two legendaries quickly forgotten about and now we're just mainly ignored now if you guys remember any other weapon you think gearbox nerfed into the ground let me know down below in that comments section and on that note we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here want to see more boardlands be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button well guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully enjoy the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one