Best pvp role I've found Is arrowheads sight and ricochet rounds with a target adjuster mod on it. Its not meta but certainly a viable gun if you work it well.

Parthian shot is 10x the pulse rifle broadsword could ever hope to be. Thing is atrocious along with the entire archetype. Much like high impact hand cannons, high impact pulses simple dont have a place in D2. Nowhere near as good as they were in D1.

1. Buff its range. 2. Increase body shot and precision damage slightly

None of the pinnacle weapons have been worth it.

I just tried using it in Escalation Protocol, and it's just not that great: maybe if Despacito automatically filled your magazine to full when it procs, it would be worthwhile, but relying on Outlaw to reload is often way too slow: I'd sooner use the fastest rate of fire PR like a full-auto Claws of the Wolf and just stand behind my rally barricade and mow things down than bother repeatedly trying to get precision kills just to proc Despacito. I've tried doing this with Redrix: proc Outlaw and Despacito, _then_ pop barricade and spam the trigger, but again, Despacito doesn't last long enough to make it worthwhile, and rally barricade's auto-reload means you can't proc Outlaw while standing behind it, which means you can't re-proc Despacito before your rally barricade runs out Redrix doesn't have enough bullets in the magazine to make being able to fire at max rate of fire worthwhile, and Despacito doesn't last long enough to tear through shields before running out of bullets, by which time you'll need to proc Outlaw again. Too much effort for not enough reward. I can imagine really good players in Comp might be able to use it to rapidly take out the opposing team if they happen to come out of cover at the same time, but stacks tend to turtle when someone on their team dies from Redrix anyway, so again way too situational When I think of how I have random rolled Go Figures and Blast Furnaces which hit harder, cause more flinch, _and_ have more rounds in the magazine (I have one with 60 rounds with Backup mag :P), it makes my piddly 27 rounds in my Redrix rather embarrassing. I actually switched to BF to finish my Forge PR multikills because I kept running out of bullets and having to reload while trying to get multikills. I think it's in part a flaw in the balancing of High Impact PRs from the fixed roll to the random roll meta, but also High Impact PRs have never caused enough flinch to make it worthwhile to have a PR that fires sooo slooow, which is the same issue my lovely and much lamented Machina Dei 4 had: it looks so nice, but it doesn't cause anywhere near enough flinch even with HCR. The Swift Ride XE8375 only shoots marginally faster, but it causes way more flinch (without needing HCR), is way more accurate, can roll with decent random perks and in general outclasses Redrix every which way: the Redrix I was using earlier has 9 Crucible kills, my Swift Ride XE8375 has 2513+. :P

Yeah. The 4-round burst pulse rifles are the only viable options in the high-impact archetype imo. Much more forgiving. I miss the days of Hopscotch Pilgrim and Messenger.

Needs a buff. I say increase base fire rate.

At least now you have it And there's the possibility it can drop with random perks now, as its added to the Loot pool You might get a better version I'm close to obtaining it, the grind is real - and hearing it's disappointing is off putting, but got this close - will persevere!

would be nice if it got an RPM buff, like 50 so its more competitive at close range... think something like the blind perdition but with the redrix broad sword perk on it.

It's a problem with the High Impact archetype. They just don't do enough damage per head-shot to make them viable in PvP. Other types of Pulse Rifles are good, but the High Impact ones just need a damage bump. Maybe 2-4 more damage per shot in PvP. It's fantastic in PvE though.

I love the gun personally. I've always been one for high impact pulses but when Desperado hits. Oh lord it's always a big smile moment when you delete someone. I wouldn't mind if they got a 2-3 damage increase to ease the use of people who are using the Nightshade types. A lot of people remember the Messenger from D1, went back and watched clips from D1 and it was 41 damage per bullet. That's what made them useful even at close range. But here we are in D2 doing ~33... Feelsbad.