Arc Thrower is now meta

[VoiD]

It used to be a meme, once the OP RG was nerfed people realized it was actually a good weapon, proving all the people saying every weapon sucks were wrong.

And now, with the new spawns, Arc Thrower might actually be "the best" weapon in the game right now.

Since the new patch reduced the number of armored enemies, the ones the zapgun used to struggle against, it's now a great choice to get top kills in every match, clearing entire hordes & bug breaches on your own just by sitting there and zaping nonstop is a common occurence in dif9.

Also, now that chargers are a joke of their former selves, with their very fragile heads even the zapgun can kill them reliably, if you keep aiming for their heads you can kill a charger moving towards you before they even manage to reach you, of course, you'll be killing a lot of hunters behind them for free as a bonus.

Much like the flamer, the only thing it struggles against is titans, but those are naturally easy to counter, if too many spawn you can get them to kill themselves with friendly fire, if few of them spawn, your 2 charges of 500kg bombs should be enough.

The flamer was the king of the old patch's meta as the best horde+charger killer, but now that zapguns can do mostly the same except from longer range I think it just lost the meta throne. Have fun while it lasts.

PS: Flamer is still good, Arc Thrower is just too good.

Edit: Oh, give the TK Muderdrone a try as well, it's much more attractive with the increased trashmob spawns. Specially if you constantly find yourself surrounded by hunters slowing you down.

[McFuzz]

The fad will pass and Stalwart will still be there in the shadows as the secret meta it always was.

[Charlie]

I stay away from arc user, the TK potential is crazy

[PROPHYZ]

meta my ass, blocked

[VoiD]

Originally posted by PROPHYZ™:

meta my ass, blocked

I don't want to use your ass

[protoka]

Originally posted by VoiD:

Originally posted by PROPHYZ™:

meta my ass, blocked

I don't want to use your ass

Speak for yourself, ass is ass.

[Bryan Fury]

Originally posted by Charlie:

I stay away from arc user, the TK potential is crazy

This.

If you DONT know HOW to use it, it's more TK than enemy kills lol

[BlackholeSun]

Originally posted by McFuzz:

The fad will pass and Stalwart will still be there in the shadows as the secret meta it always was.

Are you willing to spread some facts for democracy?

[Moffin Bovin]

tbh if you have all 4 players with arc throwers and focus fire it can be pretty powerful.

But that's too much teamwork and coordination. Without coordination, arc throwers are just a hazard.

[LemonSoda]

except it always was, but everyone just follows youtube guides

now I just keep seeing bad players who keep TK'ing with it

[asura]

arc thrower is mid.
I'd also be willing to bet that next major patch the arc thrower will be "nerfed" and by "nerfed" I mean bugfixed because there's something wrong with it. It seems like it somehow hits the same target multiple times or criticals it somehow. It's super inconsistent and does weirdly high damage on larger targets.

[Sophie]

admittedly i didnt read it all nor am i invested in this post but "the crowd clearing tool consistently nets you top kills" as if its job isnt to clear large amounts of weaker enemies. using kill count to try to prove your point seems really dumb

[Hell Muffin]

Arc Thrower was never a meme weapon. People sleeping on a lot of things in this game that is actually good. Like for example anti-material rifle. It can 2 tap any heavy automaton. Or scorcher that turn bile titans into your loyal followers. People should stop watching tire lists or videos like "this is good and this is bad therfore dont bring it". And you will be in a better place.

[VoiD]

Originally posted by asura:

arc thrower is mid.
I'd also be willing to bet that next major patch the arc thrower will be "nerfed" and by "nerfed" I mean bugfixed because there's something wrong with it. It seems like it somehow hits the same target multiple times or criticals it somehow. It's super inconsistent and does weirdly high damage on larger targets.

I haven't noticed any odd behavior tbh.

The TTK on pretty much anything seems very consistent, the only inconsistent part of the weapon is where it actually decides to hit targets.

Or even if it hits anything at all, it will sometimes arc straight into the ground.

[VoiD]

Originally posted by Hell Muffin:

Arc Thrower was never a meme weapon. People sleeping on a lot of things in this game that is actually good. Like for example anti-material rifle. It can 2 tap any heavy automaton. Or scorcher that turn bile titans into your loyal followers. People should stop watching tire lists or videos like "this is good and this is bad therfore dont bring it". And you will be in a better place.

I agree, Just saying, it was considered a meme weapon for trollbuilds by the people who thought the RG was perfectly fine, and everything else was bad, while the arc thrower, like any other weapon, was terrible plus it had TK potential, so they wouldn't take it seriously.

Which wouldn't be a problem under normal circunstances, except people were reporting being kicked from matches from using such weapons.

[LemonSoda]

Originally posted by asura:

arc thrower is mid.
I'd also be willing to bet that next major patch the arc thrower will be "nerfed" and by "nerfed" I mean bugfixed because there's something wrong with it. It seems like it somehow hits the same target multiple times or criticals it somehow. It's super inconsistent and does weirdly high damage on larger targets.

it bypasses armor, and those armored hitzones have multipliers on them, it will struggle on bile titans however
arc is good in the fact that it clears the trash mobs behind the first target, giving you breathing room which are otherwise ignored by majority of the complainers (seriously just shoot the hunters)

flamethrower and anti-tank are still the fastest way to deal with chargers