Is Braton Prime good?

[Serious Sam]

I just got to 8 Mastery Rank and crafted Braton Prime. Braton always struck me as "basic and simple, but reliable and somewhat universal" kind of gun. Is the prime version worth investing things like Forma and orokin catalyst?

[Dracon]

Yeah it is, even more so with its Incarnon installed which ups the power even more

By itself is it top tier? no but its far from a bad weapon

[Nilats]

there are people like me who still play with mk1-braton. even with mastery rank 33(leg3)
the weapon is more for fun if you like sounds and look. it can deal good headshot damage.
but there are many much better weapons

[Kawalorn]

Yeah, it definitely was "good enough" before Incarnon, but with Incarnon it's a monster.

[PhellAsleep]

Yes, it's worth investing in due to it being able to receiving an Incarnon upgrade. If you haven't reached the part of the game where you know what that is, just know that it's worth holding onto the gun until you get there.

[Calick]

Defnitely, even more once you add the Incarnon adapter to it.

[Serious Sam]

Thanks guys. I like Braton so good to hear that it's a good weapon even long term

[Salt Factory]

It is nice with Incarnon. But I highly suggest getting a good riven for it, then it will destroy even high level steel path since it has a super high disposition. Look for cheap rivens if you want one, I think they are worth it.

But even without a riven it is a very nice weapon. Definitely worth dumping forma in it.

[Nilats]

Originally posted by Fleischkaspeppi:

It is nice with Incarnon. But I highly suggest getting a good riven for it, then it will destroy even high level steel path since it has a super high disposition. Look for cheap rivens if you want one, I think they are worth it.

But even without a riven it is a very nice weapon. Definitely worth dumping forma in it.

prob is that riven cost tons of plat. braton will deal super high dmg against single target with headshots. but for that money you can use other unpopular weapon

[Pakaku]

I wouldn't go out of my way to buy any rivens unless they're cheap (no more than 75p) and I really like the weapon. I've played a few years and have been lucky enough to get all of my rivens from just playing the game.

Braton Prime is a decent weapon and you can get it from fissures anytime. There are better auto-trigger Primes (I like the Tiberon Prime) but those of course aren't always in circulation

And then there's the incarnon form, as already pointed out

[Forest]

Absolutely. Is it “top tier meta”? No, but it is good and the best part is that it is low MR and very simple and sometimes simple is best.

[Mason]

Not really, I like the Braton Prime for the same reasons you mentioned and put like 4 forma on it with a decent build. But everyone runs aoe weapons and will clear an entire room before you can kill even a handful of enemies with the Braton.

So weapons where you have to be precise and actually hit their head to deal damage just aren't that good imo. Kuva Chakkhurr for example, amazing one shot potential on 125 Corrupted Gunners if you hit them in the head they'll die to one or two status procs, but requires you to be very precise, and just isn't worth using when you could easily run an aoe weapon like the Kuva Bramma or Kuva Zarr with ammo mutation and have a much easier time clearing enemies.

This is just my experience so far though, after coming back to the game after almost 4 years without playing it.

[Nilats]

Originally posted by Fried Rice:

Not really, I like the Braton Prime for the same reasons you mentioned and put like 4 forma on it with a decent build. But everyone runs aoe weapons and will clear an entire room before you can kill even a handful of enemies with the Braton.

So weapons where you have to be precise and actually hit their head to deal damage just aren't that good imo. Kuva Chakkhurr for example, amazing one shot potential on 125 Corrupted Gunners if you hit them in the head they'll die to one or two status procs, but requires you to be very precise, and just isn't worth using when you could easily run an aoe weapon like the Kuva Bramma or Kuva Zarr with ammo mutation and have a much easier time clearing enemies.

This is just my experience so far though, after coming back to the game after almost 4 years without playing it.

aoe will only work in super low lvl missions. and an other prob with branton is that damage is not enough for high lvl missions... because you must kill quick or there is no ammo..

[Mason]

Originally posted by Nilats:

Originally posted by Fried Rice:

Not really, I like the Braton Prime for the same reasons you mentioned and put like 4 forma on it with a decent build. But everyone runs aoe weapons and will clear an entire room before you can kill even a handful of enemies with the Braton.

So weapons where you have to be precise and actually hit their head to deal damage just aren't that good imo. Kuva Chakkhurr for example, amazing one shot potential on 125 Corrupted Gunners if you hit them in the head they'll die to one or two status procs, but requires you to be very precise, and just isn't worth using when you could easily run an aoe weapon like the Kuva Bramma or Kuva Zarr with ammo mutation and have a much easier time clearing enemies.

This is just my experience so far though, after coming back to the game after almost 4 years without playing it.

aoe will only work in super low lvl missions. and an other pob with bran is that damage is not enough for high lvl missions... because you must kill quick or there is no ammo..

Well yeah I don't mean steel path. I'm talking about the normal star chart. You can take the Kuva Bramma and Zarr into level 100 missions. I will admit ammo can be scarce with those weapons, even with ammo mutation.. but I also run a good secondary like the Kuva Nukor and that kills them too. And I usually run Mesa in high level missions so I can kill enemies regardless of whether or not I have ammo.

When it comes to steel path, I don't know, I haven't really touched it. Been 4 years since I played the game, incarnon weapons and subsuming warframe abilities, etc. is all new to me. But I'm sure they're needed for steel path and end game stuff.

[Salt Factory]

Originally posted by Nilats:

Originally posted by Fried Rice:

Not really, I like the Braton Prime for the same reasons you mentioned and put like 4 forma on it with a decent build. But everyone runs aoe weapons and will clear an entire room before you can kill even a handful of enemies with the Braton.

So weapons where you have to be precise and actually hit their head to deal damage just aren't that good imo. Kuva Chakkhurr for example, amazing one shot potential on 125 Corrupted Gunners if you hit them in the head they'll die to one or two status procs, but requires you to be very precise, and just isn't worth using when you could easily run an aoe weapon like the Kuva Bramma or Kuva Zarr with ammo mutation and have a much easier time clearing enemies.

This is just my experience so far though, after coming back to the game after almost 4 years without playing it.

aoe will only work in super low lvl missions. and an other prob with branton is that damage is not enough for high lvl missions... because you must kill quick or there is no ammo..

Braton can EASILY deal with steel path. I have used it into 1000+ Lvl missions multiple times, it can deal with that no problem. Just need some armor strip frame and you fine.

But I personally prefer the Burston of the two (since they have effectively the same Incarnon) because the Burston has triple the ammo ammount in Incarnon form.

[Jaynoble55]

Originally posted by Fleischkaspeppi:

Originally posted by Nilats:

aoe will only work in super low lvl missions. and an other prob with branton is that damage is not enough for high lvl missions... because you must kill quick or there is no ammo..

Braton can EASILY deal with steel path. I have used it into 1000+ Lvl missions multiple times, it can deal with that no problem. Just need some armor strip frame and you fine.

But I personally prefer the Burston of the two (since they have effectively the same Incarnon) because the Burston has triple the ammo ammount in Incarnon form.

Defense Stripping > Damage Vuln > Armor Stripping > Weapon / Frame choice ( since a 100% defense strip and several vulns and armor strips can be helminthed onto any frame ). Its not so much Steel Path as its broken ass game path.