List of crap weak sauce weapons to avoid (MP edition)

Anything that isn't named: Vanquisher, Falcon, Charger, Equalizer, Thokin, and Sidewinder

The Katana is still crap like in ME3. And the Ruzad is weak and slow, but really accurate for a Shotgun. Only 4 shots per clip, and slow reload. At least the lvl 1 version.
The Venom is one of those projectile guns which are crap to handle with the slightest bit of lag (like in ME3). It's a cool gun though.

You can never go wrong with Venom.

The hesh does passable damage on gold, but a smartchoke is required to hit anything past point blank range. I use it mostly to take out observers that I can't melee or to fire over cover while my sheilds recharge. A good base for the melee mod, but I don't know if I'd want to run it on weapons class.

The Vanquisher is not OP, is one of the few that are right. Problem is, pretty much every other gun sucks, so if you compare it to garbage weapons it kinda looks OP because it actually kills stuff.

I can't believe how weak all the ARs are. I took the cyclone into a Silver game with turbocharge turian soldier and it took FOREVER to kill basic remnant. Two entire clips for observers, etc.

Maybe all this is on purpose: Bioware want the guns to be shit so we start eqipping level 4 boosters on level 20 characters.

Nope. It is decent enough, even on gold. It is very easy to pull out headshots with it, also it has a decent RoF and good damage. It is not nearly as good as the initial Carniflex of ME3MP, but not so different from its nerfed (and current) version.

Whoever made the claim the Scattershot shotgun = good, is simply trolling. I have that disgusting weapon at III and it is terrible.

Seriously fucking awful, if you have it do yourself a favor and never use it.

I stood beside a Silver mook and emptied that clip into them, landing almost every pellet and it didn't kill them.

From my experience I would say avoid all Kett weapons, the Sandstorm and all burst fire sniper rifles.

Hesh is actually a decent shotgun, in my opinion.

But weapons really have a variety of characteristics that can make them better for some than others.

Weight, for example - some of these good weapons will increase your cooldowns. And, depending on how you play, that can be a problem.

Rate of fire, for another example, makes a lot of difference with certain powers and/or boosters.

And then there's reload time (which you apparently are supposed to figure out for yourself). Some weapons seem great, but you spend so much time reloading them that they're really only good.

So let's take the Charger, for example - one of my favorites. It takes about five seconds to unload the clip and if you are close or maybe even medium range many targets will be off balance while you're shooting them. And of course five seconds dishes out a nice amount of damage. And, it reloads quickly. And, it's light weight - light enough that I can carry a backup weapon on even my weakest characters and not damage any cooldowns. Plus it's easy to get from basic packs which helps you get the X version. You do not get the burst damage of a sniper rifle, and it's not all that great at long range, but it's still nice.

But, I think it is not enough to say "Vanquisher is a great weapon". It is a great weapon, it has nice burst damage, a nice weak point multiplier and a useful clip size, and nice long range accuracy. But it's also slightly heavy, takes a while to reload and does not let you carry a lot of ammo. If you are hitting the ammo crates a lot anyways, for cells, probably none of these are serious problems for you. But if your pacing is different these might be serious problems for you.

Anyways, I think to be really useful a "great weapons" list should state the reasons the weapon is great, and also the disadvantages that might make you think twice about using that weapon...

Shadow is terrible, almost as bad as P.A.W.
Scorpion is pretty good for melee builds. Its damage is decent and you can shot beetwen melee hits.
Both thokin and revenant are not even worth using imo, but i'd say revenant is better than the thokin.

Even with Turbocharge, Thokin seems wildly innacurate for anything beyond close range. Midrange targets get shots scattered all around them, very few actually land, unless you're shooting at a Hydra.