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Ok so this is and isn't a trade thread - I'd genuinely like to know people's thoughts on which is better.
Ionic Barrel with the 15% Crit Mult bonus -or-
Power Bore with the 7% damage bonus
If it helps I would like to know which you'd pick for a long range FRC Heavy Assault Carbine for instance. LOL
(It is and isn't a trade thread in that it will determine both the status of my Ionic Barrel III and possible trade for a Power Bore III)
Personally, I'd prefer the extra crit. I'm using an Assault Carbine with Assassin Synergy. My goal is to optimize critical hits cause I feel the damage far out performs in all forms of PvE (not PvP tested, I have no interest in PvP)Quote:
Originally Posted by Overtkill21
This is my opinion.
I would have to take the 7% damage bonus, It's not often you see a critical hit. Permanent damage increase, I'll take that any day. I like to PVP and a sure thing is always your best bet. ☣
I disagree. In PvE, 90% of what I come across has an easy to access Crit Zone. This is from my experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by DoomxGhost
Tell me the PowerBore III is Cannoneer if so hook me up. Lol!!
If your Heavy is Assassin I would go with crit. If any other synergy than damage.
it's not a Heavy, fully automatic. From the tooltip with Assassin Synergy, the additional 15% damage buff (or 10%, doesn't specify if the buff stack, or the 4p replaces the 3p bonus) does not have a cooldown, just an expiration time of 10 seconds, so I believe you if you land another crit, it will reset the timer, do an Arkfall and that is a HUGE damage bonus... which is why I agree to the above statement lolQuote:
Originally Posted by PowThePredat0r
For PvE - Crit all day. For PvP- YOU BETTER GO POWERBORE, Son!
I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't use a Heavy Carbine in PVP unless you are playing Shadow War and sitting far away or something.. I hate all scopes in this game. I wish Trion would put in scopes that don't zoom in...Quote:
Originally Posted by Slackaveli
I hate Heavy Assault Carbine... love my full-auto Assault Carbine.Quote:
Originally Posted by PowThePredat0r
I concur........ msg length.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jokerz_89
VBI AR for me. now, who's got one w/ siphon lol?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 1.15 isn't "addition" it's "multiplier" bonus. So "the more the merrier" if you have 2.0 crit before you are going to have 2.3 crit after .. BUT if you had only 1.1 before you are going to have only ~ 1.25 after . Hence the answer - in case you have decent "crit" oriented version - 1.15 is way to go, as even 1 crit out of 5 gives you good overall damage bonus in PvE and PvP .. but if you have low crit - 7% of stable damage is much better idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slackaveli
For instance with SMGs I wouldn't even think about adding crit :P
I know people who are extremely good with heavy carbine .. but it doesn't work for me at all, so I stick to ranger auto sniper or courier as an addition to SMG or LMG ( unfortunately rifles are a bit underpowered now in both long and short distance .. and there are not many cases of medium distance fights :( )Quote:
Originally Posted by Slackaveli
I personally love my heavy, it has a built in 1.25 Mag bonus and with the 1.50 High Cap I put on it it gets 35 rounds per mag at 466 DMG. It's true I'd prefer not having to semi-auto it but the mag is seemingly endless and not much can stand up to a full one.
the Max XP Bonus was a 12% Crit Bonus to Out of Combat targets, which works for me as I use it as a Sniper Rifle anyway.
I think the base Crit Mult is only like 1.6. I have to doublecheck.
Hmm Power Bore or Ionic - so if my Crit Mult is 1.6 I'd only go to 1.84 which would likely round to 1.8. Lame. Power Bore it is. (Damage boost would put it at 498 each round).