Most game sites avoid telling you what they don’t know. We think that’s the wrong move. So here is a plain list of things BL4 Tools deliberately does not do, and why. We are an unofficial fan site.
We do not publish precise DPS or card stats
You won’t find a “this gun does 142,883 DPS at level 50” table here. In Borderlands, weapon card numbers scale with your level and the individual roll, and Gearbox has not published a damage formula. Any single precise number is fiction dressed up as math. What we publish instead: the weapon’s manufacturer, type, where it drops, and the drop rate when a reliable source states one. The exact card numbers you read on your own drop.
We do not invent drop rates or sample sizes
When an official source or community guide states a rate — a raid boss at “15% +2% per UVH Rank”, a world boss at “9% +2% per UVH Rank” — we cite it. When there is no reliable rate, the page says the item is a dedicated drop and leaves it there. We will never pair a precise percentage with an invented sample size to look authoritative. Fabricated certainty is worse than an honest gap.
We do not claim unverified elements
Many BL4 drops can roll with different elements, or none. Where we can’t confirm the element, the weapon is marked element unverified and we tell you to check your copy, rather than guessing.
We are curated, not a page farm
There is a kind of BL4 site shipping thousands of auto-generated “best X for Y” permutation pages. That’s not us. We cover a focused set of bosses, drops, fixes, and the Build Planner, and we expand deliberately. We would rather have a small set of correct, sourced pages than ten thousand templated ones.
We are not a leaks site
We do not publish unconfirmed datamines or unannounced content. We do cover content that Gearbox has officially revealed but not yet shipped — for example Raid Boss 2 (Subjugator and Thol), announced for May 28 — and we clearly mark it as upcoming.
The Build Planner stays simple
The Build Planner is fully client-side: your build saves to the URL so you can share it in one click. No account, no backend, nothing stored on a server.
That’s V1. When any of this changes, we’ll write the follow-up and say what changed and why.