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7/22/2015 2:37:58 PM
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Buff PVE Machine Gun Damage
Machine guns are never talked about in any of the updates but since we are nerfing gjallarhorn, ice breaker, and black hammer, the most popular pve boss killers, I feel this is the appropriate time to mention a buff for machine guns only in pve. So many guardians were excited when Xur finally sold thunderlord but more than likely they'd rather use rocket launchers in pve than machine guns. I've had Thunderlord and SGA since vanilla Destiny and I'd rather use a legendary rocket launcher. To adequately balance the heavy weapons, machine guns should be given a buff. Who uses machine guns while fighting crota???? SGA maybe for the oversoul but mostly everyone wants rocket launchers for crotas shield.. Atheon is good for machine guns in that you won't blow yourself up and atheon won't move around but he's still a bullet sponge for machine guns. A small buff like those being given to the scout rifles for pve would be great!!!
Also possibly a base stability buff for all machine guns.
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2 RepliesEdited by Tower0426: 7/29/2015 6:33:07 PMMachine Guns blow rocket launchers out of the water in PVE.. they just aren't safe enough to use consistently. Rocket Launchers offer you the ability to take cover, shoot, take cover again. MGs on the other hand force you to stand in the line of fire ot deal damage AND require you to hit some precision shots to really make them shine. Do they need a buff? NO. Instead, we need more opportunities to use MGs and not get instantly killed. Gjallarhorn, widely considered the best PVE heavy, does a fixed amount of damage with each rocket. In the time it takes to fire that rocket and reload another one, a good machine gun will have done almost double the damage. Take Thunderlord as an example: It deals somewhere between 1.2 and 1.5k damage to bosses when you hit them in their critical spot. You can fire off about 12-15 shots in the time it takes to fire a rocket and reload. You are talking 14,400 to 22,500 damage from Thunderlord in that same time frame. Gjallarhorn does just over 8k damage without burns as long as the levels of you and your enemy are correct. Thunderlord has the potential to do almost 3x the damage of Gjallarhorn. Machine Guns do not need a buff, we need better content so we can actually use Machine Guns.
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i would love a buff to my mg 18 harms way with 100 round clip. only reason im not using it is because its still at 331. and i got a 365 hunger of crota. im not a rocket launcher fan. i prefer hmg.
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Rocket launchers are used more because the risk is low and the reward is high. Peak around a corner, fire a rocket, re-take cover, enemies take massive damage. Good machine guns probably have more DPS than launchers (less burst DPS) but the risk is much higher. You have to stay outside of cover until your enemies fall. In high level content with hundreds of ADS, that is generally not the best choice of weapon. They definitely need a buff in PVE to make the risk worth it.
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Needs to 100%. No way a full auto scout should do basically the same damage as a Heavy Machine gun. I was using BTRD which is pretty high impact and NL Shadow which is medium impact.
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1 ReplyMaybe only in PvE, but in PvP with rockets being taken down a notch they look a little to appealing.
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Edited by The 7th fall: 7/22/2015 10:27:31 PMYeah that'd be nice to see machine guns get a PvE buff because I haven't seen one get used in PvE in... months, excluding seeing a handful of people use 'em during a weekly heroic if there was a burn on, but otherwise it's either a legendary rocket or Ghjallarhorn.
