Devastator Vs. Trickster Vs. Techie For Solo Play?

[Lost]

Enjoying my trickster, but struggling somewhat on higher world tiers due to how squishy I am.

Apparently the devastator is a lot stronger for solo play, although I recall a few people talking about technomancers being solid too.

Thoughts?

[Tikigod]

Playing Technomancer and at World Tier 7 at the moment. Still largely killing things in a single head shot or two body shots.

Abilities often feel a bit naff when you mostly get by single or double tapping enemy for big damage leech heals, but can be handy to get out of annoying situations when the game gets a bit confused.

[Strexxin]

Also would like to know this, Trickster seemed ok for a start but even at WT6 things get too difficult

[Keldrath]

Technomancer is v easy cause you just do damage to heal. Can just sit back and pick things off. Devastator can be built super tanky tho and do well.

[relijah03]

Tech is a great choice, currently what I'm using, you one shot pretty much everyone in the forehead from sitting back, and you can heal from damage or use the ability that allows for healing 30% of max health.

[TsMonkeyPatch]

Yeah but heal is not enough ;) I play Technomancer and now i'm level 22 / 23 not sure. Just run in is not enough. At some point it was good enough to take the minigun to selfheal alot and kill just everything, but now it is not the case anymore. So i have to use alot of cover to survive (WT 5).

I think it is the gear you need, i mean it was super easy on the demo with WT 5, but i got good gear no legendarys but good enough to kill just everyone very easy. Currently i finished a quest now "Legacy of the outriders" and got a legendary weapon (2.7k weapon power) i will see how this will kill now but before the 2k weapon i got sometimes in serious trouble.

[CptnSpandex]

Originally posted by Strexxin:

Also would like to know this, Trickster seemed ok for a start but even at WT6 things get too difficult

Then you have not upgraded your gear right, easy street.

[Rozpierdalacz]

Trickster here lv 22 world 11.
Still op still 1 shooting everything but bosses.

[Sri]

I always start with some sniping.
When the big boys are coming for me I use Slow Trap with Thunder Dome, gives me 100% Shield.

[Lost]

Originally posted by CptnSpandex:

Originally posted by Strexxin:

Also would like to know this, Trickster seemed ok for a start but even at WT6 things get too difficult

Then you have not upgraded your gear right, easy street.

Originally posted by Rozpierdalacz:

Trickster here lv 22 world 11.
Still op still 1 shooting everything but bosses.

Mind explaining how?

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by TsMonkeyPatch:

Yeah but heal is not enough ;) I play Technomancer and now i'm level 22 / 23 not sure. Just run in is not enough. At some point it was good enough to take the minigun to selfheal alot and kill just everything, but now it is not the case anymore. So i have to use alot of cover to survive (WT 5).

I think it is the gear you need, i mean it was super easy on the demo with WT 5, but i got good gear no legendarys but good enough to kill just everyone very easy. Currently i finished a quest now "Legacy of the outriders" and got a legendary weapon (2.7k weapon power) i will see how this will kill now but before the 2k weapon i got sometimes in serious trouble.

I'm level 14 playing on World Threat 7. Regular enemy go down in a head shot. Tanky enemy like Ironclads down in a couple of head shots.

Trick I'm finding is realise as a technomancer your abilities are more just there to allow you to shoot. Get a nice automatic sniper rifle and blighted rounds, packs of charging melee just fall in one go, even captains just melt. Need to reload? Deploy your mines or freeze turret to keep the enemy back until you're ready to unload again.

Blighted rounds on cooldown and more tank short ranged are charging, pack a secondary high damage per hit rifle, if it can apply bleed or burn? You're golden.

Things like miniguns, assault rifles and such? Screw 'em.

My main enemy is map design and that some encounters are heavily scripted to bend me over in a tightly packed area with AoE mortar enemy and waves and waves of melee.... that's when melee, leg it and mine comes in. :)


Edit: Oh and should mention, playing as a typical Technomancer keeping your weapon at a decent damage per shot (Not just going on firepower rating) works out much much better.

[[FOW]Fumanchu]

Level 21 WT 11 Technomancer. Not having any issues as long as I keep my weapons matched to the my level.

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by FOWFumanchu:

Level 21 WT 11 Technomancer. Not having any issues as long as I keep my weapons matched to the my level.

Great thing about higher world tier is it artificially boosts the max level of gear you can use. So matching weapons to your level is exactly what not to do. ;)

[Zeel Ara]

Originally posted by Rozpierdalacz:

Trickster here lv 22 world 11.
Still op still 1 shooting everything but bosses.

Any tips on how to do that? I'm spending 1-2 full assault rifle clips on most enemies as level 8. My starter attack skill can one-shot low health enemies, but the lengthy cooldown makes it unreliable as a primary method. All my gear is 6+ and most of it blue.

[TelenS]

I\m level 24, WT8. Trickster. It's challenging, but it works. I just need to keep killing things faster than they kill me, and shotguns work beautifully for that. I keep trying to use other weapons, but shotguns are so much stronger than anything else, I think assault rifles and therest might need a buff.

[ffrotty]

Originally posted by Tikigod:

Originally posted by FOWFumanchu:

Level 21 WT 11 Technomancer. Not having any issues as long as I keep my weapons matched to the my level.

Great thing about higher world tier is it artificially boosts the max level of gear you can use. So matching weapons to your level is exactly what not to do. ;)

wut. no it doesn't.

the entire point of higher WT is that you CAN boost the items, so you're supposed to boost the items via crafting.

set it to a low WT and see what happens with high level gear