You know it's bad when you're grateful they brought a Nova into a boss fight... Does the Black Disc have any purpose in a boss fight? I mean, does it have any range? DBC
Yeah, it has range, but seeing as most boss fights have huge area, you won't make use of the bounce as often. Possibly in DR? Although I'm debating the effectiveness in Rush Phase.
Ironically, the Nova was once an acceptable weapon before this thread's activity spiked around May or June. The damage output on that thing isn't too impressive compared to the chaingun, but I'll pay it for being a somewhat strategic trade-off: it's easier to avoid getting hit with less of a speed penalty. It's got range, it's just rather slow. I'm not sure if it can hit the same opponent multiple times before it bounces off a wall, but if it does, it could actually be quite a decent weapon if you can nail a boss with it a couple of times at close range. That being said though, it's just not as practical as our other available options: the bosses move around too much for us to exploit its riccochet abilities to their maximum.
It can slice through multiple enemies, so I'd say its properties are somewhat similar to the beam and explosion weapons: not quite instantaneous piercing, and not quite splash, but you can make it cover some interesting ranges depending on what trajectory you set it on.
On the black disc: have to use it in tight spaces to be effective in PvP. The White Drill is nice too, but not a ton of use in pvp. Actually, these weapons are perfect for a rush phase in a boss room, as it saves a lot of aiming and ammo. The Chaos Armor, in addition to looking nice, the force field is silent but deadly. Undetectable, but it hurts quite a bit. It may be good for either mode.
I'm in the middle of gold/mithril grinding, join me if you'd like I don't see anyone hosting Siegfried right now, so I'm going to host a rank-restricted match.
Sorry man, the lurkers were FAST. As soon as I put it up, two orange-rankers immediately jumped in. Looks like a lot of people were camping for a Siegfried round o____o; ----------- I'm still mithril grinding, because every boss has only dropped mithril only once for me so far (unless some dropped zero). If you'd like to run a boss with me, gimme a holler, and you can host if you'd like. Also lemme know if you want to try running the new mithril weapons as a pair or something I don't have the armour yet, though, I'm grinding mithril for the chest piece.
Just to show I am still around (still got a pretty busy schedule), and noticed the update The armor looks ok for goldfarming, but I did not check the prices. At least one of the pieces costs Mithril, from what I read here so far, right? And the new weapons seem to come down as "meh" for PvE ... And I do not see any new boss added ... So the whole update is not really interesting for me, too bad. Guess my scarce free time won't go back to SW anytime soon
Yeah, they haven't done anything particularly significant for PvE in this update, which is a bummer. The chest piece is 200 mithril, which is probably going to annoy most players. The upside is that the chest piece itself gives 10% gold -- so if you're hell-bent on collecting armour pieces, that one will replace the Cygni chest in the new optimum gold-farming set-up. Also of note to gold farmers is the Chaos Legs: +1 speed and +5% gold. The Andromedae Legs has a higher bonus, but this is something simultaneously efficient and functional. --------------------- Yeah. You'd have to be trying to be happy about it to like the update content, unless you're either a fan of PvP, or you got a feature you wanted (a homing weapon and a arc-zapping feature were requested by players I've encountered here and there, both of which are in this update to some degree)
I'm pretty sure that when you actually give the holler, it's supposed to be "Holla!" Just sayin'... DBC
You know, although the Black Disc is a PvP Devastator, I have a feeling that the white drill is going to be a very effective anti-air for Siegfried... One more match, I want you to see the force field I forgot to show you last match.
Hmm...I was hoping to see some crazy spark of electricity shoot out from your armour to any aliens that got close to you, but didn't see anything like that. Have you seen the "chaos energy" thing in effect? The White Drill looks fun, but possibly a bit redundant for compulsive campers. The Black Disk though...looks like it can slice up the alien crowd.
Yeah, one more round on Siegfried then? I'll pretend to be a freeloader for a while so the aliens can get closer to you, if that'll help Pw 2002
