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Edited by Brainiac-88:
7/22/2017 9:36:55 AM
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Do you feel a major difference between kinetic weapons and energy weapons .. because I don't
So I tried the Beta out, both PVE and PVP.
1st PVE:
So here I am running with my primary weapon, shooting cabal as they come across.
>Oh, a yellow bar boss comes out 😱
>Me shooting at him with my primary (kinetic) weapon. No much damage 😰
> Me Hiding behind that crate and switching to my energy weapon 😈
> Me coming out from cover and shooting at the boss with my energy weapon 🤠 .. wait ! No damage again 😱
Conclusion:
1. In Destiny2, I get to carry 2 primaries at the same time 😟 , oh one of them has burn🙃
2. Yellow bar bosses are more damage resistant than ever
Ok, lets try PVP:
Kinetic weapons test
Energy weapon test
Conclusion: No much difference, they performed almost the same
There might be something I didn't figure out yet. I don't know! But that's what I experienced from the first few games.
How was your experience ?
UPDATE:
A lot of replies are talking about the burn affect that energy weapons have in terms of damage bonus. I am well aware of that. The point I am trying to make is that Energy weapons are still elemental primaries (+ side arms joined their club), and hence you are carrying 2 primaries at the same time, which is dumb.
So let me ask this question, Does the bonus damage given by the burn actually worth to take a weapon slot?
In my opinion it doesn't. Unless Bungie makes energy weapons more powerful so that they significantly differ than kinetic weapons in terms of damage and affect, then this will be one of the major gaps in the game. Which then they will try to fix by introducing ENERGY class snipers and shotguns as exotics 👎🏼
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3 RepliesI didn't notice any difference between kinetic and energy weapons under most circumstances. But, when a shielded enemy was there, I noticed a huge difference between the two. Using the appropriate burn seems to make a pretty significant dent on enemy shields.
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1 ReplyTotally agree, two categories that seem to have the same damage output, pointless. One power weapon that isn't powerful, pointless. All for the sake of PvP balance, nice one Bungie
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Nope i dont
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1 ReplyThe kinetic/elemental thing is completely pointless ... in beta at least.
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The difference is such an unnoticeably small aspect of gameplay it doesn't merit elemental and kinetic damage being the classifying factor for weapons. Seems more like a thinly veiled way to bench people in PVP who liked the specials while still being able to say, "no, we didn't get rid of your favorite guns, we better 'balanced' them. Wink wink wink."
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2 RepliesOnly on shielded enemies, even if they don't match.
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2 RepliesIn pvp the energy weapon will do bonus damage against guardians in their super. In pve they do bonus damage to shields. All other times they do less damage to the target than their k-weapon counterpart. Although today it sounds like that may get addressed for the release version.
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10 Repliesenergy weapons take any kind of shield down faster, that's what they're for, and as a minor (not sorth it) bonus they take out the corresponding shield even faster.
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They already said it was a known issue before the beta dropped so don't get your panties in a knot!
