All Borderlands games use a ranking system for gear that follows the standard color-coding system for RPGs. Basically the higher is the rank, the rarest is the item - that is why a rank is called rarity. A rarer item is usually of better quality.
Despite some specificities, games of the series always use the following color scheme (from lowest to highest rarity): white; green; blue; purple. The thing with 2, relative to 1 where parts variety meant any color weapon could be a monster, is that a good blue or purple rarity version of some weapons are absolutely viable and useable as forever guns. #NoMoreJebaitedChanges the rarity color of many weapons and items to be more distinguishable from other items and more! New player, never played BL1.
I'm confused on how to interpret the color of item cards for determining the quality/rarity of the item. Do I guess correctly that the higher rarity should be a "better" item (in what respects might be debatable)? But I'm also confused in how to interpret the colors I'm seeing on the item card to match to rarity. There is a border color, a text color, and a.
All weapons in Borderlands 2 have color-coded titles indicating how rare the weapon is which also corelates to how much better its stats are compared to other weapons of the same level. The color code rarity system is ordered as follows: White. Category page Rarity B Category:Blue C Category:Common Cursed E E-tech Category:E-tech Category:Effervescent G Gemstone Glitch (rarity) Category:Green L Category:Legendary O Category:Orange P Pearlescent Category:Pearlescent Category:Purple S Category:Seraph U Unique Category:Unique W Category:White Categories.
Pinks are E-tech weapons. They are about the same rarity as Purples, maybe a little higher, but they have special effects, since they are augmented with Eridium. These are exclusive to Borderlands 2.
Yellows and dark orange were just less rare and more rare legendaries respectively. Those are limited to Borderlands 1. BL2 simply has Oranges.
Pearlescent is also exclusive to Borderlands 1 as of. The color scheme remains mostly the same at different rarity levels, but becomes more vibrant. Tediore: Tediore guns have mediocre statistics but very fast reloads; they are thrown in an arc, much like a grenade, instead of reloading, dealing damage based on the amount of ammunition left in the magazine (which is lost on reload).
Borderlands 2 Rarity Scale color palette created by bestwaddledee that consists #f7ecfc,#3ec427,#4fa1d9,#ae4fce,#fcb100 colors. The color scale from least rare to most rare goes: White (Common) Green (Uncommon) Blue (Rare) Purple (Epic) Violet/Magenta (E-Tech) Pink (Seraph) Orange (Legendary) Cyan (Pearlescent) Categories: Borderlands 2 Borderlands 2 Weapons Borderlands 2 Guns Database.