The Correct Weapon Tier List

Play lots of Pugs Gold, Squad Gold, have all Rares at X and everything unlocked but 65 URs… A couple of guns I haven’t tested much so I haven’t included them. I consider Tier 1 to mean the gun is solid to use on gold with a weapon consumable and ammo on. Any gun can extract on gold but if you have to shoot something for days to kill it the gun is not considered gold viable. Also note you aren’t supposed to melt things on gold until you have guns at X, mods and consumables on your weapons. The grind is the actual game here people. Deal with it!


Tier 1


Inferno (better than the vanquisher if you can get it to a high level, super accurate and super fast fire rate. If you have it at level 1, get used to firing 4 shots and waiting a second or two as the fifth overheats you) or simply cast a power… but at level X apparently you get 7 super fast and super accurate shots…or 6 if you don’t want to overheat. The actual overheat is really not too much longer than a standard reload anyways… most people will have this at level 1 if they even have it so it might underperform a bit for you. I can score lots of points with this at level one on gold though….I love it!

Easiest sniper to aim on console by far. And yes, I will hit something twice in the head in virtually the same amount of time it takes you to hit it once with the vanquisher, its that fast and accurate on console...where aiming with snipers is typically trash with insane dead zones....

Vanquisher (no comment needed)

Black Widow (slower fire rate and one less bullet than the vanquisher but it hits harder at higher levels and the black widow can shoot things through cover with the receiver mod). Lots of things take cover in this game so this is very useful.
My BW 6 does 838 damage and my vanquisher X does 810
With SR rail amp 3 (30%), an ammo consumable 3 (7.5%) a barrel x (21%) and 10% weopon damage passive thrown in that is 68.5% extra base damage on both weapons.
The BW does 1412 and shoots through cover while the 
Vanquisher Does 1365 per bullet and doesn't but fires faster and has an extra bullet.
Vanquisher nudges it as a better weapon but the BW is still outstanding gold. 

The BW at X must be even slightly stronger. Does anyone have the base damage for it?


Piranha: (very high dps, smashes through things…..with accuracy boosts becomes a laser, if they fix smart choke this thing might become OP)

Hurricane super high ROF, melts things at a decent clip and is amazing at priming enemies


The five above are your for sure Top 5 weapons in the game! There is no disputing this. More tier ones below:

Falcon: grenade launcher packs a punch and does a decent job killing things on gold as long as you can hit them.

Sidewinder X with barrel X and magazine mod X gets 10 rounds before reloading. This gun packs a solid punch and is just super fun to play. It handles amazingly well and reloads pretty well. If you double ammo glitch with this gun its like walking around shooting cobras at things….its perfectly viable on gold with a pistol mod. The new gear also gives you an extra 10%... I wish it had a 10 round clip because the scope makes it awesome for headshots but I’m partial to barrel X and magazine mod…on silver its scope headshot…on gold you can forego the mag mod and run pistol rail amp and targeting amps and a scope for headshot/weakpoint fun.
The handling is just awesome! 

Thokin (small mag but at X with mag capacity increase X and barrel X you get 30 rounds per clip, it is accurate and packs a punch and good for priming with a high ROF, needs AR rail amp 3…


Revenant (at X with barrel X and an AR mod it is good at gold. Characters with accuracy/stability would help it but it has a large ammo capacity and if you aren’t at long range, most of your shots will hit the mark.

An argument can be made this is Tier 1.5. The recoil, poor range and missed shots do have a lot of people understandably put this at tier two. I find it melts things on gold from cover, as long as you aren't hitting the cover.. I wouldn't be mad if this was a Tier 1.5 gun...

Tier 1-2ish  arguable guns that may be tier 1 or 2...if these are tier two they are the best of Tier Two


Lanat: two hard hitting shots and when charged, hits harder than the Isharay for those that like single shotting enemies. A case can be made that this is a tier one gun but I’ll include it here because charging slows down DPS…


Raptor: it can be argued this is a tier one gun as well but many console users at least struggle with its recoil. If you can get this thing to just headshot enemies consistently its definitely tier 1. Many consider it the best AR in the game…

I find the recoil difficult on most classes so tier 2 for me.


Talon: this pistol is the second best “shotgun” in the game behind the pirahna. This things fires 4 very hard hitting shots. With barrel X, pistol rail amp and ammo mod and pistol gear each bullet packs a serious punch…

Valiant: outclassed by other snipers but it fires five fast rounds that pack a decent punch.


Tier 2, Isharay, Widow (outclassed by Isharay), Sweeper is a solid castor weapon, needs all sorts of amps and mods to kill things though, Charger, Equalizer, Valkyrie is better after 1.05 patch but not what a UR should be, Hesh, Scattershot, Eagle (maybe tier 2.5), maybe the Soned but the time to fire just makes this weapon feel so bad…, the Dahn, Venom, Scorpion, Crusader (ultra rare, really? they really screwed this weapon over!)



Tier 3, Halberd (better after 1.05 pitch...maybe tier 2.5..., Avenger, Mattock, Ruzad, Paw (good for priming MAYBE tier 2 with 35 amps/mods and mag mod), Cyclone (decent for priming and high rate of fire....I actually need to test this more..., Carnifex, Sandstorm



Tier 603: Zalkin
...wtf is this even in the game for? 


If you disagree with any of this you are obviously wrong and need to #l2p

Thokin X does not require boosts to be viable on Gold, saying that it does is silly.

Boosters and ammo would by a good idea, but the droprate isn´t that great, especially for ammo. And after loosing the 10th set of boosters because of CTD (mostly in wave 6 after the objective or 1 minute into the extraction wave), host migration into nirvana or disconnects I´m back to grinding silver until I get some weapons that are usable in gold, by buff or by grinding.
Some of the APEX-Missions have a modifier that buffs pistols by 50% (while nerving the remaining arsenal by 50%). In these "Pistol Skirmish" missions the charger feels about right. On Bronze.

Equalizer is range limited - beyond a certain range it will do no damage.

Talon is one of the most overrated guns for me. Maybe it has (does it?) nice damage but it's rate of fire is painfully slow. It was one of my favourite gun in me3, but i just cant make myself to like it in Andromeda.

I swear the enemies know when you are aiming at them. The code just has them auto-move when you try to shoot them...

it is probably some copy paste from DAI code when venatori and templars magically blocked everything with just a barely noticeable movement of their sword without cool down. At least here, they bothered to move their arse and don't reflect your bullets back to you. Some cool down on these super special abilities should fix it.