whats is the best hand gun in the game?

[GhostDoggx]

im making a pstiol build and the highest i found is the lethal dragoon at 60 dmg. aslo is there a sword higher than the dragon at 72?

[eriol33]

light rifle. attack 88, with one bullet only. you could get that in Asellus scenario. I have never gotten it from any drop.

also, the strongest sword in the game is actually Light Sword (attack value of 80, boost all stats by +10 if I remember it right), which is only available in battle if you use Light Sword spell.

[Umbral Priestess]

Strongest is light sword, but it's a gift exclusive spell. outside of that, the golden lion is the second strongest which is 75 damage, but it's only from asellus's route at the end of the story.

[Citronvand]

Originally posted by eriol33:

also, the strongest sword in the game is actually Light Sword (attack value of 80, boost all stats by +10 if I remember it right), which is only available in battle if you use Light Sword spell.

That's right. It is called Solar Sword in the remaster though. In addition to what you just said it also has the Deflect skill built-in so any character that uses it will also use Deflect in battle regardless whether they have it in their skill list or not.

[Citronvand]

You could argue that Phantasm aka Asura is stronger than Dragon Sword. While it only have 70 Atk it also gives +7 in every stat, has a unique attack and a unique counter-attack that can only be used with it.
Note that neither Dragon Sword, Phantasm nor Solar Sword is considered a katana so they cannot spark the unique katana tech.

[Horthas]

Light Rifle has the highest damage but it will do low damage with attacks that use more than one bullet. It also will put your gun user at the back of combat because they will have to reload every round after the first. You can get one from Ascellus story towards the end, and you can technically get them to drop from the bat boss on the wrecked ship but it's a 1/64 drop rate on a boss you have to defeat 13 bat encounters to summon so it's a bit beyond tedious.

[eriol33]

Originally posted by Horthas:

Light Rifle has the highest damage but it will do low damage with attacks that use more than one bullet. It also will put your gun user at the back of combat because they will have to reload every round after the first. You can get one from Ascellus story towards the end, and you can technically get them to drop from the bat boss on the wrecked ship but it's a 1/64 drop rate on a boss you have to defeat 13 bat encounters to summon so it's a bit beyond tedious.

so, still a good weapon for boundshot? I gasped when realized my Emelia could inflict 4500 damage with boundshot using light rifle

[Horthas]

Originally posted by eriol33:

so, still a good weapon for boundshot? I gasped when realized my Emelia could inflict 4500 damage with boundshot using light rifle

Yeah, very much.

[GhostDoggx]

so i have to do a Asellus to get these items?

[Horthas]

Originally posted by Ghostdoggx:

so i have to do a Asellus to get these items?

She can get 5 really good items from the vault towards the end of her questline.

AbyssBat can drop it for (I believe) any character's playthrough. To summon him you have to kill 13 groups of sonicbats and it's only a 1/64 chance of dropping. So, with the way new game + is working, you're probably going to have an easier time just doing Ascellus full quest twice to get two. Plus that gets you a bunch of other good stuff that's hard to farm.

[Intra]

If you want to use Solar Sword you're better off not attacking with it unless you are in the back row. It disables access to Kasumi from a glitch. If you use Phantasm with 70 attack for the front row then you keep your Kasumi and get the bonus deflect from Solar Sword.

BTW Solar Sword's deflect chance is disgusting, scales off caster stats, caps at 40%. Raise a Rouge to melee with his caster stats with a top-tier shield and he's rarely ever going to take a blockable hit. Not including having other sword users with Deflect covering him!