Initiative
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Initiative

You're only given a little spark...
  • Shield Type:
    Amplify
  • Rarity:
    Epic
  • Manufacturer:
    Anshin
  • Origin:
    Guns, Love & Tentacles
  • Elemental Resistance:
    Non Elemental
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Shield Details

Initiative (BL3)
Details
Variants
Buffs & Nerfs

Initiative: Details

0 Shield Capacity & Recharge Delay/Rate!
Synergistic Gear: Infiltrator‍
Synergistic Skills: Zane - Rise to the Occasion

Initiative

+13% Weapon damage
-13% Damage taken
+50% Max Health

Adrenaline

While Shield is depleted:
+23% Reload Speed

Initiative: Variants

  • Anointment:
    possible
    none
  • Shield Augmentation:
    Fixed Augments
    fixed parts
  • Elemental Resistances:
    Non Elemental

Fixed Augments

Augment Info:

Damage

  • Amp
    While Shield is full:
    Shots drain 30/25% Shield Capacity for +20/50% Shot Damage.
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Nova
    On Shield break:
    Triggers Nova that deals 18,959 / 40,627 [Shield Element] Damage.
    -Capacity
  • Roid
    While Shield is depleted:
    +80/180% Melee Damage
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Trigger Happy
    While Shield is depleted:
    +10/17% Fire Rate
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Power Charge
    15/20% Chance to drop a Power Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Power Charge:
    +10/20% weapon damage for 7 seconds.
    -Capacity
    +Re.Rate

Damage

  • Amp
    While Shield is full:
    Shots drain 30/25% Shield Capacity for +20/50% Shot Damage.
    +Capacity
    -Re.Delay
  • Nova
    On Shield break:
    Triggers Nova that deals 18,959 / 40,627 [Shield Element] Damage.
    -Capacity
  • Roid
    While Shield is depleted:
    +80/180% Melee Damage
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Trigger Happy
    While Shield is depleted:
    +10/17% Fire Rate
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Power Charge
    15/20% Chance to drop a Power Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Power Charge:
    +10/20% weapon damage for 7 seconds.
    -Capacity
    +Re.Rate

Survivability

  • Capacity
    +25/50% Shield Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Turtle
    +40/80% Shield Capacity
    -10/20% Max Health
  • Recharge Delay
    -25/40% Shield Recharge Delay
    -Re.Rate
  • Recharge Rate
    +15/30% Shield Recharge Rate
    -Capacity
  • Reflect
    While Shield is active:
    15/30% Chance to reflect incoming bullets.
    +Capacity
  • Resistance
    +27/38% [any element except shock] Resistance
    OR: +32/41% Shock Resistance
    -Capacity
  • Fortify Charge
    15/20% Chance to drop a Fortify Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Fortify Charge:
    +10/15% Damage Reduction for 7 seconds.
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Health Charge
    15/20% Chance to drop a Health Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Health Charge:
    Heals 15/25% Health
    -Capacity
    -Re.Delay
  • Shield Charge
    15/20% Chance to drop a Shield Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Shield Charge:
    Restores 8/15% Shield
    +Re.Rate

Survivability

  • Adaptive
    +8/15/23% Health
    +17/33/41% Resistance to the last damage type received for 3 seconds.
    +Capacity
    +Re.Rate
    -Re.Delay
  • Brimming
    While Shield is full:
    Regen 5/10/15% Max Health per second
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Turtle
    +40/80/120% Shield Capacity
    -10/20/30% Max Health
  • Healthy
    +10/25/50% Max Health
    -Capacity
    -Re.Rate
    -Re.Delay
  • Capacity
    +25/50/75% Shield Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Recharge Delay
    -25/40/50% Shield Recharge Delay
    -Re.Rate
  • Recharge Rate
    +15/30/45% Shield Recharge Rate
    -Capacity
  • Projected
    While crouching:
    Projects a front-facing Barrier that that reduces incoming projectile's damage by 20/35/50%.
    +Capacity
  • Resistance
    +27/38/51% [any element except shock] Resistance
    OR: +32/41/53% Shock Resistance
    -Capacity
  • Fortify Charge
    15/20/25% Chance to drop a Fortify Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Fortify Charge:
    +10/15/25% Damage Reduction for 7 seconds.
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Health Charge
    15/20/25% Chance to drop a Health Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Health Charge:
    Heals 15/25/35% Health
    -Capacity
    -Re.Delay
  • Shield Charge
    15/20/25% Chance to drop a Shield Charge when Shield takes damage.
    ‍Shield Charge:
    Restores 8/15/23% Shield
    +Re.Rate

