Snipers 2 2.0 Update 13

[VoidenVenari]

I do not have any experience of using bows so I thought of using sniper sniper but what is good ?

[-Upgreid-]

Vectis is one of the best sniper rifles out there. If you're comfortable with travel time, get Lanka.

[VoidenVenari]

Vectis is one of the best sniper rifles out there. If you're comfortable with travel time, get Lanka.

 

Thanks :D 

[Twilight053]

Lanka can pierce through enemies, albeit requires charge time and has travel time.

Vectis has a higher damage potential than Lanka, but needs to reload every shot you fire.

 

 

Both of them are good, I can't tell which is better. The call's on you.

Edited May 22, 2014 by Twilight053

[shadowman1623]

if you know how to mod it lanka is best sniper because my friend i think once got 500k dmg with one shot

[Eirshy]

Let me regale you the plight of our Queen Lanka.

 

Daughter of Snipetron and an unnamed bow who died in childbirth, Lanka was quickly adopted by the Corpus to replace their ageing sniper rifle with something better.

 

Unfortunately for her, she was born with 200 Electric damage, in the age of Damage 1.0. This meant that outside of killing the same men who wielded her, she was relatively useless.

 

She ascended to the throne upon the death of the Snipetron; the princess, her aunt Snidal, was unwilling to stay for long, and there was no way the jester Vulkar could become Queen! However, during her coronation, Lord De came down from his mountain to present Lanka a gift: 250 Serrated Blade damage with 20x1.5 crit.

 

Those at the ceremony were in shock at the power she was granted by Lord De, but they were thankful, for a true Queen must be mighty.

 

For a long time, she was hailed as the Finger of God, owed to the power with which her wrath would smite. Aye, with the stars aligned, she could strike for over a million points of damage with one loosing of the trigger.

 

But then came the much-awaited age of Damage 2.0. She was returned to Electric damage, but allowed to keep the 250 and 20x1.5. While saddening at first, it was quickly realized that Corrosive, Radiation, and Magnetic were all Electric-based elements, and thus she was fine.

 

However, due to many pleas, Lord De came down to the kingdom again to aid Lanka's stepsisters, Dread and Paris Prime. He granted them 200 total physical and 50x2 and 45x2 respectively, allowing them to guarantee their crits. He also saw to it that both Snidal and Vectis, the Queen's daughter, were granted 25x2 crits as well. Yet he forgot about the Queen, her cries for assistance nowhere to be found, her loyal knights already full on potatoes and decorated with impressive amounts of forma.

 

Now she sits on her throne, bittersweet. Her family has surpassed her, all but the elusive Snidal capable of out-performing her at the task she once was so proficient at. Of course, her treasury is already full of forma, her silos long filled with potatoes.... But gifts from her subjects have worn thin as of late. Her step-sisters Dread and Paris Prime hailed the fairest in the land, her daughter Vectis the only one who can even keep up with those two- and surpass them if her wielder is one of the lucky hundred or so to know the secrets of the Primed Chamber.

 

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Okay yeah some artistic license with the timeline there as I don't exactly remember if the Snidal was around when they gave Lanka the 250Sb, and I don't quite remember when the 20x1.5 thing came along (assuming it was at the same ish time, may have existed before that buff), let alone the 25x2 and 45/50x2 buffs, but still.

 

Lanka was good. Now she's only good if you already pumped her full of forma, and even then, the bows are gonna have a decent shot at beating you with only a potato and 0-1 forma.

 

Aaaand here's the dpb math:

The base idea here is to give everything the exact same basic mods:

Point Strike (maxed (+150% crit chance))

Vital Sense (maxed (+120% crit damage))

Hammer Shot (maxed +60% crit damage)

 

The Bows and the Lanka are assumed to run Speed Trigger maxed, as nobody in their right mind wouldn't run Speed Trigger on the Lanka (bows less guaranteed, but wow does it make them spammy).

 

The Bows cap crit chance at 100% with an r4 Point (Paris Prime) or an r3 Point (Dread).

The Snidal would have one free mod slot, due to it not really scaling well to Critical Delay or needing Speed Trigger.

 

The Vectis has multiple builds; PS and VS are always equipped, the other two are a mixtured of Charged Chamber (Chrg, 1.4x damage) or Primed Chamber (Prim, 2x damage), Critical Delay (Del, +48% crit chance), and Hammer Shot (Ham, +60% crit damage).

 

Not shown: Mixing Primed and Charged

Prim > Chrg > Ham > Del

So PrimChrgHam would be better than PrimDelHam (~1618 normalized)

 

Also, the min damage listing for the bows is incorrect; the 100% crit chance means that it will always do maxed damage.

 

 

I swear if someone tries to start a "but the Snidal has better DPS" argument again, I'm going to go out, buy a shotgun, and start shooting pidgeons.

 

It is MATHEMATICALLY PROVABLE that the Snidal has lower DPS than the Vectis AND the Bows. Her "advantage" comes from her behaving more like a carbine than the other two, so that she falls more gracefully due to a lower overkill whenever she has to add another shot. If you treat her like a beefy Carbine, you'll be extremely happy with her.

Edited May 22, 2014 by TheBlueJelly