Wattson
Updated: May 05, 2024
Borderlands 3

Borderlands 3Wattson

It's all quite arbitrary, my dear boy.
  • Content
    Revenge of the Cartels
  • Shield Type
    Booster
  • Rarity
    Legendary
  • Manufacturer
    Anshin
  • Elements
    Non-Elemental

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Wattson (BL3)
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Wattson - About

The Legendary Shield Wattson is manufactured by Anshin and comes from the Borderlands 3 Revenge of the Cartels Event.

Wattson - Unique Ability

When the Wattson takes damage it has a chance to throw a random elemental disk forward that explodes after one bounce.

Upon Shield break the Wattson throws 4 of these disks forward.

Wattson - Variants

  • Elements
    Non-Elemental
  • Shield Parts
    Anshin Parts
    Anshin Parts
  • Anointment
    possible
    none

Wattson - Augments

The Wattson always spawns with any combination of 2 Anshin Augments.
All Augments are equally common.
Each Augment can occur twice which increases its stats.

Anshin - Damage Augments

  • Amp -Capacity
    +Delay
    While full:
    Shots drain 30/25/20% Shield Capacity for +20/50/100% Amp Damage.
  • Nova -Capacity
    On Shield break:
    Triggers 34,658 / 74,268 / 123,780 [Shield Element] Damage Nova.
  • Roid -Capacity
    +Delay
    While depleted:
    +80/180/300% Melee Damage
  • Trigger Happy -Capacity
    +Delay
    While depleted:
    +10/17/24% Fire Rate
  • Power Charge -Capacity
    +Rate
    15/20/25% Chance to drop a Power Charge on Shield damage.
    Power Charge: +10/20/30% Weapon Damage for 7s.

Anshin - Survivability Augments

  • Turtle +40/80/120% Shield Capacity
    -10/20/30% Health
  • Capacity +Delay
    +25/50/75% Shield Capacity
  • Recharge Delay -Rate
    -25/40/50% Shield Recharge Delay
  • Recharge Rate -Capacity
    +15/30/45% Shield Recharge Rate
  • Reflect +Capacity
    While active:
    15/30/40% Bullet Reflect Chance
  • Resistance -Capacity
    +27/38/51% [element] Resistance OR
    +32/41/53% Shock Resistance
  • Fortify Charge -Capacity
    +Delay
    15/20/25% Chance to drop a Fortify Charge on Shield damage.
    Fortify Charge: +10/15/25% Damage Reduction for 7s.
  • Health Charge -Capacity
    -Delay
    15/20/25% Chance to drop a Health Charge on Shield damage.
    Health Charge: Heals 15/25/35% Max-Health
  • Shield Charge +Rate
    15/20/25% Chance to drop a Shield Charge on Shield damage.
    Shield Charge: Restores 8/15/23% Shield

Anshin - Utility Augments

  • Absorb -Capacity
    15/30/40% Bullet Absorb Chance
  • Adrenaline -Capacity
    +Delay
    While depleted:
    +23/38/50% Reload Speed
  • Spike +Capacity
    +Delay
    When melee'd while active:
    Returns 9,902 / 19,805 / 39,609 damage to the attacker.

Wattson - Changelog

WattsonHow to get it?

Revenge of the Cartels Event
General Farming Guidance

To collect and equip the Legendary Wattson, you need to own the BL3 Revenge of the Cartels Event

Like all of the three Borderlands 3 events, Revenge of the Cartels was added to the base game on June 24, 2021.
You can enable one of the three events at a time in the main menu ▸ Play.

To efficiently farm the exclusive Revenge of the Cartel items, follow these steps:

  1. Accept Maurice's quest near Hammerlock's room on Sanctuary III.
  2. The quickest place to collect 30 Decoder Rings is at Carnivora's entrance.
  3. Proceed to Villa Ultraviolet and defeat two mini-bosses. Those won't reappear in the final fight.
  4. Joey Ultraviolet will spawn with two random mini-bosses.
    To reroll them, exit to the main menu and reload the game.
  5. To farm the desired mini-bosses, simply die or fast travel to respawn them.
    As long as you don't kill Joey and stay in the game, the same mini-bosses will keep respawning.

Wattson
Drop Rates

  • Joey Ultraviolet
    11%
  • FISH SLAPP
    6.6%
  • Tyrone Smallums
    6.6%
Mini-Bosses next to Joey: 11.6%

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Joey Ultraviolet
boss

Joey Ultraviolet

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Villa Ultraviolet
FISH SLAP!!!
mini-boss

FISH SLAP!!!

Mini-Boss
Villa Ultraviolet
Tyrone Smallums
mini-boss

Tyrone Smallums

Mini-Boss
Villa Ultraviolet

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