Are Stasis weapons in a kinetic slot kinetic or not?

[ralphtobybob]

Some bounties aren't incrementing, like the gunsmith one for kinetic kills. I'm using a stasis autorifle and not getting credit. Other bounties for kinetic kills do give credit for stasis weapon kills.
If it's not a kinetic weapon, why is it in the kinetic slot? Grenade kills are arbitrary too. A grenade tossed on Nessus among 4 npcs gave 2 kills in an area the size of about 2 meters. A grenade toss on Cosmodrome killed everything in three times that diameter.

[Nakos]

Yes, Stasis weapons that use Primary (white) ammo go in the Kinetic slot.
No, Stasis weapons are NOT Kinetic. They're Stasis.

Note: There are some Power weapons that are also Stasis.

[Mez Koo]

Stasis weapons are stasis.

[Anti Homeless Rock]

Originally posted by ralphtobybob:

If it's not a kinetic weapon, why is it in the kinetic slot?

Because the energy slot would've been overloaded.
-roughly what Bungie said on that.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Anti Homeless Rock:

Originally posted by ralphtobybob:

If it's not a kinetic weapon, why is it in the kinetic slot?

Because the energy slot would've been overloaded.
-roughly what Bungie said on that.

To further this, Bungie probably plans on putting strand into the first slot as well and plans on making kinetic a full "element" like the rest instead of just the 10% damage boost.

[the.angelhunter]

It's usually the daily bounties that count both stasis and kinetic weapon kills from the kinetic slot as progress for "kills with kinetic weapons. The repeatable bounties require actual kinetic weapon kills.

[BirdDinosaur]

Its no longer called Kinetic slot... iirc I dont even think it ever was called that. Its a Primary slot that just so happens to hold Kinetic weapons but also Statis weapons.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by BirdDinosaur:

Its no longer called Kinetic slot... iirc I dont even think it ever was called that. Its a Primary slot that just so happens to hold Kinetic weapons but also Statis weapons.

"Primary" is the ammo type.

If you launch the Bungie Companion app, then the three slots are labeled:
Kinetic Weapons
Energy Weapons
Power Weapons

So ... yes, it is called the "Kinetic slot".

[DakotaThrice]

Originally posted by BirdDinosaur:

Its no longer called Kinetic slot... iirc I dont even think it ever was called that.

Tell that to the bounties that specify using weapons in the kinetic slot. On a related note to OP's question such bounties will progress using Stasis weapons whilst bounties specifying Kinetic weapons won't.

[ralphtobybob]

Originally posted by the.angelhunter:

It's usually the daily bounties that count both stasis and kinetic weapon kills from the kinetic slot as progress for "kills with kinetic weapons. The repeatable bounties require actual kinetic weapon kills.

That's exactly my point: some bounties count kinetic slot stasis weapon kills as kinetic kills and others do not. It's bad enough some bounties fail to increment, especially the EDZ ones. I don't see any reason to even bother with them anymore.

This just adds to list of annoyances like some DLC taking place in public areas forcing you to compete against other players not involved in your quest for kills. I had to do an Empire quest twice to get precision kills because everyone hanging out waiting to farm the few areas with NPCs went nuts when the NPCs from my quest appeared.

Hey bungie in the last couple of weeks I"ve gotten Fallout 76 and a DLC for free, plus Fallout 3, Vermintude and others. I play games for enjoyment. If I wanted aggravation I'd be working on rebuilding the suspension on my twuck.

[DakotaThrice]

Did some digging and Stasis weapons are in fact treated as both Kinetic (they get the damage buff against unshielded targets) and Energy (they get the damage buff against mismatched shields). The exception to this is bounties which n have already been covered but those specify whether they need Kinetic weapons explicitly or just weapons in the kinetic slot.

[ralphtobybob]

Originally posted by DakotaThrice:

Originally posted by BirdDinosaur:

Its no longer called Kinetic slot... iirc I dont even think it ever was called that.

Tell that to the bounties that specify using weapons in the kinetic slot. On a related note to OP's question such bounties will progress using Stasis weapons whilst bounties specifying Kinetic weapons won't.

Not the gunsmith bounty, at least not this time. The season pass and Halloween ones did increment with a stasis autorifle. In fact, a bounty for stasis kills and kinetic weapons both incremented at the same time during those events.
I don't remember having this problem before with the gunsmith bounty.

[Nakos]

Stasis weapons have never progressed Banshee-44's Kinetic Bounty.

[Experiment 149]

stasis weapons not only have the kinetic unsheilded damage boost, but have the energy shield damage boost. at least last ive heard