First of all, the importance of defense is too low in general, making armors with offensive boosts (almost) always preferable over defensive armors. Status resistances may be useful. but usually they can't beat offense either.

Then there is the competition:

Gunners have armors for every single situation, just craft a Sacred Firefly/Falcon Sentinel (or maybe Keeper/Wraith) Set, which has shock/freeze weakness instead of shock/fire resistance, but also great offensive bonuses which will overall be probably more useful.

Swordies have the Vog Cub set, with the same defense (normal and elemental switched) and the same fire resistance (no shock resistance, but no weakness either), but again: with offensive bonuses which will help you a lot more than 1 single status resistance. If you even manage to get a shock resistance UV on it you kinda have a Grey Feather set, but with SASI: med.

Bombers can choose between the Volcanic, Mad or even Bombastic sets, all with 1 resistance but offensive bonuses, or the Mad Bomber set, which is basically the bomber-only equivalent of the Chaos set (no curse weakness and only-bomber bonuses): not really defensive, but with a huge offense. They all have elemental defense, although the Mad Bomber set has lower defense.

When you can finally consider crafting 5* sets you will probably have enough skill and experience to be able to survive with the mentioned alternatives, and if you can't survive with them, you probably won't survive with Grey Feather set either, since you will survive a little longer, but so will your enemies without the extra offense the class sets provide. If I would have to use a defensive set, it would rather be the Divine set, with higher shadow defense instead of normal, an extra curse resistance and the Veil has DB vs fiends: med.

The shield however is one of the best, protecting against the most dangerous statuses and having high elemental defense, making it great for the Vana boss fight. As a swordie I mainly use BTS, but from the defensive shields (every shield except for BTS and SSB) GOS is one of the best, together with Omega Shell and CoA.

TL;DR
For the armor: there are similar, more offensive alternatives and offensive bonuses are usually better than a little extra defense.
For the shield: if you aren't a swordie or pro enough to use SSB, it is great.

IGN: Jmoormann

I don't see why you would need to tell me that you're not here for the prize, it doesn't seem relevant to anything I said

In Vana? Only the trojans and slags do shadow damage. The throne room is mainly normal+elemental. I've never tried it, but Grey Feather should do just fine.

It should be pretty nice vs. the Roarmulus Twins also. So Grey Feather matches two boss rooms and innumerable Clockworks levels pretty well. Whether that's enough to be useful depends on how much you value defense over offense.

[BTW, I just ran my first successful FSC run, so I'm finally a Vanguard. I did not use Grey Feather, though, so I can't really say how that would work. I used a Seerus Mask, Chaos Cloak, Swifty Buckler, Blitz, and Storm. Elemental defense does work in FSC.

I won't pretend it was pretty. It was a solo run on Normal mode, and I still burned a few sparks.]

What if you use a neutralizer and work with someone else with a vortex?

Would it work? Yeah.

But it would be hard to detonate and like two thirds of the weapons in the game work just as well or better with vortex bombs. It would be less neutralizer shining and more the bomb just doing what it does. If there were team members shooting in with other charges those would likely kill everything before you could detonate as well.

Small-town is also right in saying that it wouldn't solve the much larger issue of trojans.

For the record, I really think that Skepticraven nailed the last one but for the wrong reason. Vanaduke can be fought far more easily with polaris than argent peacemaker. Both deal elemental, but polaris shots will always be expanded against Vanaduke and will have the chance to deal shock, holding him in place... so if you're solo, having polaris would be a huge boon to you.

If you're not solo, then argent peacemaker would let you finish off slags without blasting them into team members, and you wouldn't need either weapon for the boss since you'd most likely be the "water boy" in a party of blitz needle users with such a loadout. The whole bird into vortex thing was kind of a red herring, since using nothing but the vortex would almost always be safer than trying to fire off an entire clip + the bird hoping that the vortex doesn't spew slags all over the place.

I also agree with Skeptic in that posts being longer is a bad thing. It's much harder to cover all of the necessary points in a paragraph than it is in five paragraphs. Definitely not proud of being one of the primary offenders, though I do try to make up for it in part with formatting.

