Understand Blunderbuss
Useful when…
- Equip on a shotgun when increasing its Critical Chance is a planned part of the weapon setup.
Effect and rank values
Blunderbuss grants +15% Critical Chance at rank 0, +60% at rank 3, and +90% at rank 5. These are mod bonuses, not final weapon Critical Chance. The mod is standard variant and uses a standard shotgun slot.
Capacity and fusion costs
It has Madurai polarity, base drain 4, and maximum rank 5. The listed step costs increase from 10 Endo and 483 Credits early on to 160 Endo and 7,728 Credits for rank 4 to 5. Higher ranks give more Critical Chance but require greater capacity and investment.
Related shotgun choices
Flawed Blunderbuss tops out at +40% Critical Chance at rank 3 and has base drain 2, but is incompatible with this mod. Critical Deceleration offers +200% Critical Chance with a -20% Fire Rate tradeoff and is also incompatible with Blunderbuss. Accelerated Blast instead combines Fire Rate and Puncture bonuses, so it supports a different weapon plan.
Limitations and tradeoffs
- Ranking up increases its Critical Chance bonus and its drain and fusion costs.
- It cannot be equipped with Flawed Blunderbuss or Critical Deceleration.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Treating +90% as the shotgun's final Critical Chance or attempting to pair it with an explicitly incompatible mod.