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9/14/2014 8:07:25 AM
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Pulse Rifle in PvE

So I happened to acquire a level 20 legendary pulse rifle a couple days ago and I've been using it ever since, while occasionally switching to my level 20 rare auto rifle every so often to test effectiveness. The rare auto rifle absolutely destroys the legendary pulse rifle in DPS. Even when both are upgraded there's just no competition. The pulse rifle bursts are EXTREMELY slow in both time between bursts and time between each individual bullet, but still fast enough for the recoil to cause you to miss nearly every shot after the first. To make matters worse its upgrade causes it to fire an extra bullet if one happens to miss(which in most cases one does) and then that in turn causes you to waste another bullet in the depressingly small clip. Then to add insult to injury, there's almost no significant difference in damage per hit. With how slow the pulse rifle fires and how small the clip is, there's just no way it can ever outclass an auto rifle. Just wondering if anyone else feels that pulse rifles are overall poopy in almost every aspect... Thanks for reading!

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  • OP is correct. Pulse rifles are extremely under powered. They either need a buff to damage or a decrease to pause between bursts. I have done the same tests as OP and my pulse rifle at 257 attack does kills things significantly slower than my auto rifle at 242, even if I crit with the pulse rifle and only body shoot with the auto rifle. A burst fire weapon should feel powerful, otherwise, why give the balance set back of forced bursting? The pulse rifle in this game feels like a standard video game smg, minus the full auto. Quick, accurate, easy to hip fire, and bullets that don't do damage unless you use a lot of them.

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