Great to hear. The nerf on it was too extreme. Hitting nearby mobs for 10 points had to be an error. The real atomizer fix would be a scoring one and how assist scoring works. But you should know this given you have the atomizer. Try it in a thorn liro against scrappers sometime. It's a terrible gun for killing but nice for scoring with assassin biotoxin.
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The original nerf was in direct relation to this. "Damage over time and other scaled effects should now properly scale with your item rating when equipping new weapons." Prior to that Hulker hell patch the atomizer effect was not scalling properly one shotting everything in its range other than the main target. Trick was to kill a miniboss you crit on the mob next to it and the rest die. After patch you only did a get a small maybe 5% damage to the mobs in range on crit. Scoring assist kills and mastery bug is where the weapon gets out of hand. That is because of how score is done. Think to the d13 BMG days and how people abused scoring then. I am guessing you didnt have an atomizer prior to hulker hell patch. The thin was a beast. Hellbug swarms .. enough said.
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The atomizers aoe used to one shot everything. It was broken. Now it does little damage like it should have done. And with the scoring with it, what does it matter when rewards in this game are ****e. I just stood at ammo bo through entire mjr arkfall, got whiteout, oj nade and a epic mod. Why bother with scoring when you get rewarded for doing nothing?
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nope , i got it after . and i see how its a scoring machine , with the mastery bug .