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Is There Really Any Benefit To Secondary Weapons Now?


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After Update 13 u can remove secondary weapons and since Assault Rifles, Shotguns, and Sniper Rifles outscale Pistols in every way what would be the purpose of using pistols outside of getting them just for ranking up Mastery Rank. They carry more ammo and do more damage than pistols anyway.

 

Outside of the elemental weapons i see no use for pistols unless you plan on using sniper rifles.

 

 

I may be wrong because i'm still Rank 2 but on paper it looks like Pistols suddenly became obsolete until every weapon in your account is maxed out.

Edited by wilmer007

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Pistols are your back up to your back up, no extra cost either.  They also do some nice damage, I've switched to my secondary a few times just because they were better than the primary I had at the time. 

Posted

That s because you don't have the right mods or don't know how to use them. The secondary weapons have better mods than primary, this way even if they have lower stats they can be as strong or even better than manny primaries. A well moded secondary is awesome.
Furthermore, they don't use the same ammo pool so if at least one of your weapons uses a lot of ammos you can switch between them 

Posted

Pistols are handy when levelling a mastery trash primary. Many of the pistols feel better than most of the primaries, and with the right mods they can be absolute monsters.

 

There's also the edge case of carrying a short-range primary and needing to snipe an enemy.

Posted

After Update 13 u can remove secondary weapons and since Assault Rifles, Shotguns, and Sniper Rifles outscale Pistols in every way what would be the purpose of using pistols outside of getting them just for ranking up Mastery Rank. They carry more ammo and do more damage than pistols anyway.

 

Outside of the elemental weapons i see no use for pistols unless you plan on using sniper rifles.

 

 

I may be wrong because i'm still Rank 2 but on paper it looks like Pistols suddenly became obsolete until every weapon in your account is maxed out.

 

Do you even Brakk son?

Posted (edited)

3 weapons > 2 weapons for no cost.

 

Also, Marelok, Brakk, Detron, Embolist. Common sense, dude.

Obviously you haven't played enough.

Edited by AxialBlue
Posted (edited)

Also, a secondary is important if you're bleeding out.  You can't use your primary and you can't use your melee.  You just sit there and "bleed" 

Edited by Noamuth
Posted

Also, a secondary is important if you're bleeding out.  You can't use your primary and you can't use your melee.  You just sit there and "bleed" 

 

slip/trip hazard?

Posted

Also, a secondary is important if you're bleeding out.  You can't use your primary and you can't use your melee.  You just sit there and "bleed" 

If you dont carry your secondary,when you're down,you use your primary

Posted

No you can't. /facepalm

I did it once, shot myself with ogris, bleeding however still can use it like a secondary. I only had ogris equiped then.I assume this is a new function or a bug
Posted

After Update 13 u can remove secondary weapons and since Assault Rifles, Shotguns, and Sniper Rifles outscale Pistols in every way what would be the purpose of using pistols outside of getting them just for ranking up Mastery Rank. They carry more ammo and do more damage than pistols anyway.

 

Outside of the elemental weapons i see no use for pistols unless you plan on using sniper rifles.

 

 

I may be wrong because i'm still Rank 2 but on paper it looks like Pistols suddenly became obsolete until every weapon in your account is maxed out.

 

I understand how you feel about that. It can take some time to collect and upgrade the mods that make secondaries the powerhouses long time players consider them. They get a great deal of multishot from the combination of barrel diffusion and lethal torrent and then elemental mods to really compliment the high base damage. Unfortunately for new players, getting this collection of mods can be a chore, especially when it's hard to tell which weapons turn out good in the end. On top of that, there are some where the akimbo version drastically changes the results.

 

I think the akbolto, lex and aklex, magnus and akmagnus, or vasto and akvasto are all good secondaries that can be acquired without the need to fight something excessive for your level. I wasn't a fan of the single bolto when I used it, but if you should level it to 30 (without a catalyst because that would be a waste) for the mastery xp before combining it into the akimbo version.

 

 

Also, Marelok, Brakk, Detron, Embolist.

 

And the quoted list, once you have some better weapons and mods and want to go after this stuff or have the mastery level and resources to research it, are even better options.

Posted (edited)

After Update 13 u can remove secondary weapons and since Assault Rifles, Shotguns, and Sniper Rifles outscale Pistols in every way what would be the purpose of using pistols outside of getting them just for ranking up Mastery Rank.

 

Trust me when I say that when taking both Multishot mods into consideration (a veritable 3 bullets per shot) on top of generally superior mods that pistols are in no way inferior to or out-scaled by the majority of rifles.

 

Granted maybe crit rifles like the Soma or Synaspe might be slightly better due to the ridiculous damage multiplication of critical hits, but otherwise the majority of pistols may as well be considered Primary weapons but with a different ammo cap.

Edited by Paradoxbomb

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