Your Top 3 Best Weapons?

[SweetOlBrew]

Ive been scrolling through the discussions and just wanted to ask this flat out.

By "best" That can be from your best runs or just your favorite weapons if they dont even work that well.

[thebiomage]

Alchemic Carbine - Insanely good damage that covers massive area, works on level clearing and bosses. Also gives the 100% more damage on poison modifier. Cannot run out of ammo. Nowadays I almost try not to use it because it's kind of broken op.

Marksman's Bow - Very effective at clearing levels safely (great for 4 and 5BC). If you have the shots pass through multiple enemies modifier it can 1-shot large crowds. Works well on most bosses.

Rapier - Probably an unpopular opinion, but I really like the rapier, it's very easy to execute critical hits with it and it's just fun to use. The hitbox can be a little wonky, don't try to hit airborne enemies with it.

[Paradox]

Broad Sword,
Broader Sword,
Broadest Sword.

[SweetOlBrew]

Originally posted by thebiomage:

Alchemic Carbine - Insanely good damage that covers massive area, works on level clearing and bosses. Also gives the 100% more damage on poison modifier. Cannot run out of ammo. Nowadays I almost try not to use it because it's kind of broken op.

Marksman's Bow - Very effective at clearing levels safely (great for 4 and 5BC). If you have the shots pass through multiple enemies modifier it can 1-shot large crowds. Works well on most bosses.

Rapier - Probably an unpopular opinion, but I really like the rapier, it's very easy to execute critical hits with it and it's just fun to use. The hitbox can be a little wonky, don't try to hit airborne enemies with it.

I totally agree with the Rapier honestly, it has such a fun silly feeling to it.

[mfndonut]

My favorites of Brutality are:
Torch (Best melee weapon in the game change my mind)
Rapier
Sadist Stilleto

Alchemic Carbine is great and all, but I always feel guilty using it, because it's so good especially with Hokoto's Bow

Originally posted by thebiomage:

Rapier - Probably an unpopular opinion, but I really like the rapier, it's very easy to execute critical hits with it and it's just fun to use. The hitbox can be a little wonky, don't try to hit airborne enemies with it.

Rapier is a great weapon, convenient critical hits and pretty good overall damage. Some bosses (like the giant) can really disadvantage this weapon, unfortunately. But hey you pair it with frontline shield and +300% damage after parry and you're clearing through things.

[SweetOlBrew]

Originally posted by Gnodab:

Rapier is amazing. Even ignoring the parry bonus, you can just permacrit with it with tightly controlled rolling. There isn't another playstyle quite like it, not even Assassin's Dagger.

Though, on that note of the Assassin's Dagger, isnt the new introduced item Blowdart a ranged version of it?

[SweetOlBrew]

And it looks like Rapier is actually quite a popular opinion.

[Phirestar]

Best
- Shrapnel Axes (Brutality)
- Quick Bow (Tactics)
- Heavy Crossbow (Survival)

Shrapnel Axes is the best aspects of Tactics & Brutality: the ability to fight outside of enemy attack range, but with access to all the healing / infection immunity mutations + a higher health pool.

Quick Bow is the best all-round Tactics primary in my personal opinion. It has a high firerate, a reliable & effective critical condition, and it can get piercing affixes.

I'm sure most people will say Giantkiller for Survival, but when it comes to single-target damage potential, I honestly feel that the Heavy Crossbow wins. Each bolt fired is calculated individually, which means that "one" shot can hit a boss damage cap multiple times. If you've ever seen videos of people fighting lategame bosses with 25+ Survival, you'll know what it's like.


Favorite
1. Broadsword
2. Heavy Crossbow
3. Symmetrical Lance
4. Valmont's Whip
5. Hemorrhage

I'm primarily a fan of Survival (and wish there were a couple more Survival-only weapons), but I also like some of the ignored items - Electric Whip, Infantry Bow, Ice Crossbow, Cursed Sword. One that I really want to start using again is the Frantic Sword.

My favorite items change pretty frequently though; every few months or so.

[SweetOlBrew]

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Best
- Shrapnel Axes (Brutality)
- Quick Bow (Tactics)
- Heavy Crossbow (Survival)

Shrapnel Axes is the best aspects of Tactics & Brutality: the ability to fight outside of enemy attack range, but with access to all the healing / infection immunity mutations + a higher health pool.

Quick Bow is the best all-round Tactics primary in my personal opinion. It has a high firerate, a reliable & effective critical condition, and it can get piercing affixes.

I'm sure most people will say Giantkiller for Survival, but when it comes to single-target damage potential, I honestly feel that the Heavy Crossbow wins. Each bolt fired is calculated individually, which means that "one" shot can hit a boss damage cap multiple times. If you've ever seen videos of people fighting lategame bosses with 25+ Survival, you'll know what it's like.


Favorite
1. Broadsword
2. Heavy Crossbow
3. Symmetrical Lance
4. Valmont's Whip
5. Hemorrhage

I'm primarily a fan of Survival (and wish there were a couple more Survival-only weapons), but I also like some of the ignored items - Electric Whip, Infantry Bow, Ice Crossbow, Cursed Sword. One that I really want to start using again is the Frantic Sword.

