What is the best ranged weapon for Assassin?

[Eyune]

I'm going to take my assassin through martyr > prophecy and i was wondering what the best range weapon from 1>60 would be.

Looking for something that is good whilst leveling. (not something that has to be built to be OP).
Ofcourse I'm not expecting Grav gun levels of OP'ness but if theres something close i'd like to know

[Defenestrator]

Well, you get grav gun at 19, so run that until you find a build you like for easy-mode :)

[Irrelevant]

Well I would say Needler Sniper rifle with a well thought throogh build. It's even more fun as Grav Gun later on.

[Keesasha]

I dunno i tried all ranged weapons but nothing compares to Grav Gun :(

[Katitoff]

Grav cannon, because its broken OP.

I could say sniper rifle if "enemy explode on one hit kill" relic affix WORKED on ranged weapons, but since it doesn't....

[Homelander]

Originally posted by Keesasha:

I dunno i tried all ranged weapons but nothing compares to Grav Gun :(

Grenade Launcher with right psalm doctrine outperforms grav-gun (in high-lvl missions)^^
...too bad that assassins can't use it, because nade launcher is fun

[Eyune]

Im actually using the needler sniper on the assassin because my crusader has the grav gun and i wanted to try something different. Firepower wise they are about equal but you have to put in actual effort when you play lol.

[Irrelevant]

Originally posted by Wolverine:

Originally posted by Keesasha:

I dunno i tried all ranged weapons but nothing compares to Grav Gun :(

Grenade Launcher with right psalm doctrine outperforms grav-gun (in high-lvl missions)^^
...too bad that assassins can't use it, because nade launcher is fun

All those urban legendes about nade launchers :D. I love my XX less dmg per debuff on the enemy grav gun because taking no dmg is the most broken thing ingame ^^.

[Grim@FU_BARRACUDA]

standart "sniper rifle" with maxed cooldown reduction

you use the explosive shot for trash mobs with max cdr you can spam it like cazy and aimed shot for champs and elites ofn you need the right passives for this setup i bet you can figure that out

another build is with the boltgun you go fo max cooldown again with single shot (it stacks vulnerbility) and ofc using the last node in physical tree

for both builds im not sure if they still work i have not played them after 2.0

what ever you do always use tactican and cull of the weak perks these are the best 2 perks if you want to do dmg

sure there are other more complex builds with dot dmg and specialized doctrines to them but for now this should help

for physical dmg based weapons use the triple projectile doctrine (ik very unrealistic but effective)

and try to get the 200% dmg against slowed working in your build and you kill everything within a blink of an eye (dot tree "third node from the left bleed also slows")

if the boltgun still works be warned it is extremly boring to play at times but with max cdr it can be some fun

you can also try needler sniper but thats more for later game cause you need a lot of passives and equip to get this thing going somewhere but when you have boy oh boy the needler blast is a blast xD