Weapon Breakdown? (Destiny)

by Mad_Stylus, Monday, July 13, 2015, 02:59 (3521 days ago)

So with the recent patches, and me being out of the loop on some levels, I wanted to try and get a reasonable handle on how weapon balances are working right now.

Auto rifles seem a little lackluster in the latest build. I'll still kill things with them, of course, but the time it takes to kill and the effective ranges and so on are just behind enough what they were to make a difference. Probably would focus on using shotguns or fusion rifles at this range, and have a longer range primary.

Handcannons are trying to be boxed into a medium-close range role. I'm not sure how well that fits, given the importance of every single shot, rate of fire and reload speed. Still the highest single shot damage thus far for a primary weapon.

Scout rifles are probably the most reliable all around option. They hit for roughly half a HC's shot, but they can fire faster, and at longer ranges. Kinda disappointed in some of the supposedly better models sometimes. In a heroic mission, either Vision of Confluence or Fang of Ir Yut failed to one-shot acolytes. Figure thats a bare minimum for any weapon type except the bullet spammers.

Havent given Pulse Rifles enough of a go to be sold one way or the other.