Lightning guns seem bad - and good weapon combo's.

[Boomstar]

Anyone had any luck with lightning guns? The damage just seems too low. I just got a legendary one but its a major let down so far.

I've had the best luck with sword/mortar combo. Being to inflict vunerable very quickly then daze everyone then slow and pummel them with grenades maybe with some sword finisher. Whats your favorite combos?

[Gabbelgak]

Lightning gun has all I've been using since I found a legendary one back at like level 20 - I started with the Reactor then later found Spark and have been using spark ever since playing on normal with all 5 challenges pretty much always turned on and it chews right through them - almost done with the game and near level 50.

I've been using it + the Repeater shotgun as my combo and stacking + ranged damage. Repeater I use more as a healing tool it gives 80 health per shot but that's starting to become ineffective closer to 50 for me.

I usually start with a lightning trap, follow it with ball lightning a twice and just use shock then - it absolutely obliterates everything in a room heck I even use it single target bosses just spam more ball lightnings during it.

[Caleon]

Spark is cool. Ball lightning inferno

[Dwarfurious]

Hey gabbel you have that sword that shoots lightning balls on crit? might go nice with it. Its a great co-op weapon too, spread that lightning around, faster cooldowns help a lot for getting out more lightning balls.

[=666= BLVCK T0NGUE]

maybe this helps
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=486216311

[Fang]

You kidding me? Lightning Gun is OP as hell, you just need to find a good one. I've been using nothing but Lightning Gun + Scythe.

[Jack_]

Just Wait untill you get a rainbow gun ;) then you will kick ass!

[Zefar]

Once you got some Lightning balls flying around and having "The Lightning" card on you'll start to find other weapons be lacking.

In the start though it did feel a bit weak.

[=666= BLVCK T0NGUE]

Originally posted by Zefar:

...In the start though it did feel a bit weak.

look at my guide maybe it helps you :) it's a sword (storm) and lightning gun "crit" build...

[Carluce]

Originally posted by Rkt.Exe:

Just Wait untill you get a rainbow gun ;) then you will kick ass!

Yeah! It took me a few minutes to get used to how the Rainbow Gun shoots but once I adjusted to spewing out neverending rainbows I really love it. In Co-op especially where I can rely on a friend to keep mobs off of me for the most part the gun is great. Just stand in one spot and watch the damage numbers get bigger and bigger.

[Nix]

Originally posted by Fang:

You kidding me? Lightning Gun is OP as hell, you just need to find a good one. I've been using nothing but Lightning Gun + Scythe.

this... I find the lighting gun extremely overpowered, that's why im not using it.
You look at things and they explode.

[Wally]

ability cooldown reductions + lightning card means you can have like 6 orbs out at a time. Its AoE is good, but also due to Orbs its ST is pretty high too.
Although right now I can one-shot almost everything with vunerability + the legendary hammer that sucks ♥♥♥♥ into its Smash :D

[Draconic Creature]

I found that, at least early on, the shotgun is absolutely fantastic for hordes and weak enemies, why? Because of it's abilities, it's AOE is nice enough for clearing out a horde, but where it shines is the aimed shot, with early skeletons it is absolutely fantastic to use as I simply aim, press, boom, skeleton down and ability recharged to shoot another skeleton to recharge my ability again, just plows through enemies like a knife made of lava cutting through a block of butter, this strategy will probably remain viable until the horde trash mobs have their HP scale up faster than the damage of the shotgun.

[gilbert12113]

Lighnting gun forever - I have not found a legendary one. In combination with either a a sword (90% of the time) and scythe (spiders, and sometimes skeletons).

[shrewdlogarithm]

The problem with VV is that most of the weapons which drop - even when you're well into the campaign - are total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

The weapons which work (Shotguns and Hammers for example- even relatively poor ones sorta work) end-up being your goto until you can get a MUCH better weapon and I think this is one of the reasons this game largely failed to gain a wider following...

So you're hacking through the campaign - lots of stuff drops so you try-it-out but it feels terrible - so you go back to the stuff which works but you get bored so you play something else...

Follow any guide and they'll say "pick a build and commit to it - because upgrading/grinding better stuff is slow and expensive" - which describes how NOT to design a game because that's not how people play games...

When VV works it's really good but finding that sweet spot is too-much-grind and the rest of the time it's clunky and feels like it's wasting your time with ever-more-♥♥♥♥♥♥ drops

[gilbert12113]

As mentioned, upgrading works well for me.