Hi all, please tell me what weapon best for cypher, ranged or melee?

[Charles Wiltshire]

I using Lead Spitter, but in chapter two its kinda not soo strong, with deadfire dlc we have One-Eyed Molina's Gold-Fingered Spike-Flinger arbalest, is it good for cypher(with all soulbounds upgrades)?Or melee weapon is better?If so, then hat melee weapon? I have wm1 and 2 btw, so consider weapon from them too.

[mainer]

I've never created a cypher for my character, but I do use Greiving Mother (cypher) in my party most of the time. She needs to get a lot of hits in combat to build up her focus in order to cast her spells, so I've found that giving her 2 small/fast weapons, like the dagger & stilleto and the dual weapon talent, she can increase her focus far more rapidly than with a ranged weapon.

I give her a fast hunting bow in one of her weapon slots for those times she can't get close, but 90% of the time, I find that the fast melee attacks are better. Her spells are mostly short/medium range anyway, so she needs to be closer to the front lines.

[twilightsin]

Blunderbuss is perfect against softer enemies. You can sometimes get max focus with a single shot.

[Dixon Sider]

lead splitter is the best weapon for cipher. Make sure you are maxing out your DR override or w/e its called. The shotgun shoots out 8 bullets i think, every bullet uses your total DR override. So if you have 8 DR override, and 8 bullets are shot, your attack will be increased by 64 compared to +0 DR override assuming the targets DR is (8 < DR < min_damage+8)

Then also make sure you increase your dexterity as much as possible, because dexterity also helps your reload time as well as your recovery time. so dex has more benefit to a character wielding a weapon with reloading over any other type of weapon. Attack speed does not improve your reload time. It could have changed since i tested this, but its easy to test this out yourself if you use inn characters and slow motion

[Dixon Sider]

if you max your DR override, you can cast your highest focus costing spells after the first shot in combat almost every time. I think my endgame cipher has over 15 Dr override