Barbed Wire

It encircles the player in a small, grey, jagged circle, damaging enemies who come within. If several enemies are within range, only one of them will receive the damage.

Tactics

 * Barbed Wire is one of the few items which can damage Providence while he is under his shield buff.
 * Getting this item en masse can create a very large radius of death around the player, dealing enough damage to take down even bosses in a matter of a few seconds and killing normal enemies in a single hit. However, this only works with very, very large quantities of them - no less than triple digits.
 * Having a collection of Barbed Wire in triple digit amounts will also kill targets that are outside the range of your screen.

Character Synergies

 * Any Melee-based character will find extra use for Barbed Wire, as they will often be up close and personal with mobs, allowing the item to do maximum DPS. Melee Characters include Miner, Acrid, Mercenary, Loader and HAN-D.

Trivia
* To give an idea of the radius increase, the radius of 18 Barbed Wire stacks are equivalent to the area of one warbanner. TO

* To cover the entire screen in barbed wire takes approximately 175 barbed wire.

Bugs

 * This item will sometimes disappear during transitions between different stages after using the teleporter.
 * Only the first player who picks this up in multiplayer will get the barbed wire and anyone else who gets it will increase that player's barbed wire and not their own [FIXED]