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This is great …

For future items … can you guys show preferred damage inscription for a specific weapon (weapon, physical, blast, elemental)?

In some cases, I have a pair of weapons, one with high physical damage, the other with high weapon damage … so I take them out to play and pick the one that seems to work best. But in other cases, I have weapons that have a mix, with one higher than the other … so it's sometimes tough to tell which is better and why (I like to understand the why).

Seems like everyone knows about Ralner's Blaze now, but I was hoping that Sentinel's Vengeance would remain a secret a bit longer, to keep BioWare from nerfing it before I got one with the inscriptions I'm looking for (currently running a level 75 because my level 80s don't have expanded magazine size).

Also, really appreciate the discussions on gear, support gear and components … in some cases, confirming my own experience, in other cases, giving me something to think about and experiment with … thanks.

For this, mostly referencing the upper left and lower right inscriptions. I certainly value the other inscription boxes, but mostly concerned about the types of damage for this question.

For example, in the enclave, it says in one of the builds that high weapon damage is more valuable for Ralner's Blaze than physical damage. I have one of each and one with a mix. But if the weapon damage is superior, then that's what I will equip. From my own in-game experience, that's pretty much where I'm at, but other weapons are less clear.

Today, in the Regulator store, I was able to buy Sentinel's Vengence and I ended up with both a 350% weapon damage and a 350% physical damage weapon. Also got a mix, where the total was 375 weapon/physical damage. SV lists both weapon and blast damage, with blast damage being far higher (but the grenade launcher damage and blast damage inscriptions are always very low numbers) ... so is weapon damage more important or physical damage?

Similarly, in Jarra's Wrath, I've got one with high elemental damage and one with high weapon damage ... it's pretty effective at taking down the crystals in the lego world events ... and it seems the weapon damage version is superior ... which is somewhat counter-intuitive.

Thanks for bringing it up in your discussion group ... I appreciate it.

Thanks … that helps a lot … so pretty much, trash the priming weapons with high physical damage and go with high weapon damage exclusively … taking a mix only when necessary or with non-priming/non-DoT weapons.

Did not realize that javelin-wide damage applied to weapons too … thought it only boosted gear, support gear and ultimates … that's very good to know. Could have sworn in a discussion one of the devs defined "damage" as excluding weapons … perhaps he misspoke … or I misunderstood.

Very cool.

It doesn't boost ultimates (anymore). And combos neither. It did prior to patch 1.3 but since then it doesn't anymore. But it boosts weapon damage, melee damage and gear damage as well as all elemental and their DoT effects - which is why Storms usually want as much of it as possible to boost their fire ticks from Binary Star.

If they don't do a full reset or something, I really hope these embers play some role after the overhaul. For rerolling inscriptions or something like that. Because I'm drowning in those MW embers

Anecdotal evidence from a party of one …

I had more uncommon, rare and epic embers than I would ever need … especially the first two. So I whittled those down to a more reasonable number (~1K) and then switched to my large collection of epic embers (~50K) … I did that until I started to run low on chimeric compounds and alloys … then I switched to MW embers (~90K) …

I did not notice any improved inscriptions as I upped the quality of embers; I did not notice a difference in the pool of items that could drop, either. For my #1 pilot, I've gotten what I want, except for the Interceptor Viper's Bite gear piece … at least one with inscriptions I'm looking to keep. So a fairly decent sample of gear, support gear, melee and component pieces across the various tombs and javelins.

I have not spent any tokens on weapons … so I can't speak to those.

Once I complete my interceptor, I'll switch over to my #2 pilot and fill out the missing pieces across those four javelins.

I haven't had coffee yet, so I'm totally unreliable, but isn't Viper's Bite in the Regulator's Store at level 80 right now?

I have to say I'm pretty jealous, not only that you're getting that much luck with your drops (finally), but that you were able to get into Interceptor. I wanted to because of the speed potential, but the class just really doesn't do it for me (or I haven't found a setup that works for me).

What made me sadest was struggling to push Storm into the GM difficulties after soloing the campaign with it, and realizing just how much more brutal Colossus and Ranger could be for so much less effort.


As to the original topic, that website made me sad, all the good things Storm needs I didn't have. I have since dumped a half dozen tokens into Cariff, and gotten.... 4 drops of Binary Star, none of which had particularly good rolls, but then, a mediocre Binary Star is better than nothing, right?

I also don't particularly agree with a lot of the stuff on the Weapons page, but then, my Soothing Touch has pretty good inscriptions, so it is pretty much better than every other gun I have (I think I have most of them at this point, except for the Blade Slingers, Volt Casters, and Pulse Accelerators, for some reason, I've only ever gotten a single Shard Storm, and nothing else from these). Maybe it's because I spend most of my time on GM1 just bumping off weapon/gear challenges (I can run GM3 with Ranger, but not to the point I can efficiently complete challenges).

Yeah, most weapons are peashooters. Outside of special Masterwork/Legendary Perks (and even then, basically only the ones that empower a non-weapon based build are really worth paying attention to), I really only found use for Autocannons, LMGs, and Marksman Rifles. My Soothing Touch kills Elite enemies on GM1/2 in a single shot, and my LMGs have Focused Freeze backing them up, and Autocannons are just plain stupid.

Outside of Autocannons and Combo Spamming, I REALLY struggle with the high hp single targets with ALL my Javelins. Ranger's combo spamming is nice, but even that runs out of steam on GM3. I think the problem with weapons and the GM difficulties is that unlike Mass Effect, there isn't any real gun-gentric build focus possibilities. There needs to be more Javelin-specific Components and MW/Legendary Perks for boosting Weapon Damage. There's plenty of options for buffing Combos, Elemental, Gear, and even Ultimates, but the Weapon boosts are pitiful (especially considering how much more you need).

I'm all for Build variety, which is something Anthem is really struggling with now. If you're not playing one of about 2 meta builds per Javelin, you're really going to be struggling with content past GM2 Freeplay (As in, all of GM3, and Legendary Contracts, Strongholds, and World Events in GM2). Storm really is particularly lacking in this department, though like you said, the mass CC Storm build has a lot of (wasted) potential, I spent a lot of my solo time with Storm mass-freezing enemies. Ranger didn't click for me until Recurring Vengeance, and I really didn't like Colossus (lack of mobility) before MW Autocannons and Best Defense. Before those, Ranger just felt lacking (and a lot squishier than the supposedly squishy Storm), and Colossus just felt like a liability.


Oh, and the single biggest change I'd like to see is a complete and utter removal of the overpowering aim arseist. It's completely digusting. The bullet magnetism needs to go, too. I though ME3MP on PS3 was bad, but holy hell, I can't believe they'd try passing an abomination like this without any disabling option. I'm a controller-only player, and the very first thing I do in any shooting game is look for the aim assist disabling (and then I'll probably go looking for a Sniper Rifle), I HATE it with a passion, and am disgusted at how rarely it can be turned off. Forced Aim Assist is the ONLY aiming handicap for controller users and it NEEDS to die. If the controller support is handled correctly, a good controller user wont have any issues with zero assists.

Get within about 30 degrees of an enemy (even through walls), and the arseist takes over, pretty much completely overriding player input, and aiming where it wants. There is some variation between weapons/powers on how far away from the enemy you need to be, and yes, I'm not joking about powers, having certain powers equipped starts auto-locking your camera even when not aiming, it's absolutely hideous. Not even ME3MP on the PS3 did that, and the aim assist there it utterly woeful.

To any KB+M users, I highly suggest asking all your RL friends to see if any of them has a controller you can borrow to experience the trash that's forced onto controller users. This really needs to stop.