MG4 breaks every 2 boss runs?

[Nyagger]

I really like the MG4 Predator (fast gunner)

I built it for crit so my DPS is lower than weakspot (60k unbuffed on dummy)

I'm farming shadow hound pro solo lately
What I noticed is that every 2 boss runs, my gun is less than half durability
It's really infuriating having to constantly tp back to base to repair every 20 minutes
is this normal? is gun durability supposed to be this low?

[SA]

i recommend getting/using artisan's touch deviant, you basically repair your gun during boss fight.
for is this normal, for automatic guns yes but it shouldn't be compared to snipers and pistols

[Shurenai]

Durability use is tied to...well, use, of the item in question. For a sniper rifle, you're firing 1x a second over the course of 5 minutes and kill a boss. For a fast gunner LMG, You're firing many times a second over the course of 5 minutes and kill a boss; So of course you use more durability (and ammo).

You're literally using the most ammo-spam weapon with the most ammo-spam build and wondering why your gun breaks under the work you're demanding of it.

In short, Yes, It's normal that your gun is breaking.

Get Artisan's hands as suggested by SA; And my own suggestion that I would submit, is get a medium or more ideally large garage and build a mobile base on the back, and stow a gear bench and a chest full of repair and ammo crafting materials on it so you can park it right near where you're farming and save yourself the TP and load screens.

[Big Boom Boom]

Yes MG4 Fast Gunner break fast because you are shooting too fast. I have Weakspot build with Overflow, usually have 172-218 bullets per magazine which makes it break even faster because I can maintain max Fast Gunner stack for far longer. Still managed to clear LEA with half the durability left though, the Weakspot DMG is simply insane. In a boss with weakspot it's straight out insane.

[LostME]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Durability use is tied to...well, use, of the item in question. For a sniper rifle, you're firing 1x a second over the course of 5 minutes and kill a boss. For a fast gunner LMG, You're firing many times a second over the course of 5 minutes and kill a boss; So of course you use more durability (and ammo).

You're literally using the most ammo-spam weapon with the most ammo-spam build and wondering why your gun breaks under the work you're demanding of it.

In short, Yes, It's normal that your gun is breaking.

Get Artisan's hands as suggested by SA; And my own suggestion that I would submit, is get a medium or more ideally large garage and build a mobile base on the back, and stow a gear bench and a chest full of repair and ammo crafting materials on it so you can park it right near where you're farming and save yourself the TP and load screens.

It's not. You need much less shots from the sr to break it. You also make much less ammo from same resources. If a weapon breaks too quickly, it's a balance problem for that current weapon.

But maybe this is a penalty for a build in which you mindlessly hold the left mouse button and move the sight left and right.

[winter]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Durability use is tied to...well, use, of the item in question. For a sniper rifle, you're firing 1x a second over the course of 5 minutes and kill a boss. For a fast gunner LMG, You're firing many times a second over the course of 5 minutes and kill a boss; So of course you use more durability (and ammo).

You're literally using the most ammo-spam weapon with the most ammo-spam build and wondering why your gun breaks under the work you're demanding of it.

In short, Yes, It's normal that your gun is breaking.

Get Artisan's hands as suggested by SA; And my own suggestion that I would submit, is get a medium or more ideally large garage and build a mobile base on the back, and stow a gear bench and a chest full of repair and ammo crafting materials on it so you can park it right near where you're farming and save yourself the TP and load screens.

You are applying real world logic to a game mechanic. Truth is, any gun could shoot any number of times without breaking, but some game dev set a modifier for "degrade per shot = x%" to some value, probably without taking into account that most builds for this weapon would want to boost fire rate as high as possible.