Zarona Revolver any good blessings?

[Ultra]

just to try something different

i have

Crucian Roulette II : 4% Critical Chance for each empty chamber in your weapon.
and
Trick Shooter III : 4% Power on Chained Weak Spot Hit (Any Target). Stacks 5 Times.

should i stick those? or wich one would you change?

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

click on it and then press the x key

[MagicGal]

Second blessing can be useful against crusher , but the first one it depend on your taste personally I use toughness restoration for killing special

[KTVindicare]

Crucian Roulette is one of the best you can get for pretty much any weapon but it's especially good on the Revolver because of how quickly it stacks and how it stacks with the gun's built in Critical Bonus.

So keep that.

IMO, add to it either Surgical (for even more crit) or Rending (armor piercing on Crit) to make it shred through Carapace even better than it does.

Trick shooter IMO isn't very good, you have to constantly hit headshots with that to be worth it and most targets die to a Revolver headshot anyway so you don't need the extra power. Stacking Crit on the gun makes body shots kill a lot more often and increases its overall DPS when you hit weak spots on targets you don't kill outright since Weakspot Criticals do the most damage of any attack type, and the gun gets a bonus to crit built into it.

[Ultra]

oh all those sounds pretty nice, but yeah i was thinking crucian roulette must stay, thanks!

[Triggerhappy]

Revolver is, in general, a poor performer. The good things it has going for it are high cleave and generalist damage, but it often takes an entire cylinder just to kill a single elite, so you're using up ammo when it doesn't have much to begin with. It either needs 3x as much ammo, or much higher multipliers for weakspot, crit, and armor mods.

[varicose 'vascular' vinny]

Point Blank easily. All you do with revolver is pop a shot to stagger a tag target or kill a shooter, so some 50% crit rate (55 on vet) after killing something in melee is swag.

[tools guy-kun]

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

Revolver is, in general, a poor performer. The good things it has going for it are high cleave and generalist damage, but it often takes an entire cylinder just to kill a single elite, so you're using up ammo when it doesn't have much to begin with. It either needs 3x as much ammo, or much higher multipliers for weakspot, crit, and armor mods.

Regardless if this is true or not, it’s a good thing they’re not necessarily asking if they should use the weapon or not, but rather, which blessings would work well with it in combo. If this were my post, I’d tell you that this advice doesn’t necessarily hit the ball park for this topic. But it’s not, however the point still stands.

@ OP

Crucian is probably a necessity for the revolver to make it even better, especially since it can pair well with almost all of the other blessings.

Originally posted by KTVindicare:

Crucian Roulette is one of the best you can get for pretty much any weapon but it's especially good on the Revolver because of how quickly it stacks and how it stacks with the gun's built in Critical Bonus.

So keep that.

IMO, add to it either Surgical (for even more crit) or Rending (armor piercing on Crit) to make it shred through Carapace even better than it does.

Trick shooter IMO isn't very good, you have to constantly hit headshots with that to be worth it and most targets die to a Revolver headshot anyway so you don't need the extra power. Stacking Crit on the gun makes body shots kill a lot more often and increases its overall DPS when you hit weak spots on targets you don't kill outright since Weakspot Criticals do the most damage of any attack type, and the gun gets a bonus to crit built into it.

This summed it up well enough. I’d listen to this.

[DamageInside]

I've got one for fun runs (high int dogs/sniper gaunt vent purge) on my Preacher with point blank and handcannon to synergize with my momentum Antak.

Two quick headshots will stagger a bulwark so it can die faster and VERY satisfying to whip out and ping a sniper from across the map if nobody else brought long range or can't manage to hit the thing in the head before I go back to deleting a horde.

[coldgarden]

Originally posted by DamageInside:

I've got one for fun runs (high int dogs/sniper gaunt vent purge) on my Preacher with point blank and handcannon to synergize with my momentum Antak.

Two quick headshots will stagger a bulwark so it can die faster and VERY satisfying to whip out and ping a sniper from across the map if nobody else brought long range or can't manage to hit the thing in the head before I go back to deleting a horde.

Yes! As a zealot with a God-Emperor blessed revolver it's so satisfying to kill a sniper or a gunner halfway or even all the way across the map with it when you have a veteran that cannot shoot or even remember to use his special combat stance.

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

Revolver is, in general, a poor performer. The good things it has going for it are high cleave and generalist damage, but it often takes an entire cylinder just to kill a single elite, so you're using up ammo when it doesn't have much to begin with. It either needs 3x as much ammo, or much higher multipliers for weakspot, crit, and armor mods.

I've never heard anyone else say that. Is it the best? No, but it's far from the worst. Honestly I wouldn't bring it near as much if I didn't have to worry about the veteran not taking out elites or armored foes.

