RIP Devastator

[Snicklesauce]

Devastator nerf makes it a weaker version of the crossbow. It was fun while it lasted.

[Jagdwyre]

Devastator wasn't really nerfed. The weapon itself was actually buffed.

The only thing that got nerfed was the interaction between the Devastator and the Bandit's Armor.

[EchoSON]

yeah , its been buffed ... so

[Snicklesauce]

Originally posted by Jagdwyre:

Devastator wasn't really nerfed. The weapon itself was actually buffed.

The only thing that got nerfed was the interaction between the Devastator and the Bandit's Armor.

I mean on paper yeah, but it's pretty obvious it's useless without the bandits armor gimmick. Didn't think I'd have to explain that.

[Seirun]

It's still the strongest one shot weapon around, but sure, whatever you say bud. Guess it must be hard to not be able to just faceroll everything with your infinite shot crossbow anymore.

[Jagdwyre]

Originally posted by Snicklesauce:

Originally posted by Jagdwyre:

Devastator wasn't really nerfed. The weapon itself was actually buffed.

The only thing that got nerfed was the interaction between the Devastator and the Bandit's Armor.

I mean on paper yeah, but it's pretty obvious it's useless without the bandits armor gimmick. Didn't think I'd have to explain that.

Except there are plenty of people who think Devastator is a pretty good weapon, even without Bandit's Armor.

I don't put much stock into claims of thinking something is literally "useless" a mere hours after a patch goes live. Sorry.

[Snicklesauce]

Originally posted by Jagdwyre:

Originally posted by Snicklesauce:

I mean on paper yeah, but it's pretty obvious it's useless without the bandits armor gimmick. Didn't think I'd have to explain that.

Except there are plenty of people who think Devastator is a pretty good weapon, even without Bandit's Armor.

I don't put much stock into claims of thinking something is literally "useless" a mere hours after a patch goes live. Sorry.

Plenty of people are grossly overweight, that doesn't mean it's a good choice.

[Thickums]

Okay so if you ever played with randoms you'd know that the meta was defined by this combo, so they nerfed because it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring to see everyone doing the same thing over and over again. Not to mention the devastator is not weak at all, use the slayer armor or even scrapper armor if you use it as a shotgun and it's still very powerful, it's just not absolutely broken anymore

[Snicklesauce]

Originally posted by Seirun:

It's still the strongest one shot weapon around, but sure, whatever you say bud. Guess it must be hard to not be able to just faceroll everything with your infinite shot crossbow anymore.

In terms of straight damage you're right, but after taking into account optimal range, crit rating, and mod slots, the crossbow simply out does the devastator in every way.

[Jagdwyre]

Originally posted by Snicklesauce:

Originally posted by Jagdwyre:

Except there are plenty of people who think Devastator is a pretty good weapon, even without Bandit's Armor.

I don't put much stock into claims of thinking something is literally "useless" a mere hours after a patch goes live. Sorry.

Plenty of people are grossly overweight, that doesn't mean it's a good choice.

Non sequitur hooo.

[Seirun]

Originally posted by Snicklesauce:

Originally posted by Seirun:

It's still the strongest one shot weapon around, but sure, whatever you say bud. Guess it must be hard to not be able to just faceroll everything with your infinite shot crossbow anymore.

In terms of straight damage you're right, but after taking into account optimal range, crit rating, and mod slots, the crossbow simply out does the devastator in every way.

If only they tightened its spread, increased its crit and made its reload faster, right? ..oh wait.

[Mimoslav]

Originally posted by Seirun:

It's still the strongest one shot weapon around, but sure, whatever you say bud. Guess it must be hard to not be able to just faceroll everything with your infinite shot crossbow anymore.

That's the same Devouring Loop discussion all over again. It was nerfed from being the strongest to being the strongest but somehow it isn't strong enough when other options are.

[Snicklesauce]

Originally posted by Seirun:

Originally posted by Snicklesauce:

In terms of straight damage you're right, but after taking into account optimal range, crit rating, and mod slots, the crossbow simply out does the devastator in every way.

If only they tightened its spread, increased its crit and made its reload faster, right? ..oh wait.

It's just too similar to the crossbow but a bit weaker is all I'm saying. Idk why you're getting so butt hurt that one of the two weapons is the better option.

[Thickums]

Originally posted by Snicklesauce:

Originally posted by Seirun:

If only they tightened its spread, increased its crit and made its reload faster, right? ..oh wait.

It's just too similar to the crossbow but a bit weaker is all I'm saying. Idk why you're getting so butt hurt that one of the two weapons is the better option.

I mean that's exactly how it was before, devastator was better than the regular crossbow. Now they're more or less equal filling their own niche, crossbow is a high crit long range weapon where devastator is a close range very high damage weapon. Why does the devastator NEED to be a crit weapon to you? It's already got much more base damage and it recently got buffed so it has 10% crit chance now. Any more buffs and it would simply outclass the standard crossbow

[Snicklesauce]

Originally posted by MrTactician:

Originally posted by Snicklesauce:

It's just too similar to the crossbow but a bit weaker is all I'm saying. Idk why you're getting so butt hurt that one of the two weapons is the better option.

I mean that's exactly how it was before, devastator was better than the regular crossbow. Now they're more or less equal filling their own niche, crossbow is a high crit long range weapon where devastator is a close range very high damage weapon. Why does the devastator NEED to be a crit weapon to you? It's already got much more base damage and it recently got buffed so it has 10% crit chance now. Any more buffs and it would simply outclass the standard crossbow

It doesn't NEED to be anything to me. You don't seem to grasp that they don't each fill their own niche, as the crossbow does everything the devastator does + more. I'd also like to add they snuck on a minimum crit range to a "shotgun" crossbow, essentially doing away with the added crit rating you referred to.

[LetsGoChamp]

always an argument.