damage penalty on beam emitter aug...

Depends entirely on the weapon,I did with the Soned AR as was shocked and horrified at how even standard Chosen were outgunning me and barely losing health

If it worked out better for you then which weapon did you use if I may ask

The beam emitter does not have a damage penalty, but the base accuracy and rate of fire of the weapon still matter a great deal. Put the beam emitter on a Revenant and you will lose a lot of damage just because many of the beam's damage pulses will miss despite the beam being kept on target. Put it on a slow firing weapon and it will take forever between damage pulses.

Beam emitter is best on a high-rate of fire, extremely accurate weapon.

Yup and guess what the only such weapon in the game is PAW which is already a beam.

Son of a fucking bitch


So the penalty DOES NOT show on stats but it is fucking there alright

My N7 crusader x, not modded with the beam emitter, deals about 1200 damage, the Falcon x, beam modded, ON PAPER delas 600...yeah, my ass, the Crusader blows up a spitbug in one shot, the same spit bug requites FIVE OR SIX SHOTS with the falcon


WTF BIOWARE? you do not hide penalties on crafting items and equipment, this is not a fucking souls game

so just out of curiosity....why the insane Nerf on the shots per clip with the vintage heat sink on top of the cool down taking twice as long as a reload? Isn't that flying in the face of the lore? And why the insane Nerf on damage with the beam emitter mod?

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I've used it as well.

Turned a carnifex into a pee shooter.

Dismantled immediately, from then on I made save points on the ship over hub worlds an test fired them saved me from realising mid mission.

Ricochet = nerf.

Beam = nerf.

Electrical conduits = nerf.

You're better off using the standard store bought weapon than using the augmentations. Not that I don't love crafting in this game, I do.

Early on it does but by the time I got my shotgun to level 6 I decided to make two because you can use two of them.

Regular Disciple > Conduits Disciple.

I use pistols and shotguns. Havn't found anything that really beats a good old fashioned bullet with those yet. Of course if my game would progress past "press X to start" it would help....

If one wants a lightning shooting shotgun, there's the Reegar Carbine.
Based on my personal experience, the EC augment works wonderfully on the remnant smg. It's range is kinda limited though, but it was perfect for my insanity run sentinel-esque build.

Again, these observations come from a new game+ insanity run:

VHS is a pretty solid choice for the Valkyrie AR, since it fires bursts instead of being automatic. Just don't put any projectile augment on it, it screws up accuracy.

Bio-converter + seeking plasma aug turn both Piranha and Dhan into ungodly murder machines! It also gives both a lot more range. You just need learn how the bullets curve and learn to aim in advance, so to speak (dunno know how to say, Engligh isn't my mother tongue). First picture a clock.
First example: you're both on the move and your target is trying to run to cover, going left from your pov. Aim left in front of her, the plasma balls will then curve right and most likely hit your target.
Second example: you're both in cover, taking potshots at each other. Again picture the clock. Aim at either twelve or two o'clock and slightly above the cover.
In all cases though, if the enemy does the dodge animation, you miss that shot it seems, although it might look like you shouldn't.

I used the soldier profile (rank 5 by then I believe), skills were VI Infection, tactical cloak and turbocharge.
Use Infection, activate cloack and then turbocharge. I took down an Eiroch on level 80-something with 5 shots from the Dhan on Insanity. With inferno ammo and/or aug you could probably do it with 4 shots!
Equipment was: heleus icon helmet, kett arms and legs and maverick chest.

This has got me thingking, is there a dedicated insanity run build thread? Couldn't find one with a quick seach..

Ah thanks for the term! But leading the target with the modified plasma seeking aug is necessary, since the projectiles are much slower than normally and missed most of the time when I tried shooting straight at the targets.

I thought Gears of War was the most obvious influence for ME2... Overtly grimdark atmosphere, waist-high covers everywhere and standard clips...
The in-game reason for thermal clips was kinda wonky: supposedly higher rate of fire, but at the expense of unlimited ammo and all because the geth used it first. And they do this after, as far as the general populace knows, the geth have been defeated. I could see that military personnel would find it more appealing, but that EVERYONE IN THE KNOWN GALAXY decides to roll with is kinda stretching it.

Voice of Reason: "Hey since we're going to this new galaxy that we know basically nothing about, maybe take some of those guns with unlimited ammo with us? You know, just in case?"
Everyone else: "Lalalalalalalalaaaa not listening, let's go already!!!"