My favorite items change pretty frequently though; every few months or so.

Im a fan of Survival too. Im also upset that, I might be wrong as im only two Boss Cells in but, That everything Melee-Survival is the heavy swinging weapons. Like hell yeah they're awesome as one of your favorites is the Symmentrical Lance and Broadsword but man i struggle with those things. Still really awesome weapons though.

[up2zero]

Electric Whip
Explosive Crossbow or endless quivers bow
Crossbowamatic
Biters

My problem is I do not get the electric whip very often. The broadsword is fierce.

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Best
Favorite
1. Broadsword
2. Heavy Crossbow
3. Symmetrical Lance
4. Valmont's Whip
5. Hemorrhage

Hey. Can you elaborate as to why you like Valmont's Whip?

[arceus03]

In no particular order:

-Mushroom boi!
Yeah, he's very helpful. I admit he does mess with my parry more often than not, but very good at interrupting enemy attacks. Especially useful in the Toxic Sewers, because of all the walls around.

-The Giantkiller
Uhh.. It kills elites and bosses fast. I found my boss fights significantly easier after unlocking this.

-Repeater Crossbow
This weapon helped me breeze through 2 and 3 BSC. Before, I was struggling with health as I mainly go for Brutality builds (I happen to suck at effectively dodging attacks, until recently). After discovering this baby, I just pumped all stats into Survival, grabbed Wolf Trap and Necromancy and basically plowed through biomes. Got upgraded from 1 to 4 BSC real quick.

...too bad that it does horribly against The Giant.

Honorable mentions:
-Hayabusa Gauntlets
It hits fast and it hits hard(er). Get crits faster than Balanced Blade, and easier than Assassin's Dagger. This was my default melee weapon of choice, until I started venturing into other weapons.

-Frost Blast
One of my favorite weapons when I just started (and pumped stats for health instead of damage). Basically this + some heavy melee weapon (Broadsword, Nutcracker,Symmetrical Lance) + deployable traps.

-Spiked Shield
Still trying to parry effectively and this is my favorite shield, I guess. At least for now.

[Phirestar]

Originally posted by up2zero:

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Best
Favorite
1. Broadsword
2. Heavy Crossbow
3. Symmetrical Lance
4. Valmont's Whip
5. Hemorrhage

Hey. Can you elaborate as to why you like Valmont's Whip?

Survival has always been my favorite stat, because single-hit / heavy weapons felt satisfying to use. And back when I first started playing in the Brutal Update, there were a whole lot less Survival weapons to choose from, which contributed to it becoming my first favorite item in the game.

Also I should mention: Valmont's Whip used to be Brutality / Survival, if you didn't know. The speed & recovery was slightly increased, which is the reason for its scaling change.

[ChillAxin]

War Spear - I like the moveset.

Assassin's Dagger - Omae wa shindeiru

Rapier - Crits on every roll is super useful, plus the moveset is nice.

[Gatebase]

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Best
- Shrapnel Axes (Brutality)
- Quick Bow (Tactics)
- Heavy Crossbow (Survival)

I mostly agree with this. Quick Bow is my favourite and Heavy Crossbow is just stupidly strong (while the delay definitely takes getting used to, that weapon is the single reason I was able to progress beyond 2 BSC). For a third I would put down Infantry Bow (both for Brutality and Tactics). When I was still running without shield (up to 2 BSC) I used both Quick Bow and Infantry Bow together. They have slightly different firing arcs and cover all ranges with reliable crits.

If you forced me to name a melee weapon - I was surprised how much I enjoyed Flawless (great crit and the first strike is an upswing that clears flying enemies very well).

[up2zero]

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Originally posted by up2zero:

Hey. Can you elaborate as to why you like Valmont's Whip?

Survival has always been my favorite stat, because single-hit / heavy weapons felt satisfying to use. And back when I first started playing in the Brutal Update, there were a whole lot less Survival weapons to choose from, which contributed to it becoming my first favorite item in the game.

Also I should mention: Valmont's Whip used to be Brutality / Survival, if you didn't know. The speed & recovery was slightly increased, which is the reason for its scaling change.

Thanks for your elaboration. I'll give Valmont's Whip another chance. I didn't know about the Brutality / Survival history. I am a late comer to this masterpiece.

[Yours truly, Garbage]

Originally posted by Paradox:

Broad Sword,
Broader Sword,
Broadest Sword.

Now that's a very broad statement, could you be more specific?


Also my favourite weapons would probably have to be:

Blood Sword,
Torch,
Broad Sword
and as an honourable mention the Marksman's Bow for being the weapon which carried most of my run on my very first successful 5BC attempt, which still feels like a massive achievement to me.

I generally like weapons that act fast (broad sword is an exception, it just feels great to use) and allow me to quickly cancel the attack in case of incoming damage and I also like damage over time since it requires less time to "get in there" and allows me to focus a bit more on dodging. It also seems more useful on higher cell-difficulty than damage from pure hits.