What is the best weapon in DMG right now?

[aNØØBis]

Different sources recommend differend weapons, such as Desert Eagle or Machine gun with AWP sniper rifle. So what is in general best weapons right now?

[Zennith]

The Last Valor shrapnel rifle. Shrapnel is very strong with the right gear currently as I've heard it. Personally, I'm running a thunderstrike power surge build. I put out about 15K DPS, which is low, but I'm still having a good time.

All in all, use what feels fun I guess.

[Kyutaru]

In terms of raw DPS, SMGs outperform them all.

In terms of short fights, Shrapnel builds blow things up quick.

In terms of long fights, the purple fire shotgun vulnerability stacking builds demolish boss health bars with no contested equal.

[aNØØBis]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

In terms of raw DPS, SMGs outperform them all.

In terms of short fights, Shrapnel builds blow things up quick.

In terms of long fights, the purple fire shotgun vulnerability stacking builds demolish boss health bars with no contested equal.

Not sure about SMG, MP5 with max calibration is useless lame thing, I reload mag faster than monsters die from bullets, and my friend said same thing about pink MP7. SCAR AR was neat until I've got to location after Shadow Hound, now it is same as smg. Some people recomennd machinegun+sniper rifle build.

[Dumpster Fire]

The game is a convoluted mess of the worst aspects of Rust, DayZ, and whatever the worst story in the history of video games is. I defy anyone to explain anything about what happened on planet. The chats with NPC's couldn't be worse. One sided conversations ala The Oregon Trail in 1979 on an Apple IIe. The UI couldn't be worse if they tried. I've reached level 20 and already have about 15 DIFFERENT currencies while not knowing where to spend any of it.
The game does nothing to describe what it is you're even supposed to do. Sub menus of menus that take you to all manner of reward screens that aren't needed and take too much time to navigate.
Everything about this clown show seems meant to frustrate the player. Ffs, you can even upgrade the upgrades to your weapon upgrades. Like ...WHY? Then...just when you start making some progress, the game starts crashing. Can't have Steam overlay enabled with Ryzen/GTX rigs ir you won't even enter the game. Meaning you can't actually buy anything like Battle Pass.
I built a stone base. I'm a Rust General...5k hours. So I build and then put ONE level one purple thingy into the star chamber thingy to do a base defense. I did this at level 10. It gave me about 30 level 15 enemies and one elite. They destroyed my whole STONE base.
For any mission, you better bring 2k bullets....and you'll still run out. It makes zero sense to have enemies in all regions jump to your level every time you move up. Why bother? The game never allows you to actually feel like you're powerful.....at all.....ever. The moment I crafted the SN 700, all enemies suddenly take three shots to the head to kill. Before that, on same level, my first crossbow was one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
To top all of that off, every single mission somewhere takes far too long...on purpose. There's so much going on in the environment with things EVERYWHERE, and then the developers decided to hide every top tier box in the absolute worst locations. I don't want to play tomb raider and figure out puzzles to get my reward ffgds. The hospital is the worst offender. Many of these crates are placed in such out of the way, barely inaccessible locations, that its tantamount to finding tin needle in a stack of aluminum ones. The map is so large that I cannot see how anyone could make it to endgame in 6 weeks.

Idk...I do like many aspects of this game, but there's so much going on that the devs of Warframe would be jelly. Get rid of about ten menus, all events, and make things a bit easier to follow. Idk WTAF I'm supposed to be doing besides following a yellow diamond around the map with five thousand rounds that do little damage.

The game needs to find out what it actually IS rather than this hodgepodge of other games made to look fancy with odd enemies.

Rust, is by far, many times better. As is DayZ...and every other game this Chinese knockoff stole from. Thankfully it's free, but cannot understand the hype of this mess at all. Too grainy to be any fun and even when you grind, you've zero idea what you're supposed to even do with what you've found.

Rant over, carry on.

[Kyutaru]

Not knowing how to make a build doesn't mean the game's enemies take too many shots to kill. Crossbows are still one shot one kill and deal over 9000 damage on a headshot. You just have to know what you're doing with regards to building gear synergy. Early game you lack the gear to do it so games make it easier to dominate low level mobs. You can still do it to high level ones but you need to put in the work to assemble a functional build.

