The Bee
"Not the bees!"
Manufacturer:	Hyperion
Model:	The Bee
Element:	Any
Game	Borderlands 2
Special Part(s): GD_Shields.A_Item. Shield_Impact_05_Legendary GD_ItemGrades.Shields.Item Grade_Gear_Shield_Impact_05_Legendary GD_Shields.Accessory. Accessory7_Impact_Legendary GD_Shields.Material. Material5_Legendary_Impact
[The Bee Variants]

The Bee is a Legendary Amplify Shield made by Hyperion in Borderlands 2. The Bee is obtained randomly from any suitable loot source but has an increased chance to drop from Hunter Hellquist located in Arid Nexus - Boneyard.

Special Weapon Effects

Float like a butterfly... – Large amount of Amp shot damage, 0 Amp Shot Drain. Lowered shield capacity. Increased Shield Recharge Rate. Increased Recharge Delay.

Usage & Description

The Bee, while having low shield capacity and a long recharge delay, gives extraordinary Amp damage with zero shield drain per shot. This effectively provides endless Amp damage until the user takes damage from an outside source. Due to having no Amp Drain, The Bee is best used with a weapon with a high rate of fire and large magazine size such as Hellfire or even Infinity, as more amp damage can be put out in a shorter span of time. Shotguns are less desirable because the amp damage is divided among all pellets and not applied per pellet, and they cause overall less triggers of The Bee as consequence of the characteristic traits of shotguns: low rate of fire, magazine size, and reload speed.

The Bee may also spawn with the Grounded, Inflammable, Alkaline, or Blast Proof prefixes, giving the wearer immunity to electrocution, burning, or corrosion DoTs, or half protection from explosions, respectively.

Notes

• The Bee also affects vehicle guns and MG damage, but not saw blades, rockets, or explosive barrel.
• The Bee was rebalanced by Patch 1.2.0. The patch decreased the amount of Amp Damage (by about 10k for a level 50 example), increased Recharge Delay (by 2 more seconds), and reduced Recharge Rate (by 7k). Most significantly, Amp Shields have their Amp damage amount divided among the projectiles from multi-projectile weapons (all weapons with a yellow multiplier in the Damage stat), thus making all Amp shields, including the Bee, less effective on shotguns and other multi-projectile weapons, rather than more so. However, weapons such as the Sand Hawk, which fire out multiple projectiles but don't have a yellow multiplier have amp damage added to each individual projectile.
• Contrary to popular belief, the Conference Call isn't the best companion for The Bee for the reasons stated above, but still many players use it with this shield unaware of the nerf, as both were used in the past to exploit-farm raid bosses prior to Patch 1.2.0.
• The Bee also no longer adds amp damage to Tediore reloads such as the Baby Maker's or the Gunerang's, but still amplify damage of the Avenger.
• The drop chance from Hunter Hellquist is approximately 3.078%. This amount is an estimated value from killing Hunter Hellquist 1000 times.^{[citation needed]}
• Krieg make poor use of The Bee, as his skills constantly do self damage and delay his shield recharge.

Trivia

• The weapon's flavor text is a reference to Muhammad Ali, who described his fighting style as "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

Videos

Borderlands 2 - How to Farm The Bee Fast (Drops in the Video)(02:21)
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