Hi all,
Which primary weapon do you primarily use; and why?
I am debating which primary should I use and I would very much like some of your opinions and suggestions to help me to decide.
I very much like the scout rifle for it has good impact, which interrupts the targets, and good damage. Also I always aim for a head shot (or a belly shot against the Vex). So I have grown fond of the scout rifle since I started playing. I also like the hand cannon too; except for its relatively small cartridge size painfully long reloading speed. I have tried to really like it and use it but I have always ended falling back to the scout rifle. The pulse rifle is a good choice too although I do not use it that often. I feel that it is not as easy to use as the auto rifle and not as impactful as the scout rifle and the hand cannon. I however have to say that the pulse is very good at one thing: scoring headshot. First you aim at the chest just below the neck, which is larger and easier to aim than the head, then the recoil will move the muzzle up and you will hit the head.
Lately, I have done some PvP matches and some team PvE. I have noticed that a lot of people are using the auto rifle. I would say nearly a majority of them. For me, I just cannot get used to the constant recoil and the constant adjusting of aim. I understand its appeal and it also manages to score a lot of team kills too. With the auto rifle, you can start aiming at the general direction before moving into a more precise aiming, and thus almost always hits something. WIth the scout rifle and the hand cannon, you have to aim first before firing, and then reengage when necessary and fire again. In PvE teaming, it annoys me to see that my kill counts are lower than a auto rifle user but I believe I deal more or less the same amount of damage; just that my bullets hit fewer targets.
So anyway, what do you use? Please share your views on the primary weapons.
Thanks!
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Edited by I FARMER l: 10/6/2014 4:06:29 PMMore people need to try hand cannons BC they pretty much destroy everything in pve. Huge plus when raiding. The devil you know is a great one BC of its 13 round clip with extended "mag" and increased damage after a kill
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Red death, its teh sex
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Depends on what I'm doing and what my mood is. If I'm doing non-raid PVE I'll either Auto Rifle (mostly) or Hand Cannon (if I'm in the mood). For raid I only use Auto Rifle because I don't have a hand cannon worth using in raid (not feeling the Thorn in raid). For PVP I'd probably run AR all the time as well because it really is just better most of the time. See my problem is that the AR is almost overwhelmingly better for most scenarios, at least for me. I mean I'm good enough at hitting headshots, but the second a shield comes into play, the precision weapons (scout rifle and hand cannon) become less useful because you can't do that much larger precision damage. Sure you could and probably should switch to a special/heavy weapon to deal with the shield, but with ARs you don't have to do that.
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Titan here, I use auto rifles, but I plan on making a hand cannon build. Auto rifles are great for dealing with multiple enemies at once. Hand cannons are head shot machines, powerful and precise, great for bosses with small weak spots
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Red death with my titan. Bad juju with my warlock.
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Thank RNGesus you left fusion rifles and shotguns out
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PvP - Auto PvE - Pulse Patrol - Scout
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No option for fusion?!!
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The Suros Regime is my favorite weapon right now. Love that weapon. I received it the moment I turned level 20 so I've been playing with it ever since. Hasn't failed me yet. Am working on Bad JuJu just to change things up alittle.
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Thorn almost fully upgraded. Love that gun.
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The red death, FTW!
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For me, Pulse>Scout=HC>Auto Unless we're talking PvP. Auto/Scout. Just got Dr Nope. It's a pea shooter, but after damage upgrades and things it could be alright.
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Suros Regime & Vision Of Confluence for PvE/Raid Monte Carlo for PvP
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Ever since I got vision of confluence scout rifle from the raid that's all I've been using. Got a clip of 27 I think and hits fkin hard. But yeah mostly scout rifle and hand cannon, headshots for days
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Auto rn cause it's my best but if I get an exotic hand cannon I'll use that or maybe a pulse rifle like red death or bad juju
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All of those except the auto rifle :)
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Shingen-E all the way, baby!
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Been using the auto rifle a lot lately, but the hand cannon has been my main killing gun. Snapping off a head shot with a hand cannon is a beautiful thing.
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I use auto rifles in PvP, but i use hand cannons in PvE
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good auto rifles don't have recoil and if these is any it's easily controlled and hardly noticeable
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Hand Cannon in PvE and Shotgun in PvP.
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PvE - Scout Rifle/Auto Rifle PvP - Auto Rifle/Hand Cannon
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I'm using red death but before I had that I used a hand cannon
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Hand cannons for sure, love my Hawkmoon.
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Vex Mythoclast
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Why isn't the fusion rifle on the list? My mythoclast is a primary!