depends on what i was running
overcharge, which i used the most was - combat shotty and LMG. while overcharge is active the LMG doesnt bounce. pick a soft spot on an ark and hold the trigger down!! also with the shotty made killing Hellbug Archers easy mode.
cloak - combat shotty and bolt sniper. didnt use this as much, but worked nice.
LMG with recoil/bloom reducing stock, +dmg barrel and quick reload mag. My other weapons mostly collected dust, though I did whip out the Detonator or Semi-auto Sniper a few times.
Definitely Burst-Fire Assault Rifle, Auto Shotgun and Bolt Action Sniper.
the LMG - FRC SAW for primary and secondary, the VOT Bolter sniper rifle. these 2 combinations i thought was the most fun to play.
I had the FRC SAW with a BMG for arkfalls, and SAW with semi-auto smiper for everything else. A fun PvP loadout was semi-auto sniper with a thumper.
Ralph - Just a guy with a toon for every game worth playing since EQ1.
Shotgun main with pistol secondary. With Cloak EGO power. That setup was so much fun! It was like playing with my rogue in Rift. Loved it.
The opening would be similar to the Smuggler in SWTOR LOL! Double Barrel Shotgun blast to the back then switch to Auto Shotgun or LMG to spray and pray!
Didn't find out about lock boxes until around level 50 in beta 3, the first one i opened had a very accurate purple SMG and a blue combat shotgun. Used those for most of my play time.
Near the end of beta i got an orange SMG with double the clip size but slightly less DPS, and a purple auto pistol that emptied it's clip in less than 5 secs (both also from lockboxes). Used those the rest of my time in beta, only switching pistol for the shotgun on major arkfalls.
Will i do the same loadout in retail? Depends on luck on loot drops, and how good the preorder and deluxe weapons are.
I ran two loadouts, a VOT Pulsar SMG with fire damage and a BMG, the second was a Derailer sniper rifle with Electrical damage sidearm a BMG again. So I guess a BMG was my favorite archtype, but I'm looking to run a similar build at launch.
Well, I was really hoping to find a good pump-action shotgun but it wasn't to be (even after spending all my free bits in Beta on lockboxes in hopes of finding some sweet guns). I will search high and low for one when the game finally launches because it synergizes well with both of the EGO powers I want to toy around with in Blur and Cloak.
I DID luck out and get a couple of very nice pieces in beta though that worked well. I got an orange quality bolt-action sniper rifle that had 2 mod slots and the radioactive effect that was just amazing. Good high damage and seemed to have a decent fire rate for a bolt action out of the three or four that I tried. If I could keep one thing from the beta that would definitely be it.
I also had good luck with a few different SMG's, my favorite being a "sub-carbine" of some sort that had 5-shot burst fire and a 50 round clip. It was really great and accurate even with hipfire, and when I was aiming well and hitting critical areas it made short work of everything.
I always kept one or two other guns handy just to try things but those two got most of the run because they were the most fun to play with and the most effective as well.
I like the long-range/short-range combo as kind of a default setup.
If the Gods of Loot are reading this thread, hook me up with something good on launch day!
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