Braton Vandal Rework/Suggestion

[PopTartZombie]

Stats that would make it viable, and still balanced, yet allowing it to glow in higher level areas.

Mastery Rank Required - 12 vs 4

Damage - 30.75 slash / 15.25 puncture / 4 Impact. VS - 21 slash / 12.25 puncture / 1.75 impact

Total Damage: 50 vs 35

Fire Rate - 6.5 vs. 7.5

Crit Chance - 22% vs. 16%

Crit Damage - x3.2 vs. x2

Reload Time - 2.0 vs. 1.6

Accuracy - 20.5 vs 33.3

Magazine Capacity - 40 vs 50

Status Chance - 10% vs. 16%

Ammo Reserve - 400 vs. 550

Goals: Harder hitting, more visceral feeling, becomes a better counterpart to prime version having you actually consider the crit chance vandal vs status chance prime, better scaling for higher level enemies.

My personal issues in using weapon: If the mission level is 20-whatever, I just don't bring it with. This weapon was bae, but now it's just fam..

Being a founder/closed beta player and coming back to this game after a while, the end game has expanded a lot, but a lot of the weapons and a couple frames I've been using haven't at all. On Xbox I used the prime, it schmelted fairly well only investing 2 forma.

Edited July 27, 2019 by PopTartZombie

[Xzorn]

I think Braton and Lato are the only anomalies due to their age. Otherwise Vandal / Wraith / Prisma are just direct upgrades.

If I were to assign stats comparatively between the two it would be mostly handling.

Braton Prime
Damage: 35
Accuracy: 40
Fire Rate: 9.58
Crit Chance: 20%
Crit Damage: 2.0
Status Chance: 32%
Reload Time: 1.8
Magazine Size: 80
Max Ammo: 800

Hybrid Build - Sustained DPS: 18k - 1.34 Status Triggers per Shot, 12.8 Status Triggers per second.

Braton Vandal
Damage: 35
Accuracy: 28.6
Fire Rate: 9.58
Crit Chance: 25%
Crit Damage 2.2
Status Chance: 20%
Reload Time: 1.5
Magazine Size: 60
Max Ammo 800

Hybrid Build - Sustained DPS: 22k - 0.84 Status Triggers per Shot, 8 Status Triggers per second.

Braton series is now better than Soma Prime while all other Assault Rifles should be improved accordingly.

[PopTartZombie]

35 minutes ago, Xzorn said:

I think Braton and Lato are the only anomalies due to their age. Otherwise Vandal / Wraith / Prisma are just direct upgrades.

If I were to assign stats comparatively between the two it would be mostly handling.

Braton Prime
Damage: 35
Accuracy: 40
Fire Rate: 9.58
Crit Chance: 20%
Crit Damage: 2.0
Status Chance: 32%
Reload Time: 1.8
Magazine Size: 80
Max Ammo: 800

Hybrid Build - Sustained DPS: 18k - 1.34 Status Triggers per Shot, 12.8 Status Triggers per second.

Braton Vandal
Damage: 35
Accuracy: 28.6
Fire Rate: 9.58
Crit Chance: 25%
Crit Damage 2.2
Status Chance: 20%
Reload Time: 1.5
Magazine Size: 60
Max Ammo 800

Hybrid Build - Sustained DPS: 22k - 0.84 Status Triggers per Shot, 8 Status Triggers per second.

Braton series is now better than Soma Prime while all other Assault Rifles should be improved accordingly.

These examples are definitely more detailed than my own. I agree with the changes too.

That's the contrast I'm talking about, the Soma Prime, mine is currently a mid-level build and it out preforms the bratons substantially. Which is sad because the higher damage over consistent sustained fire is supposed to be what would separate assault rifles from lmgs.

[AriaSTG]

I see we are the mans of Bratons too

 

[(XBOX)Avant Solace]

Personally I'd up the crit chance to like 28%, just for the sake of consistency. The Braton Vandal does need some love (especially seeing how hard it is to get), and the assault rifle class in general needs more crit-focused guns. It'd also be a viable trade-off between the Prime's status-proccing potential for more focused damage per shot,