As a soldier, what weapon should I be using?

[Hillbilly_Dave]

I favor sniper rifles over everything else, but I also tend to use assault rifles and rocket launchers. Is the sniper rife an acceptable soldier weapon?

[aether.tech]

At close range - a good high damage low spread shotgun is the best. Medium range a good battleriffle with high accuracy and long range a sniper rifle. Of course...being borderlands it doens't really matter at what range you use a sniper rifle as long as you hit things with it... Rocket Launcher is pretty...POS imo...

I got lucky on a second playthrough (first was Mordecai) as a soildier and found some really nice shotguns early on (and later as well) a ~65 accuracy with low spread and explosive 2, 70 damage. very nice :D It was my primary weapon for most of playthrough 1. (combined with the Roland's perks for shotguns.)

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Something just occurred to me. I haven't seen any melee weapons drop and I'm pretty sure there's a melee class. Do the weapons that drop depend on the class you're playing?

[Ogre420]

All melee weapons come attached to guns (bayonettes) anyone can use them.
The melee characters get their "melee" weapons from their skill tree. (buzzaxe, sword)

[Hillbilly_Dave]

I started one of those really big dudes, Brick I think he is by default, and so far he plays just like the soldier.

[Raukue]

Each character is good with all weapons it's just some classes get some boosts with certain weapons. Soldier I believe are Shotguns and Assault Rifles. For Hunter it is Sniper and Pistols. For Brick it is rocket launcher and explosives. For Siren it is nothing specific but SMGs are suggested because having a rapid fire weapon and increase elemental chance will dish out more damage.

I am just looking around on posts here... just badly wanna play but the one I play with cannot today. So... lol. Though at the same time I don't wanna start up with 1 or 2 others and play the same thing back to back... I dunno. Now it's like, I don't wanna do solo now that I got to play with someone.

[ShinkuTear]

Originally posted by Raukue:

For Siren it is nothing specific but SMGs are suggested because having a rapid fire weapon and increase elemental chance will dish out more damage.

Actually, Lilith has Class Mods that boost her SMGs, giving stuff like 70% more damage and 20 Ammo Regen, along with boosting some general skills. Aside from that, Lilith favors general elemental stuff, yes, and SMGs happen to be very good for elemental stuff, yes.

[Raukue]

Ah right I forgot about class mods. Dunno why I forget. Guess it's just been too long. But I guess with skill tree alone. But yeah that's right.

[Orge Lambart]

Shotguns and Sniper Rifles are king in this game. Get something with X 4 elemental and you'll make easy work of just about everything in the game. X 4 shock and a X4 poison are best, you'll even be able to take down creatures 4 levels higher than you.

Close range X 4 poison shutgun the one with 0.0 or 0.7 accuracy as they tend to have much much higher dmg caps.

Rifles are decent if they have a scope but won't reach the dmg potential of a sniper (one of those maliwan ones with huge magizines 24+ and 1.7+ ROF makes them pretty similar to an assault rifle IIRC, watch the ROF though, anything about 2 and I'm pretty sure it spits out 2 or 3 shots with each trigger pull which isn't good in all honesty)

[Cpt. Xiving]

You should go full on pistols.

[SoldierScar]

Use whatever you want. But soldier is specialized for assault rifles and shotguns.

[Valas34]

Use whatever you want. Sniper rifles are just as good on a Solider as they are on Brick. Sure Mordecai gets bonuses for them but do they make that much of a difference? You wont get any use out of Roland's bonuses to Combat Rifles or Shotguns but you shouldn't have a problem using Snipers with him.