Borderlands: Confusion about the New Eridian Elemental Weapons
There seems to be a lot of confusion about the two new Eridian weapons that were mentioned here earlier (the Eridian glob gun and the Eridian flaregun). Contrary to some comments floating around, these two guns are not a pistol and shotgun types, respectively, per se. They are arc trajectory firing weapons, similar to grenade launchers seen in other games.
A fun stunt is to stand on a ledge or a bridge or other overhang and lob the acid bursts or fire bursts onto hapless targets beneath. Since there’s no elevation gauge to assist in your shots, you’ll have to experiment with your range to hit long range targets. But since you can take advantage of a decent indirect arc hit, you can strike enemies hiding behind some forms of cover; this makes these weapons a nice substitute for the Hunter’s bloodwing.
A concern: you may have to more carefully watch your targets to see which are resistant to acid and/or incendiary attacks. These weapons appear to be strictly elemental weapons, so you may not do any damage on impervious targets.