whats a good expertimental weapon that does not require a ship to get?

[Honor Guard]

Looking for a expertimental weapon for the new T6

[uni790]

There's a free one in the dilithium store, under reclaim, a lightning thing, probabily the best of the bunch of them to boot.

[ImperatorPavel]

The Hyperexcited Ion Projector is the only free experimental weapon - being said it's not all that good.

[VoodooMike]

There's an experimental weapon you can get via the competitive reputation... it requires grinding the rep and such, but doesn't require a specific ship or any ZEN to acquire.

[Honor Guard]

Originally posted by =pG=™ Pavel:

The Hyperexcited Ion Projector is the only free experimental weapon - being said it's not all that good.

did not say for free,I meant without me needing to buy a certain ship just to get it

[ImperatorPavel]

That implies "free"

[Honor Guard]

not really,simply looking for ones that do not require a ship to obtain

[VoodooMike]

Originally posted by Honor Guard:

not really,simply looking for ones that do not require a ship to obtain

There are only 2 that don't require a ship, the basic lightning gun and the flak-shot that you can get from competitive rep. On the bright side, you only need tier 3 rep for the latter, which takes less than a week to get.

[OldMemes.biz]

Originally posted by uni790:

There's a free one in the dilithium store, under reclaim, a lightning thing, probabily the best of the bunch of them to boot.

Originally posted by =pG=™ Pavel:

The Hyperexcited Ion Projector is the only free experimental weapon - being said it's not all that good.

Soooo.... Which is it lol?

[VoodooMike]

Originally posted by "MS-DOS 6.22":

Soooo.... Which is it lol?

It really depends on what you're expecting from your experimental weapon. The ion projector deals electricity damage, while most experimental weapons deal kinetic damage.. and that kinetic damage is far higher than the projector's damage, and often has additional effects.

So, it sort'v comes down to how easily you can chew through their shields. The freebie weapon does full damage to shields, but has no shield penetration and is lower damage than the others... most the others are kinetic, and thus are largely absorbed by the shields while they're up, but usually have 20% additional penetration and considerably higher damage. Once the shield are taken down the kinetic weapons will hammer the hull while the ion projector will be "meh".

My view is that the ion projector is weak, and the least useful of the weapons. On the sort of ship that can field experimental weapons your regular weapons will usually rip through the shields during an attack run, so the higher kinetic damage with possible special effects is a better way to go, especially if you're going to veer off to set up for another attack run (since you'll be hurling high damage attacks behind you as you fly away, as all experimental weapons have 360 degree arcs).

[OldMemes.biz]

Kinda nice considering Rommies get a freebie token ship with an experimental weapon slot on it. Shame no one else does.