Excava (new weapon) is a trash!

[GL1TCH]

You spend real money to get a new superior weapon. However, instead of a good assault rifle, we get a very very bad cannon, similar to most blue weapons! She has no damage, she has a bad chance of crit attacks, she has a bad ability!!! Absolutely everything is bad! I just don't understand! It looks like a scam from developers! The developers promised to do better about the polarity of the slots for modifications... But what did we get? The ability to change symbols in slots, BUT at the same time you need to use 2 times more catalysts! Why?! We already had 3 variations, why do we need this function? Anyway, the update is bad. New activities are boring, and the new leveling system is garbage! There is nothing to keep the players away! Moreover, developers, you promised to improve the game, but still FPS drawdowns and random crashes from the game!

[Celdinumbra]

It kind of makes sense to not add a strong weapon that is pay only, as it might be considered meta and it would upset the free to play people (yes, i know you can get copies on the free battle pass but you end up with a weaker ability and no way to upgrade). Instead, they should have added a good weapon and also make it farmable in game but that would interfere with their cash grab scheme..
The real problem lies with the battle-pass content in general. It's littered with unpopular cosmetics and trash you don't really need or want. There is nothing to work for or be excited about, just another tickbox on your grind list.

[GL1TCH]

Originally posted by Celdinumbra:

It kind of makes sense to not add a strong weapon that is pay only, as it might be considered meta and it would upset the free to play people (yes, i know you can get copies on the free battle pass but you end up with a weaker ability and no way to upgrade). Instead, they should have added a good weapon and also make it farmable in game but that would interfere with their cash grab scheme..
The real problem lies with the battle-pass content in general. It's littered with unpopular cosmetics and trash you don't really need or want. There is nothing to work for or be excited about, just another tickbox on your grind list.

The problem is that you expect to get a good weapon. And in the end you get garbage! At the same time, paid garbage! There are a lot of junk weapons in the game for free! And here is garbage for real money!!!

[Akiza]

I think the unique ability should charge much quicker and trigger as an AoE.
Currently it's not great no. Look on the bright side, you don't have to invest into it!

The Excava should trigger AoE explosions on mobs while they are alive and the Thundercage as a weapon that triggers AoE Explosions when mobs die as to still have a diffrence between them.

IMO at least

[GL1TCH]

Originally posted by Akiza:

I think the unique ability should charge much quicker and trigger as an AoE.
Currently it's not great no. Look on the bright side, you don't have to invest into it!

Even with AOE attack, the damage is critically small! This weapon is similar in its properties to a rare quality weapon. It is completely unsuitable even in an epic rarity!

[Mr.JackBone]

dont build excava with crit just : 2 firearm atk module, 2 reload module, 2 magazine module, elemental module, sharp precision shot, fire rate, EXCAVA is fast bullet weapon
i find its fun, the looks so cool... and in last battle pass we got Evangelion skin

but i agree, for Weapon with real money its not good enough... hope DEVS hear... and tweak the gun

[❀Eden❀]

Excava is a cage without a thunder.

[GrailQuest]

LOL everyone is spoiled by Thunder Cage and Enduring Legacy.
Get Excava only for Mastery Rank XP.
Thunder Cage should have been a tactical rifle.

[JinxTheWorld]

What hurts excava the most is its terrible crit chance.

3% crit chance!

What the hell were the devs thinking?!?!

The highest CC you could get it with modules is a pathetic 15%. They seriously need to change the base CC to 15-20%, otherwise it'll just remain trash.

As an example thunder cage has a base CC of 20%.

[Akiza]

Originally posted by GL1TCH:

Originally posted by Akiza:

I think the unique ability should charge much quicker and trigger as an AoE.
Currently it's not great no. Look on the bright side, you don't have to invest into it!

Even with AOE attack, the damage is critically small! This weapon is similar in its properties to a rare quality weapon. It is completely unsuitable even in an epic rarity!

I understand and agree, but not every weapon has to be top tier IMO
Looking at the base stats of the weapon, it's supposed to be build with Fire Rate and Magazine size in mind. This in itself isn't bad, the issue is that the Unique Ability is underperforming and needs a buff (IMO)

[Akiza]

Originally posted by JinxTheWorld:

What hurts excava the most is its terrible crit chance.

3% crit chance!

What the hell were the devs thinking?!?!

The highest CC you could get it with modules is a pathetic 15%. They seriously need to change the base CC to 15-20%, otherwise it'll just remain trash.

As an example thunder cage has a base CC of 20%.

I don't think that is the solution. We should have different weapons with different properties for variety. Else every weapon would just be "Build crit and GG".

You can build the EXCAVA with fire rate and magazine size and it's fine.
The issue why it underperforms is due to it's lackluster Unique Abilty and scaling. This should be buffed on the EXCAVA

Look at the Python, it has 5% crit chance, but does insane damage due to it's WP.
A weapon doesn't need to have high crit chance to be good, but if it doesn't have high crit chance, it needs other properties to make up for it. (Which the EXCAVA doesn't have) that is the issue/fix with EXCAVA

[Midnight]

I'm not quite sure what the developers have against assault rifles. Pretty much all of them have terrible stats and even the only decent one (Eternal Willpower) is saddled with really high recoil.

Third worst category behind hanguns and beam rifles.

[Akiza]

Originally posted by Midnight:

I'm not quite sure what the developers have against assault rifles. Pretty much all of them have terrible stats and even the only decent one (Eternal Willpower) is saddled with really high recoil.

Third worst category behind hanguns and beam rifles.

Forgetting about shotguns? =p

[Asdf]

Originally posted by JinxTheWorld:

What hurts excava the most is its terrible crit chance.
3% crit chance!

At full stacks it' 14%

Originally posted by Akiza:

Else every weapon would just be "Build crit and GG".

There's reasons why crit builds better than wp builds.
If weapon don't have high base wp like x2, and it have poor crit stats, it's just weak weapon and no sense to use it.

[Scullhead]

Ya, its bad.
No Weakpoint dmg, no Crit dmg, Crit Rate only from the Skill.
And the Skill dont scale with the modded Weapon dmg, only the base dmg.

[Midnight]

Originally posted by Akiza:

Originally posted by Midnight:

I'm not quite sure what the developers have against assault rifles. Pretty much all of them have terrible stats and even the only decent one (Eternal Willpower) is saddled with really high recoil.

Third worst category behind hanguns and beam rifles.

Forgetting about shotguns? =p

I actually did completely forget about them. Shows how much use they get in general :D