Vs Other Weapons

1) Argon Assault Rifle vs Deathray vs Siegebreaker:

Like the Siegebreaker, the Deathray and Argon Assault Rifle are two energy Assault Rifles that, are full-auto. Unlike the Siegebreaker, they innately deal energy harm and use energy ammo (as opposed to light bullets). Apparently, they will no longer roll an element on prime of their energy.

Argon shoots slower hits tougher and has far better crits. The Deathray has the "medium" rate of fire, "medium" damage, and it's got a bigger capacity. The Siegebreaker shoots much more bullets, dealing additional overall harm.

The Siegebreaker has roughly-upwards recoil, the Deathray has sporadic "popcorn" recoil, as well as the Argon appears to possess "popcorn" recoil which is truly lowered in the course of full-auto (or possibly the slower rate of fire tends to make it appear to become lowered) but worse than either when employed to "tap-fire" in semi-auto or bursts. The recoil patterns/behaviors are diverse, but the guns are ultimately similarly correct at the variety.

So, looking at these three guns so far, they all seem to be pretty equal. The situation is, Deathray and Argon Assault Rifle apparently can no longer roll components, whereas Siegebreaker can. So, facing elemental husks (which are the stronger husks that require by far the most bullets, and cannot as quickly be killed with traps and skills), dealing particular elemental harm is going to become far more effective. This implies, finest case scenario, Siegebreaker is going to possess the correct element, and Deathray/Argon won't.

Couple that with the crafting cost of energy cells in comparison with light bullets (most high priced ammo vs least expensive ammo), puts Siegebreaker far ahead.

2) Argon Assault Rifle vs Helium Shotgun:

Ignoring RNG with rolls (and modifiers like headhot, essential hit): The shotgun is the clear winner (out of AR, Shotgun and Pistol)

The shotgun does 2.8 occasions far more damage than the AR and two.3 times far more damage than the Pistol if you examine how much damage they every do when consuming 2 energy cells

Shotgun = 2 energy cells per attack

AR = 1 energy cell per attack

Pistol = 1 energy cell per attack.

Even though you attacked twice together with the AR (two shots) so you consumed the same quantity of ammo, you've still done drastically less harm than you would have for 2 ammo around the shotgun. This is not even taking into consideration that the shotgun rounds penetrate, meaning which you can primarily hit as a lot of husks as you line up inside a row.

Pure energy form weapons (like the event ones) are under no circumstances going to be your 'go-to' for boss killing. At ideal, they are 'fodder killing' weapons, because of the lack of damage and the 'expense' of operating energy cell ammo. Fodder husks are typically often identified in swarms and have low wellness, all of this sets up an concept situation for shotgun usage (the penetration is just icing around the cake).