Beam rifle - Too slow?

I have a Beam/Time guy called Pocket Watch. I like him a lot but ive been finding that in teams, beam rifle is just too damn slow.

By the time ive got disintergration off, the mobs already dead most times, and I certainly dont have time to spread the disintergration to the rest of the mob. If I concentrate of just doing damage instead of disintergrating them, it takes ages for the animation to kick off. With Cutting beam, he seems to wait for a few seconds before shooting and sweeping with the gun and the other cone takes ages for the charge to build up. Overcharge is ok, and blasts the whole group, as are the regular blasts but they still dont compaire to the speed of other toons that kill most of the mob before I make a contribution.

I tend to focus on using my timey wimey powers and the first two blasts, but I dont feel im using the foundation of the toon, the disintergration mechanic.

Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know if the devs plan on speeding this set up? I would personally like to see them removing disintergration and allowing all attacks a chance of causing it. Stick a build up in there instead.

I have similar experiences... I really like the concept and look of Beam Rifle but eventually I just scrapped the character and went back to my fire/time.

The redraw was the biggest issue for me, on my fire/time I can freely switch between primary and secondary with no delay, but on beam/time it was a pain and I found myself keeping from using /time powers as much as I could.

I know it's probobly not what you want to hear, but I'd just play a fire/time instead.

Awesome single target damage, awesome AoE, no redraw, and you will always be a very active part in making the enemies melt away.

Yeah I really want to like BR... But I experienced the very problem as you...

The Blast Sets are in chaos and I thought BR would be okay since it was new -- eh not the case

<3 my Fire/Time

Yeah. I like Beam Rifle solo and on small teams...but on most big teams you've gotta be quick on the buttons to keep up, and avoid the longer animating attacks. It's kind of a bummer.

I play my Beam Rifle like a Stalker. Picking off hard Targets. I have passive sets for both of my BR sets so I have no issues on team but yeah I couldn't imagine playing BR with time...heck Time, much like kin is busy as well, let alone adding a set that needs the user to be super attentive to who they blast.

Play it in a team with a melee toon. The melee toon distracts the enemies while you power up your beams and such. Worked pretty great even in First Ward for me.

The only combo I would use with beam rifle, or any weapon set, would be /ice or /sonic because they're pretty passive. Never would I go with anything else because of the constant weapon redraw that would be involved.

I'm currently working a beam/ice up to 50. Beam has -regeneration if you hit enemies with disintegrate attacks and has -res and -def. Ice has plenty of -reg, -def, and -res. Together it's got tons of AV killing awesomeness.

I didn't see this mentioned, but if you are not getting a volley off on a team before they are all dead, perhaps - the difficulty should be increased

Redraw isn't really the issue - the attacks take awhile to animate and apply. Redraw just adds a little to it, unfortunately.

I feel your pain - I have a lev 53 Beam/Poison.

BR is the only thing I regret buying from the market

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I rerolled my main to FF/BR and do not regret it. Many of the games better powers lean on DoT's already so I don't worry about the small delays. Once you get rolling shooting at something it's just aesthetics and math, and BR excells at both.

+1 for up the difficulty and/or pick out hard targets.

Re-draw has no effect on DPS.

BR requires precision to use properly. If you try to play BR like an AoE machine you are probably doing it wrong. In a way like trying to use AR primarily single target instead of AoE.