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For the armor question, I'm going to go with yes.

The ability to just select any combination of resistances and slap them onto a piece of gear that has the same level of offensive buffs as Seerus is pretty huge for gunners... and the crux of the argument for "why" is because unless you're going down the ubermench route of having 100% very high UVs + black kat + MSI + trinkets, you'll never have just one set of armor. This is particularly relevant because of how mixable the new gunner sets are- if you want say, normal + elemental + shadow + shock resistance, divine veil + the gunner armor will have you covered... and it'll let you decide whether you'd prefer higher shadow/elemental + whether you'd have your attack bonus for some monster family. Of course with just one you'd have to decide these things in advance, but that isn't hard at all- you know what you want.

Another thing about it is that it offers unique combinations and gives them good stats. For instance, poison+elemental/normal, fire+piercing/normal shock+shadow/normal and fire+shadow/normal(+no fiend disability) are all combinations that would be much harder to come by without crafting new gunner armors. So when tortodrones roll around and you need an armor set, the shock/shadow gunner armor is going to be quite simply the best option unless you've got the black kat set+shock maxes up your sleeve somehow.

If you plan to get just one armor set for everything (which is basically like the manifest destiny of the arsenal forum for whatever reason) then that would work fairly well too- just get the shadow one that is weaker towards freeze+resists shock and stick a fire UV on it. That alone would carry you through the bulk of levels.. though you'd start to have trouble on runs like the ice queen at the end of the game.

Gunslinger gear is useful, it provides new options to old problems.

Gunner set for Ice queen? We got the perfect one now.

Granted these sets aren't as universally useful in comparison to Chaos, but that set is totally unbalanced and should be up for a nerf.
The new gear is balanced, probably the most balanced thing SK has released lately (looking at you BK set). Before you implement new and balanced gear however you should probably fix what is currently broken.... no one will give the new sets a second thought because Chaos and BK sets are the way they are, they just overshadow everything, even the new stuff.

This one is highly situational, as there are instances that would prefer the use of one other the other (whether the level is shock or fire themed is the big one)

I'm going to say that they are roughly equal. They are both the same type of gun, deal the same type of damage, and have the same mechanics. The only difference is the status that they inflict, and this is where the debating begins. So I'm just going to do a list.

Polaris
Pros:

• Deals shock damage which is elementally typed for greater damage vs undead/mechs
• Shock ticks cause interrupt

Cons:

• Shock ticks may prevent knockback from occuring when hit by expanded shots

Wildfire
Pros:

• Deals fire damage which is applied more frequently than shock
• Its has sparks flying from a ball of fire in its barrel. What more do you need?

Cons:

• Fire doesn't work in FSC... (then again, you don't want slags being temporarily frozen by shock while trying to knock them around in FSC's tight passageways and rooms so...)

So, the end result:
Versatility: Polaris since it has more interrupt capacity.
Style: Wildfire. See Wildfire Pro point #2

End verdict: Weapons are equal.

^Not to mention nova/hail driver.

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But between just those two guns, wildfire is much better under most circumstances because it doesn't deal shock and does deal fire.

The evils of shock

Shock cancels knockback sometimes and I do mean at regular and seemingly random intervals, which makes the gun unreliable in whether it's going to push the enemies back or stick them in place or what have you.

This shock business is going to very likely make your party hate you. If I'm trying to use a sword, and you give whatever I'm swording away at obnoxious and random knockback, I'm not going to be happy about it. It also means that you can't position the next shot appropriately- with wildfire, you can run up a bit and shoot at them as you go, so as to hit with all 3 shots expanded.. polaris on the other hand would be a shot in the dark- it would either shock them or not, and in doing so force you to miss opportunities for damage.

Shock VS Fire

Another key factor are the monsters that are weak to either-
Fire: Zombies, lumbers, lichens, ice cubes, glop drops
Shock: Kats, which resist fire. Possibly other mobs? I'm not sure.

