So are we going to talk about how busted revolver is or are we hoping nobody notices?

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@Reginald

Prior to patch 13 Hand Cannon was not the blessing it is now. They dramatically changed the way rending worked and they made it much much easier for revolvers to kill carapace

Blessing does not work on revolver

Issue Description: Hand-Cannon +20-50% Rending on Critical Hit. Trickshooter 2-5% Power on Chained Weak Spot Hit (Any Target). Stacks 5 Times. Terrifying Barrage Suppress Enemies within 5-8m Radius on Close Range Kill. They all don’t work!!! As I know the Hand-Cannon is bugged for months! You are so inefficiency!

Was working so great that it was reported as a bug and even marked “acknowledged”

@Reginald

Which you STILL haven’t explained to me how the revolver returning to its role as pocket sniper rifle against any specialist and most elites is going to be BAD.

I explain it to you. Before patch 12, we had rarely a revolver in damnation/auric and lot of Boltgun (at least 1 per game for me).
I don’t want to go back to the time where I had only the choice to use a boltgun.
There is no alternative to kill carapace with ranged than the boltgun as a zealot, except revolver (not great) and agri shotgun special (very bad). I won’t talk about other weapons cause they are really not done for that.
So, if you use a melee weapon that is bad against carapace (example HS), you had to go for bolter. Now I have an other choice.

Also, again… the situation has nothing to do with hand canon. The situation is linked to the fact that you can land critics easily and fast, and so you can triggers hand canon.
So, again, this is totally linked to surgical strike and the critic bonus that procs too fast.

@Reginald

at an extremely slow pace in a high pace game. This is much more balanced than Hand Cannon which requires you to shoot gun.

At an extremely fast pace…
Let me guess… you use surgical strike?