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Hi fellow weaponsmiths,

I was wondering how many of you, owing to the extrememly low conductivity of Rhodium steel, use non-advanced blaster pistol barrels? I have been told that the advanced ones are only a couple of points extra damage, for a .2 loss in speed. I come from Eclipse, where standards are pretty high, and for some reason ive noticed my blaster based guns are...well....a bit slower than id like.

What do you guys use?

I am also on Eclipse. I make both types andadvanced barrals outsell the standard ones by quite a bit (for me at least).

Currently I stock

DX2 Std 100-159 at 2.2 speed, 58.86 DPS

DX2 Adv 106-165 at 2.3 speed, 58.91DPS

Scouts 74-150 at 1.6 Speed, 70DPS

Scouts Adv 80-157 at 1.7 Speed, 69.7 DPS

The overall damage is a tossup, but people seem to prefer the damage over speed.

Well, my blaster rifle barrels are just 2 points off in damage but .1 faster than my advanced blaster rifle barrels, so I use BRB's in weapons such as LLC's and FT's where speed matters more.

I'll take damage over speed any day. Most of us are hitting the speed cap, so speed is worthless to us. Can you tell me what scatters are like with adv barrels? Im just curious cause our server doesnt have it. So are highest non-kraytscatter is 170

I have some pretty high quality metals that I can use on non-advanced parts. But, I have found that the best of the regular items still don't get close to the worst of the advanced items. No matter how bad the advanced materials are, they are still better than non-advanced (at least in my experience).

Anian

I use the advanced on the pistols, and regular on the rifles

I can get scatters to 110-188 1.9 I think with the appb fix if i remember right

i use advanced projectile only atm. all blasters (rifle and pistol) are normal. reason being is that i have over 200k of polysteel copper that is absolutely awesome. its like 960 conductivity and 915 shock resist. I took my rhodium and made harvestes with it, lol. when i see some with a 500 conductivity and 900+ shock ill try again

plain parts for novices. advanced parts for master.

Since they have huge speed bonus already they wont care att all if them loose few 0.1secs but gain some damage and aim bonus.

Uber fast weapon are useless if you cant hit whit it Some might not agree whit that but that is my way of thinking.