Tips for playing as Purna?

[LightReborn444]

Hi all! I just wanna start out by saying I’m a Xian Mei main, but I’ve always found Purna interesting, I have been playing her, I’m in the jungle, but I wonder, how does one effectively play her? Her whole specialty is firearms but even with her guns don’t do any dmg to the zombies. Not only that I seem to run out of ammo way too quickly. Anybody have any tips to maybe make my gameplay a little more fun?

[Godwoken Dovahkiin]

I honestly don't know but I was going to try to focus on Fury first then Combat. Get things that make you rage faster. Combat just focus on firearms. No good firearms pre new game plus so that's going to suck, unless you get lucky.

Fury

Grim Inspiration 3
Volatile 3
Righteous Fire 3

Combat

First row sucks
Gender Wars 3
Cold Rage 3
Executor 3
Wunderwaffe 3

Survival

Deep Pockets 3
Lockpick 3
Providence 3
Jackpot 3
Rain of Bullets 3

She seems boring and terrible for solo. Guns kinda suck in this game too. Apparently people get an inventory full of firearms drop them on the floor and pick them up and it gives you some ammo back? Never tried, but you can just focus on 1 gun while doing that I guess.

[Shishio Mazakahara]

Originally posted by Godwoken Dovahkiin:

She seems boring and terrible for solo. Guns kinda suck in this game too. Apparently people get an inventory full of firearms drop them on the floor and pick them up and it gives you some ammo back? Never tried, but you can just focus on 1 gun while doing that I guess.

It empties the mag in the gun when you drop it, putting the bullets into your ammo inventory

[rexpiscator]

Guns won't start getting good until you get to the Jungle, I started collecting the various rifles from the squads of Bandits at the crashed airliner until I got Blue and Purple ones, then upgraded them all the way, then crafted the Pride versions for extra environmental damage. By the time I got to the Prison, I had some firearms doing between 5,000~7,000 dmg. Ended up with a good single shot rifle and a pistol, both at Pride Blueprint. Could never get a shot gun that was worth anything beyond ~200 dmg...not what you expect with zombies and shottys...go figure.

As Purna I did a lot of melee, it's just part of the game...and try to Stomp when appropriate to save on ammo. Get the ammo blueprints, that will also help a little.

IMHO, Purna's strength lies in her Fury Attack, that is where she can level many zombies at once with her Perk Tree full.

I generally use the longer blade weapons as Purna[Wazis, Machetes, etc] just don't like getting too close to them and allowing them to grab ahold of my character, hate that; why I tend towards ranged attacks, rather than wading thru a pile of the undead.

[Tarrok]

I like Purna but she's imo weakest of the bunch, guns suck so for general gameplay as stupid as it may sound, don't focus on them. Use them as you would with other characters, for exploders, living human enemies with guns, blowing stuff up etc. Focus on her fury instead I'd get all fury skills minus inspiring kick, righteus fire and fiery spirit. Vampire, hard knocks, randori and gender wars as a must have in combat. Conditioning and preferably all 3 aura skills in survival and any leftover points put it wutever you feel like is best for u.