Survivability

  • Healthy
    +10/25% Max Health
    -Capacity
    -Re.Rate
    -Re.Delay
  • Capacity
    +25/50% Shield Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Recharge Delay
    -25/40% Shield Recharge Delay
    -Re.Rate
  • Recharge Rate
    +15/30% Shield Recharge Rate
    -Capacity
  • Reflect
    While Shield is active:
    15/30% Chance to reflect incoming bullets.
    +Capacity

Utility

  • Absorb
    15/30% Chance to absorb bullets as ammo.
    -Capacity
  • Adrenaline
    While Shield is depleted:
    +23/38% Reload Speed
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Spike
    When melee'd while Shield is active:
    Returns 5,417 / 10,834 damage to the attacker.
    +Capacity
    +Re.Delay

Utility

  • Absorb
    15/30/40% Chance to absorb bullets as ammo.
    -Capacity
  • Fleet
    While Shield is depleted:
    +10/17/24% Movement Speed
    +Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Vagabond
    While Shield is full:
    +10/17/24% Movement Speed
    +Re.Delay
  • Spike
    When melee'd while Shield is active:
    Returns 5,417 / 10,834 / 21,668 damage to the attacker.
    +Capacity
    +Re.Delay

Utility

  • Adrenaline
    While Shield is depleted:
    +23/38% Reload Speed
    -Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Absorb
    15/30% Chance to absorb bullets as ammo.
    -Capacity
  • Fleet
    While Shield is depleted:
    +10/17% Movement Speed
    +Capacity
    +Re.Delay
  • Safe-Space
    On Shield break:
    Knocks back all nearby enemies.
    -Capacity

Initiative: Buffs and Nerfs

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How to farm: Initiative

  • Origin:
    Guns, Love & Tentacles
  • Sources & Drop Rates:
    • Vincent: 100%

Dedicated Drop

Unavailable items were temporarily available during a seasonal event. They might come back.

World Drops are items that drop from any suitable Loot Source in addition to their other sources.

Guns, Love & Tentacles World Drops are items that drop from any suitable Loot Source, within the Guns, Love & Tentacles DLC, in addition to their other sources.

Suitable Loot Sources:

  • Most Enemies:
    Bosses, badass or non-badass enemies, ...
  • Red Chests, lockers, garbage containers, cardboard boxes, garbage/skag/... piles
  • Slot Machines
  • All Enemies:
    Bosses, Crew Challenges, Generic Enemies, ...
  • All kinds of Chests
  • Vending Machines
  • Slot Machines
  • Eridian Fabricator‍
  • All Enemies:
    Bosses, Crew Challenges, Generic Enemies, ...
  • All kinds of Chests

Datamined items are not obtainable with legitimate methods.
They can only be obtained using bugs or the Cheat Engine on the PC.

Quest Reward Items in Borderlands 2 can be farmed on PC by Read-Only farming.

How to Read-Only farm:

  1. Go to the location where you hand in the quest.
  2. Save the game by toggling your Badass Rank on/off.
  3. Then go into the file explorer on your computer. Go to the file path:
    C:\Users\NAME\Documents\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\SaveData
  4. Go to your most recent Save File (.sav) and:
    right-click → properties
  5. Under General tick the Read-only box.
  6. Back in-game and hand in the quest.
  7. Exit to the main menu, then back into the game.
  8. Now you will be able to hand in the quest again.

Tip: Store the items in Claptrap's Secret Stash.
This way you can get the quest reward items multiple times since they are saved on a different SaveFile.

In Borderlands 3 Quest Reward Items are rewarded after or during a quest. After the quest is completed there are 2 ways to farm base game items:

  • Eridian Fabricator:
    On the Legendary firing mode, the Eridian Fabricator occasionally drops quest reward items.
  • Crazy Earl's Veteran Rewards machine in Sanctuary has one Quest Rewards as the Item of the day.

Dedicated drops are items that can only be farmed at one or rarely more sources that have the item assigned to them.

External Source items are mailed to you for activities or purchases outside of the game.

This item can be bought from the Seraph Vendor in the Guns, Love & Tentacles DLC.
If the desired item is not for sale reload and try again.
Seraph Vendors sell gear in exchange for Seraph Crystals which can be obtained by killing Seraph Guardians (Invincible Bosses).
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Vincent

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    Cursehaven
  • Planet:
    Xylourgos
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