Any Pistol...why bother

[Dandrielas]

The only reason I use pistols besides the pursuit is because I am used to it from COD. When I play as a Sniper in that game, switching to pistol is very fast, so I kinda carried on that tradition in this game. Plus, I use cloak a lot which works well for pistols.

Cloak + head shot=dead

[Era]

Wolfhound Pistols are almost OP in PVE if you know how to aim :|

Almost?

My unmodded Wolfhound Pistol chained crits at min range:
1416 per shot
6.5 shots per second
16 round mag
1.8 reload
22656 damage per mag
9204 damage per second
5316 damage per second accounting for reload during extended fire

Find me another gun that clears those last 2 numbers. Either of them.

[Xyril]

Wolfhound pistols has okay base damage and awesome crit mulitpliers and fast reload. I find it useful in bug arkfalls where the pistol really shine 100% crit chance on huge targets. Outside of that its outclass by the rest weapon types.

[Exes]

Wolfhounds pistols are pretty much the best weapons to kill stuff like the scrapper scorpion or anything with a small mostly open crit area. It works very well against bigger hellbugs too as, if you can get the aggro, the elite/patriarch whatever will run straight at you and you can simply unload into his mouth.

Usually kills elite hellbug warriors running at you in few seconds, not even using a full mag in coop (means the health is scaled up).

[Greywolf]

What pistol is that in the video?

Just a blue wolfhound, in that movie it is unmodded, an orange wolfhound will tear shreds especially if it has a +4 clip, get another +4 clip magazine mod on it, and your looking at a 20clip magazine 500% crit pistol, only bad thing about pistols is drop off dmg so you gota keep close,

on a side note i will be uploading my monarch quick kill guide in a minute, how to kill a monarch in 20 seconds

[Doctor Samurai]

Pistols are not crap. You need to learn how to use them. If you use the Wolfhound you will come top damage in instances 90% of the time. Yeah it has low damage...but it has a stupidly high crit modifier (I had one with almost 5). So get in close and keep shoring them in the head. I have a Wolverine I have missed atm that can take out almost every non-elite in one to two bursts.

[RoG Goat]

My wolfhound has the highest DPS of any of my guns...
and I have a legendary Saw

[Rek Vio]

I messed around with one particular pistol that when shot into a enemy's head crit for 1k damage easily. I don't understand why you think they are obsolete. They have a use just like every weapon in the game, some better than others.

[Duskguy]

Haven't read all the pages here but I have a 25-ish round full auto pistol. It is like a glock and I love it with my sniper as a secondary. Not sure about this but seems as if the switch from one weapon to the next is faster when switching to a pistol rather than say a lmg. Also pretty sure pistols are the quickest reloaders. I can empty the 25 rounds in about 1.5 seconds reload in another .5 seconds and be shooting again.

Did the protect farmers from raiders with just this pistol and I had to constantly pick up new ammo. It has an acid property as well which is nice.

Have a second pistol with the purple laser looking property syphon I think, and while semi auto has a 15 round magazine whice only takes about 2 seconds to empty. The accuracy is really high with little to no spread or recoil firing as fast as possible.

While not ideal for lots of situations, pistols are very useful.

[greatdividers]

IF you are able to maintain 100% accuracy and 100% criticals a wolfhound is the highest dps (including reload) weapon in the game.

see:
weapon chart!