what is the best guns/melee to use on specters?

[Kareekoe]

ive decided about the warframes i would use, i chose between trinity for energy vamp support specter, Equinox as CC DPS specter, and Rhino for Tank Specter, but now i need to figure out the best gun set up for pritty much all of them, since they all have the same shooting style and programing with how they shoot and fight, it should be a easier straight forward thing that counts for all of them, problem is figure out what guns/weapons works with tenno specters all around.

[njdevil2k2]

very accurate ones

[Spook]

theoretically they should do well with "raw damage" weapons that don't normally scale well for players, since they operate by the same scaling system that enemies do. But I've generally just thrown zarr or sniper rifles on mine. I thought the supra vandal was going to work out, since corpus techs always hurt so much (though less now), but I never noticed any impressive results from it.

I really wanted to have them use the ignis once, but it seems like their AI with it considers the weapon's range so short that they will almost never even fire it over choosing to melee.

[Dexious Emera]

Primary:
Tonkor
Zarr
Lenz
Ignis
Penta (they know how to use the timed grenades function)
Hek

Secondary: does not matter, they almost never use it


As for melee you'd want whips/greatswords because they tend to melee when the enemy is not even that close

[dEAdOnE77]

As far as i know they do not profit from mods, only the enemylvl when you activate them and their Tier ( Vapor<Phase<Force) gives them multipliers to base stats. So take high Health/Armor-frames and high dmg weapons like snipers. They will also use their abilities, but only sparesly/randomly and they will be weak and short.

[Fishyflakes]

I use the Tiberon and the Galatine P on my Equinox specter.
My clannies always laugh when they see it though, but I always comeback with "Well get away from my free 5% power strength" lol

Previous experiments have shown the Ignis isn't very effective.

[Gilmore]

Wait... I have been playing for 365 hours, and I didn't even know you could customize a specter... (I never used one.)

[Gilmore]

How does it work?

[Ginkawa]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

How does it work?

when you craft it, it copies your frame and equipment, and the specter then looks like an unpainted, base model frame of that variety, with plain versions of the weapons you had at the time.

[Gilmore]

Originally posted by Ginkawa:

Originally posted by Gilmore:

How does it work?

when you craft it, it copies your frame and equipment, and the specter then looks like an unpainted, base model frame of that variety, with plain versions of the weapons you had at the time.

Oh, so everything is copied from you the moment that you take it from the foundry?

[Ginkawa]

Originally posted by Gilmore:

Originally posted by Ginkawa:

when you craft it, it copies your frame and equipment, and the specter then looks like an unpainted, base model frame of that variety, with plain versions of the weapons you had at the time.

Oh, so everything is copied from you the moment that you take it from the foundry?

nope, theres a pop up when you start the crafting, after the first one, of which copy of your equipment you want to use, iirc it has a different "save" for each quality class, and you can use the new one or keep the old one.

[Sceles]

Amprex and Hikou P with Concealed Explosives and fire rate are pretty good.

[Spook]

Originally posted by Sceles:

Amprex and Hikou P with Concealed Explosives and fire rate are pretty good.

Eh? But they ignore all mods, I don't think you could make use of concealed explosives on a specter at all. I also don't think I've ever seen a specter actually use their secondaries without being downed, but I'm not confident they NEVER do it.

[njdevil2k2]

Originally posted by Sceles:

Amprex and Hikou P with Concealed Explosives and fire rate are pretty good.

you know spectres cant use mods....right...

[DragonNewTech]

do the syndicate weapons proc on a specter?

[SMOKE]

phage or hema