Best endagme weapons

[IKORNELIUSI]

What are the best endgame melee and ranged weapons on your opinion?

[Skmeing]

Well that depends on your definition of "best". If best means most damage that would be the zetachrome melee weapons. They have the highest damage and can rip through most enemies in the game. For highest damage ranged you have some options. Damage wise the only real choice is the phase cannon, but it eats through power like you wouldn't believe. Some less power hungry choices would be the chain laser or the Eigenrifle. For pistols you can go Chain pistols for the high rate of fire and crit chance, or overloaded laser pistols for the raw damage and accuracy.

All of that said, these only the highest damage weapons. They have one fatal flaw, the lack of pierce value (PV). I think the highest PV you can get with these weapons is like 14, where as end game robot enemies like leering stalkers tend to have armor values (AV) in the 20s and above. You can't deal damage if you can't get pass the armor.

This is where the Vibro weapons come in. Their damage is several tiers lower than the previous weapons, that said their PV will always match the AV of whatever your attacking. While this lowers your dps against low armor enemies, you will most likely not be fighting those guys, by end game you will be fighting Chrome pyramids and magma crabs. The vibro weapon of choice is the vibrokhopesh, which you will get from just doing the main story. After that you have the standard vibro blade and vibro dagger, which are long and short blade respectively. For ranged you have the Linear cannon.

[Shadowdweller]

Skmeing pretty much covered it. There are some utility weapons worth carrying about for certain builds - for example the freeze ray. Used to autopenetrate (once) - but mainly used for shutting big nasties down for a few turns. Or at least it used to - haven't been playing much Qud for a while.