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2/26/2015 1:20:12 PM
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This update has made all high rof assault rifles even more terrible, especially the Necrochasm.
The one weapon archetype that's been hit heavily by not one but two updates which has reduced their overall damage is the high rate of fire, virtually 0 impact assault rifles, it's even worse with the reduction to any of these weapons we found in the wild with the armor piercing rounds perks.
Necrochasm in particular has been the hit the hardest, it has the highest rof of its archetype, but only 40 rounds per clip which already took a full clip and a half to kill tier 2 enemies even with all of them being headshots pre patch. Considering how this weapon is hidden behind RNG that starts after you do your very first CE run on hard mode since that stupid shader takes up the slot instead of just being throw into the loot table from the start, even then, RNG tells you whether you'll get this or that.
At this point, Necrochasm no longer deserves to be a reward from CE, it should just be sold by Xur as a trophy item for anyone wanting to get it just fill up their collection of exotic weapons, assuming were still calling Necrochasm an "exotic".
This weapon archetype was already hard to use in PvP as well. You can't keep releasing more and more nerfs to AR damage when the majority of the ARs released in Dark Below were high rof, low impact weapons.
This archetype isn't even useful for consistent damage, not when they're already struggling against Tier ll enemies even with full blown head shots mind you.
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Necrochasm was anticipated to be a piece of garbage on about the same level as No Land Beyond. Once you get your hands on Eidolon Ally you know Necrochasm will disappoint. It makes you want to say, you know Crota, thanks for the Crux and all but you can have it the Crux back, I'm cool. I pretty much kept using my Shadow Price until I replaced it with a Vanquisher simply because literally every new AR has no impact. 2.5% doesn't seem like a lot but when an AR has like 1 impact, that's a lot.
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2 RepliesAgreed. I'm not sure autorifles needed a nerf, but the nerf should have been in relation to impact levels. Low impact rifles were awful before the patch and are even worse now.
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Edited by GalaxySpider: 2/26/2015 1:50:09 PMLow impact rifles were "useless" since launch, cauz I have never seen someone playing with a Sahara type rifle. Too much recoil, not enough damage for end-game PvE or PvP. To me these guns don't fit anywhere in this game. You unload entire clips on enemies other guns can kill faster >>> waste of time. The update didn't really changed anything here for these kind of guns. Necrochasm was one of the worst exotics before, needed entire clips for single enemies >>> ineffective.