Shock does fire damage, but with elemental defenses applied to it which means that despite many of the fire weak enemies being "weak" to shock due to their lower elemental defense, fire will always win out and deal more damage to them except in the case of kats whom are seriously destroyed by shock. Of course, neither of these guns are good against kats. If I want to leverage shock against kats, I'm going to bring voltaic tempest, storm driver or mixmaster, not polaris or wildfire. The fire weak enemies listed are all slow moving and can be taken advantage of with knockback-- once cornered, there won't be any escape for them... a tactic that shock also potentially ruins.

Where polaris is actually better

The place that polaris really shines is against a larger mob like tortodrones (which still prefer supernova..), Vanaduke, the royal jelly, basically huge things that are relatively immune to knockback and chase you down. None of these are really optimal places to bring pulsars either, but it is something to consider for the future.

NB This will be a long post again, but just so I can give more detailed reasons, not because it looks better or so

Here I disagree with Fehzor, although the difference is not really big. I'll explain why:

Again I'll refer to my own post about Pulsars:

Pulsars are unlike Blasters very well suited for specific situations, but completely useless for other ones. Most people say Pulsars are spammable easy to use solo weapons, but this is definitely not true. First of all Pulsars actually require a lot of skill, since they are only useful when you are in control of the room and all enemies are far away. Imagine you are attacking some Gremlins with your Permafroster. You have them all cornered, but suddenly a single Thwacker surprises you from behind. He is too close for your Pulsar, and while you are busy killing him the others escape. The second thing is that a combination of Pulsar suppressors and sword hitters works a lot better than a solo Pulsar. The swordies don't have to worry about flinching and statuses, the Pulsar does that, and the Pulsar is protected from close-range attacks. You can also use a full Pulsar-party to create an impassable bullet wall.

You should only use Pulsars anyway is you are sure that you have either enough other weapons to use when the Pulsar fails, or when your party can protect you. When either of these are true, the knockback that gets prevented by the shock should be no big issue as you have enough alternatives or protection. When enemies manage to get close, what will eventually happen, Wildfire will be just as useless as Polaris, and you will need a plan B anyway.

Pulsars are not meant as DPS weapons. If you want do deal heavy damage, go for Drivers, Autoguns, Blasters, basically every other gun. Therefore I don't think Pulsars should be judged on how much damage they deal, but rather on how good they do what they are supposed to do: interrupting, suppressing and knocking back. Note however that in some situations Polaris will be better even for damage as knockback might make you miss the other bullets, where the Polaris' shock might prevent enemies from getting knocked back, allowing you to land another hit with the Polaris or move in to strike with your sword quicker. It also fires quick enough to hit again if the shock prevents knockback.

Wildfire will often deal more damage because of its fire, and unlike Polaris it has guaranteed knockback. Therefore on paper it might seem more useful, but lets look at the enemies you will usually use it against:

-Turrets. When fighting turrets, especially multiple at a time, you will prefer the extra interrupting shock provides over the little extra damage fire has compared to shock.

-Slow large mobs. Shock mainly shines against densely packed enemies, against which you will mainly use Pulsars. The shock will deal damage to all surrounding enemies, making it eventually outdamage Wildfire against densely packed mobs, and renders the group almost completely immobile, allowing you to use a strong charge like a Brandish on it.

-FSC is the most popular place for Pulsars, especially Polaris. Except for that almost everything there has fire immunity, there are often so many Slags together that Polaris will deal more damage and do its job better than Wildfire.

With Pulsars you will try to corner and suppress enemies. Both can do this job, but Polaris will also immobilize them.

Some other various reasons why Polaris is generally better:

-The Combuster, one of the (or maybe the most) most used weapons, already deals great fire, so you won't also need Wildfire for that

-Polaris is more useful for swordies and bombers who have great profit from immobilized enemies. For specialized gunners Wildfire might be better, but gunners should mainly focus on DPS guns which Pulsars don't belong to.