[Veg]

I went all in on melee and its great. But half the bosses in the game are nonviable for melee so you'll struggle.

[A Wild Shrew]

Originally posted by Zennith:

The Last Valor shrapnel rifle. Shrapnel is very strong with the right gear currently as I've heard it. Personally, I'm running a thunderstrike power surge build. I put out about 15K DPS, which is low, but I'm still having a good time.

All in all, use what feels fun I guess.

can confirm this is pretty accurate, however try using the div evo smg over last valor, thing procs sharapnel with nearly 50% of shots and weakspots increase shrapnel amount too, can shred elites in a single mag with archers focus

[Shark_iNa_Chair]

keep in mind that with these weapons you will use a ton of ammo and run out and need to make more you will need to farm more acid so a good idea is to have a cross bow as it does not need gunpowder to make th arrows

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Shark_iNa_Chair:

keep in mind that with these weapons you will use a ton of ammo and run out and need to make more you will need to farm more acid so a good idea is to have a cross bow as it does not need gunpowder to make th arrows

Not really. Just keep your gear relatively up-to-date and, as a general rule, put the bullets in your target. Rosetta drops gunpowder, Deviants drop Acid. Most Deviants are easy to melee down if you are totally out.

[Kyutaru]

Originally posted by Shark_iNa_Chair:

keep in mind that with these weapons you will use a ton of ammo and run out and need to make more you will need to farm more acid so a good idea is to have a cross bow as it does not need gunpowder to make th arrows

I can farm 16000 bullets in about 20 minutes. It takes longer to use that much ammo than it does to farm it.

[TwoDucksOneAnus]

Originally posted by aNOOBis:

Different sources recommend differend weapons, such as Desert Eagle or Machine gun with AWP sniper rifle. So what is in general best weapons right now?

I'm running a frost vortex build with the Abyss Ak. After fully calibrating and getting all the mods for frost I usually keep up with or exceed the dps of any group im in for hard mode content.

[Comfortable Capybara]

Frost SMG for me. Looking at stats for some 50+ runs of things, can usually put out more damage than any 2/3 of the other teammates combined. Eats ammo though, but with a good crit % and some luck, barely need to reload (and then, thanks to mods you have 50+ ammo in the SMG anyway). Specced with frost gear and polar jelly, everything kinda melts.

[Dave from work]

Not ONE person playing powersurge crit lol, guess I'm original and cool.

I'm running lvl 50 Hard silos in 2-3 minutes due to building around power-surge and crit.
Full-auto shotgun with full range attachments.
Every 20 proc of Power-surge deals 8k damage, everything else is a crit.

You can build what you're comfortable with though.
Shrapnel gets a lot of attention due to being fairly easy to put together early.
Burn is always good, especially for pvp as you don't have any way to deal with status damage and damage over time reliably, and frost vortex is nice for groups of enemies and utility.

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Dave from work:

Not ONE person playing powersurge crit lol, guess I'm original and cool.

I'm running lvl 50 Hard silos in 2-3 minutes due to building around power-surge and crit.
Full-auto shotgun with full range attachments.
Every 20 proc of Power-surge deals 8k damage, everything else is a crit.

You can build what you're comfortable with though.
Shrapnel gets a lot of attention due to being fairly easy to put together early.
Burn is always good, especially for pvp as you don't have any way to deal with status damage and damage over time reliably, and frost vortex is nice for groups of enemies and utility.

I went with burn. I'm not optimized yet, but my burn damage can reach over 900 every half second. Maybe faster due to the BBQ/Grill gloves.

Poor burst, but great on bosses.

[Mr. Fibble]

I use a power surge rifle as my backup but main weapon is an aws sniper, hit a weakspot for big number above dead enemy and move to the next.

Given the vast number of explosives the prime war boss sponges up I'm wondering if a bomber gun might be a better option that tickling it down with explosives since bullets are generally cheaper to make.

Bounce does seem to be the billy no mates of the damage procs and certainly doesn't seem to be something to suit my playstyle of slow and steady.