Please fix weapon leveling

[YakCast]

I rant out this in the latest podcast where I talk all about Defiance! You can check it out here in this thread.

[Cirvante]

It's incredibly annoying. I'm at LMG lvl 14 and have to carry about 4 SAWs with me at all times because I'm chewing through these badboys at an unholy rate.

I also keep about 4 Wolfhounds for when I'm going to level my pistol skill and I need new Cankers because my last three haven't survived my recent Hulker contract farming.

[YakCast]

It's incredibly annoying. I'm at LMG lvl 14 and have to carry about 4 SAWs with me at all times because I'm chewing through these badboys at an unholy rate.

I also keep about 4 Wolfhounds for when I'm going to level my pistol skill and I need new Cankers because my last three haven't survived my recent Hulker contract farming.

Exactly man! At least they should make weapon XP reset tokens. That can ether be bought with script or real money from the store.

[EnabrimGFC]

This is what I've been doing too, holding on to weapons so I can use them once my current weapon lvl maxes out. That being said I'm not really trying all that hard to level up my weapon skill since I'm a pretty good shooter player anyway and the little tweaks that a higher weapon skill gives doesn't really impact my game. I'll take the rank if I get it but I'm not going to go around and spend all day grinding skills by fighting mobs like I would in WoW.

Exactly. I'm ego rating 1300 and I still have my Orange ego700 guns because they're baller. I use them when I'm soloing / boss battles / pvp and I use unleveled guns when Grinding through dungeon trash. Throwing a weapon away because it reaches the experience cap is stupid. I will admit that I'd like the option to change the buff on legendary guns, possibly through the salvage matrix through high amounts of ark salvage but otherwise I like the gun system.

P.S. This isn't every other MMO its a new animal. It's Defiance.

[Victim Eyes]

damn, who changing the OP's diapers? babies, man, babies. gun drops are so common, it's stupid.

LIEK OMFGGG BEZTGUNEVAR!!!!

[YakCast]

damn, who changing the OP's diapers? babies, man, babies. gun drops are so common, it's stupid.

LIEK OMFGGG BEZTGUNEVAR!!!!

Normal plane weapons are common drops. Good blues and purples not so much. Far as I know you can only get oranges from lock boxes. You comments are invalid.

[Racheakt]

I do not care for this system, it feels backwards. I level a weapon, it gets better -- I want to continue using it (I do actually on my pvp/arkfall loadout; i hear weapons don't level there and I want the best)

Think about it, is the idea to mod/tweak/familiarize your arkhunter to to his signature weapon by caring for it; hence new abilities at max level. Hell in the show the Nolan wanted his gun back, that thing must have level capped a long time ago.

For it to feel logical, it should to be reversed; weapon start with the extra stat, and once they hit the max level they loose that stat, thus simulating being damaged.

Either way, there is incentive to level new weapons without locking weapon skill; trying to get a weapon to ding the perfect level up skill. I think this is going to be the meta game once we have all maxed out our weapon skills and no longer need to worry about this quirky mechanic.

[YakCast]

Think about it, is the idea to mod/tweak/familiarize your arkhunter to to his signature weapon by caring for it; hence new abilities at max level. Hell in the show the Nolan wanted his gun back, that thing must have level capped a long time ago.

Awesome perspective! It goes against the spirit of a Ark Hunter and the show!

[Victim Eyes]

Normal plane weapons are common drops. Good blues and purples not so much. Far as I know you can only get oranges from lock boxes. You comments are invalid.

"good" blues drop frequently under the right circumstances. purps and orange never drop, but you can find some of the best purps under specials in the stores quite often. some of my best guns come from that. as far as my comments not being valid. a lot of greens are decent enough to level to max out that particular gun skill. then you can go back to not whining and using your uber goober gun.

[Cirvante]

It makes not much difference whether I'm lvling my weapon skill with a white or blue weapon. It's just annoying that I have to carry 5 of them with me at all times. And switching weapons/loadouts while a hulker wants to hulk smash me isn't really something I consider fun.