Why was the Maggie nerfed so hard?

Cool I see, I just thought it was like two fang. I mainly played lil, not much with mordy

Oh, on the whole DPS deal…if you check this thread out:

User Tommy1984 posted a pic of a Masher he found. It did 603x5!!! It had a 4 round mag. I compared that to my 200x6 Dastardly Maggie /w 9 rnd mag and if you emptied the mag in each gun the purple masher outperformed the Maggie by far (12,060dmg in 4 rounds vs 10,800dmg in 9 rounds)

I think in the Twitch stream Grant said “over 200 unique legendaries” - so not including all the blue and purple red text items. That’s a lot of legendaries…

I’ve heard (but cannot confirm) that there was a day 1 hotfix that adjusted the damage of the Maggie, so it actually hasn’t been hit any harder than a standard Jakobs Masher; people are just seeing the numbers from before the day 1 hotfix compared to where it is now, and that makes it seem like it got hit harder than it did.

No arguments on the fact that the Legendary is worse than a Purple, though.

The Maggie was “bugged” showing up as nerfed even before the update that nerfed Jacobs. It was clearly unintentional and I can imagine they are working on it

Damn… Didn’t it (should be) good, got 2, tested them, sold them! :open_mouth: :confused:
Oh well…

On topic
I hope they fix Maggie because I just love using mashers.
Off topic
BL1 in my opinion had best guns (so much fun too use) in whole BL franchise.
And on top of that had hybrids weapons, some of them were bad but ajax ogre, and reaver penetrator…oh man…

Looks like they buffed damage to Maggie on todays Hot Fix. Anyone playing right now, I’d like to know how your Maggie was affected. I can’t get on until tomorrow evening. It was supposedly boosted 35%. I feel like even with that boost, my purple Masher will still outperform it, but we’ll see.

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I’m going to try it when I get home but that will be a bit.

I think its going to be good, still less damage per pellet than a masher I think but with a 9 mag and one more pellet this should make it nice

I’ve got hope, but we’ll see. I suck at math, but if I did it right, it looks like any good -> great purple masher will still be better.

I will check here in a few hours. 35% is pretty garbage from what I am seeing. 214x6 with a 35% increase is just 289x6. Still horrible compared to other mashers and other weapons. I think, unintentional or not, the changes that were made have killed the Maggie, online at least, for good. And as nerf happy as the developers seem to be these days, I don’t foresee a return to glory for her.

I wish they would have done more nerfing to specific items instead of the across the board nerfs they did with that first one. Torgue pistols look like crazy damage on paper, but due to their fire rate balance out because you cannot fire as many and there is such a limited magazine size on top of that.

No, it’s better then that. My Maggie now does 501 per pellet.

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Then that would make me happy. I am actually excited to get back and play online for once.

This is what the damage is now. I used it as well and it feels much better to use.

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She is back to working again!

YEAH!!!

Now I just need an Anointed version that does +100% dmg after Action Skill.

Damn you vending machine…I shouldnt have sold my Maggie. (Bloodfeud)