Rig Tier List

[WhiskeyNinja]

Let's start some constructive discussion about Rigs. What are your favorite rig/character combos? Anything not really useful?

I'll start with:

Early Game:
Shaman + Quest-given Standard Gun-runner
(Not for a specific runs, just the best free rig, but good for general scavving)

Mid-game:
Shaman + Equipment Runner
(General workhorse, great for cash runs)

Later-game:
Bag man + The Rack - for cash/Gacha Box runs in Scorched Enclave
(Once you've got a good LMG+Nade launcher, the single Large box is enough for ammo and light loot + huge heavy item runs)

End-game?
Bag man + I haven't bought the Pack Mule or either Heavy Gunrunner, but I expect those are useful for end-game farming, when you have a cash base and you are just taking elimination quests so looting is just scooping up stuff from kills instead of Heavy Items.

I don't see a lot of utility in the Medium/Enhanced rigs but I expect their whole point is for Old Man/Scav Girl which I don't play much.

[Magic Negro]

the rack simply has the largest amount o L slots

[dustin1280]

Depends on what you are wanting to do,
But generally for Bagman:
The Rack or Pack Mule

For every other character Equipment Runner (the one with 3 large slots) or the gunrunner with 2 large slots and a gun shelf.

[VelxraTV]

Equipment runner is all one really needs. Covers all the bases with decent storage when upgraded.

[NaRf]

I run a Med Equip gun runner on Shaman(with x2 cap). Most weapons arent really worth picking up, but there is the odd few that picking them up and running with it again are worth it i.e GL 2 runs and that saved me 90k.

[WhiskeyNinja]

Has anyone found a specific reason to take either of the Heavy Gunrunners? Endgame Bag Man seems to make sense - or specifically someone on a co-op team that is only taking guns + corpse items for loot.

[Druid]

Originally posted by WhiskeyNinja:

Has anyone found a specific reason to take either of the Heavy Gunrunners? Endgame Bag Man seems to make sense - or specifically someone on a co-op team that is only taking guns + corpse items for loot.

If you have a careful eye You,'ll notice there's dropped guns that are worth a significant amount of credits. Heavy gun runner can grab 6 grenade launchers from Eruskan officers valued at over 24k per gun. So you can out perform the rack going on a lockbox run.

[NaRf]

Originally posted by Druid:

Originally posted by WhiskeyNinja:

Has anyone found a specific reason to take either of the Heavy Gunrunners? Endgame Bag Man seems to make sense - or specifically someone on a co-op team that is only taking guns + corpse items for loot.

If you have a careful eye You,'ll notice there's dropped guns that are worth a significant amount of credits. Heavy gun runner can grab 6 grenade launchers from Eruskan officers valued at over 24k per gun. So you can out perform the rack going on a lockbox run.

If you put it back in your rig and extract again it will become a working GL that sell for 83k each.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

Don't sleep on Gunrunner if you're running through areas where enemies with GLs tend to spawn, the broken ones sell for 38k so it's theoretically worth 120k for the slot compared to 15k for a Large.

[Jacklary]

Pack mule rig got the highest carry capacity, with character that boost the carry capacity like shaman and bagman, you can easily go up to more than 200kg carry weight.

[Thndslz]

Theres no point in the pack mule if u going solo. Everytime i cleared scrapyard i didnt had time to loot em all since things were respawning so damn fast. Also AA12 and USAS are just as GOATED as the GL damn, those things brutalizes anything that resembles a humanoid.

[Lapinoire]

Keep in mind that you have to actively wait for grenade launcher enemies to spawn, and hope that the gun they drop is disabled rather than destroyed.

You can easily make 120k every 2-5 minutes depending on character and map(usually safe, too), whereas actively farming for grenade launchers can take anywhere between 15 minutes to over an hour.

Time is money, and doing 3:30(average) runs with 120k per run is more money per average in an hour than being able to carry 3-6 broken/disabled grenade launchers.

Mech Trenches and Scrapyard basically never see any grenade launchers, Enclave gets 1 or 2 Grenade launchers every now and then, and it takes 5-10 minutes per spawn, Mausoleum is incredibly risky to farm grenade launchers, and has the same spawn rate as Enclave. You're basically stuck farming Ashen Mesa for grenade launchers, which in itself already takes forever to extract from due to how large the map is.

[Druid]

Originally posted by Jacklary:

Pack mule rig got the highest carry capacity, with character that boost the carry capacity like shaman and bagman, you can easily go up to more than 200kg carry weight.

Shaman cannot use packmule

[kkmoffat]

Medium gun runner is solid. 3 medium slots, gun slots, and 2 open slots. I wish there was a heavy rig with a balanced loadout like this one. You either have to go max open slots or max storage and only one open slot.

Heavy gun runner has no open slots( and the gun slots are bugged at only 4 instead of 6 guns)

[theMosen]

Originally posted by WhiskeyNinja:

I don't see a lot of utility in the Medium/Enhanced rigs but I expect their whole point is for Old Man/Scav Girl which I don't play much.

Medium Equipment Gunrunner and Equipment Runner (depending on what you are farming) are the best rigs for Masked Man and Shaman, since they can't carry anything bigger. They're not so great for Scav Girl or even Old Man since you have to farm xp before you unlock them at every single prestige level. E.g. every time Scav Girl prestiges, she'll have to farm 22.5k or 55k xp before she can equip the ER or MEG respectively, and that's ignoring all other skills.

[Lapinoire]

Originally posted by theMosen:

Medium Equipment Gunrunner and Equipment Runner (depending on what you are farming) are the best rigs for Masked Man and Shaman, since they can't carry anything bigger

Except Masked Man can equip Pack Mule lol.