Which class would be best for pistol specializing clone?

[Toha]

Tried angel of spades for bleed stacking, but pistols aren't very good at wounding it turns out.

[Kanjejou]

the gun that put wound or need to deal unresisted damages (elemental against people that have physical or vice versa), or deal a lot (bolt rifle, plasma , slugs) of it or a lot of different instances of damages (full auto smg rifle machine gun or shotfun buckshot.

I dont think a single pistol really shine with any class (except maybe beam /plasma pistol).. there is a clone that get+40% accuracy on pistol but no class really shine with pistol

[Lur Nen Rue]

prob custom, because you can slot in tactical reload for some pistol that can be reloaded with one ammo that will also trigger last bullet
or due to niko native high accuracy with pistol you can do training with athletics


excess accuracy turn into crit rate
so you have in best case scenario you have natural 5% crit, extra 15% if you use all 3 weapon slot for pistol because of backup weapon perk, most pistol have 25% base acc that will automatically convert to crit, finally you add the bullet crit chance
basicaly niko love all the crit damage buff or more acc bonus until 100% crit chance

hope you spend some point on niko crit damage

for good pistol galand ultim is easily upgradeable, you can open a door then sprint shoot and nobody will notice
expansive and explosive ammo is your friend for pistol

or starlock adp, that thing hits hard when crit especially if you do custom class with reinforced ammo and blind fury

eagle st 13 with 10 levels in damage and rubber ammo can clear mercury quasimorph mission for you

scorpion is kinda fun to use, but better have blueprint since they easily break

enigma for backup weapon when ammo runs out

or if you lucky to get your hands on whip, tremor or hel trinity gotta try these bad boy on niko

and if you can upgrade aep alpha enough you win the game

[Kaia]

I think i'd go for energy weapons and custom build something off of the phoenix brigade class personally.

I found many handguns look and feel nice but destroy themselves so quickly and don't feel bad per se, it's just that smgs and ar seem to just outperform and be easier to use thanks to larger clips.

galand is lovely but beats itself up and has very low clip size
scorpion just poops all over itself with its low durability and high rate of fire.

I feel like short of investing a lot of resources into those weapons, going beam feels like a better play

phoenix brigade seems like a good fit not just for energy weapons but also incendiary ammo on the other handguns, so you're not boxed in one thing