These are the generally assumed best and highest suggested of the weapons you can receive from Variks for Challenge of Elders activities. [b]Scout Rifles[/b] High-Impact Hand of Judgement - Available from the House of Judgement Reputation Packages. Pros - High Range. Above average Aim Assist. Cons - Very low Stability. Average Reload Speed. Average Mag Size. Time-to-Kill: 0.80s (3 crit shots) Rate of Fire: 27 Impact: 61 (73 damage per crit shot, 49 per body shot) Range: 76 Stability: 24 Reload Speed: 62 Mag Size: 15 Aim Assist: 50 Recommended Perks: Column 1 - Red Dot-OAS, Red Dot-ORES, Red Dot-ORS1, TrueSight IS Column 2 - Hand-Laid Stock, Perfect Balance, Injection Mold, Braced Frame, Smallbore Column 3 - Explosive Rounds/High Caliber Rounds, Lightweight, Snapshot Column 4 - Zen Moment/Hidden Hand, Crowd Control, Third Eye, Eye of the Storm, Life Support, Firefly, Triple Tap, Icarus, Outlaw One of the most elusive weapons in the game, but once you have one drop, it's very easy to get a great roll out of it. Any of the sights in the second node of the first column are usable, and although I personally like the reticles on the ORS1 and ORES, the OAS has a great view and adds Aim Assist. TrueSight is a little cluttered for me, but also adds Aim Assist and works great at close range, so it's a decent trade-off. In the second column, you really, really want Hand-laid Stock. It gives a great boost to Stability, which this gun sorely needs, at the cost of Range, which this gun has in spades. You can do alright with Perfect Balance or Injection Mold, but I would only recommend Braced Frame if you have a perk like Triple Tap or Outlaw in the last column. In column 3, none of the choices are amazing, but HCR and Explosive Rounds will both help you with flinching the enemy, and that's always a great advantage to have. In the last column we have an absolute plethora of options, but I think the top ones here are going to be Zen Moment, to help again with Stability, or Hidden Hand, for the obvious boost to AA. Third Eye is also nice, and Crown Control can make it into a 2 crit 1 body kill. All the other perks listed are also useful, so don't be upset if you get any of them. Pulse Rifles Low-Impact Aegis of the Reef - Available from the House of Judgement Reputation Packages. Pros - High Stability and Reload Speed. Above average Aim Assist. Cons - Below average Range. Very low Mag Size. Time-to-Kill: 0.83s (2.66 bursts bursts. 8 crits) Rate of Fire: 73 Impact: 7 (25 damage per crit shot, 17 damage per body shot) Range: 33 Stability: 68 Reload Speed: 78 Mag Size: 24 Aim Assist: 65 Recommended Perks: Column 1 - Red Dot-OAS/SureShot IS, Red Dot-ORES Column 2 - Perfect Balance, Hammer Forged, Send It Column 3 - High Caliber Rounds, Full Auto Column 4 - Rangefinder/Hidden Hand, Counterbalance, Headseeker, Third Eye, Life Support, Glass Half Full, Unflinching Another relatively rare gun that almost always comes with a decent roll, the Aegis of the Reef is a Pulse Rifle from the Hawksaw/PDX-45 archetype. It boosts the highest base Range stat of the three, while still maintaining good Stability and Aim Assist. Red Dot-OAS and SureShot both boost Aim Assist, and I'm just personally a fan of the ORES scope, so those are my recommendations for column 1. In column 2, I really recommend Perfect Balance, because without it you won't have many other good options to decrease the vertical recoil, at least without incurring a penalty to Range. In column 3, I'm a huge fan of how useful HCR rounds are, but I know a ton of people like to use Full Auto. In the last column there are a lot of good options, but the two that stand out to me the most are Hidden Hand and Rangefinder. Counterbalance will make the recoil all vertical, Headseeker makes the gun more forgiving, and the other perks are decent enough to be passable. [b]Auto Rifles[/b] Low-Impact Soulstealer's Claw - Available from House of Judgment Reputation Packages. Pros - High Mag Size and Aim Assist. Cons - Average Range and Reload Speed. Below average Stability. Time-to-Kill: 0.80s (12 crit shots and 1 body shot,) Rate of Fire: 100 Impact: 2 (16 damage per crit shot, 13 per body shot) Range: 24 Stability: 37 Reload Speed: 66 Mag Size: 66 Aim Assist: 80 Recommended Perks: Column 1 - Red