Same here
God forbid class yo have any fun or useful stuff, eh?
Why bother engaging with the most complex melee system the industry have, when you can just repeatedly press one button.
On the topic, the downside of the arc rifle is the mediocre damage, which doesn’t really matter until high havoc, so not much of a tangible shortcoming indeed.
That’s now. Wait a few weeks and there will be class balance again in teams.
Arc Rifle is fine. Powerful, yes. But mostly fine. The builds that utilize this gun the best sacrifice a lot of melee capability anyway. And that is if there is a best right now, considering that every Skitarii ability is bugged, and only one for the better.
Honestly, skits just doesn’t work well past auric if you try to shoot only, gunsmith shines if you play melee / hybrid, having to actually reload your guns makes it lose most of its value.
The revolver and the rifle are both S tier options for special sniping, but lack the ammo, whereas the arc rifle has the ammo but lacks the dmg to be the crown jewel of your build.
Gonna get a lot of hate for this, but that never stopped me before. The -60% ammo economy of havoc should be applied to the rest of the game. Balancing is impossible as long as we literally have infinite ammo for just about any gun.
Gunsmith is currently busted since it allows you to fire an empty magazine, so with weapons like Arc Rifle & Plasma Gun, you can magdump, start a reload, let it refill some with no magazine, continue shooting, and then finish reload when you’re empty and have a full mag to immediately start shooting again.
I was completely and utterly wrong, 40% brittle elevates arc rifle to the next level. Your carapace dmg goes up by more than 2.5x, unyield 2x. This thing really just decimates everything regardless of difficulty with the right build, I was just using a wrong one, mea culpa!
Where do you get 40% brittleness from?
System shock
Tbf… Most classes are a melee meta. And so is Skitarii for the most part. Sometimes one just wanna go “brrrrt” and see things implode.
Nothing wrong with Arc Rifle. It’s a fun ranged weapon in a game sorely lacking fun ranged options. Hell, half or more of the guns in the game are utterly useless.