1. Assault Rifle due to the 0.76 cast time
2. Either Devices or Energy. Devices can get perma-FastSnipe and gives Sniper Rifle a small damage buff. Energy can't quite get perma-FastSnipe but it can take Tactics and alternate Build Up and Power Boost to get pretty good up-time and has Boost Range which is awesome with Assault Rifle.
And with the changes to Conserve/Energise you can quite easily afford the endurance cost of assault/tactics.
Reading your sig' at the same time - Does range boosted LRM actually fit inside draw distance?
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No clue, I had it on a Devices blaster, rather than Energy.
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Originally Posted by Edana
Reading your sig' at the same time - Does range boosted LRM actually fit inside draw distance?
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Targeting through a teammate can be useful if you have to draw distance turned down for performance reasons.
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Oh, hello, City of Devices.|
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
1. Assault Rifle due to the 0.76 cast time
2. Either Devices or Energy. Devices can get perma-FastSnipe and gives Sniper Rifle a small damage buff. Energy can't quite get perma-FastSnipe but it can take Tactics and alternate Build Up and Power Boost to get pretty good up-time and has Boost Range which is awesome with Assault Rifle. |
And some said it wouldn't happen.
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I still don't believe it will. Sure, we'll get a surge in the popularity of Devices Blasters and they'll be FotM for a while but then they'll die off when people realize that taking Devices means no using Build Up to buff AoEs. |
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Oh, hello, City of Devices.
And some said it wouldn't happen. |
Frankly I'd expect to see City of Energy Manipulation before City of Devices. That way people can have their cake and eat it to but I think with Devices they'll end up deciding that the cake is a lie.
Well if Devices does become a FoTM the game would have gone Full Circle with Issue 0, when Devices was crazy popular.
I created my AR/Dev Blaster in Prae. Have him parked at the hospital (level 2). Like his name and concept (sentient Praetorian sniper robot taking his gun and moving on...), but I need to work on his costume. The plan is to plink around thru 1-20 getting those rare Prae morality badges while I wait for i24 to drop. I think I will run him to level 12 (Snipe and Targeting Drone up) and wait for i24, but I may get all the way through Prae, depending on my mood.
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Its possible for Energy Manipulation to get perma-22 but its not easy. An incarnate can get there with enough global recharge (basically, you need 360% recharge in BU to reduce its recharge to about 25 seconds, which is then the duration of BU and Power Boost back to back).|
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
1. Assault Rifle due to the 0.76 cast time
2. Either Devices or Energy. Devices can get perma-FastSnipe and gives Sniper Rifle a small damage buff. Energy can't quite get perma-FastSnipe but it can take Tactics and alternate Build Up and Power Boost to get pretty good up-time and has Boost Range which is awesome with Assault Rifle. |
More importantly, everyone seems to be assuming that you need perma-22 to get perma insta-snipe, but that's also not true because snipe itself has a recharge and you don't need the tohit buff while its recharging. In effect your target recharge is not based on the duration of BU and PB, its based (roughly) on the duration of BU, PB, and the recharge of snipe which allows for less recharge to still work.
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1) what is the strongest snipe?
2) what secondary goes best?