Dot-OAS, Red Dot-ORES Column 2 - Perfect Balance, Smallbore, Hand-laid Stock Column 3 - Lightweight, Single Point Sling, Quickdraw, Snapshot Column 4 - Counterbalance, Persistence, Rangefinder, Hidden Hand Perhaps the most sought after of the HoJ rank-up packages, Soulstealer's Claw is the same highly competitive archetype as ARs like DoP and Arminius. Unfortunately, it can't roll with Braced Frame, but the combination of Perfect Balance and Counterbalance is a decent substitute. In return, you're awarded with a higher base Range than either of the other two, and a higher Aim Assist value than DoP. For the sights, the only two options I would choose are Red Dot-OAS or the ORES, but those recommendations are more based on preference than anything else. Column 3's perk do not matter, so be happy with whatever you get. If you can't get Perfect Balance, Smallbore is a passable replacement, but the vertical recoil when combined with Counterbalance will be something to look out for. Hand-laid Stock can also go into the second column, which will give you the Stability of Braced Frame, at the cost of your extra Range. If you don't get Counterbalance, it's not going to be a God Roll, but Persistence can help you stay on target after it activates, and Rangefinder and Hidden Hand are both solid perks as well. [b]Sniper Rifles[/b] High-Impact Her Fury - Available from the Prison of Elders. Pros - Can kill most Supered Enemies and Revive Snipe with 1 crit shot. Cons - Low Range. Below average Stability and Reload Speed. Average Aim Assist. Time-to-Kill: 0.83s (2 body shots) Rate of Fire: 19 Impact: 31 (417 damage per crit shot, 167 per body shot) Range: 66 Stability: 42 Reload Speed: 60 Mag Size: 4 Aim Assist: 54 Recommended Perks: Column 1 - ShortGaze SLH10/LongView SLR10, Ambush SLH25, ViewTac SLH20 Column 2 - Army of One, Grenadier, Eye of the Storm, Life Support Column 3 - Quickdraw, Snapshot, Rifled Barrel, Reinforced Barrel, Hand-laid Stock, Injection Mold Column 4 - Hidden Hand, Unflinching, Mulligan, Hot Swap, Firefly Her Fury is basically a poor man's 1000-Yard Stare, so I only recommend using it if you don't have a better rolled sniper from the same archetype. ShortGaze and LongView both provide long-zoom scopes with good Aim Assist numbers, exactly what you want for PvP. Any one of the perks listed in column 2 will be good to use, but none are necessary for a God Roll. In column 3 we get to the part where playstyle dictates which perks you're going to want. If you're a high level player who loves quickscoping and aggressive movement with the sniper, Quickdraw is going to be your God Roll perk, with Snapshot behind that. If you're more of a long distance type of sniper, then you want more Range, and Rifled Barrel is your God Roll option, and Reinforced Barrel is the back up. If you want Stability on your snipers, Hand-laid Stock is the first choice, and Injection Mold is the second option. In column 4, the obvious choice is Hidden Hand, but Unflinching is a solid perk as well, only below Hidden Hand because of the low base AA of Her Fury. Mulligan actually activates quite often, so don't sleep on it, and Hot Swap and Firefly can be enjoyable in certain situations. [b]Shotguns[/b] Very High-Impact Her Champion - Available from the Prison of Elders. Pros - High Range. Above average Stability. Cons - Below average Reload Speed. Low Aim Assist. Average Mag Size. Time-to-Kill: 1.33s (two shots) Rate of Fire: 5 Impact: 67 (22 damage per pellet, 264 damage total) Range: 17 Stability: 41 Reload Speed: 29 Mag Size: 5 Aim Assist: 35 Recommended Perks: Column 1 - Linear Compensator/Accurized Ballistics/Field Choke, Smooth Ballistics Column 2 - Rangefinder Column 3 - Reinforced Barrel/Rifled Barrel Column 4 - Final Round. Performance Bonus, Underdog, Replenish Her Champion is a slightly better version of the Conspiracy Theory-D, so if you can get a roll that mimics the Questline version, you're basically golden. Rangefinder, Reinforced or Rifled Barrel, and either Final Round or Performance Bonus will make this gun a monster, albeit with a slightly lower RoF than a perfectly rolled Party Crasher. Any of the barrel perks that increase Impact and Range are good to use, and if you can't get thoose, Smooth Ballistics will increase just Range.