[Triggerhappy]

Originally posted by tools guy-kun:

Originally posted by Triggerhappy:

Revolver is, in general, a poor performer. The good things it has going for it are high cleave and generalist damage, but it often takes an entire cylinder just to kill a single elite, so you're using up ammo when it doesn't have much to begin with. It either needs 3x as much ammo, or much higher multipliers for weakspot, crit, and armor mods.

Regardless if this is true or not, it’s a good thing they’re not necessarily asking if they should use the weapon or not, but rather, which blessings would work well with it in combo. If this were my post, I’d tell you that this advice doesn’t necessarily hit the ball park for this topic. But it’s not, however the point still stands.

It's very much on topic; it's not good, and blessings won't do anything to help it. There's not a single blessing that helps this weapon. Plain and simple. With the amount of time it takes to attain decent stats on weapons in this game, they're just better off spending their time and resources on something else. Its crit damage is bad, especially for a weapon that has a crit bonus, so it doesn't help it. Its weakspot damage is even worse, and that blessing isn't really going to make or break any breakpoints to give reason to go looking for it. The answer to his question would be "neither", mostly because the weapon itself is so poorly performing (in comparison to many others) that perks and blessings aren't going to make a real noticeable difference anyways.

[C4NNED]

sharpshooter with revolver always kill me lol. There is absolutly no reason to be using it. unless you are doing it for rule of cool. But you are not going to be doing your job well.

I can see the revolver being a thing for maybe a zealot but even then you have the bolter.

[DLCI]

hand-cannon paired with crucian roulette (not nearly as good as it used to be b/c max = +20% crit) makes revolver decent at putting down every enemy, even crushers

damage isn't really the problem

the issue is that no matter what you do it still suffers from the same 3 basic flaws

1. it overkills most regular enemy breakpoints but does not quite reach elite breakpoints
2. it has very poor ammo economy
3. you spend most of your time reloading

[Ultra]

Originally posted by C4NNED:

sharpshooter with revolver always kill me lol. There is absolutly no reason to be using it. unless you are doing it for rule of cool. But you are not going to be doing your job well.

I can see the revolver being a thing for maybe a zealot but even then you have the bolter.

actually yeah is pretty terrible, you can kill a elite trought an horde, but the fact even the normal shooters can survive a shot sometimes sucks... maybe is viable for zealotus but for shooter is better to go kantrael, hellbore, shredder and specially Bolter, i love the zarona but yeah is not worth compared to other guns

[BÆRD]

Originally posted by C4NNED:

sharpshooter with revolver always kill me lol. There is absolutly no reason to be using it. unless you are doing it for rule of cool. But you are not going to be doing your job well.

I can see the revolver being a thing for maybe a zealot but even then you have the bolter.

I used to run revolver regularly on zealot when paired with heavy sword or Evi. Its decent at sniping specific specials. The reload / damage is just not enough for groups of heavy elites. Ammo economy is quite poor. The only good thing is the mobility / "ready time" vs bolter, but then you barely ever kill what you aim at, even with good blessings.

[KTVindicare]

Originally posted by BÆRD:

Originally posted by C4NNED:

sharpshooter with revolver always kill me lol. There is absolutly no reason to be using it. unless you are doing it for rule of cool. But you are not going to be doing your job well.

I can see the revolver being a thing for maybe a zealot but even then you have the bolter.

I used to run revolver regularly on zealot when paired with heavy sword or Evi. Its decent at sniping specific specials. The reload / damage is just not enough for groups of heavy elites. Ammo economy is quite poor. The only good thing is the mobility / "ready time" vs bolter, but then you barely ever kill what you aim at, even with good blessings.

Well first and foremost it's a very fun gun to use. Aside from that though it has very strong anti-armor capabilities, which means you can run a cleaving weapon for your melee weapon without any worry. It is more accurate at long distances and it suffers far less from suppression making it a much better sniping weapon than the Bolter, it has better ammo economy than the Plasma Gun which are the two other primary anti-armor weapons. It doesn't have their DPS vs bosses though and its smaller clip size is a disadvantage against the Bolter, though the clip size disadvantage is GREATLY mitigated by taking Sustained Fire.

That leaves comparing it with the Helbores which is the last anti-armor weapon you can take. And here it's just a very significant playstyle difference. The Revolver has far greater mobility, snap targeting, and no reliance on charged shots. The Helbores have far superior ammo capacity and a much larger clip size. The Revolver has significantly higher stagger power and the ability to pierce through targets allowing you to hit special targets behind other mobs which is something the Lasguns cannot do.

So the gun is just a unique in between of multiple different styles that can't be matched by any other gun type. The Shotguns are the closest thing except they are inferior in terms of sniping capability and anti-armor.

It has pretty significant drawbacks in ammo capacity, clip size and reload speed but if it didn't have these drawbacks it would be hands down no question the best gun in the game for all of the benefits it has.

So it's not for everyone, but I quite enjoy using it.