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Mine is the " Fire - Brandish " one. I find their regular attack speed and dmg pretty usable, their charge attack is amazing, and deal Elemental DMG which is the enemie's weakness i find the most often. But it still does an excellent job against pierce - themed enemies due to their usually low health and against Shadow enemies
Not a line but a single weapon, ACHERON! ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY ACHERON!!! I pretty much hate the other brandishes due to their pitiful damage as I’m not just a fan of charge-oriented weapons (except for the tortofists and the iron slug) I don’t use the charge except when preparing to go on a button, setting an ambush, etc... The Acheron does as much damage as a sealed sword but is as fast as a brandish. It does more damage to beasts than final flourish too. And with its split normal/shadow damage still manages to perform well enough against fiends and undead. My favorite in bombs tho is the nitronime, it just kills everything with max CTR and damage bonuses. But as for a whole line, I’d say either blasters or tortofists.
Because spicedham.
Also it helps to be able to dodge and shoot at the same time when you live in Australia and get like 2 seconds of latency
My favorite line, is Cutter, Hunting Blade line.
I mainly use the Wild Hunting Blade, as my main weapon, but now it’s the reskin, the Alpha Claw Gauntlet.
I like to go in close, and be swift. As a Hound, a squadron leader of the Recon Rangers, I have my pack of ghost wolvers, “The Hounds”, to track and hunt the targets.
My favorite line of weapons ever since 2012, when I started playing, has been the Spur family, I really like their animations and versatility for being used both as a melee and ranged weapon. Too bad it only gets to the Winmillion but at least it shoots proyectiles with standard attacks.
I love the Spur's line as well. I really was sad at first to not see a 5* form of the amazing winmillion, but after comparing it to my divine avenger I can see it's not lagging too far behind in power. It still could use a slight boost though. Maybe a version for each elemental status effect all with elemental damage, then one pure normal damage?
I've read that the winmillion used to move you forward by a tile on the first hit. I've personally never tried it, but I can imagine it'd be awesome and very useful. Can they bring it back with the 5* winmillion and buff its damage a little bit? That'd be good enough for a 5* winmillion IMO (I've also heard about the projectile not being that useful because on combos it comes out only a tile in front of the slash so I suggest that they increase its range by a tile on both 4* and 5* for balance).
Acheron since it's overpowered and even vs fiends and undeads still does plenty of damage...
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... and the torto guns, shard bombs and catalyzers, if you are bored of the game just use them for extra fun.
Or as my friends refer to it, the literal hand cannon. Seriously that thing just rips through enemies now, I love it.
Levi blade, it was my first 5* wep and I loved charging in and doing that massive knock back.
Also the brandish line because reasons.
Cutter and rocket hammer. The latter is less of a line, but mobile swords are just so much fun.
The Pulsar line is my favorite. I just blast everything into a corner and keep it there with bullet streaming. I've yet to find a situation where it isn't extremely effective in PvE.
The Magnus Line. It was super good against everything not named "Greavers" or "Mortafires" before the gun update, and it got absolutely ridonkulous since then... while still being pretty bad against hordes of the aforementioned enemies. There's just something about bob-and-weaving through enemy attacks while on shield, before popping one of these bad bois while the enemies are on attack cooldown and then proceeding to steamroll 1 or even 2 mobs at once through flinch-locking.
Too bad there's no elemental version of it, because it would've been the best elemental gun period -- especially with its new charge shot that could easily rip through the slower hordes (retrodes, lumbers, scuttlebots, zombies and scarabs) while also having a strong normal attack that could just as easily pick off, deny and eliminate the more annoying ones of the bunch (all the rest). I wouldn't even need a status ailment for it; just give me an elemental Iron Slug and I'd gladly sell away my Polaris on the edge of reaching Lvl 10 for it.
I'm also liking the balance of projectile speed, firing rate and burst power behind the Riftlocker, and how it just seems to come out well in practically every situation you'd need a piercing weapon for as a gunner, even when there are other guns that very clearly outmatch it in rather specific situations (*cough* Blitz Needle *COUGH*). The jury's still out on which of the Obsidian Carbine and the Winter Grave is the best shadow gun though...
This thread could go in the Arsenal forum.
I too like the Combuster line. The only thing I'd say is: You can get through a lot of Spiral Knights by spamming Combuster and Acheron charges. When you get bored, don't give up on Spiral Knights. Switch to other weapons.