" @MB: I'm at level 37 for SMGs. I can't check the bonuses, but I believe they're damage, accuracy and fire rate. I know that at level 33, the bonuses were:  Damage: 33% Fire Rate: 66% Accuracy: 99% "

At level 26, I just found an orange
KKA4 Rutheless Wildcat- SMG
42 damage
13 accuracy  (?)
6.9 Fire rate
 
+14% recoil reduction
-7% reload speed
1.7 zoom
 
"The ultimate close quarters feline"
 
PRobably wont ever use it

" @Fallen189: I didn't find anything orange until I was in my mid-40's. Lucky! Once I hit 47, I found three orange weapons in the same general area in crates. Two were junk SMG's compared to one I already had, and one was a revolver that regenerated ammo but did crap damage. Vendor trash, all of it. "

I have finished the game, with a lvl 34 Siren, and my best gun in the game (by far) was...
 
A Glourious Havoc machine gun that a Lance Defender dropped:
 
Damage: 133
Accuracy: 94
Fire rate: 13
 
It's effective against anything, and it doesn't matter that it lacks zoom, beacause the accuracy is so darn good.
It just feel totally right!
 
Yeah, and it's fully automatical

I too found the Volcano sniper, it was found during an arid badland mission to find all of the gun parts to either the machine gun or sniper.
 
 Sniper: 
GGN350 Colbalt Volcano 
272 DMG, 98.7 AC, .9 FR 
Highly Effective vs Flesh, Chance to light enemies on fire, Pele dmenads a sacrifice, Very high chance of elemental.  
 It's worth 20,000! And it's orange!  
 
as quoted before, need to be level 24 to use i believe, but yeah its badass!

I found this sniper rifle on my first playthrough as a Hunter. The level requirement for it was 32.
 
Damage: 527
Accuracy: 98.7
Fire rate: 0.9
 
I was pretty chuffed with this.

Found this revolver about 2 minutes after finding the same one - only this one does slightly more damage and shoots slower. I get right in bad guy grills and pop em right in the face. 

here's my current favourite weapons ..
 
sniper
smg
pistol 

" Found this revolver about 2 minutes after finding the same one - only this one does slightly more damage and shoots slower. I get right in bad guy grills and pop em right in the face. 

"

" here's my current favourite weapons ..
 
sniper
smg
pistol  "

" @turbomonkey138: That's what she said! "

" @clan4mack said:

" here's my current favourite weapons ..
 
sniper
smg
pistol  "

Could you do me a favor and roll over the three Shotguns in your inventory? I'm curious to see the stats on those weapons. "

" @Napalm said:

" @clan4mack said:

" here's my current favourite weapons ..
 
sniper
smg
pistol  "

Could you do me a favor and roll over the three Shotguns in your inventory? I'm curious to see the stats on those weapons. "

sure ..
 
shotgun 1
shotgun 2
shotgun 3 "

" @clan4mack said:

" @Napalm said:

" @clan4mack said:

" here's my current favourite weapons ..
 
sniper
smg
pistol  "

Could you do me a favor and roll over the three Shotguns in your inventory? I'm curious to see the stats on those weapons. "

sure ..
 
shotgun 1
shotgun 2
shotgun 3 "

Nice.  But... did you hack the game? "

" Those specs seem reasonable to me, especially considering the level requirements.   I've started to like high accuracy shotguns; if you can get most of the spread to hit the target, the damage is quite epic.  And with the high accuracy, you can do good dmg to things 20 yds away. I  envy his smg :( "

" @kwyee said:

" Those specs seem reasonable to me, especially considering the level requirements.   I've started to like high accuracy shotguns; if you can get most of the spread to hit the target, the damage is quite epic.  And with the high accuracy, you can do good dmg to things 20 yds away. I  envy his smg :( "

What? I was referencing the fact that his dollar amount was $9999999. "

" @Napalm said:

" @kwyee said:

" Those specs seem reasonable to me, especially considering the level requirements.   I've started to like high accuracy shotguns; if you can get most of the spread to hit the target, the damage is quite epic.  And with the high accuracy, you can do good dmg to things 20 yds away. I  envy his smg :( "

What? I was referencing the fact that his dollar amount was $9999999. "

