If you're really sad, like me, or just bored after level 38, you can do a list of all the guns and work out damage per second (ie refire rate x damage) and compare it to energy use per second (i refire rate x energy use)

Top damage per second for a lvl 9 gun is the Kraken Type 2 at 2,344 with 4.8 damage per energy

Skyblast B is second with 2,033 at 4 damage per energy

Best efficiency is the Salamanca Mk II with 5.04 damage per energy (1,956 damage per second)



'Course, this assumes all shots actually hit the target ...

Ensign's List has the lot.

At the mo it is missing the damage/energy rating but considering all the hard work hes done its hardly alot to ask that we divide 2 numbers Feel free to beg for its stickying like i did...

BTW Circumcisor i was working out the D/E rating that way too, but then i realized you dont need to multiply the damage and energy by the refire 'cause they just cancel each other out. Its a minor point but it means you can look at the 2 figures and get a rough idea of the D/E ratio straight away.

Jup, i'm a bastard 2

Using 4 Nomad Blasters (refire 4.00, speed 600) with 2 Del Cid's (refire 4.00, speed 600)

Perfectly balanced and extreemly deadly

* zion "the nomad slayer"

Tizona Del Cid

It really damages the shield, 1247 or something like that. But no hull damage.
Refire Rate 4.00

Ok this is low level crap, but when in starflier mode comon guys u remember that bucket o bolts i like to get my habds on some Scorpions from the Xenos, paired with some stunpulses that wear em out fast, i think for a levl 2 gun, the scorp II does great dmg i think aroun 70 something hull, I think u can get them as little as level 4

just to help u get off teh ground

Salamanca II's are great... I'm also using a captured Nomad gun and some
looted 'Dark Bloom' lvl 10 guns. I've got an extra one of each stowed away
in case I'm fighting in my Titan against say 20 or more enemies and don't have
time to make it back to a base for repairs. Makes it easy to demount any
damaged guns and remount the good ones from ships stores.

The Nomad guns were won in battle and even though they're not as powerful
as some weapons, they have a good range, excellent low energy usage and
a killer refire rate.

-NeoLazarus
Corsair

JADE = very good for energy effiecent - 163

DIAMONDBACK = uses a heck of a lot of energy but can take a starfliers hull out in one hit !

Firekiss mk11 and Skyblast Bs i think are best class 9's

I'm Using 2TDC's, 2Diamondbacks and 2 nomad cannons, kicks-ass enough for me

I like the Kraken type 2 guns most because they do have the best damage when you multiply the damage by the number of shots you can fire per second. Also don't forget to look at other factors too such as the range and, more importantly (at least I think so), the speed that the gun fires. I have found that the faster the gun shoots, the more likely I am to be able to hit my target. I will not use any gun that has a velocity below 600.

outcast... if youre bent on keeping diamondbacks and nomad weapons together, id go with the blasters... they refire 4.0 and diamondbacks do 2.0, that way if you hit with the diamond backs you have to hit with ur blasters too...less chance for misses

My favorite are the Vengeance cannons... Fast, pretty, and decent damage rate!

I personally prefer the Skyblast B and Salamanca MK II, even though skyblast use a LOT of energy an tend to empty your power quickly. Nice damage though... 244/122 with 8.33 refire IS very powerful.

If I have to pick one I'd choose the Salamanca; good damage at decent refire and energy efficient. 600 range is quite good for a neutron weapon too.

Skyblast's definately take an Outcast mission against some GMG's. Make it a mission lvl around 35-40 and see how quickly your shield/hull dissapear's.

After seeing that, I now use the Skyblast B Blaster and Turret on my Sabre, up to then I had used the Luger or Salamanca.

Edited by - Pinger on 09-05-2003 18:16:05

Buckshots
750m range and speed, best in the game, cannot be beaten. [except by lv10, fools

Ben