Borderlands 3 Annointments & Anointed Items

Borderlands 3 sees the return of anointed weapons to the game, with the feature expanding to include grenades, shields, class mods and more items.

What Are Anointed Items?
Anointed items in Borderlands 3 are rare weapons featuring special effects linked to the Vault Hunter’s action skills. You can recognise the anointed item because it will say on the weapon, highlighted in yellow, that it’s anointed, and the effect is displayed at the bottom.
Universal Annointments
Enforcer (DPS)
- On Action Skill End, The next 2 magazines will have 50% additional bonus >Element< damage.
- On Action Skill End, Weapon Status Effect Damage & Chance are increased by 75% for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Splash Damage is increased by 125% for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Weapon Damage is increased by 100% for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Deal 125% more Weapon Damage to Badass, Named, and Boss enemies for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Melee Damage is increased by 100% for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Critical Damage is increased by 25% for a short time.
Survivor
- On Action Skill End, Gain 15% Life Steal for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Regenerate 5% max health per second for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Damage taken is reduced by 13% for a short time.
Hunter
- On Action Skill End, Weapon Accuracy & Handling are greatly increased for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Projectile Speed is increased by 100% for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Movement speed is increased by 5% for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Fire rate is increased by 11%, and reload speed by 26% for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, Action skill cooldown rate is increased by 20% for a short time.
Siren Annointments
Enforcer (DPS)
- On Action Skill End, deal 20% bonus radiation damage for a short time.
- On Action Skill End, 30% of damage taken is returned to the attacker for a short time.
- After using Phasecast, Weapon Damage is increased by 250% for a short time.
- After using Phasecast, Status Effect Chance is increased by 50% for a short time.
- After using Phaseslam, Weapon Damage is increased by 300% for a short time.
- After using Phaseslam, Melee Damage is increased by 200% for a short time.
- While Phasegrasp is active, Amara constantly triggers novas that deal 3718 damage. (lvl 50)
Survivor
- After using Phaseslam, damage taken is reduced by 20% and movespeed is increased by 12%.
Hunter
- After Phasegrasping an enemy, Weapon Accuracy and Handling are greatly increased.
Beastmaster Annointments
Enforcer (DPS)
- After using Rakk Attack!, gain 25% critical hit damage for a short time.
- Enemies damaged by Rakk Attack! take 50% increased damage for a short time.
- Grants an extra charge of Rakk Attack!
- When exiting Fade Away, create a nova that deals 13013 damage. (lvl 50)
- While Gamma Burst is active, gain 65% bonus radiation damage.
Survivor
- After using Attack Command, gain 30% lifesteal for a short time.
Hunter
- While Fade Away is active, gain greatly increased Accuracy and Handling.
Gunner Annointments
Enforcer (DPS)
- After exiting Iron Bear, the next 2 magazines will have 10% increased fire rate and 20% critical damage.
- After exiting Iron Bear, the next 2 magazines will have 40% bonus incendiary damage.
- While Auto Bear is active, deals 20% bonus incendiary damage
Survivor
- After exiting Iron Bear, gain 75% increased shields and health for 25 seconds.
Hunter
- After exiting Iron Bear, the next 3 magazines will have 33% incrased reload speed and 67% increased handling
- After exiting Iron Bear, kills increase Iron Bear’s cooldown rate by 30%.
- After exiting Iron Bear, do not consume ammo for 5 seconds.
- While Auto Bear is active, constantly regenerate 8% of magazine size per second
Operator Annointments
Enforcer
- After swapping places with your Digi-Clone, Weapon Damage is increased by 75% for a short time.
- While Barrier is active, Status Effect Chance is increased by 50%
- While Barrier is active, Accuracy is increased by 60, and Critical Hit damage is increased by 30%
- While SNTNL is active, Gain 50% of damage as bonus Cryo damage.
Survivor
- When Barrier is Deployed, instantly start recharging your shields.
Hunter
- While SNTNL is active, Fire Rate is increased by 9% and Reload Speed by 23%.
- While SNTNL is active, Movespeed is increased by 15%.
- After swapping places with your Digi-Clone, your weapon is reloaded.
- While Digi-Clone is active, regenerate 12% of magazine ammo per second.
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