Ofc I'm not hacking lol .. you'll see for yourself how easy it is to max out the money at the end of playthru #2. For example a white gun could vendor for $175,000 .. so a full inventory can bring you in a tonne of money. "

np bud, aye i can understand why it looks dodgy .. but seriously, money in playthru #2 isn't even an issue (despite the $1m+ fee for using new-u), in fact as I go around questing in the last few zones it's quite common for me to leave stuff on teh ground if it's not worth more than $100k .. crazy hehe

" np bud, aye i can understand why it looks dodgy .. but seriously, money in playthru #2 isn't even an issue (despite the $1m+ fee for using new-u), in fact as I go around questing in the last few zones it's quite common for me to leave stuff on teh ground if it's not worth more than $100k .. crazy hehe "

I've been maxxed out at $9999999 for a while.  Fun fact: it actually keeps track of how much money you have after that cap, but doesn't show any higher number.

" @clan4mack said:

" np bud, aye i can understand why it looks dodgy .. but seriously, money in playthru #2 isn't even an issue (despite the $1m+ fee for using new-u), in fact as I go around questing in the last few zones it's quite common for me to leave stuff on teh ground if it's not worth more than $100k .. crazy hehe "

How does the leveling happen in playthrough two? Does it all just scale to your current level and bump everything up or does it all stay at the same level? "

These are probably my two favourite weapons atm. Currently looking for a decent Hellfire SMG with x4 Incendiary and a decent Double Anarchy with relatively decent accuracy and x4 damage.

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So far my best gun is an orange shotgun that I found in a random Skag Pile
Level 25
77x7 damage
"Cross their heart hope they die"  Shoots in a cross pattern instead of a spread pattern like normal
86 Accuracy
1.5 fire rate
3x explosive damage
18 round clip
 
So far still the gun to pull out when I get in a bind

 
I have to get this game so badly.

I forgot to metion that I got a burst fire assault rifle with a damage rating of 239 I think. Also it has 90% accuracy and +100 damage (just damage not crit damage).
Pretty good

Alright guys. I'm going to retrieve the very last piece of the Vault Key. I've collected some serious weaponry, but I'm only using four weapons. Here is the heavy artillery:
 
HX 430 Malevolent Stinger (Submachine Gun) (39 round clip)
Damage: 56
Accuracy: 90.2
Fire Rate: 12.5
+37% Reload Speed
+62% Recoil Reduction
+33% Fire Rate
+23% Damage
 
ZPR10 Blast Death (Shotgun)  (5 shell clip)
Damage: 48x7
Accuracy: 74.6
Fire Rate: 1.9
x3 Explosions (High Chance)
 
BLR6/V2 Nasty Rebel (Machine Pistol) (36 round clip)
Damage: 89
Accuracy: 73.3
Fire Rate: 5.7
NEVER STOP SHOOTING!
+41% Fire Rate
+24% Magazine Size
+34% Damage
 
Leviathan (Launcher)
Damage: 404
Accuracy: 91.7
Fire Rate: 1.2
IT RISES!
2.7 x Weapon Zoom
 
So, this last battle should be quite interesting.

" @Napalm: Apart from the pistol they dont sound that impressive im sorry to say "

" @Pie said:

" @Napalm: Apart from the pistol they dont sound that impressive im sorry to say "

Well, they all worked fine for me. The submachine gun is what I used mostly because it has such a high rate of fire and quick reload. However, I won't give any spoilers away, but after that battle, and the shit hits the fan, all of those weapons are now obsolete. I'm now picking up all CL weapons and a high-damage revolver because everything else is severely underpowered.  Well, this game certainly turned crazy pretty quick. "

" @Napalm said:

" @Pie said:

" @Napalm: Apart from the pistol they dont sound that impressive im sorry to say "

Well, they all worked fine for me. The submachine gun is what I used mostly because it has such a high rate of fire and quick reload. However, I won't give any spoilers away, but after that battle, and the shit hits the fan, all of those weapons are now obsolete. I'm now picking up all CL weapons and a high-damage revolver because everything else is severely underpowered.  Well, this game certainly turned crazy pretty quick. "

I dont know if you know this but my SMG shoots 4 bullets at once :P "

" @Napalm: You need corrosive for them fools "