Carbineer Archive

I know that for the most part, the resources on the different servers have been pretty poor as far as what a good elite carbine needs, but just from the progression of different ones that I have seen in game and stats shared on these forums, I don't see what the advantage is to ever using one.

I understand the theory that the devs don't intend the higher tier weapons to be uber or better than the lower ones, but there still has to be something about the particular weapon that makes it stand out - that makes it wanted to be used in certain situations. The E11 has speed, the EE3 has heat damage, the DXR6 has acid damage, the laser has high armor rating, the Elite has......what??? The only thing I see on it thats good compared to others is its high min damage. However, the advantage of that is lost when all the other stats are mediocre at best.

So, is it a bad weapon that needs to be fixed? Are the resource problems to be blamed? Is there another invisible stat on it that makes it good that we don't know about? Oh yeah, on a side note, what's with all these invisible stats anyway?

Shameless self bump.

Are any of these stats that are being posted using good resources? We have elites on intrepid, but the required minerals for elites are sub 100 quality.

Okay, hit up the strategy guide. Now not everything in this book is accruate, but they seem to have weapons and armor down.

It's hard for me to compare it to all the others. Overall, the elite has an armor level of 1. Besides the DXR6, it has the highest minimum damage. Besides the laser, it has the least penalty when using at max range. Overally, seems to have pretty good accuracy across all the ranges.

But, the strategy guide says that it has the highest damage per minute out of all the carbines.