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Weapon Aficionado achievement in Borderlands

Weapon Aficionado

Reach proficiency level 10 with any weapon type

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How to unlock the Weapon Aficionado achievement

• gallegosh

  23 Oct 2009 22 Oct 2009 31 Oct 2009
  68 4 6

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  To get this achievement, you simply have to keep using a certain type of weapon (pistol, smg, sniper, etc...). The more kills you get with a certain type, you will notice on your character page that it is leveling up and all weapons of that type will become more powerful. In order to get to level 10 you need to stick with one type of weapon for a long time, obviously whichever one you feel most comfortable with. I suggest going for level 10 with pistols, because both repeating pistols and revolvers count. This is especially helpful because you have two ammo types to use, instead of having to switch to some other weapon class because you run out of pistol ammo.
  
  Edit: Now that I've had a little more time to play the game, I've noticed that you don't actually need to kill anything for your weapon proficiency to go up. If you have a friend that is of significantly higher level than you, hop into their game and follow them around with your favorite weapon equipped. By them killing the high-level enemies, your weapon proficiency will level up rather quickly and you don't even have to work for it!

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  I got this roughly halfway through Rust Commons just by playing normally. I didn't make any special effort to use only that particular weapon type. In fact, I spread usage around depending on the weapons I have and also to make sure I don't run out of any specific kind of ammunition.

  Posted by olde fortran 77 on 04 Mar 13 at 15:43

  this will not unlock for me i have 3 weapons now above 10 an not working an carnt find any info about

  Posted by CAT OF HELLFIRE on 31 Oct 20 at 10:55

  Same as LifeExpectancy. A friend with 10th level proficiency joined me to drop me some gear. As soon as they left, achievement popped.

  Posted by SargeCassidy on 21 Aug 22 at 10:57

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• Pyro5845

  26 Oct 2009 29 Oct 2009
  45 3 2

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  Another way is if you have a high level friend, jump in their game. You don't have to shoot anything, just tag along leaching experience and whatever gun you have out will gain proficiency. In less than an hour, I had level 13 proficiency on my smgs and I went from level one to level 25.

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  I was using splitscreen to gather high value gear from my second play through to give to an alt and in the process of clearing several areas got this on the dummy controller purely by accident (as well as hitting lvl 15 or so).

  Posted by Zombie Lawren on 29 Oct 09 at 02:24

  I'm curious, if you equip pistols in both slots and tag along with a high level friend, will it level up twice as fast?

  Posted by bogeygolf316 on 14 Aug 10 at 14:56
• Psycho Joe 1

  01 Aug 2010 01 Aug 2010
  17 3 0

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  I believe this should really be one achievement which you bear in mind from the start of the game, as proficiency level 10 takes a long time to get if playing solo.
  
  I recommend using a sniper rifle to get to level 10 because the majority of enemies you face are bandits, and in my opinion the best way to deal with bandits is to snipe their heads off. ALWAYS kill Badass Psychos and Bruisers with your sniper rifle because they award more points towards your proficiency level.
  
  You should get this just before you have to deal with Krom in Krom's Canyon, but it differs for everyone based on how much you use your other weapons.