Needle Pistol should’ve had its own Blessings made. Right now the ONLY TWO BLESSINGS you SHOULD use is Run and Gun and Stripped Down. Anything else doesn’t matter, which just leads it to be a fairly boring gun. SURE. Its one of the best ones for Scum, but its boring! It does -One- thing very well and nothing else. Meanwhile with say, Stub Pistol or SMGs, they just shoot but I can customize their playstyle.
Needle Pistol? I shoot 6 times, reload, and so on as I watch an enemy slowly die from Macrodosing. Its good, but boring, and I wish the Blessings changed up how you can play it - Like you can with most other guns.
It should have some alt fire based blessings and primary fire blessings, like 2 of each mode.
The main problem with this weapon is the dot dealing too much damage and the dot application being too high. Thus, you can’t have fun blessings. Toxin, just like all dots, needs to be like 20% the damage it currently is. I rather have a cool darts weapon that utilizes blessings to make it interesting than a lame dart weapon that just kills everything.
its weird how the other DoTs cap at 16 (without using psyker nodes) and this can just get to 30 stacks. and destroy most enemies at low stacks because of the different damage formula and tick rate. there is literally no explanation for it except them wanting it to be immediately apparent that it is wicked strong and you bought yourself some good good player power. it will kill most specialists and elites in 2 hits faster than a lot of the weapons that kill them in 2 hits do right now, applying that damage instantly. that’s how overtuned chem toxin is things just dissolve.
Honestly in my brain only the bonesaw makes sense stacking that high since it requires high commitment (or a crit build and coated weapon, basically 3 stacks a hit).
Well I disagree with the supposition that there are only two blessings you should use (especially with the caps lock) because I use the ones that give immunity to ranged and suppression immunity on headshot and they work quite well for me in havoc. I’ve developed the sniper skills, so it’s a good match for me.
But it could also get some other blessings. But with its current power, and primary weakness being that it’s bad into ranged, I think those blessings are best and unlikely to change unless it’s significantly weakened as a gun. Which honestly, it should be probably.
I was talking about this in-game a little last night. Needle pistol is so strong that you can run a wooden spoon as a melee weapon and top damage and kills in every category.