-It's true that the enemies who are weak to fire (I thought Zombies were weak to fire too) are slower and therefore are weaker against Wildfire (on paper). But almost all elemental weak enemies (Retrodes, Scuttlebots, Zombies, Scarabs) (with the exception of Kats, against whom both will be useless) are slow and/or grouped enemies against whom shock will be more useful

TL;DR
On paper Wildfire is better, but Polaris is better in what a Pulsar should do: immobilizing and suppressing. Knockback might be prevented by shock, but a Pulsar user should always have a plan B for that; if you have no plan B for a Pulsar, you will eventually die anyway

What event did the overcharged mixmaster come from?
Ask the wiki.

What is the difference between the 1st Kataclysm and the second one?
Ask the wiki.

What is the differences between 4* and 5* polarisis other than the damage and look?
Compare using the wiki.

List the monster types with weaknesses/resistance.
Ask the wiki.

Where can you get Scissor Blades?
Ask the wiki.

What is the accesorizor (Bechamel) wearing?
Ask the wiki.

Is a slag referring to the zombie or the fire zombie?
Ask the wiki.

What is all the types of an undead?
Ask the wiki.

Finale (personal oppinion): Which is the best tortofist?
Grand Tortofist kills tortodrones best. [39 letters!]

Also, the wiki has quite a bit of information. :D

1. Who won the first question in this series?
Fehzor
2. Is the Polaris a bomb?
No
3. Are gremlins resistant to elemental or weak to elemental?
Resistant
Opinion: What is better, Permafroster or Winter Grave?
Winter Grave. The Permafroster's freeze is almost useless as you will fire a lot of bullets, and if an enemy gets frozen the next shot will break the ice. The Winter Grave's freeze however helps a lot, since the freeze will give you the time to charge again, enabling a Silversap-like chaining. As long as you keep enough distance, the possibility of the knockback not being applied due to the freeze shouldn't be a major problem.

"2. What damage does the biohazard do?"
My single word answer: Garbage.
The biohazard does garbage damage.

"Why would anyone want this [garbage weapon]?"
"Because it affords [them] other interesting opportunities."
"Like splicing single frames of [laggy explosions] into [dull runs]."

Oh that feels good.

"[Opinion]: What is better, Permafroster or Umbra Driver?"

Again this is apples to oranges and they're both useful in entirely different ways. Umbra driver is the "better" option, but permafroster is still better in certain circumstances.

Umbra driver = charge+damage reliant; you're going to be sniping enemies at a distance
Umbra driver = a major damage dealing weapon; you can REALLY fall back on umbra driver as your main DPS

Permafroster = ASI + MSI reliant; you're going to be strafing, posiitioning yourself, and knocking things into corners
Permafroster = a utility weapon; you aren't going to fall back on it, but it can still be pretty nice to have

This is kind of like comparing a flimsy assault rifle to a sniper rifle. The sniper rifle (umbra driver) can do more damage from farther away and in general, but the flimsy assault rifle (permafroster) can scare the crap out of them and hold them back until they're just flat out dead.

I answered all of the questions that were worth answering- things like "what are gremlins weak to.." and "who won on day 2??" are kind of.. not worth answering.

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Quickswitching or switch shooting can be done with either or both at the same time, but is generally a better deal with drivers.

Whereas pulsars are more utility oriented and have a sort of cap on the number of bullets that can hit and a larger clip size of three, drivers have much higher damage that can be landed over and over as well as a smaller clip size of two. Since switching the guns eliminates much of the clip size issue and allows for a steady stream of high damage bullets, they're much better suited for switch shooting.

Obviously it's switch shooting drivers.

Ironically thanks to this post I finally understand how that works.

Only 2 Pulsars don't have statuses that hinder Knockback (Supernova and Wildfire) which is the main feature or the pulsar line.

Drivers on the other hand don't have knockback so that is a non-factor. It is also easier for drivers to land shots since you don't have to anticipate knockback, you spray out shots without worrying that your target will get knocked out of range. Drivers also work at any range while pulsars rely on keeping a distance to deal the most damage. In addition to this the charge on the Drivers is much more powerful. For the highest driver DPS (status included) get the Magma and Storm driver since these statuses can stack and both work in crowd conditions.