Should the veteran plasma gun get new blessings/perks to fire explosive shots, or just a explosive variant?

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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for one, I was thinking of adding a perk called [rupturing bolts]

“your plasma shots now explode on impact at the cost of no longer piercing enemies, 7%-14%-21%-28%-35% increased blast radius, 30%-28%-26%-24%-22% increased heat generation.”

and a destiny 2 perk called [cooling baubles] “grenade kills, charged shot kills on elites, or under the effects of a stim reduce this weapon’s heat generation by 7%-14%-21%-28%-35% for 10 seconds.”

just these two concept weapon blessings/perks would make the plasma gun feel like an entirely new weapon and less clunky to use in higher difficulties, the cooling baubles perk/blessing when every shot matters at taking down elites or the rupturing bolts perk/blessing when you just want to snipe hordes or multiple elites at a distance and watch things explode, and act as a balanced primary weapon version of the hive ganger’s rocket launcher but for the veteran or potential admech class.

or should this just be a new variant of the plasma gun for the veteran where it has higher heat generation, slightly higher base damage and doesn’t pierce enemies but compensates with your shots exploding on impact in a grenade sized radius allowing you to blast apart hordes or elites in 1-2 shots, especially if you charge up the weapon, making it a discount bfg or hive ganger rocket launcher that’s risky to use but makes you act as a high explosive sniper to the team.

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I am become Samus, charger of plasma!

:sign_of_the_horns:

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I would like to see an explosive plasma, but the an issue would be that it would still be immediately obsoleted by the current railgun plasma.

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well sorta, my inspiration was more of the jotunn from destiny 2, hol up, that also makes you like samus to lmao.

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EEEH not exactly since you cant land headshots with explosive shots, and also because your generating a lot more heat than usual so it serves as a mid to long range weapon before engaging a horde, while the normal plasma gun can be used at any range and generates a lot less heat.

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i think he meant that explosive plasma would still be inferior to regular plasma

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Could be a different mark with higher damage to compensate for no pen? Not gonna happen but would be cool to have

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I dunno man there’s many plasma guns in 40k that the guard uses that have energy shots that explode on impact.

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eh if your able to destroy multiple elites or hordes in 1-2 shots that sounds pretty good, especially if you charge up the weapon for a large blast radius and higher damage.

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How would this be different to Boltguns?

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the high explosive bolter is great for close range engagements and sustained fire

the explosive plasma gun would be in the role of a explosive sniper, able to weaken or break the bulk of a horde or kill multiple elites in 1-2 explosive shots before engaging melee combat, it would allow for quick crowd control than needing sustained fire.

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Not if regular Plasma gets railgun cleave locked to charged shot.

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How bout an ADS version?

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that would be the default variant tbh

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I vote new mark

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would it be better to have a different mark of plasma gun that explodes rather than pierces?

giving up a blessing slot for a different fire mode makes it extremely unappealing as it’s just going to fare worse compared to a plasma with 2 damage talents

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yeah good point, a new mark would fit well.

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yeah seems about roight

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well the regular plasma gun already has cleave on uncharged and charged shots actually

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No, the Plasma Gun needs to be made a single target only weapon. No cleave, no splash, no nothing, just single point damage.