Yesterday, 04:12 PM
Frankly I think the gun weapon parts are the weakest of all weapon parts for a few reasons
1. Little negative impacts to weight and durability
Weapon parts like razorblade and compact body are great because they reduce stats often less wanted than the standard power hit and crit. There are four gun parts that negate something that isnt these three, three barrels and one grip.
The barrels are simple, two are locked to weapon subtype, and one reduces range. Double barrel IS a good part, but its restriction to shotgun does ache, but it's understandable. Sniper barrel has GOOD stats but being rifle only does make its use VERY restricted, as rifle usage is highly uncommon. Short barrel is not ideal for many guns. Compact body is so great because bows can come out swinging with +10 range from the getgo, whereas most guns hover at around 5. Going from 5 to 4 range is a BIG deal with how many kiting thresholds there are between ranges 4-6, and while bows get 15 crit AND less weight, guns get 5 power (a great amount of power to gain from one weapon part, but the drawback is not as well rounded as it is for bows). Revolver grip is the last and honestly it'd be in a fine spot if not for custom grip, which is a GREAT part in comparison to gun parts, but compared to the best parts in other weapons it is quite lacking.
2. Little stat gain
A majority of gun parts only shuffle around stats, every single bullet provides a stat boost of 5 while taking 5 of the power/hit/crit trifecta, the only differences in this being in silver bullets (whos bonus is circumstantial, and in a majority of matches is just less crit) and scatter bullets (who's -2 to power leaving a +3 stat bonus is the usual BIS bullet type.)
The same is said for barrels, for guns who cant stand the weight requirement (which is common for guille weapons) there only options is to lose range for power, lose 5 hit for 5 durability as if thats a worthwhile trade, or just run NOTHING, which MANY gun builds end up doing because the parts just arent worth it! Gun parts being restricted to gun type really puts a hamper on what can be used.
The grips are the least problematic here, revolver grip is a good example of a fine gun weapon part and of course custom grip is a low amount of all positives, extended magazine is more gimmicky if anything and can be seen as more crit for handguns as it rolls the dice more (which can end up backfiring as guns have the worst crit rate of most weapons and can just fire 0% crit chance shots into standard lvl 80 mobs) with the rest having no positive power, crit or hit gain.
3. lack of weight reduction
With a majority of gun parts targeting the trifecta of wanted stats, with anything else being additions to weight, theres ZERO gun parts that help with reducing weight. This would be fine with strength weapons but on guns? They're often dual wielded due to classes like mg and dh calling for that, as well as being good with twin strike on rogues, and they're also a guille weapon, meaning a character might just not have the strength to hold ONE fully kitted gun.
Honestly I just think guns could use more weapon parts, parts that either target durability and weight more as negatives, but also a part or two that could reduce weight. The highest good stat trifecta gun weapons can gain is a 15 and a 6, one is on rifles only, and another is competing for the other most impactful gun part slots while bullets and barrels rot.
This is just another factor to guns being bad weapons, ontop of the guille flank nerf and horrible crit stats for the weapon type that arguably does THE most basic attacks (keyshot 4 guns cmon babyy)
But uuh yeah, gun parts are the worst of any weapon imo, they should have more options.
1. Little negative impacts to weight and durability
Weapon parts like razorblade and compact body are great because they reduce stats often less wanted than the standard power hit and crit. There are four gun parts that negate something that isnt these three, three barrels and one grip.
The barrels are simple, two are locked to weapon subtype, and one reduces range. Double barrel IS a good part, but its restriction to shotgun does ache, but it's understandable. Sniper barrel has GOOD stats but being rifle only does make its use VERY restricted, as rifle usage is highly uncommon. Short barrel is not ideal for many guns. Compact body is so great because bows can come out swinging with +10 range from the getgo, whereas most guns hover at around 5. Going from 5 to 4 range is a BIG deal with how many kiting thresholds there are between ranges 4-6, and while bows get 15 crit AND less weight, guns get 5 power (a great amount of power to gain from one weapon part, but the drawback is not as well rounded as it is for bows). Revolver grip is the last and honestly it'd be in a fine spot if not for custom grip, which is a GREAT part in comparison to gun parts, but compared to the best parts in other weapons it is quite lacking.
2. Little stat gain
A majority of gun parts only shuffle around stats, every single bullet provides a stat boost of 5 while taking 5 of the power/hit/crit trifecta, the only differences in this being in silver bullets (whos bonus is circumstantial, and in a majority of matches is just less crit) and scatter bullets (who's -2 to power leaving a +3 stat bonus is the usual BIS bullet type.)
The same is said for barrels, for guns who cant stand the weight requirement (which is common for guille weapons) there only options is to lose range for power, lose 5 hit for 5 durability as if thats a worthwhile trade, or just run NOTHING, which MANY gun builds end up doing because the parts just arent worth it! Gun parts being restricted to gun type really puts a hamper on what can be used.
The grips are the least problematic here, revolver grip is a good example of a fine gun weapon part and of course custom grip is a low amount of all positives, extended magazine is more gimmicky if anything and can be seen as more crit for handguns as it rolls the dice more (which can end up backfiring as guns have the worst crit rate of most weapons and can just fire 0% crit chance shots into standard lvl 80 mobs) with the rest having no positive power, crit or hit gain.
3. lack of weight reduction
With a majority of gun parts targeting the trifecta of wanted stats, with anything else being additions to weight, theres ZERO gun parts that help with reducing weight. This would be fine with strength weapons but on guns? They're often dual wielded due to classes like mg and dh calling for that, as well as being good with twin strike on rogues, and they're also a guille weapon, meaning a character might just not have the strength to hold ONE fully kitted gun.
Honestly I just think guns could use more weapon parts, parts that either target durability and weight more as negatives, but also a part or two that could reduce weight. The highest good stat trifecta gun weapons can gain is a 15 and a 6, one is on rifles only, and another is competing for the other most impactful gun part slots while bullets and barrels rot.
This is just another factor to guns being bad weapons, ontop of the guille flank nerf and horrible crit stats for the weapon type that arguably does THE most basic attacks (keyshot 4 guns cmon babyy)
But uuh yeah, gun parts are the worst of any weapon imo, they should have more options.
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