What is a good starter build for solo wing diver [med/hard]?

[DOS32]

Just finished Ranger on medium and 75% on hard and now want to play wing diver through. I have unlocked so many weapons I don't really know where to start.

[Zeddy]

Laser lances work everywhere. It's up to you which specific one, a lot of people swear by dragoon lance since it can pierce and deal a lot of damage.

Second weapon just pick whichever you find fun or a second lance.

[ValerianN]

Hard: Power Lance, Plasma Cannon
Hardest: Power Lance, Dragoon Lance, Great Plasma Cannon, Monster GA, Raijin
Inferno: Power Lance (Triple Lance), Dragoon Lance, Great Plasma Cannon, Monster, Thunder Crossbow

The Power Lance (including twin/triple variants) is bread-and-butter, so learn that before picking up anything else.

[DOS32]

Originally posted by Rookierookie:

Hard: Power Lance, Plasma Cannon
Hardest: Power Lance, Dragoon Lance, Great Plasma Cannon, Monster GA, Raijin
Inferno: Power Lance (Triple Lance), Dragoon Lance, Great Plasma Cannon, Monster, Thunder Crossbow

The Power Lance (including twin/triple variants) is bread-and-butter, so learn that before picking up anything else.

Wait, really? just playing with power lance and plasma and can barely do anything. maybe im using them wrong.

Curentlly using 5-way pulse machine gun and closed laser M3 and seems pretty good?

[Honorable_D]

Haha, no those aren't good at all. The Pulse Machine Guns are garbage outside of spawn camping in the underground missions and the Closed Lasers are laughable.

Unless all your lances are like, 0-3 in stats then I'm not sure what to tell you. Power Lances, Dragoon Lances and Phalanxes are utterly devastating and useful in almost every mission.

The Plasma cannons are pretty garbage for the most part. The rare exceptions are the level 15, 55 and 69 ones. Even then they are highly situational.

[ValerianN]

Originally posted by Honorable_D:

The Plasma cannons are pretty garbage for the most part. The rare exceptions are the level 15, 55 and 69 ones. Even then they are highly situational.

On Normal and Hard you don't have a choice. You need a way to hit things at a distance and everything else is awful.

[Auspice]

wing diver doesn't attack at a distance, for the most part. you're a wing diver, so you can make the distance to the enemy whatever you want.

That being said, dragoon lance is honestly somewhat questionable against large groups of trash mobs and early lances are terrible (though you've completed ~75% of hard so you should have a decent one). basically you want to charge the lance while in the air, fire the lance, dash cancel the recovery and charge another shot without touching the ground. Only land where it's safe.

that being said, Hard difficulty cores kinda suck for altitude, but you can bring a plasma or thunder crossbow to hit anything high altitude until you get a quality core.

for hard, I really liked stardust cannon, it pretty much did everything for me most of the way up.

for cosmonauts (and most bugs), you can use a rapier or phalanx, or a thunder crossbow.

[Vℓα∂y]

Actually OP if your playing in offline most of her weapons are fine, the game actually is balanced in offline play. Her plasma launchers for example would be cheap on energy and one shot enemies which would be great for clearing weak mobs fast and the samething applies to rangers launchers and fencer's light mortar, but if your playing in online, the enemies have double health or slightly more, and its starts taking 2-3 shots to kill them and you just spread them around when shot doesn't kill. Most of suggestions here are meant for online play so if your doing online there pretty good suggestions for that, I would like to add though that the level 10 plasma launcher is actually good for a good quarter of game until enemies stop being one shot by it in online and it has a really good big AoE like level 15 launcher.

But yeah if you play online very generally you need to use weapons with high dps, funny enough a lot of these same high damage weapons in offline are just actually overkill damage and more costly

[testneko]

you've beaten it once before, so you probably have some stars; on hard i'd go with (phalanx OR some kind of lance) + plasma cannon up to big cannon m2 or plasma heavy cannon. after plasma heavy, plasma kind of becomes disappointing. but even so, the big cannon m2 remains useful for a shockingly long time. also, watch your battery and learn to fly good and the rest should become immediately apparent.

*edit* oh yeah, since you're just starting, thunder crossbow is basically your antiair.

[Hammer Of Evil]

Originally posted by DOS32:

Wait, really? just playing with power lance and plasma and can barely do anything. maybe im using them wrong.

Curentlly using 5-way pulse machine gun and closed laser M3 and seems pretty good?

thats because your situation is different. it will feel like that at first.

likely you have your 5 way pulse mg and closed m3 almost maxed with stars, but the lances and plasma cannons, monster, etc have low star ranks and use too much energy.

its fine to use those guns that have higher rank, but once the meta weapons rank up, start using those for less problems down the road.

[j. valentine]

lvl10 plasma big cannon M2

[BluntProfile]

typically, I'd say having a short-range weapons like power lance, dragoon lance, or Phalanx paired w/ a plasma cannon or other range weapons with AOE effects will get you nice and far on hard.