Executioner, fat man or GL-55 impulse ?

[Endiku]

Hello, i'm about to build my first purple item and i wonder which of these three is the most effective ? i heard executionner is better than fatman in general, but i noticed the fatman does better dammage, and is a more balanced weapon (more health ammo and a turret). I havent seen somebody with the grenade launcher yet, does it work well? i have no clue. thx for your feedback!

[Missa La Hache]

Hello there,
To quickly answer you here are the facts:
- Executioner is granted a nice passive bonus which makes it deadly when it hits the target at sensitive spot (Does more overall damage than a Fatman in fact). It is more a mid / long range weapon even if people tend to use it at close range.

- Fat man as you noticed, is more balanced. It as more structure point that allow it to be used at close range too. It can rotate at 360 degree and is easier to hide in a build than Executioner. More suited for a tank build (funny isn't it).

- As for GL, well, it is a really powerful weapons but not alot of players are using them. Why ? Because it is really hard to handle. Low structure point, high PS, 'nade are slow and it is difficult to aim. Good damage if you maintain sustained fire. Barely usable on mobile target unless you know what you're doing.

Final answer is : there is no best weapon, it all depend which way you would like to play the game. As for a first purple, if I had the choice between one of these three I would go for FATMAN because it is easier to play and require to pay less attention at your weapons.

Hope it's help !
Cheers

[Leadership Swine]

I would recomend the fat man if you are going for your first purple, as the executiner is most viable when you have 3 of them, which takes the humpback cabin and gas generator to get. and the impulse is just not good at the moment unless you have multiple and a build suited for it.

[Farit Al-Jungali]

Executioner passive does nothing if the enemy has no armor in front of cabin; Just has like 1 more bar of damage I think from previous tier. Not that impressive actually maybe if you are fighting a huge leviathan with tons of armor it might come in useful.

GL I think has passive that does more damage the further you shoot it but you have to calculate for such a high firing arc that it's not really that effective. Can disable weapons which could be useful in group fights. Not sure if modules are counted as weapons since they are techncialy in their own category so drones will still rape you.

I would recommend the fat man because it has 2 more bars of damage, better accuracy, and rotating turrent which means you don't have to move out of cover. Disadvantage is that it cost 6 energy instead of 5.

If you are going to go glass cannon then feel free to go all executioner but you will have ammo issues without a ammo resource module.

[Leadership Swine]

Originally posted by neppy:

I'm getting MVP 80% of match with low PS dual Executioner build

And that is why this game is going to die. We get people like you who exploit the PS system to fight players who are not ready to deal with those kinds of weapons yet, in turn they leave the game because they cant win when they are still using common weapons and they are up against Epics and even legendarys in extreme cases. Just last night i was browsing the exhibition and i saw a car which had the literaly shortest body possible to get all four starter wheels on and then a duster cabin with a hurricane mounted on top. Now how are people in 2000 PS supoossed to survive when they are being killed from accross the map and there is nothing they can do about it except lose and not progress at all. All i am going to say is that to just think twice beofre messing with inoccent noobs, as they are the future of the game.

[Celes†Nobushi]

Fat boi definitely although if I eventually get 3 executioners then u can one shot a medium cab with a direct hit