What skills affect Iron Bear?

Borderlands 3 Moze the Gunner
#1

I did a search and most things are from last year and there seemed to be alot of uncertainty then. Some skills specify Iron Bear and supposedly some do effect him but don’t say. Also on the skill calculator, Fire in the Skag Den specifys Iron Bear and Moze but in game it just sais Moze. I’d like to know in general what skills effect Iron Bear but do not say. For example does Fire in the skag Den and Torgue Class promotion effect Iron Bears weapons like Hammerdown Protocol or just Mozes weapons ?

#2

Outside of the ones that explicitly say that they do, scorching RPMs crit bonus and (left arm only) rof bonus, skag den, TCP, experimental munitions, and drowning in brass/phalanx doctrine affect iron bears left arm.

IB can activate redistribution and means of Destruction for moze

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#3

I’ll add that Specialist Bear (obviously boosts IB) but also boosts Autobear.

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#4

Why would those abilities only trigger from the left arm ?

#5

Presumably it’s a bug. Hopefully they’ll eventually fix it.

#6

We found some weird thing a week ago that gave me an idea about what was going on with the arms.

And then I forgot it.

#7

Thank you

I forgot about specialist bear. Ok so to recap using double hammerdown protocol , Skag Den and Torgue will trigger but only off of the left arm and specialist bear will work with both ?

Another question
Does short fuse damage the actual target ? and if using a non spread weapon the only way it will trigger a splash ability like explosive punctuation is if it hits a target thats close enough for the splash ?

#8

Drowning, phalanx and RPMs fire rate affect only the left arm. Everything else works fine

Yes

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#9

Duk wrote it in a weird way. Those skills work on both arms. PD, DiB, and SRPM (RoF) only work on the left arm.

Yes.

SF will trigger abilities that are normally triggered by splash. It essentially adds splash to your gun through a bonus hit.

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#10

Thanks for your help guys, one last question.

Can Fire in the Skag Den and Cloud of Lead stack ? I don’t know if they mean ‘’ splash and shots ‘’ can count for the same thing with direct hits from splash weapons. Also I noticedCloud of lead doesn’t give me any free nukes with hammerdown protocol.

The talent calculator specify’s Iron bear for Fire in the Skag Den but in game it doesn’t. Thats part of the reason I was confused.

#11

Hmm It’s kind of hard to simplify this, but a shot that procs CoL can also proc FitSD. I’ll leave it at that, because that’s really all most people would need to know. You will get fire damage from both separately (but will combine into one fire number).

It actually will fire 2 nukes at once when CoL procs.

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#12

Thank You :slightly_smiling_face:

#13

CoL affects Iron Bear?

#14

Yes it does

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#15

Nice, I wish there some other ways to help IB continue to fire before overheating/ reloading

#16

Um what ? So every 4th shot it will fire 2 nukes at same time ??

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#17

I wonder why they haven’t fixed it yet. Its bizarre. They fixes some other skills not affecting right arm but then for some reason not these 3 skills . DiB in particular will make a huge difference once fixed

#18

Yeah, you pull the trigger once and two nukes come out. You can kind of see them stacked on top of each other if you’re looking for it. When it happens, you can feel/hear it sort of hit the target twice.

#19

I literally just saw this now … holy crap that’s awesome

#20

I found an artifact (Lunacy) + 100 % shields and + 40 % area of effect damage. Will the damage count for iron Bear too ?