best ranged weapon against monster ?

[Tony]

Hello,
in your opinion, what is the best ranged weapon against monster ?
elf has the hangbane
salty has the double pistol
bardin will go... shotgun ?
krubber hunter will go for bow, but for foot knight or mercenary ?
for an unchained sienna, is it best to focus the staff against monster or infantry ? and with which staff ?

thank you very much

[Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy]

Shotguns have a huge damage penalty against Monsters (and packmasters).

[Capra Aegagrus Hircus]

volley xbow is also not bad against bosses
for dwarf I'd say drakefire pistols, shotgun on vet ranger (with his ult it's not terrible)
repeater handgun for merc and fk, however I'd just go with melee
for unchained I'd probably use the staff on trash so you can clear them quickly and to build up heat and then use your melee on the boss. Although, where you use your staff on doesn't really matter that much imo.

[Ubaldios]

the brace of pistols with a strength pot is pretty good. specially with headshots

[Bones]

Originally posted by Capra Aegagrus Hircus:

for unchained I'd probably use the staff on trash so you can clear them quickly and to build up heat and then use your melee on the boss. Although, where you use your staff on doesn't really matter that much imo.

Fireball with barrage will kill bosses far faster than any melee option available to Sienna.

[Silverquick]

While I did not expect it to be, shockingly the Repeater Pistol has turned out to work surprisingly well.

The Rate of Fire when combined with the WHC Ult and Potion, and Scrounger allow you to keep up a sustained rate of fire that does surprisingly good Miniboss damage.

I was shocked to be able to do 1500 boss damage on a Troll, and on another occasion even beat a Kruber Huntsman on a Chaos Spawn.

A sustained rate of fire without interrupt ends up doing an enormous amount of damage that I did not expect because there's no downtime or interrupt in the sustained damage.

Though I probably should have seen this coming, its what the Brace of Pistols used to be and no longer is capable of.

[Tony]

thanks for the feedback

so fire pistol for dwarf
fireball staff for sienna
and blunderbluss for krub ?

[Taktisches Tomatenbrot]

if you are able to properly headshot then bolt staff is also kinda nice.

[Witchhunter Captain]

Brace of pistols or volley for saltz, but volley is harder to do and lacks in other departments
Hagbane or volley for elf
Repeater hgun for soldier, though its aint that good compared to other careers monsterkillers.
Any of the drakefires with barrage, but flamer is more risky.
Beam or fireball with barrage for firegranny, beam is more risky but can snipe.

The list is made wo being career-specific in mind.

Also spear is a very good moster killer for an elf.

[Bob]

For sienna, it is hands down beam staff. And if you want to focus on boss damage, then you slap barrage on it. Bolt doesn't even slightly hold a candle to beam+barrage unless you are fighting an armored chapter boss.

[Capra Aegagrus Hircus]

Originally posted by Tony:

thanks for the feedback

so fire pistol for dwarf
fireball staff for sienna
and blunderbluss for krub ?

shotguns do terrible dmg vs monster enemy types (packmasters and bosses)

[Knight Commander Martellus]

Originally posted by Tony:

Hello,
in your opinion, what is the best ranged weapon against monster ?
elf has the hangbane
salty has the double pistol
bardin will go... shotgun ?
krubber hunter will go for bow, but for foot knight or mercenary ?
for an unchained sienna, is it best to focus the staff against monster or infantry ? and with which staff ?

thank you very much

Cheese

[Pungent]

Originally posted by Tony:

blunderbluss for krub ?

No. Even on Huntsman, that is by far the worst choice for boss damage.

For Merc and FKnight, you want the repeater handgun.

[Myrmidon]

Originally posted by Pungent:

Originally posted by Tony:

blunderbluss for krub ?

No. Even on Huntsman, that is by far the worst choice for boss damage.

For Merc and FKnight, you want the repeater handgun.

I suspect a lot of newbies but not all get this idea because theres a ton of old threads around in search where blunderbuss was excellent on bosses. Weapons have changed a lot since launch and I often see in games a lot of newbies talking about their builds based on advice/information they've gathered from reddit/steam forums that is like 8 months old or more and severely out of date in terms of accuracy.

[Alistair MacBain]

Blunderbuss was only good on huntsman because it calculated the damage differently.

Ranged weapons for boss dps are:
Hagbane, Brace of Pistols, Volley Crossbow (havent tested in a while but should still be decent), fireball staff, beam staff, repeater handgun (if you have good headshots, handgun/longbow work too for huntsman).