My main is an engineer and I was curious what opinions range on fist weapons. I have an 21 engi who uses the crafted x5's...I have been told that Stoneklawz is better? Discuss...
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My main is an engineer and I was curious what opinions range on fist weapons. I have an 21 engi who uses the crafted x5's...I have been told that Stoneklawz is better? Discuss...
Hmmmm...
Stoneklawz- i like better
Cool..stoneclawz has been the consensus thus far. Saw some in the AH today for 4750...not gonna do that
Off to bbb...
The thing with the gloves is while they have higher DPS and faster speed than other weapons, a Repeater type weapon or even a rifle has better damage numbers and about the same amount of Int if you get the one with Int.
DPS has no effect on skill damage and only affects normal attack damage.
I use a one handed Foreman level 19 (Dont think it goes any higher currently) and it has higher damage numbers and IIRC the same or more Int than Stone, but lower DPS by only a couple of points. I'd never use Stone, especially when shields come out. It's good to be able to survive and the loss of DPS is negligible because Engineers aren't there for DPS.
It's like comparing staff to wand for PL, except the "staff" for SL is a faster attacking weapon but with otherwise inferior damage numbers. I never see Foreman in the AH because people don't know that there's better stuff out there, so it isn't farmed much.
Just keep this in mind.
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Originally Posted by bronislav84
The gloves must do something we haven't noticed yet. I mean the Heavy weapons for Commandos do splash damage, the duel weapons for Ops seem to have higher dps. There has to be something that makes these a worthwhile equip for the Engineer.
I was using the L20 plat gloves until I noticed the Doc amp-x pistol has 1 higher damage and the same speed. Can't really tell a difference between the two, but they are both better than the X5 gloves. The sniper rifles and carbines have higher damage numbers, but you really notice the dps difference when running solo.
I dunno guys. If glove weapons have something cool or special to them, I haven't found it yet. From the testing I'd done before coming up with the above conclusions, gloves are just a fast attacking and flashy (True to their description, it's like lightning in your hand and looks cool) two handed weapon with otherwise unimpressive stats and lower weapon numbers than other weapons that also carry the same (Or sometimes even better) Int modifiers and/or better weapon damage.
I believe a weapon that should replace the handblasters, is duel hand cannons....but they might make that for the ops :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bronislav84
Probably.
Also is it just me or do they animate only with one hand shooting lightning and don't alternate? Why is it a two handed weapon if you're only attacking with one hand? Might make them worthwhile if it was a one handed weapon, since then people could choose speed or power for one handed. This is even reinforced by how higher level gloves have a cannon on one hand, and some the plat shop ones are literally a single hand cannon visually. Pretty sure it still counts as two handed, but I didn't check.