I'm a gunner and i'm pretty devoted to the game, already at 5* with shadowsun set and several 5* guns, and 2 3* heart pendants. I was invited to a guild by my friend that focuses on T2 LD, and i started getting T2 LD sets, using the dusker set with a flourish and a sealed sword as a large amount of T2 LDers do, and did fairly decent, doing around 5k each round regularly. After the guild grew a bit, they decided to make a set team and decided i would be the gunner for them, and i was fine with it because i played a bit of T3 LD being a gunner and was able to do something. I bought a fractured mask of seerus from my friend who had the crimson hammer DLC for 1100 ce and decided to go to T2 LD with it and a dusker coat with a cryotech alchemer. The first round i scored just a bit over 1000 dmg, and around 5 caps in a match with about 6 people on my team. I thought that it was just because there was alot of pros in the game and that they were just really good, with all the ASI flourishes and sweep spamming. I played for a few more rounds and my damage was barely increasing, maybe by 100 per round, and then some of the pros left, and i just hovered around 1300 damage, and i started noticing alot of my bullets were missing. Then i thought and found that 2/3 of everyone in games use the striker class, and it is extremely easy to dodge any bullet anyday with the striker, even if they move around randomly. I post this more of a complaint than a suggestion, but i feel that the striker class should be nerfed, it gives sword damage med ASI med and lets you boost around, i suggest more of a dash thing like that of the rocket hammer, and have a smaller bar or something, if not, then give guns more damage or larger bullets.
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wow... so nothing? i think the other classes are fine, gaurdian with the large sword range and damage, bombers with the range as well, and then we have the strikers who use flourishes all day. what about gunners? we just keep running around spamming bullets and get maybe 5-10 hits while strafing before we get screwed over.... there's no damage output, all you can to is lure someone out and deal miniscule damage.
There are good LD gunners out there that laugh at your story.
Have you seen pro gunners? They score about 10k per round with pro strikers! You just need to improve on your gunning.
actually, i play T2 LD, because i want to get alchemers before it go back to T3 LD. and i've never seen a pro gunner before :/ i've never seen a gunner score higher damage or cap than a striker
Get a Polaris or gigawatt pulsar, and shoot in the direction of commonly traveled pathways or openings. The large bullets can cover an entire area, and by targeting places where strikers have to run through, there's a good chance that people will run straight into your shots.
There are several causes to your problems and even though some claim "you just need to get better, brah! There are gunner pros, brah, you are just bad!", that's not the truth at least not in general. As you might have already seen, given your really focus on LD. There are a few - and with few I mean maybe what, two? Three? - who actually manage to use guns effectivly in Lockdown. But that is the exception and not because people don't try.
One of the many reasons is a bug where your bullets hit but don't have any actuall impact. Also, your bullets tend to cause a lot less damage than swords, at most half of that. It is also a lot harder to hit, as bullets, except for the Polaris', are rather small. In contrary to that, to charge in, spam a few Flourish strikes and get away again takes almost no skill. These are just a few of the things I noticed while playing.
I wouldn't expect to get much sympathy on the forums though, many here are vehement defenders of toothpick lockdown, going as far as trying to nerf every other weapon to protect their "precious":
"Trollaris is uber in lockdown, completely dominating LD it has to be nerfed!!!1!one!!"
Welcome to lockdown. Where no one even cares what people think cuz they're trying to see how many toothpicks they can fit in someone's mouth. We all know of the dreadful skolver, but we can't do anything about until a brave guardian or recon comes up and fits more toothpicks in their mouth than anyone else.