Best secondary to deal with illuminate shields

[Razer]

So I've been using the Sickle primary with grenade pistol secondary which is great, but I wanted to change things around. The Purifier is a fun weapon, but cannot take down shields unless you want to make a day of it. It also cannot destroy the ships with the charged shot so that sucks.

In order for me to bring a different primary (one that cannot take down the shields quickly or at all) I need something else. I've been trying the strafing run, but it's limited and I don't really want to waste a strategem on just shields. But it's ok.

So I was wondering what secondary would be good. I don't own all of them, but just looking for suggestions. I have tried the redeemer and it "can" take down ship shields in 1-2 magazines, but it's iffy and it has very limited ammo.

Thoughts?

[an entire Roman legion]

Im just going to hijack ur thread to praise the eagle strafing run+nade pistol: my tools to take down those landing ships w/ shield

[Gundug]

I don’t know of a secondary that is any good at dropping shields, but the MG-43 deals with pretty much everything the Illuminate currently have quite strongly, including knocking shields down swiftly. I like the grenade pistol for clearing out enemy arc sentries, so it’s hard to get away from that. The Orbital Gas strike will take out Warp Ships with a direct hit, right through the shield if you land it on top of the ship, and it has a short enough cooldown to be used for other stuff as well.

[Spirit]

Origineel geplaatst door an entire Roman legion:

Im just going to hijack ur thread to praise the eagle strafing run+nade pistol: my tools to take down those landing ships w/ shield

i use orbital laser for them , goes through them like a hot knife through butter

[an entire Roman legion]

Origineel geplaatst door Spirit:

Origineel geplaatst door an entire Roman legion:

Im just going to hijack ur thread to praise the eagle strafing run+nade pistol: my tools to take down those landing ships w/ shield

i use orbital laser for them , goes through them like a hot knife through butter

yeh but only 3 times ._.

[Chaos]

Redeemer maybe.
Whatever the machine pistol is named.

[Razer]

Origineel geplaatst door Spirit:

Origineel geplaatst door an entire Roman legion:

Im just going to hijack ur thread to praise the eagle strafing run+nade pistol: my tools to take down those landing ships w/ shield

i use orbital laser for them , goes through them like a hot knife through butter

That's a waste of an orbital. Best use that when you're facing multiple tripods and an army of footsoldiers.

[Razer]

Origineel geplaatst door Chaos:

Redeemer maybe.
Whatever the machine pistol is named.

Yea I mentioned that. It's ok. It runs out of ammo real quick. If you're unlucky you can destroy 2 ships with it and then you're out of ammo.

[Chaos]

Origineel geplaatst door Razer:

Yea I mentioned that. It's ok. It runs out of ammo real quick. If you're unlucky you can destroy 2 ships with it and then you're out of ammo.

I usually run with supply pack most of the time to play with those kind of guns.

But yeah, without it, you are kinda out of luck, there are no other secondary that is can deal with shield as good as it and every other pistol kinda suck at that job.

So you are usually better off using other slot for this duty instead...or you can just run the HMG with supply pack like everyone else and kill every squid in the game for now.

[Five]

senator?

[Razer]

Origineel geplaatst door Five:

senator?

Senator seems cool, but can it take down the ship shields is the question?


How about the Crisper?

[dyra55]

Origineel geplaatst door Razer:

but can it take down the ship shields is the question?

Yes, if you fire it quick enough it drops them in about two cylinders

[Razer]

Origineel geplaatst door dyra55:

Origineel geplaatst door Razer:

but can it take down the ship shields is the question?

Yes, if you fire it quick enough it drops them in about two cylinders

Cool. I'm going to give it a try.

Origineel geplaatst door tonyzur:

Origineel geplaatst door an entire Roman legion:

Im just going to hijack ur thread to praise the eagle strafing run+nade pistol: my tools to take down those landing ships w/ shield

the eagle strafing run is slept on. great tool to have on all fronts.

It definitely works and is versatile, but I'm looking for options and not lock myself into a single build so I can switch things up.

[Akameka]

senator works on both shield and leg destroying. But you'll have to mag dump on the shield to benefits from the fast reload of the full clip to have enough DPS

The uzi-like gun (don't remember the name) also work as it has high DPS

[Razer]

Origineel geplaatst door Akameka:

senator works on both shield and leg destroying. But you'll have to mag dump on the shield to benefits from the fast reload of the full clip to have enough DPS

The uzi-like gun (don't remember the name) also work as it has high DPS

I'm not sure if DPS is what is needed. I "think" the shields have some sort of damage attenuation where they take a max amount of damage per shot no matter what you shoot at it and then require a specific amount of shots to take it down. I could be wrong.
The shields also constantly regenerate so you have to deal this damage in a short amount of time.

For instance the laser pistol has decent DPS but cannot take down the shields. The purifier has higher dps than the redeemer, but cannot take down the shields in the same amount of time. Needs to reload 4 times to take down the shields.

It's also consistent damage that is required. The issue is that most weapons need to reload at least once to deal with the shields.

[Trig_Zero]

Orbital Gas can actually go through and 1shot those landed ships
albeit u need a direct hit
so i normallly just go with Knight smg, 1 mag can delete the shield
nade pistol(backup), gas grenade, then either RR or Commando + Gun dog and Gas strike
its set for most of the situation i found mysellf in lv7~10 squids
the other 1~2 stratagems is free