Best bulwark pistol?

[Chairman_Chair]

I’m more traditional with the bolt pistol but am I crippling myself?? Is there a better one?

[Riqcrow]

depends. all weapons solid, but in PVE plasma pistol is good since with one charged shot, you can refill your health to full when planting banner. also charged shots powerful to kill rubrics/Warriors.

volkite is niche, but in some cases good in PVE also. small stun with heat procs and it goes through warrior's block are definitely nice and different.

in PVP, bolt pistol shines as it is accurate and packs a punch. volkite is my favorite in pvp though, with one burst you can melt 2 armor opponents.

[Ishan451]

I prefer the Bolt pistol, due to magazine size. Plasma Pistol is nice, but it's to much of an ammo hog. Neo Volkite doesn't do it for me at all.

[Chairman_Chair]

I feel like I’m kind of the same way with both of you. I’m definitely gonna give the plasma pistol another try.

[Dracses]

Bolt pistol has good balance of ranged trash clear (termigaunts, cultists) while also being capable of gunning down Majoris enemies. Neo-Volkite works great against things like Tzaangor Enlightened and Cultists but kinda falls short in the time-to-kill imo.

Plasma Pistol's greatest utility is the ability to cancel a Majoris from calling reinforcements. One charged shot will stun them out of it, and being able to do that at a distance is very nice for Bulwark. You lose a bit of ability in clearing ranged enemies like cultists especially since the plasma shot has travel time which means it may not reach a sniper before you get shot. I'm also fairly sure that the Plasma Pistol can't headshot.

Bolt pistol is a workhorse in the right hands, but Plasma Pistol can give you that snappy stun that you desperately need sometimes.

[Gamerzilla]

Tried em all, and overall Plasma pistol is best at lower difficulties, but higher difficulties it becomes worse and worse for long ranged hits. Majoris will literally input read that ♥♥♥♥ and dive out the way... :( Bolt pistol is only good if you can reliably headshot, which again is harder at long range due to its rather annoying spread. Neo Volkite damage and accuracy is pin perfect at even extreme range, so I use it to pull Majoris from really far away. This gets them pulled ahead of the minor pack they generally have, and leaves them vulnerable to concentrated fire. The fact that the NV pistol also stuns them every few seconds and deals splash damage (especially if you spec for it) makes it great for weeding out melee Majoris before they can become dangerous. NV is less good at killing ranged Majoris, as they sidestep often, and their counterfire hurts while you try to channel a beam.

[Barnaby Jones]

Volkite

/end thread

[w10-20-2000]

Plasma pistol charged shot interrupts reinforcements calls and range unit's fire

For that reason it's not even a choice for me, i always go with plasma

[Sloths]

For any class that has access to neo pistol I take that. Has good ammo economy, good damage against the enemies that count the most(flying and terminus), has 100% hip fire accuracy so never have to stop slow down or aim just shoot, has some decent aoe against minoris targets, and the more of them in the operation with you the stronger all of them become.

Anyone been in an operation with 3 neo pistols on a boss or zoanthrope? Just burns them away.

[Sin]

volkite pistol. even with the plasma pistol being good it runs out of ammo too fast especially if you run into a zoanthrope. the volkite has more ammo and does a lot of dmg as well.

[Ziel]

I used the three pistols depending on the situation, like final waves in terminus I equipe the bolt pistol which is good against minoris.

Overall Bulwark lacks of ammo so you have to use your secondary wisely and consider the scenario where you need it.

Flying units you cant hit in melee, definitely you'll use your gun here.
Enraged ranged majoris, wariors or rubricae, safer bet to engage them at range.
Recovering health, it's not the biggest criteria as Bulwark thanks to the banner, still it's a reliable way to stay alive.
Dealing with isolate ranged minoris, you don't want to traval the map and lose time to kill it in melee.

Overall the best weapon in bulwark arsenal is plasma gun, the only issue is the low ammo, you have a dozen shots in mag and that's it. In my opinion you can't rely on an empty weapon when you need it the most (like described scenario above).

Volkit pistol is also an overall and have decent ammo but it's bad when you have to recover stealed health. Considering we're playing Bulwark it's not a big issue, so it's my regular gun in tyrranids maps.

The best pistol in game is the heavy bolt pistol (from assault), good bunch of ammo, huge headshot damage, good to kill everything from minoris to terminus and have a reliable health recovering. This pistol rocks, a shame that bulwark can't have it,

[Ragnar]

i would go with the volkite too, not only the stagger and the high ammunition makes the weapon good, but also if multiple beams hit one target, the micro-explosions kumulate and lead into faster killtime through higher damageoutput