Hello everyone. Pretty new, but I've looked up the wiki. I wanna be a gunner/bomber type. I love ranging in all MMOs. So my best bet is the gunslinger series right? If so, where do I buy the gunslinger recipe? I know it may be random but which vendor is it?
Also, for guns, I started with the blaster gun. It's pretty decent, but should I go for Antigua? The upgrades for it are pretty enticing, based on the description on the wiki =p.
The Proto Bomb is a 0* weapon; absolute dust, really, so it's nothing to mind for comparison.
In general, bombs don't show their potential until the 4 and 5* upgrades, where 4* may show ~30%, and the 5* shows the raw boom of Bombs.
@ the topic:
I'd say yes to aiming for an Antigua, and then preferably taking the Sentenza upgrade path. Somewhat depends on what bomb you choose.
For bombs, it depends on what you want to use them for; burst damage, status effect, crowd control, etc.
Oh, Esp. Don't trollololol the newbie with a Sentenza suggestion.
"Oh, Esp. Don't trollololol the newbie with a Sentenza suggestion."
Hmm, not sure if....
On a serious note, I just recommended it over Argent Peacemaker since I think it the superior one, and the 6-shot revolver pistoling seems to fit with what he's looking for as a 'gunslinger'.
Every other bomb is far superior to the Proto Bomb.
My Blast Bomb the other day took out an entire den of post-terminal Tier-1 wolvers all by itself. Its wider radius than the Blast Bomb made it infinitely more useful when leveled a bit, as it becomes harder for monsters to escape. I imagine the Super Blast Bomb will do the same for pre-terminal Tier-2 wolvers. It's something I've found necessary in my arsenal, as I'm quite a slow knight when it comes to sword reflexes.
Crystal Bomb is amazing against both wolvers and greavers.
I have a 3-star Blast Bomb and the radius is huge. I hear blast bomb explosion sizes will get even larger from here on out.
nitronome= stand in one place and let the baddies run at you....
but really, my favourite bomb last preview was the heavy deconstructor, even though it was only 4 star. it does awesome damage to constructs especially at lvl 10. and recently the blast radius was increased from its proto sized radius which sounds epic!!
What about armor, since apparently item bonuses (e.g. attack speed, charge time reduction, etc.) are no longer weapon specific and gunslinger seems to have been nerfed, any suggestions for good armor? I'll probably keep the gunslinger as costume though, Love the hat.
A friend of mine is interested in the antigua, or more specificially its divine upgrades. It looks like a 6 shooter type, so plenty of shots before reloads which lets you click like mad. There are other options however as a gunner. I believe in a supportive role that the autogun would be very useful. Your team is out there killing baddies, and you can rain waves of lead over the enemy ranks to hurt them all. Not so good against specific targets, but in an arena type of environment there's more targets than your party can deal with so "lots of damage to lots of targets" is good.
Don't underestimate the power of status effects though. I'm using a cryotech alchemer and it's insanely good sometimes for keeping enemies off of allies, giving them that extra time to escape unscathed. It also stops targets from turning to attack, like turrets, which can make some of them ineffective for a time while your party deals with some of the others (canceling out bullet hells for example, enforcing safe spots). Spewing flames would probably also help, as DoTs can never be bad. Stun and shock effects are good as well, but I don't have a lot of experiences with them.
As for bombs, from what I've seen so far they're kind of lame, but it's likely I'm just biased by the underwhelming Proto bomb. Assuming every other bomb is far superior, upgrade fast if that's all you've got.